All webcams are operational except Knysna webcam (will be removed)
27 Feb 2010: Replaced UPS, Voltage 275 volts and higher 21 Feb 2010: Low voltages (<200v) at Vicbay is causing the UPS to trip 13 Feb 2010: Vicbay: Power surge blew wireless device again - thanks funkey.com for replacement unit,now on UPS 18 Jan 2010: Vicbay: Replaced faulty wireless equipment 16 Aug 2009: Owlcam (17h09-17h56) Images not uploaded correctly due to 25% packet loss & duplicate IP 14 Aug 2009: Owlcam run backup wget a& FTP upload script (17h40) 13 Aug 2009: Owlcam webcam: FTP stalled on uploads (15h01) 16 Jul 2009: Vicbay webcam: Internet link down 1 July 2009: Mossel Bay webcam online 12 Jun 2009: Mossel Bay webcam is off temporary 19 May 2009: Kaaimans offline due to faulty wireless router (10 years old kit) 17 Apr 2009: Jeffreys Bay surfcam down due to DSL sync problem,reported to Telkom 26 Mar 2009: Rebooted VMware Host server 13 Mar 2009: Kaaimans webcam: Replaced faulty router (2x in one day) 13 Mar 2009: Vicbay webcam: Replaced faulty router 28 Dec 2008: Vicbay webcam: Not uploading due to connection broken 2 Nov 2008: Knysna webcam: image not uploading 13 Sep 2008: Rebuilt Server and some webcams on line 7 Aug 2008: Linux server hardware crashed 17 July 2008: Vicbay operational again : Failure due to Internet connection being down for all cams 29 Jun 2008: Cape Town Blouberg cam out of order 15 Jun 2008: Vicbay Webcam: Replaced faulty power supply at Mahaba 12 Jun 2008: Vicbay webcam: Link down 26 Mar 2008: Vicbay webcam: Replaced 5 year old webcam with newer Mobotix M22 megapixel camera 9 Mar 2008: Vicbay webcam - Replaced power supply 21 Feb 2008: Midafricam - iframe vulnerability 17 Feb 2008: Vicbay webcam - Offline 16 Feb 2008: Hosting provider changed IP address of web server 5-7 Nov Linux image collection server down 2-8 Oct: Knysna webcam: Waiting for locked room to be opened to reset camera 27Sep - 5Oct 2007: Cape Town webcam down due to power switched off ? 24 Sep 2007: George CBD webcam rebooted 31Aug-5Sep 2007: VicBay webcam Reset power supply for webcam 19-21 Aug 2007: Victoria Bay webcam was down due to Murphy, replaced router & power supply 14-22 Aug 2007: George CBD cam down due to power supply. 22 June 2007: Cape Town webcam down 17 Jun 2007: Faulty internet router, replaced 25 June 2007. 27 May 2007: Cape Town webcam down due to Internet feed 17 May 2007: Knysna webcam online, power problem 16 May 2007: Knysna webcam offline, contact ISP 17 Apr 2007: Vicbay cam faulty,power related 14 Apr 2007: All cameras operational by 10:50am except Outeniqua Choo-Tjoe webcam awaiting access to the camera. 13 Apr 2007: Web Hosting ISP changed my FTP password 15 Mar 2007: Cape Town webcam up: Power failure 15 Mar 2007: Cape Town webcam down, investigating the cause 8 Feb 2007: Vicbay webcam down again, power supply I suspect or cabling 6 Feb 2007: Vicbay webcam down for 9hrs due to power failure 30 Jan 2007: International link up 29 Jan 2007: International uplink to website down, awaiting ISP to resolve technical problem
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Midafricam - Twitter feed
We have introduced a Twitter feed to alert you on interesting events unfolding in front of the various webcams http://twitter.com/midafricam
Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read other users' updates known as tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length which are displayed on the user's profile page and delivered to other users who have subscribed to them ( known as followers).
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