Category Archives: About the Guide

Web site update

Posted on May 24, 2014 by Fred Stiening

As of about an hour ago, the website is back on the original eMachine server – running the current Fedora 20 and booting from the internal hard drive instead of the slow small USB drive. There are a few wrinkles … Continue reading →

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Tunein goes Social

Posted on May 7, 2014 by Fred Stiening

Tunein is pushing a major change to their product http://venturebeat.com/2014/05/07/tunein-gets-a-social-tune-up-may-change-how-you-think-of-radio/ While there is some overlap in what we do, I don’t consider StreamingRadioGuide to be competing with Tunein. Profit or accumulating wealth has never been my objective. Tunein is run … Continue reading →

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Life After Windows

Posted on May 6, 2014 by Fred Stiening

This is a huge signal about the future http://www.pcworld.com/article/2151820/amd-finally-commits-to-android-as-it-looks-beyond-windows.html AMD has announced they’re going to embrace android and build the ecosystem to support Android in tablets not tied to the x86 Intel architecture that underpins Windows

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GlaxoSmithKline holds my future in their hands

Posted on May 6, 2014 by Fred Stiening

What a shocker. The streamingradioguide.com DNS is provided by a company called EasyDNS.com This came about because the company that was providing my web server for $400+ a month had an outage at their Chicago facility that is guaranteed to … Continue reading →

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Keeping linux in the dark

Posted on May 6, 2014 by Fred Stiening

Once upon a time, Microsoft created a great new video / audio streaming plugin called “SIlverlight”. It’s proprietary and Microsoft has lots of lawyers on retainer. About a year ago, I announced I was refusing to support stations that -only- … Continue reading →

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The lawsuit that could kill this web site…

Posted on May 5, 2014 by Fred Stiening

Don’t panic! I’m not being sued 🙂 A small station operator in Virginia has decided it is going to “bell the cat” over the issue of streaming royalties. First a little background is in order for those not familiar with … Continue reading →

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I hardly am aware I am not using Windows XP :)

Posted on May 2, 2014 by Fred Stiening
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Stats are broken

Posted on May 1, 2014 by Fred Stiening

I’m about to fall asleep, so not the time to be “fixing” things, but the stats are really messed up. Since removing the player links, the click through to stations is off about 90%. It doesn’t mean people aren’t coming … Continue reading →

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Web site plan…

Posted on April 18, 2014 by Fred Stiening

If you were silly enough to try to use the system at 3 am (ET), you found it was down. The primary reason was that installed a battery backup that hopefully will keep the system from crashing from momentary outages, … Continue reading →

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Alice doesn’t patent here any more

Posted on March 31, 2014 by Fred Stiening

The US Supreme Court is hearing a really important case today that will have a huge effect on computer software. http://mobile.businessweek.com/news/2014-03-31/edison-invoked-in-rare-u-dot-s-dot-high-court-look-at-software-patents The Patent Office lacks the skills to make sense of computer software patents, and most people in the software … Continue reading →

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