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  1. J Sigmo

    Door checker

    Maybe he left his personal stash in his car when he brought it in for some work, and he needed to retrieve it. Then, as long as he was there, he decided to do a bit of burglary. :)
  2. J Sigmo

    House explodes

    It sounds like five homes were left uninhabitable by the blast. Joint Release: Five homes deemed "unable to occupy" after Labor Day explosion - Casper, WY Oil City News
  3. J Sigmo

    Impatient Driver Gets Himself Killed

    Two wrongs don't make a right. But three rights makes a left!
  4. J Sigmo

    House explodes

    Yeah. We're about 1.15 miles away, and it made our house creak, like a small earthquake or a sonic boom. It got all of the neighbors out of their houses here. Several houses right next to the one that exploded have fairly bad structural damage, and there was at least one water main break from...
  5. J Sigmo

    Door checker

    A friend of mine was going to school in the downtown area of Denver, CO, the "capitol hill" area. Nasty neighborhood! He said you learned to not only leave your car unlocked, with NOTHING of value in it, but you also wanted to leave your windows all rolled all the way down, and the glove...
  6. J Sigmo

    House explodes

    I'm not sure if it's kosher to post a link to a FB post or not, but here goes: This is not my video. But someone got some security camera footage of this house exploding earlier today not too far from my place. I'm not sure what sort of camera system the poster used. I live a little over a...
  7. J Sigmo

    I want a "sort of new" laptop.

    That's interesting. I was actually thinking of updating the old laptop, though, just to make it useful for longer. But it would also be worth considering updating the new laptop, too, to get pro on it. I have several win 7 pro installs, so I could use one of those licenses to upgrade the...
  8. J Sigmo

    I want a "sort of new" laptop.

    I may try and see if I can put Win10 Pro on my OLD beast of a laptop. It's got win 7 pro on it now. I've already put extra money into the new little laptop with the bigger M2 SSD and the RAM I have on order. It's a nice machine, but knowing what I know now, and having spent extra money on it...
  9. J Sigmo

    Impatient Driver Gets Himself Killed

    It looks like everyone on that main road in that video is traveling quite fast. It does seem to me that the guy who pulled around the other car and drove right out into traffic was 100% at fault. I really do think his insurance will end up paying all of the bills and damage arising from this...
  10. J Sigmo

    I want a "sort of new" laptop.

    I thought about several ways to install the larger M2 SSD in mine. I could pull the original drive out, and, using a different PC and two external M2 cases, make a clone that way. I could just pull the original drive out, install the larger SSD in its place, and then use the media creation tool...
  11. J Sigmo

    I want a "sort of new" laptop.

    I will find, and post some pictures I took of the innards of one of the Core memory modules I salvaged from a Control Data computer. I couldn't bear to see them go to the landfill! RAM from when RAM was magnetic. :) Heres' the maintenance manual I found for this...
  12. J Sigmo

    I want a "sort of new" laptop.

    I think you're right. Going with a larger RAM module or modules might be a wise choice. The RAM modules aren't all that expensive right now. This unit won't need to have a lot of RAM, but you never know what the future will bring! Me, too! Things have gotten progressively better and...
  13. J Sigmo

    Doorbell location - potential problem

    Some of the doorbell/cameras come with a set of angled mounting plates so you can get the camera aimed to the left or right to various degrees. If the one you've got doesn't come with such angled plates, you could fabricate one to get the camera aimed over toward the door better. But digging...
  14. J Sigmo

    I want a "sort of new" laptop.

    I got it! The eagerly awaited little HP notebook PC from Best Buy arrived today. It's really thin and light compared to the old beast I have been using. It should be a pleasure to pack around by comparison. The display is great. Very sharp and crisp. I took a chance, and a few days ago, I...
  15. J Sigmo

    Impatient Driver Gets Himself Killed

    Reminds me of a common bumper sticker here: "Welcome to Wyoming. Consider everyone armed!"
  16. J Sigmo

    Impatient Driver Gets Himself Killed

    About 8 years ago, I was driving home late at night from work, and came to a "TEE" intersection. I stopped at the red light, and when it turned green, I looked both ways, as you do, because, as they told us in Driver's Ed, back in the mid '70s, "You're just as dead whether or not you had the...
  17. J Sigmo

    My UPS Caught Fire Last Night

    One YouTube video leads to another:
  18. J Sigmo

    Is there a Blue Iris equivalent for Linux?

    I think what's gumming up this discussion is that we'd all like to know why you cannot run a Windows machine in this particular situation. It's none of my business, really, but if people understood the situation, they'd probably be more inclined to help. As it is, it seems mysterious, and...
  19. J Sigmo

    Impatient Driver Gets Himself Killed

    Unless, as @TonyR pointed out, a councilman or other bigwig lives there. Then the town will pay for it, for sure! ;)
  20. J Sigmo

    My UPS Caught Fire Last Night

    I'm sure I'm not the only one who remembers Carbon Tetrachloride fire extinguishing "bombs". Carbon tetrachloride - Wikipedia They were fairly common in refineries and other high fire-risk areas. You were supposed to throw them at the base of the flames, and when the glass broke, it would...
  21. J Sigmo

    Impatient Driver Gets Himself Killed

    I think that video would be very valuable to the police investigation. It shows the whole story. No charges... Indeed! If anything, they should certainly be able to go after the dead guy's insurance to recover their losses as well! If nobody's done so, the PD there needs to be directed to...
  22. J Sigmo

    Need suggestions on getting rid of this guy

    Once they get in, sometimes they're hard to coax to escape. You do need to trap him or leave something open for him to be able to easily escape. But then you also need to figure out how he got in to begin with, and make sure that gets plugged off with something they can't chew through. 1/4"...
  23. J Sigmo

    Impatient Driver Gets Himself Killed

    The guy getting run over is blocked from the camera's view. But he must've flown/rolled almost to the edge of the pavement nearest to us, and the F-150 ran over him while already slowed down a lot before finally stopping just in camera view. I came upon a one-car rollover out in the boonies in...
  24. J Sigmo

    Impatient Driver Gets Himself Killed

    I'll bet the police appreciated having this footage to answer a lot of questions.
  25. J Sigmo

    Night vision / IR issue on left side

    There's another advantage to using external IR illuminators, and switching the built-in IR LEDs completely off. With any camera, if the light source is really close to the lens, tiny objects that would ordinarily be invisible (dust, spider webs, flying bugs, snow, rain, etc.) that are near the...
  26. J Sigmo

    I want a "sort of new" laptop.

    I am guilty of creating some devices and software that cannot run with anything newer than Windows 98 because I do direct reads/writes to the I/O bus, and once you get to NT, direct access is not allowed. You have to work through the API, and I'm too lazy to rewrite it all. Further, you must...
  27. J Sigmo

    Night vision / IR issue on left side

    I don't think I'm seeing anything abnormal in that image. Unfortunately, these built-in IR illuminators usually light up a smallish spot in the center of the image. What I see in your example photo is the usual central illuminated area with dark edges. The right side looks brighter than the...
  28. J Sigmo

    I want a "sort of new" laptop.

    First news: My order with Costco was mysteriously cancelled. I did an online-chat just now with them to find out what the hangup was, and they just wanted to ask me a few verification questions. I think they were suspicious because I'm not a member, and there are no Costcos in Wyoming, or...
  29. J Sigmo

    Server Rack..How would you clean this up?

    Often, ironically, making an installation look its best makes it harder to work on later. And I've been known to tell people: "The electrons don't care." Ideally, color coding and good labeling at every end is very handy. And the velcro and other removable cable securing devices are nice...
  30. J Sigmo

    I like things Virtual.

    Make sure to read the Wiki and the Cliff notes therein. There are some excellent tools to simulate your property and show what camera positions and what lens focal lengths (for a given sensor size) will give the angle of view necessary to achieve the DORI values you need, but I have not used...
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