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  1. panasonic cameras on Ask Slashdot: A Cheap, DIY Home Security and Surveillance System? · · Score: 1

    get a couple of these http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16881180042
    panasonic makes a bunch of them, they all do motion capture and smtp email. setup a gmail account, set the camera to email motion captured pics to the email address.
    only bad thing is the smtp server portion doesn't support gmail smtp protocol, so will have to have a smtp server through your isp
    I have set a bunch of these up for several friends/family, they just work...

  2. sun $1k 2 TB ISCSI server on Best Solutions For Massive Home Hard Drive Storage? · · Score: 1
  3. Re:Can't lose! on Sony Sued Over PS3 "Other OS" Removal · · Score: 1

    I concur.. http://www.merriam-webster.com/netdict/attire

    anyone over there using attyre?

  4. sharing on Harvard Law's Nesson Says P2P Is "Fair Use" · · Score: 1

    might as well say p2p is fair use, the riaa/miaa think that someone bringing over a dvd/cd to watch with you is stealing...right?

  5. 5 cam $600 solution on Is Cheap Video Surveillance Possible? · · Score: 1

    get some of these, they are the best bang for the buck. I have even wrapped elec tape around them and put them outside -lol they have 5 triggers, one can be motion detection, other a timer. set them to ftp pics to a linux server (bare bones box $200 at newegg) so 5 cams + linux box = $600 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16881180006 I have all the scripts to rotate pics, create mpegs of each days pics, even time stamping using imagemagik. drop me a line if intersted...

  6. Re:Standards on Cities Tampering With Traffic Lights To Generate Revenue · · Score: 1

    forgot to mention, they even have count down timers, so its like drag racing!!

  7. Re:Standards on Cities Tampering With Traffic Lights To Generate Revenue · · Score: 1

    I've drove in countries that have LED timers, it works great. I think traffic flow is smoother, because you know exactly how much time you have.

  8. torture? on Controlling Computers With the Brain · · Score: 1

    But just think of the advantages. In the office of the future, the conference call, too, will be remembered as a medieval form of torture."


    I think that now....

  9. Re:face rock in picture on Surprising Further Evidence for a Wet Mars · · Score: 1

    280 x 10 are the coordinates, pretty wild looking!

  10. face rock in picture on Surprising Further Evidence for a Wet Mars · · Score: 1

    http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/figures/PIA01907_ fig1.jpg look for o' Higgin's looks like a face from a statue

  11. looks nice but does it have... on Optimus Keyboard Pre-Orders In Mere Hours · · Score: 5, Funny

    an "any key"???

  12. do we need to worry? on Open Source Forcing Shift in Software Buying · · Score: 1

    I don't think we have to worry to much. Yes, big company's are buying open source firms, but think about it. Its not like they can simply close the project, or take it private. As long as there has been code published under an open source license and it falls under GPL(depending on whatever version of open source lic. they used) then they can't just say fuck you to all the contributers and privatize it. Woulnd't that break the license the original code was published under? or can they?

  13. Re:Europe vs US on Videogaming Keeps the Brain From Aging · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    the European arrogance cancels out the bonus they get on the multilingual (of course I'm sure they say the arrogance of us cancels out our better work ethic -lol) and maybe it does? one of not to many americans travel abroad and I think that hurts us

  14. cain = homosapiens, abel = neandrathals on Kansas Board of Ed. Adopts Intelligent Design · · Score: 1

    maybe?

  15. I think I speak for all fo us... on Sun President Says PCs Are Relics · · Score: 1

    hahahahahahaha, what the hell are they smoking over at sun?? I want some!!!

  16. great on Send your name to Pluto · · Score: 1


    At the earliest, current 1st graders will see New Horizons arrive at Pluto during the summer before 12th grade!

    I'm getting old....

  17. antiquated game play on Half-Life 2 Lost Coast, Antlion Troopers · · Score: 1

    hl2? i run a cyber cafe. I have had a few people ask about hl2/cs. I explain what they want to charge me per month($10 per pc per month) and they say wtf?. I woulnd't pay that! I then have them try out bf2 or some other game that isn't limited to a map the size of your local shopping mall and never hear any further complaints. hl2 and doom3 are wonderful game engines but the game play isn't there. People have moved on past that. They try a game in the bf* series and forget about playing a game based in a hallway someplace. I feel bad for valve but the simle matter is that people want a larger play experience. Playing cs over and over isn't much different than playing tank on the atari 2600. You get your paterns down and thats that.

  18. heck thats only 4 hammers and a toilet seat.. on A $100 Million Trip to the Moon · · Score: 1

    in nasa dollars...

  19. this is a rugged one.... on Rugged Mini-DV Camcorder for the Road? · · Score: 5, Funny
  20. Re:Bullshiiiiiiit on EFF: 48 Hours to Stop the Broadcast Flag · · Score: 1

    yes,someone will crack it in record time, hell, dvd jon probably knows how to crack it.

    This isn't about stupid laws being passed, this is about the US gov and Hollywood criminalizing a big chunk of Americans.

  21. heh.. on Calculator Flaw Forces Recall in Virginia · · Score: 1

    I still remember back in the early eighties when the calculator watches hit the scene. Teachers hated them! Almost as much as the souped up stompers....

    anyone else here hook a 9v battery to a stomper way back when? they even have stompers anymore?

  22. your other right right click on Longhorn Drops 'My' Prefixes · · Score: 1

    don't forget "your other right click"

  23. sat access in the amazon on Really Remote Internet Access · · Score: 2, Interesting

    My brother has been using sat for internet 3 hours from nearest paved road for last year or so. It works great! I took a grandstream budget-tone(preconfigured to connect to my asterisk server) with me last summer when I went down there to visit. It blew them away when I called time and temperature at a local bank and the audio was crystal clear. They laughed at me when I tried to call my wife and all she heard was strange noises-lol Oddly enough we could hear her fine. Very weird to hear a perfectly clear voice that far out in the middle of no where. The radio phone going to a little town 80km away sounds ok, but you can tell its over a radio.

    My brother has started using skype and its bearable. You almost have to say over at the end of each sentence.

    I set up a wrt54g running http://www.openwrt.org/ and it acts as a little ap there for them. The really cool thing is, I left it running openvpn, so when ever they fire up the generator it will connect up to my server. I thought using putty over a dial up was bad, this is around 800ms-1000ms, still very cool to be able to ssh into a router in the middle of the amazon. Ya, I know I'm a nerd....

    the only bummer about the sat service is you have to use a windows pc for the connector. It has some client software that runs to connect it..

    here's their website if anyone know someone that needs internet in south america for $65 a month

    http://www.gilat.com/

  24. oh my on Windows Cheaper to Patch Than Open Source? · · Score: 1

    ya, checking "yum" in the setup --> system services was reeeaallll hard. I should switch back to windows on my servers.....

  25. Re:In other news today, Steve Ballemer.. on Maureen O'Gara No Longer Welcome at LinuxWorld · · Score: 1

    http://spellbound.sourceforge.net/

    it worked four me...