About 95% of the posts are about guns, and people wanting others to know they have a clue or two about them. intresting..
The camera idea is good only to ID the perp, and is the solution I would suggest if using a gun is not an option for your mother.
I have an old SGI Indy which runs capture upon movement software (securitylite, its free at freeware.sgi.com). When it detects movement it will start to capture and page me via text msg. When I get the page, I can load a page hosted on my G5 which will allow me to view a real time qt stream from its camera. As this is happening, the Indy is sending frames to a remote ftp server (just in case it is stolen). The set up is simular to what I have been using since 1995, I'm sure there are several windows apps which will do the same and more.
it won't prevent anything from happening, but we'll have a better idea who to look for.
you call me a moron while you can't do your own simple research without consuming other peoples time? funny how that works.
How many results returned means little here. I use google to do research, with 10,000+ or more results returned. Do I read them all? No... Do I find what I'm looking for? Yes, in about 30-120 seconds.
I may be way off base, but to me if you are a contractor, you should bill the client for part of the connection used to access the clients equipment, and certainly for your time.
As a person who is full time / salary, I'd say no, you should pay for your own connection.
The expectation generally is you are willing to come in after hours to correct any 'critical issues', or pull all nighters from time to time when a project or situation requires.
If you can save yourself a ride in the car to work by logging on remotely, thats just better for you in terms of money/time/stress.
Keep in mind also, the employer may of had to pay large sums of money for the equipment and software on the other end to allow for this type of access. So they are fronting a bit of the bill already.
That being said, it would be very nice of the employer to chip in on your end, but I don't see it as being the 'right thing to do' from an employer perspective.
There are always exceptions. I worked for a large and popular 3D software company not to long ago. We installed VPN access, the policy was you pay for your end, we'll pay for our end and we don't mind if you do not come into work so long as you get your projects in on time. One of the key developers decided he wanted to move way the heck out in the boon docks, no broad band, DSL or calble... anyway the company did not want to lose this fella, so he was given a free sat uplink and everything else required to connect back to the office.
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i suspect the cost of ownership has something to do with it, but i could be wrong.
About 95% of the posts are about guns, and people wanting others to know they have a clue or two about them. intresting..
The camera idea is good only to ID the perp, and is the solution I would suggest if using a gun is not an option for your mother.
I have an old SGI Indy which runs capture upon movement software (securitylite, its free at freeware.sgi.com). When it detects movement it will start to capture and page me via text msg. When I get the page, I can load a page hosted on my G5 which will allow me to view a real time qt stream from its camera. As this is happening, the Indy is sending frames to a remote ftp server (just in case it is stolen). The set up is simular to what I have been using since 1995, I'm sure there are several windows apps which will do the same and more.
it won't prevent anything from happening, but we'll have a better idea who to look for.
If it is an IMAP server, you shouldn't have to do anything. point the new mail client to the server, your folders will all be there.
you call me a moron while you can't do your own simple research without consuming other peoples time? funny how that works.
How many results returned means little here. I use google to do research, with 10,000+ or more results returned. Do I read them all? No... Do I find what I'm looking for? Yes, in about 30-120 seconds.
get it together.
people who would rather wait on slashdot for an answer instead of doing 2 minutes of legwork strike me as lazy. People such as you should STFU.
+1024 lamer for you.
I may be way off base, but to me if you are a contractor, you should bill the client for part of the connection used to access the clients equipment, and certainly for your time.
As a person who is full time / salary, I'd say no, you should pay for your own connection.
The expectation generally is you are willing to come in after hours to correct any 'critical issues', or pull all nighters from time to time when a project or situation requires.
If you can save yourself a ride in the car to work by logging on remotely, thats just better for you in terms of money/time/stress.
Keep in mind also, the employer may of had to pay large sums of money for the equipment and software on the other end to allow for this type of access. So they are fronting a bit of the bill already.
That being said, it would be very nice of the employer to chip in on your end, but I don't see it as being the 'right thing to do' from an employer perspective.
There are always exceptions. I worked for a large and popular 3D software company not to long ago. We installed VPN access, the policy was you pay for your end, we'll pay for our end and we don't mind if you do not come into work so long as you get your projects in on time. One of the key developers decided he wanted to move way the heck out in the boon docks, no broad band, DSL or calble... anyway the company did not want to lose this fella, so he was given a free sat uplink and everything else required to connect back to the office.
i ramble...
google it.
Nice, it is great to see stuff like this.
my 2 cents.