After deciding to go with a laptop I already owned as a audio server, I pulled out the old PII 266Mhz Dell Latitide CPi. Â Spent a few nights installing Puppy linux and trying to get audio working… then the Xircom PCMCIA network card started being flaky…
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Since I’ve changed my strategy slightly on how to distribute audio to the house, I’ve needed to do some research on alsa.
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After coming across an article about house audio, someone mentioned the effects of pumping stereo audio to each zone…
Sound can get muddy if zones are playing the same music, lack of separation…
So the idea is to just put out mono audio to each zone. Make is easy since amplification and source becomes easier to manage.
A 5.1 surround sound card will give me 6 zones! I’m a little excited about this.
Further to the last post, I decided to try putting Vmware server on the server machine to run some vm machines.
All got installed ok, and VMware server seems to run, but I can only conect to it locally. There is no network support. Continue reading
After reading some posts on the slimdevices forums regarding virtualization, I’m intrigued.
Idea is to install a VERY minimal linux OS, which is only a kernel, an ssh server and VMWare. And run all the distinct servers as VMs.
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Arghh… Another obstacle…
How to put the USB drive into stand-by mode, so it will spin down when not in use.
The server machine got a makeover.
New Mobo, cpu, and OS.
This was all stolen from Hacktivate – Reversing an ssh connection. (I only pasted the contents here in case the site goes down)
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I wanted to not have to start SoftSqueeze manually every time I started the computer, so I decided to muddle with existing scripts and generate my own init.d script.
This script was the SlimServer scripts, modified to start SoftSqueezeHeadless.
It has began. (the learning process, that is)