How I deleted my website

Hi the 3 people who look at my blog, and the thousands of bots who look at my blog. 

So I deleted my website. I'm going to give a brief explanation on what happened. 

When I was getting ready to move OSes, I didn't run the backup command for the drive with my site on it as root, and it failed to copy it.

Or so I think.

It's not a lost cause, I have some backups from restructuring, and a couple other stuff (loganserver.neocities.org) I imaged my drive after I realized I lost the site, so I could also try data recovery, but that's a lot of effort.

When will it be fixed?

I dunno. I have school and such, so it may take a bit, provided I don't break the is again.

This is just a quick, it's a I know it's down message, and I have a more thorough one coming soon maybe.

Well, I'ma go to studying and sleeping, have a great day!

Cya!

New game! (that barely works)

Hello again fellow people who read my blog (which is either all myself or bots) I have created bad game. How bad you might ask? Where one player can bring down the whole game for everyone. But it worked for a bit, and I either need to do a lot of optimization, rewriting it, or paying money. I’d prefer to do the second, so i don’t have one game using 0.03$.

 

The game is using the rock paper scissors 101 set from umop.com and it a tournament RPS101 game.

 

If any of you want to look at it, https://rps.loganserver.net

 

Here are some screenshots:

 

 

 

you can probs find github urselves

have fun

Dealing with broken stuff, and my own luck, and stupidity

Hi there! It’s been a hot minute since I posted here. My absence doesn't mean i’ve not been doing anything. In fact, I’ve been doing lots! So, first things of…

My computer broke…

Yea, it’s unfortunate that it broke. What’s even worse, I got a new SSD a week before it died. So, currently I’m stuck with a lenovo laptop with no screen, as a desktop. Lucky it works ok, but I can’t use my shiny new NVMe drive. Currently, Im using my almost dead Thinkpad. There is a tech selloff at a school, and I’ll pick up some stuff. Anyways, onto homeserver stuff

Random thought break: I miss when microsoft cared so much about consumers, and was consumer oriented. It was so nice. They cared so much about people, making windows 7, in my books, the last best os. And even Windows Home Server, It was so compatible and such.

Server time!

Currently, everything is dockerized, except for Samba, Plex, Apache, MariaDB, Webmin, and probably some others. Something i want to try is to let me control docker containers, with docker. There are some settings which should let me control what starts it, and what stops it (instead off service start to docker start or smth), and maybe I can expose the config files in the same spot, should give me both benefits! I hope… And I tried.. It was… ok. It wouldn’t know that it’s running, but oh well.

Another thing, I picked up a free macbook! Yes free! I went to someone’s house, as I wanted to get a second opinion on how dead it is, (answer is very dead, Dell’s proprierty motherboard means I can’t get an off the shelf board, it’s 200$ for a new board and i can’t get a upgrade) He had a bunch of random laptops, and a couple macbooks. I’m a techie, so we took a look at some of the computers, and we found 3 macbooks (excluding one without it’s mobo and such), one turned on, had a good battery, and display, but no keyboard or mouse, and one that worked, but had a broken screen. This one I’m using was perfect, excluding the battery, and rubber feet. It’s a Macbook 5,1, currently running Snow Leapord, and Windows 7, but i might upgrade to El Capitan, as I do want to use it. I’m thinking on maybe, completely repairing it. Oh also i think the camera is dead, although it might just be unplugged. Also someone should revive Windows Anytime Upgrade.

I’m also writing a game, an online game. I’ll share more about it later

 

P.S. This was written with Open Live Writer

Website working!

 Well, 2 days before summer ends, and school starts, the website now works! Woo! As you may be able to see, i've updated it a bit since the old version of the website, now including some socials and others. I'd add more socials, if I had them. but other than that, it kinda works! If you notice any issues, comment them in the comments. Anyways, most of the links are still broken, like always, but soon I might update it, fix some links, maybe try some backend and yeah. This post was reletively short, but a small update.

SSL, Domains, Configurations, Dockerizing

 Hi there! It's been a hot minute, and most likely, this website is inaccessible right now due to SSL, and domain stuff. (not anymore as i fixed it while writing this draft somehow) Anyways, I've been working on this server, and I've decided to right a post about it.

The website:

Since I decided to reset all configs, I've been working on rebuilding every config. I finally got this running properly with blogger on the domain, and SSL. Now that I have the domain, I can make certain parts public. I have put certain parts of the site on the internet archive. At the moment, the website is currently a placeholder website, which is flying toasters taken from https://github.com/bryanbraun/after-dark-css, as i do not want to program a website for this at the moment. Apache virtual hosts are the main reasons why the sites don't work. I can't seem to figure out how to get these vhosts working. I've also been considering switching from apache, to nginx. Supposedly nginx is more preformant, and everyone nowadays uses it, but I'm not sure if it integrates well with my website panel, webmin, which i really like, as it's free, although virtualmin, which I think is based on webmin.

Docker!

Before, I was using just the ubuntu install for everything. Media stuff, game stuff, everything. With this new install of ubuntu for the server, I've decided to dockerize components. I've started with trying to add vs code server, then, began exploring more docker images, and added a couple docker images. Added some DNS, added Wireguard, some github runners, a satisfactory server and I use portainer as an interface and management. Later, I am probably to move most of the services which are not hosted on docker, or a vm.

 

VMs!

On my homelab, I also have VMs. When I was scrolling through Youtube, I found this video which was partly my guide for installing Docker, and VMs. I've setup some windows vms for general use, and HomeAssistant, which totally didn't take multiple hours to make.

What I would have done differently...

From what I now know, I probably wouldn't have installed Ubuntu Server*, I would have probably installed something like Proxmox, then put VMs there, and move my docker stuff there. It would allow me to install VMs much, much easier, as Virtualbox doesn't have very good interfaces, the only remote I have interface is Remotebox (which i use), But it's linux only, meaning I can only use it on linux (eg a chromebook) or with WSL2, which many of my devices don't have enough space for it, and can't use it. Then again there is phpVirtualbox, which was last updated for Virtualbox 5, which i am using Virtualbox 7... As I also use the server as a NAS, which I use samba, but I should have used a proper NAS thing, like TrueNAS or Unraid, Although, I'd like to put more than just my NAS on the drive, for eg, the SSD i'm using is 128gb, while I have a hard drive, which is 2TB, and I'd like to store my Plex movies there.

* Technicly, I installed Ubuntu Desktop, but ran a command to uninstall Ubuntu Desktop, and install Ubuntu Server

So far, I've got a domain, and I've gotta go back to dealing with apache virtualhosts, cya!

And so it begins...

 I finally got a server! That's right the website is coming back! I mean, none of you probably cared, but I do! Now, i've had it for a bit now (~1 month), although the webserver is still down. This boils down to not having a domain, as the original domain service (freenom) is gone, I now have to pay for a domain, it'll take a bit longer till it's up, and till i get apache reconfigured. Now, i should clarify what exact services will we coming back.

Website:
Will be coming back

MC Explore:
Will (most likely) not be coming back. Most likely including it's website. (Update: I realized the original domain is up, so the website may come up, although it's my lowest priority)

By the way, the website's new domain is... loganserver.net! I still have to get the domain, but i should get it soon!

Where i've been...

 I don't think anyone ever read this, but i'm going to use this for keeping track of my work and stuff. So catching up on things:

   My server: As you might be able to tell, my server is down. The reason is kinda dumb, but i was experiencing really bad thermal issues, which i finally found as i was copying all my old server files, and personal files. It had reached the thermal throttling, which one dd command. In cause if you want to know the specs, it's a Gateway DX-4860 i think? I don't know this off of the top of my head but i know the first part. I'm going to check... DX-4840. Anyways i bought thermal paste. I wiped away the thermal paste and noticed some got under the cpu. I took it out, got rid of the thermal paste. And failed to insert the cpu. I screwed up the motherboard's cpu pins. I wish it was the cpu, because i wanted to replace it for a bit, as it's the last bottleneck, and what was causing my mc server to die. I'm thinking on using a raspberry pi for some simple webserver and ftp stuff, but untill i find a good enough pc at a garage sale, the full server wont be up. And freenom got sued by meta stopping domain registrations.

 

    Project 1: This is really the first time i actually reveal this game. It's a kind of battle royal game,  i've been working on it for like a year, It's pretty cool,It hasn't been updated in a bit, mainly because i've been dreading fixing the master server code.

At this point i stopped writing for a while, but i will get this out, even if it costs me my soul.

Duckbeaks (codename)

Duckbeaks is another game my friend wanted to do which i was stuck in the programming position. The other codename and internal name (git and stuff) is 20PeopleOneGame or a variation. There aren't 20 people developing the game though, it means "many people one game" There are 10 people in the discord server, and only 9 people contributing, and one coder (me) When writing this, it turned 5 months old! It's a local player shooter game.

 

 In The Hole

This is a verrry recent project, on me trying to actually make some money on my coding, It's based on the Windows Vista game, Inkball. It was origanally released for windows XP Tablet edition, which is kinda mobile. I've been having a lot of gameplay issues, mainly because i wanted to add a ink meter, which allows you to watch a ad for more ink, but what stops you from just wating, so you would need to add a timer, then you don't have enough time for watching an ad, but i spent a lot of time getting ink working and idk how it will work, i might remove the ad for the ink, and put it on the timer instead (+ it refilling ink) Or something else, comment a solution, i promise i'll read it.. if it's even reachable anymore. (Screenshot from game paused)

Hound Hunter

This is the one unity game which i'd consider finished. This was made basicly in 24 hours for an LA Project, some at school, but none of that code worked, so i had to basicly remake it with a VNC connection, and did it! You can play it (with a leaderboard) here! https://loganh4005.github.io/ (url subject to change)

Server Update:

I sacrificed a raspberry pi and am using it for a server as i look for a PC with matches my odd HDD caddy space requirment. I might make a fire hazard by using my old laptop (which top of is basicly broken as some of the top cables are clipped, and the plastic holding the hinge in is broken) as a server with a 3.5 inch hard drive as the boot medium, so i'm not stroring my new plex library (sub project is dumping whole dvd collection) on a 64gb SD card (god mp4 compression is good) I might get the server up soon, but the domain might take a bit.

And thats basicly it! For contacting use LH4005#4791 on discord, and if your good heckerman you can use my id 656295698790219806

cya!