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Alek's Christmas Lights Webcam is Back
millert continues "You can Email Santa page and he does respond to Email inquiries. Alek is already thinking ahead for Christmas 2005 ...
The picture quality on his cool webcam pictures seems much better than a run-of-the-mill webcam; the image quality under low-light conditions is surprisingly good. In question D-5 of his FAQ, he says he has it under non-disclosure and all he can say is that it is a "640x480 pixel image using 1/2.7" sensor - size matters when it comes to pixels" and he is right about that -- this is one of the reasons the pictures of Mars from the Spirit Rover were so good. Even more interesting is the info in the jpegs' EXIF header (as displayed by ImageMagick's identify utility. There's quite a bit of information in there, including a reference to a company that provided IP-based video security for the 2004 Olympics and a comment saying 'do NOT release to marketing droids' Fortunately, this is Slashdot.
Slashdot crushed it in 2002 and 2003 -- will the 3rd time be the charm for Alek?"
till some creative troll figures out how to make goatse out of Christmas lights?
Monstar L
not for long...
...Rob
The American Dream isn't an SUV and a house in the suburbs; it's Don't Tread On Me.
Well, seeing as it's loading pathetically slowly right now, just after the story appeared to non-subscribers, I'd say the answer is 'no' mod_perl did not save the day.
hahah, he said he might stand a chance. no comments yet and its already dead. i hope his server isnt near the xmas tree cause its gonna catch on fire.
is blinking on and off..
your Slashdot Effect Analysis has been Slashdotted...
For what good it did him.
"Nine times out of ten, starting a fire is not the best way to solve the problem." - my wife
Not only can we pan/zoom the webcam and control the 17,000 christmas lights - NO! We can also burn his house down by letting his web server die a horrible heat death.
Talk about an arsonist's dream.
"All you have to do is be fragile and grateful. So stay the underdog." Chuck Palahniuk, Choke
"Yikes. Incoming Slashdot'er. Full power to the web server!"
She cannae take anymore Jim!
Survive the slashdot effect? I think not...
I don't see the "Chevy Chase" button... :(
"and annoy my understanding) neighbors! "
Dude, you just put this link on Slashdot? Understanding undershmanding, you had better hope they have strobe-induced seizure insurance.
an entire flock of Colorado geese are completely disoriented tonight. They have been waddling around bumping into garbage bins and parked cars without rhyme or reason.
This odd sighting is being reported only blocks away from the residence of the woman who was inadvertently hypnotized by her electricity meter earlier today.
*blinking cursor*
All the Slashdotters down in Slashdotterville liked Christmas a lot, but the AC, who lived just north of Slashdotterville, did not. The AC hated Christmas -- the whole Christmas season. Oh, please don't ask why, no one quite knows the reason. It could be, perhaps, that his shoes were too tight. Or maybe his head wasn't screwed on just right. But I think that the best reason of all may have been that his heart was two sizes too small.
"...all the labours of the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness..." yada yada
Get your own free personal location tracker
On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me:
24 million dollars from Nigeria
On the second day of Christmas my true love gave to me:
Two Rolex watches
On the third day of Christmas my true love gave to me:
One penis enlargement
On the fourth day of Christmas my true love gave to me:
Three better orgasms
On the fifth day of Christmas my true love gave to me:
18 Viagara pills
On the sixth day of Christmas my true love gave to me:
Two bottles of Cialis
On the seventh day of Christmas my true love gave to me:
25 weight loss pills
On the eighth day of Christmas my true love gave to me:
A better home mortgage
On the ninth day of Christmas my true love gave to me:
Two breast implants
On the tenth day of Christmas my true love gave to me:
28 million email addresses
On the eleventh day of Christmas my true love gave to me:
A new bank account password
On the twelveth day of Christmas my true love gave to me:
A bundle of Discount Windows software
Phone messages for Alek:
"Please prepare your server for a slashdotting."
"You have 10 minutes to prepare your server for slashdotting"
"You have 5 minutes to prepare your server for slashdotting"
"You have 1 minute to prepare your server for slashdotting"
"Please extinguish your server".
When they came for the communists, I said "He's next door. Take him away. Goddam commies."
I tried going to mirrordot, but they didn't have his house mirrored.
As in:
/dev/null & /dev/null &
#!/bin/bash
while [1]
do
lynx -dump (Whatever GET request to turn lights on) >
lynx -dump (Whatever GET request to turn lights off) >
done
I wonder why he doesn't say what type of webcam it is. My only thought is that he's possibly afraid someone will find where it is hidden and steal it because its nice. Some form of security through obscurity I suppose.
ok.. so heads you lose tails I win. right?
When I go to that page, I get "connection refused." Yep, his analysis is right on the money.
You can even do this at home, if your site isn't cool enough, with the slashdot simulator.
What will he do if we turn all lights off? I call on slashdot to turn off all nights tonight! Can we do it?
who | grep -i blond | date cd ~; unzip; touch; strip; finger; mount; gasp; yes; uptime; umount; sleep
Scare the hell out of anyone who's driving by...
Ever so slowly, slashdot creeps closer to the potential to take human life.
It's been a while since we did a good slashdotting, and I was starting to lose faith in our ability to exert domination over any thing with an electrical circuit.
We've slashdotted NASA, gameboys, and entire countries, but is this the first time we've slashdotted a house?!
The geeks strike again from their hidden rebel basements!
What do you think caused that big blackout last year?
Ways Geeks Celebrate Christmas
11. Mountain Dew-nog
10. Printing out "One Year of Free Computer Service" certificates to give to the family.
9. Designing elf-killing levels for your favorite FPS.
8. Explaining to children how it would be physically impossible for Santa to deliver all the presents.
7. Wear mistletoe hat and keep fingers crossed.
6. Devise a computer-controlled system to detect and prevent household members from trying to peek into their presents before Christmas.
5. Put a santa hat on your avatar.
4. Change the blue neon lights in the case to flashing red and green.
3. Decorating the tree with SDRAM and CPUs burned out from your last overclocking experiment.
2. Rewriting Christmas carols in Tolkien's Elvish.
1. Programming the christmas lights to flash out "I hate this holiday of unbridled consumerism" in binary.
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Who you calling, Shirley?! ;)
His page explaining the Slashdot Effect appears to have been slashdotted. Oh, the irony.
"The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it." - G.B. Shaw
I thought the term "wanker" was British but I guess it must actually be Dutch...
I know just what to do!" The Grinch Laughed in his throat.
And he made a quick Slashdot link and a post.
And he chuckled, and clucked, "What a great Grinchy trick!
"With this link and this post, I'll Slashdot Saint Nick!"
I too have felt the cold finger of injustice.
Turn em all off except for one blinking on the very end of the line. When you're neighbours ask, tell them its command line is simply waiting for input.
This is not a sig.
MOD DOWN! Politically incorrect.
It's now "Festive Greetings"
If 87% of slashdot readers are trying to use lynx to view a site with a webcam feed, we've got bigger problems.
Please help metamoderate.
>Ever so slowly, slashdot creeps closer to the potential to take human life.
which will probably happen before a slashdot user ever creates human life.
Thank you for this experience /.! (and x-mas) /. are responsible for Christmas now?!
/., the server fried, and when Herod's soldiers went looking to kill the first born, they got a 404 error- the saviour they requested could not be found.
I wonder how things would have differed if SlashDot had been responsible...
*Mary gave birth to Jesus Christ (our_lord@god.com) live on webcam, but, due to
*The Three Wise Men were guided by a star because their GPS had been switched off due to military action.
*When they did finally reach the manger, they presented their gifts- gold, frankincense and tons of spare batteries
*The shepherds were sitting in their fields, keeping watch over their flocks by night. And, lo, the angel of the Lord came down, but, due to a poor graphics card, it was just a white flickery light effect, which the shepherds found entirely unbelievable
*Mary, Joseph and their child fled to Egypt. Sadly, their lack of ID cards meant that they were forced to stand in a separate queue and explain themselves to Customs. Stating that the baby was the "Son of God" was apparently not good enough for "Parentage" section of the visa.