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Penguins Invade the North Pole

Posted by michael on from the not-as-good-as-jennycam dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes "Thanks to a project of the U.S. National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), a webcam has for the first time been installed at the North Pole -- one which runs on Embedded Linux (uClinux), no less! The device was installed on April 28, 2002 and is now logging four images a day, which are available for viewing on NOAA's publicly accessible website. This article at LinuxDevices.com describes the Linux-based webcam (called the NetCam), opens up the device to see what embedded hardware and software are inside, and explains why the NetCam's developers used Embedded Linux as the basis of their design."

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  1. Re:Article opens up webcam to explore blah blah bl by damien_kane · · Score: 0, Troll

    One word: Linux.

    You should know by now that if anything is linked remotely to linux it gets posted on /.

    Hell, if you submitted a story to slashdot that you are making coffee right now and have heard about linux somewhere the editors would post it... and if Timothy posted it he would probably add some inane comment like "The nerve of this guy, calling himself a coffee drinker while having only berely heard of linux"

    Then there would be 50 posts telling people to go to your [now] slashdotted homepage to read the article while it turned into a discussion about big brother.

    Just my CDN$0.02 (US$0.01)

  2. Re:Help me please! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll
    Hello Anal Cox!

    Will you let me exorcise the invading penguin hordes from your ass with my 12" GOLEM POLE?!!!!