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Disasters that occur in freezing temperatures present their own set of dangers that differ from other disasters. This is because in freezing temperatures frostbite, hypothermia, and death can set in within minutes of exposing the body to such extreme temperatures.

Board Cameras are basically a fixed lens mounted on a circuit board. These cameras are often used in mini cameras, dome cameras and for making hidden cameras but are also sold unpackaged, for mounting by the buyer.

40 plus years ago I never thought that as I watched the clock in that old high school, that someday it could be watching me, or watching my house, or office.

Talking with friends in the restaurant business lately always involves talk about staffing. Many of the restaurants are continually short staffed, meaning that they don't have enough employees to cover all the positions all the time. One restaurant owner increased production by installing a surveillance system.

There is nothing quite as bland and boring as a tissue box. There are as inherently drab and ho hum as just about any household item that you can think of, but every house I have ever been in has several of them around. Now I have to say that I haven't seen too many tissue boxes in bachelor pads, maybe none at all, but wherever women are present, there are tissue boxes.

This was something that never occurred to me when I was selling the restaurant a surveillance system, but it sure is a big benefit that I won't leave out in the future.

Our friends and allies in the British Isles started using cameras in the early 1990's as the threat of the radical Islamic nutbags increased.

Bobby Jo wanted a way to look in on her dogs when she was at work. She went the hichtech route and opted for a four channel system wireless surveillance system that allows her to watch her "babies" over the internet at work.

When I first wrote about the LTO format—developed jointly last year by Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Seagate—I was impressed with the Linear Tape Open Ultrium specifications but was skeptical about LTO's ability to penetrate the tape backup market because Quantum's DLT was the standard tape media at the time.