Well I have decided to spend some time fixing up various playlist issues to make it better for Windows Media Player users.

The Radio page should now be updated for these users to use the correct Orban links.

I also got tired of waiting for VLC to fix their Web applets after they fucked them moving to 1.x so I have re-made the Online Media player so it works again.

It's a bit more tedious because you have to select a server, but it works.

I'm also going to now re-add the annual Christmas songs into rotation because it is that season!

EDIT:

Found part of the memory leak issue on the Back-End IRC script has to do with HTTP queries, will be looking into it more.

On another note, I have finished fixing up some of the error messages on the IRC bot and it's now back in operation.

This has also fixed the RSS feed and after some updating of details the RSS should be updating properly now.

Well I have now re-arranged the DNAS's/Servers and you will see some new servers available on the Radio page.

I am still working on the Radio IRC Bot, hoping to get that working 100% soon.

Well the Radio IRC Bot has now been moved to the new VMware image.

Since it was a fresh start I noticed some flaws in the bot not handling disconnections very well so I have started to add a lot of extra error capturing code on the back-end.

It's not 100% finished at the moment so I'll work on it over the next couple of days.

Well I have decided it might be easier to just start a fresh Debian installation and migrate the few things we need that way it'll be cleaner.

I have Debian and MySQL moved to it, next will be the Radio IRC bot back-end and then fixing the MySQL replication.

The Radio is currently back online, however the request system is having some issues that I'll need to look into a bit later.

All in all though I am fairly impressed with the performance. I was able to make a Debian 64bit VMware image now that the new CPU is 64bit compatible and yeah overall performance all-round is good and a lot less noisy which is good.

EDIT:

Ok fixed a few permission issues on the back-end causing it problems writing to the database which was not allowing song queuing properly etc. It seems to have also fixed the Request page bugs.


All I need to do now is get the MySQL replication working so the website has the same database details as the back-end for track ID's etc which I'll try and work on either tonight or tomorrow hopefully have a few things going on which might cause some delays.

EDIT2:

Ok MySQL replication has been completed, things seem to be replicating well at the moment and requests are now working again.

I'll be re-structuring the Radio DNAS's a bit later and also still need to move the Radio IRC bot.

Well the VMware Website was back to normal and I downloaded ESXi 4.

I have since installed ESXi on the new machine and that has gone fine.

I was able to convert our Linux machine over to a VMware image with little problems, it does require a bit of clean-up to remove VMware Server off it and also some of the HP management agents etc that are left over.

The harder part was trying to convert my physical disk image over to a VMware image. I guess it came back to bite me. We went with a Physical disk setup which was a bitch to setup to get better performance, however I don't think it should be too bad in the current setup.

I was able to ghost and convert the image over to an ESXi format so it's happy now.

I'll try and work on getting the VM's to talk to each other and clean-up the Linux VM this evening and see how we go.