Category Archives: About the Guide

Success!

Posted on August 12, 2013 by Fred Stiening

This wasn’t the Comcast outage, but I was able to reinstall Windoze 7 on this machine, and get it to release its death grip on the C: drive, and was able transfer most of the disk space to Linux for … Continue reading →

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10,000 is within sight

Posted on August 7, 2013 by Fred Stiening

    I have done no searching at all for the past year, and done very little for the past 3 or so years because of the threat of random virus attacks which my ancient search tools are very vulnerable … Continue reading →

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Semi-planned Outage

Posted on August 6, 2013 by Fred Stiening

The apartment management just informed me that Comcast will be taking Internet access down this Friday and/or Monday for about an hour

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WordPress 3.6 is here

Posted on August 2, 2013 by Fred Stiening

It’s a major upgrade – the most interesting feature is HTML5 support for embedded media. There is also a new default template I may try out

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More desk space!

Posted on July 31, 2013 by Fred Stiening

Sunday was my last day working for the food distribution company that was my reason for moving to Chicago (or more accurately my excuse). I’ve got health insurance not tied to employment, an apartment that is perfect for my needs … Continue reading →

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LPFM is coming

Posted on July 17, 2013 by Fred Stiening

The NAB’s enforcer against competition (the FCC) has dragged their feet now for 10 years trying to fend off Low Power FM radio stations, which are in part a compromise to discourage “pirate” stations stealing unused FM spectrum http://www.abqjournal.com/main/220602/opinion/lowpower-fm-stations-give-people-more-voice.html LPFM … Continue reading →

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Fork in the Road

Posted on June 29, 2013 by Fred Stiening

I’m going to be involved with some personal issues this week – that means the server will be in lockdown mode, with most of the things that are interesting turned off. The blog will still be here if you already … Continue reading →

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What an SQL injection attack looks like

Posted on June 24, 2013 by Fred Stiening

This is just for really geeky people. Last Friday, someone tried an SQL injection attack in the server to break into it – I’m sure the NSA is way too busy to care about me. The basic idea is you … Continue reading →

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Withdrawal of support – Silverlight, RealPlayer, Java & Quicktime

Posted on June 10, 2013 by Fred Stiening

For a variety of reasons, I’ve removed the three players above from my computer, which means I can no longer test stations that might only offer streams that require one of those player types (which is very few). This doesn’t … Continue reading →

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Spot the web site error

Posted on June 10, 2013 by Fred Stiening

This may become a new feature, although it invites friendly retalliation. So you’re a radio company involved in the communication business and you have a web site to inform the public about what you do. By the way, I would … Continue reading →

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