http://blog.ianbeyer.com a nerd's tales of church IT, social media, and streaming video Mon, 08 Mar 2010 04:06:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A long time ago, I made a post about fixing network priority in Windows, and I found myself having to do the same task again on my new Windows 7 system. The process isn't quite as easy to find under Windows 7/Vista. Here's the updated version: Right-click on your network icon ... http://blog.ianbeyer.com/archives/403 I've added two pages where I'm keeping a list of IP cameras and mobile devices known to work with Wowza. http://blog.ianbeyer.com/archives/401 The biggest electrical energy drain in your home is usually lights. It goes without saying that if you can address that area, you'll be a whole lot happier when the electric bill comes. To this end, we've been replacing the lights in our home, starting with CFL a few years ago.Rather ... http://blog.ianbeyer.com/archives/377 (or, How Amazon Cloudwatch helps manage Wowza server load) This morning I woke up to two things: Beautiful Kansas City February weather (aka, an ice storm), and a voicemail from the Senior Pastor, asking if we had sufficient online capacity to support a larger-than-usual stream audience. Online worship streaming is a ... http://blog.ianbeyer.com/archives/366 This just in from my Dell rep, and confirmed by several in the CITRT Twitterverse: VMWare has opened up their academic pricing to non-profits. Jason Powell has the pricing information at his blog. The relevant bits from VMWare: Definition and Requirements of a Non-Profit Entity for Eligibility to Participate in the ... http://blog.ianbeyer.com/archives/359 [caption id="" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Photo: bdtyre"][/caption] Working in an IT shop, sometimes you have the luxury of forgetting just how bad consumer-grade hardware support has gotten. I've been absolutely spoiled by our Dell team, so the past few weeks have been a serious reality check. About a year and a half ago, ... http://blog.ianbeyer.com/archives/351 Now that we've gotten streaming to computers down pat, I've set my sights on delivering a good experience for mobile users. Unfortunately, with the wide variety of mobile platforms out there, this is not an especially easy task. The Mac/PC/Linux issues are complicated enough, and it gets really tricky when ... http://blog.ianbeyer.com/archives/344 Longtail recently released JW Player 5.0, but it had a bug that prevented it from being used with a Wowza load balance setup. It would catch the redirect and show the first few frames and then start buffering without end. I just got the new 764 build and am happy to ... http://blog.ianbeyer.com/archives/329 On our live stream page, we have a nifty little javascript counter that lets you know when the next service is. Leo noticed today that in Internet Explorer, it's counting down properly, while in Firefox, it's saying the event is already happening. On a hunch, we changed the target date to ... http://blog.ianbeyer.com/archives/321 Earlier this week, I got an e-mail from Amazon Web Services, with some new goodies being announced. The first was new pricing for Wowza. While the cost of each instance-hour is going up slightly, the cost of bandwidth is dropping about 15%. This makes me happy. The second was that Wowza has ... http://blog.ianbeyer.com/archives/317