16:30: Now with Levels! And now I’m going to go and get dinner, I’ll be back in about 2 hours, ready to program the next stage of the wrapper.

20:40 Version Beta 1 is being used on the server, hopefully it works fine! I will release the source code once complete.

What it does is to take a copy of the Minecraft map and copy it to a folder for people to grab (also good for backups when someone TNTs the hell out of your map). If you have any suggestions/improvements, feel free to comment.

(To stop the spamming of rubbish your RSS reader won’t understand I’ll put the code under the break.)

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#!/bin/bash
# Minecraft World Snapshotter
# Version 1.0
# Created by Simon Cook (simon@simoncook.org)
 
## CONFIG START
 
# WORLD contains the name of the directory the Minecraft world is in
WORLD="world"
 
# FILENAME contains the name that will be appended with the date
FILENAME="world2-"
# DATE contains the date formatting to be used for a file name
DATE="%Y%m%d-%H%M%S"
# TYPE defines the file type to create (valid: tar bz2 7z zip)
TYPE="7z"
 
# DEST if valid, the snapshot will be copied or moved to this directory
DEST="/var/www/simoncook.org/web/static/minecraft/"
# CPMV is whether to move or copy if DEST is valid (valid: cp mv)
CPMV="cp"
 
## CONFIG END
## DO NOT EDIT UNDER THIS LINE
 
FILENAME=$FILENAME`date +$DATE`
 
if ! [ -d "$WORLD" ]; then
    echo "Sorry, World \"$WORLD\" does not exist!"
    exit 1
fi
 
if [ "$TYPE" == "tar" ]; then
    FILENAME=$FILENAME.tar
    tar cf $FILENAME $WORLD
    echo "Snapshot created as $FILENAME"
elif [ "$TYPE" == "bz2" ]; then
    FILENAME=$FILENAME.tar
    tar cf $FILENAME $WORLD
    bzip2 -9 $FILENAME
    FILENAME=$FILENAME.bz2
    echo "Snapshot created as $FILENAME"
elif [ "$TYPE" == "7z" ]; then
    FILENAME=$FILENAME.7z
    7za a -mx9 $FILENAME $WORLD
    echo "Snapshot created as $FILENAME"
elif [ "$TYPE" == "zip" ]; then
    FILENAME=$FILENAME.zip
    zip -9rq $FILENAME $WORLD
    echo "Snapshot created as $FILENAME"
fi
 
if [ -d "$DEST" ]; then
    if [ "$CPMV" == "mv" ]; then
        mv $FILENAME $DEST
        echo "File moved to $DEST"
    elif [ "$CPMV" == "cp" ]; then
        cp $FILENAME $DEST
        echo "File copied to $DEST"
    fi
fi

Unfortunantly for some, my exams are more important than other stuff, including the failed Pic-a-Week, that unfortunantly is postponed until futher notice. Yeah, I know, I must suck and be fail or something but pah, sod it, I don’t care, you’re getting new websites soon, which should be awesome

So now for some content, what have I been filling my time with? Well, exams are what take the number 1 space in wasting time as I have had 8 lovely (not!) exams in 18 brilliant(-ly boring) hours. I swear thats almost more than there at the end of Sixth Form, and well, that declares the end of that. How did they go? Fine. (I hope!) Results are on next Friday (19th) so it will be one last trip back to Bristol for that before I run away going “dammit, I only got x% in this exam” (hopefully higher than the pass percentage ) Apart from that, Lolgasm recordings have taken up some time, even more now considering that it seems each episode, something else goes wrong in Audition so maybe it’s time to just give up on that. After all these exams some time is due to just doing sod all. My flat mate and I went to Bristol Zoo, it was quite cool. Got some nice pictures, look at the spam-a-lot-gallery if you wantto see them (oh and see the Fail video ) (note to self: dont write turtle or tortoise you will ALWAYS be wrong).

Exams over, I’m back at home. (barely!) Two bags that weigh OVER NINE THOUSAND grams each (well about 20 each) carrying 3 miles to BTM wasn’t the most fun in my life. All of my body aches and stuff which just makes the day go wrong. When I got home it’s starting to spend. Ordered my new laptop, my new graphics card, RMA’d (for refund ftw) my old graphics card and bought a new wireless adapter. Yeah Skillers, not quite a tx2 (more like your model) but for the price feck it I’m happy. Then hell came. <No one should know this (except DHR) so please don’t go asking>. Thus concluded Friday.

So, when does my stuff arrive? Monday for the laptop, Tuesday for the gcard pickup, friday for the gcard and wireless arrival. I will soon be back in business. But wait, I hear you cry (Dragon) how was I playing TF2. Well, for saving buying a Techious Subscription for other people, TF2 and L4D on my dads pc is in order (@Will_Anderson lol ). Now to not spend anything else (until Wii Sports Resort comes out of course!)

Plans for the summer, well theres three projects on the go, spage, SiBot and AdminBot. Yes, the server is self-aware (well will be when I’m done ) MWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA I HAS BUILT SINET </bs>. Then comes the TECHIOUS LAN 09! Bring it on bitches I PWN J00. Folding will hit a full going over here (at 2500ppd atm 24/7 (and thats just on one pc)). Finally (of course) will be trying to see all my friends alot this summer (unless this bs fude bs starts again :@). Oh yes, I am also planning a special new mp3 release, my voice artist show Morally Objectional?)

There has never been a better time for anything in life to happen. The interwebs will be our friends (and other technorubbish). I hope this small reply is good enough for you, and I will be writing alot more from now on (I promise!)

Arrivederci!

For the lols, here is a nice picture of my internet’s speed here:

Edit: I’ve added a picture of it being even quicker

Well, I better go off finding stuff cyas,

However, I sense the curse of buying games will follow me. It seems any game I buy on release is almost half the price a month later, and any game that I don’t buy in the first month will remain like that for the next million years or so. Being I haven’t got spore, chances are it is going to be one of the latter, especially with it being the huge hit it appears to be. I mean half my Steam list is on spore, and well it’s not even on Steam, thats just people that launch it through there. It’s currently 4th on the Xfire most played game list, and being it’s not even been out for a week, thats some feat! Only trailing between COD4,2 and WoW (wow that rubbish is popular).

My computer is running well, apart from I only get a framerate of 5-10 when I forget to turn folding@home-gpu off (6 hour work unit ftw!).

Left4Dead coming out in October, that shall also be awesome, can’t wait to see what Valve have done to pimp the Source Engine some more, though it seems that soon Source might be having a huge graphical upgrade, so DX10.1 might come in useful for ep3 More games to buy, just great. Now let me work this out, if I don’t eat for the next 3 months while I’m at Uni, I can afford to get spore and l4d. I know, I’ll try this new votey thing and see what the two people who read this thing I should do!

In other more home news, my photos site is down (noooooo) while I upload all 1 million gigabytes to the new server. It’s about 40% done so should be back up and running by the end of the week. And don’t worry Reedy, your blog’ll be back up soon enough!

Moving to Uni on the 27th. That is going to be one heck of a shock when I move in, though a bit of TF2 or HL2DM might take the edge off No more matches though, I think last night set that we are screwed with that, and with the admin plugin kicking the wrong person :/ yeah, I think we need a bit of work all round,

That’s about it, hopefully enough for you to spam comments on Skillers