tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082643594598864372012-02-16T06:54:09.168-05:00The journal of Maklin Deckard, inventor and resident of the Independent State of Caledon.Maklin Deckardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08216125949703603110noreply@blogger.comBlogger181100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-408264359459886437.post-19000634615952034652007-12-03T23:33:00.000-05:002007-12-03T23:44:58.274-05:00

Well, thank you Linden Labs. Looks like I will be downtiering and leaving SL as soon as my land tier is due again. Just all of a sudden, ALL my ingame items sales stopped.... I had no idea why, my search and classified ranking LOOKED good....until I upgraded to LL's newest program...the one with the new search. Prokofy Neva was right, its pure EVIL. :( So I go back and check my

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I created a group, Independent State of Caledon (SL) for those persons interested in posting their pictures taken within our great nation. Feel free to sign up and add to the group!

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Finished the Expedition Base Camp sets and have them up on the vendor. They come in three flavors (and pricing).LiteStandard DeluxeI also added in a surveyor's set (part of the deluxe camp) consisting of a brass transit, leveling rod and sextant. Also, the lanterns that come in the standard and deluxe camps may be purcahsed separately (2 lanterns and a kerosene cannister).Lastly, the Geothermal

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What a complete and utter joke. Apparently, someone mentioned to Excalibur that the boards were considered a clique' (Excalibur, feel free to mention me if you were indeed referring to me...I don't HIDE things I say behind locked forums. I stand by what I say, right or wrong.) since you must sign up to read. So, the forum admin puts up a poll. And of course the clique' members rush to

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This is a rant. If it offends anyone, I am sorry. But I am very blunt and I don't smile and sugar words...politician I am not. Disclaimer done.---------If easily offended, do not read below this line -------------Caledon is SUPPOSED to be victorian / steampunk. MANY of the residents wouldn't know this if it bit them dead-square on the ass! Did a fly around the various sims. And was really

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Currently working on a new project, the 'Expedition in a Box'. Think of this as a child's playset, but for adult players. It will allow players to quickly set up a 'base camp' in places such as the darkest mainland. It will ship with the following items.....2 large tents.4 folding cots, w/poses.4 folding chairs, w/poses.Folding map table with maps.Assorted sizes of supply crates &

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The last major projects have been completed. I updated my steam combat armor with no flag and Union Jack to have user-selectable rank insignia on the shoulder, as well as created an enlisted / NCO set (silver, no pictures).For the special 'Caledon Resident' armor, I added a flexi flash just below the officer rank insignia AND a flexi 'sash' hanging from the left hip of the unit. As a

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Ah, I have not had this much fun in ages. I visited Steelhead, strictly to see if Old Glory Sutlery had come out with the new Confederate officer's uniform. Walked right into the setup for the 'Salute to the Troops' event. 7th Cavalry out of steelhead had a camp, as did the confederates farther on down. There was even a moving reading of a WWI soldier's letter home.Later that afternoon

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After joining the Caledon forums (www.caledonforums.com) I am MOST HEARTILY regretting the decision. I held off due to the asinine policy of 'can't read without joining to prevent spam' (when a policy of 'can't post without signing up, but anyone can read' would be better, I detest the appearance of secret cabals), but relented and joined.I saw a lot of familiar names, and a few familiar names

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(OOC) I was contacted early Sunday by Desmond, seems he had a project for me. I port over to the new Wellsian sim (still being terraformed / tweaked) and see a HUGE gap / inlet. Turns out, we needed a railroad bridge. Per Desmond, something big, solid, and eye catching....and in 25 prims or less. I did it in 29...and Des squeezed out 4 more prims for the overage.(IC) Hrm, a telegram from the

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Thanks to a wonderful fellow Caledonian (thank you again, Kandace Commons!), I now have a working submarine! Turns out, I cannot use a modified air flight script, even with hover ability, as it negates some of the flags like HOVER_HEIGHT_GLOBAL, which means I cannot cap altitude at the water level (with llWater() )...it just ignored it completely.She took about ten minutes out of her schedule on

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OK, finally got it to where it works...for the most part. Having a LOT of dificulty capping the unit at surface level. If I try to prevent it from applying impulses via the linear.z props (setting it to 0 or -n when Altitude > water) results it in it slamming straight to the bottom... No idea why changing linear.z +=12; to +=0; causes it to slam to the bottom.So I decided to use llMoveToTarget.

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Trying to program something. Of course, error. So look it up in the help file...great, no examples, pure reference and utterly useless (vector offset ... what in the nine hells does that mean, exactly, it doesn't work in the program?). Sooo, against my better judgement, I go to the LSL wiki....guess what? Their supposedly working sample code doesn't do a thing! Well, it does generate 'syntax

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I spoke with Desmond the other night. I can see his point to why he is leaving voice activated. Linden labs is screwing the admins harder than the players on this one.For the players, they merely crippled text interface with the new communications center in order to try to force us to voice, so they can claim it to be a 'success'.For admins, they defaulted voice to ON until December even on

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This has been a rough last two days. With the advent of voice, the usual ration of verbal grief I catch when outside of Caledon and not in a fur sim (due to my Avatar's appearance) has NOW grown to include people verbally assaulting me for not being voice enabled. I knew this was coming, having been thrown out of one EQ2 and 2 WoW guilds when the voice users, aka illiterate AOL chat-roomers, grew

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Got the vendors updated with the 2 models of humidor (Counter-top and upright, each in oak and walnut). Also added the humidors to SLExchange, since I seem to do quite well there.Finally finished off a portable steam-powered electrical generator...a very small steam engine, generator, transformer and switching console placed on a cart wtih small wheels. With the jacob's ladder style arcing rods,

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I spent part of the evening banging away at making a submarine...which is a complete waste of time at my programming skill level. I have made a couple hulls, but for the life of me cannot figure out how to code the miserable things to A) Not fly and B) not sink like a rock when rezzed.I did find a few posts with ideas on the old forums, tried them, modifying a basic boat script that I have used

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(Enjoying a drink and cigar in the library)Tonight, I have decided to start a journal, outlining the life and times of an inventor and shopkeeper in the Independent State of Caledon.I spent the early evening building Humidors (for the uncivilized, humidity controlled cases for storing fine cigars). Built a counter-top humidor with doors that open, then added a base to it to make a true

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