The last week or so, I’ve said I’ve been going to do this or that… about five times or so I’ve said I was going to go out to the woods and I made up one excuse or another about it being so hot or whatever. Today, I finally got off my butt and did it.
I spent about an hour and a half out there, and I was actually amazed at how cool it was in there. It was damp though, and there were a lot of bugs around, but I didn’t get eaten up that bad. I’m gonna take the bug repellant next time, anyway.
I came home and chilled in front of my computer, mucking about with Mumble stuff for a bit. My screen started doing this going black for a half second, like the vga cable is loose or something – I hope the damn LCD isn’t going out, I like it too much.
As far as Mumble stuff going, I started putting together a clean version of Mutter. It’s a CLI administration tool I’ve been writing as a project to learn C++, and it’s slow going… I keep falling back into the same old way of doing things, and it’s probably pretty dumb doing them that way in C.
I did manage to learn about IO manipulators tonight, which is good because now I think I can mostly ditch printf() when I’m writing C++. So far so good, it compiles without any warnings, and I think it’s reasonably stable.
My goal is to get it compiled as a static linux binary, and included in the static linux server package, so that folks who can’t get Ice bound to PHP or Python for some reason can still have a method to do trivial management of their Murmur. There are many people out there who don’t need a full-blown web interface (most of it can be done from inside the Mumble client), they just might need to reset a user’s password or something from time to time.
So far I have a method to list virtual servers, methods for viewing and setting configuration directives, and that’s about it. I at least want to get the ability to trivially edit user accounts, and possibly a method to add/delete virtual servers, and then I’ll start working on cleaning up all the bugs.
