Category Archives: About the Guide

-37.9% – the future

Posted on December 20, 2012 by Fred Stiening

That’s the decline of traffic to this web site over the past month. Some of that is just normal for December and the election always creates a temporary spike…. Maybe I upset Google, or maybe there is another explanation.

Posted in About the Guide, Radio Biz, Talk Radio | 7 Comments

Back to (almost) normal

Posted on September 8, 2012 by Fred Stiening

After being threatened with excommunication, the eMachine sprang to life with a little prodding.   Everything is as it was before, except FCC data hasn’t been updated in 3 weeks. Fixing that will take a reboot and a bit of … Continue reading →

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America can’t get enough sports

Posted on September 6, 2012 by Fred Stiening

NBC Sports Radio and the powerful CBS Sports radio debuted this week in time for the NFL season, taking the fight to ESPN and the struggling Fox Sports Radio and Yahoo! Sports. Few people come here looking for sports talk, … Continue reading →

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Need Fedora 16 help

Posted on September 2, 2012 by Fred Stiening

Problem: Fedora 16 was installed on a bootable USB drive on a system that is no longer working. USB drive plugged into different PC with different graphics card. Fedora boots fine and gives me logon screen (KDE I think – … Continue reading →

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Welcome back

Posted on August 24, 2012 by Fred Stiening

The server is back online (mostly) The eMachine that ran the server for the past year may not have survived bouncing across the Seneca Indian reservation on route 17, but the ruggedized USB drive did as well as the older … Continue reading →

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A day for endings

Posted on August 17, 2012 by Fred Stiening

My day began with the sad news that Radio-info.com as we know it is going away.    The owners are retiring and Tom Taylor (my main source for radio industry news) is leaving to pursue other interests.  Radio-info.com is going to … Continue reading →

Posted in About the Guide, Radio Biz | 10 Comments

Planned Outage – week of August 20th

Posted on August 7, 2012 by Fred Stiening

This message serves little or no purpose – because the people who will pelt me with “Why has your site been down for 3 days!!!????” are the ones who never read the blog, and they can’t read the blog when … Continue reading →

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Fedora 16 upgrade

Posted on August 6, 2012 by Fred Stiening

Last time I tried this, the results were less than pleasant, almost ending SRGuide. Well, F15 (what I’ve been running on) is now obsolete and F16 is on borrowed time.     So if the upgrade doesn’t work, It’s been nice knowing … Continue reading →

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Moving on

Posted on July 21, 2012 by Fred Stiening

I survived the first week at my new job in Chicago! On Friday, I took occupancy of an apartment about 3 blocks from work in a fantastic location for my needs – it couldn’t have worked out better. What does … Continue reading →

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Open Thread

Posted on July 10, 2012 by Fred Stiening

So in my absence, maybe you die hard fans can entertain yourselves. Just avoid saying things that will get me sued like accusing people of committing crimes when a jury hasn’t already said so 🙂 Don’t be bashful.   I know … Continue reading →

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