added status sub-system
+ added status sub-system which supports curses; also will support
  functionality needed to pass status information to a front-end
  running in a separate process or the same process
@ worked on cleaning up and ensuring all threads have finished
@ fixed bug in socket.recv where less data is returned than
  specified by wrapping it
! fixed bug in server where client was dropped before it authenticated
  resulting in the field 'aid' not being set and causing an exception