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Fixing the Roomba “Circle Dance”

About a year ago our original Roomba started backing up and turning when it shouldn’t have. After a few talks with iRobot, they said they’d send out a replacement — I just had to send them the little guard on the bottom, apparently that’s the thing they won’t sell except with the Roomba.
They sent […]

Raccoon video

I was lazy and didn’t post it for a while, but I decided to just show it here via youtube (I’ll put it up on its own domain later).
They’re still here doing it to areas of the lawn I haven’t tacked down.
It’s worth watching all the way through to the end.

I set zoneminder to record […]

Zoneminder on Debian Sarge

The docs for zoneminder are pretty good, but I have a couple issues when I’m getting it going and I may as well put it here for the next time I have to deal with it.
My current config line:
./configure –with-webdir=/var/www/zm.malformed.org/ –with-cgidir=/var/www/zm.malformed.org/cgi-bin/ –with-mysql=/usr/ –with-webuser=www-data –with-webgroup=www-data –with-ffmpeg=/usr/local/ –with-lame=/usr/
In Zoneminder 1.21.4 the schema doesn’t seem to be correct […]