November 30, 2024
by dhoytt
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System Running on different original Relay Server

I was doing system maintenance of updating my System OS security patches of the system I source the music from earlier today and decided to point the source to the original stream relay server I had upgraded to the most recent release of Fedora yesterday jumping several OS versions. This way I could stay updated on the latest security updates.

I tried going from Fedora to Rocky Linux so I wouldn’t have to keep making these OS updates to keep up with security patches. Fedora is bleeding edge and updates to a new OS version every 6 months and maintains updates for only 3 versions so about 1.5 years, that goes quickly. Then its time to update the OS again. With Rocky Linux they have 10 years of updates.

I think I will still eventually go to Rocky Linux but it will take more work since I need to compile the source and investigate the dependencies a little more. Once I get that solid I’ll get it working and the clone that server to have a backup.

The OS update on the source server went fine. The server I stream the music to from my source server that takes it to the internet I put in place required quite a few items like, updating secure tunnel with a new certificate, ensure I had the correct ports still opened on that server so I could update my router to stream from the different server. Then had to change the system the application encoders were pointing to on the source system I updated the security OS patches on. I still had issues and couldn’t stream to the internet but the local connection was working and it was updating the external directories of IceCast and ShoutCast across the internet. Just couldn’t stream!

Updating to this point to what was my original music streaming IceCast and ShoutCast server, then flipping back from my backup streaming server took a lot of re-integration as it was. I decided to point back to the backup stream relay server that I use ShoutCast and IceCast streamers to reach out to the internet and troubleshoot the issues going to my original server. Finally noticed that the server I was switching to was taking a lot of network hops to get to my site which is right there on my router. Looked at the internal routes of my network interfaces on my system and they were not correct. NetworkManager was again the culprit and twisted everything going from Fedora 38 to Fedora 41. A while ago I had gone from Fedora 34 to 38 and the same thing happened but I never corrected it. I decided to run errands, eat, did stuff around the house. watched a little TV and decided to give this another shot tonight.

I just need to get familiar with NetworkManager. The familar ifcfg scripts we could update files make copies edited etc. NetworkManager has some of that. The thing I don’t like about NetworkManager on servers is it tries to control items by default like names of interfaces, move mac\hardware addresses around etc that you don’t mind on a laptop but not a server that needs to communicate with many other end points.

Anyway I found a parameter to stop some of the automatic items NetworkManager tried to control and then manually made edits correcting what my default interfaces were, which interfaces have priority and the routes fell in place.

Then pointed the ports back from the source back to the different but original streaming server that hosts my IceCast and ShoutCast streams. Had a few other items that I needed to fix and here we are back streaming music over the internet again!

Getting dingy from all the troubleshooting I’ll come back to edit later, maybe. 🙂

October 2, 2024
by dhoytt
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DIY Bacon Again

My homemade bacon from a 9.5 pound slab of pork belly is complete.

Finished smoking it at about 165 degrees on my Traeger with cherry pellets. I complimented with some apple chips in a smoke tube mixed with the cherry pellets.

Put in the fridge overnight and cut about half the slab into strips Monday. Placed everything in plastic ziplock bags.

Tonight I finished the process slicing the rest of the slab into strips and vacuum sealing into packages.

With what I already cooked and sliced tonight I ended up with about 64 thick slices of delicious bacon!

Some pics below of what 9.5 pounds of pork belly turned into bacon!

Vacuum sealed bacon! The finale!
Getting started vacuum sealing.
First part of the slicing.
Getting a breakfast sandwich ready with just sliced bacon.
Bacon cut in half cooking.
Squeezing bacon into a skillet.
Breakfast sandwich.
First slices have been made
The slab is ready!
Start of the smoking process.
Just rinsed the brine off and inserted temperature gauges.
Done with a 10 day brine.

September 25, 2024
by dhoytt
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Audio Receiver Updates While Listening to Music Stream

Here I am listening to my Snakeice House of Beats stream late night slow jams and my receiver cuts off with a snap.

Looked over to see my Denon S970H receiver in an update cycle. Told me the percentage and approximate time.

So for a short time I went to my audio player at the top of the Now Playing page and continued listening.

The receiver picked up playing again once the update completed.

Now back to this music!

September 25, 2024
by dhoytt
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Audio Receiver Updates While Listening to Music Stream

Here I am listening to my Snakeice House of Beats stream late night slow jams and my receiver cuts off with a snap.

Looked over to see my Denon S970H receiver in an update cycle. Told me the percentage and approximate time.

So for a short time I went to my audio player at the top of the Now Playing page and continued listening.

The receiver picked up playing again once the update completed.

Now back to this music!

September 18, 2024
by dhoytt
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Starting Another Batch of Homemade Bacon

Got the pork belly bringing in the bag for the next week plus for my next batch of homemade bacon!

This is a 9 pound belly so I essentially doubled my recipe and then vacuum sealed it.

Will have pics later. I may post my prior times I made it later as well.

September 1, 2024
by dhoytt
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Migrated Web Site To New Server

I was finally able to migrate my web server to another system and OS (Operating System) to better keep up with updates. I was on Fedora 34 Linux, and I moved the web server over to Rocky Linux 9.x. Fedora only goes 3 versions back for updates and their current version just moved to Fedora 40. Fedora is a bleeding edge Linux OS with a lot of the latest SW which can add further incompatibilities if developers have not had time to update their programs or utilities to use those libraries\software. Fedora actually does a nice job of updating through the versions but that often leads to incompatible versions of PhP or other SW with applications such as WordPress plugins, the MySQL DB etc. Since I have my own XCP.ng virtual environment I cloned my webserver and worked on that offline after changing the Ip. Address on the system and in the MySQL database.
  1.  First, I did the clone then updated to current versions of Fedora this led to a list of issues.
    • Apache redirects in http.conf and .htacecss were highly customized and did not work
    • Had to sync with MySQL dB Ip. Address entries as well
    • The PHP version mismatches were all over the place
    • Had to disable or remove many plugins
    • This normally reliable method left me with an unusable website.
    • I tried this a few times since it had worked for me in the past.
  2. Next, I created a new VM/system with the same system specs using Rocky Linux 9.
    • Started with a brand-new version of WordPress
    • Setup WordPress networking multi-site
    • Created each site the way I wanted with no data
    • Installed WordPress plugins fresh if the plugins were maintained and updated.
    • Found new WordPress plugins or did not install outdate non-maintained plugins.
    • Installed the WordPress themes I wanted to use and checked they were updated and maintained.
    • Did a copy of the website files using rsync.
    • Used Heidi SQL to copy the MySQL DB’s over to this new system
    • Changed Ip. Addresses in DBs, Apache web server and web configuration files.
    • This site started working I then decided to increase my website mountpoints size.
      • Noticed it was under “/” which is root of course and it is not contiguous due to swap.
      • I have extended “/” several times over the years but this time it just crashed the VM by not booting.
      • I ended up restoring the VM (Virtual Machines) from a backup I do using the XCP-ng XOA (Xen Orchestra Appliance) source from GitHub.
      • I did not want to have a large “/” so I decided to split off the mountpoint to a new drive and copy data over which was just as problematic because I had some other system files in the mountpoint.
  3. Since I decided I wanted more space on the website mountpoint I created a whole new VM with the drives sizes I wanted using Rocky Linux 9.x. Now I would be able to cleanly extend drives and mountpoint space if needed
    • Initial install for some odd reason the system did not boot
      • Figured it was how I ordered the mountpoints with the boot partition, swap but may have been how I formatted it. I was resizing and moving mountpoints around prior to the OS install probably chose the wrong formatting option without noticing.
    • Once I got the system to bootup properly on Rocky Linux 9 I installed updates, and the software packages needed to run a web server.
    • Started with a brand-new version of WordPress
      • Setup WordPress networking multi-site
      • Created each site the way I wanted with no data
      • Installed WordPress plugins fresh if they were maintained and updated.
      • Found new WordPress plugins or did not install outdate non-maintained plugins.
      • Installed the WordPress themes I wanted to use and checked they were updated and maintained.
      • Imported the posts, comments and other data using WP-Import data from the original site to each multi-site.
      • Created new menus’ and exported them to the other sites using WPS Menu Exporter plugin.
  4. Used Heidi SQL to copy the MySQL DB’s over to this new system
  5. Did a copy of the website files using rsync.
  6. Used Heidi SQL to copy the MySQL DB’s over to this new system
  7. Changed Ip. Address in DBs, Apache web server and web configuration files
  8. Moved over ssl certificates to the new web server
  9. Fine-tuned settings for performance and SEO.
I still have a few things to accomplish but it’s comforting to get on Rocky Linux 9.x which is a long-term OS that will be around with updates for years instead of the bi-annual update cycle of Fedora that is only has. Just an FYI all places I have MySQL it’s the fork MariaDB.

August 31, 2024
by dhoytt
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Starting LAbor Day Music Varied Genre Style

Throwing that Snakeice House of Beats mix out today. Can’ just do one genre or time period a there’s just too much music to listen to I want to listen to with you.

Listening to artist like The Sugarhill Gang, Paris, Vory, Jack Harlow, Nicki Minaj, Steve Miller Band, DVSN and Stacey Q.

August 24, 2024
by dhoytt
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Some Saturday Late Night fun and then Slow

Some nice party type jams and then some slow jams of all era and genres of music Snakeice House of Beats style.

Prince, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, Greenday, Silk Sonic, Mario, Maysa and others!

May 1, 2024
by dhoytt
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Updated Site SSL Certificates and Streaming SSL Certificates

I updated the overall dhoytt.com ssl certificates as well as the ssl certificate associated with streams embedded in the site. If your are using a player that is secure just point to the streams and most will prompt you to update the cert or just update it.

Here’s a list of my streams and bitrates you can place in you media players or click on and it may play if you have a compatible media player or browser:

You can also look on my Now Playing Page https://dhoytt.com/snake-ice-radio-blog/now-playing/ for the following media players to listen. There may be a slight delay before they start playing of several seconds especially for the IceCast relay media players embedded on the site.

Listen 320kbps ShoutCast Listen 192kbps ShoutCast Listen 128kbps ShoutCast Listen 64kbps ShoutCast Listen 320kbps IceCast Listen 160kbps IceCast Listen 128kbps IceCast Listen 64kbps IceCast