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chevysoldier

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  1. So, with the Christmas holiday, it took them a little longer to get it to me, their system showed that it shipped Saturday, 12-26, I got it Wednesday 12-30.  What I got is the latest production version of the same light, which is 10-tap programmable, where the old one wasn't.  I'm just relieved to have it back!  I never realized how much I use it every day!

    I think it's awesome how well they take care of their customers. Upgrading to the newer model, they don't have to do that. I'm sure they could have taken mine apart and cleaned it but instead they shipped the new version which I can take apart the cap switch and clean. 

  2. I get 0 viruses on my windows computer. On the other hand, I have to clean my mom's up occasionally because of the shit she clicks. She swears she doesn't do anything but I know is her and her stupid games she plays...I got tired of having to go over so I put a remote desktop on there so I could fix it from home.

  3. My grandfather helped design and build the Redhead Roadrunner Missile at North American Aviation. These pictures are from Feb. 1965 at White Sands Missile Range. The rockets would be sent up, the army would use radar, which was still new, to shoot it down as practice. The third picture shows duct tape which was used to hold some wires down. During flight it flipped up over the air speed sensor so it registered 0mph. It kept opening up throttle and hit Mach 2.2 which was stupid fast at that time. It was just a blip on the radar which the Army took as a malfunction and never fired on it. 

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  4. I did a review on the Guardzilla camera (https://www.guardzilla.com/) which was brand new at the time. It had some bugs and features that weren't quite fleshed out yet. Since then, they've addressed them and it's quite a decent camera for the price. It has local storage and you can connect remotely to it, etc. I've never used it for an alarm system but the alarm is super loud. I do set it to detect movement when we are away from home in certain areas of the house. I probably shouldn't say this but I got some rather interesting footage of my wife's friend who was house sitting for us (don't ask).

    Kodak just came out with a camera that looks interesting and I saw another one just the other day Logitech just launched the Circle camera that looks nice.

    One problem with local storage is that if the intruders see the camera, all they have to do it grab it and/or the data card and you've got nothing.

    I'll look into those.

    Sorry, by local I meant a HDD somewhere on site, not on the physical camera itself for that very reason.

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  5. Well I ended up getting a Nest thermostat, smoke/CO detector and camera. I love the thermostat and how the system "talks" to itself. For example, if I fire is detected, it shuts off the HVAC, turns on the camera and notifies me. I can also view it on my phone from anywhere.

    The problem, after the month trial, I now lost the ability to see past recorded video. I could go back and see what triggered the cam but now with a notification, it only gives me a live feed. This doesn't do any good to show law enforcement. They want $100/year for 7 days history and I don't want to pay.

    So I'm looking at other options. My needs, wants:

    video history without a subscription

    Local storage? Seems like cloud storage is always charged but it keeps a thief from taking the hard drive, and I mean local as in a drive at my place, not on the camera itself

    Ability to view remotely

    720 or better HD

    Indoor and outdoor cam options

    Audio on cam

    Strong security and encryption

    Wifi, i rent so it needs to be movable.

    Give me thoughts and ideas

    I did come across this and I'm liking it

    http://us.dlink.com/product-category/home-solutions/view/network-cameras/

  6. My kingdom for an OR shirt!

    Lend me your OR shirts!

    Surely you have an OR shirt for me. Don't call me Shirly.

    I live my life a quarter OR shirt at a time.

    I regret that I have but one OR shirt to give for my county.

    One small step for man, one large OR shirt for mankind.

    Mongo only pawn, in OR shirt of life.

    Maverick, you big stud. ..give me an OR shirt or lose me forever.

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