As of September 8th, we’ve been on some new, more efficient hardware. Dreamhost promised to move us to a new server whenever they wanted to in exchanged for us to receive unlimited storage space and bandwidth, as if what we already had wasn’t plenty in the first place. This was back in October of 2008 and is also the reason the site was a blank page the last few days. The file structure on the new server differs from the old one so WordPress didn’t know what was what. Since our caching plugin relies on what WordPress knows, as of yesterday, it started creating its own blank-page blog. Thanks to the speedy service of the Dreamhost Customer Support team, this was resolved within an hour.
This site and anything else I currently host like will be moving to a new server. The upgrade really isn’t needed, but we’re gonna have to move anyway. Instead of 7TB/month of bandwidth, we’ll be getting unlimited. Instead of 360GB of storage space, we’re getting unlimited + 50GB! The extra 50GB is kinda useless though; plus, I just made it up.
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September 25, 2008 in
Netcast.
Original post linked from BemaniStyle
Content Editor
- Giving the audio a listen and deleting the fluff conversations
- Adjusting any phrases that would otherwise not make sense out of context
- Correcting misspoken words if possible
Audio Editor
- Create conversation flow from the content-edited version
- Aligning tracks of audio so pauses or latency is unheard of
- Remove awkward pauses
Contact me if you’re interested
All three of the DDR Pulse Radio netcasts are on hiatus until further notice. We are still in dire need of an audio editor.
I finally opened up the page for DDR Pulse Radio2. It’s a sister netcast to DDR Pulse Radio. The basis is that it’ll have little to no editing so it’ll come out very quickly and will be 10-15 minutes per episode. The release schedule is still in the works, but one episode is already getting close to recording time. While making the DPR2 logo, I noticed how busy the first one was. I’ll go ahead and tweak it a bit to fix that issue.
Because everyone’s been asking for it, Mike hooked us up w/ some cats.
Thanks to Titus Hilton for stepping in to edit this episode. Episode Two is only the start of what is now a backlog of unedited recordings. This netcast goes over the UMKC DDR Club. Much has changed since this recording, but it gives a fairly good look at what goes into running a DDR Club or any club at all.
The site was up and down all morning so I e-mail Dreamhost, and they fixed it. Here’s their response to my e-mail (which came in under 5 minutes):
Sorry about that! It looks like crenshaw was having some issues so our admins have rebooted it. I just checked your sites and it looks like things are back to normal.
Please let us know if you are still having trouble getting to your sites!
Thanks!
Leon
Mike sent me an e-mail informing me of a planned outage of our server. This includes everything I’m hosting at the moment.
Looks like we’ll have 15-20 minutes where the server is offline tomorrow.
We’ve decided to change things around in our release schedule. Instead of releasing the netcasts in the order we recorded, we’re going to release them as separate entities. I’m not gonna spoil it for you, but I am gonna say that sometime this Sunday, the newly-named Episode Two will be released.
Along with the MP3 version, I made an M4A version which is a third of the filesize and still sounds pretty good, but there are no chapters or images. Episode 2 should have a release date for Sunday, September 2, 2007, but we’re not for sure on that one yet.
I interviewed a very famous person in the Stepmania community, Arch0wl, as well as many other very good DDR players at the Midwest Music Showdown ‘07, but I wasn’t expecting a thank you note back.
Here’s an edited-for-readability version of what Arch0wl said to me:
Kevin, your interview was unexpectedly professional and, to me, you are by far the most articulate person that attended. It was a pleasure talking with you and the UMKC DDR Club as a whole. Your conversations were refreshers from what was normally a sea of music game or internet-related conversations. I’m definitely glad you came.
I have to say, I’m touched. Thanks Arch for such a great interview and to everyone else I interviewed.
Yet another DDR Pulse Radio recording is done. Terrence and I recorded a netcast on arithmetic and its effects on stepfile making for him. We might not end up having one and will just randomly record this follow-up to the Calculus & Stepfile Making episode. For those of you that don’t quite understand the Calculus method, this should be a bit easier to grasp, but it just shows how you really have to know your stuff to make some intense stepfiles like those we’ve seen in the Glistening to Infinity (GTI) series. I fell very privileged to be working with Terrence. Who knew you could use arithmetic to make stepfiles?