Matt-J.co.uk : Ramblings

Back at uni again, about to goto bed (Gotta do tech for a gig at the pint pot tomorrow so can’t sleep in) martin and joe are having a friendly game of chess in the living room/box listening to music from our house’s TASTY NEW SHOUTCAST SERVER!

We had a spare pc knocking around, so thats now in the living room, with a t-amp and some speakers, on ubuntu, constantly connected to a shoutcast server which martin is currently running. This in turn is getting its content from a instance of winamp on the same server, which is running the winamp web interface, so anyone in the house can put songs on / add / change the playlist from their pc / pda. Seems to be working quite well.

Of course, anyone else in the house can also connect to the stream and listen to the same music in their rooms! (Killers - Everything will be alright) at the mo :)

apart from that, has been quite a quiet day, Although i have started putting together the pieces (based on an old laptop) for an in car music PC (made a lot easier due to the winamp web interface) that will sit in my boot, and hold my music library, connected up to my cars speakers, allowing me to then use my phone/pda as a remote (woo.. no more radio1!)

Still on my todo list are IPv6, Solaris ZFS (think i may do that on vmware with a few virtual disks, instead of having to wait till I have the money to buy new hardware) and now, BGP (cisco’s border gateway routing protocol).

Funfun!

Later people

//Matt