Old News (2006-2007)

Contains TBRN News stories from January 01, 2006 to (almost) November 01, 2007.

[Station] Notice Of Expected Stream Downtime

Greetings, Pending approval by highest management, I will be taking down the streams to update the "EZStream" component of automation and perform some much-needed optimization of the code base. Some of the features of this update cycle will be:
  • Update EZStream to v0.4 (see http://www.icecast.org/ezstream.php#ez_about)
  • Above update will afford FULL OGG MetaData support (making "Untitled Automation Content" MUCH less frequet, hopefully)
  • Above update will afford approximately 8 much-needed stability and memory leak fixes
  • WARNING: Effective with this update, the only MP3 content that we will be streaming will be on the Music Channel, or available via the ShoutCast relays. All complaints sent to us about this will be blatantly ignored. THIS DOES NOT MEAN THAT D.Q.R.A. NO LONGER SUPPORTS MP3 INPUT AUDIO, THIS IS MERELY DONE IN AN EFFORT TO OPTIMIZE OUR SERVERS' PERFORMANCE.
If all goes well, this update will commence at 8:00AM US-EDT, and should take no longer than two hours.

We appreciate your patience and understanding while we work to improve our quality of service to you and all of our other fine patrons.

Thanks for visiting TBRN.NET!
--David Quinn Ebert
--CTO, Beyond Technical Innovations

The TBRN Announcements Mailing List...So you never miss "it" again!

Greetings,

For those of you who haven't noticed this recently in the "TBRN Hot Tips" section of our web site, we now offer The TBRN Announcements Mailing List!

This is a mailing list where our staff will announce upcoming special, unique, and otherwise important or noteworthy TBRN Shows and Events.

So...What are you waiting for? Never miss a cool TBRN show again, and Sign Up For The TBRN Announcements Mailing List Today!

Thanks for visiting TBRN!
--David Quinn "DragonFyre" Ebert
--CTO, Beyond IT, LLC.

[Hosting] Scheduled Maintenance TODAY (October 15th, 2007)

Greetings,

This IMPORTANT notice affects ONLY hosting customers (and new sign-ups) who are signing up for services on October 15th, 2007, between 5:00PM and 7:00PM GMT-4...Current customers not ordering or upgrading service packages during this time need not concern themselves with this notice, as it has no impact on the uptime or availability of their existing services.

On October 15th, 2007, between the hours of 5:00PM and 7:00PM GMT-4 (eg: US/Eastern Time), we will be performing a routine software upgrade to our Hosting Provisioning System...During the time of the upgrade, we will be unable to automatically accept new hosting orders. If you are planning on purchasing hosting services, or are planning to upgrade an existing hosting package during these times, we apologize for this inconvenience, and kindly ask that you wait until 7:00PM (GMT-4) to place your orders.

Once again, please accept our apologies for this necessary inconvenience, which will dramatically improve several aspects of our automated hosting ordering system.

Thank You!
--David Quinn Ebert
--CTO, Beyond IT, LLC.

Important Note Regarding Show Pages...

Greetings,

Over the next week or two, we will be making improvements to the program that powers our shows' archive pages...

As we make the necessary changes to each show's archive page, that individual page may become unviewable for as long as an hour.

So, in the next week or two (as of Saturday, September 29th, 2007), if you are having issues viewing a certain show's archive page, please DO NOT contact us about it...We are aware of it, and it is a "necessary evil" of the updates that will make our show pages more usable and functional for not only you, our listeners, but also for our broadcasters.

Thanks in advance for your attention to this notice!
--David Quinn Ebert
--CTO, Beyond IT, LLC.

[TBRN-Tel] TBRN Telephone Services Status Notice

Greetings,

We are currently aware of an issue with our Telephony Services Provider that is causing dropped and otherwise broken calls. There is currently no ETR on this issue, and we will provide further updates as information becomes available.

Thank You!
--David Quinn Ebert
--CTO, Beyond IT, LLC.

DISCLAIMER: The information provided in this posting is NOT guaranteed, in any way, against any inaccuracies it may contain, and we assume no responsibility for any damages, not excluding Loss Of Profit, Personal Injury, or Death that may occour from your reception or re-transmission of any information provided herein.

TBRN IRC Server Now Operational (Once Again)!

Greetings,

After an extended hiatus, the TBRN IRC server is now once again fully-operational:

Click Here To Visit The TBRN IRC Server if your IRC Client supports IRC Web Links from your Web Browser!

...Or, simply point your IRC client to "tbrn.net", port "6667."

We hope you'll enjoy our newly-revived IRC services!

Thanks for reading TBRN News!
--David Quinn Ebert
--CTO, Beyond IT, LLC.

IMPORTANT Update Regarding TBRN Stream URL's...

Greetings,

This IMPORTANT update affects ONLY people who directly enter our Stream URL's into their WinAmp or other Media Player programs...If you always click the "Listen" links on our site, then, this update *should* NOT affect you...

Effective immediately, we NO LONGER offer streams via the ShoutCast protocol, and have moved on to the 100%-Shoutcast-Compatible, yet technically-superior IceCast2 protocol.

This means that, if you like to directly enter our stream URL's, then you may reach our streams at the following URL's:

Main Stream, OGG Broadband Format:
http://www.tbrn.net:8000/tbrn.ogg
Main Stream, MP3 Broadband Format:
http://www.tbrn.net:8000/tbrn.mp3
Main Stream, MP3 24K Dial-Up/Mobile Format:
http://www.tbrn.net:8000/tbrn24.mp3
Main Stream, MP3 48K Dial-Up/Mobile Format:
http://www.tbrn.net:8000/tbrn48.mp3

Thanks for observing these changes in how our technology works...we hope you will enjoy the upcoming new station features and technologies that this overall technology upgrade will soon afford us.

Thanks for visiting TBRN.NET!
--David Quinn Ebert
--CTO, Beyond IT, LLC.

[Hosting] Minor Provisioning System Maintenance

Greetings,

The Beyond Hosting Provisioning System (UberSmith LITE) is currently down for MINOR maintenance. This maintenance period is being used to fix some bugs that we discovered that were causing occasional problems with the smoothness of the ordering process.

The hosting system, along with the TBRN.NET Beyond Hosting Purchasing links, will be restored to full functionality within a few hours.

NOTE: If you are a current Beyond Hosting customer, this maintenance period will NOT impact your ability to use the UberSmith system to make changes or request support for your account.

Thank you for your patience while we work to improve our quality of service to you, our valued customers!

--David Quinn Ebert
--CTO, Beyond Hosting, LLC.

Cool New Hosting Services Plus INSTANT Hosting Setup...NOW AVAILABLE!

Greetings,

Today, Beyond Hosting is pleased to announce the introduction of a new lineup of Shared Hosting Services, plus the IMMEDIATE introduction of our "Instant Account Setup" feature!

The new layout of Shared Hosting Service Plans includes:

"Bronze" Package for $5 US/mo:

  • 500MB Dedicated Web Space
  • Host A Single Web Domain
  • PHP, CGI, Perl, and (Unmetered) MySQL Database Support
  • INSTANT SSH Access Setup
  • Unmetered Bandwidth/Transfer

"Silver" Package for $7.50 US/mo:

  • 750MB Dedicated Web Space
  • Host Up To 3 Domains
  • PHP, CGI, Perl, and (Unmetered) MySQL Database Support
  • INSTANT SSH Access Setup
  • Unmetered Bandwidth/Transfer

"Gold" Package for $10 US/mo:

  • 1.0GB (1024MB) Dedicated Web Space
  • Host Up To 5 Domains
  • PHP, CGI, Perl, and (Unmetered) MySQL Database Support
  • INSTANT SSH Access Setup
  • Unmetered Bandwidth/Transfer

We're really looking forward to seeing what you all have to say about this new service lineup, so, even if you're not a customer, and even if you don't intend to order, we'd still love to receive your feedback... Drop our team a line at http://www.tbrn.net/contact/.

Thanks for Supporting TBRN and Beyond Hosting!
-- CTO Quinn Ebert & The Beyond Hosting Team

[CRITICAL] TBRN 1-866 Number Changed!

Greetings,

Effective Today (Saturday, June 09, 2007), TBRN will be changing its Toll-Free call-in number FROM 1-866-509-8276, TO 1-866-558-8276.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused, and we look forward to hearing from you.

ALSO: Don't forget...PDAudio RealTime 2007 is today (again, Jun. 09, '07) at 7:00PM US/Eastern Daylight Time)!

Thank You!

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