Audeuro's Realm

Importance of Backups

Sat, 10 Jan 2009 15:25:25 GMT

I'd just like to stress how important backups are. The other day, about 4AM, I was working on an extremely important document. I wake up the next morning and apparently, at 4AM while I was as tired as all get out, I managed to delete this extremely important document, with no backups to be found.

Server Management

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:38:34 GMT

Currently, Hikato and I are working on a new game (details and name to remain non-disclosed until design is done), and it occurred to me that people oftentimes expect too much from their server manager program.

What the standard person seems to expect is complete control over every one of their game's servers, to reboot and shutdown and give them remote control over every single server. This is pretty flawed, as anything you can implement would be easy to circumvent. Plus, and I guess it's my personal design philosophy, you as the creator shouldn't get this type of power anyways, but that's a whole different story.

What I expect from my server manager program is different. I expect for it to keep track of the servers that are currently running, and that's about it. It can also hold savefiles and give those out, but that's about it, because I believe in subtle control over servers. My control exists in two areas: hub_password, and savefiles. My savefiles are kept on my server manager (they can be saved locally, but that's on a server-by-server basis), so in order to run one of my game's servers you have to be an authentic host. These are my beliefs.

Server management is different for everyone, I suppose. Others may use it to exercise complete control over their servers, but I use it to store savefiles and to a lesser extent moderate hosting of my game.

Confucius

Sat, 26 Jul 2008 11:44:32 GMT

Confucius say, "No go swimming with cell phone in pocket"

I wish I would've known this earlier.

New Purchase

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 10:41:24 GMT

So I recently purchased a new scooter. It rules. It's street legal with its 50cc engine, and it's gas-powered with about 50-80 miles/gallon with a 1 gallon tank. I love it. I had to buy a new battery for it though (Yay $100 batteries!) so the thing cost me about $1119.35 in total.

~ Kyle "Audeuro" Evans

Checking In

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 21:53:21 GMT

Just checking in on my favorite community on the internet. For anyone interested, I'm still working at Dairy Queen and I'm making $7 an hour. I have about $835 saved up for a car, and I'm still doing fine. I'll check up again in another two weeks or so I guess since it seems like everything si still moving on fairly smoothly.

~Kyle "Audeuro" Evans

Extended Vacation & Laptop

Tue, 13 May 2008 09:48:38 GMT

I guess I might stay in Kansas for another year, since I'm working at Dairy Queen now, and have met someone that I'm quite interested in. Anyone know any good places to buy laptops? I'd prefer laptops without an OS and all that jazz if I could manage it, but it doesn't matter. Getting a laptop would allow me to sort of still stay in the swing of things.

Rubik's Cube

Fri, 09 May 2008 12:16:46 GMT

I'm starting to love my Rubik's Cube. My fastest run is 4 minutes. Oh, and I made a typo in my last post. I was planning on being back around early July, but now that I apparently have a job, I'm not quite sure when it'll be.

My Absence

Thu, 01 May 2008 12:07:47 GMT

As I'm sure is no surprise to you all by now, I've been absent for the past little over a month. Some medication I was taking was having serious [read: very serious] effects on me, so I moved from Oklahoma to Kansas to start over fresh and try to gain a new perspective on life. So far, it's worked beautifully. I should be returning to Oklahoma around the beginning of July to stay.

BYOND RPG: I like a lot of the changes being made. I like the increased traffic in BYOND RPG as well as the new layout (the latter might have something to do with the former. =D) Thank you, Foomer, for the layout, and thank you, Tibby, for the large reformation.

BYOND Software: I love how it now uses the built-in updater that's been there, IIRC, for a very long time, and kudos on apparently fixing the file dialog bugs. =p

[Oh, and I love how fancy Safari makes these buttons and listboxes look. Go small school w/ Macs!]

Returning

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 19:43:08 GMT

I'll be returning some time in the next few days. My brother recently died in a car accident, so I had to return to Kansas to take care of some stuff and attend his funeral.

Re: Stop making posts directed to specific people

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 23:21:26 GMT

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3.) You are a public figure, and as such you should really learn how to take criticism. (i.e. with a grain of salt)