what do you see?
The webcam here is pretty boring. You can
onClick="MM_openBrWindow('/automate/webcam/bethesdacam0.jpg','','width=320,height=240')">click
on it for a slightly larger view, but it's nothing special to see...
especially at this hour when all you get are a few pinpoints of light from
the neighboring houses.
I think Liana or the Cat must have been playing with it, since the view
has moved up and to the right just slightly. It used to show the post
light at the top of the stairs in the front yard. But it's not there right
now.
I've been trying to think up other ways to make it more interesting. It
does keep the last 48 images (48 x 2 minute-interval = 1 hour 36 min.
archive) and I'm going to put up a new page so that you can see those
easily in a timelapse.
Since I still can't use EvoCam (the better of the two webcam applications
I bought) with Mac OS X 10.3, I can't take advantage of that application's
built-in archive feature. It can create a QuickTime timelapse movie of the
previous day and save that to the server. That would be great, but EvoCam
just won't do for now.
In other geeky news, I hooked up my TV to the DVI (digital video) port on
my G5's video card. I had to buy a $19 adapter at the Apple Store, and now
I get S-Video or composite video out from the G5 and it acts as a second
monitor. Using the Griffin iMic that I've had sitting around for years, I
hooked up the sound too.
So, now I don't need to hook up my PowerBook to the TV or have a separate
DVD player whenever I want to watch DVDs.
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