[ale] creepy hardware

[Jim Kinney]

you are correct. It was covered by mistake when I was testing. It's to the
left of teh camera at the same distance as the indicator on the right.

It's running F21 now. Need to install broadcom drivers and it all works.

On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 1:52 PM, Rev. Johnny Healey <rev.null at gmail.com>
wrote:

> There's an ambient light detector directly next to the camera on most mac
> book pros. You may be covering that along with the camera.
>
> -Johnny
>
> On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 1:30 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm wiping a nearly new mac book pro turned in by a departing developer.
>>
>> The built in camera is ALWAYS ON. It's used to determine the ambient
>> light levels to automagically adjust the screen brightness. No indicator
>> light is on. If I cover the camera with a tiny bit of foil, the screen
>> dims. If I turn on photobooth, the indicator lights up that the camera is
>> on.
>>
>> So it appears to have software-only controls over the "don't be naked
>> here" light.
>>
>> Yep. Wiping this thing off completely and slamming on Fedora 21 beta.
>> Can't see using it just out of the shower when I need to look up something
>> real quick otherwise.
>>
>> Unless google really wants more data than they can republish :-)
>>
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>> James P. Kinney III
>>
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>> tail. It won't fatten the dog.
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James P. Kinney III

Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain
at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail.
It won't fatten the dog.
- Speech 11/23/1900 Mark Twain


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