After hearing a few people mention Windows 7 RC1 over the last week, my curiosity was piqued. I had heard and seen a bit about Windows 7 up until this point, however my busy schedule forced me to ignore the prospect of playing with it. I’m now glad to say that this post is being written with the aid of Windows 7 RC1. Not only that, but it is now the sole operating system on my main machine at home. That’s right folks, I blew Vista away yesterday without so much as a kiss goodbye and I haven’t regretted it for a second.
I don’t plan on doing a lengthy review or how-to now (or probably ever), I just wanted to share how easy it was to move to Windows 7 from Vista. First things first, you need to get yourself a copy of RC1. To do that, visit Microsoft’s download page and follow the links to download it. You’ll have to choose between the 32 and 64-bit options (I chose 64-bit) and you will also be asked to sign-in with a Hotmail, Messenger, Passport or Live account to proceed. Once you’ve jumped through the hoops, you’ll be given a product key and can start the download. At just over 3GB, you may be waiting a little while. Once that’s done, you’re ready to install! Continue reading →
While I’m too busy with uni to write anything of substance, I’m resorting to linking videos of awesomeness. I remembered this one because I’m buying a ukulele tomorrow =D If this doesn’t make you smile, then you have no heart. The star of the show is Julia Nunes and I definitely recommend you check out her other videos because she’s awe…fantastic.
I got tired of working on uni stuff and spent the last half hour or so (I’m not sure, time kind of just…passed) playing "Pyro". It’s another simple yet addictive Flash game that seems to me to be a little bit like Peggle (which I haven’t ever played). Hope you enjoy it!
For anyone who regularly checks here (I doubt there are too many), I’ve done some more stuff with OpenSim and have a few bits and pieces that I hope to add if I survive the current round of assignments. Start holding your breath… NOW!
As part of a uni AI subject I’ve been playing around with implementing some basic path finding in OpenSim. Part of that involved moving objects around a region using the llMoveToTarget function. After some frustration, I’ve discovered that phantom objects do not appear to respond to this function (i.e. you can’t move them using this function). I’m not entirely sure what a phantom object is exactly, so this might be bleedingly obvious to others. Also, this may be incorrect as I haven’t really investigated it thoroughly. Anyways, if you’re trying to move something in OpenSim (or maybe Second Life) using llMoveToTarget and it doesn’t work, it might be worthwhile checking if the object is phantom.
On a personal note, I’m quite busy with uni at the moment, as well as courting (pun intended) my newfound sweetheart – squash (the sport, not the food). So don’t expect any major posts any time soon. If I do anything original with OpenSim (i.e. not implementing my lecturer’s code) I’ll hopefully get around to posting it here for you all to play with.