Well I have finished the Genre query and Stream Title script these are now reported in the IRC Bot which makes it pretty much complete.

I also created the status query script and it looks to be working, there was a brief outage of the 32Kbit streams while this was tested. So now the bot and the Radio page should reflect whether the station is really up or down.

The next thing I'll work on is the Anti-Stream ripper script. Hopefully I can start this soon.

On another note I am in need of a Linux/Unix programmer, if you have any skills in this profession please get in contact with me, this will be for a project to allow for live DJ's and simplify my Hub setup and in turn the IRC Bot also. I need someone fluent in Linux/Unix programming though.

That's all for now.

Just a quick update to report a fix on Forum registration, the image was not showing up, this has now been resolved.

I have also started work on the Genre and server title query script which is about 80% complete, I should hopefully have this done on the weekend maybe. Then I can move onto the anti-stream ripper script.

Server went down for a while, this was due to the fact it lost network connectivity, much like we were having on the other server...

I don't know what causes this as this is a fresh install must be a bug in VMware. After rebooting the VMware it still did not have access to network resources, went to reboot the server and MySQL hung. This has also happened a few times, very strange might try and upgrade MySQL soon to see if it resolves that issue.

On another note, the missing module that was causing skipping of tracks has now been checked and auto-loads when the server boots so that is good and I took this time to resolve a few issues with the Mp3 share authentication failing on boot of VMware. So everything is slowly getting better.

I will be looking into getting a status check script on the IRC bot and also see if I can't reflect these kind of issues in the MySQL database (so it updates the website pages etc), I'll probably query the hub servers to see if they have a connected incoming source.

I'll see how I go with that.

Well I have finally got around to finishing the RSS feed again

http://www.dawgclan.net/rss/index.php

Please give any feedback you have, I was thinking about possibly making the "Currently Playing" and "Recently Played" descriptions into separate items? I am not sure how other peoples RSS feed readers look at the data though... Let me know how it looks in your RSS reader.

On another note we have another sponsor back, used to be SHOUTcastHosters, so thanks goes out to the new Logical Host.

Upgraded the forums to the latest version as I saw a spam bot get through the registration process.

I have also installed an Optimizer to help with compression and so you should see a huge improvement in speed of the forums and possibly other sections of the site.

I also made a few changes to the IRC bot, tweaked a few options such as blank requests showing in the channel which was not happening before.