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Cutting Edge
Hard to believe it, but here we are starting out 9th year of serving you! Little did I imagine when I started this site that it would have grown to what it is today!
I do hope you will take a moment to read this entire reflection because it contains some exciting news about the future of SatelliteGuys.
Just thinking about all the members we helped over the years brings a smile to my face… thinking about all the money we saved members in that time brings an even bigger smile to my face. Thinking about the hundreds of satellite industry scoops we have posted over the years also brings a huge smile to my face as well.
Over the years we have grown and grown and I am happy to say that we did it so that we are still a friendly site to visit. Some other forums are stuffy and if you don't know the secret handshake then you don't feel welcome. We openly welcome everyone to the SatelliteGuys Family.
I am also proud that over the last 8 years we have remained a site run by consumer for consumers. I am proud to have called things as I have seen them over the past 8 years. I have always strived to give you my true opinion on the state of the satellite industry. Some companies have no always been happy with what I have had to say, but quite honestly I don't care as I have no one to answer to but you our members.
Looking ahead I am excited by the future, new satellite technology plus exciting new internet based technologies are going to change the way we watch television. SatelliteGuys will be there in helping you move ahead as the technology grows before our eyes!
Speaking of the future I am proud today to announce that next week we will be ordering a brand new state of the art server for SatelliteGuys! This new server is going to SCREAM!
The Specs on it are as follows:
Dell PowerEdge R710 Server
- 870W Hot Swap Redundant Power Supply
- 2 X Intel 2.93/12M/1333 Xeon Six Core 5670 - 95 Watt CPU's
- 48GB (12x4G) DDR3 ECC RDIMM – Optimized
- Dell Perc H700 512MB Cache RAID Card
- 8 x Dell 146GB 15K 2.5" SAS Hard Drives
- Dell iDRAC6 Enterprise Remote Access Card
- Dell CD ROM Drive
- 3 Year Warranty
The new system will cost us almost $10,000 and will be paid for partially through the generous support of our Gold Sponsors, and I will be paying for the rest out of my own pocket. A number of Pub Members have asked if they can help chip in on some of the costs, so I will be accepting donations to help pay for it. (Thank you to the guys who asked if they could help!)
I am excited to announce that SatelliteGuys will also be moving… for the past 5 years we have had our servers located in Dallas, Texas, however due an increasing number of issues our ISP has been having we are moving our servers to a new host in Michigan. The new host has more backbone interconnects then our current ISP and offers us more in the way of support and services!
The new server will be hosted in Michigan and all data from the servers in Texas will be transferred over to the new server. Once things are synced between the servers we will then cut over to the new server. The old servers down in Texas will then be packaged up and shipped to our new ISP. Then those servers will be put in use and will allow us to expand even more!
Before I close I wanted to take a look back with some numbers…
Since SatelliteGuys started 8 years ago we have had over…
- 883 Posts per day
- 85 new threads per day
- 58 New Members sign up a day
- Transferred over 31,873 Terrabytes of data not including graphics, or CSS files which are served by our cloud servers.
- We served over 773,589,634 page views. (Over 45 million last month alone!)
- Last month alone we served almost 500,000 unique IP addresses! (489,624 actual number)
The best part about these numbers is we keep growing and growing!
I would like to thank our sponsors for their support over the last 8 years. If you have been here since the start you know that most of them have been here since the early days! The fact they remain sponsors speaks volumes about our site and our members! Thank you to everyone who has purchased something from our sponsors over the years!
I would also like to thank our Supporting Founders and our Pub Members for their support over the years! It has been these guys who have really helped us keep the lights on for everyone the past 8 years. It might not seem like a lot but each $20 Pub Membership really does help us out and I am proud to take that money and put it back into SatelliteGuys! I hope the benefits of being a Supporting Pub Member have been worth it and I am working on a few things to make it even a better value!
I need to thank our amazing SatelliteGuys staff! These guys have always been here to keep things running so well over the years. I wouldn't have been able to do any of this if it was not for their help, advice and dedication. A few shout outs of thanks to the following staff members, first of all LER for all his help and keeping the servers running all these years! He is also a great help in finding our members help when they need it most. Thanks to Dfergie who takes care of a lot of the background operation of the site including wading through all the support emails we get from people looking for help. Thanks to RockyMtnHigh, Iceberg, and Ramy for being the Ironmen they are who not only work hard in their respective forum, but keep on working to make us look good! Thanks to Digiblur for all his hard work on our Uplink Center PC. I also thank all of the staff for elf'ing my posts over the years and helping me to look good.
I also want to take moment to reflect on the members who are no longer with us that have passed away including the Godfather of Uplink Reports John H.
A thank you to my wife who has let me spend all these countless hours over the past 8 years, I couldn't have done it without her support.
Finally I would like to thank you and all of the members for making SatelliteGuys your home for Satellite News, Talk, Rumors and Information! Without you guys there would be no reason for us to run this site and continue to invest to make things better for you and our members!
Thank you for 8 amazing years of SatelliteGuys.US, and here is to 8 more!
Best,
Scott
Founder – SatelliteGuys.US
I do hope you will take a moment to read this entire reflection because it contains some exciting news about the future of SatelliteGuys.
Just thinking about all the members we helped over the years brings a smile to my face… thinking about all the money we saved members in that time brings an even bigger smile to my face. Thinking about the hundreds of satellite industry scoops we have posted over the years also brings a huge smile to my face as well.
Over the years we have grown and grown and I am happy to say that we did it so that we are still a friendly site to visit. Some other forums are stuffy and if you don't know the secret handshake then you don't feel welcome. We openly welcome everyone to the SatelliteGuys Family.
I am also proud that over the last 8 years we have remained a site run by consumer for consumers. I am proud to have called things as I have seen them over the past 8 years. I have always strived to give you my true opinion on the state of the satellite industry. Some companies have no always been happy with what I have had to say, but quite honestly I don't care as I have no one to answer to but you our members.
Looking ahead I am excited by the future, new satellite technology plus exciting new internet based technologies are going to change the way we watch television. SatelliteGuys will be there in helping you move ahead as the technology grows before our eyes!
Speaking of the future I am proud today to announce that next week we will be ordering a brand new state of the art server for SatelliteGuys! This new server is going to SCREAM!
The Specs on it are as follows:
Dell PowerEdge R710 Server
- 870W Hot Swap Redundant Power Supply
- 2 X Intel 2.93/12M/1333 Xeon Six Core 5670 - 95 Watt CPU's
- 48GB (12x4G) DDR3 ECC RDIMM – Optimized
- Dell Perc H700 512MB Cache RAID Card
- 8 x Dell 146GB 15K 2.5" SAS Hard Drives
- Dell iDRAC6 Enterprise Remote Access Card
- Dell CD ROM Drive
- 3 Year Warranty
The new system will cost us almost $10,000 and will be paid for partially through the generous support of our Gold Sponsors, and I will be paying for the rest out of my own pocket. A number of Pub Members have asked if they can help chip in on some of the costs, so I will be accepting donations to help pay for it. (Thank you to the guys who asked if they could help!)
I am excited to announce that SatelliteGuys will also be moving… for the past 5 years we have had our servers located in Dallas, Texas, however due an increasing number of issues our ISP has been having we are moving our servers to a new host in Michigan. The new host has more backbone interconnects then our current ISP and offers us more in the way of support and services!
The new server will be hosted in Michigan and all data from the servers in Texas will be transferred over to the new server. Once things are synced between the servers we will then cut over to the new server. The old servers down in Texas will then be packaged up and shipped to our new ISP. Then those servers will be put in use and will allow us to expand even more!
Before I close I wanted to take a look back with some numbers…
Since SatelliteGuys started 8 years ago we have had over…
- 883 Posts per day
- 85 new threads per day
- 58 New Members sign up a day
- Transferred over 31,873 Terrabytes of data not including graphics, or CSS files which are served by our cloud servers.
- We served over 773,589,634 page views. (Over 45 million last month alone!)
- Last month alone we served almost 500,000 unique IP addresses! (489,624 actual number)
The best part about these numbers is we keep growing and growing!
I would like to thank our sponsors for their support over the last 8 years. If you have been here since the start you know that most of them have been here since the early days! The fact they remain sponsors speaks volumes about our site and our members! Thank you to everyone who has purchased something from our sponsors over the years!
I would also like to thank our Supporting Founders and our Pub Members for their support over the years! It has been these guys who have really helped us keep the lights on for everyone the past 8 years. It might not seem like a lot but each $20 Pub Membership really does help us out and I am proud to take that money and put it back into SatelliteGuys! I hope the benefits of being a Supporting Pub Member have been worth it and I am working on a few things to make it even a better value!
I need to thank our amazing SatelliteGuys staff! These guys have always been here to keep things running so well over the years. I wouldn't have been able to do any of this if it was not for their help, advice and dedication. A few shout outs of thanks to the following staff members, first of all LER for all his help and keeping the servers running all these years! He is also a great help in finding our members help when they need it most. Thanks to Dfergie who takes care of a lot of the background operation of the site including wading through all the support emails we get from people looking for help. Thanks to RockyMtnHigh, Iceberg, and Ramy for being the Ironmen they are who not only work hard in their respective forum, but keep on working to make us look good! Thanks to Digiblur for all his hard work on our Uplink Center PC. I also thank all of the staff for elf'ing my posts over the years and helping me to look good.
I also want to take moment to reflect on the members who are no longer with us that have passed away including the Godfather of Uplink Reports John H.
A thank you to my wife who has let me spend all these countless hours over the past 8 years, I couldn't have done it without her support.
Finally I would like to thank you and all of the members for making SatelliteGuys your home for Satellite News, Talk, Rumors and Information! Without you guys there would be no reason for us to run this site and continue to invest to make things better for you and our members!
Thank you for 8 amazing years of SatelliteGuys.US, and here is to 8 more!
Best,
Scott
Founder – SatelliteGuys.US
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TWiT Tech Podcast Network
Time for another AWESOME video from the TWIT Network!
View: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/z72cjoZP83E
Direct YouTube Link - AI Can Self-Replicate: Unplugging the Threat! #shorts
TWIT's Website
TWIT Live Feed
View: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/z72cjoZP83E
Direct YouTube Link - AI Can Self-Replicate: Unplugging the Threat! #shorts
TWIT's Website
TWIT Live Feed
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TWiT Tech Podcast Network
Time for another AWESOME video from the TWIT Network!
View: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/w5TOILSc_U8
Direct YouTube Link - AI Model Poisoning: The Hidden Threat on Hugging Face #shorts
TWIT's Website
TWIT Live Feed
View: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/w5TOILSc_U8
Direct YouTube Link - AI Model Poisoning: The Hidden Threat on Hugging Face #shorts
TWIT's Website
TWIT Live Feed
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Staff member
HERE TO HELP YOU!
Cutting Edge
Sometimes a thread gets so many posts in it that is can cause issues for the server so that why today we introduce The Song Name Game Part 3!
So let the game continue!
The last song was added by Bobby who posted...
One Meat Ball - Andrews Sisters
CONTINUE ON AND HAVE FUN! WELCOME HOME TO SATELLITEGUYS.US!
Here are the original rules for the game as posted by WebbyDude back in 2006. http://www.satelliteguys.us/threads/68645-Song-Name-Game
Just name a song title and the band who performed it. The next person does the same thing, but needs to list a song title or band name which includes a word from the previous entry. Pick songs from any genre.
Example:
Long Live Rock and Roll -- Rainbow
Rainbow in the Dark -- Dio
Another example:
Ride the Lightning -- Metallica
Lightning Strikes -- Ozzy Osbourne
Get it?
An additional note: we all know that song titles, sometimes, use profane words. Because this is a family friendly website it is advised that you clean up that title up a bit. This is accomplished by using something like sh!t instead of the real word. Thanks....
So let the game continue!
The last song was added by Bobby who posted...
One Meat Ball - Andrews Sisters
CONTINUE ON AND HAVE FUN! WELCOME HOME TO SATELLITEGUYS.US!
Here are the original rules for the game as posted by WebbyDude back in 2006. http://www.satelliteguys.us/threads/68645-Song-Name-Game
Just name a song title and the band who performed it. The next person does the same thing, but needs to list a song title or band name which includes a word from the previous entry. Pick songs from any genre.
Example:
Long Live Rock and Roll -- Rainbow
Rainbow in the Dark -- Dio
Another example:
Ride the Lightning -- Metallica
Lightning Strikes -- Ozzy Osbourne
Get it?
An additional note: we all know that song titles, sometimes, use profane words. Because this is a family friendly website it is advised that you clean up that title up a bit. This is accomplished by using something like sh!t instead of the real word. Thanks....
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Supporting Founder
Several Dish offers showed up today in my account. Once you choose one the rest are removed. Offers were Showtime, Starz, AMC and others.
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Not for me, mines has no mention of how long aka the offer period and the Terms and conditions the $0.00 is good for. All I see is one can lose $5.00 if you decide to remove it before day 31 after you add it to the account.
Pub Member / Supporter
Cutting Edge
I created this thread on the original Edgecutter Cutting Edge Forums site. It's simply a place for those to review the latest software available for those using Windows 10 and Windows 11. To date it has received 112,559 views. I have been asked by staff to continue this thread here.
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To each there own but I've found that Windows can't do much more than Linux can. Can't have everything.
For niche use cases, yes I agree. Kali for ethical hacking and security testing, and running a Cacti server for network monitoring are the two things I have experience in. Plus thousands and thousands of other things, but for every day use I just can't see it. The owner of the GMRS repeater that I pay to access is changing the Tx DPL tones tomorrow, while Chirp is available on Linux, the software to program my MXT500 is not.To each there own but I've found that Windows can't do much more than Linux can. Can't have everything.
I run Fedora and Ubuntu in VMWare, honestly I don't care much for the UI of either of them and I don't feel like spending days/weeks to customize the UI to make it look Windows-like when I could just use Windows. The cartoonish dock at the bottom of the screen reminds me of Apple products.
As I said above, and, FWIW, I run Win11 Pro and Arch on separate 250 GB NVME drives, using F8 to select which I boot to, with a 1TB SSD for storage, accessible to both OSs and a third formatted Nvme I want to use to learn Kali. It was much faster to setup Arch than it was to strip down Windows. Windows still takes much longer to boot.
For some reason, the satelliteguys.us site is loading a lot slower than usual on both Chrome on my Asus laptop and Safari on my iPhone.
I'm also seeing longer appearances of the blue bar at the top and the "3 blue bars" loading symbol.
Is anyone else also having the same problem? Thanks in advance.
I'm also seeing longer appearances of the blue bar at the top and the "3 blue bars" loading symbol.
Is anyone else also having the same problem? Thanks in advance.
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Remember folks... just like DNS... its always Foxbat. 
WTF… …What the Foxbat!Remember folks... just like DNS... its always Foxbat.
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wow what a kick in the balls!!! the wife blames you when things don't work now scott's blaming youWTF… …What the Foxbat!
I know. Here's what Scott has in store for me if I get out of line:wow what a kick in the balls!!! the wife blames you when things don't work now scott's blaming you
Help, I'm a little confjused on the activation process.
I purchased the Joey 4 from Solid Signal and shipping box has Call 866 726-4282 to Avtivate new Receiver. That number is Solid Signals number.
I googled and that search said call Dish to activate. I assume that is correct unless this requires a 2 step process.
Please let me know.
Thanks
I purchased the Joey 4 from Solid Signal and shipping box has Call 866 726-4282 to Avtivate new Receiver. That number is Solid Signals number.
I googled and that search said call Dish to activate. I assume that is correct unless this requires a 2 step process.
Please let me know.
Thanks
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All good called Dish and new Joey 4 is activated and working.
Old Joey 2 deactivated and no need to return.
Old Joey 2 deactivated and no need to return.
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i bought mine straight from dish as it was only $ 100.00 bucks!!! had the protection plan they came out removed and deactivated the 4k joey and activated and installed the joey 4.All good called Dish and new Joey 4 is activated and working.
Old Joey 2 deactivated and no need to return.
Supporting Founder
Pub Member / Supporter
Lifetime Supporter
Apple has finally released their Apple TV 4K with built-in Siri and a microphone so it can respond to your queries even if you don't have the remote. It also increases in price, to $299. I had been planning on updating my current Apple TV 4K streamers, but that's $600 for the two of them, and that's a pass at this point.
At $299, it had better come with 256 GB of Storage, Gigabit (or better) Ethernet, the latest HDMI tech and standards, and one year of free Apple One. But it probably won't…
At $299, it had better come with 256 GB of Storage, Gigabit (or better) Ethernet, the latest HDMI tech and standards, and one year of free Apple One. But it probably won't…
Apple TV 4K
Apple TV 4K. New Siri AI and hands-free control. Stunning picture and immersive HomePod surround sound. Works with your Apple and smart home devices.
www.apple.com
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. apple's been making money off of software and not hardware for a while
they all do that anyways.. ever notice your cell phone slows down when you come up for an upgrade..
. apple's been making money off of software and not hardware for a while
The new curated multiview is now live.
While on many of the sports channels and non sports channels there is a multi view option button. It will pull up a side bar with many different multi view options.
While on many of the sports channels and non sports channels there is a multi view option button. It will pull up a side bar with many different multi view options.
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Supporting Founder
Really excited for this season with Kentucky having a new coach and some really exciting recruits. Probably won't last long, but here's hoping this season is great.
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