Chris Harvey

Watch the Tux Paint video on Youtube. Or download high resolution(810×630) Tux Paint video in Ogg, Avi and Flash format.

Tux paint is Free software. Visit the Tux Paint home page and download your free copy today.

Bill Kendrick has lots of awesome software. Check out New Breed Software - Games and stuff for Linux, Windows, Mac, Dreamcast, Zaurus and more.

Hands down Tux Paint is the best drawing program for children ages 3 to 12.

For more info check out the Tux Paint article on Wikipedia.

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WikiEducators next online Learning4Content workshop starts this Monday, 26 May
2008. Please help WikiEducator spread the word about this free
training opportunity and encourage folk to enrol and be supported in learning MediaWiki skills

Prospective participants can register online for the next workshop:

http://wikieducator.org/Learning4Content/Registration

Please help WE achieve OUR targets to train 2500 educators (teachers,
lecturers and trainers) by the end of the year.

To date we have achieved 17% of our target — which is still a long
way to go and we’re a little behind on our targets :-(

Thanks Leigh Blackall for the info.

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Adam Zaius, Teravus Ousley, and ZATZAi discuss the future of the Second Life Grids. With a focus on third party grids like OpenSim, comparing past steps and future plans, capabilities and caveats of the Linden and OpenSim based grids.

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I’ve been thinking about what other useful tools I can introduce to educators in secondlife. Builders Buddy is useful for people interested in building. I put together a small package with a tutorial, you can get a copy of builders buddy in sl. Watch the Builders Buddy video on youtube to see what it is. Probably one of the cool things I didn’t mention was wearing it as an attachment and using it to rez a few seats that would follow you around. Maybe I’ll make a part 2 video that also looks at the configuration options at the top of the main script. People used to proprietary products in sl would probably know of something like this that’s usually called a rez box.

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I’ve been thinking about useful tools for educators in secondlife. Meta Presenter is a simple, really easy to use tool for giving presentations. Its free and open source. Watch my Meta Presenter demo video on Youtube.

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Sculptie Physics on OpenSim from Dahlia Trimble on Vimeo.

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Teravus was teaching me about the internals of the meshing for physics on opensim when the topic came up about making a mesh out of a sculpted prim. I mentioned I would like to attempt to make one and try it out, and a few hours later he had it working! This video is Dahlia walking on a sculpted prim spaceship in OSGrid after updating to his new code.

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In secondlife sculpties only collide on bounding boxes, which make them really only suitable for visuals, not for part of complex builds. Due to some early work done by Teravus this week, that’s no longer true for OpenSim. We’re now creating a tri-mesh collision surface for sculpties and passing that into our physics engine.

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Can we rescue OLPC from Windows?

Laptop Liberation

RobotCub, RobotCub Consortium

Ubuntu breathes new life into school’s abandoned hardware

MSN Music to shut down, leaving DRM customers in the lurch

Brazil migrates voting machines to GNU/Linux

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I made a video of what Ive been up to with Opensim, you can watch Opensim Gnutopia demo on youtube or download Opensim demo.

Here’s some images from my Opensim aka Gnutopia.

gnutopia aerial view	gnutopia house	gnutopia map
gnutopia near bridge	gnutopia on hill	loginscreen

I used the following software packages to set up my Opensim on windows.

• Webserver On Stick - for apache,php,mysql. I included the webserver so I could use OpenSim Web Interface (Redux).
• OpenSim Web Interface (Redux) - it allows grid citizens to create User Accounts to access the grid. Grid Owners can also manage all users for the grid. very light CMS system included.
• Opensimulator - I use the OpenSim.be Nightly Builds. You might find it easier to use these builds
• Secondlife client from Linden Labs

Probably the best thing about the way Ive done this is that I can run it from a memory stick which makes it easier to demonstrate and use when I’m not connected to a network on other peoples computers, thats a fairly common scenario in education, I can also leave them with a copy which is a nice bonus. Unfortunately in Australia our isp’s offer internet packages that set limits on how much we can upload and download otherwise I would have this running all the time. Perhaps someone out there could help out, i would love to have a Wikiversity region connected to osgrid or something like that.

I might put a howto on a wiki if people end up asking lots of questions.

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Looks like I’ve managed to get Planet TALO up again :)

I enjoyed catching up with the latest news, the recent discussion between Bill Kerr and Teemu was quite revealing. Most of the time peoples opinions are based on what they can actually do. A lot of the time their opinion is also going to support the products they’ve developed. lol check out that guys idea of the only visible software you should use. After a while some peoples idea’s seem primitive and their opinions become so predictable. He has a blog called FLOSSE POSSE - Free libre and open source software in education and he’s a mac user that advocates the use of proprietary software whenever its convenient so its no wonder he would say “Everything else should run in a background without user paying any attention of the applications that are actually working behind the scene.” The thing is, these guys dream up these killer apps mostly because they cant configure their system to operate the way they want. Anyway there’s way to much contradiction for me to sort through. If its time to talk about education again then why is that guy always talking about hardware and software.

If you want to contribute to Planet TALO contact me with the details of your site.

You can add the button to your webpage using the html below.

<a href=”http://www.superuser.com.au/planettalo” title=”Planet TALO”><img src=”http://www.superuser.com.au/planettalo/images/planettalo2.jpg” title=”Visit Planet TALO” alt=”www.superuser.com.au/planettalo” height=”15″ width=”105″></a>

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I’ve been looking at the ASUS Eee PC. It looks pretty sweet, the Eee 900 Series was recently released.

Here’s some info for people to lazy to click the link to the wikipedia article:

The ASUS Eee PC (pronounced as the letter e, IPA /iː/) is a subnotebook computer designed by ASUS and Intel. At the time of its introduction, it was noted for its combination of light weight, Linux-based operating system, solid-state drive and relatively low cost. In the UK, the ASUS Eee PC is also distributed as the RM Asus Minibook by RM.

According to ASUS, the name Eee derives from “the three Es,” an abbreviation of their advertising slogan for the device: “Easy to learn, Easy to work, Easy to play”.[3] The device may fall into a newly defined category of Netbooks.

ASUSTek is committed to meet the requirements of the GNU General Public License.

I think you can pick one up for around $400 to $600 AU.
Definitely worth checking out. Eeepc product page.

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