So I'm curious as to whether any of you have a way to log into your airplay machines or other boxes on Riv at night or weekends from home if something isn't right? I use TeamViewer and it has saved me lots of time when I get a call that something isn't sounding right or shouldn't be playing on the weekend. Without an internet connection, I would have to make trips to the studio. What do you all do?
Tom Van Gorkom Radio Esperanza Engineering, KRIO AM/FM, KOIR FM Office: 956-380-8150 Cell: 865-803-7427 Rio Grande Bible Institute 4300 S US Hwy 281 Edinburg, TX 78539 On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 8:33 AM, Cowboy <c...@cwf1.com> wrote: > On Wednesday 17 May 2017 08:25:38 am Rob Landry wrote: > > Myself, I prefer > > the second approach, not fixing what isn't broken. > > Which I've been advocating for many, many years. > > Sometimes Rob and I disagree. > Through his entire post, this is not one of 'em ! > > Some of you know that I wrote Spam-O-Matic to be an artificially > intelligent self-training maintenance free anti-spam machine back > in 2004. > The prototype machine has been running since then, with two disk > replacements and one motherboard replacement since then, total > down-time about ten minutes on Slackware 9.1. > > Eventually, we are drug kicking and screaming into an update. > Spam-O was recently "up"graded to a dual-core atom 64 bit processor > in an ImageStream TS-1000 chassis largely just because. > As a result I was forced to upgrade to a 2.6.27 kernel, because the > 2.4.x kernel simply can't do SATA drives. > It's still running the same Slackware 9.1 with only the kernel and modules > updated to accommodate the hardware. > Why ? > If it isn't broken... > I fully expect this arrangement to last the rest of my lifetime with no > further updates. > Spam-O does what it does very, very well. There will be no "features" > added. No functionality expansion of any kind. There will be no need. > > Rivendell is a little different. Features are added. Functionality is > expanded, > to meet needs. Therefore some updates are necessary. > Being a rather large beta site, we get them before you do. > Sometimes, that is NOT a good thing ! ( well, it's a good thing FOR YOU ! > ) > And yes, there have been updates to CentOS that have rather badly > broken some aspects of Rivendell on occasion. > We strive that what is released to you, is exactly what it purports to be. > Sometimes we do miss something. > Known bug squashing is on the list, but that doesn't mean it'll happen > today ! > Just because Red Hat has updated the OS doesn't mean we're gonna rush > right > out and apply it today. In fact, we rather deliberately don't. > Sometimes, things break. > When it works for me, you'll get it. > Meantime, if it were my revenue stream, I'd be doing as I do, as Rob is > advocating. > Test it thoroughly on a redundant machine, or leave well enough alone. > ( preferably, both ) > > -- > Cowboy > > http://cowboy.cwf1.com > > "I argue very well. Ask any of my remaining friends. I can win an > argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and > steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign of their great respect, > they don't even invite me." > -- Dave Barry > _______________________________________________ > Rivendell-dev mailing list > Rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org > http://caspian.paravelsystems.com/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev >
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