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I work at an IT department and we have a group of people handling all incoming phone calls (it's supposed to be a help desk but it's more like a call center). They are constantly trying to hold an SLA (that's Service Level Agreement for those who didn't know). The only way they can hold the SLA is by answering all the phone calls in time so the customers don't hang up the phone because of long waiting time.

The managers thought that it would be a great idea to show everyone in our department how good or bad they were doing (much like big brother) so they mounted a bulletin board showing stats like lost and answered phone calls. Our customers would also like to have this opportunity all of the sudden since they are unable to monitor them on site and so I was assigned to configure a camera directed at the bulletin board and stream the results ...

I had a Axis camera tucked away on my shelf for the purpose. This was obviously a terrible way of monitoring some simple stats but that was how it was done back then (a couple of years ago).

I was struck by an idea as a sat here looking back at those times. I remember reading some article on tweaking Google searches and remembered that you can do a search using the query inurl. If you include [inurl:] in your query, Google will restrict the results to documents containing that word in the url. For instance, [inurl:google search] will return documents that mention the word "google" in their url, and mention the word "search" anywhere in the document (url or no).

I still remember the URL used to access the Axis camera feed. And you can use that information to find lots of other interesting camera feeds using google. Check out the results yourself:

inurl:/view/index.shtml

PS: For certain features you may need a user id and password. The default user is root, and the default password is pass