Shut up. Shut. Up. I’m happy with the time-lapse solution, and its control mechanism. What I want to do now something slightly different: Single images. On my webserver. Right now I have a system that puts up a new capture every ~10 seconds or so on cheeze.bhalash.com as webcam1-current.jpg, along with a semi-permanent Dropbox-hosted archive. [...]
Disclaimer: This post is mostly idle speculation, dear reader(s). Actual experimentation with any script whose sole, explicit function is to variously delete files or zero write a hard disk should only be undertaken in a controlled sandbox. I came across Prey this morning in an OMG! Ubuntu! news post, although I haven’t yet tried it [...]
As I have previously espoused, Dropbox is fucking awesome. After blogging about using my up remote instant message chat log storage, I turned my attention to managing a WordPress installation from Dropbox. Mostly because. Because it would be, for me, interesting, different and not a little bit cool to see if I can actually do [...]