Garbled display on MacBook Pro?

> Hello,
>
> I can't shake this case of video wobblies:
> http://www.simteach.com/badcroquetdisplay.jpg
> (This is steady state - not flickering)
>
> Running Main Distribution: 1.0.18.9
>
> As downloaded from:
> http://croquetconsortium.org/index.php/Downloads
>
> My MacBook Pro is stock. I tried tweaking everything
> in the Display prefs:
> o) Colors (256, thousands, millions)
> o) Stretched and unstretched from 640 to 1440
> o) Display profiles (chose all the options)
>
> I am about as vanilla as they come but don't see this
> documented anywhere. Hmm.
>
> Could this be another app that doesn't play well with
> the VM? I have Second Life, Photoshop, but haven't
> done any customization on the display.
>
> --j
>
> - Jeremy Kemp, M.Ed., M.S.J.
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> Hello,
>
> I spent a few hours boiling down Intel CTO Justin
> Rattner's keynote yesterday at their developer forum.
> "Virtual Worlds – The Rise of the 3D Internet"
>
> Notes and screenshots here:
> http://www.simteach.com/wiki/index.php?title=RattnerIDF
>
> It is fascinating to see how a mega-tech looks at this
> as an opportunity to sell more product. (Duh) And
> ironic that it embraces and disses Second Life in the
> same breath.
>
> Key watchwords are "interoperability" and "open
> standard" and Croquet gets some solid airtime. Or
> rather its commercial cousin QWAQ.
>
> Intel underlines that SL is NOT the next 3D web, but
> only grumbles about fidelity and openness to back its
> case. Ignoring the fact that this platform is the 90%
> player behind the metaverse blowup in the last two
> years?
>
> So how will Linden tackle this problem of sitting on
> terrabytes of user-created content with a resident
> dollar value attached to each object? "Make it open"
> can ONLY apply to their platform but the TRUE value is
> the content (ie. community).
>
> Open WHILE an asset...
> interoperable WHILE being venture funded...

> On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 14:25 -0700, Jeremy Kemp wrote:
>  
>> Hello,
>>
>> I spent a few hours boiling down Intel CTO Justin
>> Rattner's keynote yesterday at their developer forum.
>> "Virtual Worlds – The Rise of the 3D Internet"
>>
>> Notes and screenshots here:
>> http://www.simteach.com/wiki/index.php?title=RattnerIDF
>>
>> It is fascinating to see how a mega-tech looks at this
>> as an opportunity to sell more product. (Duh) And
>> ironic that it embraces and disses Second Life in the
>> same breath.
>>
>> Key watchwords are "interoperability" and "open
>> standard" and Croquet gets some solid airtime. Or
>> rather its commercial cousin QWAQ.
>>
>> Intel underlines that SL is NOT the next 3D web, but
>> only grumbles about fidelity and openness to back its
>> case. Ignoring the fact that this platform is the 90%
>> player behind the metaverse blowup in the last two
>> years?
>>
>> So how will Linden tackle this problem of sitting on
>> terrabytes of user-created content with a resident
>> dollar value attached to each object? "Make it open"
>> can ONLY apply to their platform but the TRUE value is
>> the content (ie. community).
>>
>> Open WHILE an asset...
>> interoperable WHILE being venture funded...
>>    
>
> I talked with some of SL devel folks and they told me that Second Life
> servers all run Linux. And, that they are teeter-tottering on the
> subject of open-sourcing their server app. I'll believe that when I see
> it. <chuckles> Does QWAQ have front-end user-space content creation
> tools that we don't have? If so, can we beg?? <grins> Ric
>  
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