Linux and Windows Projects Projects.

Faster Internet Access using Polipo Cache/proxy and local DNS.

The instructions are found in this link. 
  A proxy allows users of a network, to access the Internet through it.  If the proxy caches the contends, then the most common websites in the network will speed up, because, the proxy will get the data from disk rather than going to the internet.  A local DNS server can speed up, and make browsing a lot more smooth.

 Miracast and DLNA for wireless video.

 Miracast is an Intel protocol to transmit video over wifi in HD.  If you have a computer Laptop or Notepad that is based on a recent Intel chipset, chances are it is Mircast enabled.  meaning that you can use a display, like a tv as a monitor to watch what's on screen on HD.
 There are tvs coming with Mircacast capability or you can buy a Miracast receiver that connects to the HDM port.

For the rest of the   of us, you can actullay take advantage of DNLA capabilities on Windows.  Here is a tutorial how you can do it.

Windows 8 dnla Media server.

With it you can share your videos with anyoneon your home network.  I have not tried it, but seems to be a very nice way to do a peer to peer, very transparent through the media player of photo, videos, sound libraries.

In order to transmit to here, you will need a Mircast/DNLA adapter to your tvs, these devices are compatible evren with Android tablets, you can get them on EBAY.

the advantage of these sticks is that they are also compatible with airplay, so if you have Itunes you can share your ITUNE stuff (if you are into apple that is).

Once you are at it, there is a DLNA server that works on Linux here.
 Including
Plex,
MiniDLNA
MediaTomb
Rigel


 There are many devices such as the Rasberry pi, and many others, that can install a flavor of these serverss.  Many NAS systems including the ones by Buffalo have this capability built in, and you an also, hack them to to install arch linx, or DD-WRT, can be run on routers, which has some of those capabilities.

Those files can be streamed from USB drive, or by ounting a CFS drive.

I will write up more on this, stay tuned for more..  

 

Tonido Enabling your own Cloud:

For those who want to share stuff and want to do it the free way.

Music the best is subsonic, but it is paid.  So, I decided to go and replace it with tonido.
tonido is kind of a cloud with a music player.  There are apps for clients in Android, IOS, and you can use the web server.

Tonido has a website, that resolves dynamically the ip address of your intranet.

You may need to forward a few ports, but it is pretty simple to setup.

 

Sharing Pictures from your linux server.

http://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-share-your-photos-for-free-from-your-home-server-using-ubuntu-12.04-lts-and-phpalbum

Another way, would be to use Flikr, but you will have to upload the fotos to that service.

Online alternatives.

Picasa is another, not sure if it retains the resolution.

Those are alternatives to uploading to FB where pictures are downgraded to save space in the website.

Setup Open VPN.

Open VPN is a very secured and powerfull VPN when you want to access your network from outside.  This prevent you from having to foward to public internet ports that can compromise your security on your network, such as 25, 23. 22.  Additionally, this allows you to do save browsing because, once you are connected it is as if you are within your own home netework, and data will be encrypted to/from your home network, including data outbound to the internet.

OpenVPN Quick setup guide.

Setup Soft VPN.

SoftEther VPN Project develops and distributes SoftEther VPN,
An Open-Source Free ​Cross-platform Multi-protocol VPN Program,
as an academic project from University of Tsukuba.

Setup your own PVN using Amazon cloud for free.

This article shows how to set it up in 10 minutes, and also can be used on phones.

Raspberry pi as a Hi-Fi Stereo.

This is a project using RunAudio, it is a distribution of Linux that becomes a sound front end that you  can control from any device.  If you setup Rasberry pi with a USB DAC it can be a high fidelity music system that can playback from USB drive or your network.

Rasberry Pi as a Hifi. 

Some dacs you can use:

The HifiBerry is a dac you can use specifically designed for this clever computer.

Behringer U-Control UCA222 USB DAC

Is my favorite for $29, you can use this also in your android tablet, and your pc if you need it.


There are other devices that support this.  See the website below:

RuneAudio.

Running Linux Under Windows.

You are a developer, does not have the resources to install a virtual machine and stil lwant to have linux residing on the same computer you have a few options.

MKS Tools.  It is a collection of tools that once installed allows you to have ability to seameslly make ssh connections, use of Xwindows server, VNC, tunneling, Korn Shell, among other things.

Cygwin.  Highly recommended this is free and open source, this project aim is to have a shell that resembles Unix.  It is a command line interface with 100s of commands including all shell command, networking, C++ compiler, perl envionment, among other things.

Co-linux is a program that is the counterpart of Wine.  It allow you to run linux executables on your windows, it almost is llike having linux installed within Windows with great performance.

RactOS this is the next I am trying, it is an operating system based on Windows NT/XP. 

Fast Linux using Lupunto.

This is a version of ubuntu that uses a minimal size desktop, that is lightweight. It makes my little mini pc, with ssd drive scream in speed.

Some links of things I have done after installing.

You got to make sure you install the amd drivers for accelerated video.

this place 6 awesome conkis configs, is great.  Conkis is a program that runs in background and imprints on it, statistics about the computer sysstem.


These are other tweaks you can do...

How to Create a Volume with more than one hardrive.

These are instructions I have found how to to that:

http://askubuntu.com/questions/7002/how-to-set-up-multiple-hard-drives-as-one-volume

In Windows you can do the same according to this article in CNET.

http://www.cnet.com/how-to/how-to-turn-old-hard-drives-into-one-large-drive-in-windows/

Fast Distro to run from USB.

http://www.porteus.org/

http://sparkylinux.org/sparkylinux-full-usb-stick-installation/

https://www.slax.org/

Installing Linux in Winbook.

http://www.benchadwick.com/2015/01/linux-on-a-tw100-winbook-tablet-microcenters-windows-8-1-system/