death of the photoblog, part I

all photo.mymoustache.com entries have been integrated into this blog. i will continue to post from my phone and will try to post more stuff from my canon cam via flickr.

enjoy!

friday is the new thursday

i believe that i have neglected the blog in favor of myspace and the forum; matt's post count is about to lap my own, so something must be done.

this guy was arrested for going into a tube station and acting like, well, me - flipping through his backpack, texting from his phone, pulling out a backpack. also, he was wearing a raincoat, which was evidently suspicious, despite the fact that it's fucking london, where you're lucky if it only rains once a day. it seems that the jolly uk is experiencing some rights-infringing jitters akin to our own government's behavior a few years ago...

new pictures up on the flickr stream, peep them if it pleases you. photo.mymoustache.com should be rolling over to something new cool and more entertaining within the coming weeks.

get on the forum! click my ads!

and now i go to my one class of the day.

Curtis

Curtis
Originally uploaded by my moustache.

Curtis, for some reason, loves having his picture taken.

lizard

lizard
Originally uploaded by my moustache.

enole, i think

Google for Network Cameras

I know this is somewhat old, but Shawn has mentioned it a few times, and Darcy has had a nice thread going on the forum that this relates to.

First, an introduction.

Webcams are popular, but they have the drawback of needing to be connected to a computer in order to work. When paired with a host, they send pictures to the host which relays it through an ftp server or chat program. This is great for video chat, etc, but sucks for security cams, multiple cams, or remote locations.

Thus, the advent of network cameras, which are basically a camera paired with a tiny computer inside a single, relatively small housing. They are arguably smaller than regular security cams were 10 years ago. Rather than connecting to a video receiver or computer, they simply plug into an existing ethernet network, where they can then be accessed and configured remotely.

Great idea! Except that, unless the network admin configures things properly (which is not a safe bet), the cameras are very often left as secure as most home computers plugged directly into cable or DSL. Which is not very secure at all.

So, you take public facing networks, combine them with cameras that contain mini webservers, sprinkle on a little Google, and what do you get? Free, live web feeds from all over the world!

Try some of these searches. If you use Firefox, open a dozen or so into new tabs. 75% or so will be live. You'll see what I mean by live.

inurl:"ViewerFrame?Mode=Motion"

intitle:"WJ-NT104 Main"

intitle:"snc-rz30 home"

inurl:LvAppl intitle:liveapplet

Scary, eh? Scary, legal, and entirely their fault.

More searches & info here

Napster connects to Apple?

Curtis let me in on the Napster free/no credit card required weekend, so I've just downloaded and installed Napster.

Imagine my surprise when, on loading, my Sygate firewall caught Napster connecting to an apple.com server...


Napster client is trying to connect to a1.phobos.apple.com using remote port 80...

No idea. Really weird, though, unless there is a simple explanation I've missed. Which is highly likely, but now maybe you'll fill me in.