October 10, 2008

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David Byrne tickets on sale today

Musician David Byrne and company were in Asheville recently and took a pass on visiting Biltmore House, judging the $47 ticket price too steep.

I think its a steep ticket price, too, but so is the $44 Byrne wants for his upcoming show at Meymandi Hall December 8th.

As I watch the markets sink even further today I’m not feeling so inclined to part with that much money. Maybe I’ll meet Byrne on one of his expected bike rides around town.

USB camera platforms

Here’s one for my fellow Linux geeks, particularly the ones who enjoy embedded Linux.

I’m looking to deploy a number of USB streaming cameras for a security project. I would like these cameras to use whatever network is available to stream high-quality video to a central server. I would like these camera platforms to be maintainable from the network. I also want the camera platform to be as unobtrusive on the host network as possible (though stealth is not required).

The hardware must run Linux, it must have at least one network port (wired and/or wireless), and it must have at least one USB port.

My question to you, fellow hackers, is this: what hardware would you use? I know a Linksys NSLU2 would work but what other hardware might work?

Downtown library

I was walking in to work this morning when a woman in a blue minivan stopped in front of me.

“Excuse me,” she said. “Where is the library?”

I paused. We were at the corner of Hargett Street and Person Street and there isn’t a library for miles. I gave her convoluted directions to Cameron Village Regional Library but somehow doubted she would keep it all straight.

It sure would be nice if Raleigh had a showplace library downtown. It not like this area has a bunch of highly-educated, intelligent citizenry or anything.