Monday, February 27, 2006

Don’t Get Stampeded By The 7.1 Parade

Don’t Get Stampeded By The 7.1 Parade

"As a home theater tech critic, I spend much of my time evangelizing for surround sound. I do it unashamedly and with all my heart. I love surround sound and I want everyone else to get as much pleasure from it as I do. But I worry that a lot of people still waiting to dip a toe in the sound-field are turned off by a bunch of seemingly conflicting numbers: 5.1 and 6.1 and 7.1."

Thursday, February 23, 2006

64Studio - 64bit Linux Recording Studio

64Studio

"64 Studio is developing a collection of native software for digital content creation on x86_64 hardware (that's AMD's 64-bit CPUs and Intel's EM64T chips). It's based on the pure 64 port of Debian GNU/Linux, but with a specialised package selection and lots of other customisations. "

Two-in-one DNS server with BIND9

I have been doing this for a couple years, and it is nice... but sometimes tricky.

Two-in-one DNS server with BIND9

"This tutorial shows you how to configure BIND9 DNS server to serve an internal network and an external network at the same time with different set of information. To accomplish that goal, a new feature of BIND9 called view is used. As a tutorial it'll walk you through the whole set up, but initial knowledge of BIND and DNS is required, there are plenty of documents that cover that information on the Internet."

Wednesday, February 22, 2006

MasterShaper - Easy traffic shaping and QoS with Linux

MasterShaper - Easy traffic shaping and QoS with Linux

"The MasterShaper is an network traffic shaper which provides an Web Interface for Quality of Servcie (QoS) functions of newer Linux 2.4- & 2.6-Kernel-Seriesexternal link.

It targets to let users learn and use traffic shaping mechanism. This should be possible for everyone who has no deeper knowledge of Linux and the difficult syntax of the tc commands from the iproute2external link package.

It provides an Web Interface which lets you define bandwidth pipes and filter (IP, MAC, ports, protocols, ipp2p, layer7-filter, ...). Also it draws some graphs about the current bandwidth usage and distribution. There is no more need for any shell access or privileged users."

Monday, February 13, 2006

ASNumber Firefox Extension

ASNumber Firefox Extension

"The AS Number Extension displays the AS Number, and consequently the Internet Service Provider, of every website visited along with some additional interesting information for those interested in how the Internet works below the shiny surface.
All data is updated daily and the prefix to AS number mapping is from a real DFZ BGP feed. "

Saturday, February 11, 2006

VCarious Travel - Community Based Travel Guide

VCarious Travel - Community Based Travel Guide

"VCarious is a community-based travel site. You can use VCarious to explore the world through dynamic travel guides and photos, meet other travelers, and share your experiences with family and friends."

Friday, February 10, 2006

Firestarter - Linux Firewall Made Easy

Firestarter

"Linux security does not have to be complex,
and simplicity does not have to mean sacrificing power.

With Firestarter you will have a firewall up and running in minutes. After that it is up to you how deep you choose to go."

Monday, February 06, 2006

Mabber - Mobile Jabber for your Phone

Mabber - Mobile Jabber for your Phone

"Go communicate everywhere, anytime. Use mabber either on the web or download the mobile client for your Java-enabled phone. Chat away with more style and cheaper than using plain old SMS text messaging."

Friday, February 03, 2006

Super Sparrow: Global Load Balancing Solution for LInux

Super Sparrow: Super Sparrow: Global Load Balancing Solution for LInux

"Super Sparrow enables users to load balance traffic between geographically separated points of presence by finding the site network-wise closest to clients. This is done by accessing BGP routing information, the information that determines the path that traffic will take on the internet."