Patch Management in the Linux World
At one radio station I volunteer for, we’re mainly a Linux shop. Rivendell provide playout, Icecast streams the audio and it’s Debian on the desktop. With the small number of systems involved, keeping them...
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It’s Getting Meta in My Router
Virtualisation has really taken over the world of IT. In the day job, I don’t buy new servers, I ask for a VM to be provisioned on an existing VM cluster. Even in the...
Protecting that Web Stream with QoS on Cisco ADSL Routers
If you’ve got a broadcast critical web stream to worry about, prioritising it ahead of all other web traffic is an important job. I’ve seen a number of approaches to it over the years. The...
Who’s using my bandwidth?
It’s one of those questions you often don’t think about until you start running into problems. You’re hitting the bandwidth limit of some link but not sure what to blame it on. The pretty...
OpenSIPs in the DMZ
You’ve got your brand new broadcast IP codec. A pair of them really, one inside the network and the other outside. How do you make them talk to each other? Admittedly, it could be...
IP for Serial Controlled Audio Switches
It’s not often you talk about systems from the DOS era, especially now that we’re in 2015. However, the DCS playout system used to be shipped with a serial controlled audio router. The router...
SIP Audio Codecs – Are They the Future?
In the past, if you wanted broadcast quality audio on an OB, you had to book and ISDN months in advance at a fairly non-negligible cost. Even more costly was broadcasts really remote locations...
Cisco Router as a PPTP VPN Server
It’s not often that I end up writing things about networks. Especially as my network credentials only stretch as far as a Computer Science degree and a CCENT. However, I thought it might be...
Logging Output with LiquidSoap
In ye olden days, logging of station output used to occasionally involve a stack of VCRs, long play tapes and presenters tasked with swapping out tapes. Nowadays, everything is done on a computer. It...
Overkill MIC Live Lamp
We’re all used to seeing those Canford boxes, Sonifed LED bars or even an incandescent lightbulb painted red. Turns out you can get a lot more complicated than that. It’s possible to combine a...