Today, I gave an overview presentation of the technology that runs KRUU to the great radio production class over at MUM. Handout/slide is attached and shows a listing of most of the software that we use to run KRUU.

I had the distinct pleasure of talking with MUM's Media and Communications class today regarding KRUU. It was a great group with great questions and great discussion. I've attached the presentation slides from my talk to this post, in both OpenOffice and MS format.

ODP - http://www.kruufm.com/files/2010.10.12 kruu radio presentation B_0.odp

KTVO-3 news segment - http://www.kruufm.com/files/KTVO-3 news segment @1000bit.flv

Live RIGHT NOW! DJ Rin, DJ Tatiana & Olly Sneks

Nearing the finish of a looong FF weekend, Rin and co decided to stop by the studio and mix a live set for KRUU listeners worldwide. Based in LA, this crew is on the up, playing major venues worldwide (we're not talking about no chicken-coop, but Rin doesn't forget where he came from...FF!)

More info can be found here:

www.myspace.com/jookmusic

www.myspace.com/bangtheboxforlife

www.myspace.com/djtat

Heads up KRUU listeners, tonight at 12 midnight, special guest Jeff Harris is going to be manipulating the airwaves and your eardrums with his minimal vinyl set. Why is this historic? Jeff Harris was at the helm when KRUU sent out our first ever signals after constructing our tower over two years ago. Check out this link for a little flashback set of pictures. Thanks once again to Dwight Harris for donating the tower sections, his expertise, and his time to raise the tower. Without Dwight, no KRUU.

In the studio setting up for the show tonight.

UPDATE 1:41 am CST: Service has been switched over, stream experianced about 10 minutes down time, web and mail servers about 5 minutes. Because of the way the worlds DNS system works, it may take up to 48 hours for the changes to be propogated around the world. Please let us know if you are experiancing any trouble accessing the website or live stream. Contact us here.

As we speak, the collective technical genius of the KRUU CREW is madly working to switch all our networks services over to the newly installed LISCO fiber. This service will be replacing our 2MB DSL service currently also provided by LISCO, but will be running at 100MB wire speeds, so we're looking at least a 50x increase in speed/bandwith... with that we'll have to push really hard to max out on live stream listeners and/or web&archive downloads. (Both of which we've maxed out in the past)

Eleanor Wells is currently a member of Central City Opera, Colorado Ballet and the Boulder Philharmonic. She also performs extensively with many different chamber ensembles throughout the United States. Ms. Wells has been the recipient of many prestigious awards including first place winner of the Santa Barbara Performing Arts Competition as well as winner of the Denes Koramzay Quartet Award. Ms. Wells has been a member of the Boulder Arts Academy for the last four years. She has just completed a nation-wide tour, playing with the Carl Rosa Opera Company.

For the show, she will be playing Bach's Solo Cello Suite in G major.

Andrew Pietro Wells was born June 22 (2 weeks early) at 10:57AM at the
University of Iowa Hospital in Iowa City, IA USA. He weighed 6lbs, 11oz and was 19.75in head to toe.

Both mamma and bambino are healthy, strong and beautiful.

We would like to thank everyone who has sent their best wishes and support, we can't wait for you all to meet him!

Roland, Angie, Andrew & Jamal!

KRUU thanks Hangun Man, Shuge & Cellphone from Anti-civ for stopping in to perform & Shark vs Octopus for making it happen. 

Hangun Man playing live in the studio!

Octopus in the studio

So today, the inevitable finally happened...we completely, totally ran out of bandwidth. Thank you everyone for contributing to this amazing feat!

The problem: Mr. Sundar Raman did a great interview with Cory Doctorow on his show Open Views. Cory subsequently posted on his blog a direct link to the archived interview on our server. In less than 12 hours, over 1000 people downloaded (or attempted to download) the 60mb .mp3 file...a total of about 60 gigs worth of attempted bandwidth usage. Needless to say, our 2mb DSL connection was not able to keep up; downloads slowed to a crawl, the website took an hour to load, and our live stream was choked out of existence. It was the best possible failure we could hope for: not that the fragile clump of boxes and wire that we call the server/transmitter room (pics below!) finally caught on fire, but that we just couldn't keep up with the demand...

Temporary Solution: Once we realized this was happening, we took the file down from our main server and put up a link to a mirror copy at a temporary location, and another link to the file on archive.org. This will get us through the night...  

The light at the end of the tunnel: LISCO (our "Local Internet Service Company") generously provides us with a 2mb DSL connection at no cost, later this spring they will switch us over to their new Fiber project, upgrading our connection to 1000Mbps, thats right not a typo, 1000Mbps. That should go a long way to helping increase our capacity for streaming and downloading.