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Replace Your Windows With LCD Panels

Posted by timothy on from the but-how-do-the-local-burglars-look? dept.

hoagaboom writes "I had particularly ugly neighbors and a lot of LCD panels laying around, so why not build a Virtual Window? I really wanted to do full motion video, but PCI bandwidth is standing in my way. So with multiple PCIE vid cards, any suggestions on how to split a full motion video stream in Linux?"

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  1. You could always by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hook up a webcam and put it right outside.

    1. Re:You could always by ePhil_One · · Score: 5, Funny
      Three years ago, I could handle the amount of sunlight that came through the upper windows above my main windows. A year ago, I couldn't, so I put in mini-blinds on those. Now even that is bright enough to bother me (even at night, just from the moonlight), hence the line of thinking. Maybe it's just me.

      Dude, you're either turning into a vampire or have a serious medical problem. Either way I suggest a doctors visit...

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    2. Re:You could always by mikewas · · Score: 4, Funny
      Too late, it's been done. It happenned right after we found the results of unsynchronized images in a flight simulator.

      It wasn't pretty.

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    3. Re:You could always by corian · · Score: 4, Funny

      Hook up a webcam and put it right outside. ...on a twelve-hour delay. Perfect way to amuse/confuse your houstguests.

  2. Too late by mindriot · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sorry, I already replaced my Windows with Linux.

    SCNR

  3. People with glass windows by savagedome · · Score: 4, Funny

    I had particularly ugly neighbors

    The neighbor's response: "I had particularly ugly neighbors too"

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  4. News For Nerds?? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    This can't be right...TFA contains an article of a (presumably) real, live, breathing girl!

    What have you done with my Slashdot??

    /ducks

  5. Cruel but awesome........ by ARRRLovin · · Score: 5, Funny

    I want to see the same concept executed using 30" Apple Cinema displays and have video of birds smashing into the "glass", like you're looking out of a skyscraper window.

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  6. Replacing Neighbors by Snap+E+Tom · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now he can have some porn chick neighbors!

  7. Windows Blue Screen? by MonkeyCookie · · Score: 4, Funny

    I could just imagine the shock of the guy's grandma coming over, looking out the window, and suddenly seeing the Windows BSOD appear in the window.

  8. Re:Absolutely Amazing by pla · · Score: 5, Funny

    If nothing else, go look at this just to see the panels installed and "lit up."

    Whoah!

    Simply Amazing!

    34 posts, and a person's personal site hasn't gone up in flames yet?

    The hell with the LCD panels, I want to know his ISP!

  9. Are your neighbors uglier than you? by exp(pi*sqrt(163)) · · Score: 4, Funny

    I ask because mirrors are fairly inexpensive.

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  10. This guy is my hero. by sTalking_Goat · · Score: 5, Funny
    8 15" LCD panels just laying around? Hot chicks helping him solder? ...solder?

    Who are you and how can I have your life?

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  11. Wardriving! by xsupergr0verx · · Score: 4, Funny

    I wish this technology was consumer and commonplace. Then you could wardrive someone's network and goatse all their LCD windows...

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  12. REWARD For Stolen Equipment by Nautica · · Score: 4, Funny

    The company I work for recently had the theft of 8 15 inch LCD monitors. If you have any information regarding this crime that leads to an arrest, we shall reward you $1000 dollars.

  13. But if he was a real geek by geekoid · · Score: 4, Funny

    he would have something besides a sunset.Well maybe a sunset, but not one from Earth!

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  14. Re:Ob simpsons by RsG · · Score: 4, Funny

    Grandpa: (with stake and mallet) We have to kill the boy!
    Lisa: How did you know that Barts a vampire?
    Grandpa: He's a vampire?! (drops stake/mallet) AHHHHH (runs away)

    (later)

    Lisa: You must drive this stake through his heart.
    Homer: DIE YOU INHUMAN MONSTER!!!! (pounds stake into Burns)
    Lisa: Uh, dad that's his crotch.

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