Turn an old Linux desktop into a home media center
My first attempt to set up an “entertainment PC” was back in the late 1990s, using a plain old desktop computer with a Trident ProVidia 9685 PCI graphics card. I used what was known as a “TV-out” card, which had an extra output to connect to a standard television set. The onscreen result didn’t look very nice and there was no audio output. And it was ugly: I had an S-Video cable running across my living...
How to test your network with PerfSONAR
PerfSONAR is a network measurement toolkit collection for testing and sharing data on end-to-end network perfomance. The overall benefit of using network measurement tools like PerfSONAR is they can find issues before they become a large elephant in the room that nobody wants to talk about. Specifically, with the right answers from the right tools, patching can become more stringent, network traffic can be shaped to speed...
