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So some work I hope to get done, and the help of members if they wish, is appreciated. Somethings I have to fix up, but there will at times be a place for everyone to help

Forums:
-Fix Up Themes (Themes that are slightly broken due to the updates. People who know of great fixes, please link them here)
-Fix Some buttons in the Navi (Removing Oekaki unless we can have one that more people use, and fixing up the chat box that is on prosilver)
-Now Playing Location on some of the forums themes (There may be another place that is Opera friendly. Any suggestion, please post here)

Station:
-Try to reach our Donation Goal to get a working version installed.

As you may have noticed, the forums is kind of weird lately. Somethings are not working as planned. It's been pointed out to me. Only way I really know of fixes is just writing over this install with a fresh one, and to be honest, I don't want to do that, I had a hard enough time moving from one server to the other.

Some of the buttons on the navi, especially in prosilver lead no where. So getting rid of them, or fixing some is important and will lead to proper areas of importance and/or interest.

Now playing looks kinda odd on Prosilver. Neat, but odd. I feel we can have a better place for it on some themes. Please relate to this topic about the defects. viewtopic.php?f=49&t=2005
We usually want it somewhere in the header, but not sure if prosilver uses the same breadcrumb code that subsilver uses, so I guess I will look into it again.

This should not affect the forums too much, but there may be some situations where some themes do not work.

Statistics: Posted by Sirby - 07 Feb 2010, 12:35 - Replies 0 - Views 12

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There Will be a Show 2/6 10PM EST

More Info later!

Statistics: Posted by Sirby - 05 Feb 2010, 22:30 - Replies 5 - Views 44

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Requests are Working now

UPDATE* Requests work again, but as I said before, nothing is operating as it should. As mentioned earlier, Donations would be appreciated to get the new version of our software installed so we can better server you. At any rate, I leave this in your hands now.

Statistics: Posted by Sirby - 03 Feb 2010, 13:58 - Replies 3 - Views 45

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AnimeAMAZE Downtime Wed. 2/3 Between Midnight and 4AM

Downtime Expected Wed. Feb. 3rd between the times of Midnight and 1AM EST and expected to last 1-2 Hours.

I plan on adding our "new" UPS to the mix since I put it through a pretty nice test and it survived longer than the old one did, and the old one had no indicators when it failed, this one is a lot smarter.

I plan on Ghosting or in terms of gparted, copy and paste Mints Windows partition onto a "new" HDD.

Reason for the "new" is because, I have no idea how old this UPS is, but it looks and operates as if it were new, it even has all the manuals, and the box was in mint condition, as is the UPS. Not a scrach or blemish on it. I am impressed. The HDD, It's been in my system for a while, but it works great still.

Ghosting could take some time, therefore, I have a system on standby with the music. it is on Linux, so it may be a bit odd, but I know for sure it will run for at most 4 hours before showing any signs of failure. Maybe longer with a questionable codec off.

UPDATE: Sorry, started a tad bit later, Copying the drive is going really smoothly, much more so than my other computer. I Don't expect it to be too much longer.

Statistics: Posted by Sirby - 01 Feb 2010, 21:03 - Replies 1 - Views 31

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Power Outages Expected.

We have had a slight power outage earlier, knocking everything out. While fortunate, yet unfortunate at the same time, we don't have our UPS anymore due to the fact that it failed and would no longer start. At the same time its good because it killed our last computer

On another note, our area has a High Wind advisory in effect until 7AM EST Saturday. On top of that, bitter cold temperatures.

I will be out between the times 5:00PM EST and should be back by 11:00PM EST This evening. If the station does go offline, It will not be back until I get back.

Thank you for the patinece. And for the people in the affected areas....Pretty Crazy weather huh?

Statistics: Posted by Sirby - 29 Jan 2010, 13:14 - Replies 3 - Views 26

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the brilliant Show [1/30 10PM EST][PC]

We have a lot of new music to add, and a lot of old classics that were never added!

Featuring Music from the 80s up to the early 2000's

It shall be a lot of fun.

We also have 3 new to AnimeAMAZE artists, as well.
-the brilliant green
-Omnyouza
-Lucifer

We only have their singles for now, but if you all like the artists, we can obtain more music, so you will have to let us know.

I have no new vocaloid songs, but the line up is epic for the epic Saturday Night.

This is a must see show! There will be a Podcast Available for this show.

Chat will be held in IRC again
http://widget.mibbit.com/?settings=d4ea ... animeamaze

For those with mIRC: #animeamaze on irc.rizon.net

Hope to see you there!

Statistics: Posted by Sirby - 28 Jan 2010, 23:51 - Replies 7 - Views 58

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Thursday 1/28/2010: Station Maintenance.

***UPDATE***
On Thursday January 28, between the times of 1AM EST and 3AM EST, The station will be down.

The cause for this is we are planning on replacing some known bad Ethernet cables, and we plan on relocating the router closer the server, which has such known bad cables. The cables we are receiving are brand new, and color coded, so if there are problems with a cable, we will know which one based on its color. Getting the Cables set up and the Relocation of Network Equipment is not expected to take long, but I am using a large time Window in the chance that it does take longer than expected.

The cabling idea was planned out prior to receiving the cables, however, in the possibility that something does not work, our backup plan should not be hard to implement at all still making downtime as short as possible.

The ideal time to finish is WAY before 3AM EST, but may exceed that since nothing can ever go perfectly when I specify times

So I repeat

STATION DOWNTIME THURSDAY, JANUARY 28TH BETWEEN 12AM TO 3AM EASTERN STANDARD TIME

Statistics: Posted by Sirby - 26 Jan 2010, 18:13 - Replies 3 - Views 50

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Station Notice 1/24 Effective Immediately

Nothing bad is happening, but I am copying over 100GB of music from Mint, our broadcast machine. Normally this has never effected the performance of Mint, but it could very well cause some station downtime. The backup should be done in about 2 hours and 45 Minutes. So effective starting as soon as this message is posted, just keep in mind the possibility of downtime.

Statistics: Posted by Sirby - 24 Jan 2010, 11:18 - Replies 2 - Views 32

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This show has no name show [1/23 10PM EST]

That's Right~ This show simply has no name. Regardless, it will still be awesome. What other show do you know that takes place on January 23 (aka 1/23 aka 1 2 3

)and its the first show of 2010.

It will have new music, news, shoutouts, and there will be a chat, but we want to try something else out. We want to try out an IRC Chat. Many people have an unwarranted hate for IRC (yay for big words) so to help solve the problems whatever they may be (not to pretty, not easy to use, etc...) we have a system in place where you click, enter a name for yourself, and, you are all set from there

it connects you to our room and from there, it has a neat interface that kind of resembles a frog (Suwako YAY) so it's pretty. In terms of protection, we have a neat script in place to keep people from harming others in any form.

Why use IRC instead of mChat?

Simple really. IRC Is made for large scale chats, something mChat is not well optimized to handle yet. Also, mChat seems pretty hard on the server. Lets take a look at these differences that each has over the other.

Instant Sign on with Forums:
mChat: Yes
IRC: No - Click Chat link and enter a name. Not that hard

Wait to Post Message:
mChat: Yes
IRC: No - Spamming spammers get eliminated from the script so don't post one letter per line to spell out OMG LOL or something.

Wait to View message
mChat: Yes - The client reloads every 10 seconds. Some may see messages sooner than others.
IRC: No - If you are paying attention, you will see it.

Instant PM Other Members
mChat: No - You need to rely on forum PM's
IRC: Yes - Just double click their name I believe, and you can chat with them one on one.

Adjustable Size Window
mChat: No - It's small...Very small telling me its not fit for several members to post about on
IRC: Yes - You can have it stretch as far as your browser allows, or your IRC Client.

So I think its pretty self explanatory Cast your vote though so we can find out. In a small forum like ours, your vote matters more than you would feel it matters

There are 2 easy ways to connect. Well, 1 easy and 1 maybe easy ways.

First: Click the IRC Link (One Provided Here too) and enter your name, and hop in. That's It. Try not to imitate users by copying a name, our script catches that too.

Second: Use an IRC Client of your choice and sign into irc.rizon.net and join #animeamaze
If you like the second option better than the first, Look into some clients. Pidgin works and is free. mIRC is prefered, but they want you to buy a license. I think you can use it for free, and I am sure you can find out how to use it for free, but I won't help you there, but you can use it free for 30 days. After that its up to you if you want to pay $20 or not.

Instructions on how to set up can be found via google, yahoo, or bing. I say that because a set I may find easy may not be easy to others. If you PM me though, I can help you out somehow I am sure.

Anyway, Hope to see you there on Saturday at 10PM EST!

Statistics: Posted by Sirby - 22 Jan 2010, 22:29 - Replies 13 - Views 102

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UPDATE FROM NEOSTREAMS!

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Good Evening Everyone, i just wanted to take a moment and let you know that we have begun migrating Brown and Apple servers, please note, the IP Addresses of these servers WILL be Changing, The new Ip Addresses are listed below, please begin using these IP addresses Starting Tommorow Jan 18th 2010, we will be taking the Old Servers Offline Tuesday Jan 19th 2010!

apple.neostreams.info ip address = 72.233.93.160 (click to tune in)

Please Take Note of that IP, since that is the IP You will need to use in order to connect to our Radio! We are already streaming to that IP as well, but starting tomorrow, the other IP will not be broadcasting anymore!

UPDATE TO ITUNES LISTENERS

I got a response back.

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Hello,

Your station information should appear updated as requested later this week.

Regards,

Thank you in advance for your patience while iTunes updates the station IP.

Statistics: Posted by Sirby - 18 Jan 2010, 06:53 - Replies 0 - Views 50

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AnimeAMAZE Has been a Non Profit Corporation for one year...

...Oddly enough on my birthday

So lets see...so far we have Mio and AnimeAMAZE Sharing my birthday...I wonder who else we can find that shares the 15th as their birthday.

Anyway, thought I would share that with you. I meant to post about it last night, but never got around to it.

Hoping to operate and better serve everyone in the coming years

Statistics: Posted by Sirby - 15 Jan 2010, 11:17 - Replies 5 - Views 72

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AnimeAMAZE Rules and Guidelines Reminder

In accordance with rules for being a non-profit organization, this is a reminder to please review the Registration Agreement quoted below, the Privacy Policy, and the AnimeAMAZE Rules and Guidelines and note that these are subject to change without notice.

Dōmo arigatō.

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Statistics: Posted by Miko - 14 Jan 2010, 22:22 - Replies 0 - Views 48

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Follow us.

You can now follow AnimeAMAZE in all its song playing journeys and live shows by taking a look at Twitter.

We probably will not use it for much but some updates and what we are currently playing, but I am sure someday all this social networking will come in handy at the rate cellphones and other devices utilize them.

Statistics: Posted by Sirby - 14 Jan 2010, 20:26 - Replies 0 - Views 50

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Mint is in need of your support!

It's Nice to have a server for a year, But its even better to use that server for a year and more to come!

There is an update for SAM out there, but its jumping over to a new version, and its not free. It costs $99 to upgrade. The upgrade will provide you with the best quality this and any station out there can offer you. One of our on-going Goals is to provide you with the best quality sound and music from Japan.

Please consider donating to help us get this needed upgrade! You don't need to be a member to donate

Statistics: Posted by Sirby - 06 Jan 2010, 11:47 - Replies 4 - Views 93

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Farewell 2009, Hello 2010!

Nice to be here in 2010...I am even proud my sisters compaq is still alive

Of course, I saved it, so it should , but its slowing down lately...well the internet anyway

At any rate, New year means some new updates!

New Logo:
Out of all (1) of our logo submissions (1) we were able to narrow it down to (1) choice of of all the (1) Million submitted. The Winning design is featured on the request page, and the artist responsible for it is Sasori. Her two brand new out of print CD's will be sent to her soon. I know my fulfilment for prizes has been quite low, but considering we are non profit and the post office is far away, there must be understanding. There is only one problem. The logo is a bit too powerful for our home page. If we can get 10 interested people, which is 9 more than we got for this last one, please get in touch with me for a design contest. I can offer another prize that will be sure to interest even the non otaku's here. But Sasori's Logo will be worked with, and we thank her very much.

New Equipment and Technology:
Not a day goes by where we strive to find ways to make AnimeAMAZE better for you all. Sadly, this can sometimes come with a pretty cost. Please continue to support and Donate to AnimeAMAZE to help keep us on air, and help keep our equipment alive. Our recent Linksys switch you all read about is sitting in the trash now, and our goal is to get a new one, and update SAM to reduce the deaths of the station. Please consider donating even if its only a dollar.

Chat:
Chat system known as mchat has become popular for most of our shows, and helped us meet some new people. I am glad to hear you all like it and I hope we can continue to provide you this communication with us during the live shows. The problem is...I dislike mchat for some things. Currently, we are giving IRC a try again, with integrating mibbit to our forums. It may go well, and it may not, so it will be an interesting bit to try. We have mibbit currently set up for our irc channel, but there is still much work to do based on moderation. mibbit is just a nice built in irc client on our site that can save you the trouble of setting up an irc client like chatzilla or mIRC, but you can still use mIRC with our chat if its easier for you. Details later about this. Nothing is carved in stone, just an idea to toss out there. IRC is best for our chats.

Anyway, Hope you all have a great New Year's Day, and be safe! Finally all the really big Holidays of the Winter are out of the way. What's next to look forward to? :wcc: