Re: [H] Cell phone records
Well, I hope she's not that. I really don't know what to think of her now. Jeff Lane wrote: :: There was a Clint Eastwood film, Play Misty for Me which portrayed :: a homicidal female stalker...hm. :: :: :: - Original Message - :: From: Anthony Q. Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] :: To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com :: Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 5:10 AM :: Subject: Re: [H] Cell phone records :: :: ::: Julian Hale wrote: : At 12:46 PM 10/9/2006, you wrote: :: Actually, she thinks I'm ugly. After we met, instead of just :: walking away, she decided to drive the point home in a very :: devious manner, posing as if she wanted a relationship to lead :: me on, I guess. However, when I broke things off, she decided :: to reveal her vile plan. Frankly, my the only reason I can see :: why she did this was for her own (and those she works with) :: enjoyment. This would make such a great the TV talk show story. :: Of course, I'm not going to reveal any real personal details :: here. She claims to have hacked into my e-mail accounts, called :: past girlfriends, obtain personal phone records, and more. Most :: of it could be lies, though, because she hadn't feed me back :: anything I didn't tell her. : : Holy crap, she is a nut. IMO, she was mad at you for breaking it : off. She said all those things in order to try to make herself : look/feel better. Stay away, far, far away, she's no good at all. : She may even force you to file a restraining order against her... ::: ::: I believe you are 100% correct. Her actions leading up to what ::: happened over the last 24 hours of the break up do not support her ::: actions over several months, with a couple of interesting ::: exceptions. I think she had a mental snap that took all restraints ::: off, and she unloaded on me with both barrels. She had tried to ::: pull a pretty sly manipulation over on me too. It worked the first ::: time she did it but not the second time. The second time revealed ::: her very devious nature. ::: ::: She's 1500 miles away, so hopefully that will mute any evil cards ::: she might still wish to play. Her personality is such that I must ::: expect to hear from her again, however. I'd be surprised if she ::: could just walk away. ::: ::: Thanks.
Re: [H] dumb newb linux questions
RLS wrote: Just did my first Linux based install using Unbuntu. It is pretty graphical and I am surprised by all of the native applications types available from the get go. Question 1 I installed the 64 bit version. Can I install Linux64 bit drivers for the motherboard, netcard etc? Drivers in the windows sense don't really exist much for Linux. Most hardware is natively supported by the kernel. Any hardware maker that intends to have full linux support must get their drivers into the mainline kernel or else they will be playing a game of catchup with every kernel release. The kernel development team does not care for, or take the time to test, with 3rd party drivers. All of the drivers install by the unbuntu install are already the 64 bit versions, as you are running a 64 bit kernel. If any hardware is not detected or working, post it to the list, and we can see what is going on with it. Question 2 Besides the desire to game, why wouldn't a typical home user want a linux based system? Heck all of the apps seem free, its graphical, even supports my camera out of the box. I mean for just word processing, surfing the internet and looking at pics and playing some mp3's is there a valid reason for them 'wanting' Windows? Some distros (Debian for example) don't ship with MP3 codecs, as they would have to pay very large licensing costs to then distrubute it for free. I don't know if unbuntu ships with MP3 codecs or not, but they are easy to ad via an external apt source. Typical power user will have issues with a linux desktop, as all of the neat tricks they learned under windows may or may not apply. Your average user does great, as long as they don't admin the system (changing hardware can be a little tricky at time, adding devices can be hit or miss if you don't know what you are doing, etc). Your average managed desktop in a corporate or educational environment can do great with Linux. Linux is admin friendly or expert friendly, it's also user friendly, it's not idiot user who thinks they can admin a system friendly. The biggest road block is Windows only intranet (not internet, but local intranet) applications, and Windows only custom applications for industry specific use. The more of those that move to a Web 2.0 model using Linux server appliances, the better. So far the only thing that has me off a step is getting comfortable with the way the file management system presents itself. Basically, as a user, all you care about is /home/$user Harry Thanks,Bob
[H] Using a webcam for security
I have a customer who works for a Salvation Army Centre who wants to setup an old PC with a webcam and record the front of their building where they are having a problem with vandalism. He wants to record the video (or stills taken every second or two) to the hard drive but only when there's motion outside. He also wants to be able to login over the net and see what the webcam is recording currently at any time. Anyone ever set anything like this up and have suggestions? T
RE: [H] dumb newb linux --mshome NOT
Well, got most of everything working, internet,etc,etc. But for whatever reason when I search WindowsNetwork, I show 'MSHOME' AND 'WORKGROUP' but... can't get beyond that. What have I missed.
Re: [H] Cell phone records
Maybe it's hermit timecabin in the Alaskan, or maybe Greenland, wilderness - Original Message - From: Anthony Q. Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 7:07 AM Subject: Re: [H] Cell phone records Well, I hope she's not that. I really don't know what to think of her now. Jeff Lane wrote: :: There was a Clint Eastwood film, Play Misty for Me which portrayed :: a homicidal female stalker...hm. :: :: :: - Original Message - :: From: Anthony Q. Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] :: To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com :: Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 5:10 AM :: Subject: Re: [H] Cell phone records :: :: ::: Julian Hale wrote: : At 12:46 PM 10/9/2006, you wrote: :: Actually, she thinks I'm ugly. After we met, instead of just :: walking away, she decided to drive the point home in a very :: devious manner, posing as if she wanted a relationship to lead :: me on, I guess. However, when I broke things off, she decided :: to reveal her vile plan. Frankly, my the only reason I can see :: why she did this was for her own (and those she works with) :: enjoyment. This would make such a great the TV talk show story. :: Of course, I'm not going to reveal any real personal details :: here. She claims to have hacked into my e-mail accounts, called :: past girlfriends, obtain personal phone records, and more. Most :: of it could be lies, though, because she hadn't feed me back :: anything I didn't tell her. : : Holy crap, she is a nut. IMO, she was mad at you for breaking it : off. She said all those things in order to try to make herself : look/feel better. Stay away, far, far away, she's no good at all. : She may even force you to file a restraining order against her... ::: ::: I believe you are 100% correct. Her actions leading up to what ::: happened over the last 24 hours of the break up do not support her ::: actions over several months, with a couple of interesting ::: exceptions. I think she had a mental snap that took all restraints ::: off, and she unloaded on me with both barrels. She had tried to ::: pull a pretty sly manipulation over on me too. It worked the first ::: time she did it but not the second time. The second time revealed ::: her very devious nature. ::: ::: She's 1500 miles away, so hopefully that will mute any evil cards ::: she might still wish to play. Her personality is such that I must ::: expect to hear from her again, however. I'd be surprised if she ::: could just walk away. ::: ::: Thanks.
Re: [H] dumb newb linux questions
At 02:54 PM 11/10/2006, Winterlight wrote: Multimedia, particular video, TV recording, editing, ...and of course proprietary business software that the vast majority of small business relies on. MythTV would handle the TV stuff, wouldn't it? As for proprietary business software, we don't see a lot of that around here anymore. Most people are using specialized spreadsheets and that's about it. T
Re: [H] dumb newb linux questions
For grabbing codecs/fonts/players on K/Ed/Ubuntu take a look at EasyUbuntu or Automatix. At this point with the likes of *Ubuntu, Suse, Mandriva, they generally have everything you need to get started. If you start getting into the audio/video editing side you have to make sure your hardware is supported, I've gone through 2 albeit older vid capture cards that there was no docs or info on getting setup in Linux. But the for all the naysayers the 80/20 kind of applies - at least 80% of everything you need to do isn't going to take any more effort on a Linux box than a Windows box. And for those proprietary business applications? after being through a couple of large scale desktop migration projects - they're a PITA to get config'd and running on their own specific platform regardless of wether is *nix or Windows On 10/11/06, Winterlight [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Question 2 Besides the desire to game, why wouldn't a typical home user want a linux based system? Heck all of the apps seem free, its graphical, even supports my camera out of the box. I mean for just word processing, surfing the internet and looking at pics and playing some mp3's is there a valid reason for them 'wanting' Windows? Multimedia, particular video, TV recording, editing, ...and of course proprietary business software that the vast majority of small business relies on. -- -jmg -sapere aude
Re: [H] Using a webcam for security
You'd have a hard time at night. Even the IR equipped cameras are pretty weak at a distance. Thane Sherrington wrote: I have a customer who works for a Salvation Army Centre who wants to setup an old PC with a webcam and record the front of their building where they are having a problem with vandalism. He wants to record the video (or stills taken every second or two) to the hard drive but only when there's motion outside. He also wants to be able to login over the net and see what the webcam is recording currently at any time. Anyone ever set anything like this up and have suggestions? T
Re: [H] dumb newb linux questions
At 10:57 AM 10/11/2006, you wrote: At 02:54 PM 11/10/2006, Winterlight wrote: Multimedia, particular video, TV recording, editing, ...and of course proprietary business software that the vast majority of small business relies on. MythTV would handle the TV stuff, wouldn't it? no, very few TV cards are supported with Myth TV nothing ATI for one. As for proprietary business software, we don't see a lot of that around here anymore. Most people are using specialized spreadsheets and that's about it. I think you are refereeing to simple mom and pop POS retail. But any kind of franchise chains, professional offices, such as any kind of medical, or legal that have to deal with insurance or legal requirements, or any kind of volume business that is tied to material suppliers, are going to be using proprietary software. One interesting thing... I was in the administration office of my local Costco yesterday, and I noticed they were using IE5.5. I am not surprised they are using IE, but 5.5 was a surprise.
Re: [H] Using a webcam for security
You'd have a hard time at night. Even the IR equipped cameras are pretty weak at a distance. Motion sensor lights would take care of that. Gary VanderMolen
RE: [H] dumb newb linux --mshome NOT
Don't know if this is the same thing: Went to network-- hosts and added the tcp/ip addresses for the network file server and 2 workstations. Also created accounts on those machines for the linux user and still nada... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ben Ruset Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 2:02 PM To: The Hardware List Subject: Re: [H] dumb newb linux --mshome NOT Edit /etc/samba/smb.conf RLS wrote: Well, got most of everything working, internet,etc,etc. But for whatever reason when I search WindowsNetwork, I show 'MSHOME' AND 'WORKGROUP' but... can't get beyond that. What have I missed.
RE: [SPAM SUSPECT] [H] Using a webcam for security
Don't know if this will help, but Microsoft has a powertool called WebCam Timershot which may be of interest. I don't know if it only works on XP. Look at the bottom of this page: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx Bobby -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thane Sherrington Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 1:49 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: [SPAM SUSPECT] [H] Using a webcam for security Importance: Low I have a customer who works for a Salvation Army Centre who wants to setup an old PC with a webcam and record the front of their building where they are having a problem with vandalism. He wants to record the video (or stills taken every second or two) to the hard drive but only when there's motion outside. He also wants to be able to login over the net and see what the webcam is recording currently at any time. Anyone ever set anything like this up and have suggestions? T
Re: [H] Using a webcam for security
Very true! Gary VanderMolen wrote: You'd have a hard time at night. Even the IR equipped cameras are pretty weak at a distance. Motion sensor lights would take care of that. Gary VanderMolen
Re: [H] dumb newb linux questions
How about QuickBooks? That is not Linux... (But some Macs...) Rick Glazier From: Thane Sherrington clipped As for proprietary business software, we don't see a lot of that around here anymore. Most people are using specialized spreadsheets and that's about it.
Re: [H] Using a webcam for security
At 03:02 PM 11/10/2006, Ben Ruset wrote: You'd have a hard time at night. Even the IR equipped cameras are pretty weak at a distance. The area in front of the door is brightly lit, apparently. The problem they are having is people are dropping off stuff for the centre at night and other people are coming along and trashing the items so they are left with the cost of taking them to the dump. T
Re: [H] dumb newb linux questions
Rick Glazier wrote: How about QuickBooks? That is not Linux... (But some Macs...) It's not free, but Crossover Linux and Crossover Mac (Intel), should support Quickbooks, but you would want to try it first. http://www.codeweavers.com/products/cxmac/ http://www.codeweavers.com/products/cxoffice/ Harry Rick Glazier From: Thane Sherrington clipped As for proprietary business software, we don't see a lot of that around here anymore. Most people are using specialized spreadsheets and that's about it.
Re: [H] Using a webcam for security
As would pure-IR floodlights. You don't see 'em on come on but bright as day on a camera. Could even leave them on all night rely on cam software's motion detection to start recoding. I had a few IP/Ethernet DLinks that were OK. A CMOS based DCS900 which need a host PC to doing motion sensing recording. The other a CCD based (32xx something) that was intended as a video conferencing cam so it has on-board motion sensing, 2-way audio, FTP upload capability. Gary VanderMolen wrote: You'd have a hard time at night. Even the IR equipped cameras are pretty weak at a distance. Motion sensor lights would take care of that. Gary VanderMolen __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: [H] Using a webcam for security
Anybody have any suggestions for one that could be mounted outside? j maccraw wrote: As would pure-IR floodlights. You don't see 'em on come on but bright as day on a camera. Could even leave them on all night rely on cam software's motion detection to start recoding. I had a few IP/Ethernet DLinks that were OK. A CMOS based DCS900 which need a host PC to doing motion sensing recording. The other a CCD based (32xx something) that was intended as a video conferencing cam so it has on-board motion sensing, 2-way audio, FTP upload capability. Gary VanderMolen wrote: You'd have a hard time at night. Even the IR equipped cameras are pretty weak at a distance. Motion sensor lights would take care of that. Gary VanderMolen __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: [H] Using a webcam for security
I have three DLink models in operation--the newer ones are a lot better than the old ones, and enclosures are sold fr outside usage-- some with heater, fan, etc for extreme environment. I have two DCS-2000's (old) and one newer DCS-3220. They can all be viewed remotely (web server onboard) in IE with ActiveX, and they can also be setup to take snapshots on motion detect that are then FTPed or emailed somewhere. (DCS-900's too--low quality pics though). If you want recording, recording-on-motion, etc, you need a PC running their software, as mentioned below. They can also be hooked into alarm systems--(automatically start recording when a motion sensor, sound sensor, alarm whatever is tripped). Scott On Oct 11, 2006, at 5:12 PM, Ben Ruset wrote: Anybody have any suggestions for one that could be mounted outside? j maccraw wrote: As would pure-IR floodlights. You don't see 'em on come on but bright as day on a camera. Could even leave them on all night rely on cam software's motion detection to start recoding. I had a few IP/Ethernet DLinks that were OK. A CMOS based DCS900 which need a host PC to doing motion sensing recording. The other a CCD based (32xx something) that was intended as a video conferencing cam so it has on-board motion sensing, 2-way audio, FTP upload capability. Gary VanderMolen wrote: You'd have a hard time at night. Even the IR equipped cameras are pretty weak at a distance. Motion sensor lights would take care of that. Gary VanderMolen __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
