GNUMP3d is a perl based streaming server which allows you to share a music/video/multimedia archive across a LAN.
Whilst it's designed on Linux machines and only sporadically tested under Windows it should do the job you want - point it at a directory with your media files in it, then fire up a browser to choose your songs / stream away.
Failing that Andromedia should do a good job if you have PHP on your Windows version of Apache. Their personal edition is cheap, and I think there's a free version somebody wrote designed to mirror it - but I've spoken to the author and he's a good guy so I'm happy to recommend it.
It seems to me that most Linux distributions stand or fall based on the quality and availability of their packaging system.
It's disappointing to see this system doesnt have packages for vim, or lyx. So the reviewer had to install from source.
Sure that's possible, and trivial for small packages without tons of dependencies - but building from source seems to me to be something you'd wish to avoid when installing on a P160 with 64Mb of RAM...
Unfortunate, I guess if the distro becomes more popular the archive will grow, but if it doesn't then there will be a big downside to using it.
True the BBC does a lot, radio, world service, tv. I'm not disputing the quality of their programming.
But in the days where we have five channels (terrestrial) and one company gets this nice gift from every TV owning houshold in the country I'd expect nothing less than great output.
Nowadays I have sky, and I don't watch the BBC. I listen to local radio which covers traffic congestion in my city, and local weather reports. So it seems unfair to be charged the fee every year.
If it gave me a discount on the BBC DVDs it might be nice. However at the moment I have to pay this tax every year to support advert-free television I dont watch. At the same time the BBC is making a massive profit selling the programs that I helped fund to foreign countries.
We have had television network access for half a century now.
It has always been free (well at least some of it)
Come to the UK - we have a mandatory TV license which is non-free.
Buy a TV in the UK and you will have to give a name and address so that they can insure you pay it.
Even if you never use the Television set for anything more than watching your own DVDs you will have to pay the annual TV-license fee of just over 100 pounds.
(The money goes to the BBC who use it to fund their programming - in addition to selling their programs to other countries. I think it's pretty unfair, I'd love to buy a TV that was incapable of viewing their channels and not pay for the license, but it isn't possible).
I found the process of installation took a couple of hours, which didn't feel really excessive. Once installed it's pretty good to use, for small things.
Right now I'm using qemu to practise the upgrade of a busy server from Woody to Sarge (whenever its ready!). All I can say is that the program rocks, and many thanks to its authors.
But ten local root exploits only work if the application they exploit is installed.
Welcome nback to that diverse environment again - if you have a local root exploit in a program that's not installed you're not going to have any success.
(Thats ignoring the regular security updates which would be automated in a big company-wide installation)
Fact is most businesses I've ever seen have been running machines with local users being in the administrator group.. depressing.
Tesco's does this in the UK, but they charge £5 for the service, which seems a bit steep.
I love the Tesco's home delivery service!
In the past I would go shopping maybe once every month for about £50-80 pounds worth of food, tinned frozen etc. The rest of the fresh stuff I can buy from the corner shop on the way to/from work.
That would cost me for the food and for the taxi ride home (because I don't have a car).
So now instead I pay five pounds that would have gone on a taxi fair and can be really evil and order tons of stuff I never would have bought before - like a huge bag of potatoes, or ten sacks of cat litter in one go.
Suddenly not having to wait around for a taxi or carry heavy gear up to the third floor flat I stay in is easily worth five pounds.
I would say I found it somewhat challenging, downloading and installing some applications and getting Internet access through our proxy server and some of those things....
Isn't it likely that the reason that getting Linux working from behind Microsoft's proxy server was because they use the closed NTLM authentification mechanism?
This is something that was only added to Firefox 1.0PR1..
Still installation applications should have been fairly straightforward using Yum, Apt-get, or emerge. I'd be interested in knowing which distributions he'd personally tried.
Still I thought most of the questions were maturely chosen given some of the flamebait submissions, and the answers were generally interesting and informative.
Nice job - and if Martin wants to email me the response to my question he's entirely welcome to do so:)
But we'll have the same mix we've always had. About twenty percent of good and great stuff, twenty percent of really awful stuff, and sixty percent of material that might have a good song or two but is ultimately forgettable.
And the fun part is that no two people ever agree on what the good stuff is, and what the poor stuff is.
Me? I'm waiting for the next new Nine Inch Nails album to come out:)
Linux continues to grow on the server side, and whilst it's not 100% there on the desktop yet it seems logical that the incrimental improvements will take it there for more and more people over time.
Likewise Windows servers and desktops are entrenched pretty solidly in Schools, Colleges, Homes, and businesses around the world.
How do you expect this to work itself out? Do you think that as time goes on that Linux and Windows will interoperate and coexist in the average home + business?
Or do you think that sooner or later either Longhorn or Linux will nudge the other platform out as a might-have-been?
Obviously you're aware of the growth of Linux - and are working towards the further expansion of Windows but could you imagine settling for a balanced compromise? Even selling value-added pieces of interoperability software to both sides?
You could have a wishlist over at the friendly one-click creating Amazon?
I've had one for a few years to support some of my work.
Occaisionally I receive something and it's a nice bonus to actually getting something done.
Of course it doesn't work out so well when your code gets added to Linux distributions and nobody gets it from your website directly anymore - that was the thing that I noticed which made the initial donations tail off.
Still I do earn a little bit every now and again doing remote support / remote sysadmin work always getting paid by DVDs etc. It's much easier to handle than having to worry about currency conversion etc.
It's also a good way of having a small payment in advance, or at particular milestones - something like "Six films from the list, one in advance then one a week until the job is complete".
There was such a list. It was called vendor-sec. There were bugs which they kept hidden instead of submitting the actual fix
No.
vendor-sec is a list where issues are discussed amongst vendors, and fixes are shared.
A bug is reported. People agree on a patch, or one is presented and given a quick check by other people - then at an agreed date all the vendors release their updates.
This means that large holes which affect core pieces of software such as the Kernel, Perl, Bind, OpenSSH all have a patch available from the vendor all at the same time - when the hole is reported.
Despite comments to the contrary bugs don't just sit their being "covered up", or held back arbitrarily - the whole point of the embargos/delays is to make sure all vendors who use the list are able to release together.
I've used a few of their templates on my sites and it helped me a lot, both in terms of getting a good design, and in letting me look at a lot of sites all together and view their source.
For example this Debian site was put together by combining elements from two designed I liked, whilst this one was pretty much a stock copy.
I wish I'd seen the archive before I put together my homepage;)
I imagine that the number of hits his rss feed gets has increased greatly with firefox recently
I've noticed this on my site - linked in my sig.
I get lots and lots of hits on my feed URLs, frequently from agregators and readers. But a lot more from Firefox (you can tell because of the user agent string, and the "random" time of day).
The bandwidth used by multiple hits on these small feed files is fairly significant, especially when broken bots will poll the feed every five minutes. Ouch!
I've dropped a lot of broken bots like that over the past few weeks, its just not worth the bandwidth.
But if it's a choice between shutting down the site or showing adverts in the feeds? I'd just drop the site... Adverts have their place on a website, but not in the feeds I dont think.
The CVS book already mentioned will tell you how to setup a minimal server, if not google is your friend.
Once the server is up and running your developers can import their own modules - you will just need to setup logins/passwords/SSH keys for them.
Honestly little maintainance is required after that.
The only things I've ever needed to do are:
Setup the server
Add new users.
Install cvsweb/viewcvs - for web based viewing of the repository
Ensure the archive is backed up on a nightly basis.
Make sure the disk doesn't get too full!
More specific questions might help, but really CVS is a low-maintainance tool. Once it's setup it just keeps working.
Be sure you're not exposing it externally if you're not needing to and make sure you track security updates via bugtraq/the CVS homepage and you're done.
BBC doesn't have to worry about pleasing the advertisers, since there are none. Taxpayer funding luckily doesn't mean government control either, at least not in this case.
True, but I still think that the BBCs license fee is a broken way of doing it.
I have a big TV which I use for watching movies, and Sky. Not terrestrial channels at all.
Yet every year I have to pay over a hundred quid straight into the hands of the BBC, why?
Sure they've produced amazing programs which I remember from years ago, such as "Tomorrow's World", and the more recent series such as "The Blue Planet", etc.
I don't listen to their radio stations, I don't watch their channel any more and still I have to pay them every year. Because it's required by the government.
I'd happily buy a "crippled" TV which was incapable of watching BBC1/2/24 if it meant I didn't have to pay the license fee and I'm sure I'm not alone.
All admins should subscribe to bugtraq, and their distribution's security announcements sites - no operating system is bug-free.
But I'd still choose Linux over Windows for security as there is a better record on timely updates, and a much cleaner seperation between the kernel and the userland applications, something which isn't true in Microsoft's world.
Slashdot Mirror
I was hoping to advertise the first one more - cos that's the one I wrote ;)
I just added the Andromedia link to be more balanced and because it seems like a nice piece of software too!
GNUMP3d is a perl based streaming server which allows you to share a music/video/multimedia archive across a LAN.
Whilst it's designed on Linux machines and only sporadically tested under Windows it should do the job you want - point it at a directory with your media files in it, then fire up a browser to choose your songs / stream away.
Failing that Andromedia should do a good job if you have PHP on your Windows version of Apache. Their personal edition is cheap, and I think there's a free version somebody wrote designed to mirror it - but I've spoken to the author and he's a good guy so I'm happy to recommend it.
It seems to me that most Linux distributions stand or fall based on the quality and availability of their packaging system.
It's disappointing to see this system doesnt have packages for vim, or lyx. So the reviewer had to install from source.
Sure that's possible, and trivial for small packages without tons of dependencies - but building from source seems to me to be something you'd wish to avoid when installing on a P160 with 64Mb of RAM...
Unfortunate, I guess if the distro becomes more popular the archive will grow, but if it doesn't then there will be a big downside to using it.
True the BBC does a lot, radio, world service, tv. I'm not disputing the quality of their programming.
But in the days where we have five channels (terrestrial) and one company gets this nice gift from every TV owning houshold in the country I'd expect nothing less than great output.
Nowadays I have sky, and I don't watch the BBC. I listen to local radio which covers traffic congestion in my city, and local weather reports. So it seems unfair to be charged the fee every year.
If it gave me a discount on the BBC DVDs it might be nice. However at the moment I have to pay this tax every year to support advert-free television I dont watch. At the same time the BBC is making a massive profit selling the programs that I helped fund to foreign countries.
We have had television network access for half a century now.
It has always been free (well at least some of it)
Come to the UK - we have a mandatory TV license which is non-free.
Buy a TV in the UK and you will have to give a name and address so that they can insure you pay it.
Even if you never use the Television set for anything more than watching your own DVDs you will have to pay the annual TV-license fee of just over 100 pounds.
(The money goes to the BBC who use it to fund their programming - in addition to selling their programs to other countries. I think it's pretty unfair, I'd love to buy a TV that was incapable of viewing their channels and not pay for the license, but it isn't possible).
They do, see the polls section and submit a poll yourself.
I've only submitted one and it's still showing up as pending .. so that probably means nobody likes it :(
I installed Win2k on a Debian installation without the accelerator - and wrote about it here Running Microsoft Windows inside Debian : Qemu.
I found the process of installation took a couple of hours, which didn't feel really excessive. Once installed it's pretty good to use, for small things.
Right now I'm using qemu to practise the upgrade of a busy server from Woody to Sarge (whenever its ready!). All I can say is that the program rocks, and many thanks to its authors.
But ten local root exploits only work if the application they exploit is installed.
Welcome nback to that diverse environment again - if you have a local root exploit in a program that's not installed you're not going to have any success.
(Thats ignoring the regular security updates which would be automated in a big company-wide installation)
Fact is most businesses I've ever seen have been running machines with local users being in the administrator group.. depressing.
I love the Tesco's home delivery service!
In the past I would go shopping maybe once every month for about £50-80 pounds worth of food, tinned frozen etc. The rest of the fresh stuff I can buy from the corner shop on the way to/from work.
That would cost me for the food and for the taxi ride home (because I don't have a car).
So now instead I pay five pounds that would have gone on a taxi fair and can be really evil and order tons of stuff I never would have bought before - like a huge bag of potatoes, or ten sacks of cat litter in one go.
Suddenly not having to wait around for a taxi or carry heavy gear up to the third floor flat I stay in is easily worth five pounds.
Isn't it likely that the reason that getting Linux working from behind Microsoft's proxy server was because they use the closed NTLM authentification mechanism?
This is something that was only added to Firefox 1.0PR1 ..
Still installation applications should have been fairly straightforward using Yum, Apt-get, or emerge. I'd be interested in knowing which distributions he'd personally tried.
Still I thought most of the questions were maturely chosen given some of the flamebait submissions, and the answers were generally interesting and informative.
Nice job - and if Martin wants to email me the response to my question he's entirely welcome to do so :)
Eerily similar to Orbitz story covered today we see the following in their email message:
So people can't link to Red Hat?
And the fun part is that no two people ever agree on what the good stuff is, and what the poor stuff is.
Me? I'm waiting for the next new Nine Inch Nails album to come out :)
Linux continues to grow on the server side, and whilst it's not 100% there on the desktop yet it seems logical that the incrimental improvements will take it there for more and more people over time.
Likewise Windows servers and desktops are entrenched pretty solidly in Schools, Colleges, Homes, and businesses around the world.
How do you expect this to work itself out? Do you think that as time goes on that Linux and Windows will interoperate and coexist in the average home + business?
Or do you think that sooner or later either Longhorn or Linux will nudge the other platform out as a might-have-been?
Obviously you're aware of the growth of Linux - and are working towards the further expansion of Windows but could you imagine settling for a balanced compromise? Even selling value-added pieces of interoperability software to both sides?
I find that sage is the perfect way to view 10-30 sites using firefox.
It allows you to see articles, summaries, or just titles in a simple and easy to use way.
Baby oil?
You could have a wishlist over at the friendly one-click creating Amazon?
I've had one for a few years to support some of my work.
Occaisionally I receive something and it's a nice bonus to actually getting something done.
Of course it doesn't work out so well when your code gets added to Linux distributions and nobody gets it from your website directly anymore - that was the thing that I noticed which made the initial donations tail off.
Still I do earn a little bit every now and again doing remote support / remote sysadmin work always getting paid by DVDs etc. It's much easier to handle than having to worry about currency conversion etc.
It's also a good way of having a small payment in advance, or at particular milestones - something like "Six films from the list, one in advance then one a week until the job is complete".
No.
vendor-sec is a list where issues are discussed amongst vendors, and fixes are shared.
A bug is reported. People agree on a patch, or one is presented and given a quick check by other people - then at an agreed date all the vendors release their updates.
This means that large holes which affect core pieces of software such as the Kernel, Perl, Bind, OpenSSH all have a patch available from the vendor all at the same time - when the hole is reported.
Despite comments to the contrary bugs don't just sit their being "covered up", or held back arbitrarily - the whole point of the embargos/delays is to make sure all vendors who use the list are able to release together.
Have you seen the Open Source Web Design site?
I've used a few of their templates on my sites and it helped me a lot, both in terms of getting a good design, and in letting me look at a lot of sites all together and view their source.
For example this Debian site was put together by combining elements from two designed I liked, whilst this one was pretty much a stock copy.
I wish I'd seen the archive before I put together my homepage ;)
I've noticed this on my site - linked in my sig.
I get lots and lots of hits on my feed URLs, frequently from agregators and readers. But a lot more from Firefox (you can tell because of the user agent string, and the "random" time of day).
The bandwidth used by multiple hits on these small feed files is fairly significant, especially when broken bots will poll the feed every five minutes. Ouch!
I've dropped a lot of broken bots like that over the past few weeks, its just not worth the bandwidth.
But if it's a choice between shutting down the site or showing adverts in the feeds? I'd just drop the site... Adverts have their place on a website, but not in the feeds I dont think.
Have you tried the official BitTorrent download for Windows?
It repeatedly causes popup messages boxes to display nagging you to donate money, enough for me to get very annoyed with it - and I did even donate!
He worked as a patent clerk - guess that was before the patent system went downhill ;)
Don't forget the :
cvs -dAnd any tweaking of options beneath CVSROOT.
I mentioned this briefly in my secure CVS setup guide...
The CVS book already mentioned will tell you how to setup a minimal server, if not google is your friend.
Once the server is up and running your developers can import their own modules - you will just need to setup logins/passwords/SSH keys for them.
Honestly little maintainance is required after that.
The only things I've ever needed to do are:
More specific questions might help, but really CVS is a low-maintainance tool. Once it's setup it just keeps working.
Be sure you're not exposing it externally if you're not needing to and make sure you track security updates via bugtraq/the CVS homepage and you're done.
True, but I still think that the BBCs license fee is a broken way of doing it.
I have a big TV which I use for watching movies, and Sky. Not terrestrial channels at all.
Yet every year I have to pay over a hundred quid straight into the hands of the BBC, why?
Sure they've produced amazing programs which I remember from years ago, such as "Tomorrow's World", and the more recent series such as "The Blue Planet", etc.
I don't listen to their radio stations, I don't watch their channel any more and still I have to pay them every year. Because it's required by the government.
I'd happily buy a "crippled" TV which was incapable of watching BBC1/2/24 if it meant I didn't have to pay the license fee and I'm sure I'm not alone.
Four days ago, how about you?
All admins should subscribe to bugtraq, and their distribution's security announcements sites - no operating system is bug-free.
But I'd still choose Linux over Windows for security as there is a better record on timely updates, and a much cleaner seperation between the kernel and the userland applications, something which isn't true in Microsoft's world.