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Normally when I install an ET server I have one main directory that houses the executables and then the individual servers are stored in a subdirectory. However lately I needed to confine a friend to a chrooted jail on my server so I could be sure that he could only access the files I wanted him to access. I decided to try out ‘jailkit’ to do this and found that it was an easy way to manage jails, so I decided to try out setting up a jailed ET server. (continue reading…)

This is a quick update to my script for running multiple eth32 versions on linux. It can now handle eth as well as eth32. The script is pretty much self explanatory, but if you need more information then look here.

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Curses is a pun on the name “cursor optimization”, it is a library that forms a wrapper for working with raw terminal codes. It’s flexible and efficient API provides functions to move the cursor, create windows, produce colors, play with mouse, and more. By using curses we do not need to bother worrying about the capabilities of the terminal we are running on.

For this demonstration we will build a simple ‘Keycode Scanner’. To show off a bit, we will add a realtime clock display as well. (continue reading…)

Message queues are handy. A process can create a new queue or connect to an existing one. This allows multiple processes to share the same queue. By default messages are taken off the queue in the same order as they are put on, but there are ways to retrieve messages before they reach the front of the queue. (continue reading…)

The following script is what I use to load my ETH32nix. It allows me to have multiple versions installed and set a particular version as active. This lets me quickly drop any newly released versions into a folder, compile it, and then I can set it as active and run it using this script. If I don’t like the new version it is a simple matter of setting my old one back as active. (continue reading…)