April 14, 2012
This past week, on Good Friday, as a matter of fact, I received three years of back tax rebates. Fifteen hundred bucks worth of cha-ching!
Well, I took care of some bills, put some extra food in the fridge, partied a bit with some friends (got drunk for the first time in 4 years) and bought a new computer.
Its an AMD A8-3820 APU QuadCore processor running at 2500Mhz. Its got 6Gb of RAM and a 1.5Tb harddrive, which I've partitioned to a 100Tb partition and a 500Gb partion. One for programs and system files, the other for my sims and files and archives. The graphics are Radeon HD 6550D embedded in the motherboard. Pretty good system, though the graphics aren't all that great. And its ATI. The problem is that the case is too small to swap my nVida 9500GT in.
But I found a solution. I now have them networked as a LAN, via a Cisco router. Just left everything at default and now I've got the quadcore running my at-home sim and my single core is running everything else. I did lose the use of the Apache server from SoaS. Its just stops running. No problem logging in though.
Next is to get my system online.
And that's where I've got problems. You see, my Internet service is a mobility service. The setup uses a USB stick to connect to the network (its Bell Mobility, btw), so none of the instructions that I find work out. The whole of the system starts with the region server quadcore, connected via ethernet to the Cisco router/hub. This also connects my single core applications system. This system connects to the Internet. In short, the region server has to go through the LAN router/hub, then my the applications computer to connect.
If anyone has any tips or links, feel free to comment, I'll appreciate the help.
Many congrats on your new machine. Not sure I understood your set-up description here: sounds like you have 2 systems on a network errr something?, but I use Sprint Mobile Broadband (usb stick in the US) for my connections to the net too. So I know where you are coming from somewhat on the mobility thing. If I wasn't such a Linux guy I might have tips for ya, but a Linux PC or system can do anything a router can do and more. I don't think I could go back to Windows or Macs now; as I'd feel like I got downgraded from a NASA shuttle to a tinker-toy. Once you get to know the power of a linux system, It spoils you. Sometimes I feel that Sprint may be blocking some ports that they shouldn't though. I have not tried hyper-griding or anything like that from my home PC, as I keep things firewalled fairly tight on my local PC by my own choice. I don't think my lame mobile broadband could even run OpenSim if I didn't have the benefits of Linux. My spot on the Linode cloud is for my live sims, I don't want to keep my local system on to run my public sims anyway. The bandwidth throughput would blow anyway from a mobile service (mine anyway). I have my cloud server working too now . It ran my sim fine on OsGrid before, but (it will become my grid soon), just nothing cool on it yet: Too busy giggling at my stupid local attempts to make a dragon , it was such a goofy thing when it walked around. It was too silly to finish. Though his script was cool. I have much to learn.
Thanks, Araxie, and learning to use Linux is on the infamous To Do list :-) I think its mostly a matter of becoming used to the various extensions where to get software and how to add/remove things. That and making time to do so. :-)
The LAN setup is pretty straight forward. Two computers connected to a router/hub. The router is a Cysco LinkSys WRT160N V2. My Internet is via one system, not the router. That is, the usual arrangement is the two computers to the router and the DSL also connects to a port on the router. Mine, like yours, connects via my computer's USB port. So, for my sim to connect, the data has to go through the router, my viewer computer and then the Mobility USB stick.
And, like you, I wouldn't be able to run my sim 24/7 online. Just the simple rates for that much monthly data usage would make it unfeasible. Mostly, I will be using this as a way of transferring my builds to OSGrid and others. Either by connecting to the grid or using HyperGrid. When you think about what it will take to import an 1000+ prim build to a grid, I'm sure you'll agree that connecting a sim makes it a helluva lot easier. Especially since you can include the scripts, animations and sounds. Plus being able to travel around a bit from home via HG. Way better than using seperate logins and all.
I've been thinking about using a cloud service, but I know nothing about it. Perhaps there's an article there you could write for us, Araxie. What to look for, various services and price ranges, the practicalities of going cloud.
Since version 1.6.0, Singularity Viewer support Mesh. So, please, update info for these viewer. Thx.
I know your comment ended up in the wrong article, but no worries.
I did not test viewers to see if they support mesh, I tested to see if they import mesh. Singularity doesn't do that.
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