ZoneMinder is arguably one of the best video camera applications available for Linux, especially if you need to capture images and/or video from multiple cameras, both remote and local. It offers a huge set of features that just aren’t available in other pieces of free software. Getting it to compile on Centos 6 (64bit), however, is a bit of a chore.
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Installing ZoneMinder on Centos 6
February 2nd, 2012 
Melen 
Posted in Geeky Stuff, Linux 
Tags: camera applications, camera support, centos 6, ffmpeg, Linux, yum repository, zoneminder 
1 Comment »Anonymous – It’s not what you think.
February 26th, 2011 Melen I’ve been sitting back and watching everything going on in the world. All the protests and fighting for rights and freedom. This is a major thing that’s happening in our life time, and we need to pay attention. Once the smoke clears, the world is going to be a much different place. I used to [...]
Posted in Terrorist Acts Tags: bullies, civil war, cohesive group, freedom and democracy, hackers, irc, system administrator, tweets, vernacular No Comments »Melen’s Thanksgiving Thoughts
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Posted in Family, Home Front Tags: cockatiel, family member, gerbils, impulse buyer, new addition, new pet, sword of truth, sword of truth novels, terry goodkind, thanksgiving No Comments »
Jailbreak and enable multitasking on iPod Touch 2g MC
August 2nd, 2010 Melen I made the mistake of upgrading my iPod Touch 2g (MC Model) to iOS4 without having had any of the 3.1.2 or 3.1.3 SHSH blobs saved to Cydia. If you don’t have those blobs saved, you can’t downgrade from IO4. Until yesterday there wasn’t a jailbreak for the MC iPods. @comex on Twitter released an [...]
Posted in Featured, Geeky Stuff Tags: apple, blobs, comex, Cydia, io4, iphone, ipod, ipod touch, jailbreak, jailbreakme, multitasking, shsh 64 Comments »
Changing the World
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Posted in Conspiracy Theories, Featured Tags: aliens, conspiracy theories, government, life in the universe, logic, logical questions, mystery, science, skeptic, truth No Comments »
