Home Automation: May 2009 Archives

More Mac only stuff

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One of the frustrations I have with accessing my Cortex computer remotely using RDC sessions from a Mac is the lack of a key mapping for \ (backslash). This can be infuriating when you want to enter a file path, for example.

For Mac users

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I've been playing with the camera functions and particularly network streaming. But then I decided that rather than start up a video client, it would be quite nice to have the camera output embedded in the desktop background.

Virtual Objects

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In my previous post I talked about objects and categorised them as:

  • Network Objects - software and module functionality
  • Cortex Logic Objects - pure software
  • Device Objects - external hardware devices
Now there is actually a feature of some network objects that is quite nifty, but conflicts with the categorisation above.

DFP

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The DFP has been around for a while now but I haven't got round to writing much about it.

Objects and Connections

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Looking back I realised I never talked about some of the fundamental concepts in Cortex. This is the first of what will probably be a series of articles to explain some stuff.
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