History of Welcome
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Why are we here? I've been reviewing all of the equipment in the house and getting somewhat annoyed that they simply will not work together, so the question of how to make things better came up. Having put a 1000baseT hub in with the new TV to link up the TV, PS3, Media Player and at some point the SkyHD box, I'm then told I should be using on-line services for films and the like. However Sky are selling me an 8Mb service, but only providing BT with a payment for a 2Mb capped service. I'm paying BT for the same service and getting 7.5Mb, but that is for the business services while personall stuff should be on the Sky line. So streaming high res films is simply not even possible, and downloading will soon use up my allowance on bandwidth. So since the paid for cloud is just worth spending any money on, what can we do internally in the home. Having been playing with computers for over 25 years, I have a growing stack of equipment, and it's all networked with an array of hubs. The server rack has some 10Tb of storage across a number of machines, and we have a growing catalog of music, video and books all available without any need for the broadband even to be working. Currently the music and video material is streamed via Mediatomb but this is now groaning under the volume of material, and Mediatomb is not really able to index any quantity of tracks anyway. The books and magazines are available as pdf files and these are easy to both index and search via a local database, so some means of linking the other media and still stream it is the current problem. The aim of this site is to provide a central archive of how to make a local cloud of material work without any links to chargeable services. On the whole a totally license free setup of software should be possible, and current Linux distributions provide the majority of the packages needed directly from their repositories. The starting point is to document all of the available tools and work out which can be used to to link the range of components that I currently have in the house. | Keeping up to date here is becoming something of a problem as I am progressing so well on many of the items on the roadmap, so lets just make this an index to where the interesting stuff is found. Bitweaver - Web Framework is the new home for all of my development work on the bitweaver framework, need to cross link to the Bitweaver Bugs index but things are getting there. A new section has also been sorted to Coding - Software and System Management dealing with all the nitty gritty of fixing bugs how ever they are caused. Desktop configuration is where I am today with the workspace machine and I have the new main server documented here. The active websitesSome 30 years of activity on the internet
The active BlogsCurrently my daily activities are logged across a number of locally hosted blogs.
The archive of the original this page can be found as Old Welcome Page, Welcome Part 2 and more recent Welcome Mark Three pages ... The nice thing that Bitweaver provides is a complete history of edits to a wiki page ( and I need to add that to blog pages as well now ), but I have had to disable the history view because it confuses crawlers although in reality it is probably better as an editor function than for general consumption. There are still a number of pages in the orphan_pages list that need integrating but I am getting there! |