![]() The manual was extraordinarily frustrating, poorly composed and written by somebody who clearly did not know the English language. It could FTP everything to my website or put them on my hard drive, but not both. You could adjust the settings with its software viewer, but they were much more confusing and limited and difficult to fine-tune. It had much better range than the Logitech because it would physically pan and tilt automatically towards any movement, which could also be controlled remotely. In July of 2005 I had installed a Toshiba IK-WB11A Wireless Network Web Camera back east, which I also Though I knew that all was probably well, it would still produce an unexpected quiet sigh of relief to drive into the place on my return and see that all was in fact exactly as I had left it. For 9 of those 10 years, while away for a 6 or 7 months at a time, it was a nagging concern that I had to put out of my mind on a daily basis. This is a nice way to watch things 3000 miles away. Both are Logitech Alert cameras, with software: a 750e outdoors looking over the place, and a 700i indoors looking out the window at the area unseen by the 750e. I have installed 2 cameras, plus a $20 fake SVAT camera that I put up in 2008. While there, check out his wife's pictorial essay depicting the efforts of a few good people to assist a magnificent Loggerhead sea turtle and her hatchlings following the devestating loss of so many such turtles to the tragic Gulf Coast oil spill. Mike's Reviews, the personal experiences of a professional security technician. Since writing the above, I have come across a few more informative articles about the Logitech Alert. Now, 10 years later, it has become a minor concern. In 2001 when I first returned, potential vandalism was a major concern because of what had occurred over 20 years prior, though that was the first time I had seen it. Where the place was somewhat isolated back then, I now have good neighbors people that know me and know the place. Better yet, those potential perpetrators will hopefully notice the obvious cameras, turn around and drive away. Now, should any such thing occur again, I will have it on camera. Also, I may be the truly stupid one here. However, I realize that I have somehow extended that nature to my own creations, and I am not sure they really qualify. This place has always had something of a spiritual nature about it something that quietly elicits a deep appreciation of its subtle magnificence. Wikipedia describes Desecration as the act of depriving something of its sacred character. I assume that these perpetrators are probably dead by their own drugged and stupid hands by now may they rot in hell. All of a sudden, I can see 3000+ miles, just as though I was looking out my window.īack in the late 70's and the 80's, my place in the high desert of California saw an assortment of low-life desecrations: the theft of a tire, the ripping off (literally) of a hand carved wooden sculpture from the roof of the trailer leaving a large hole on top, a drug induced teenage destruction of the entire place over a few months, bullet holes through the walls and bullet dimples in the steel water tank.
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