As some of you may know, I have a shell server. I use this server to host my various projects, as well as IainPeregrine's Artemis. This server was given to me (not in physical form) by a friend of mine, who does not use it.

Incoming laughter bit.

He lives with his mother, on occasion. I don't know exactly what determines this, but it's not my business. For future reference, he's a PC technician.

But that wasn't the part I mean to accentuate.
As of recent, three more people live there, too. They all play WoW, meaning, they hog the bandwidth. On top of that, they're computer illiterate. They get viruses semi-often, and when they get the mean ones that attack the network, guess who's shell get's hit? Mine. Not mine, but still partially mine. But I use it the most, so it's obviously mine, right (kidding..)?

Anyway, the point is, it's getting looked into.
However, the fun hasn't begun yet!

I've recently started working on my game, Nameless Lands, again -- and after a ~6 month hiatus due to a SVN issue, which was only supposed to set me back a week. Thank you, Iain, for the Get Something Done month. It instills motivation, it really does. /offtopic. I've done a lot of cleaning and fixing in just one week of bringing it back, guess what happens? The server gets unbearably laggy. At first, I thought it was my programming, and something decided to leak memory, or something. Reboot. Nope, not the issue.

We've (tech and I) have declared it virused, and he's going to forcibly clean everyone's computer sometime soon, thankfully.

What does this mean to anyone? Artemis is down for a while (or, at least on that server! Forgetting how to use linux DD is .. well, fun). Nameless Lands is down for a while. ANLII is down for a while (though I'm sure no one has a clue what that is anyway).

In other news, I've been developing like a mad hatter. I've fixed mostly all of the old systems, patched up the MySQL stuff that was horrendously broken and I'm not entirely certain how no one caught these bugs before, and I've added new stuff. Yes, Alice in Wonderland was pretty amusing, too. I believe I'll be taking a break tonight, since I can't do much testing without the shell server (ah, the downside of MySQL being integrated into everything). But I get to go to Six Flags tomorrow, so I suppose it's good this happened - I don't want to be stressed while having fun, that's rather unfun.

If anyone wants anything more detailed about my recent development for NL, it can be found here. Every post including and after that will give you my abridged development notes, mostly because I only keep track of major things I fix, or when I do things in groups. I don't like that, but I also don't want to keep track of everything until there's enough stuff to make it worth keeping track of, y'know? No? Ignore the rambling then.

Figures, I just finished my alpha version of my housing system in school today, and I can't even test it. How disappointing. On another note, to me, alpha means: I've made it entirely, and I didn't test any of it, so let's squash buggies!


tl;dr: I'm working on my game again, people are idiots, and my shell server broke.