Server 1 seems to be down still. How long till it's back up? I have some unchanged code on it for one of my projects.

Server 1 (withg.org) is up for me, and has been up since that news update.

Ehh.... actually, the server running this is server #2, aka:

S3rv3r 2 (secondary s3rv3r):

    0penVZ V1rtual1zat1on (overselling possible)
    Not as reliable! (But very well spec'ed!)
    Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU L5410 @ 2.33GHz, 4 cores
    2 GB RAM
    50 GB HDD
    1OO MB1t/s n3tw0rk
    Debian 6 32-bit (when Debian 7 is released, will be upgraded to Debian 7 64-bit)

(This is backup2.withg.org)

I'm not 100% sure if the owner is actually overselling or not, but OpenVZ is a software known for being able to have tons of VMs running on a server that can barely handle them. The price is also rather low when I made my purchase - $7/month for life. The VPS provider doesn't exactly have the greatest reputation, but...**

As for CPU usage, CPUHero is not running on backup2 since OmnomIRC is running, and murder might occur if CPUHero runs I've since implemented an exclusion function, but I haven't installed CPUHero on the server OmnomIRC's on yet.

The only thing that could cause high CPU usage is the Minecraft server (now decommissioned since no one uses it), and the backup daemon (which will be turned off very soon). However, there are 3 cores left to use (since the backup daemon isn't multi-core), so speed shouldn't be a problem.

The only thing that I might do (if necessary) is implement some sort of restarting service (like the Newy one), where you can click Restart to restart OmnomIRC. I would probably require 5 or more people, though, considering that it's a major service restart. (I would be restarting NGINX, PHP5-FPM, MySQL, and OmnomIRC itself.)

Again, backups on that server will be disabled - they only existed to grab a few things off the server before it died. Now that I've grabbed those things, backups will be disabled - they cost money! ($5/month + storage costs)

** Their server got hacked, and their VMs were being deleted pretty rapidly, hence why my interest in backing up spiked.

EDIT: Heh... I do have something running, but it's CPULimit, and it's set to limit OmnomIRC CPUHero would do the opposite - limit other CPU hungry processes in favor of OmnomIRC.

Also, the only error I've seen seems to have happened around the time this topic was made:
2012/11/21 20:19:34 [error] 14004#0: *3584158 upstream prematurely closed connection while reading response header from upstream, client: IP_REMOVED, server: omnomirc.withg.org, request: "GET /Update.php?lineNum=REMOVED&channel=REMOVED, HTTP/1.1", upstream: "fastcgi://127.0.0.1:9000", host: "omnomirc.www.omnimaga.org", referrer: "http://omnomirc.www.omnimaga.org/"...which meant PHP5 died during data send, or something wonky occurred with NGINX<->PHP5-FPM communication. But since then, no errors.

Just so that updates are more public, I've decided to post them here!
You can also discuss any problems, ask questions, and make requests here as well.

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First update will follow this post.

Wow... 你的英语说得很好！ And some people in the U.S. are saying that China doesn't teach English well... /random

Anyway, after getting the item, it should be relatively easy to ship it over. The only thing is that shipping will likely take weeks, and it may be subject to customs checking (海关检查), so try to pack it in a way that doesn't make it seem suspicious!

Although I am "brave" in programming things, overclocking, etc. etc., I'm a scaredy cat when it comes to upgrading a system. Especially Linux ones. (Blame it on Ubuntu's terrible upgrading.)

I currently have Mint Linux 10, a distribution that's quickly gathering dust. I'm looking for a distro that has up-to-date libraries and programs, but is solid in stability. (That's quite a bit to ask for, eh? ) I'd prefer a Debian-esque system, since I'm already familiar with it and don't want to spend time to relearn it. It also needs to have word processing and web browsing. (Hint: LibreOffice and Firefox) And finally - it needs to be easy to setup (including data reimport). Time is key.

So basically:

• Stability is king.
• ...but of course with some pretty new libraries too!
• Debian-esque.
• Word processing and web browsing.
• Quick and easy to setup.

As for backup and restore, I don't trust MintBackup for that. I want to keep not only /home, but also modified config files and programs that I've installed through the years. What tool would work for that?

Yeah I think that's the case with TiLP. I complained a bunch of times before about it but I forgot the reason why we have to do it for Windows. It could probably be that the software is updated way too often and takes a long while to compile (remember how TASM took 5 seconds on a Pentium II to compile Hello World to 8xp format? ) so to save time they only compile one update out of ten or something, but beforehand I did see Windows softwares (all of which were ports of Linux ones) which absolutely had no exe download  regardless of the version. It seems Linux developers or hardcore Linux fans who make softwares for both platforms decided that since Linux users have to compile everything, then there shouldn't be special treatments for Windows users.

I'm pretty sure TiLP has binaries nowadays...

mdr1: If you want to become insane try porting GUI web browsers, take a peek at the source of Origyn Web Browser and NetSurf. Both have SDL backends that, if you successfully port the guts of these browsers, can use to display the output.

Also, you're looking for a renderer. That's the "image" thing I suppose you're trying to mention. Text browsers usually are really "text-only" - you'd be using NspireIO instead of some kind of image based output. If you decide to port a real browser, you don't want an "image" - trying to get an image and then blit that on the screen is very slow, and the experience of using said browser becomes pretty terrible. Instead, the renderer will have settings for render size, zoom, etc. and you can simply give it a place to draw pixels on (the screen buffer). Or, with the above web browsers, you can just hook on the SDL backend, which Nspire has (nSDL). nSDL handles drawing and such automatically, and is probably much more preferred to "grabbing an image" (since most browsers depend on system or library drawing functions - rewriting them takes too much effort!).

Testing

EDIT: Bug fixed. Apparently, you have to .decode("utf-8") for unicode titles like this before re-encoding and sending to IRC.