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  1. J Sigmo

    US Elections (& Politics) :)

    I looked into Brave, but saw that it is based on Chrome code. So my fear is that it may still contain the innate badness of Chrome. Amazon must have incredible contracts with the freight outfits. Where I used to work, we had a contract with UPS. Compared to what I would have to pay to ship...
  2. J Sigmo

    Why is the old term "Footage" used in this day and age.

    The term that bugs me is "bandwidth" when what is meant is "data capacity". Bandwidth has a specific meaning, and it is NOT directly related to data rate or data capacity at all. (More efficient encoding methods and modulation techniques can squeeze more data into the same bandwidth, while...
  3. J Sigmo

    Burglars run after getting fright on their life

    I still think that's a cat skeedattling away.
  4. J Sigmo

    US Elections (& Politics) :)

    If the agencies involved weren't either corrupt or scared, RICO act indictments would be forthcoming.
  5. J Sigmo

    US Elections (& Politics) :)

    Something I wish over and over that the Republicans would hammer on, but they always seem to miss, is the way the Dems ALWAYS say they're going to raise money by raising taxes on corporations so they can spare the poor and middle class from paying for their extravagant programs. Why don't the...
  6. J Sigmo

    Car versus Pickup Truck

    Thanks! I guess I was vaguely aware of that when I have been setting things up at times, but I've never played with that or implemented it. I probably should, using the audio from a camera that's aimed down at my porch. It always seems to gather the best audio of them all. We have a lot of...
  7. J Sigmo

    US Elections (& Politics) :)

    Exactly. Regardless of the schools, social media, the mainstream media, etc., the parents and grandparents need to be vigilant and very involved in the raising of the kids!
  8. J Sigmo

    Car versus Pickup Truck

    I have a small snow blower and a big one. The big one is a beast, and I can completely sympathize with how easy it would be to accidentally crash into a car or your house, or whatever!
  9. J Sigmo

    US Elections (& Politics) :)

    With regard to the education story: It seems that the left is actively working to guarantee that the young people coming up will end up being incompetent and especially that they end up not taking responsibility for their consequences or "rewards". This goes right along with issuing...
  10. J Sigmo

    Car versus Pickup Truck

    And worse, the car might have been pushed into my POS. As it is, there was no damage to my red Exploder as far as I can tell. But something you may not be aware of is that in an accident, at least here, if both drivers are issued citations, then the court will consider it all, and assign...
  11. J Sigmo

    US Elections (& Politics) :)

    Grandfather!!? Sheesh, you folks are making me feel old! ;)
  12. J Sigmo

    Car versus Pickup Truck

    The speed limit here is 30mph. People routinely drive much faster than that. The problem with getting an accurate speed from any of my cameras would be that the truck may already be braking before coming into good view. If someone a few houses up the street from me had a good shot of him...
  13. J Sigmo

    Car versus Pickup Truck

    That's the camera's name as used in Blue Iris, not the street address. 03 is the camera's number, and the street name is where it's aimed. However, anyone familiar with the area will recognize the location, of course. There's even a street sign in view. Whether it's legible is a question...
  14. J Sigmo

    Car versus Pickup Truck

    I caught this earlier this month on four different cameras, right in front of my house. A car pulls out from the curb directly into the side of a passing pickup truck. Some folks were doing a bit of concrete work on the across the street neighbors' driveway. One of the guys had his car parked...
  15. J Sigmo

    US Elections (& Politics) :)

    Sometimes people have to be pushed really far before they realize what they've lost and wake up. Let's hope things don't have to get too much further gone before that happens. But a generation or two of indoctrination by the schools and media (especially so-called "social media" may have...
  16. J Sigmo

    US Elections (& Politics) :)

    Ever heard John Hartford's "Nobody Knows What You Do"? It's on the "Nobody Knows What You Do" album. Fantastic album and a fun song. It sort of fits, except that if you leave your camera enabled when you're on a Zoom meeting, EVERYONE knows what you do! :) The audio quality of that upload...
  17. J Sigmo

    Blue Iris suddenly says it's in evaluation mode, and I have no more days left.

    So, if I click on "upgrade/renew", will I then have my work cut out for me for a few days? Or will it just install over my existing installation automatically these days? When I was following the thread about upgrading, it looked like it might take a bit of work to be sure you didn't screw up...
  18. J Sigmo

    Blue Iris suddenly says it's in evaluation mode, and I have no more days left.

    And it shows "Version 5 eligible" in green letters. So maybe I'm still good to go to do an upgrade (if I dare). :)
  19. J Sigmo

    Blue Iris suddenly says it's in evaluation mode, and I have no more days left.

    It does show it. 2/6/2020! I've been really lazy for a loooong time!
  20. J Sigmo

    Blue Iris suddenly says it's in evaluation mode, and I have no more days left.

    I wonder where I'd find an upgrade key. I have the key for the original purchase stashed in a text file, and I have a PDF receipt for buying the extended support and maintenance. But that was over a year ago! There's no key anywhere on that receipt that I can see. It's a PDF that they...
  21. J Sigmo

    Blue Iris suddenly says it's in evaluation mode, and I have no more days left.

    OK. Entering my old key seems to make it run, and it claims that I again, have full, unlimited use of the program. Now, I probably need to buy the upgrade somehow again and get my butt in gear and actually install it this time! :) Thanks, everyone.
  22. J Sigmo

    Blue Iris suddenly says it's in evaluation mode, and I have no more days left.

    Nope. I will give that a try. But it's pretty odd that after all of this time, it suddenly did this. Again, I'll blame MS's update for changing something that BI uses to determine if the program was licensed. I hope it doesn't do a full re-install and wipe out all of my camera setups and...
  23. J Sigmo

    Blue Iris suddenly says it's in evaluation mode, and I have no more days left.

    I'm going to blame the update that Windows apparently did! ;)
  24. J Sigmo

    Blue Iris suddenly says it's in evaluation mode, and I have no more days left.

    Well, I'm worse off than that. I have never installed 5. I'm still (or was still) running 4. I've just not had the time and inclination to do the upgrade to 5, especially after reading all of the thread about doing the upgrade. It looked like I would have to do a lot of messing about to get...
  25. J Sigmo

    Blue Iris suddenly says it's in evaluation mode, and I have no more days left.

    OK. I'm probably to blame for this, but: I have been running BI4 for a few years. It's worked fine, so even though I paid the extra to extend my "maintenance" or whatever it's called, so I could upgrade to 5, I haven't gotten around to doing it. Summer is the busy season where I work, and...
  26. J Sigmo

    US Elections (& Politics) :)

    So far, the "debates" and "town halls" have been an utter and complete joke. Anyone who thinks they've been fair is a complete fool. The media, tech giants, and "powers that be" are all exposing themselves (not in the way that CNN "legal analyst" Jeffry Toobin exposed himself during a Zoom...
  27. J Sigmo

    US Elections (& Politics) :)

    And now, we have SHITLOADS of Colorado license plate cars where I live in Wyoming. Coincidence? Just hunting season? Nope. They're coming here from all over. Washington state, CA, you name it. But especially Colorado. I just hope that they don't flee the states that have become unlivable...
  28. J Sigmo

    Dual NIC setup on your Blue Iris Machine

    But doesn't Windows gag if you don't specify a DG, and not let you proceed?
  29. J Sigmo

    adding police scanner audio to camera

    I hooked up the audio feed from a radio that picks up the local police, etc. But to do it, I had to come up with a way to create a feed that BI recognizes as a legitimate data stream. It turns out that while you can buy devices that are made to take an audio stream, digitize it, and then...
  30. J Sigmo

    Do you ever have one of those days?

    I have spent a whole day at work being annoyed that I couldn't find a particular screwdriver only to find it in my back pocket when I sat down at home later. Along with not turning the wheel early enough when parking or pulling out of a space, a pet peeve of mine is: Why do so many people swing...
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