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In moving SatelliteGuys to a secure server using SSL has been both good an bad.
It has been good because the speed of our site has never been faster. About 52% of our members are using a browser that supports the new http/2 standards and for those folks (especially Pub Members) they see awesome speeds from our servers!
The bad part has been the lost of ad revenue, in fact our revenue is now down about 80%. That hurts... A lot.
The reason for this that I can tell are for the following reasons.
1) One of our ad networks terminated us because we changed their ad code from http:// to https://
2) While we have more than one ad agency there are not as many secure ads to go around as their are unsecure. If then don't have a secure ad to send us you will see a blank space where the ad is supposed to be instead.
3) Previously before we were terminated by the one agency we would not only use them to display ads directly but also used them to display ads if the other ad agencies did not have a secure ad to send. This is why the loss from losing the ad agency is much higher than I expected it to be.
I am trying to work with the ad agency to get back in and currently our case is in revue. They were serving us GOOD secure ads and they had a excellent inventory of secure ads.
Over the past month other ad agencies have been in contact with me, and I have been trying them out by putting in ad code that only my account could see, and so far they have all been GARBAGE. By Garbage I mean ads that serve popups, pop unders, and Auto play video ads with sound. I do not want to serve these types of ads, my goal is to pay the bills and no scare you away. You should not come to SatelliteGuys to be served those kinds of ads.
You might have noticed me playing with the ads if your not a Pub Member, and you will see me working on them more over the next few days,
Here is my pledge to our members on ads.
If you are logged into the site you will only see what I consider safe ads, I strive not to have bad ads such as pop ups, pop-unders, or video ads that auto play with sound.
I pledge that if you are logged in to your SatelliteGuys account you will not have ads that auto refresh themselves.
I pledge that if you are logged into your SatelliteGuys I will use the best possible technology to assue the fasted connection possible, this includes only using ad agencies that offer asynchronous ad loading, as I don't want the ads slowing down your visit to SatelliteGuys.
DID YOU KNOW???
A lot of people think that SatelliteGuys is sponsored by satellite companies such as DISH Network and DIRECTV, this is NOT True we have NO direct sponsorship's with ANY company. This was done so people couldn't say we were playing favorites with one company or product over another. We want people to feel free to discuss any satellite product (as long as it has nothing to do with piracy of course) without worry about offending our sponsors.
Unfortunately 48% of our members (almost half) use an ad blocker here on SatelliteGuys. And I can fully understand why you use them. I would hope with this message that some would consider disabling them on SatelliteGuys to help us out. I work hard to offer clean ads and with my pledges above I work hard to keep things clean for you. I could block parts of the site out to those using ad blockers, but that defeats the point and we don't want you to go elsewhere. In addition in the past I have tried using special ads which are displayed if you are using an ad blocker. These ads were horrible and the kind of ads I don't want here at SatelliteGuys so I never rolled it out to the public.
The final "DID YOU KNOW" is DID YOU KNOW you can help us Keep the Light On for EVERYONE by becoming a supporting Pub Member?
As a Pub Member here are some of the benefits you get...
* Access to our Private Pub Members Forum (Thats where all the juicy rumors are posted!)
* Elimination of ALL of the ads on the site when you are logged in!
* A larger Private Conversation box, store UNLIMITED Conversations instead of only 25!
* Ability for you to post FOR SALE items in our Classifieds Section! (Non Commercial - No Dealers)
* Access to our Private Back Room Forum - An optional forum where adults can hang out and discuss adult topics.
* A special ribbon under your username in all your posts which tells everyone you are a proud supporter!
And the most important reason of all:
* The good feeling that you help one of America's Most Popular Satellite sites stay online!
You can learn more about Pub Memberships at https://www.satelliteguys.us/xen/account/upgrades
Now I am a awfully proud guy and don't want to beg for money, but must say that unfortunately a few things happened in our family over the past year or so, which means I can not pay out of pocket like I did in the past to keep SatelliteGuys going... we need you help. So please if you could consider disabling your ad blockers or becoming a Supporting Pub Member it would be greatly appreciated!
Over the next few days if you are not a Pub Member you will notice me playing with ads. I will be putting some up and taking some down, as some ad agencies not only pay for show the ad but pay better based on placement of the ads. And finding the secret sauce for best placement takes a lot of trial and error.
So with that, I wanted to be honest and let you know whats going on and why these changes are being made. Luckily we are about to get out of our "Slow season" and I believe we will see some fireworks from both Satellite Companies this Fall which should help make this a much busier place.
As always if you have any suggestion on how we can make SatelliteGuys better you are always welcome to PM me with them. I run this site for YOU and this is your site!
Thanks for being SatelliteGuys (and Gals too!)
It has been good because the speed of our site has never been faster. About 52% of our members are using a browser that supports the new http/2 standards and for those folks (especially Pub Members) they see awesome speeds from our servers!
The bad part has been the lost of ad revenue, in fact our revenue is now down about 80%. That hurts... A lot.
The reason for this that I can tell are for the following reasons.
1) One of our ad networks terminated us because we changed their ad code from http:// to https://
2) While we have more than one ad agency there are not as many secure ads to go around as their are unsecure. If then don't have a secure ad to send us you will see a blank space where the ad is supposed to be instead.
3) Previously before we were terminated by the one agency we would not only use them to display ads directly but also used them to display ads if the other ad agencies did not have a secure ad to send. This is why the loss from losing the ad agency is much higher than I expected it to be.
I am trying to work with the ad agency to get back in and currently our case is in revue. They were serving us GOOD secure ads and they had a excellent inventory of secure ads.
Over the past month other ad agencies have been in contact with me, and I have been trying them out by putting in ad code that only my account could see, and so far they have all been GARBAGE. By Garbage I mean ads that serve popups, pop unders, and Auto play video ads with sound. I do not want to serve these types of ads, my goal is to pay the bills and no scare you away. You should not come to SatelliteGuys to be served those kinds of ads.
You might have noticed me playing with the ads if your not a Pub Member, and you will see me working on them more over the next few days,
Here is my pledge to our members on ads.
If you are logged into the site you will only see what I consider safe ads, I strive not to have bad ads such as pop ups, pop-unders, or video ads that auto play with sound.
I pledge that if you are logged in to your SatelliteGuys account you will not have ads that auto refresh themselves.
I pledge that if you are logged into your SatelliteGuys I will use the best possible technology to assue the fasted connection possible, this includes only using ad agencies that offer asynchronous ad loading, as I don't want the ads slowing down your visit to SatelliteGuys.
DID YOU KNOW???
A lot of people think that SatelliteGuys is sponsored by satellite companies such as DISH Network and DIRECTV, this is NOT True we have NO direct sponsorship's with ANY company. This was done so people couldn't say we were playing favorites with one company or product over another. We want people to feel free to discuss any satellite product (as long as it has nothing to do with piracy of course) without worry about offending our sponsors.
Unfortunately 48% of our members (almost half) use an ad blocker here on SatelliteGuys. And I can fully understand why you use them. I would hope with this message that some would consider disabling them on SatelliteGuys to help us out. I work hard to offer clean ads and with my pledges above I work hard to keep things clean for you. I could block parts of the site out to those using ad blockers, but that defeats the point and we don't want you to go elsewhere. In addition in the past I have tried using special ads which are displayed if you are using an ad blocker. These ads were horrible and the kind of ads I don't want here at SatelliteGuys so I never rolled it out to the public.
The final "DID YOU KNOW" is DID YOU KNOW you can help us Keep the Light On for EVERYONE by becoming a supporting Pub Member?
As a Pub Member here are some of the benefits you get...
* Access to our Private Pub Members Forum (Thats where all the juicy rumors are posted!)
* Elimination of ALL of the ads on the site when you are logged in!
* A larger Private Conversation box, store UNLIMITED Conversations instead of only 25!
* Ability for you to post FOR SALE items in our Classifieds Section! (Non Commercial - No Dealers)
* Access to our Private Back Room Forum - An optional forum where adults can hang out and discuss adult topics.
* A special ribbon under your username in all your posts which tells everyone you are a proud supporter!
And the most important reason of all:
* The good feeling that you help one of America's Most Popular Satellite sites stay online!
You can learn more about Pub Memberships at https://www.satelliteguys.us/xen/account/upgrades
Now I am a awfully proud guy and don't want to beg for money, but must say that unfortunately a few things happened in our family over the past year or so, which means I can not pay out of pocket like I did in the past to keep SatelliteGuys going... we need you help. So please if you could consider disabling your ad blockers or becoming a Supporting Pub Member it would be greatly appreciated!
Over the next few days if you are not a Pub Member you will notice me playing with ads. I will be putting some up and taking some down, as some ad agencies not only pay for show the ad but pay better based on placement of the ads. And finding the secret sauce for best placement takes a lot of trial and error.
So with that, I wanted to be honest and let you know whats going on and why these changes are being made. Luckily we are about to get out of our "Slow season" and I believe we will see some fireworks from both Satellite Companies this Fall which should help make this a much busier place.
As always if you have any suggestion on how we can make SatelliteGuys better you are always welcome to PM me with them. I run this site for YOU and this is your site!
Thanks for being SatelliteGuys (and Gals too!)
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We have one. 
It's Christmas in July. This site is worth enough to me so I've made a modest contribution following the link in post #5 above. To anybody: if you find this site useful please consider making a donation, running something this size isn't cheap. Just don't let my dear 
wife know.
wife know.
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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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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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This thread is a place to discuss the 4K events that appear on channel 540. We are getting, at this point, one college football game a week. Let's hope there is more coming.
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Hmmm, I'm not seeing anything like those events in our Hopper 3 guide for tonight or Saturday.
I went into the Tools menu and requested a Guide Update. I'll try looking at it after the update completes.
edit — I now have the 148-01 4KFox events for Saturday, but not anything for 148-02 or 148-03 which don't even show as available channels. I do have 148-04 4KUSA.
As I recall you have the Flex package. Do you sub to multisport? -02 is FS1 and -03 is ESPN. -01 is Fox so you would get that if you sub to locals.Hmmm, I'm not seeing anything like those events in our Hopper 3 guide for tonight or Saturday.
I went into the Tools menu and requested a Guide Update. I'll try looking at it after the update completes.
edit — I now have the 148-01 4KFox events for Saturday, but not anything for 148-02 or 148-03 which don't even show as available channels. I do have 148-04 4KUSA.
TWiT Tech Podcast Network
Time for another AWESOME video from the TWIT Network!
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87N42NxLPC0
Direct YouTube Link - 8 U.S. States Sue OpenAI Over Safety Concerns With Younger Users
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View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87N42NxLPC0
Direct YouTube Link - 8 U.S. States Sue OpenAI Over Safety Concerns With Younger Users
TWIT's Website
TWIT Live Feed
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On Tuesday, I recorded the first episodes of the new season's NCIS shows on CBS (Dish provided, not OTA). The new New York series and Origins will both do Auto Skip, but the original, now season 24 does not. What's stranger, when I do a search for NCIS, Origins and New York show the current recording and the next episode it will record, but the original show only shows the current recording and some other channel showing the very first episode of season one. It makes no sense. When I set up the timers, I was able to use search for Origins and New York, but for the original, I had to scroll ahead in the guide until last Tuesday when the show was airing. Then set the timer from there. You can see its timer type is DVR where the other two are Seek. What am I missing?
Thanks!
Thanks!
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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.
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Hard getting used to the new younger Gibbs, Mark Harmons son had the right look but I understand he didn't want the role.
Still I'm enjoying, pretty good job with Franks.
Still I'm enjoying, pretty good job with Franks.
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