| October
20, 2011 This is just a quick note to advise Radio Dismuke listeners that there may be some periodic outages on the station during the next day or two. Today I learned that the server from which Radio Dismuke broadcasts originate has been compromised by a hacker. Turns out that this hacker's doings were what caused most of the outages that have been occurring on and off over the past few weeks. This hack presents ZERO security risk for listeners - the only thing stored on the server is Radio Dismuke's music library and broadcast software. No Live365 login data or any other listener data was stored on the server. Because the server was compromised, the safest solution was for me to wipe out the hard drive and reinstall the operating system and all the broadcasting software from scratch. While this takes place, Radio Dismuke is now broadcasting from a laptop computer on my home DSL connection. All of the listening slots on the LoudCity broadcast that were down for a few hours this evening should be back in service now. When the broadcast server is fully restored, there will be another, hopefully brief, outage, while I move the station from the laptop back to the server. My hope is that this will take place sometime Thursday. In the meanwhile, should there be any sort of outage with my home DSL service (which, unfortunately, does happen from time to time), that will, of course, take the station down with it during the duration of the DSL outage. My apologies for any inconvenience this may cause. I just wanted to alert everybody what is going on because there have, thanks to the hacker, already been far more outages than usual over the past few weeks. So if you are unable to connect to the station over the next day or so or if the station suddenly cuts off just try again later. Thanks for listening and for your patience. Dismuke |