Yeah I remember way back in 1993? When I was a stupid kid and couldn't get my computer to work because I plugged in my ide cable backwards. Good thing they fixed that problem right? I also remember sending a SCSI external hard drive back for RMA because I tried plugging it into the parallel port. I mean hey, they both have 25 pin connectors!
Perhaps you should give ZoneMinder a second try? For $99 you can buy a 4 port capture card from X-Guard. Then all you need are some high res CCD cameras that can be had for roughly $60 a pop from ebay stores. (This price includes shipping) The cheaper ones come from Hong Kong, but are still extremely high quality... look for Sony manufactured CCD cameras. And the software is.... well free.
So for $280, you can have a 4 port capture card, 3 Sony color CCD cameras, and all the software you're gonna need for a full-fledged security system!
ZoneMinder does have all the features you just mentioned, plus infinite day retention of files, but can user configured of course. And their web interface is ultra-slick.
Oh please.... Maybe you're not a good enough Redhat/Debian admin then. I'm only a casual user of Linux (even though I am a software developer by trade) and I have been able to install ZoneMinder on my Debian system without any issues. There were some brief problems that I experienced when ZM wasn't outputting any video, but the FAQ on the zoneminder site fixed it up.
Also, it does not take 4 hours to install. If you spend time following their comprehensive instructions on their website, you can easily install it under 30 minutes.
Finally, I've never used Redhat and I don't think their software has been tweaked for Redhat since I had absolutely no problems setting everything up. I've only used Debian casually for the last 4 years. I am definitely not a linux hacker by any means.
Actually, I have been able to do this. What you need is a camera with zoom lens. Next, you need to position the camera such that there is a very high probability the car will drive into the field of view. I've got a camera pointed down a parking garage driveway where most people will be driving straight down the center and will very likely have their license plate in the center of the camera view.
Of course it also means that the edjumicated thief can easily disable your cameras while still being relatively far from the premises. Jamming 802.11 is not terribly hard. (unfortunately my phone is the ultimate proof; it destroys any 802.11 connection while it's in use, regardless of channel)
Although the article poster used wireless cameras for their security system, by default ZoneMinder uses basic composite bttv-style cameras. At my home, I use a 4 port capture card (made by X-Guard) and small bullet CCD cameras with cables running everywhere. I've got 6 cameras running at the moment and ZoneMinder is handling the load pretty well.
See http://www.zoneminder.com for more details. It supports multiple input cards and hasn't stopped recording video for me yet. I've got 8 cameras on my home security system. Dunno why nobody has mentioned this yet.
Can't believe it has not been mentioned. Use ZoneMinder. It's an open souce product available exclusively for Linux. I've been using it for the last 4 months running 8 webcams (not really webcams, cctv cameras actually) simultaneously for the last 4 months and it's pretty stable. Most of the webcam software that I deal with previously would crash every month or so, or wouldn't capture the right scenes of motion. This piece of software supports some of the multi-input cards on the market.
I cannot believe nobody has mentioned the linux solution for motion-detection scanning capabilities!! I've been using ZoneMinder for the last several months. It's never failed on me yet. It offers tons of features for motion sensing.
Ever try debian from scratch? Their boot cd has all kinds of good stuff... and if the boot cd didn't have everything you needed, all I had to do was modify a small config file to build my own bootable iso. Used their CD to build a reiser4-SATA-SCSI Raid configuration.
depends if you are buying your system to play games, or to run yahoo. I mean really, who in their right mind goes out and buys Xeon processors?... probably the same people with the cash flow to buy Bentleys on their new paychecks.
For once, someone isn't spouting FUD. SLI has only been scan-line interleave since voodoo2, but ever since those vsa100 chips, it has not been truly SLI. People just use the term SLI since everyone knows it. Just like Honda's new hybrid is under the civic brand name. Nobody would know "Honda Insight" but they'd know the Honda Civic. Same goes here... if they gave SLI a new name, it wouldn't sell as well.
31 percent means almost 1 out of 3 people use MSN for their daily searches. If you went out in public and asked that question, I don't think you would get 1 out of 3 people. I'm pretty sure those numbers are highly inflated. My mom doesn't even use msn. It comes up on the front page, but then she just goes to google.
I'm a wannabe script kiddie! I script bash scripts! I'm also do korn shell scripts.... but then, since i'm not really a kid, I guess that would classify me as a script adultie!
Yeaaah... I'm sure id Software knows there are no competitors to Doom 3. If you don't want to be able to test drive it, don't buy it! Maybe you'll just have to wait for the Half-Life 2 demo. Oh wait, you mean there's no Half-Life 2 demo either? well crap... might as well just play solitaire then.
Look shareware is only necessary when a company or software publisher is trying to gain the acceptance from the general populace using a low cost solution. It's just like manufacturers putting rebates on particular products... it makes it seem cheaper to the lower income class. But once you're established in the industry, the manufacturer doesn't need to do this anymore. Do you see Microsoft producing "shareware versions" of Microsoft Excel or Powerpoint? Or how about a shareware version of AutoCAD and ProEngineer? The last time I looked, the closest thing to a "shareware" MATLAB was the student version. Why would id Software go through the trouble of making a shareware release? For Quake 3 it sorta made sense since it was primarily a network game and people could really gain the feel of the product if everyone downloaded a demo and played it online, but I really don't see the need for a mostly-single-player version of the game.
I disagree with your post. Most business users (like the business I work at, the number 1 hotel company in the world) don't use spreadsheets in an interesting way. They use spreadsheets like people use a notepad for sending notes. Everything goes into Excel... project plans, project dates, timesheet data, project message board, and all kinds of other stuff you'd never think you could do with Excel. Any why excel? because everyone has it installed in their computers. Is this an interesting or creative way to solve each problem? Of course not. They could have chose to solve each problem using a swiss army knife like Squeak, but instead they chose Excel for the sole reason that it is installed by default. Next thing you know, they'll start doing instant messaging with notepad files.
Hi, I'm a former student of the Georgia Tech Squeakers. One of my former collegues did a study of Squeak on 6th graders. They were able to program using Squeak and actually had fun doing it! A paper was published about it 3-4 years ago, but I don't remember the name or which journal it was published in. On a side note, Scheme was being taught to third graders and they had no problems picking it up. Young kids are smarter than you think. I know some gray-haired-programmers that still don't understand object-oriented-programming and they have been in the software engineering business for the last 20 years! When OOP was introduced, I'm sure a lot of software engineers had a hard time picking it up...
I've never heard of versatile medicine before. Let me know of the medicine you know that can solve all kinds of medical problems--from cancer to parkinson's disease.
The computer is pretty versatile. It has been able to solve all kinds of problems in different fields--from entertainment (games) to nuclear detonation simulations.
Alan Kay has a clear and valid point here. Since the advent of the computer we've been solving more and more problems, but in the last 10 years, people haven't been using the computer to solve any new problems that affect their daily lives. They still just use it for email, games, web-browsing, and other mundane tasks that probably doesn't require a computer to solve. It's almost as if each of us hired our very own Albert Einstein to wash our dishes, clean our laundry, and mop the kitchen twice a week. Albert Einstein is capable of doing more, but this is all our stubborn minds are capable of doing.
And why not? I feel Squeak is more valuable use of computer time than say the framework of "email". Who really cares what the concept and framework of email is? Squeak isn't just a "learning" tool that Alan Kay wants you to think. It's a full development environment with more editor tools than you've ever imagined. The only reason people are still developing email frameworks in other languages is simply that they don't understand something like Squeak. Since you've obviously never used Squeak, belittling Squeak is like a windows user who has never touched Linux and saying how it "suxors". Please don't compare something you don't know with "the concept and framework of email".
If there is a statement more clueless than this, you have just attained it. Squeak has always been, and always will be the open-source Smalltalk system. All other smalltalk systems have been proprietary and closed source. Anyone remember ParcPlace systems? They're probably still the most popular closed-source smalltalk system out there on the market. I didn't read the article, but I can tell you that Smalltalk and Squeak are the exact same thing though. Squeak is the modern implementation of the last revision of smalltalk (Smalltalk-80). If you look at their mailing lists, they still refer to the "purple" book a lot, the Smalltalk-80 specification written by Adele Goldberg.
I guess he had to resort to more criminal behavior when he cannot supply for his family or feed himself. When you see $45 on the counter and consider buying CDRs to burn or mouths to feed, I guess he knew what he had to do. It's definitely not the right thing to do, but when you're starving, you usually tend to do the wrong thing. Why do you think people rob gas stations to steal a measley $20? Usually it's to buy alcohol or supply an unhealthy addiction. Starvation can be an addiction.
"With DOOM 3 launching this summer, there won't be anyone who has had time to practice or master the game, and almost any QuakeCon attendee has a chance to walk away with one of the exclusive DOOM 3 prizes."
This would imply that DOOM 3 would not be released before QuakeCon or else people there will have had some DOOM 3 practice before the deathmatch event. Since the QuakeCon date is from August 12-15, this would mean DOOM 3 is set to be released sometime after August 15. The August 3 date was based on another distributor's educated guess. It was not a statement from id Software.
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why do you have to go into so much nonsensical detail? Why not just say "inkulator" sounds like "enculador" which is "ass fucker" in spanish?
Yeah I remember way back in 1993? When I was a stupid kid and couldn't get my computer to work because I plugged in my ide cable backwards. Good thing they fixed that problem right? I also remember sending a SCSI external hard drive back for RMA because I tried plugging it into the parallel port. I mean hey, they both have 25 pin connectors!
Perhaps you should give ZoneMinder a second try? For $99 you can buy a 4 port capture card from X-Guard. Then all you need are some high res CCD cameras that can be had for roughly $60 a pop from ebay stores. (This price includes shipping) The cheaper ones come from Hong Kong, but are still extremely high quality... look for Sony manufactured CCD cameras. And the software is.... well free.
So for $280, you can have a 4 port capture card, 3 Sony color CCD cameras, and all the software you're gonna need for a full-fledged security system!
ZoneMinder does have all the features you just mentioned, plus infinite day retention of files, but can user configured of course. And their web interface is ultra-slick.
Oh please.... Maybe you're not a good enough Redhat/Debian admin then. I'm only a casual user of Linux (even though I am a software developer by trade) and I have been able to install ZoneMinder on my Debian system without any issues. There were some brief problems that I experienced when ZM wasn't outputting any video, but the FAQ on the zoneminder site fixed it up.
Also, it does not take 4 hours to install. If you spend time following their comprehensive instructions on their website, you can easily install it under 30 minutes.
Finally, I've never used Redhat and I don't think their software has been tweaked for Redhat since I had absolutely no problems setting everything up. I've only used Debian casually for the last 4 years. I am definitely not a linux hacker by any means.
Although, I hope the cameras also save the time and date on the display. Some courts won't accept such evidence unless it is timestamped.
ZoneMinder does this by default. It's also very easily user configured via their web interface.
Actually, I have been able to do this. What you need is a camera with zoom lens. Next, you need to position the camera such that there is a very high probability the car will drive into the field of view. I've got a camera pointed down a parking garage driveway where most people will be driving straight down the center and will very likely have their license plate in the center of the camera view.
Of course it also means that the edjumicated thief can easily disable your cameras while still being relatively far from the premises. Jamming 802.11 is not terribly hard. (unfortunately my phone is the ultimate proof; it destroys any 802.11 connection while it's in use, regardless of channel)
Although the article poster used wireless cameras for their security system, by default ZoneMinder uses basic composite bttv-style cameras. At my home, I use a 4 port capture card (made by X-Guard) and small bullet CCD cameras with cables running everywhere. I've got 6 cameras running at the moment and ZoneMinder is handling the load pretty well.
See http://www.zoneminder.com for more details. It supports multiple input cards and hasn't stopped recording video for me yet. I've got 8 cameras on my home security system. Dunno why nobody has mentioned this yet.
Can't believe it has not been mentioned. Use ZoneMinder. It's an open souce product available exclusively for Linux. I've been using it for the last 4 months running 8 webcams (not really webcams, cctv cameras actually) simultaneously for the last 4 months and it's pretty stable. Most of the webcam software that I deal with previously would crash every month or so, or wouldn't capture the right scenes of motion. This piece of software supports some of the multi-input cards on the market.
I cannot believe nobody has mentioned the linux solution for motion-detection scanning capabilities!! I've been using ZoneMinder for the last several months. It's never failed on me yet. It offers tons of features for motion sensing.
Ever try debian from scratch? Their boot cd has all kinds of good stuff... and if the boot cd didn't have everything you needed, all I had to do was modify a small config file to build my own bootable iso. Used their CD to build a reiser4-SATA-SCSI Raid configuration.
depends if you are buying your system to play games, or to run yahoo. I mean really, who in their right mind goes out and buys Xeon processors? ... probably the same people with the cash flow to buy Bentleys on their new paychecks.
For once, someone isn't spouting FUD. SLI has only been scan-line interleave since voodoo2, but ever since those vsa100 chips, it has not been truly SLI. People just use the term SLI since everyone knows it. Just like Honda's new hybrid is under the civic brand name. Nobody would know "Honda Insight" but they'd know the Honda Civic. Same goes here... if they gave SLI a new name, it wouldn't sell as well.
31 percent means almost 1 out of 3 people use MSN for their daily searches. If you went out in public and asked that question, I don't think you would get 1 out of 3 people. I'm pretty sure those numbers are highly inflated. My mom doesn't even use msn. It comes up on the front page, but then she just goes to google.
I'm a wannabe script kiddie! I script bash scripts! I'm also do korn shell scripts.... but then, since i'm not really a kid, I guess that would classify me as a script adultie!
Yeaaah... I'm sure id Software knows there are no competitors to Doom 3. If you don't want to be able to test drive it, don't buy it! Maybe you'll just have to wait for the Half-Life 2 demo. Oh wait, you mean there's no Half-Life 2 demo either? well crap... might as well just play solitaire then.
Look shareware is only necessary when a company or software publisher is trying to gain the acceptance from the general populace using a low cost solution. It's just like manufacturers putting rebates on particular products... it makes it seem cheaper to the lower income class. But once you're established in the industry, the manufacturer doesn't need to do this anymore. Do you see Microsoft producing "shareware versions" of Microsoft Excel or Powerpoint? Or how about a shareware version of AutoCAD and ProEngineer? The last time I looked, the closest thing to a "shareware" MATLAB was the student version. Why would id Software go through the trouble of making a shareware release? For Quake 3 it sorta made sense since it was primarily a network game and people could really gain the feel of the product if everyone downloaded a demo and played it online, but I really don't see the need for a mostly-single-player version of the game.
I disagree with your post. Most business users (like the business I work at, the number 1 hotel company in the world) don't use spreadsheets in an interesting way. They use spreadsheets like people use a notepad for sending notes. Everything goes into Excel... project plans, project dates, timesheet data, project message board, and all kinds of other stuff you'd never think you could do with Excel. Any why excel? because everyone has it installed in their computers. Is this an interesting or creative way to solve each problem? Of course not. They could have chose to solve each problem using a swiss army knife like Squeak, but instead they chose Excel for the sole reason that it is installed by default. Next thing you know, they'll start doing instant messaging with notepad files.
Hi, I'm a former student of the Georgia Tech Squeakers. One of my former collegues did a study of Squeak on 6th graders. They were able to program using Squeak and actually had fun doing it! A paper was published about it 3-4 years ago, but I don't remember the name or which journal it was published in. On a side note, Scheme was being taught to third graders and they had no problems picking it up. Young kids are smarter than you think. I know some gray-haired-programmers that still don't understand object-oriented-programming and they have been in the software engineering business for the last 20 years! When OOP was introduced, I'm sure a lot of software engineers had a hard time picking it up...
I've never heard of versatile medicine before. Let me know of the medicine you know that can solve all kinds of medical problems--from cancer to parkinson's disease.
The computer is pretty versatile. It has been able to solve all kinds of problems in different fields--from entertainment (games) to nuclear detonation simulations.
Alan Kay has a clear and valid point here. Since the advent of the computer we've been solving more and more problems, but in the last 10 years, people haven't been using the computer to solve any new problems that affect their daily lives. They still just use it for email, games, web-browsing, and other mundane tasks that probably doesn't require a computer to solve. It's almost as if each of us hired our very own Albert Einstein to wash our dishes, clean our laundry, and mop the kitchen twice a week. Albert Einstein is capable of doing more, but this is all our stubborn minds are capable of doing.
And why not? I feel Squeak is more valuable use of computer time than say the framework of "email". Who really cares what the concept and framework of email is? Squeak isn't just a "learning" tool that Alan Kay wants you to think. It's a full development environment with more editor tools than you've ever imagined. The only reason people are still developing email frameworks in other languages is simply that they don't understand something like Squeak. Since you've obviously never used Squeak, belittling Squeak is like a windows user who has never touched Linux and saying how it "suxors". Please don't compare something you don't know with "the concept and framework of email".
If there is a statement more clueless than this, you have just attained it. Squeak has always been, and always will be the open-source Smalltalk system. All other smalltalk systems have been proprietary and closed source. Anyone remember ParcPlace systems? They're probably still the most popular closed-source smalltalk system out there on the market. I didn't read the article, but I can tell you that Smalltalk and Squeak are the exact same thing though. Squeak is the modern implementation of the last revision of smalltalk (Smalltalk-80). If you look at their mailing lists, they still refer to the "purple" book a lot, the Smalltalk-80 specification written by Adele Goldberg.
I guess he had to resort to more criminal behavior when he cannot supply for his family or feed himself. When you see $45 on the counter and consider buying CDRs to burn or mouths to feed, I guess he knew what he had to do. It's definitely not the right thing to do, but when you're starving, you usually tend to do the wrong thing. Why do you think people rob gas stations to steal a measley $20? Usually it's to buy alcohol or supply an unhealthy addiction. Starvation can be an addiction.
They seem to work according to this empirical study:
http://home.pacbell.net/mtom168/internalantenna/
umm. you're wrong. In the article it states:
"With DOOM 3 launching this summer, there won't be anyone who has had time to practice or master the game, and almost any QuakeCon attendee has a chance to walk away with one of the exclusive DOOM 3 prizes."
This would imply that DOOM 3 would not be released before QuakeCon or else people there will have had some DOOM 3 practice before the deathmatch event. Since the QuakeCon date is from August 12-15, this would mean DOOM 3 is set to be released sometime after August 15. The August 3 date was based on another distributor's educated guess. It was not a statement from id Software.