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By: When Will They Find Out I’m A Fraud? » Julia Sherred | From The Mundane To The Insane

Sat, 19 Mar 2011 07:47:27 +0000

[...] a sigh of relief. Then I interviewed Phil Plait. He kinda (well there is no kinda about it) posted about it. People noticed. I was hoping it was just my “5 minutes of fame”. I was wrong. This [...]

By: Jules

Jules — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 04:14:54 +0000

@bonez_brigade I have no control over encoding (well I do and I don’t) 128 is what our online feed streams at.

As I said in my blog, after over 12 hours of editing and a ton of other issues (let me tell you technology has not been my friend this weekend) I wasn’t going to change the rate or volume levels.

And you are most welcome

By: «bønez_brigade»

«bønez_brigade» — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 04:06:28 +0000

Assumption incorrect. It's encoded at 128k and is 98m:23s long (and loud). FWIW, 64-96k encoding works fine for voice interviews and will really chop down the file size; and tools like MP3Gain are useful for knocking down (or jacking up) the volume. Thanks, Jules, for the goods, nonetheless. I'm off to give it a listen...

By: «bønez_brigade»

«bønez_brigade» — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 03:49:13 +0000

Downloading now…
As it’s 90MB (!), I’m assuming it’s either encoded at 320k, or the interview is 5 hours long.

By: Jules

Jules — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 03:23:38 +0000

I feel like such a spammer today. Yet another update. It appears our server is back up. However, due to these multiple tech failures over the weekend, I am going to keep the new link up over night just in case the server gets all hinky again.

If you notice the extra link is gone, no worries, you can listen the tradition way. This also means that the “other blogger” interview is also available once again.

*edit* and just as quickly it goes back down. I think I am going to stop with the updates because it is really looking pointless.

So frustrating as this is completely out of my hands at the moment.

By: Wayne

Wayne — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 03:14:49 +0000

Party on, Garth.

By: Jules

Jules — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 00:56:14 +0000

HOPEFULLY FINAL UPDATE:

Please recheck my blog. I have a temporary link that you can listen to the show at until our main servers are back online.

Thank you all.

By: Jules

Jules — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 00:40:17 +0000

UPDATE:

Finally heard back from our server host. Someone hacked into another server in the data center, so as a precaution, they shut down all servers.

So that means the station could be down for at least 48 hours until they fix this issue and check each server 1 by 1 to see who was penetrated.

In the meantime, I am currently uploading Phil’s interview to a free temp online storage site thing and later on tonight I will do the same for the “other blogger’s” interview for those that may be interested.

My first priority is getting Phil’s listen ready once more as many of you are being so wonderfully patient and I thank you for this.

As soon as I have the file hosted again and have changed the relevant links, I will update once more and hopefully this tech failure (I am so going to over-exaggerate here cause I am so frustrated) #1 billion will be the last one.

Will update again hopefully shortly.

By: MadScientist

MadScientist — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 23:31:59 +0000

“… some other blogger too, some guy who still dabbles in writing and I think did some obscure TV show back in the 1990s.”

What’s so hard about typing ‘Wil Wheaton’ – it takes up much less space.

By: Opiecan

Opiecan — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 23:00:59 +0000

Phil- I don’t know if you saw but on yahoo.com the main story is currently “Oprah on the hot seat.”

http://tv.yahoo.com/collections/4304

By: Jules

Jules — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 21:46:05 +0000

We have contacted our server provider and they are currently trying to resolve this issue as soon as possible.

I don’t know if I want to laugh or cry over this especially after the tech failures that occurred yesterday during editing LOL

I just want to say a preemptive Thank you for your patience. I will post here as soon as the server is up again.

By: Stone Age Scientist

Stone Age Scientist — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 21:41:15 +0000

I second Pareidolius @ #3. The audio file won’t load for me, too. I tried it in FF & IE.

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Jules (Julia) @ #s 2 & 4: Okay, I’ll wait for the server to be up again. Thanks.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 20:53:03 +0000

Glad to see it’s a podcast. I was listening to you live, but it was getting late here, and I fell asleep.

Nothing personal, mind you. It was going on 2am here, and I’d been up since 7am. After a full day of working in the yard, then astronomy club meeting, then observing, I was a little tired.

By: Jules

Jules — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 19:10:12 +0000

The player works, I use FF.

However, the server that is hosting the audio file has just gone down temporarily. Figures *sigh*

Hopefully it will be corrected soon.

By: Pareidolius

Pareidolius — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 19:07:10 +0000

The Odeo player doesn’t seem to like Firefox, Safari or maybe it’s just Macs.

By: Jules

Jules — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 18:17:53 +0000

Never settle down. Its always more fun when one is excited and passionate. At least for me it is.

By: IVAN3MAN

IVAN3MAN — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 16:25:24 +0000

Phil Plait:

I really need to settle down during these things, but it’s just too much fun to talk about them… or at least too easy to get inflamed and passionate, like when I get angry at antivaxxers.

You’re an emotional guy, aren’t you, Phil?