I recently had some interest from a prospective employer who were looking for someone with JBoss and Tomcat experience. Having had extensive use of these systems in my previous role, I figured I would write a quick howto to get people up and running with JBoss in a short time period. Jboss AS (application server) is an open source Java Enterprise Edition (Java EE) based application server, similar to Goldfish. As it is Java based, it runs on multiple platforms and architectures. Jboss features clustering, fail over, load balancing, distributed deployment, deployment API, management API and much more so its a very versatile platform for serving up your applications.
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Setting up a linux based shoutcast server
If you have ever wanted to do some broadcasting online, its essential you have a server to broadcast from. You could run one of these servers from your home broadband connection, but you upload speed will decide how many listeners you can broadcast to. For example on Virgin Media cable’s 10Mb package in the UK, while the download speed is 10mbps, the upload speed is actually only 512kbps, so that upload speed becomes the limiting factor of exactly how many listeners you can broadcast to. You can also use a server hosted in a datacentre to broadcast, this has the added benefit of not having the upload limits like your home connection does. I provide shoutcast servers for some of the worlds biggest names in internet radio, such as the ever wicked NSB Radio, Glitch FM and The Nuskoolbreaks.co.uk forums. If you are interested in getting server capacity from me, you can email me for a competitive quote.
Freesat HD Mythtv 0.22 Linux PVR with Ubuntu Howto – Part 2
This article is a follow on from Part 1, where I guide you through some of the features of this DVBs/DVB-S MythTV DVR/PVR system and the software installation. In this part, I guide you through the setup of the MythTV software and getting it working with your DVB card.
Freesat HD Mythtv 0.22 Linux PVR with Ubuntu Howto – Part 1
What’s all this then?
In the UK (and many places throughout the world) there are digital TV platforms available via satellite (or sometimes Terrestrial transmitters) which allow you to receive their programming with no subscription using standard DVBs/DVB-S (or DVB-T) equipment. Many set top boxes that can access these platforms are ‘closed’ and do not offer much in the way of choice, add-ons or upgrades not to mention the fact many have no High Definition capability. This is a guide to how to turn your linux box into a fully fledged HD digital TV reception platform with recording, pausing, rewinding of live TV as well as many other features such as commercial break removal, access to interactive content and electronic program guide (EPG). You can watch TV (live or recorded) from any networked PC in your house, as well as run a web interface to allow you to schedule, view, watch and delete recordings from any PC in your house (or to the web if you have the bandwidth and a way to forward your web server IP to the public internet). While this guide is based around the UK Freesat platform, using a different tuner card (such as a DVB-T card instead of DVB-S) it can easily be adapted to Terrestrial broadcasting.
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