Tonight (Thursday) from 6-11pm, all of WFMU's internet services will disappear, except for our humble little blog here. The blog pages will appear, but all of our MP3s and movie files will also not be downloadable during the outage.
We're facing off against the WFMU Technology Curse tonight, as Adam and Bill load up all of our servers and Cisco switches and such, load them onto a dolly and wheel them quietly past the drunk staff at our data center in New York City, ideally without waking any of them up. We hope to move into a sparkling new rack space with much better electrical protection. If you recall, last December 14th, our main Realaudio / MP3 archive server was magically transformed into an expensive paperweight, due to the creative electrical stylings of said data center, which shall remain unnamed.
During the outage tonight, you will be totally unable to download this MP3 of Barry Manilow performing the State Farm Insurance jingle to an audience of appreciatively squealing housewife-cum-teenyboppers.
A five hour wfmu blackout? Jeez. If I don't go crazy first maybe I'll actually listen to some of my music library for a change - oh, no wait, I've got some downloaded podcasts waiting for me!
Good luck with the move. Anybody who's also in blackout in central Illinois, party at my house tonight. I rented The Omega Man.
Posted by: kevin | March 23, 2006 at 06:00 PM
When did someone colorize "Metropolis"? Ted Turner I'll bet......
Posted by: Dale Hazelton | March 23, 2006 at 06:03 PM
I'll put money on the datacenter being Telehouse NYC at 25 Broadway. Those folks are creative, and I have run into guards and tech that do appear drunk.
Posted by: Chuck the Internet Janitor | March 23, 2006 at 06:32 PM
The WFMU stream can be listened to during the blackout via AOL Radio.
Posted by: Jim | March 23, 2006 at 07:07 PM
Oops. Guess I was wrong about that.
Posted by: Jim | March 23, 2006 at 08:43 PM
Are they trash talking us internet listeners on the air right now? Anybody?
Posted by: Jeff T | March 23, 2006 at 09:02 PM
Wow, two points to Chuck. Kevin - the colorized Metropolis came from Worth 1000, and Jim, I am amazed that AOL Radio works tonight. Or ever, for that matter.
-ken
Posted by: Station Manager Ken | March 23, 2006 at 09:58 PM
Best of luck to Adam and Bill!
Their effort reads like a modern saga. Entering the Dark Realm of the Datacentre, Dodging the Drunk Guards, Wrestling the Cables, to Rescue the Server and thus saving the Pinnacle of our Global Virtual Radio Community.
I'm eagerly awaiting the Rebooting of the Frame that spreads of the Sound of WFMU.
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