Recent content by Trip

Considering the FCC ultimately mandated sole use of the backwards-compatible standard, and only after the non-backwards-compatible standard had completely failed, I'm not sure that's really applicable here. I think the better comparison is AM stereo. There were some four or five standards and...

The server was being hammered by a poorly-behaved crawler that was not identifying itself. I generally allow crawlers to look at RabbitEars, but this was hitting it many times per second, pushing server load to about 100 (!), and was causing the "Too many connections" error message. I've now...

There are a lot of hard-working people at the FCC who do good things. (See my signature.) People ultimately get what they vote for though; the people at the staff level don't make the kinds of decisions that lead to big direction changes like that. And I'll point out that the Incentive...

Yeah, I still didn't get the e-mail notifications for some reason, so I only found out after a busy day at 5PM when I got some e-mails. Came up with a reboot of the server. Unhelpfully, the system log shows nothing. Just ends at 9:17AM. - Trip

I've been using the Minisforum Z83F in various places. I blow away the Windows install for Linux myself, but I've been very happy with them generally. One problem I've had is that some of them had older BIOS that wouldn't boot headless. Bricked a few trying to do BIOS updates that failed, so...

You don't have to run it all the time if you don't want to, but it'll prevent gaps in your results if it runs all the time, which is why I recommend it. - Trip

Sounds good. I am not doing it this morning (got to run to Costco!) but hope to begin on my updates overall this afternoon, so no rush on this. - Trip

Folks, I started the process of updating the documentation for the Live Bandscan today. I moved the instructions off the main page and into separate pages for each operating system linked from the "Next Steps" page that I e-mail to people after they sign up. I'm about to have to run out for...

Looks like we're done. Live Bandscan is running again. Thanks so much for your patience, and please see the blog post about the restoration: https://www.rabbitears.info/blog/index.php?post/2024/09/07/Back-Home-At-Last! - Trip

Pretty much everyone should be back on the primary server now. You can tell because the red text under the logo at the top will tell you, and also, the temp server now just has placeholder text on it. The Live Bandscan is down for the file copy but should be coming back online shortly. - Trip

Folks, we're gearing up to move back to the primary server within the next hour. When the database restore is done, I'm going to change the DNS, wait about 10 minutes (the TTL is set to 5 minutes, so most people shouldn't have an issue), then kill the temp server to ensure a clean break on the...

To provide an update, we got the primary server reloaded--correctly, this time!--this morning around 9:30AM ET. I've been working on getting it set back up ever since. It won't be done today for sure. I'm going to coordinate with Russ on the exact timing so the Live Bandscan can be moved back...

I'm not going to start the setup just yet; I forgot to have him change a BIOS setting so the operating system has to be reloaded again. D'oh! But it went quickly and smoothly otherwise, so once that's resolved, I'll get everything loaded back up and then at some point, maybe over the weekend...

I'm not sure. I was hoping to have the MemTest going by now but I know my contact at Silica Broadband was out and about today and I wouldn't blame him if he just went home after his lengthy day in the field. I pay nothing and depend on his generosity in both hosting and time, so since I'm not...

The best news on the situation now is that I have a full backup. Nothing has been lost, and the temp server just finished getting updated with today's LMS data now that it's become available for the first time since last week. The good news is that the VPS is holding up pretty well. I just...