Just buy some stop sticks. Better yet, buy a bunch of nails/screws etc. Everyone will get flat tires, and be forced to slow down on donuts.

I have some Microsoft LifeCam Cinema cameras. Running them for a security camera and also for a bird / nest cam. I have it at 640x360 right now on ustream : http://www.ustream.tv/channel/bird-nesting-cam I was able to buy some 30' USB cables that you can string 3 together from Monoprice http://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?c_id=103&cp_id=10303&cs_id=1030304&p_id=6149&seq=1&format=2 and then also used a dome from ebay : http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=170449248831&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT#ht_3432wt_1040 To house the camera. it is not PTZ, and you have to hack the dome a bit to get the camera to fit, but it is what is doing the feed for the nest cam.

Not sure if it is just Wireless, as it did mention wireless explicitly along with verizon in general. But Fios is up for me.

After working at a city w/ fire fighters & police officers the logic is very flawed in what I have seen. The city where I work, the fire fighters work 24hr shifts every 3 days. 1 on, 2 off. During that 24hrs, they are expected to be at the fire house, or on a fire truck, or doing work related business. If there is a shortage at a station, usually a fire fighter will be asked to stay over one extra shift for extra pay, or comp-time. Either that, or they might re-arrange some of the work force at the stations for a shift to cover a shortage. This is also similar to the Police officers. Because the department is pretty small, police officers are often on call for certain things, such as crime scene investigation. Those officers I think are signed up for one week at a time. But they get a minimum of 2hrs pay for coming in on their day off. They do get incentive pay for certain positions, and I think that pay is to help off-set the cost of carrying around a pager. But needless to say, they get paid for their time.

Working for a local government, it does not matter what the IT department recommends or requires in a project. Sometimes upper management just don't get it, and cut things out of projects to save a buck. One example I can think of was hand holds. At a few hundred dollars a pop, we wanted hand holds every so many yards (can't recall number several years later), and also require them at turns > than 45 degrees. That way if we needed to branch off, we could do it at a turn (usually at a street intersection). When the project got approved somewhere up the chain, locate wires, and the hand holds at turns got eliminated. When we added a new building on line, we ended up having to pay additional cost for a single hand hold, and putting fiber across a street... A couple months later, the fiber was cut b/c there was no locate wire to locate the cable that had not been reported to dig test, because it would cost too much according to engineering. Stinks that that kind of oversight for a few dollars costs the tax payers in the end. Things like backups, locate wires etc are called insurance, maybe us IT Folk should start calling it that... Insurance.

I am currently using vista on my desktop, was going to use 64 bit, but that had issues. So back to 32 bit, and not able to use all my memory. I figured Vista 7 64bit would be my savior. After about 2 hours messing around with it, back to vista. It dumbed down so many things, I could no longer stand it. I had a list of things I did not like about it, but I will withhold reservations until the final product is released. I will say this though, it booted faster than vista. My biggest complaint is their new shiny task bar. If I have 6 (I know I use tabs too) instances of Chrome, I can pretty much identify them by looking at my vista taskbar w/ the titles. Now you have to go to one icon, hover over it to see pretty preview windows. I could care less. It appears they are trying to mimic what OSX (possibly others) where everything looks the same, no quick launch. It was my biggest annoyance. I don't see what all the hoopla is w/ Vista, but I am getting old enough where I can't keep up with 4 different versions of operating systems. Actually my dads office is horrible, they still have windows 3.11 on their network!