Nice try posting anon.

I have a 5 camera system (slowly growing) and I evaluated ZoneMinder and decided that it didn't meet my requirements, so I rolled my own. If you are good at C programming Linux has everything you need to write a simple capture/streaming application. I use USB video capture devices (Pinnacle Dazzle DVD Recorder) because they are cheap (no tuner), have excellent quality, and I have no shortage of USB ports.

Linux natively supports these devices, and the V4L2 APIs make it trivial to reads frames. Using libavcodec from the ffmpeg project you can encode the frames to practically any format imaginable. I encode all 5 cameras to MPEG-4 at 30 fps using minimal CPU power. All of this is possible with only about 500 lines of C code. Of course in my own version I've added a lot of fancy features over time and the project has gotten quite large with support for low-bandwidth streaming, crude motion detection, time-lapse video, etc.

I won't lie to you and tell you that the documentation for ffmpeg is any good. But there are tutorials out there that explain how to use libavcodec and everything else is a piece of cake. Don't overestimate how simple is it to get something basic working.

I use this to make my Caps Lock just another shift key. The ensures that I never get Caps lock stuck on.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Keyboard Layout]
"Scancode Map"=hex:00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,02,00,00,00,2a,00,3a,00,00,00,00,00

Technically whenever you order a product from another state and the seller doesn't withhold sales tax on the purchase, you're required to pay that sales tax in your state. Nobody does this -- so technically nearly everyone is guilty of this kind of tax evasion. How is this any different?

The uptime on most of the machines in my house is between 100 and 400 days. The highest I ever had was about 950 days and I had to power down because I was moving to a new apartment.

What if there was a way that sites could commit to "text-only" ads, like Google? I would consider setting a flag that allowed text-only advertising on sites that committed to not be obnoxious.

I wouldn't mind spending some of my bandwidth to download the ads as long as they weren't displayed. This would help some websites that get revenue based on number of impressions.

If you allow ssh access from the wide internet, and you have a weak password for root, you are probably still vulnerable.

If you allow ssh access from the wide internet, and you have a weak password for root, you always were vulnerable. Now the vulnerability is just being exploited in a more automated way.

If you RTFA you'll see that you're only vulnerable if you have a weak password. I guess the worm uses password guessing as the "exploit" to take over your router.

If they're going to mark you as leaving 'on bad terms', you may as well move the date up and quit now. It's not like they can do anything additional to screw you. Move on to your next (and presumably better) job and forget about the last one.

Am I the only one who thinks this sounds a lot like Singularity OS from Microsoft Research?

I don't think that phrase means what you think it means...