The Lindens needs to test more so the update is delayed. There will still be a maintenance tho but it’s all for the greater good!

See the Linden’s Blog entry about it 

I created 2 new groups to help organize meetings in games for Flickrites and Bloggers. Here they are. If you are SL Flickrites or Bloggers you better register or I will Ownage you.

http://www.flickr.com/groups/sl_blog_gatherings/

http://www.flickr.com/groups/sl_flickr_gatherings/

Enjoy!

If theres a cool thing about SecondLife being down, is that the SL addicts get their fix on Flickr. So I posted 3 funny maintenance day pictures and there getting a hell lot of views. My GF Nadine did so too with very convincing results, the hits are pouring like water:

Nadine also posted this instant success:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/42737673@N00/500898234/Akira also posted this big bomb:

Woooot! Let’s kick the Flickr you SL heads!

To my favourite DJ guy, to my favourite mad skilled photoshopper, to my favourite german guy: HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARQUEZ!

*pops up the champagne!*

A happy whatever your age now is to you my dear dear friend! I hope you have a fantastic year filled of interesting projects, interesting chicks, interesting photoshoots, interesting DJ sessions… what the hell am I saying!!? EVERYTHING you do is interesting! So no worries!

My deepest ♥♥♥,

Your favourite model and North-American manager, Codie

I’m probably using Ubuntu and Debian Linux far more than Windows. But since i’m kinda stuck with at least one instance of Windows running for SecondLife while waiting for a more performant and stable Linux build, I at least try to bear using this dreadful OS by spicing it with the best appz the free software world can offer. Here’s my top unordered list of killer applications every power user should have installed, IMOHO.

• Democracy TV
• The free Web TV platform. Simple enough for any noob, install it and run it. Choose channels and play, sit and relax. Theres tons of great content, my fav being the French Maid TV and Channel Frederator. Lots of indy music videos too. DTV is in fact a RSS videopodcast feed reader thats entirely automated and allows Tivo like recording and viewing. DTV is based on Videolan, Bittorrent protocol, and Python among other things. Entirely free and opensource. Support the Participatory Culture Foundation, a non profit org that makes the soft. Compatible MacOSX, Windows and Linux.
• Flock
• My best discovery of the month. Blog and Flickr directly integrated into that Firefox based web browser thats entirely Firefox compatible, so you can add extensions too. It allows you to drag Flickr pics directly into your blog entries. Works with most known blogging systems. Works with Photobucket too. It’s also got a nifty RSS newsreader integrated to it that allows you to sidepost any news article from your feeds. Compatible MacOSX, Windows and Linux.
• Truecrypt
• If you care about your data, especially mobile data, Truecrypt is a killer app. It allows simple complete volume encryption on the fly. You format a partition and it becomes a real data safe supporting strong crypto. You can read your data on any machine with Truecrypt installed. Split a free space on your mobile hard drive and you have a portable data safeguard, in case of lost. Works with USB keys too. Compatible with Windows and Linux too.
• KeepAss
• If you are above the standard luser, like me you must have 2000 passwords to remember. Lucky Codie have a lot of memory for complex alphanumeric strings, but don’t feel bad if you dont. I found this fantastic and tiny application called KeePass (I like to call it KeepAss because its an ass saver). This program is a secure password vault. It allows you to enter tons of passwords classified be categories, and lets you open the password needy application with a single clicks. No need to copy the password manually, it automagically enters your buffer and you can paste it directly. A real time saver. Compatible with Linux, MacOsX and Windows, and there’s a plugin to export to a PalmOS compatible format to have your passwords under hand all the time!
• TorPark
• Another pleasent security app, that’s portable too. Its Firefox, with complete TOR integration. TOR is The Onion Router, that merges your machine into a secure freenet allowing true anonymous browsing. It’s slower than regular browsing, but nothing will show on the proxy logs at your job Windows only from what I know.
• PortableApps
• It’s not one single application. It’s a shitload of applications. All portable. It means you can install them on any mobile drive or USB key. Plug the USB device in any computer you have access too, and you will have your own Firefox, Thunderbird, OpenOffice, Filezilla, GAIM, The Gimp, multimedia applications, fucking name it. They provide an installer containing dozens of high quality free and opensource applications, the kind we all ♥♥♥. Windows only, but the best kind.
• Hamachi
• Zero configuration VPN for the masses. It’s free. This app is so useful but can be very dangerous security speaking if you don’t know what you are doing. It allows you to create a VPN in less than 5 minutes and link a bunch of computers in a virtual local network, jumping any firewall. This allows you to connect to other computers in the network to perform any operation that usually needs port forwarding. Like local windows file sharing, FTP, game server, VNC, anything really. You connect to it like if the computer was in your local area network. Nifty and really practical. Windows and Linux compatible.
• UltraVNC
• The ideal tool to manage remote servers graphically. Similar to the old PCAnywhere or Windows Remote Desktop, this app adds up a few nice tools to help your friends. You can chat with them or perform some things ordinary VNC can’t do. For Windows.

Here you go folks! Hope you have fun!

Codie

As I said somewhere previousy I have almost no photocomposition notions and I just shoot naturally. Well it’s funny because I use several of the notions included in that nice blog article I stumbled uppon. Amateur photographers like me will surely appreciate the following page:

URL: http://www.photoaxe.com/composition-in-photography/

We all know being the noob sucks. Personally I did not have an ounce of trouble with it, thanks to my hacker background, and thanks to a couple of residents kind enough to give me a couple pointers. After only a week, Codie was already like a fish in the water, building around. But those who don’t have my technical background can find their first times in SL pretty dreadful.

I help so many noobs everyday, that I thought I could try and condense all the tricks and tips I acquired in my short SecondLife. This will also save me and other Secondlifers a lot of time explaining some basic stuff to those noobs we ♥♥♥ so much, by redirecting them to a very practical guide you can follow easily step by step.

I already did a good start on it, just a few pages of stuff. I’d like it to become the ultimate Noob reference guide for SL. I want to include popular freebie stores, popular stores and places, touring destinations, essentials must have stuff, sex tour guide, and so on and so on. I already hired my lovely new partner in SL Fallon Kazan to be my editor, and help collect the info and build that guide.

Now. What I need from you all expert 2ndLifers out there, who still remembers how it was to be a noob, is simply to email me or add in comments of this post all the possible tips, tricks, special places, stores, money making tricks, or anything you could think of that would help our fellow noobies to feel beautiful and live their SecondLife to the fullest.

Thanks for them in advance.

URL: http://codebastardredgrave.com/?page_id=7