Today, I made the first successful outside-world connection to the new server, running Red5. I promptly shut it down after that because while the test was successful, it wasn't very functional. And it spat a few unhappy errors at me. Ah well.

Now, as it is right now, the server's sitting on a metal table in my living room, which is freezing because of the server - don't want to overheat it in addition to all the boneheaded things I'm doing on the command prompt. Probably due to the portable roll-up keyboard I'm trying to use.

Yeah, I can't wait to get it into the colo.

Before that happens, though, I'm going to need some extra funding. I'm getting one last month of service out of the old system while I program and install the new one; anything I can suck back out of it in the end will just go back into the treasury, but for now it's earmarked. I have barely enough for that, leaving nothing to pay for the colo. (I have had juuuust about enough of dealing with large amounts of nonexistent money.)

But back to the positive side of things! I'm making remarkable progress on the server, getting firewalls and automatic startup scripts and error logs and all manner of technical jibber-jabber running smoothly; and mind you, entirely from the command prompt on a screen that's so old it has a greenish cast to it. I AM DOING SCIENCE SO HARD RIGHT NOW.

And then I had a bowl of ice cream in celebration and wrote this journal