July 10th, 2010
This is a thing that really agravate me, the proliferation of “i like it” buttons and comment windows that ask me to log on facebook, or simply websites that use your facebook session to log you in.
So here is a cure, for those who use any ad blocker compatible with AdblockPlus rules (AdThwart on chrome) simply add the following custom rules:
||*.facebook.*^$domain=~facebook.com|~127.0.0.1
||facebook.com/*$domain=~facebook.com|~facebook.net|~fbcdn.com|~fbcdn.net
||facebook.net/*$domain=~facebook.com|~facebook.net|~fbcdn.com|~fbc
||fbcdn.com/*$domain=~facebook.com|~facebook.net|~fbcdn.com|~fbcdn.netdn.net
||fbcdn.net/*$domain=~facebook.com|~facebook.net|~fbcdn.com|~fbcdn.net
Those rules will tell your navigator to block anything coming from facebook’s hosts, unless you are actually visiting facebook.
This is a thing that really agravate me, the proliferation of "i like it" buttons and comment windows that ask me to log on facebook, or simply websites that use your facebook session to log you in.
So here is a cure, for those who use any ad blocker compatible with AdblockPlus rules (AdThwart on chrome) simply add the following custom rules:
||*.facebook.*^$domain=~facebook.com|~127.0.0.1
||facebook.com/*$domain=~facebook.com|~facebook.net|~fbcdn.com|~fbcdn.net
||facebook.net/*$domain=~facebook.com|~facebook.net|~fbcdn.com|~fbc
||fbcdn.com/*$domain=~facebook.com|~facebook.net|~fbcdn.com|~fbcdn.netdn.net
||fbcdn.net/*$domain=~facebook.com|~facebook.net|~fbcdn.com|~fbcdn.net
Those rules will tell your navigator to block anything coming from facebook's hosts, unless you are actually visiting facebook.
Tags: AdblockPlus, facebook
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July 8th, 2010
As usual, filling out those forms and stuffs is a pain in the ass, especially if you want to put proper translations for your products, I can only write properly in french and english, so i filled out German Japanese and Portuguese using google translation… So don’t blame me for the crappy translations 
My opinion of the thing? I like the layout, I like the “related products” footer that’s really nice when you have objects that are part of a while serie or are compatible with eachothers, but i wish it was more convenient , like you could add objects to a “group” and all the members of this group are automatically cycled in the related products. As it stands right now you can only add 8 products (all are visible on the footer) and you have to do it for each and every products.
Right now I won’t add all my colored products because they have a “coming soon” feature that will handle multiple variations of a same item as one, and I do not want to make any extra work on this one.
I’m thinking about dropping the other marketplaces, excepted for freebies, because that’s basically the only thing i ever “Sell” on them. SOmehow peoples browse Apez.biz or Meta-life, but they never have money to spend.
On this point i guess LindenLabs kinda got what they wanted, with their ability to integrate their online shopping experience directly into SecondLife, they pretty much push any competitor out.
Linden Labs… has never anybody taught you that in an economic system, self imposed monopolies tend to be kind of BAD?
Oh well, when you are judge and party things tend to be a bit skewed in your own favor i suppose.
As usual, filling out those forms and stuffs is a pain in the ass, especially if you want to put proper translations for your products, I can only write properly in french and english, so i filled out German Japanese and Portuguese using google translation... So don't blame me for the crappy translations :)
My opinion of the thing? I like the layout, I like the "related products" footer that's really nice when you have objects that are part of a while serie or are compatible with eachothers, but i wish it was more convenient , like you could add objects to a "group" and all the members of this group are automatically cycled in the related products. As it stands right now you can only add 8 products (all are visible on the footer) and you have to do it for each and every products.
Right now I won't add all my colored products because they have a "coming soon" feature that will handle multiple variations of a same item as one, and I do not want to make any extra work on this one.
I'm thinking about
Tags: KDC, Marketplace, SecondLife
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June 29th, 2010
Soo, basically the experience i had with the other merchand sites wasn’t really a success, updating 4 sites at the same time is really daunting , and it appears the only things I sell there are the few freebies I offer.
So i’m getting ready for the painful task of getting back all my stuffs on xstreet, and considering it’s becoming the de facto place for shopping in sl (not quite yet beating inworld sales but well…) i’m going to make a real effort this time.
Well aparently it’s a good thing that i’m kind of a slow person, LL decided they would scrape Xstreet for a new system.
Soo, basically the experience i had with the other merchand sites wasn't really a success, updating 4 sites at the same time is really daunting , and it appears the only things I sell there are the few freebies I offer.
So i'm getting ready for the painful task of getting back all my stuffs on xstreet, and considering it's becoming the de facto place for shopping in sl (not quite yet beating inworld sales but well...) i'm going to make a real effort this time.
Well aparently it's a good thing that i'm kind of a slow person, LL decided they would scrape Xstreet for a new system.
Tags: KDC, Marketplace, SecondLife, XStreet
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June 28th, 2010
As part of one of my little project AND as a future, soon to be nice and handy RLV enabled item, here are a few early shots of my isolation noise protectors.
- Worn without my RLV activator they are pretty and fashionable
- Worn with the activator on a RLV enabled client, they will block all text messages coming to you, the small button allow to toggle reception of Instant messages.
- The large button toggle the builtin “microphone” that allow your domme, or someone else to temporarly give you back your “hearing”, I say temporarly because it will only last for so long, the little lights ticking down around the button will automatically turn off the microphone if no chat is heard for 30 seconds ( and your own doesn’t count )
- Oh yeah, it’s made so you can’t manipulate it yourself
Not quite finished, but sooooon in an isolation pod near you.
ALso, i might make a more “compact” model for those who prefere discrete earplugs.
As part of one of my little project AND as a future, soon to be nice and handy RLV enabled item, here are a few early shots of my isolation noise protectors.
Worn without my RLV activator they are pretty and fashionable :D
Worn with the activator on a RLV enabled client, they will block all text messages coming to you, the small button allow to toggle reception of Instant messages.
The large button toggle the builtin "microphone" that allow your domme, or someone else to temporarly give you back your "hearing", I say temporarly because it will only last for so long, the little lights ticking down around the button will automatically turn off the microphone if no chat is heard for 30 seconds ( and your own doesn't count :D)
Oh yeah, it's made so you can't manipulate it yourself :)
Not quite finished, but sooooon :) in an isolation pod near you.
ALso, i might make a more "compact" model for those who prefere discrete earplugs.
Tags: KDC, RLV, SecondLife, TouchBound
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June 15th, 2010
Maybe some of you noticed but my blog, vendors, etc… stopped working for a comple of days. Today i’m going to tell you what exactly happened:
Sunday evening, June 13:
I Decided after a classic kernel upgrade that i had to reboot the ethernia server briefly, I warned everybody on voice chat, it was supposed to take only a minute or so.
What happened? I’m not entirely sure, somehow in the last 15 days i “broke” something in the system, or maybe it simply was a bad kernel config? To this day i don’t know and i probably will never know. Read the rest of this entry »
Maybe some of you noticed but my blog, vendors, etc... stopped working for a comple of days. Today i'm going to tell you what exactly happened:
Sunday evening, June 13:
I Decided after a classic kernel upgrade that i had to reboot the ethernia server briefly, I warned everybody on voice chat, it was supposed to take only a minute or so.
What happened? I'm not entirely sure, somehow in the last 15 days i "broke" something in the system, or maybe it simply was a bad kernel config? To this day i don't know and i probably will never know.
I quickly rebooted the machine in rescue mode and prodded at various things, earlier kernel version, and various other things. I simply couldn't bring the machine back online in normal mode.
I dropped a mail to the support to get a KVM plugged so i could see what kind of startup error I was having, visited the newsgroups in search for an answer, late in the night, after checking the price of a new machine i decided that is they refused to assign me a KVM i would t
Tags: Server
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May 28th, 2010
I just got this new keyboard working and have been making a few shortcuts triggered by key combinations, like ctrl+Alt+Shift+F12 and the like, and here are a few things I learned that should help everyone doing those kind of things.
- The key combo you chose for your shortcut WONT work, or won’t be reloaded on next reboot unless it is sitting in specific folders, like the Start menu folder.
- Shortcuts called with key combinations are unexplicably SLOW to start for some reason. But there is an easy fix to this:
The fix for Custom keyboard shortcuts slowness:
- Open the registry editor Start > Run > Regedit.exe
- navigate to the following key:
HKLM/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Session Manager
- right click and choose: New Value > Dword
- Name the new value “SafeDllSearchMode”
- Set it’s value to 1
- Reboot
This fix should remove most of the lag you experience when executing a custom keyboard shortcut.
I just got this new keyboard working and have been making a few shortcuts triggered by key combinations, like ctrl+Alt+Shift+F12 and the like, and here are a few things I learned that should help everyone doing those kind of things.
The key combo you chose for your shortcut WONT work, or won't be reloaded on next reboot unless it is sitting in specific folders, like the Start menu folder.
Shortcuts called with key combinations are unexplicably SLOW to start for some reason. But there is an easy fix to this:
The fix for Custom keyboard shortcuts slowness:
Open the registry editor Start > Run > Regedit.exe
navigate to the following key:
HKLM/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Session Manager
right click and choose: New Value > Dword
Name the new value "SafeDllSearchMode"
Set it's value to 1
Reboot
This fix should remove most of the lag you experience when executing a custom keyboard shortcut.
Tags: Shortcut, Windows7
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May 11th, 2010
I finished copying the brainstorming articles i’ve bee writing for the torquepowered community, they now are with my other articles, i also ordered everything neatly in categories.
They are pretty dense text packages so you better enjoy reading my broken english ^_^
I finished copying the brainstorming articles i've bee writing for the torquepowered community, they now are with my other articles, i also ordered everything neatly in categories.
They are pretty dense text packages so you better enjoy reading my broken english ^_^
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May 11th, 2010
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