Meerkat Second Life Viewer

Just discovered the Meerkat Second Life viewer brought to us by the Open Metaverse Foundation, another open source viewer but it has some nice features and layout for the standard viewer features. The reason I like it so much is that it runs very smoothly on my Eee PC, and crucially you can change the draw distance by a simple…

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Upgrading my Eee PC 900

In an effort to squeeze some extra performance out of my trusty Asus EeePC 900 I finally got around to upgrading the memory from the standard 1GB DDR2-400 to 2GB DDR2-667. After several attempts of the poor thing not even booting with the new memory installed I was about to give up when I found an obscure forum posting that…

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Antique Maps

I have just added some widgets to display images onto the site, so thought I’d start by showcasing some maps from my collection. Click on the thumbnails for a larger view. I’m sure I’ll return to this post at some stage to make more comments! ..and now I have! These maps have been gradually added to the site with a…

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