Milestones: Big Server Upgrade
Posted by gregor on Tuesday, January 31 @ 12:12:47 EST (4389 reads)
Topic The progress of the project
I've been waiting until everything was working to make this announcement. We have about two weeks straight uptime on the new studio and servers now.

Years in the planning, this upgrade will do two things. Decrease outages and offer new stream types.

There is a link to the new mp3 stream for iTunes listeners on the main http://hober.com homepage.

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Milestones: Hober turns Six
Posted by gregor on Saturday, December 11 @ 13:12:35 EST (3997 reads)
Topic The progress of the project
This November 2004 Hober completed the sixth year of continuous brodcasting. Many bandwidths have passed.


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Milestones: An eProtest download: FREE Realplayer from the Marketers!
Posted by gregor on Monday, February 02 @ 10:27:27 EST (6090 reads)
Topic The progress of the project
A link is circulating around the web for a Realplayer download that is free of the normal gauntlet of marketing info.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/audiohelp.shtml?help
Thanks to the Beeb! While we have followed channels, paid our fees and tried to direct our users to do the "responsible" thing, we are joining this backlash protest.

How many times have I heard that earnest Hober listeners have had to shell out $19.99 for the so-called "free" Realplayer simply because they were intentionally confused and mislead by Real Networks download page.

Yes, there is a "free" player on the Real download page, but it is hard to find, and then makes you give up more personal information than you feel comfortable with and tries to subscribe you to a litany of marketing spam and hides "opt out" choices.

I hope the folks at Real Networks take this to heart and do some introspection. If the money is more important to them than their client's experience, then we will have to switch to another player.

-gregor 2/2/04

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Milestones: New hober.com web site in beta testing.
Posted by gregor on Thursday, November 13 @ 23:36:27 EST (3925 reads)
Topic The progress of the project
You are using the new hober.com web site. We are now publishing using a Content Management System (CMS) which should allow for an expansion of high-quality content with little more overhead time. In the past the site was entirely hand-coded, which is great fun, but very time consuming.

Have fun clicking around. Let me know how you like it. Send a picture!

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Milestones: Hober to Turn Five!
Posted by gregor on Thursday, November 13 @ 23:32:20 EST (4267 reads)
Topic The progress of the project
This November 28th marks the fifth anniversery of the continious broadcast on hober.com. We look forward to a great sixth and seventh!

Hearty thanks to all of the volunteers and donors who make this possible.

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