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Presenting: MCNodeSrv

A minecraft server wrapper written in NodeJS, using the express framework.

I wrote it as a replacement for giving away SSH access, which can screw a box up alot harder if done right/wrong.

Features thus far include:

• Webinterface (derp) styled by Bootstrap
• Starting/Stopping/Killing the server process
• Web-based settings for changing command line arguments as well as environment variables of the server process
• Monitor stdout/stderr (it even highlights lines with the word ‘error’ in it, cool eh?)
• (planned) Send data to stdin
• JSON based config file(s)

… and I’m not done yet.
Next up will be hardening the node.js instance so it won’t take the minecraft server down with it, if it should happen to crash. I’m also thinking about adding a command-line interface to do simple stuff.. oh! *mental note: gracefully stop server process on ^C and other harmful signals*

Bottom line: NodeJS is just awesome.

var a = {"test": "moo"}; // Define an object
var b = a; // Copy the object
b.test = "meh";
alert(a.test); // alert: "meh"
// wait- what? b = a makes a reference instead of a copy, doh!

One way to get around this is:

var b = JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(a)) // This is one ugly hack

but it feels.. wrong.. and probably doesn’t work with nested functions and stuff like that.

It may not be a as big as a step-up as going from 8800GTS to 4870 but the DX11 support is just awesome.
Unigine Heaven suddenly looks.. awesome

To quote XNovaCore: “Its a beast!” – it truly is. And best of all: In its beastiness it still sucks less power when idling/coding. <3

Suprisingly simple: Install, swap ports around, done.

But I just made a groundbreaking discovery. The reason I’ve always been getting “no supported authentication methods left to try is” *drum roll* :

I added my private key for work to the putty “Default Settings” session, which (for some reason) prevents Putty (and in turn PLink) from falling through to Pageant and fails when it tries to authenticate to github with my work-SSH-key.

God damn! I’ve been working on getting TortoiseGit to work for so long, been trying different versions of each component and in the end it was as simple as clearing a textbox and clicking a checkbox.