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Submission + - Tips on setting up IP camera surveillance?

Submitted by mijkal on Monday April 07, 2008 @06:46PM

mijkal writes: A friend owns two apartment complexes, one of which is is another city and one of which she lives on the premises, and has had some recent problems of thefts and vandalism in the common areas. Does anyone have any tips on what to look for when selecting IP cameras, particularly for low-lux areas (one is outdoor)? Anyone had experience setting up a similar system, and if so, what things could I avoid? The cameras ideally should have have wifi capability at some point (can be wired and use a cheap wifi router w/DD-WRT to achieve wireless capability) to be on her LAN (Internet for remote site) so she can access the feeds on her computer. She'd like to keep the budget as low as possible, but she's willing to pay what it costs to meet her needs to do the job (ie catch thieves/vandals, remotely monitor other complex). Cheers.

Submission + - Five Alternatives to the MacBook Pro

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 07, 2008 @05:46PM

An anonymous reader writes: Apple's recent growth in the computing segment has gotten a lot more people considering MacBook Pros when looking for a high-end notebook. It's a great system, but it is expensive and if you don't love the software platform then it may not always be the best option. Geek.com has taken a look at five alternatives to the 17-inch MacBook Pro for people who need portable power, but aren't sold on OS X. From the article, "Finding an alternative to the 17-inch MacBook Pro is an imperfect science. This is not to say that the Pro is necessarily a singularity or the best in the field, but it is unique in a number of ways, namely in how it combines performance and portability into a very stylish package..."

Mac OS X Secretly Cripples Non-Apple Software 559

Posted by Soulskill on Thursday February 28, 2008 @10:17PM from the hand-in-the-cookie-jar dept.

spikedLemur writes "Vladimir Vukicevic of the Firefox team stumbled upon some questionable practices from Apple while trying to improve the performance of Firefox. Apparently, Apple is using some undocumented APIs that give Safari a significant performance advantage over other browsers. Of course, "undocumented" means that non-Apple developers have to try and reverse-engineer these interfaces to get the same level of performance. You really have to wonder what Apple is thinking, considering the kind of retaliation Microsoft has gotten for similar practices.

Submission + - Apple Blesses 3rd-Party iPhone Software - Sort Of (arstechnica.com)

Submitted by

StarKruzr

on Tuesday September 11, 2007 @03:03PM

StarKruzr writes: "Ars Technica is reporting that Apple's Greg Joswiak has said the company is officially taking a "neutral stance" on third-party binary applications for their mobile phone product. This means that while the iPhone community developers will get no help from Cupertino with respect to 3rd-party apps, Apple doesn't intend to do anything to prevent them from going nuts with whatever they want to write. Future Software Updates may break the hacks in one way or another, but it will be incidental rather than intentional. This is pretty great news for geeks who want a UNIX cell phone with a great interface. The iPhone software development community's progress has been accelerating rapidly, and this announcement can only mean that it will speed up even faster now that there is a measure of assurance from Apple that the phone will be "allowed" to be a platform rather than just a pretty device."

Serious Magnet Failure at CERN's New Accelerator 193

Posted by CowboyNeal on Saturday March 31, 2007 @10:57AM from the smashing-atoms dept.

GrepNut writes "CERN is reporting that the giant magnets that steer the particle beam in the new and highly anticipated Large Hadron Collider have just failed catastrophically in a stress test, apparently due to a design oversight. It doesn't help that the magnets were designed and built by CERN's US competitor Fermilab." While safety precautions were followed, and no one was injured nor were any rifts in the space-time continuum opened, it's still a rather large setback for the project.

Comment Re:The end of the line (Score 1) 366

by fleener on Wednesday December 13, 2006 @05:18PM (#17228810) Attached to: Firefox 3 In Alpha

Yes, my hardware is capable of running a Linux distribution. The computer's operator, however, does not wish to take the time to learn the inner workings of Linux so that he (I) can do simple things like install a new piece of hardware. Make Linux as simple to use as Windows -- in all respects -- and you'll have my ear. Until such time, busy moderately-savvy folks like myself will continue to use Windows. I don't want or need to know how an OS works. An OS should be seamless, simply a conduit for running software and using hardware.

iTunes v6 FairPlay DRM Cracked 421

Posted by kdawson on Wednesday August 30, 2006 @01:39PM from the round-and-round-they-go dept.

luaine writes with an Engadget article claiming the cracking of iTunes v6 FairPlay DRM. From the article: "[A] new app called QTFairUse6 looks like it can now be used (with some amount of difficulty) to dump iTunes version 6.0.4 - 6.0.5 files of their chastely protection." At present this is a Windows-only tool for those who are "not afraid to get [their] hands dirty with a little python." Engadget does not provide a link to QTFairUse6, and neither will we. We've run several DRM stories recently, but it's been 19 months since Cracking iTunes' DRM with JHymn.

Comment Re:CowboyNeal for president (Score 1) 2400

by joedames on Tuesday November 02, 2004 @10:56AM (#10699797) Attached to: Who will you vote for?

In Missouri, I believe, it is legal for a felon to vote as long as (s)he is no longer on probation or parole and has not been convicted of a felony crime involving voting.

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