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  1. J Sigmo

    Minibike kids using the neighborhood as a racetrack

    I sort of felt sorry for the poor mini-bike. It seemed to be a bit overloaded! ;)
  2. J Sigmo

    Man Attempted To Steal From My Trash

    The endless come-ons that one gets for credit cards, etc., and which have personal information and can be used by someone to apply for a credit card in your name, etc., are a royal pain. If one has to shred that stuff, it takes a reasonable amount of time, and you need a decent shredder to eat...
  3. J Sigmo

    Need three more PCs

    I'm looking for three more PCs. One for a Blue Iris installation for my mother's house. This will probably be 8 cameras to start, but could be expanded as needed. Two will be for use as actual desktop PCs for general use. Some Corel Draw, some Photo editing, CAD, things like that. No...
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    Prayers Welcomed

    Good to hear the prayers are working. But we're still praying for you, her, and your whole family. We all need to appreciate our loved ones while we're able.
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    Garbage Truck Doesn't Like My Trash

    That's pretty funny. But had there been a car, camper, boat, etc., parked there, or had a pet or person been in the line of fire, that might have had some consequences! Probably something sticky in the bottom of the trash can made the bag stick well enough not to drop into the truck, but...
  6. J Sigmo

    Pandemic threat? Anyone else concerned?

    Just as another data point, of no statistical value, but perhaps interesting for its anecdotal amusement value: My wife started having a severe headache around the 11th of November. She always has a lot of headaches, but this didn't respond to caffeine or anything. A few days later, a...
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    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...
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    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...
  9. J Sigmo

    Burglars run after getting fright on their life

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

    US Elections (& Politics) :)

    If the agencies involved weren't either corrupt or scared, RICO act indictments would be forthcoming.
  11. 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...
  12. 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...
  13. 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!
  14. 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!
  15. 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...
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    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...
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    US Elections (& Politics) :)

    Grandfather!!? Sheesh, you folks are making me feel old! ;)
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
  22. 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...
  23. 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...
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    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). :)
  25. 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!
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    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...
  27. 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.
  28. 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...
  29. 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! ;)
  30. 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...
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