Network related tutorials
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Making Web Browsing Easy For The Tiny Screen |
| Post date: August 9, 2005, 19:08 Category: Network Views: 1125 Comments: 0 |
Tutorial quote: An avalanche of content will soon appear in the palm of your hand.
Tiny screens are showing up everywhere in PDAs and cell phones. Many are equipped with some form of network device and a browser, so it's not hard to see what's coming down the pike.
Late model PDAs, like my HP iPAQ 3715 no longer suffer from insufficient computing power, lack of memory or having to rely on pricey external 802.11b cards. The little machine is quick to boot up and can handle many daily business functions.
Even though it runs a version of Internet Explorer, jumping onto an access point and browsing web pages is fast and useful.
In this edition, I'll share my observations on things you might consider when converting LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) applications or web pages, for use on the tiny screen. I'll approach the issues from an iPAQ user perspective and focus on convenience and making the user's life easy. |
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DNS name serving through NSD |
| Post date: July 5, 2005, 06:07 Category: Network Views: 1299 Comments: 0 |
| Tutorial quote: Given the sheer importance of name servers in providing Domain Name System (DNS) resolution -- a process used by every Web-facing application to translate domain names into IP addresses and vice versa -- not many people put much thought into the available software alternatives for pulling off this feat. One compelling application is NSD, an alternative to the widely deployed BIND name server. |
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Command your network with Kaboodle |
| Post date: June 28, 2005, 09:06 Category: Network Views: 1166 Comments: 0 |
Tutorial quote: Quite often setting up a local network is much easier than managing it. Even technically challenged users can figure out how to connect a couple of computers and a printer. However, tasks like maintenance, troubleshooting, and remote secure connections require more than just "which-cable-goes-where" knowledge. You need something like Kaboodle, a nifty tool that can help you to manage your local network like a pro.
Kaboodle allows you to visualize your local network, control computers on it via VNC, and connect to other Kaboodle-enabled networks. Kaboodle was developed for Windows, but according to its Web site, it will happily run under Wine on Linux and FreeBSD. |
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Build Your Own IM Server with Jabber |
| Post date: June 26, 2005, 22:06 Category: Network Views: 2858 Comments: 0 |
| Tutorial quote: Instant messaging is a great business communications tool. For example, here at Enterprise Networking Planet the staff and writers all work in their pajamas at home, at far-flung points all over the globe. ENP's crusty editor-with-a-heart-of-gold Perry White lives in a villa in the South of France. I send in my columns from a sailboat currently anchored at Raratonga. Sure, we can exchange emails, but there are times when a live exchange is better. |
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Darcs - easy VCS alternative to CVS |
| Post date: June 21, 2005, 23:06 Category: Network Views: 1779 Comments: 0 |
| Tutorial quote: This is a brief introduction to Darcs - a distributed SCM system and a healthy alternative to CVS. It will show you an easy, more modern approach to VCS. The project I contribute to (formerly XWT, renamed to Vexi) has greatly benefitted from moving to Darcs from CVS because now we can make rapid progress without the fear of making bad commits to the server or the server being down. People can code and pull other's code at their own convenience. |
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RAID over NFS |
| Post date: June 17, 2005, 11:06 Category: Network Views: 1701 Comments: 0 |
| Tutorial quote: This is a HowTo to create a RAID over NFS. In this case RAID5, but can be easily adopted for other RAID levels. |
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Streaming music with SlimServer |
| Post date: June 15, 2005, 16:06 Category: Network Views: 1533 Comments: 0 |
| Tutorial quote: Converting your CD collection into MP3 or another digital file format gives you the ability to enjoy the music on your computer and stream it all over the house and the Internet. To do the latter, however, you have to install and configure a streaming server on your computer. That might sound like a daunting task, but there is a streaming server application that makes the whole process pretty painless. SlimServer from Slim Devices is a cross-platform streaming server that runs on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X and supports a wide range of formats, including AAC, AIFF, FLAC, Ogg Vorbis, MP3, WAV, and WMA. Although it was developed to stream music files to Slim Devices' Squeezebox2 hardware player, it works perfectly with any software MP3 player capable of working with network streams. |
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Bandwidth limiting howto |
| Post date: June 13, 2005, 02:06 Category: Network Views: 2054 Comments: 0 |
| Tutorial quote: Linux has a very powerful mechanism for controlling network bandwidth usage. As being powerful inevitably implies being complex, this feature is documented in lengthy and exhaustive documents in great details. These documents however can prove to be excessive in their length and language to users who are looking for simple solutions for simple questions. This guide aims to give a short and practical introduction on how to solve some common issues that users tend to experience on an everyday basis. |
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