I haz kittenz - watch them live here.

Pinter75 · 20 Mar 2010 at 18:58

Howdy,

Yet again one of our cats has had kittens. As this is the last lot before she gets spayed, they are all on line for all to see!

http://www.pinter75.com/catcam/

If you don't get any video, it is because the server is hammered!

Pinter75 · 20 Mar 2010 at 19:07

Crap, I am being hammered! If it goes off line the laptop blew up. I will run a Cat5 cable down from upstairs, this is using wireless at the moment.

Pinter75 · 20 Mar 2010 at 19:18

There are over 200 people watching now within a few mins, I should sell some advertising space at the back of the nest. lols.

Pinter75 · 20 Mar 2010 at 19:27

Tailed off to around 175 now

Pinter75 · 20 Mar 2010 at 19:29

Aod said:
hey mate - are they all spoken for? my parents have been dying to get another kitten to keep our kittenlike cat company!

Nope, but these are only 2 days old, and I am all the way down in Brighton.

Pinter75 · 20 Mar 2010 at 19:34

Hovis added

Pinter75 · 20 Mar 2010 at 22:18

700 odd viewers now - jeez I can hardly check my email anymore!

The nest is in a dark place so I can't turn on any lights as they are a bit sensitive to light.

Here is a pic of them in their grotty nest - it does get a bit nasty with all that birthing going on in there. That place has seen 3 births in less than 2 years.

And here is mum

Pinter75 · 20 Mar 2010 at 22:43

VeNT said:
what kinda bandwidth we talking about here?

All of my 20MB Virgin one! I have a laptop connected to the webcam upstairs, so that will explain the slowness. I have a big reel of cat5 sources to run a proper lead down to the router.

Pinter75 · 20 Mar 2010 at 22:45

Ok she is down here with me. I am trying to explain to her that she is famous on the Interwebz.

Pinter75 · 20 Mar 2010 at 22:51

Aod said:
any more info on the possibility of me having/buying one of the little guys?

Early days yet, Can you mail me (in trust). We have a few people who expressed interest locally. She only squeezed out 3 so not that many to go round.

Pinter75 · 20 Mar 2010 at 23:53

Well it will stay on-line until it gets in the way of me working. My net connection is a tad slow at the moment!

Pinter75 · 21 Mar 2010 at 00:17

FatBoyObese said:
She's kipping while they're feeding....ain't motherhood hard lol

She eats tonnes during the nursing. I should put up a donate to the feeding fund sign up!

Pinter75 · 21 Mar 2010 at 00:48

Let me pop up and have a look. The laptop probably melted!

Pinter75 · 21 Mar 2010 at 00:51

Lol, they were fast asleep and with 400 of you connected the refresh is slow so it didn't look like they were moving. Mum has come back after a feast for your amusement.

Pinter75 · 21 Mar 2010 at 00:57

VeNT said:
fanpage UP!
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Poppies-Kittens/106071149421611?ref=mf

Lols! you guys crack me up. I am sure poppy and her babies are honoured to have a fan club.

Should we start selling " I SAW POO " T-shirts?

I'll up a small gallery of the cats and the dad who lives next door - Elvis.

Pinter75 · 21 Mar 2010 at 01:15

SkeeterUK said:
Hook up a buzzer or horn and make it so when we press a button it sounds off.

Well I do do embedded electronics, and have built tcp/ip controllable things... But no.

Maybe when they are older some net enabled toys for them to play with?

All I need now are Virgin to be nice and sponsor the kitties and give me 50MB broadband :-)

Pinter75 · 21 Mar 2010 at 12:14

They are back on-line. My router packed up over night.

Now the sun is out they are in a sort of colour mode now.

Pinter75 · 21 Mar 2010 at 19:31

Hi,

I have been out most of the day. Glad the cam feed stayed up!

I am negotiating some bandwidth and a fast server at the moment.

Also there will be some "Poppy" merchandise which will support our local cats protection league.

Keep your eyes pealed for some updates soon.

Pinter75 · 21 Mar 2010 at 19:51

It will go slow, patience is the key. How about I limit connections to 5 or so mins, before you have to come back?

If I get the big server sorted it will go faster.

Anyone want to be a "Friend of Poppy" and help out with the server stuff?

Pinter75 · 21 Mar 2010 at 20:00

optitech-uk said:
Currently have you got webcamXP installed onyour own home machine and what outgoing bandwidth have you got?

Where do you plan on hosting the server because remember even if you get a super server if you host it on just a broadband connection your bandwidth will be limited.

Are you on ADSL or Cable?

I am on Virgin 20Mb broadband. If I ftp the cam image to the server, won't that then handle the other connections?

Maybe Virgin should donate some speed for 5 weeks while they grow. At this rate we can't surf the net very well here!