Streaming Your Desktop With Audio And Webcam Overlay In A Browser Using ffmpeg, crtmpserver And Flowplayer

Streaming Your Desktop With Audio And Webcam Overlay In A Browser Using ffmpeg, crtmpserver And Flowplayer1 Preliminary noteThis tutorial is based on Ubuntu Lucid, but will work on later releases as well with small changes. I will show how I stream my desktop with audio from pulse and webcam from video4linux2. I will also show how to configure crtmpserver and flowplayer so you can watch the live stream from a web browser.
In this scenario I use separate host for the tools. Flowplayer is installed on a server running Apache, crtmp server is on a separate server and ffmpeg is installed on the st

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How To Use Nagios Plugins In Verax NMS

How To Use Nagios Plugins In Verax NMS

How To Use Nagios Plugins In Verax NMSThis guide shows how to use Nagios plugins to monitor devices
in Verax NMS Express. Verax NMS is a cross-platform network and application monitoring software. Tools used:Sample Nagios plugin for CPU check in a Shell Script format
(.sh file) http://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Plugins/System-Metrics/CPU-Usage-and-Load/Check-CPU-LOAD-using-SNMP/detailsVerax NMS Express ver. 1.9.5: http://www.veraxsystems.com/en/products/nms Adding Nagios Plugin To The DeviceFirst, download a plugin. In this example I will use
plugin for checking CPU usage over the SNMP (che

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Virtual Hosting With PureFTPd And MySQL (Incl. Quota And Bandwidth Management) On Ubuntu 12.04

Virtual Hosting With PureFTPd And MySQL (Incl. Quota And Bandwidth Management) On Ubuntu 12.04This document describes how to install a PureFTPd server that uses virtual users from a MySQL database instead of real system users. This is much more performant and allows to have thousands of ftp users on a single machine. In addition to that I will show the use of quota and upload/download bandwidth limits with this setup. Passwords will be stored encrypted as MD5 strings in the database. This tutorial is based on Ubuntu 12.04.For the administration of the MySQL database you can use web based tools

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Why You Should Always Use Nginx With Microcaching

Why You Should Always Use Nginx With MicrocachingEverybody knows how hard is to push out as much as possible from your webserver(s). In my daily occupation as a hosting engineer that means I fairly often get the same question, “Wow, cool website, but can it cope with big-time traffic?”.  The “normal” situationA “normal” website running under Apache with mod_php should be able to put out 20 requests per second with ease, but what if you get like 50 requests per second (not strange with some websites like websites for political parties etc.)? The answer in my opinion is to drop Apache, because a

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Install MyUnity On Linux Mint 13 (Maya)

Install MyUnity On Linux Mint 13 (Maya)

Install MyUnity On Linux Mint 13 (Maya)Version 1.0Author: Christian Schmalfeld This tutorial shows how you can install MyUnity,
the extended Unity desktop configuration tool, on Linux Mint 13.
MyUnity can usually only be used on Ubuntu operating systems, however
you can get it to run under Mint as well with a little source-file
customization.This document comes without warranty of any kind! I do not issue any
guarantee that this will work for you! 1 Preliminary NoteMyUnity was originally designed to work only with Ubuntu systems. It
is possible tha

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How To Install Cinnamon Desktop On Fedora 17

How To Install Cinnamon Desktop On Fedora 17

How To Install Cinnamon Desktop On Fedora 17Version 1.0Author: Christian Schmalfeld This tutorial shows how you can install Linux Mint’s Cinnamon desktop on Fedora 17. Since it has now been included in the repositories this can now be done quite quickly. Fedora’s default desktop at the moment is GNOME 3.This document comes without warranty of any kind! I do not issue any guarantee that this will work for you! 1 Update SourcesBefore you can install Cinnamon you need to check if your system is up to date and install the latest updates. To do that, yo

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Using Rex To Automate Your Datacentre

Using Rex To Automate Your DatacentreIn my day to day work I come across a lot of tasks that I actually “hate” to be honest. Most of these tasks consist of things that are repetitive and take up a lot of time. A co-worker of mine once told me, “if you have to do a task more than once, automate it!”. This is one piece of advice that intrigued me. Ever since that day I have been thinking about automation and how to make processes flow smoother than they did before. But the main question always is, what tool are you going to use for that?Puppet, Chef, CFEngine etc. etc.As a system or hosting engi

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Virtual Multiserver Environment With Dedicated Web & MySQL, Email & DNS Servers On Debian Squeeze With ISPConfig 3

Virtual Multiserver Environment With Dedicated Web & MySQL, Email & DNS Servers On Debian Squeeze With ISPConfig 3

Virtual Multiserver Environment With Dedicated Web & MySQL, Email & DNS Servers On Debian Squeeze With ISPConfig 3Version 1.0Author: Michel Käser This tutorial describes how you can set up a single dedicated server as a virtual multiserver environment using OpenVZ with dedicated Web & MySQL, Email and DNS servers on Debian Squeeze. Also, you will learn how to maintain all these servers. As an addition, you will learn how to install some very useful packages on all of them, how to protect them and how to monitor them.
At the end you will have a fully functional virt

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Installing Apache2 With PHP5 And MySQL Support On CentOS 6.3 (LAMP)

Installing Apache2 With PHP5 And MySQL Support On CentOS 6.3 (LAMP)

Installing Apache2 With PHP5 And MySQL Support On CentOS 6.3 (LAMP)LAMP is short for Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP. This tutorial shows how you can install an Apache2 webserver on a CentOS 6.3 server with PHP5 support (mod_php) and MySQL support.I do not issue any guarantee that this will work for you! 1 Preliminary NoteIn this tutorial I use the hostname server1.example.com with the IP address 192.168.0.100. These settings might differ for you, so you have to replace them where appropriate. 2 Installing MySQL 5To install MySQL, we do this:yum install mysql mysql-serverThen we create the system st

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Install Memcached And PHP5-MemCached Module On Debian 6.0 (Squeeze)

Install Memcached And PHP5-MemCached Module On Debian 6.0 (Squeeze)”Memcached is free & open source, high-performance, distributed memory object caching system, generic in nature, but intended for use in speeding up dynamic web applications by alleviating database load.”More information about memcached can be found at http://www.memcached.org/
This article is going to explain how to install memcached and PHP5-MemCached module on a Debian 6.0(Squeeze) system with Apache2. 1. Installingapt-get install memcached php5-memcached”apt-get” is a very powerful command-line tool for handling packages. H

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