Installing Icecast 2 on DreamHost VPS

Weather Underground Radio StreamsWeather Underground provided a free service to host all of these streams so you could listen into important weather bulletins over the Internet. Weather Underground was purchased by the Weather.com parent company The Weather Company in 2012 and then IBM purchased The Weather Company in 2016. Weather Underground moved all of their services over to Amazon Web Services and canned a few legacy products including the NOAA Weather Radio streams. ...

March 5, 2017 · 7 min · Aaron

Mac OS X Server Time Machine Volume Filling Too Fast

I've been noticing on my Mac OS X Mavericks 10.8 Server I have running in a data center has been filling up its Time Machine volume way too quickly. The backups are continually huge and only about a week fits on the second hard drive inside of the Mac mini. Every time the machine backed up it was taking up so much room that previous backups had to be deleted. ...

August 21, 2014 · 2 min · Aaron

Getting Macs to play with Ubuntu

I'm a fan of Unix operating systems in general. That's what got me interested in switching to Mac OS X because it's Unix-based. It was inevitable that I would eventually get a server-class machine again that wasn't Mac-based. The new Dell machine that I have running has Ubuntu 8.10 - a Debian-based machine which is something I'm new too. I wanted to set up the Ubuntu machine to share files with the Macs on my network but not by using the crappy Samba protocol or even NFS. I know both are troublesome and not as speedy on a Mac. My only other choice was to get AFP working on the Ubuntu server and to my delight, packages exist for this. Netatalk is an Appletalk daemon and Avahi is a Bonjour zeroconf equivalent. Installing those packages and starting the services didn't do it for me. Leopard was having issues with the cleartext passwords being passed to AFPD so I went nowhere. ...

February 6, 2009 · 2 min · Aaron