Welcome to the totally new SRGuide!

Posted on October 7, 2016 by Fred Stiening

Linode upgraded the memory from 2GB of RAM to 4 GB. The system is so fast running as a virtual machine with Solid State Disk (SSD) that it will make no difference unless Matt Drudge linked here some day.

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7 Responses to Welcome to the totally new SRGuide!

  1. JayMar says:
    October 7, 2016 at 6:18 pm

    Hey Fred… twice today I got a message, after I clicked on your blog, stating that “streamingradioguide.com is disconnected. No data was sent.” I used Opera as my primary browser, so I switched to Internet Explorer and it worked. Don’t have any idea what caused that, whether here or there, just thought you might want to know. The first time it happened, on Opera, I had to click several times and after the 4th time it worked.

    • Fred Stiening says:
      October 7, 2016 at 10:40 pm

      The web site moved to a different physical machine – all seamlessly but took a few minutes.

      I noticed the upgrade because the root partition ran out of disk space (never a good thing). After the migration, I was moving stuff around and restoring the “show me everything” table (up at the top of this page) and froze the system. The FCC database of all FCC licenses (cell towers, two way business radios, etc) has 16 million rows, of which 6 million are currently active. MySQL tends to be a less than optimal choice once the table is bigger than all physical memory.

  2. Parrott says:
    October 7, 2016 at 8:11 pm

    Uh, does that mean the E-machine is gone ? sad, we should have had a party , with some Big-K grape soda, : )
    Listened to the Hawk tonight, he said the Ruskies have there ‘Boomers’ off the Atlantic coast, in the Gulf Of Mex, and off the Pacific coat. Far enough away in can San Andreas slides in.
    whatever, I blame obo and witch Shittlery.
    parrott

    • Fred Stiening says:
      October 7, 2016 at 10:31 pm

      Both the production machine and the test machine are now just virtual machines running in a data center in Dallas. The old WinXP machine is booted to Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. The only thing I need it for is to backup and sync my apple devices since there is no Linux version of iTunes.

      The eMachine (which was the production machine) has been powered off for about a year. It came with Win7 which I upgraded to Win 10, then deleted. It has Ubuntu 14.04 installed, but has no internet connectivity.

      99% of what I do now is on the iPad mini 2. I’m not doing any serious coding st this point, so I just have a free SSH app called Server Auditor. It’s adequate for what I need at this point.

      • Fred Stiening says:
        October 7, 2016 at 10:50 pm

        Well, that is annoying. iOS 10 (safari) won’t allow you to voluntarily disclose your GPS location unless the web server is running an encrypted https connection. I kind of understand why, but anyone able to intercept my non encrypted web traffic already knows where you are and has your camera turned on without your permission taking pictures of your genitals

    • Fred Stiening says:
      October 7, 2016 at 11:43 pm

      Regarding Big K Soda – I’ve reached the point that I expected to – my body has been saturated with the chemical factory chemicals to the point that I can no longer ignore it tastes like crap. 😉

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