Lucid Tips

My post on Installing VMWare Server (and Windows XP) on Ubuntu gets a lot of hits. There is another open source virtualization software from Sun that I really like – VirtualBox. I personally prefer VirtualBox over VMWare. Installation is a breeze in comparison to VMWare. Binaries are available for a variety of Linux distributions in addition to Windows, OS X, Solaris and openSolaris hosts.

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As the name suggest Load Balancing is simply spreading the work load between two or more backend servers. Load Balancing can be used for any kind of server – HTTP, SMTP, POP/IMAP, DB. There are several open source software load balancers available but for the purpose of this post we will look at Pen and Balance.

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Ask any Linux/Unix administrator if they could perform their daily tasks without ‘grep’ and their answer would be an emphatic NO!!!. Windows lacks many of the unix commands/utilities that are very simple yet highly efficient. Luckily there is a collection of GNU Unix-like utilities that are available for Windows.

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Do you miss watching live cricket or UEFA soccer? Are Sports packages on Cable/Satellite TV too expensive? Don’t worry be happy because in comes Peer-to-Peer TV (P2PTV) to the rescue. As the name suggests P2PTV leverages Peer-to-Peer technology to distribute audio/video. The first question someone would have is how is the quality? The answer is its very good and the secret lies in the P2P technology. Every user who is downloading the video stream is also simultaneous uploading the same video stream hence contributing to the overall bandwidth.

There are many P2PTV software available but the oldest and most popular amongst the lot is SopCast.

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