Things not to do #41.

[Guy King]

The message from "Mary Fisher" contains these words:

Sadly you can't get YOPS trainees any more, so it'll have to be a tripwire.

[Owain]

Ho-fficially the max length for USB cable is 5m. Given luck and a following wind (and the fact that a webcam is fairly undemanding) you can probably use an extension cable or two, which have a little electronic "repeater" gizmo (powered by the voltage on the USB wires).

Maplin.co.uk (they have a shop at Regent St LS2) item UY13P £14.99

Owain

[Owain]

Even if you could, it would still be easier to train the hen.

det cord?

Owain

[Mary Fisher]

Right, thanks. I'll think about it.

I know - we use it quite a lot. Just down the road from us.

In fact they send me their e-newsletter at boringly frequent intervals. It's always full of bargains ... if only I wanted the things they're offering. Still, you never know.

Mary

[Mary Fisher]

Ah, YOPS, I was thinking about that the other day and wondering what had happened to it. Another scheme no doubt.

I'm wondering about radio control.

Mary

[Bob Martin]

Call Bill Oddie - he'll probably get a TV series out of it.

[Rob Morley]

Active cables are actually single-port hubs, so it's within spec to=20 daisy-chain 4 of them together (with a passive 5m cable at the end=20 giving a total length of 25m).

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[Mary Fisher]

Active cables are actually single-port hubs, so it's within spec to daisy-chain 4 of them together (with a passive 5m cable at the end giving a total length of 25m).

I wish I knew what you were talking about :-(

But thanks for trying, and it might have been useful to someone else.

Mary

[Mary Fisher]

By the time tv got round to it it would all be over and done with. The chicks will be out in less than a fortnight!

If there are any, with the daily (or nightly) interruptions.

Mary

[Rob Morley]

The wires with the lumpy bit on the end will plug together to make a=20 longer wire with lumpy bits in the middle as long as you don't do it=20 lots.

[Mary Fisher]

The wires with the lumpy bit on the end will plug together to make a longer wire with lumpy bits in the middle as long as you don't do it lots.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

That makes much more sense :-)

Mary

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember "Mary Fisher" saying something like:

I got one of these...

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Great little camera, and you don't even need the video capture card [1] to use it - all you need for a single camera is an old TV card and use the composite input with a trial copy of Active WebCam or similar.

[1] The capture card was actually ok, but the supplied software was a total pain in the arse.

[Mary Fisher]

LOL!

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[Guy King]

The message from Guy King contains these words:

I now have some of the proper filter material - so it's time to nobble an old webcam, I think.

[Mary Fisher]

You've got a broody too?

[Guy King]

The message from "Mary Fisher" contains these words:

Explosive detonating cord.

[Chris Bacon]

It's detonating fuse. A well-known brand is "Cordtex".

[Mary Fisher]

Oh.

But since you've snipped it's out of context and my short term memory isn't what it was - if I remember corectly.

It will come to you :-)

Mary

[Guy King]

The message from "Mary Fisher" contains these words:

Nah, just two kids to entertain.

[Mary Fisher]

Ah! So YOU'RE the broody :-)

I'm happy to have all that behind me. It was good at the time - most of the time - but you can have too much of a good thing or, as someone else said, moderation in all things.

The trouble with kids is that it gets worse before it gets better :-)

Mary