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I have more than the minimal, score is about 4.3. I have all the settings correct but still not flip 3d. I press the start key and the tab key, are those the right ones? When I do, I get a brief display of the 3d but then it just opens one of the...

Second Life has been partially released open source. But where is Second Life headed, what's cool about it, and what needs to be improved for it to move closer to such a reality as originally described in Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash? Here are my thoughts on the issue.

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Most of us have had a brand new computer at one time. It's a great feeling. You boot up windows and within 30 seconds you are surfing the net, checking your email, or playing your favorite game. 10 months down the road things aren't so nice anymore. You power up your computer and it seems to take forever to load.

1. The prefetch cache

Here is how it works: Yesterday you used MS Word, and Duke Nukem 3D. Today you boot your system to check e-mail. It sees parts of these two programs in the prefetch folder and loads them into memory before windows completes the boot process. The benefit is faster application launch times. If you really wanted to use MS Word, it would pop up really quick when you double clicked on it.

What can be done about it? Well there are a few things we can do to tweak the prefetch cache. One method is to disable it partially, and this can be done quite easily.

Simply browse to the windows folder (Ex: C:\Windows) and under there you should see the prefetch folder. Go into the prefetch folder and delete all the files (Careful! It should look like this c:\windows\prefetch) And here is a screenshot of one if you still have questions

A huge thank you to Roo Reynolds, IBM's Metaverse Evangelist, aka Algernon Spackler, for spending some outstanding quality time with us today. The meeting with him was energizing. He spoke about some of the history of IBM's commitment to Second...