moonlit

Semi-joking... you can make a decent IR light source with enough IR LEDs, but there has to be a big enough number before you get any decent brightness. A single remote control won't be anywhere near bright enough though, and it only comes on when you press a button... ;) I'd say most webcams are either IR-sensitive or could be made so with some effort, so that's not much of an issue.

Ok, there's a bunch of stuff you could do... you could have maybe 2 static cameras (the easiest option) pointing different ways, you could add night vision (google some combination of words containing 'camera' 'webcam' 'ir' 'infra-red') and add an infra red light source (BSoD did something about this some time ago www.bsodtv.org). You don't need the motors, it'll be a lot easier without them in fact. Anyway, with this done, you could have the machine record video, or perhaps upload pics somewhere or host them so you could have mobile CCTV...

Yeah... I don't know if there's any software out there for it, but yeah, there's no reason it wouldn't be possible.

Well it's highly unlikely that something ripped from a (toy?) car is going to be suitable for use with a parallel port because a monitor port isn't supposed to run motors, hence the need for a controller.

This is probably a job for stepper motors and a stepper motor controller... you will find more info on that here.

Well, the reciever could be paired with a remote so you could control a base for the cameras... so, with a couple of motors and a driver circuit you could use the receiver to send remote control commands to the motors which would move the cameras.

Typo, that's supposed to be 'stereoscopic', basically just means there's 2 cameras... human vision is stereoscopic, there's 2 eyes.

A stereoscopic webcam with audio and night vision (if you have the remote). Use the reciever... for... a... remote control, add a couple of old motors connected to the parallel port and have the stereoscopic webcam on a base that can tilt/pan.

# Moonlit: Error on line 42. # Moonlit: Error on line 43. # Moonlit: Error on line 71. # Moonlit: Error on line 98. # Moonlit: Error on line 135. # # Warning: Sunlight present. Social.dat required. # Warning: Variable IRC not defined, Moonlit disabled. # # Fatal Error: Time is >7:00am and <8:00pm. Cannot continue. # # Failed.

Notice they're still selling analog TV sets by the boat load?

Not to my knowledge.

I don't remember having any problems running AVG Free 7.5 on Windows Server 2003...

Sure it is. ARC is a specification layed out by a group of manufacturers that no longer exits called the Advanced Computer Environment project. They basically arranged a set of hardware and firmware to make up a computing machine that would that would conform to this platform specification.

Promoting your projects here isn't against any rules. Live and let live.

Ok, quit it... I like the idea, if you don't then ignore it, no-one's forcing you to read about or use this. Quit the flaming. I don't see any problem with this, it's not spam, it can stay.

I think they're in a time warp...

Everything in this industry is based on something else. He didn't steal it, he payed for it and rebranded it. Gates has the money he has for a reason... he's not a criminal (to my knowledge), he just got lucky with someone else's ideas and concepts, people do that all the time.

Yeah, I used to do it a lot but dump sites in the UK aren't allowed to sell untested electrical equipment and you're not allowed to take it for free either but staff don't always stick to that so I did have a source for equipment for a while. If you have certificates to say that you are a qualified electrical engineer you are allowed to buy things, I think I would've got away with my computer hardware qualifications but I just never remembered to take a copy because I usually went with someone else and we usually ended up there on a whim when I was hanging out at their place. They did stick to health and safety though besides that so I regularly got a bollocking from the staff for delving in to the huge metal skip where the electrical and metal stuff was... got some interesting stuff out of it though, a number of years back I got a good number of machines for less than $5 (~£3) per machine and they often came with plenty of RAM, decent CPUs and drives galore, my current CDRW is still one I rescued from one of those machines. My last machine (1GHz Athlon w/256MB RAM) actually came from someone's residential rubbish and I got it only because in a tired stupor I got the wrong bus to college which took me the opposite direction, I got off at the next stop realising my mistake and walked back home... and that's where I found it.

Yay for melodic! *hands him a crate of water balloons and a box of BB guns*

Many suggestions have been made and it will eventually be dealt with but currently the situation will stay as it is. Thanks for the ideas but no major modifcations will take place in the near future, or at least to my knowledge. As I said, ignore it. At least one of us is usually around and spam doesn't stay for more than a couple of hours.

Cooper, VaKo and myself are the resident despammers, we do our best but we don't get paid, so sometimes it's there a few minutes longer than perhaps people would like. Thanks for your patience, just ignore it if you see any, it'll be gone before you know it.

Aww, you made me want toast. :( *Dorito. :D

I haven't visited that link but I highly suspect you're trying to make fun of people who don't ensure their computer descriptions are 100% accurate in specification and spelling. Woo. 3 cheers for hakgipc (I pronounce that 'hak-jip-kuh') the wonderdog. Where would we be without him? Right, now we should start on the actual companies that mis-describe and falsly advertise computers because they apparently don't know what they're selling either. Ho-hum.

Usually when you download a large pack of misc. viruses, that's usually what's inside. Viruses. If it's not then someone's tricked you. At least this way you know that the bag of cocked shotguns and primed bear traps are indeed what you asked for. Just be careful what you double click on.

I haven't used any of those things in ages (besides AVG if it's a machine I'll be playing with decidedly dodgy code) but when I do (or did), there are/were what I used: Firewall - ZoneAlarm Antivirus - AVG Free Malware - AdAware Generally though if you use common sense and don't screw around with weird new screensavers people send you and click on links to what's supposed to be a picture of you that someone sent you via MSN, you're probably fine.