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The first thing I did was get a high-resolution webcam, the FirewireDirect DV WebCam and an X10
Ninja for remote panning/tilting. You can remote control this with your computer, but I chose to not use this option yet - though I would like it controllable from the web.

Then, for the recording, I'm using a beta build of CoolCam X from the great folks
at Evological who implemented a few motion detection changes for me.

Currently, for every time the motion detector trips, it records a JPEG still shot, and it also appends it to a Quicktime movie (in Photo-JPEG format, which, xine and xmovie happily reads). Every nite, a crontab entry moves all of the JPEG's and the movie into a dated directory, for later review.

The Quicktime movie is kind of fun, watching life in motion lapse. I keep it all on the web, but since my link is small, I'm not going to link to any of the quicktime movies for now.. suffice to say, it's funny watching the street in the front of my house.

All running happily on my (now obsolete) G4 DP533 running MacOS X.1

Fast forward to 2002. The company has scaled back their operations considerably. New market research data shows that there is almost nobody who would want to pay to live in a fully automated apartment. Hopeless companies no longer have stock valuations based more in ignorance than in profit potential. The Era of High Tech Toys has passed us by. I'm not sure what HP, "home of the earnings warning," is thinking, but something tells me that their cool new automated homes are not going to pave the way back to profitability.

~wally

----open your eyes---->>>> http://www.x10.com/products/cameras_wired.htm

A simple browse through the X-10 Website will reveal this page, which details their advertising policies.

They even allow you to run a cookie which will completely disable X-10 Ads. All you have to do is click here and it X-10 ads will never again appear for the next month or so, then just click on it again to reset the cookie.

It isn't that hard folks....theres no need to bitch about it, just fix it!

A simple browse through the X-10 Website will reveal this page, which details their advertising policies.

They even allow you to run a cookie which will completely disable X-10 Ads. All you have to do is click here and it X-10 ads will never again appear for the next month or so, then just click on it again to reset the cookie.

It isn't that hard folks....theres no need to bitch about it, just fix it!

Next time I find a typo on the Internet, I think I'll be running to /.

BTW http://ads.x10.com/yahoo2/yahoo_bun.htm

Buy a digital camera today!

Ladies and gentleman, put our hands together for the largest ass on the Internet

G to the izz-O, A to the izz-T, S to the izz-E

Welcome ladies and gentlemen to the 8th wonder of the world
The ass of the century, oh it's timeless, GOATSE!
Thanks for clicking that link
You coulda been anywhere on the web
But you're here with me
I appreciate that...

G to the izz-O, A to the izz-T, S to the izz-E

Reading drivel on that press release 'bout VA (Linux)
Was wondern' why they changed their names
Dumped that dirt cheap stock, through with them
If I worked there, I'd quit, no way I'd work for them
Wasn't born a coder, I just make fun of em'

G to the izz-O, A to the izz-T, S to the izz-E

Porno for freezy keeps my hard drive so sleasy
Can't leave Everquest alone, the game needs me
Hex editing my name into VB progs, it ain't easy
Slashdot wanna IP block me, I get a proxy
And somehow, I beat the lameness filter like Rocky

G to the izz-O, A to the izz-T, S to the izz-E

Not guilty, he who mods me down is not real to me
Therefore he doesn't exist
So poof... vamoose son of a bitch

[Chorus]
G to the izz-O, A to the izz-T, S to the izz-E
Reading drivel on that press release 'bout VA (Linux)
G to the izz-O, A to the izz-T, S to the izz-E
That's the anthem get'cha damn hands up
G to the izz-O, A to the izz-T, S to the izz-E
Not guilty ya'll got-ta feel me
G to the izz-O, A to the izz-T, S to the izz-E
That's the anthem get'cha damn hands UP!

Holla at me...
I do this for the posters
To let 'em know what enlarged ass look like... when they shoulda looked at that link closer
Show 'em how to avoid a room full 'o taco snot coaxers
Get some good trolls in before the story's over
Posts with redirect goatse links even get modded up
I'm dissin JonKatz for those 15-year-old boys he seems to have a crush
Pay for premium Slashdot? You gotta be kidding us
If /. ain't profitable, pimp your boy whores for mo' bucks

[Chorus]
Yeah...
GOATSE is back, trollin' parody of rap
Go on, click that link, view the crater in that crack
Like I told you sell boys, no
JonKatz does that so hopefully you won't have to go through that
I was raised on Windows, point and click
If you don't like that, you can suck my dick
Got an X10 camera, focused on my ass
Wanna see the picture? PayPal me some cash
Threshold under 0, why I got it so low?
Save good trolls on my disk, watchin' all the time for more
So you know I seen it all before
I seen redundant on karma whores when their link post was too late
Crapfloods and mod downs, the two things I hate
A good troll modded up, the two things is great

G to the izz-O, A to the izz-T, S to the izz-E

What else can I say about Slashdot, it'll turn a man gay

[Chorus]
G to the izz-O, A to the izz-T, S to the izz-E
(4x to fade out)

The above has been brought to you by the fine folks of Frost Pist Brewery. Frost Pist Beer - Always ICE BREWED for a THICK head.

...and is shifting from a media company to research and development for online ventures.

Perhaps they can research some of the brain damages and annoyances of the x10 popunder ads and give out a cookie that gets rid of them for more than 30 days.

--
Patrick Cable II

...and is shifting from a media company to research and development for online ventures.

Perhaps they can research some of the brain damages and annoyances of the x10 popunder ads and give out a cookie that gets rid of them for more than 30 days.

--
Patrick Cable II

A QUESTION FOR TROLLS: KNOW WHERE I CAN FIND THE "TROLL TUESDAY 2001" PAGE THAT SHOWS CMDRTACO AND ONE OF HIS GAY BUDDIES NAKED HAVING ANAL INTERCOURSE? I WOULD LIKE TO LINK THE PAGE IN THIS SONG...THAT IS ALL...

Ladies and gentleman, put our hands together for the largest ass on the Internet

G to the izz-O, A to the izz-T, S to the izz-E

Welcome ladies and gentlemen to the 8th wonder of the world
The ass of the century, oh it's timeless, GOATSE!
Thanks for clicking that link
You coulda been anywhere on the web
But you're here with me
I appreciate that...

G to the izz-O, A to the izz-T, S to the izz-E

Reading drivel on that press release 'bout VA (Linux)
Was wondern' why they changed their names
Dumped that dirt cheap stock, through with them
If I worked there, I'd quit, no way I'd work for them
Wasn't born a coder, I just make fun of em'

G to the izz-O, A to the izz-T, S to the izz-E

Porno for freezy keeps my hard drive so sleasy
Can't leave Everquest alone, the game needs me
Hex editing my name into VB progs, it ain't easy
Slashdot wanna IP block me, I hang up and dial back in
And somehow, I beat the lameness filter like Rocky

G to the izz-O, A to the izz-T, S to the izz-E

Not guilty, he who mods me down is not real to me
Therefore he doesn't exist
So poof... vamoose son of a bitch

[Chorus]
G to the izz-O, A to the izz-T, S to the izz-E
Reading drivel on that press release 'bout VA (Linux)
G to the izz-O, A to the izz-T, S to the izz-E
That's the anthem get'cha damn hands up
G to the izz-O, A to the izz-T, S to the izz-E
Not guilty ya'll got-ta feel me
G to the izz-O, A to the izz-T, S to the izz-E
That's the anthem get'cha damn hands UP!

Holla at me...
I do this for the posters
To let 'em know what enlarged ass look like... when they shoulda looked at that link closer
Show 'em how to avoid a room full 'o taco snot coaxers
Get some good trolls in before the story's over
Posts with redirect goatse links even get modded up
I'm dissin JonKatz for those 15-year-old boys he seems to have a crush
Pay for premium Slashdot? You gotta be kidding us
If /. ain't profitable, pimp your boy whores for mo' bucks

[Chorus]
Yeah...
GOATSE is back, trollin' parody of rap
Go on, click that link, view the crater in that crack
Like I told you sell boys, no
JonKatz does that so hopefully you won't have to go through that
I was raised on Windows, point and click
If you don't like that, you can suck my dick
Got an X10 camera, focused on my ass
Wanna see the picture, PayPal me some cash
Threshold under 0, why I got it so low?
Save good trolls on my disk, watchin' all the time for more
So you know I seen it all before
I seen redundant on karma whores when their link post was too late
Crapfloods and mod downs, the two things I hate
A good troll modded up, the two things is great

G to the izz-O, A to the izz-T, S to the izz-E

What else can I say about Slashdot, it'll turn a man gay

[Chorus]
G to the izz-O, A to the izz-T, S to the izz-E
(4x to fade out)

The above has been brought to you by the fine folks of Frost Pist Brewery. Frost Pist Beer - Always ICE BREWED for a THICK head.

REAM MY ASS HARDER....HARDER....HARDER...TOO HARD!

A QUESTION FOR TROLLS: KNOW WHERE I CAN FIND THE "TROLL TUESDAY 2001" PAGE THAT SHOWS CMDRTACO AND ONE OF HIS GAY BUDDIES NAKED HAVING ANAL INTERCOURSE? I WOULD LIKE TO LINK THE PAGE IN THIS SONG...THAT IS ALL...

Ladies and gentleman, put our hands together for the largest ass on the Internet

G to the izz-O, A to the izz-T, S to the izz-E

Welcome ladies and gentlemen to the 8th wonder of the world
The ass of the century, oh it's timeless, GOATSE!
Thanks for clicking that link
You coulda been anywhere on the web
But you're here with me
I appreciate that...

G to the izz-O, A to the izz-T, S to the izz-E

Reading drivel on that press release 'bout VA (Linux)
Was wondern' why they changed their names
Dumped that dirt cheap stock, through with them
If I worked there, I'd quit, no way I'd work for them
Wasn't born a coder, I just make fun of em'

G to the izz-O, A to the izz-T, S to the izz-E

Porno for freezy keeps my hard drive so sleasy
Can't leave Everquest alone, the game needs me
Hex editing my name into VB progs, it ain't easy
Slashdot wanna IP block me, I hang up and dial back in
And somehow, I beat the lameness filter like Rocky

G to the izz-O, A to the izz-T, S to the izz-E

Not guilty, he who mods me down is not real to me
Therefore he doesn't exist
So poof... vamoose son of a bitch

[Chorus]
G to the izz-O, A to the izz-T, S to the izz-E
Reading drivel on that press release 'bout VA (Linux)
G to the izz-O, A to the izz-T, S to the izz-E
That's the anthem get'cha damn hands up
G to the izz-O, A to the izz-T, S to the izz-E
Not guilty ya'll got-ta feel me
G to the izz-O, A to the izz-T, S to the izz-E
That's the anthem get'cha damn hands UP!

Holla at me...
I do this for the posters
To let 'em know what enlarged ass look like... when they shoulda looked at that link closer
Show 'em how to avoid a room full 'o taco snot coaxers
Get some good trolls in before the story's over
Posts with redirect goatse links even get modded up
I'm dissin JonKatz for those 15-year-old boys he seems to have a crush
Pay for premium Slashdot? You gotta be kidding us
If /. ain't profitable, pimp your boy whores for mo' bucks

[Chorus]
Yeah...
GOATSE is back, trollin' parody of rap
Go on, click that link, view the crater in that crack
Like I told you sell boys, no
JonKatz does that so hopefully you won't have to go through that
I was raised on Windows, point and click
If you don't like that, you can suck my dick
Got an X10 camera, focused on my ass
Wanna see the picture, PayPal me some cash
Threshold under 0, why I got it so low?
Save good trolls on my disk, watchin' all the time for more
So you know I seen it all before
I seen redundant on karma whores when their link post was too late
Crapfloods and mod downs, the two things I hate
A good troll modded up, the two things is great

G to the izz-O, A to the izz-T, S to the izz-E

What else can I say about Slashdot, it'll turn a man gay

[Chorus]
G to the izz-O, A to the izz-T, S to the izz-E
(4x to fade out)

The above has been brought to you by the fine folks of Frost Pist Brewery. Frost Pist Beer - Always ICE BREWED for a THICK head.

X10 equipment?! At last, I can see some naked chicks!

We could get a couple of those X10 babies and duct tape them to various, er "strategic" locations on her body, too. They look small enough to be shoved places, also. :-)

Oh yeah, one more thing I loved about the Internet back only five years ago when I started: no pop-up x10 ads!

At least you can turn the X10 ads off for 30 days at at time:

http://www.x10.com/x10ads.htm

I know from experience with X10

You mean you actually clicked those pop-up ads?

Good grief! Can somebody link to the tens of thousands of "designed for IE" webpages....


Sure! Here ya go!

~z

Most of the replies to your question stated that the quality loss of transmitting an audio signal is the reason for instead transmitting it over Ethernet: When most people use 128Kbps MP3 encoding, I find the idea of bringing up quality bizarre, however there is a good point that with most regular cables the attenuation of high frequencies will be unacceptable.

Having said that it does seem to me that a better solution would be a digital radio transmitter on your PC and a receiver on your stereo, perhaps with a remote or something. One example I found was Mp3 Anywhere (as if X10 needs to be linked to...but anyways). Bleh.

I was going to suggest this very solution to the "threatening teenager" problem.

Hmmm. My kids are about that age. Maybe I'd better check the specials.
Love their gadgets, hate their ads.

To turn off the X10 ads for 3000 days, click here:

http://www.x10.com/home/optout.cgi?DAY=30&PAGE=htt p://www.x10.com/x10ads1.htm

I mean, if you're going to post the link, you had might as well hack it...

Teach a man how to opt out of X10 ads and he'll be happy for the rest of the month. Teach a man how to use Mozilla and he'll be happy for the rest of his life.

To turn off the X10 ads for a month, click here:

http://www.x10.com/home/optout.cgi?DAY=30&PAGE=htt p://www.x10.com/x10ads1.htm

1. Get a stereo-to-rca conversion cable. (or hack one together from some old headfones and a tv cord)
   
2. Connect the RCA cables to your high power, brand name receiver
   
3. Open WinAmp/XMMS/MacAmp and play your tunes from that enormous playlist you've got there

For the remote you can always use the good ole X10 mouse remote.

Actually I would prefer X10 ads - as another /. reader pointed out, X10 ads can be turned off for 30 days at a time.

...wondering if you could do it wireless...

Hey maybe there are some uses for x10 equipment after all! But hurry! This sale ends tomorrow even though it will be on sale again the next day!

(Ducks to avoid a popup ad)

Hey, you're the first person who's ever acknowledged my sig! Hail!

I should have been more clear in my original post. The 15-1994 does have X10 capability, but only of the IR type, not RF. However, you can use it with an IR543 Infrared Mini-Controller (~$23) to get full RF X10 capability.

They've got a better version which *is* feature-loaded:

ur24a.

I dunno why they bother also having the lame remote for about the same price.

I'm very happy with my X10 ultimate remote, annoying popup ads notwithstanding. I like real buttons rather than an LCD screen -- much better in the dark. It doesn't have a huge amount of RAM, so you have to plan out what you're going to do a little bit (and make sure to reset everything when you first start, because there's likely to be junk cluttering up the memory out-of-the-box). But being able to control your lights (and talk to your computer) is pretty nifty, and it's hard to beat $25. (Again, annoying ads notwithstanding.)

The methodology and remarkable benefits are itemized in the patent. Remarkably, those 24 selections constitute 99.5% of the typing in typical English text ... Since one cannot see the keys inside the cavities, their character assignments can be reassigned for optimum alphabet distribution in any language with up to 48 characters and punctuation marks.

Finally, this isn't a grammar note, rather a progression analysis... Notice that "Since one cannot see the keys inside the cavities, their character assignments can be reassigned for optimum alphabet distribution..." Right. I clearly understand how invisible keys can be assigned for optimum alphabet distribution.

The sales lingo on this site rivals X10.com in uselessness and doublespeak. I'd beware of a SPAM mail attack if were you and you were thinking about purchasing one of these.

No more camera ads for today, if no one else has gotten that yet.

http://www.x10.com/home/offer.cgi?!TT11,../techtoy s11.htm

at least x10 has suspended their ads in deference to the WTC disaster!

Oh no! It is another x10.com ad!

By the way, the base rover (without camera) is $59.

Will this screw up all my X-10 stuff?

Will I screw up their power modems?

Damn, $450 bucks? Better tie a string to that thing to re-use it.

They have this page on their website. It makes a cookie so that the ads will be killed automaticly when they pop-under. (It only lasts 30 days though!)

I haven't had a problem with X10 ads since I visited here:
http://www.x10.com/x10ads.htm
and clicked on the "click this link to remove the ads" link.

At least they were SOMEWHAT responsible.
Also interesting to note that they refer to the popunder ads as a "problem" ('Ad-blocking software will also help with this problem.'). (-:

I haven't had a problem with X10 ads since I visited here:
http://www.x10.com/x10ads.htm
and clicked on the "click this link to remove the ads" link.

At least they were SOMEWHAT responsible.
Also interesting to note that they refer to the popunder ads as a "problem" ('Ad-blocking software will also help with this problem.'). (-:

You can kinda-sorta opt out of X10 ads by going here. Although I believe the net effect is that it loads the ad, reads your optout preference from a cookie, then immediately closes the ad window. Plus, you have to re-opt after 30 days. Better than nothing, I guess.

--

This one should redirect straight to the article after opting you out for 10 years.

The X10-free link. At least for 30 days. Where can I pick up my points?

Life is a disease, sexually transmitted and fatal.

Click here for 99,999 days of no pop-under X10 cameras.

How's this for a marketing idea: no matter what your profile, a user would get streaming audio ads for the ultra-concealable x10 spy mic, perfect for eavesdropping on sultry babes.

Hit that mute button now...

X10 technology is cool, but their ads are not. Here is another way to disable X10 ads to an arbitrary date. Just change the date as you wish. Example: http://www.x10.com/cgi-bin/search/search_index.cgi ?search=%3Cscript%3Edocument.cookie%3D%22PopUnder% 3D0%3B+expires%3D05-Aug-2038+19%3A44%3A14+GMT%3B+d omain%3D.x10.com%3B+path%3D%2F%22%3C%2Fscript%3E

one of the worst offenders

Is X10 really the offender? Or are the offenders the sites that say
<script>window.open("http://ads.x10.com/?Z3d lYmNhbW5vd2h0bWwuZGF0"+Math.random()+">wcn000", ...);</script>?

Alex Peder
President
Mr. Peder has served in the capacity of president and as a director since August 1999. From July 1996 to August 1999, he served as president of retail sales, one of three divisions of X-10 (USA), a wholly owned subsidiary of X10 Ltd. that provides sales, marketing and product distribution services for X10 Ltd. in the U.S. From June 1994 to July 1996, Mr. Peder served as vice-president of worldwide sales at Virtual i-O, Inc., a systems development and manufacturing company.
AlexPeder@x10.com

Wade Pfeiffer
Chief Financial Officer
Mr. Pfeiffer has served in the capacity of chief financial officer since July 1999. He also served as a director from August 1999 to July 2000. From January to July 1999, Mr. Pfeiffer was director of finance and operations for Definitive Stock, Inc., an online stock photography agency. From 1986 to 1998 he served in various positions with Ernst & Young LLP, most recently as a senior manager in the corporate finance division.
WadePfeiffer@x10.com

Jim Phillips
Chief Technology Officer
Mr. Phillips has served in the capacity of chief techonology officer since our inception and has served as a director since July 2000. From 1994 to 1998 he served as director of software engineering at System X-10 Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of X10 Ltd.
JimPhillips@x10.com

Alex Peder
President
Mr. Peder has served in the capacity of president and as a director since August 1999. From July 1996 to August 1999, he served as president of retail sales, one of three divisions of X-10 (USA), a wholly owned subsidiary of X10 Ltd. that provides sales, marketing and product distribution services for X10 Ltd. in the U.S. From June 1994 to July 1996, Mr. Peder served as vice-president of worldwide sales at Virtual i-O, Inc., a systems development and manufacturing company.
AlexPeder@x10.com

Wade Pfeiffer
Chief Financial Officer
Mr. Pfeiffer has served in the capacity of chief financial officer since July 1999. He also served as a director from August 1999 to July 2000. From January to July 1999, Mr. Pfeiffer was director of finance and operations for Definitive Stock, Inc., an online stock photography agency. From 1986 to 1998 he served in various positions with Ernst & Young LLP, most recently as a senior manager in the corporate finance division.
WadePfeiffer@x10.com

Jim Phillips
Chief Technology Officer
Mr. Phillips has served in the capacity of chief techonology officer since our inception and has served as a director since July 2000. From 1994 to 1998 he served as director of software engineering at System X-10 Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of X10 Ltd.
JimPhillips@x10.com

Alex Peder
President
Mr. Peder has served in the capacity of president and as a director since August 1999. From July 1996 to August 1999, he served as president of retail sales, one of three divisions of X-10 (USA), a wholly owned subsidiary of X10 Ltd. that provides sales, marketing and product distribution services for X10 Ltd. in the U.S. From June 1994 to July 1996, Mr. Peder served as vice-president of worldwide sales at Virtual i-O, Inc., a systems development and manufacturing company.
AlexPeder@x10.com

Wade Pfeiffer
Chief Financial Officer
Mr. Pfeiffer has served in the capacity of chief financial officer since July 1999. He also served as a director from August 1999 to July 2000. From January to July 1999, Mr. Pfeiffer was director of finance and operations for Definitive Stock, Inc., an online stock photography agency. From 1986 to 1998 he served in various positions with Ernst & Young LLP, most recently as a senior manager in the corporate finance division.
WadePfeiffer@x10.com

Jim Phillips
Chief Technology Officer
Mr. Phillips has served in the capacity of chief techonology officer since our inception and has served as a director since July 2000. From 1994 to 1998 he served as director of software engineering at System X-10 Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of X10 Ltd.
JimPhillips@x10.com

X10 provides the following link: http://www.x10.com/home/optout.cgi?DAY=30&PAGE=htt p://www.x10.com/x10ads1.htm that sets a 30 day opt-out. Modify the DAY parameter to be 3000 and you will never see them until 2009!

http://www.x10.com/home/optout.cgi?DAY=3000&PAGE=h ttp://www.x10.com/x10ads1.htm

X10 provides the following link: http://www.x10.com/home/optout.cgi?DAY=30&PAGE=htt p://www.x10.com/x10ads1.htm that sets a 30 day opt-out. Modify the DAY parameter to be 3000 and you will never see them until 2009!

http://www.x10.com/home/optout.cgi?DAY=3000&PAGE=h ttp://www.x10.com/x10ads1.htm