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Authored by: LouieNet on Mar 26, '03 11:13:33AM

Hmm...just thought of a use for this....

If I get a netcam to ftp in a picture of, say...the highway view from my office window, at regular intervals, as long as I set it to use the same filename to overwrite the old file, I can have my desktop show updated views as long as I rotate on the same picture. Right? :)

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G4 cube, 1152M RAM, OS X Server 10.2.4



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video monitoring
Authored by: geek-e on Mar 26, '03 01:47:23PM

As long as that is the only picture in the folder I believe it is possible. You might also want to alternate between two photos just to make sure. I guess just try it manually and see what happens.



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Authored by: at_sym on Mar 26, '03 04:07:18PM

I had something similar set up, but I couldn't get it to work reliably with just one picture. The desktop image switcher seemed to forget to do anything if there was only one image in the folder. So I had curl alternate between two names so that the desktop rotator would be happy.

This was on 10.1.something, so the point may be moot on Jag. :^)



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