Seems there’s a trick to making Microsoft’s Vista’s networking go faster….  It’s easy to do and in some cases makes a big improvement.  In a couple of cases with me on the road, it’s made a difference.

In a nutshell, open up a command prompt and do this:

netsh int tcp set global autotuninglevel=disable

It changes how the TCP/IP stack works and it might make your Second Life experiences better.  To undo it, to this:

netsh int tcp set global autotuninglevel=normal

You can read more about the details of it here in a blog post by Mark Minasi.

-Veyron

Techcrunch has a snippet article about our hero, Phil.  Which to make a long story short say the web browser is not where the 3D world is going to live.  Hmmm, well, except the browser seems to be morphing itself into the operating system of the future.  Hard to tell, but I would have to agree, the browser is too slow, at least for now.

The SL client, for all its warts, is much faster than any browser is going to go.

-Veyron

Just hanging around this morning.  These boots are handy for that sort of thing… 

-Veyron

With the crew… Oh, and on the look out for Jene’s Penis…. lol
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Veyron has one really big - uh - kink.  It sort of came out of the blue one day, like most good kinks.  It started with my first visit to Dark Eden’s (and the most sexy Etain Peregrin) store.  There I spotted the first set of ballet boots I had seen.  My heart practically stopped and I almost let out a squeal with excitement.  Since then I’ve been a ballet boot addict.  Don’t ask me why, I couldn’t tell you.  It’s a good thing avies are very good at walking and feel really no pain, because these things are almost impossible.  Perhaps that’s the attraction to them.

So like all good kinks, more of the same is better.  The other day, I found a link to a freebie set of boots (a secondary kink - I mean the next stop down from ballet boots are sexy boots).  (Oh, and I like the 10 minute boots - 10 minutes means it takes 10 minutes to put each boot on… 

The boots are made by Xene Demina and they are, as you can see, over the top.

I had to make some minor adjustments to my boots, it is my thighs are bit bigger than what is considered normal.

You can turn on and off the heel and change colors and textures with scripts built into the boots.

Oh, and they are comfortable to dance in, but they do force your legs to be straight at the knees with an animation override (AO).

Nice fit now and each boot has twelve locks… working with Restrained Life.

So if you get locked into them, you’re not going to get out of them….

-Veyron

Oh and Xene has a bunch of other boots and collars…  Tell her Veyron sent you.

Second Life is a lot of things, but basically it’s an empty shell that you can fill with whatever you wish.  Unlike World of Warcraft or any of the other online games, it has no real enforced form.  This of course is the trap.  It can be whatever you want it to be or whatever you can find.

I think all of us, including me, have been at one time or another sucked into Second Life too far.  I’m writing about this because in the last week or so I have seen a close fellow blogger looking to - “take a break”, another friend self destruct within our demon group, The Brood, and some other avatars getting way too wrapped up into Second Life drama.

Rather than lecture on the perils of what happens when you get in too far or go overboard, let me give you Veyron’s rule of thumb for Second Life.  I do all of this to have fun.  If I’m not having fun, I need to change what I’m doing.  Sure, I’ll do some dirty work in the short run to give me long term fun, but if I’m having problems with someone or something, it’s time for a change.

It’s easy to loose that perspective.  For Second Life to become First Life.  It all seems too real.  Once you loose that perspective it’s a slippery slope to bad things happening.  It’s happened to me a few times, but I’ve recovered thankfully.

First thing that seems to go with all SLaddicts is sleep.  This of course weakens resolve to keep things sane and separated.  First Life and Second Life become one and problems from each other merge.  Now think about it, why should Second Life become a “problem”?  Think hard, it’s the peak of lunacy, step back, take a deep breath and just stop it.  If the other avie or avies can’t be rational, that doesn’t mean you can’t.

Why keep First Life and Second Life apart?  Because they don’t mix.  Once you can adjust your Real Life appearance with some sliders, fly, and are indestructible, it might make sense.  Until then, best practice is to keep them apart.  Do I mix RL and SL?  A little, mostly to tease and make things interesting.  My Second Life is much more interesting than my Real Life, but since my Real Life is opaque, it just appears to be more interesting.

Do I play in Second Life too much?  Probably yes, but I can almost always pull back from insanity.  It took a few bad experiences, but I know when I’ve gone too far now.

If you want things to be different, you have to do something different.  If you’re not having fun, you have to change what you’re doing.

-Veyron

After playing with Jene and Tiessa last night, I thought they might want a picture.  By acclamation from a plurk post, here’s a public picture, that is not too risque.  I did get a new collar because I wanted something prettier.  Still upset over the last one I lost, which I though was a nice one.  This one is very nice.

-Veyron

My current favorite web browser is not, contrary to belief, Firefox or for that matter Internet Explorer.  And nope, it is not Safari or Opera.  It is Flock.  It is based on Firefox, but it adds a ton of extra bits.  If you want an uber cool web browser, Flock is it.  There is a beta out based on Firefox 3.0.  Most Firefox extensions work with it, except for a few (the one I miss is Google Gears).  It’s out for Windows, Mac and Linux.

It even won a Webby award for best in social networking.  Give it a whirl, it is pretty good.

-Veyron

Plutonium asked me the other morning if I had see this other sim, Tunnel of Light, which I had not.  So, being a bad girl, I delayed going to work to check it out quickly.  It was quite fabulous.  It’s like an amusement park ride.  You get into a teacup for one or two avies and go for a ride.

This is the digital forest of some sort…  I missed exactly what it was.

Then you head off into another area.

Sort of a space like area.

Very cool.  You have to see it to get the full effect.

Given that Plutonium had taken this ride before, I suspect she was watching other things….

And surprise, at the end of the ride is a club.  Kinda dark, but like most clubs it seems to be the fashionable thing.

One of the more interesting eye candy parts is the veranda area for dancing.

Lots of colors and sorta difficult to cam around and see anything, but interesting.

Oh, and Plutonium is of course as interesting as ever….

-Veyron

It’s not often I see a build that impresses me now.  This build impresess me. 

It is a really well build and well done sim.  Oddly at 3600m in the air.  It looks just like something out of the far future.

Check it out.  You will be amazed with it.  Oh, they have a Ning site too….

-Veyron

We never had Barbie Dolls like this when I was growing up.  Why do I think this is just the sort of thing Tiessa would want?  Oh the humanity. 

I really need one of these for City of Lost Angels a rocket propelled chainsaw gun…

-Veyron

Veyron at the Brood court social event tonight.  New outfit, well at least for me.  From Bare Rose, of course.  The blade on the other hand is from Charissa and the Devil Made Me Do It.  Fine work…

-Veyron

I’ve been here before.  I’ve actually meet some of the people who have been put through this station.  Nice, dare I call them, kids.  I suppose so.  But I knew everything when I was 18, that was for sure.  Anyway, I give you the Teen Grid Transfer station.  Looks a bit different than the last time I was here.  I recall a picture of one of the Lindens on the wall had been prim graffitied to look as if she was smoking.  It was most amusing.

It seems more sterile than the last time I was here.  Definitely no one around.  But I didn’t stay long.  Last time I was here, someone came by after a bit.  I suspect they had a spy bot of some sorts near.

So when a teenager turns 18 they get ejected from the Teen Grid and dumped into the Main Grid here.  Supposedly a big party, etc.  The tragic part comes from the fact that they can’t contact, at least through Second Life, their old friends in the Teen Grid any more.

I wonder for how many of them this is their first experiece on the Main Grid.  Probably not many.

-Veyron

This is pretty interesting.  I wonder if this is true or not?  Hmmmm….

-Veyron