Liberty & Justice 87.9 has been off the air for
nearly a week
due to a damaged hard drive. The trouble shooting and replacement
process has been far more troublesome and time consuming than it should
have been, thanks to the egos and proprietary obsessions of certain
computer manufacturers during the late XP and Vista eras. The Emachines
computer that manages L&J 87.9's air product "came" my way as a
nearly new unit. It wasn't my purchasing choice. In less than three
years, it has blown both a motherboard and a hard drive.
After experiences with three of their products, and reading tales of
woe from others, I'm convinced the Emachines line exists solely as a
dumping ground for substandard parts from otherwise quality vendors
such as Seagate and Intel. My advice if you own one: don't replace the
failed part with an Emachines OEM. Find a similar replacement directly
from the part manufacturer. Anyway, since I can't use the recovery
discs I have decided upon an expensive upgrade to Windows 8. Either
way, I would have to rebuild all the software from scratch. The station
may be back on this weekend. If not,
it will be early next week.
The timing of this development couldn't have been worse. Between this
and other pressing matters, no work on the proposal mentioned below has
been done in nine days. It is extremely frustrating!!
Also, due to the disappearance of title streaming several months ago, I
have added an additional stream (at least for now) for Troubadour 1700
that restores the feature. The new stream URL is as follows:
http://67.212.163.37:8010.
Both the new stream and the older one are now encoding in AAC+ and the
quality is superb.
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