User:Ferd Frederix

Biography Name Ferd Frederix Group Volunteer Mentor Avatar Usually Bender, from Futurama, or a small tough guy. Home Phaze Demesnes🖈 RealLife Fred K. Beckhusen, President, Micro Technology Services, Inc. www.Mitsi.com email:fred@mitsi.com Skills Microcomputer and microprocessor hardware design and programming Languages My software work is primarily in C and its variants C++ and C#, with lots of perl, lsl script, Visual Basic, 3-D modeling in Solidworks, and lots of other languages and tools I'd rather forget, dating all the way back to the early 1970's. My first computer was the Rockwell Autonetics Recomp-II, a 1K word, 40-bit drum-memory military computer. I took it apart, rebuild it, and wrote John Conways "Game of Life" for it, from careful study of the Mathematical Games column in Scientific American. I still read and love Scientific American, which first published the rules for the game of Life in 1970. Yeah, I know. It dates me. Hobbies Programming, reading mass quantities of anything, sci-fi, and more programming. Projects Serious stuff Ferd's free translator - a universal translator that will work in any language to as many people as are speaking. Had to be simple to use and operate The Game of Phaze Source Code- a Secondlife role-playing game based on Piers Anthony's The Blue Adept. Mentor Meta Map - clickable maps of areas where Volunteers are needed. (Hopefully complementary to Lum Pfhol's wonderful Mentor HUD). I hope my work on the Mentor Meta Map will help new and old Mentors alike to help "New Residents" more efficiently. Fun Stuff Astonomy Picture of the Day and Week- Based on Nasa's web site, only prettier! Flikr in Secondlife - Add Flickr pics to your Second life Profile Web tab @Phone - dials a telephone from within Secondlife™ with text to speech using Kate and Paul voices, with true SMS and email. Kate and Paul Text to speech - Add decent synthesized text-to-speech to web pages and SecondLife™. Must be converted to 44Khz for use in SecondLife™, which is easy with Goldwave, a free audio editor. Useful things on my desktop Second Life Animated Texture Creator - Creating a Second Life animated texture is now SIMPLE! Step 1. Select an animated GIF file from your hard drive using the "Browse" button below. Step 2. Enter how many frames per second you would like the animation to play at in SL. Step 3. Press "Process". Astonomy Picture of the Day and Week- Based on Nasa's web site, only prettier! MIT's new Scratch for Secondlife - for those new to scripting. An easy way to add scripts to your objects in Second Life™, even for beginners who do not know scripts. Get Scratch from MIT.edu Flikr in Secondlife - Add Flickr pics to your Second life Profile Web tab Shameless plug Mitsi.com

Ferds's Quick Links Main Page Volunteer Portal The Tao Mitsi.com Scripting links Get Scratch from MIT.edu Get Wood Workshop Get PloppSL Mitsi.com