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Not nearly as unique as the internet controlled RoboCam stacking 'bot, but eh, whatever See it here-- (URL) relabel soon, but JavaCam Push is for Internet Explorer users, and Server Push is for basically everyone else but IE. If neither of those (...) (19 years ago, 23-Aug-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.robotics)
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I'm getting a Client is Offline message from deerfield.com Someone forget to pay their internet bill? :-) Derek (...) (19 years ago, 23-Aug-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.robotics)
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(...) So I get home the other day, and Sandy's there with a letter from Hydro 1-- "Sorry for the inconvenience, but there will be intermittent power outages on Tuesday. We are upgrading the hardware in the area." Brilliant Eh, so my web server is (...) (19 years ago, 23-Aug-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Ah, so it was in fact the more fundamental Hydro bill you forgot to pay. :-) Derek (19 years ago, 23-Aug-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.robotics)
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ERASE. ***...***WHAT.***...*** OMG, coolest THING EVER. I'm siting here, pitch black apartment, I click erase, the robot goes away, I watch... watch.... BAM. GONE. S p o o k y. Iain (19 years ago, 24-Aug-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) The erase thing isn't as good as I hoped it would be--these magna-doodles have a pretty powerful strip magnet that drags across the bottom--I had to have lots of torque to pull the magnet holder across--actually, the pen holder does the (...) (19 years ago, 24-Aug-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Cool!! Yeah, I'd love to see pictures of the setup. I was thinkng it was a pen on some kind of rolling paper table, like a scroll. Iain (19 years ago, 24-Aug-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) I was playing around with it this morning. Lots of fun, drew a happy face with one eye. But this got me thinking, press erase and it's all gone. With the other robot you could see what havoc previous people had rot in the play field. I wonder (...) (19 years ago, 24-Aug-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Your wish is my command-- (URL) that requires me making a blog entry is quite alright... Dave K (19 years ago, 24-Aug-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) You could just save the camera output to a file and keep that in a gallery. I tried drawing something like Hi Dave! and someone started driving the robot too. Calum (19 years ago, 24-Aug-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) It's a great idea, but then there'd have to be some sort of button for 'take pic' on the page. If I knew more about, well, anything, I would set up a web applet for the webcam software to save a picture when a button on the page is pushed. But (...) (19 years ago, 24-Aug-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) So you're the one that erased my happy face. :-) I went for a shower and came back to find an H on the screen. Derek (19 years ago, 24-Aug-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) I saw the Hi.. then the rest of the squiggles--right now it says Hi *squiggle* MIELEC -- no idea what that's suppose to be... That's always been the problem with my web'bots--the non-excusive use to the user. I looked into locking it down for (...) (19 years ago, 24-Aug-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) huh, ha - huh, ha viewing porpoises. :-) Derek (19 years ago, 24-Aug-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) it was a happy face with 1 eye... :) Dave K (19 years ago, 24-Aug-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Here ya go - plop this in your cgi-bin, and update the 3 configuration lines, and you're all set. To take a snapshot, just link to the CGI. Ideally, it'll work - but I haven't actually tested it. :) Dan -- #!/usr/bin/perl -wT # *** STANDARD (...) (19 years ago, 24-Aug-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) This was a few days ago when he announced it...it wasn't a happy face. And I only got to the first two strokes of H... So it was more like: | |-- | And then some bastard started drawing away. :) I will try and make a web cam some day. It won't (...) (19 years ago, 24-Aug-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) uh huh uhuh uhu hu huh .... (URL) (19 years ago, 24-Aug-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Thanks Dan! That was very quick! I've implemented and changed approriate settings (fixed type-o as well) THe script does something--it runs and will redirect the user to the appropriate page, but it does not copy the file to the specified (...) (19 years ago, 24-Aug-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Stupid typos :) (...) Does the webserver use have permissions to write to the targetted directory? Absolut path is the right way to go. Anything in the error log? (...) My god, why did you even bother replying?!? Git! (19 years ago, 24-Aug-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Well that's my duh! After spending a few weeks trying to secure Apache, I entirely forgot that I took all permissions away except read-only on almost every directory on my website. So I added write permissions, and basically ran smooth as (...) (19 years ago, 24-Aug-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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Well, I actually got around to trying to find out why the webcam wasn't displaying on certain browsers. Turns out that the webcam software I'm using (webcam32) is not compatible with the latest version of Java. So here's a very quick fix--just using (...) (19 years ago, 12-Oct-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Dave i was at your site a few days ago... and i was thinking... when is calum coming back, then i thought, why is steve so mean to me, then i thought, what ever happened to Jeff E... THEN. then, i thought, ~IF~ i had a web cam, and some lego, (...) (19 years ago, 12-Oct-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Chris Magno wrote: <snip> (...) Well Chris, I was at your site a little while ago and I was thinking... How can Chris be so amazingly cool??? I mean he blows stuff up AND he gets paid for it! Then I thought about how (...) (19 years ago, 12-Oct-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Chris - Did you eat a whole box of maple glazed donuts again before you wrote this? I seems a tad........disjointed. -Rob A> (19 years ago, 12-Oct-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) WOW, you SUCK at subtle. let me try again. DAVE, do you have a step by step "how to " to do what you did for some kind of interweb-tele-robotics thing?? :) Chris (19 years ago, 12-Oct-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) HOW did you know??? I love the EXTRA sugar!! its the best! umm yes i said triple triple for me please. I seems a tad........disjointed. (...) OH. sorry Chris (19 years ago, 12-Oct-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Chris Magno wrote: <snip> (...) I thought you'd appreciate thw whole 'Chris is cool' thing... but alas... First--you need a webserver Second--you need a webcam Third--you need webcam software Really, that's about it. For (...) (19 years ago, 12-Oct-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Since Dave is lazy, and firefox lets me google by highlighting and right clicking... WebBrick: (2 URLs) Beyond that, I'll get into specifics if you need 'em. (...) Or if you are using apache and have the mod_proxy module ((URL) installed, you (...) (19 years ago, 13-Oct-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) is that an add on? like the super cool "bug-me-not" right click thing I installed? Chris (19 years ago, 13-Oct-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Nope. stock feature. just highlight something, right click and hit "Search the web for.." -Rob A> (19 years ago, 13-Oct-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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OK, Im now back to playing, and building. Ive made a SUPER SIMPLE pan/tilt rig from my craptastic web cam. I want to be able to control the RCX via the interweb. Ive found a few posts online, many point to webrcx (beta 3) - which, i've downloaded. (...) (17 years ago, 15-Nov-07, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) <snip> I haven't looked at my webcam pages for like a hundred years... (URL) they're still there. My best guess is the FTP page--get your pics updated somewhere and then get the little jave applet to do the refresh of the page every 10 seconds (...) (17 years ago, 15-Nov-07, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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