Our streaming services will be offline for approximately 1 hour on Monday, August 10th, beginning at 3pm MT (GMT -6) for upgrades to our streaming servers and video players.  Because our customers are global this maintenance time affects the least amount of our viewers.  If there is a large event that you are expecting during that time (like another Hawaii hurricane!) please let us know and we’ll reschedule.

In the coming weeks after this upgrade is complete you will have these options for your video and radio players:

• Stream recording:  This service will automatically archive your live stream on our servers for later viewing (or listening in the case of our Radio streamers) and downloading, like a DVR and/or Video Security system.  So you’ll be able to go back in time to see what happened yesterday, last week, or last month on your live stream. This  storage option will be available for web camera streaming, live video, and radio station customers alike.
• Pre-roll Video:  This will give you the ability to login to our control panel and upload a video or audio file that will run prior to your live stream.  This will allow you to display ads or informational videos prior to your live stream.  This service will be available for all video and radio streaming customers.
• Email a snapshot:  Users will be able to click a button on your live video player to take a snapshot of the current video and email it to whomever they like with a personalized email and your company’s tag line included.   Email addresses will be automatically collected and provided to you.  This service will be available to web camera customers with Axis cameras only.
• Automatic Time-lapse: Our servers will take a snap shot every 15 minutes from your camera and store these images on our servers, then we’ll provide you with simple javascript embed code so that you can place this time-lapse video on any page of any web site.  In beta testing these timeless have been spectacular, even with PTZ cameras.  This service will be available to web camera customers with Axis cameras only.

We haven’t finalized pricing on these services (some may be free, or some may use freemium approach, some may cost) but I can assure you that just like our existing streaming services these prices will be the best prices on the internet!

Feel free to ask questions.

Thank you for your business!

Oban, Vanessa, David, Geordie, Joel and Logan

Brownrice Internet

http://www.brownrice.com

support@brownrice.com

575-758-4175

Brownrice business is up nearly 18% in the first 5 months of 2014 across all of our services!  This is very fun.  Customers seem to be rejecting the volume-based providers for our smaller, more personal support approach.  Having a brand-new, super green data center, great rates and ripping speeds and reliability seems to be helping as well.

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Patched.  Every single mail server, web server, shared server, virtual server, streaming server, monitoring server, and backup server on our network.  Every single one.  Protected.

We had a great time at WordCamp Albuquerque yesterday.  As with all good conferences we attended excellent sessions, and met some very bright and enterprising people. And a bonus!  The attendees at my session didn’t seem to fall asleep, laughed a couple of times, and asked great questions.

If you’d like to see my presentation it can be viewed here (obviously minus the live crimescene hack discovery): http://prezi.com/wl2mypixdkgn

And again, a big thanks to @awhitehatter for his excellent hackery work and documentation, which made the talk much more lively.

Added post-conference bonus:  I got a nice retweet from Matt Mullenweg (the founder of WordPress):

Thanks to the excellent work of @awhitehatter this site was penetrated and defaced!  I’ve never been so happy to be violated.

You can see his work here: http://hacked.brownrice.com (that’s a full copy of this blog from shortly after it was hacked)

Want to know how he did it?  Well you’ll just have to come to my session at Wordcamp Albuquerque tomorrow to see all of the details.  It’ll be fun and very informative!

And don’t bother and try to break into this site any more – its been cleaned and updated to the newest version of WordPress!

I just received an email from a clearly smart fellow who demonstrated a Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) exploit using a vulnerability in this blog.  A user would need to be tricked into clicking on a specially crafted link which would eventually infect their computer with bad stuff.   Our up-to-now nameless white-hat hacker has got $50 in the bag, but for my presentation I need this blog’s file system or database modified.  A defacement.  I’d wager he gets it done since it looks like this exploit could lead to code injection if crafted correctly.  If so he’d get another $100, which is still up for grabs!

I’ll post the exploit tomorrow if our hacker gives permission.

Good stuff.