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A Webcam from Downtown Los Altos, California

Here's an experimental webcam from downtown Los Altos, California. The view is from my office, looking at the corner of Main and 3rd Streets. Satura Cakes is visible on the left, and Bank of the West is on the right.

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The webcam is running on an ancient Gateway 266MHz Pentium 2, running Ubuntu Linux and a $19 USB webcam. Right now I'm using camserv to stream the images (really just a sequence of JPEGs, but I'm looking into alternatives. Software suggestions are welcome!

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Zoe on Saturday 10 May, 2008:

Where is the web cam? Put up your new location and a new web cam. So we can view it. I will now go to other web cam sites.

Pam on Tuesday 10 January, 2006:

But the web cam is down AND I want to watch the bakery!

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unklb on Friday 02 June, 2006:

Good cam, image streams very well.
I am using a home built system with a 900 MHz Duron Processor and running Fedora Core Five. Viewed with Mozilla FireFox 1.5.03 and using java jre1.5.0_06.
Are you still using camserv for streaming?
If so it looked great!

kevo on Sunday 24 February, 2008:

Appears to down...is this webcam still active? Would love to see my home town... I now live in Sydney AU.

chas on Friday 26 May, 2006:

go los altos! it was my hometown for 11 years but now i'm livin in the coolest town in arizona.(sedona)

David on Friday 13 January, 2006:

I get inconsistent reports -- some people can see the images, others not. I'll try to switch to different image streaming software in the near future.

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Arnold on Monday 16 January, 2006:

I tried the bakery the other day. The treats were yummy but pricey.

David on Sunday 24 February, 2008:

Sorry, it's down, probably for good. I no longer work at this location.

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