November 8, 2025
by dhoytt
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Let’s Listen to Some Music Together

I set up some songs with a list of chill with artists like Sly Johnson, Samuelle, Ellie Goulding, Coco Jones with some upbeat sets with artists like Jagged Edge, Nickelback, with chill like Ice Cube, LL Cool J. Even jazzing it up artists like Roy Hargrove and Nathan Mitchell.

An all around sounding Saturday of music.

October 8, 2025
by dhoytt
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Dehydrating Herbs Trimmed During Garden Cleanup

Weeds and some herbs were in need of trimming for my garden to make room for other vegetables. Mint and pineapple sage needed to be trimmed back to make room for squash and cucumbers where I had the 3 sisters of beans, corn and squash earlier.

I also elevated the squash and cucumber vines for more separation.

I want to be a bit more ready when I trim back plants in my garden to get them dehydrated right away. I wasn’t ready with prior batches of mint and rosemary when trimming them back.

Now the dehydrator has space on the cabinet down from the top of the cabinet, cleaned and ready to be utilized!

I put the pineapple sage on the bottom and the mint on top.

Trimmed mint and pineapple sage.
Pineapple sage washed and pat dry.
Mint washed ready for the dehydrator after drying.
Pineapple sage.
Mint
Top of dehydrator.
Side view dehydrator.

October 4, 2025
by dhoytt
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Back Streaming After Power Shutdowns

I had a UPS malfunction and then take down my other UPS’s but I’m all up and running again. The story is here https://dhoytt.com/mainblog/2025/10/server-ups-crashed-but-back-up/.

I had a nice set setup for a wild late Friday night and was in the midst of that when everything went down but I still have several hours setup and then we have my select scripts pulling from my select pools of music.

Sit back and enjoy!

October 4, 2025
by dhoytt
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Server UPS’ Crashed but Back Up

One of my UPS went out (has a flaky controller) and then overloaded my other UPS’ for my servers and took down my NAS storage I use iSCSI with, the ProLiant BL460c Gen8 blade servers I run the virtual environment of XCP-ng on as well as my ProLiant BL460c G7 I run my music from before streaming over my virtual relay music servers in XCP-ng.

For the UPS with the issue I unplugged it from the wall and disconnected from internal battery sources, put on battery support then plug in the internal connections to wall power to get it out of it’s seized up condition. I then plugged that problem UPS back into one of my dedicated 20amp circuits. After that my C7000 blade chassis had power to bring up all of my blade servers I use.


The chassis shows some warnings etc but when you have to scavenge and use the firmware versions available without contract that’s what you get sometimes. It has all been working splendidly for several years now. I will be soon moving off it back to individual rack mount servers soon though for power and performance especially now that I can readily get 10gb NICS and have several 10gbe switches in my environment outside of my c7000 chassis.



I also had to go into the bios of my SuperMicro NAS server and switch to a mirror boot device for it to come up. I will have to try to re-mirror that again in FreeNAS. Yes I have not yet gone up to TrueNAS but I’m planning on it real soon. Then I will up the capacity with new drives as well. This configuration lasted me almost five years.


Since the systems were down I decided to perform updates of the OS on my virtual web server running Rocky 9 and my music relay server running Fedora 41. I updated my W2019 Datacenter server as well but that required no boot and its running bare metal on one of my ProLiant BL460c G7 blade servers.


Servers are up and communicating with each other now to deliver my sites to the internet so I will continue to listen to my music from Snakeice’s House of Beats and fall off to sleep. I had a nice set started and was a couple of hours into it but I still have some setup for the next few hours then its on the scripts.

September 28, 2025
by dhoytt
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Fall Backyard Garden Look

This is how the backyard gardens are looking currently.

Variety of roses, snap cone and marigolds flowers.
Yellow roses, snap cone, snap dragon flowers.
Red roses, asylums in front of east vegetable garden, check the squash, pineapple sage most visible.
East vegetable garden.
West vegetable garden.
Closeups beefeater tomatoes and peppers.
Red roses, marigolds, asylums, snaps with my veggies in the background. Basil, chives, oregano, mint, lemon grass, tarragon etc.
White roses and cone flowers with struggling snap dragon.
White roses foreground and marigolds in background along with red roses, asylums west vegetable garden.
Cucumbers.
Mint harvested.
Mints from garden vacuum sealed until I can dry them.

September 28, 2025
by dhoytt
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Wide Open Track Randomization Today

I know it may seem very random already on my site the way the songs play there’s actually some structure to the songs being played. Today I am going almost full random without prioritization for years or eras. I may jump in from time to time to throw in a set I want to here but going wide and random for a while!

September 20, 2025
by dhoytt
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Updated OS on Music Related Servers


Updated my music relay servers for IceCast and ShoutCast which run on Fedora Linux 41 currently and my server they connect to that I use for my streaming application that on Windows 2019 currently.

A bit more on the updte here: https://dhoytt.com/mainblog/2025/09/dhoytt-com-site-updates/

September 20, 2025
by dhoytt
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Dhoytt.com Site Updates

I updated my internet facing sites here at dhoytt.com.

I updated my Web Server to the latest security OS Rocky 9.6 patches along with taking PHP to a version that gets proper security updates and are compatible with my WordPress themes and plugins. I then updated the plugins and themes as well as taking WordPress to its latest version and then updated all my network sites on WordPress..

In parallel I also updated my music relay servers for IceCast and ShoutCast which run on Fedora Linux 41 currently and my server they connect to that I use for my streaming application that on Windows 2019 currently.

All these integrated systems are up running and interacting together after these updates as they had been before but hopefully more responsive and secure.

September 6, 2025
by dhoytt
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Old School Coming Through Saturday

That’s right this Saturday afternoon going back ro some “Old School” Hip-Hop, R&B and a bit of rock but mainly the first two genres from ‘70’s to early ‘90’s and a few others hear and there.

Here you can see whats coming up and what’s playing currently: https://dhoytt.com/snake-ice-radio-blog/now-playing/

Artists like Sweet Sensation, Gap Band, Whodini, The Egyptian Lover, Heatwave, Cheryl Lynn, The Knack and so many more like that. Lets have some Old School fun.