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[theducks]

http://webcam.theducks.org/

Heh!

It's done with a crappy indycam.. but hey, better than nothing :)

The indy saves it onto an NFS safe from my linux box, which then serves it out via HTTP, my ADSL router port forwards to my linux box's HTTP .. my web server has a cron job to download the image, runs it thru image magik to whack up the contrast so it's fricken viewable.. and there, tada it is on your web browser! My ADSL doesn't have a static IP, so I have to use dyndns .. and since the linux box itself is NAT'ed, I had to write another script to find out my ADSL IP, update a dyndns host, which is pointed to by another theducks.org CNAME ;)

Bwah!

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Well, no, that won't finish my geek rantings, but for the purposes of this post it will ;>

Comments

[irresistiblyred.livejournal.com]

I checked it out.... it's very dark... I can barely see you!!!

[theducks.livejournal.com]

I know.. it's already brightened twice too! :(

stoopid $50 computers ;)

[kudzita.livejournal.com]

whoo, I see a nifty aussie! hehehe, wish mine worked.

[fonny.livejournal.com]

did you um, borrow LJ's lock image? ;D

[theducks.livejournal.com]

livejournal, including it's web interface and all icons are covered by the GPL - Gnu Public License. Basically, I can take it and redistribute it, as long as I don't modify it, or if I do, I make the modifications freely available! which I have, you can "Save Image As" :)

time

[(Anonymous)]

it needs a timestamp so we know when you're not updating it

Re: time

[theducks.livejournal.com]

Would you be so kind as to sign your posts, oh-mysterious-poster

And you might think it does, but that would only lead to THEM finding out more.

my name

[(Anonymous)]

no, you should be able to use you network detective skills (as demonstrated a few posts ago) to determine who I am :P

dyndns

[dannipenguin.livejournal.com]

apt-get install ddclient

Let it deal with things from there...

Although I'm not sure how the linux one deals with those routers, the windows one just looks for your upstream gateway.

Still, it's a useful, it's how I keep my router ip up2date here.

Re: dyndns

[theducks.livejournal.com]

Yes, except ddclient's method of getting IPs doesn't work so good with billion adsl "routers", so I just made something else to work it out with. All of the billion's pages include huge amount of javascript etc.. and I now have a static IP, so it's not an issue anyway ;>

[fonny.livejournal.com]

ahhhh, i see ;)