At work I've been working on a night vision camra for the last few days. The camra works the capture card in the computer works the software however. Still looking. Using Windows.

So while I'm setting up the camra someone desides to tell me how someone on the news clames the camra can be destroied by a laser pointer.
Just a quicky on that. The lens on a camra scatters the pointers beam so yes it will blind the camra so will a flashlight. But it won't damage it.

Instead of arguing the point* I point out the computer is programmed to record the persons picture.
*(After all I know how strongly he clings to his myths)

He insists it won't do anything at night untill I point out it's a night vision camra.
(I know better than to try and explain infer red to someone who believes obveous myths)
He then insists it won't work during the DAY. I point out I can turn night vision off.
(I know better than to try an explain how an infer red camra to someone who could think that night vision means 'dosen't work at day time)

Then he clames the night vision image can't be used for facal recognition becouse it's not photograph quality.

All I said at that point is "I've had no such problems" and he just repeates his clame.

It's pritty scarry when someone can say "facal recognition" and "phorograph quality" and not know what he is saying.

("Facal recognition" by means of software. The human eye can pick detail from the most burry of images hence the term has no meaning here.
Of course the camra dosn't produce photograph quality. Nither dose my digital camra. This has pritty much nothing to do with security camras. Unless of course someone invents a servalence camra that can record at photograph quality.)

He's basicly throwing around technical terms he heard and thinks he knows what they mean.

On a side note I didn't want to talk anymore becouse the camra had some sort of defect reguarding the range of it's infer red vision. I'm working on a hack to fix that. It involves a battery powered infer red flood lamp.

How perfictly Slashdot. Yet annother SCO analasis that really dosen't mean anything to the public at large. Do I care? Nope.

At the core of this is the clame that IBM put SCOs intelectual property into Linux and as a result violated SCOs liccens.
Some of that intelectual property turns out to in fact be IBMs property liccensed to SCO not the other way around.
At the same time SCO violates the GPL and it's own liccens with Novel to resell Unix.

Looks like SCO thinks only SCOs liccenses matter.

Thhht Oh boy do I feel dorkish right now.
The Linux destro project is on hold due to unexpected difficultys I'll eventually resolve.
You know what? I should keep this under my hat untill I have something becouse I may never get this off the ground and really do you need more vaperware?

I've switched to a new project for now. What is it? Vaperware.. ok so don't ask. I'll post it up on freshmeat if it ever reaches release stage and it probably won't so it's not something to even care about.

I'm working on my own Linux Destro. I've been discussing it back on MZDM but that is an inappropreate forum for the subject so I've taken to Slashdot to discuss it.

So far I've desided to call it Opti as it's a source destro. This means the system is installed entirely from source code optomised and costume fit for the end user.
It's also a user destro so it's not aimmed at servers (Like LFS and Rock) but for the avrage user.

I don't have a working version ready but it's also been desided that I'll be doing an open beta.
As for the source code. Well obveously I have to give you the source for it to work at all. The install CD is the source CD.

I also plan to have a live automatic update and I want to create an installation archive so you can add software that didn't make it to the CD using smart download/compile and again all from source.

I hope to have a beta CD soon.

Let's face it I'm an oppinionated jerk.
Your going to hate something I have to say and quite often it's really off topic to point out my foobles in a reasonable well thought out mannor.
Well guess what kiddys. I care. Hah blow your mind don't it.
Selfish arrogent self centered yep all true but I care.
No your fealings are like mulch to me. It's the clue stick applyed when I'm in full BAKA mode that helps create the illusion that I'm a sain reasonable human.

So lash away... Oh yes whip me beat me make me write bad checks.