November 12, 2026
by dhoytt
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Brief Maintenance Back Streaming

I updated my music broadcasting stack which incudes my broadcast server that accesses and encodes the music which I then send to my relay servers. They now have the latest security patches on my 2025 Data Center broadcast sever and my Fedora Linux 44 music relay server I serve up IceCast and ShoutCast stream from.

I ended up with an issue as I had brought up a test vm I hadn’t worked on in a long time that was the same ip.addess of my W2025 broadcast server. After applying the patches and rebooting the broadcast servers behavior to the ip.address conflict was not to bring the network interfaces up at all which threw me. I disabled, brought up dhcp, searched for ghost interfaces etc. Finally I shutdown the broadcast server and attempted to ssh into the ip.address that shouldn’t have been up and I was able to and identify it as my test vm. I shutdown my test vm and brought up my broadcast VM\server and all interfaces were visible. Just strange the network interfaces would disappear when looking on the cli with an ipconfig but show the 169.nnn.nnn.nnn ip in the UI you get when unable to get a dhcp ip address in windows. I brought up the test server and changed it to unused ips on all the networks it needs in my environment.

Anyway back up and streaming all this Gumbo Mix of genres and eras here at SnakeIce’s House of Beats!

November 7, 2026
by dhoytt
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Crashing Sense Mix of Music

I just feel like as always listening to different genres mixed but feeling like I want a wild crash of genres tonight to wreck havoc on this Saturday late night!

Then after that mashup of crazy will try for something more even tempered but with feeling!

A little Hip-Hop, Metal, Dance, Country, Pop, Reggae coming together like trains from opposite directions on one track!

Artists like Dana Dane, Def Leppard, Roxette, Jelly Roll and then sliding into artists like Branford Marsalis, Tate McRae, Bruno Mars….

October 18, 2026
by dhoytt
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Made More SSL Corrections Music Relays

Edited stunnel ssl corrections to the music streams by adding the chain certificates. Initially I made the music clients have to verify and return a certificate when I updated the chain but found that most the music applications I worked with didn’t have the ability of course to reply back with a certificate so I disabled the verification requirement. Now everything works well with the new ssl DV certificates! This change affects the ShoutCast and IceCast streams so update your ssl certs if your applications asks when you connect!

October 18, 2026
by dhoytt
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Making Tinctures From Garden Herbs

Still getting a decent harvest for herbs, peppers, eggplants and a few tomatoes.

Trying to find new ways to use my harvest I’m making some tinctures with my rosemary and basil.

Rosemary tincture, basil tinctures with blooms, peppers , eggplants and tomatoes in background.

October 16, 2026
by dhoytt
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Updated Site SSL Certificate Web Music Relay Servers

My ssl site certificates expired as GoDaddy has updated to DV ssl certificates due to what’s supposed to be a better experience, encryption, coverage of multiple sites, SEO rankings etc. Will be interesting to see how they work. Since that took place I decided to update my music server(w2025 data center), music relay servers (Fedora Linux 44) and my web server (Rocky Linux 9.x) OS’. I updated my WordPress along with the themes and plugins as well.

The music relay servers certificates were also updated so you can listen to the music @ https://dhoytt.com/snake-ice-radio-blog/now-playing/with confidence securely.

October 2, 2026
by dhoytt
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Another Batch of Hot Sauce

Peppers from the garden piling up again so I made some more hot sauce! Used a different method without a fermentation period so will see how it goes.

Here’s the colorful pictures.

September 29, 2026
by dhoytt
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End of Baseball Regular Season Dodgers Baseball

Went to the last Dodgers series of baseball at Oracle Park in SF for all three games. I normally catch all games of a baseball series I go to.

Took the Amtrak and stayed in the SF two nights. The Dodgers won all 3 games for the sweep and 100 wins.

As always I sat in 3 different places for each game.

Views from the Amtrak bus on leg into SF.
Chipotle Oysters from Hog Island Oysters

Clam steamers.

Pictures from all 3 games of the series!

September 5, 2026
by dhoytt
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Some Labor Day Weekend Sounds For Kicking It

The sounds are always there mixed and flowing here on Snakeice’s House of Beats but sometimes I like to interupt how I have my set mix with the backend categories and rules I hae to set the flow manually for a few hours. I chose some and then had ny rules curate and place some tunes in so I don’t get caught in a rut and then I select which ones stay that my scripts selected.

Already well into it but as normal will give an example of the artists I chose so you see the wide range. Will feature artists like Prince, PinkPantheress, Olivia Dean, Twilight 22, Eagles, Chalk showing the wide range of genres and eras.