[SC.LUG] Jobs and a heart warming story!

[Jason Lucas]

Hi Guys,

Thanks for your support and advice. The job centre was helpful and I've
got one interview lined up for tomorrow. These are tough times for
everyone, however I noticed this quite heartwarming story on the Hants
LUG (despite the 'Big Brother' overtones!) :

Peter Salisbury wrote: 
> On Saturday 01 May 2004 21:35, Laura Cowen wrote: 
> > In the May issue of the Baddesley Beadle, a newsletter for the
> > Parish of
> > North Baddesley[1], between meeting notices for the Romsey Flower
> > Arranging Society and the Pegasus Badminton Group, Romsey, I found
> > this:
> > 
> > 'Youth group combats vandalism'
> > We have a thriving youth group, "ROX", who were quite taken aback at
> > the
> > amount of vandalism at "their" church over the past few weeks. They
> > reacted in a very high tech manner, by building a computer from
> > scratch
> > to run the super-advanced Linux computer operating system. The
> > computer
> > constantly monitors CCTV cameras around the church and records
> > suspicious events for later viewing. It has already had some good
> > results - thank you ROX!
> > 
> > (submitted by the C of E Parishes of Chilworth and North Baddesley)
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > 
> > Laura 
> 
> 
> 
> I'm impressed the news got around so quickly! That's the church where
> I'm the 
> vicar and I wrote the article. Do you like the 'super-advanced' bit?
> The 
> program they're running is ZoneMinder (www.zoneminder.com) which is
> really 
> brilliant for CCTV monitoring. It does the motion detection by image
> analysis 
> rather than passive IR and allows you to define zones in the image
> which are 
> of special interest. Lots of other goodies too. Like most Open source 
> software there is good support from a user forum.
> 
> Peter

I thought it might be something to do with someone on here.

Yes, I particularly liked the 'super-advanced' bit.:-)

Laura