Lonely Lion

Apple – Public Source – Darwin Streaming Server

Uh oh, I didn’t know that Apple had a streaming server too. I’ll have to test the Darwin. I’m pretty impressed by Helix, but dig on Apple.

Using FreeS/WAN with Windows IPSEC/L2TP

I’m setting up VPN access on my wireless access point, and it’s been killing me. The access point is running Redhat 8. It works fine as a router between the wireless subnet and the wired subnet, but it’s insecure. I’ve started to see other access points popping up in my neighborhood, so I figured this was a good time to start tightening things up.

I decided to install the frees/wan VPN packages on the router. The router has two clients, both WinXP. The router is all set, frees/wan is working as far as I can tell. I’m struggling with the XP clients. XP has a built in VPN client, but I’m not sure what all I need to do to it.

After a lot of Googling, I finally found the link above. Jacco de Leeuw has written a really great howto, explaining exactly what I need explained.

The need for speed

This is a pretty interesting node on Perl Monks. It’s amazing how Perl can scale, or how any application scales. It’s one thing to write a couple few lines for some specific task, it’s really cool to see those few lines deal with gobs and gobs of input.

In a sense, this sort of thing happened to me when I started hosting BNT. I didn’t anticipate the amount of traffic it would generate on my little server. I had to learn to tune a web server with limited hardware resources in a pinch.

The node is a good example of the many different ways you can tune any given application. It’s also a good example of the kind of action you can feed a relatively simple script.

I’m installing a Helix server this weekend. I’ll be able to stream MP3’s, RealVideo, RealAudio, Quicktime, and some other cool stuff.

I’m pretty excited about it. The first order of business will be getting some kind of Shadow radio archive going. Bandwidth will be an issue, given the ~ 15 k upload speed I’m currently rocking. Bear with me, I think we’re going to see some cool multimedia stuff on this site soon.

PCWorld.com – Real Shares Helix Server Code

This is, I think, good news.

MySource – Welcome to Squiz MySource : :

MySource is a powerful, open source website and intranet content publishing and management system. It is designed to enable technically unskilled users to build and maintain their own web solutions securely, professionally and inexpensively.

Something to look into.

FoxServ Project

Always helpful.

FoxServ Project

Always helpful.

JpGraph – An OO Graph library for PHP4

Virtual Hosts in Apache

I’ve got this pretty much working, but it’s a good article.