Re: Monitoring station software

["chris clarke" <chrisc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mark Leuck wrote:

>
> "Doug L" <vssdoug@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:YpNAf.10884$jR.1731@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > What sort of Church would want to use pirated  software?, or come
> > to that what sort of alarm company would use stolen software to run
> > their CS.
> >
> > Doug L
>
> Church of Satan?



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No, its the richest Church of them all, the Roman Catholic Church.  The
way they carry on you would think they are down to their last 10 cents.
The retirement place is actually a closed down state-run sanatorium
with about 100 pre-fab houses on the 22 acre site, about 220km from
Cape Town.  The priest and three helpers run the show, but the RC
church won't give them any money to run it on the grounds that the site
does not belong to the church authority.  They have been operating on
donations for the past 35 years.  I got involved as there were a spate
of burglaries, even though the residents are mostly OAPs and exist on
the state pension which is minimal.  The burglars tied up some of the
old people and emptied the houses.

I had some Paradox 708 dialers which I programmed to communicate with a
15 year old base station which I repaired.  I have donated enough of my
time and effort to getting them up and running, and only forwarded your
replies to them.  What they do is up to them.  Whatever they get I will
no doubt have to set up and get it running as the priest can't even
type let alonr operate a PC.

Maybe one of you rich US Citizens would like to donate something useful
to this cause.  It is Mimosa Rusoord, Stellenberg Farm, De Doorns 6875.
I am due to go there on 30th Jan to set up another 12 alarms.  The
equipment consists of the Paradox dialer, a 12 volt power supply and
one push button.  I got a donation of 150 12 VDC 1 amp psu's from an
electronics supply, plus some boxes to put it all in.  Paradox gave me
100 dialers so all I have to do is assemble it, supply the n/o push
button and a bit of cable and fit it (15 mins per job) but the
travelling is 2 hours each way.  I get paid about 1/2 the petrol cost,
that's all.

Regards
Chris