Magic City VitaeLog

I have been telling people to stop believing in the "10% of your brain" statistic for years, but nobody believes me.  I was told in class that it was first started when scientists began using cat scans on active brains, while people were laying perfectly still, in a long giant tube, with almost zero sensory input.  Those scientists where surprised to find that the brain wasn't doing much of anything, and that somehow got interpreted as 'you only use 10% of your brain...look here...".

Anyway, on with the link:

so... the web cams are back, and working.  Expect to see something fun with the motion detection and the YardCam/OtherCAM pretty soon.  The system automatically makes mgeg movies of motion when it detects it, and I always wanted to make those mpegs available.  Especially for the dogbowl cam...

So... for some reason, I got bored, and decided that it'd be a good idea to reload SATAN again.  This time, I've migrated from FreeBSD 7.0 to Debian Linux.

More to come...  

I have a round-about kinda way of getting the webcams working again... but what can I say, at least they work now.  This is until I can get the same software working under FreeBSD as it was working under Linux.  It is supposed to work, and other users say it works just fine... but not for me.

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