David Latham

I dont have anything fancy other than a fairly good CPU. Its an AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4000+. I have an avermedia A800 DVB-T tuner from www.nicegear.co.nz I DO NOT have a VDPAU enabled graphics card which can do on board H.264 decoding for me. That will be soon though. Need to save a bit of cash first. I am in New Zealand so there are some special areas of concern that needed to be addressed. Here is a very brief rundown of how i get free view working in my linux. **** COMMENT **** Here is a great website. I use this now for post processing. http://quadpoint.org/projects/simplerip#audio_and_video_bitrates On my fedora system i have to change -oac copy to -oac pcm and of course I still use my compiled mplayer and the -lavdopts fast:threads=2 option on the 3 lines. Steps to get Mplayer working. ******************************************************************************** ******************** ~./mplayer/channels.conf ********************************** *************...

I was given the enviable task of setting up a reverse proxy in Fedora. A reverse proxy is a piece of software that is installed on a device that has network access to an external and internal network. The proxy acts as a bridge between the two networks. A normal proxy as installed in most company networks allows all users on the internal network to access the external network. A reverse proxy allows clients on the external network to access services hosted on the internal network. It can be installed on the front end of the network and will proxy specified traffic through to the internal network. Here is a diagram of my lab network. In this example we can see: Multiple clients are connecting to the proxy cluster. ( more on clustering in the next article. ) Only one node in the cluster has possession of the shared IP address. The Apache web service on the proxies are configured to listen on the shared IP address. The host web server behind the resource zone is serving traffic to th...

A little while ago ( like when I first installed my 4Gb of RAM ) I thought I might give VMWARE server a try. VMWARE server is available for free from http://www.vmware.com/download/server/ . Needless to say it didn't work. There was an issue with compiling the 64bit modules for networking with the kernel and kernel-devel packages at the time. Happily, Fedora has updated the kernel and kernel-devel packages and the issue is gone! Last week I gave it another go and now have VMWare Server running smoothly on my Fedora PC. I use it for a range of different things and prefer it to Qemu for a range of different reasons. My list of VMWare pros over Qemu: VMWare is very good at sharing host resources amongst the guests. One can assign more virtual memory to each guest and have them run concurrently without incurring exorbitant overhead costs. VMWare deals with bridged networking without much input from the person behind the keyboard. All I had to do was tell VMWare server that my gue...