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• If you're serious about setting up a multi-camera system, there's the free ZoneMinder software that runs under Linux.
  
  It's more of a professional video surveillance system with an excellent feature set (including multiple camera support, a wide variety of hardware support, per-camera motion detection with customizable zones, X-10 control, etc.). I've tried most of the above software packages and ZM has them beat hands-down.
  
  It's not trivial to set up, but there's a great support community. Check it out at zoneminder.com In reply to: "DIY home surveillance with a Webcam"

  August 3, 2009

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• Is this particularly a bad thing for Apple?
  
  I'm guessing that in the end, the iPod Touch is probably more profitable per-device than the iPhone.
  - The margin on the iPod Touch hardware itself is probably higher than on the iPhone (I couldn't find any references to the unsubsidized price of an iPhone, so I could be wrong here).
  - There aren't a particularly large amount of apps in the App Store that require actual telephony, so I would guess App Store revenues are about the same.
  - Surely the iPhone is costing significantly more in terms of marketing, support, and staffing overhead.
  
  The un-quantifiable is the value of the PR associated with high iPhone sales vs high iPod sales. In reply to: "Is the iPod Touch cannibalizing iPhone sales?"

  January 21, 2009

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• I see that the 660 is priced cheaper than the 550 (https://buy.garmin.com/shop/shop.do?cID=135), so despite it's higher model number, I think it's positioned as a step down from the 550.
  
  I'm also curious whether the new A2DP Bluetooth means the Zumo will finally have wireless stereo output without the need for add-ons.
  
  Most of the changes sound like software tweaks, so there's hope (though slim) that maybe there'd be a substantial firmware upgrade for the existing Zumo line to add some of the newer goodies. Particularly since the lack of XM (which I think probably has a very high adoption rate among Zumo 550 owners) means very few people will be keen on dumping their 550's for 650's. In reply to: "Garmin Zumo 660 built to guide bikers"

  January 15, 2009

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• RE: Cuil - I remember when Google first started out many years ago, it was plagued with downtime and was fairly miserable at searching compared to Yahoo. While the competition now has far more massive leads, dont discount Cuil yet. In reply to: "10 Worst Web glitches of 2008 (so far)"

  August 15, 2008

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• @comeonpeopleplease - The article is about the iPhone update failing. I suggest if you don't want to read people's posts about how their upgrade is failing YOU DONT READ THE DISCUSSION THREAD FOR AN ARTICLE ABOUT THE UPGRADE FAILING.
  
  What did you think we'd be talking about here? Lawn mowing techniques?
  
  This is an especially rotten egg on Apple's face as it occurs at a time when they're trying to present the iPhone as "Enterprise ready". In reply to: "Apple's iPhone 2.0 update is failing"

  July 11, 2008

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• Wow - Epic Fail. It's inexcusable that this happened. Apple should have very detailed statistics on just how much traffic this would be generating and should have been prepared - they've had enough time to plan for V2.0. If your infrastructure is designed smartly, you should easily be able to scale for peak demand times like this. In reply to: "Apple's iPhone 2.0 update is failing"

  July 11, 2008

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• 1hr (11am pst) later and the FF home page (when it does load) still links to v2.0 and 3.0RC3 and the in-browser update fails with malformed XML.
  
  Mozilla=Epic Fail. In reply to: "Firefox 3: New front in the browser war"

  June 17, 2008

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• Maybe they're jealous of Twitter's recent headlines?
  They say there's no such thing as bad PR... In reply to: "Amazon suffers U.S. outage on Friday"

  June 6, 2008

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• I'm not sure how this makes the data unreadable. The platters are still more or less intact and the data is still in order. A precise enough mechanism could still pass a reading element over the deformed surface and pull enough data to reconstruct things...
  Then again, if your data's worth that much, you're going to pay a lot more than $12k for the machine that purges it. In reply to: "The 'Hard Disk Crusher' doesn't mess around"

  May 2, 2008

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• What you need to realize is...
  Most companies don't actually make their own power bricks. They buy them pre-packaged in bulk from other suppliers (who are also the ones who do all the certifications/testings and put the approval stickers on). For a company to buy several thousand bulk bricks, unwrap them, label them, and re-wrap them would add to the cost of goods, which would be passed on to the customer.
  I learned long ago to use a white sharpie and label any new wall-wart that enters my domain. In the end, the Sharpie's cheaper. In reply to: "The fight for identifiable power bricks"

  November 1, 2007

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