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Somewhere a phone rings...

forest — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 16:55:41 -0400

Setting up some new stuff on the site today, and won't bore you with the bloggy details, but poke around, see what you find and send in any inquiries using the contact section.

And keep watching!

~Forest

test video

jenniferwager — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 15:29:06 -0500

Back from NAB in Las Vegas

forestmars — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 00:50:29 -0400

Tyrone, Hector, Geoff and I are heading back to New York from a long week at the NAB conference in fabulous Las Vegas. I feel as though I need to add a "baby" in there at the end but I will refrain. NAB, National Association of Broadcasters, holds an annual conference in Las Vegas bringing together television stations from all over the world. The conference draws over 30,000 participants from thousands of televisions stations all over the world. Close to 5,000 vendors show up to show off there wares and demonstrate the latest and greatest in technology.

New Webserver...

forestmars — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 17:40:49 -0400

e326Our former webserver was performing rather sluggishly so we replaced it with this bad boy. An IBM e326 powerhouse!

Dual AMD Opteron 2ghz (dual proc. capable single installed)
2 GB Ram
15K 320UW SCSI Discs... oh yaa fully hot swappable
Dual gigabit Nics

This machine is just kicking butt and ready for all of the upgrades we have coming down the line.

Previously we were running our three websites on a 5 year old server that was...

500 mhz
512 MB of Ram
40gig Ultra ATA hard drives
Single 100base card

The difference is massive in terms of speed, reliability and outright performance. We have two other 326 servers with one of them having over 416 days of uptime. Yup that's right the server hasn't skipped a beat in over a year. That server is also one of the busiest handling all of our database requests on both Postgres and Mysql (it hosts over 10 databases that are constantly in use).

I love it when server do exactly what they are meant to do, which is work and work continuously 24x7x365.

NLE Lab Upgrades

forestmars — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 20:07:53 -0500

As you may have noticed MNN is moving into the 20th century with its new website and it is slowly making its way into the 21st century (Blogs are ssooo 20th century). This is the first inaugural blog on the MNN website and I'd love to make promises like "I'll blog everyday" or "stay tuned for lots of changes" you've heard them all before. The staff at MNN is incredibly busy putting in new technology and creating a new foundation for the future growth of MNN. Oh yes.. MNN is growing!

Part of the growth include new computers. 13 of them in fact. These beauties came in almost two months ago and they are almost ready for primetime use. Check them out.

Andy Machead

This is Andy being a "machead". These new iMacs are soo nice and fast

Dual Core 2.33ghz Processors
24 inches of pure flat screen love
3 gigs of Ram
256MB SDRAM video cards
gigabit networking

While Andy prefers being a Machead I just love to caress.. um I mean fondle. Wait, no I mean that I simply "like" (in the loving kind of way) mac servers... ooohh check out the beautiful server below. It is my new true love.

mmm.. servers