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I talk about IP updating services to will keep tracking of your changing dynamic IP address on the internet, so you can alway point to your web server or DVR camera on the internet
I talk about IP updating services to will keep tracking of your changing dynamic IP address on the internet, so you can alway point to your web server or DVR camera on the internet I had an interesting weekend. I keep a couple of search columns on Tweetdeck open for ?ustream? and ?stickam? looking for interesting feeds(hey, I spent a week watching the Burning Man festival feed). Suddenly there was a lot of activity under ?ustream? about ?the fight?. It was the Mayweather-Marquez fight that was on pay per view. Sure enough somebody had routed the video into a ustream feed.
Not to surprisingly about 25 minutes later:
But there were a couple more feeds using the old fashioned shoot the camera at screen method.
In-between rounds the camera would swing around and the hosts would responds to the chat room. An interesting way to go.
Here was another camera shot feed, less framed up.
We live in interesting times. And suspect there?s an interesting meeting going on at Ustream headquarters today with interesting phone calls being made. And that leads to interesting questions about ways to prevent this, can you prevent this, should you even try. I?ve seen plenty of ustream feeds showing old public domain movies, but this is the first time for this (for all I know, this goes on all the time). But it brings up the you argument of how responsible is the website(publisher) for the activities of it subscribers. Me, I?ll just watch.
I had an interesting weekend. I keep a couple of search columns on Tweetdeck open for “ustream” and “stickam” looking for interesting feeds(hey, I spent a week watching the Burning Man festival feed). Suddenly there was a lot of activity under “ustream” about “the fight”. It was the Mayweather-Marquez fight that was on pay per view. Sure enough somebody had routed the video into a ustream feed.  pay per view fight on ustream A quick note: more than 5700 viewers, wow. (I guess if your viewer count is lower than you’d like, start pointing your webcam at HBO) Not to surprisingly about 25 minutes later:  banned But there were a couple more feeds using the old fashioned “shoot the camera at the screen” method.  camera screen shot This guy’s view counter went up to 2662 after the other channel was banned. In-between rounds the camera would swing around and the hosts would responds to the chat room. An interesting way to go. Here was another camera shot feed, less framed up.  another camera screen shot We live in interesting times. And suspect there’s an interesting meeting going on at Ustream headquarters today with interesting phone calls being made. And that leads to interesting questions about ways to prevent this, can you prevent this, should you even try. I’ve seen plenty of ustream feeds showing old public domain movies, but this is the first time for this (for all I know, this goes on all the time). But it brings up the you argument of how responsible is the website(publisher) for the activities of it subscribers. Me, I’ll just watch. About 6 months ago, I did a series on tutorials on the free VMWare VMServer product that ran and administered virtual machines through a web interface. I got a letter from a gentleman asking how to move his laptop windows XP image to a virtual environment. He was making a Driveimage XML(as a BartPE plug-in) backup and was trying to restore it in a XP virtual machine. This runs into a s-load of abstraction layer problems, that I don’t think it could ever work that way. Here’s a section of my reply to him: >But that’s all academic, because the real problem I did indeed check it out, and it does work as advertised. It took roughly 20 minutes to produce a VM image folder of my bench XP that I was able to take to my main computer and run under VMserver. Under the first “power on” of the XP image it went through a series of finding and installing drivers then asked for a reboot. After the reboot of the XP image, the environment was fully there as was the installed software from the bench computer; nifty. Of course, since the hardware has changed, and we all know Microsoft’s douchiness on this subject, the image is giving me 3 days for activation(compared to 30 days for an initial XP install, interesting). I’m not going to bother, since this is a test image I’m going to dump anyway, but I suspect when you go to activate, it’s going to give that magic phone number to call and you get to tell the rep that you’re upgrading the motherboard. Either way, the converter is the equivalent of magic to me, and I’ll definitely have a video coming up. I’ve owned a Zoom H4n recorder for about a month now and have to say I’m still pleased with it. I use it for nature sounds and eventually want to start doing interviews with out. You can buy it now for roughly $300 (lucky you, when I bought it, it was $350) at Amazon, but there are plenty of bundles on Ebay (where I bought it) the will include extras like a corded remote , extra memory card, and a mini-tripod for the same price. The only disadvantage is you have to wait a week instead of the 2-day amazon delivery. The Video I put on youtube shows the menu structure and gives a general overview. At the risk of sounding old, I get excited with objects like these: for $300 you’re getting the equivilent of technology that would’ve cost $1000 to $5000(and this is being conservative) 20 years ago at the dawn of digital recordings (you know, the audio CD area). Technology has removed another barrier to getting your voice out there, an idea which is worthy of a whole separate post. Here are some recoded clips made with the onboard mic’s: Most cameras come with a free photostitcher, but I use a commercial one called PTGui. Originally built around “panorama tools” (a free suite of programs and libraries), but has since relied on it’s own engines. It can stitch photo’s taken in a typical horizontal fashion, but also in a matrix (both horizontal and vertical). It will automatically match and blend them. A demo can be downloaded, but the actual price will be $119 for the personal version and $225 for the pro version (which includes batch processing and support for 64 bit windows and HDR images). I haven’t been able to justify the $110 difference (yet.) You get updates for 1 year after that the update (rather pricey, I thought) is $38 for standard PTGui and $68 for the pro version. Price aside, if you take a lot of photos of landscapes and such, take a look. I use it and recommend it. In fact, if you look for the tag panorama on by blog, you’ll see a fair amount of pictures using PTgui I’m sure this has been on youtube for some time, but I only recently noticed it. It’s based on a european film “Downfall” reguarding (yet again) the final days of hitler. The difference is that people have inserted funny subtiles over Hitler’s rant. Bad Taste? I dunno, it’s just pretty funny
I’m sure this has been on youtube for some time, but I only recently noticed it. It’s based on a european film “Downfall” regarding (yet again) the final days of Hitler. The difference is that people have inserted funny subtitles over Hitler’s rant. Bad Taste? I dunno, it’s just funny… and of course… The bulk of these can be found by searching “hitler downfall” on youtube. I recently completed the Comptia A+ certification through a lot of studying and a lot of practice tests. Here’s an overview of what I did and a look at the different study materials I used. I’m not sure if roadside crosses are prevalent outside of New Mexico. All these pictures are within 10 miles of my House. I’m not sure how I feel about them. I intellectually understand the need to pay respects and remember your family, but when does it cross over to self-torture and continued depression. When do you just stop and go on? I don’t know, but it’s a southwest thing for sure… (assorted last names were intentionally blurred) Addition, I’d be somewhat remiss if I didn’t throw in this link I found with an irreverent view on the subject: http://www.porkjerky.com/rip/ The last two times I’ve gone on vacation, I’ve gone 2 hours out of my way to visit Fry’s Electronics. I’ve been to Fry’s in L.A., Phoenix and Austin. Each time it’s been a near religious experience. I’d sacrifice a goat, if I seriously thought it would get me one in New Mexico. Imagine taking a Best Buy or CompUSA, multiply the floor space by 3 or 4 times. You’d have the usual white goods (dishwashers, fridges) and the computer systems and separate components. And, of course laptops, netbooks, mp3 players, and the usual apple crap. There’s the software and the computer books(but this time a real selection like Borders or Barnes & Noble). But also some real meat for an electronics tech: quality technical tools, RJ crimpers, digital meters, heat shrink tubing, oscilloscopes, discrete components (IC’s, transistors, they actually had a cross reference catalog),cool hobbyist kits like they had at Radio Shack back in the day, Parallax Stamp and Propeller kits. All of sitting on shelves like it was Wal-mart. Excuse me while I calm down… Please Fry’s come home. come home…  Valhalla
One of the visual indications of southwest flavor is the variety of murals on a lot of downtown buildings.
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