Sharing Music on the LAN

No, not on the lam. On the LAN. I have a fairly large collection of music. Years ago I used iTunes to rip the CD’s to AAC format. Recently I’ve been using Amazon.com for more of my downloads so I have converted the library to high quality VBR mp3 files instead. I like being able to . . . → Read More: Sharing Music on the LAN

Streaming Local Video With Your Roku

Ever since I switched from Dish Network to a Roku player a few months ago I have had a couple of things I wanted my player to be able to do. The ability to categorize my Netflix queue is at the top of my list and it would be very cool to be able to play . . . → Read More: Streaming Local Video With Your Roku

Backups, Archives and Overheating Processors

A few (ahum) years ago I wrote an article for Linux Journal on building a RAID system. While that exact system no longer exists, I do still have a RAID5 setup that I use with BackupPC to backup all the systems on my LAN. As I wrote about in my KVM article, I have updated my . . . → Read More: Backups, Archives and Overheating Processors

KVM on Fedora11

I’ve been a VMWare Workstation user for years and have generally been pretty happy with it; but it is significantly slower than bare metal, especially when it comes to disk i/o. One of my responsibilities for work is creating and maintaining a custom fedora distribution. This requires building new rpm packages and then creating a livecd . . . → Read More: KVM on Fedora11