Server

Sunday Morning Open Thread

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Started the day sleeping past the alarm. Still made it to work on time though. Nice and quiet night of work. 8)

Now to put together my to do list for tomorrow’s day off.

Install Windows 7 and Ubuntu onto new laptop drives (they arrived!)
Box gifts for various friends in and out of country
Upgrade Forum to latest version of phpBB (One version behind, hopefully nothing breaks)
Install AutoMod
Install Plugin so that people can read the forum via a smartphone.
Go to bank to make a deposit
Fuck off the rest of the night.

It’s going to be a nerdy day. 🙂

VICTORY!

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Solved a problem I’ve been having with the murmur voice chat server. It kept shutting off every two hours (turns out it was my webhost for reasons I can’t explain). I’ve been tinkering with scripts and even wrote one up in vi. Had problems making it into a cron job due to some stupid reason. I figured it out but it took being a total smartass to try it. Now if the server shuts off it will auto restart in about a minute or less. If it detects that it’s already running it will terminate the process and come back one minute later.

Good, now I can go to work or out for a walk and not have to worry about the server comitting sepuku.

Butt Fucked Up The Dick.

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Had the day from hell. We were short a person due to a sick call and the person who received the sick call didn’t tell anyone they called in sick…  Nothing got done and no one was out working the floor due to either checking or working the bottle/can return machines (the latter being me). It also didn’t help that 3 cashiers all called in sick… Maybe it’s a good thing that it was both my Monday and Friday. Watch… They’ll probably try to call me in today at the last minute. Like they’ve been doing every week.

Oh well on brighter note I played some Left 4 Dead 2. Found another abortion campaign that I’ll have to review. Also did some TF2 for a little bit with all sniper teams on the server.

Still searching for a RSS bot that works with version 3.0.10 of phpBB3. No luck so far as everything seems to be for older versions. That’s all I really need. I can’t think of any other plugins that we need for the forum. It looks pretty cool with the update alone.

Yay moar nerd mumbo jumbo.

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Took care of HL2DM. Not only are the maps synced up with the client/webserver, I also installed metamod/sourcemod and added quakemod. It isn’t much but we’ll see how it goes. The HL2DM server is pretty quiet anyway.

TF2 server has been running with a good steady pace of traffic though. Files seem to be downloading at a quick pace so that’s good. I even renewed my account with bluehost tonight. Now I won’t have to worry about paying for another year. I guess the next task will be to upgrade phpBB3. That’ll be at my end though, not through bluehost.

Open Thread

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Had an interesting start to my day today. Thought I had to be in at 4, turned out it was 2… I don’t feel too bad though. It’s the first time I’ve been late for work in nearly 3 years. I made it in at about 2:45 today. Oh well.

Well, I managed to get files to download to clients connecting to my TF2 and gmod servers! I did most of gmod last night and almost all of TF2. Now I’m syncronizing maps between my webhost, client and server. Went through the logs just a bit ago and it looks like I got some traffic that way. Good thing I went with an unlimited plan. The next server project will be the HL2DM server. There are some customizations/improvements I can make to that one.