Live Atheist Webcams

[Ungodly]

As a further enhancement of our home security system, which already cell phone text-messages us if a door or window  is opened or closed in our absence, and which already uses an undisclosed sooper-seekrit number of webcams, I have added 3 additional webcams today.  These are configured to upload photos of any atheist found inside our house.

Y'all can see these 3 public webcams at this URL, http://steverider.com/webcam.php

Over three hundred of these photos are preserved on various hard drives in several different US states so that, if a bad person were to enter our house again, any survivors would be photographed for later prosecution.

But mostly it's just fun,  I did it because I could do it.

Click early, click often, click every day, click if you are wondering if the old fart is home or not, click to see his lovely husband, click because you're bored.  Just click the freeekin' link, will ya?  I work hard doing this completely unimportant stuff.

http://steverider.com/webcam.php

[Storybook]

Are these live webcams or do they take pictures at certain intervals?

Hey, your wood floor looks terrific!

[Ungodly]

Each camera takes a photo once every minute.

Yes, the wood-like forestry industry floor covering product material does look good in these webcam photos.

[Ungodly]

Overnight the software I'm using to grab webcam shots and upload them to this server locked up on all 3 computers.  This new webcam setup is on very thin ice.  There is not much use in having a security system that fails a few hours after it is left unattended.

I've tried reconfiguring the setup such that the images will only be captured and uploaded  when motion is actually detected.  If this works out it might actually improve the usefulness of the system, both as a fun webcam thing and for security.

Also, images that are uploaded are now much more like to contain a snapshot of an actual atheist instead of an empty chair or dark room.

Meh.

[The White Coyote]

I'm afraid to look. Most of the "Live" web cams I have seen were in some "Sorority house" and what was on the screen didn't look like it was all too secure.

Of course I did see one positioned in front of an African waterhole once that was sort of interesting. Saw a Hyena get chased away by a Waterbufallo . . ? Then again maybe that was the Sorority house.

[Storybook]

This is fun!  I get to see what you guys are doing in your home at various times.

I can't get your Quicktime movie feature to work on my computer.  Rats.

[Ungodly]

This is fun!  I get to see what you guys are doing in your home at various times.

I can't get your Quicktime movie feature to work on my computer.  Rats.

I'm sorry that Quicktime is not working for you. I see that you are using version 2.0.0.9 of Firefox, that is a very good web browser.  Quicktime is an Apple product, try re-installing the Quicktime plugin at this URL.
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/

[Storybook]

I see that you are using version 2.0.0.9 of Firefox, that is a very good web browser.  Quicktime is an Apple product, try re-installing the Quicktime plugin at this URL.
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/

I'm laughing!!  It's funny that you know I'm using a certain version of Firefox.  I'm such a computer moron that I didn't know anyone could find that information out.  I use to always use IE because I was familiar with it (which my oldest son hates and he has always scolded me for using IE).  However, my goddamn computer broke last month one day and my IE no longer worked!  I downloaded the newest version of IE but it still doesn't work on my computer.  So, that forced me to use Firefox and I'm rebuilding all my favorite bookmarks in Firefox as I find them.

Anyway, I'll try downloading the new Quicktime plugin link you gave me.  I'll probably fuck it up somehow and need the assistance of my teenager when he gets home from school.  Thanks for the link!

[The White Coyote]

This is fun!  I get to see what you guys are doing in your home at various times.

Typical comment of a closet voyeur. Likely a sexual deviant too. Hear that knock on the door Story? That's the "To catch a Predator " people looking for you!

[Ungodly]

Eureka!  The download you gave me worked.  Thank you.  

Cool!

I laughed my ass off at the quicktime movie.  You are hilarious to make such a thing.  I didn’t see your lovely husband!

He was moving fast, but I see him in a few blurred shots.  Check back tomorrow because I think he was kissing me in front of a webcam this morning.  I expect that movie to be recreated every night.

Do you keep lights on at night so that the camera can capture prowlers during the evening?

Only when we are not home, but yes, then we do.  The most well concealed camera in the TV/Family room gets a great view of all of the stuff we had to buy to replace the stuff stolen in July.

[The White Coyote]

It's always the quiet ones. He He He 

[Ungodly]

I bet she claims that she only uses those knives to carve up food.

[The Force]

That was a beautiful snapshot of someone's backside (in haute couture hot pink t-shirt and grey gym shorts no less!) I also got treated to a close-up of Ungodly's face as he ponders something/scratches himself/stares at the wall in communion with the mushroom men/all of the above.

Storybook, I'll bet those mushroom men tell him what version of Firefox we use. I'm on to you, Ungodly, oh yes...

[Ungodly]

The pink would be me.  Glad you liked seeing my backside

[Ungodly]

This web server uses a web server software package called Apache, it is extremely reliable and fairly resistant to attacks, and is the leading web server package worldwide.  Apache keeps log files of each item requested by a visitor to any site on the server. 

Among the details recorded in the log files is the User-Agent String, information that is supplied by your web browser when it requests a page or graphic object.  The User-Agent string includes the name and version of your operating system, the name of your web browser, and the version of your web browser.  Sometimes browser add-on packages are reported too.

This is a good thing, because if a web server is maintaining different versions of some pages, each optimized for a specific web browser or operating system, the User-Agent string lets the web server know which version of the page to supply.

Programmers and web designers can also pull the User-Agent string to optimize things like JavaScript.  The forum software we are using here does have some optimizations to handle some of the terrible bugs in Microsoft Internet Exploder.  There are international standards for how web pages should render in a web browser window, and there is also Microsoft Internet Explorer.  IE is clearly and beyond any doubt the worst performing and most vulnerable web browser ever made, the worst, the absolute worst.