icansolvetheproblem

Hi there, I'm new to the forum so I thought it would be prudent to introduce myself. I'm early 40's, a software engineer and nearly a minted electrical engineer. My grad work is being conducted (slowly) at our local state college in the Aerospace and Aeronautics Engineering department. The rest of the time I have a little company that provides solutions to a variety of problems. We've worked in the homes of local billionaires and we've worked in low income housing projects and state prisons. We engineer solutions and then implement them, as my company is also a licensed electrical contracting firm bonded and insured and licensed to work on systems 600v on down. Thanks for including me in this forum! I'm posting a question in the appropriate location, hopefully I won't be asking a question that's been answered so many times before. Thanks again!

Hello, We have been asked to provide a free standing DVR that uses a Mac or Linux application for primary management as well as LAN and WAN monitoring. iPhone and Android mobile platform compatibility would also be nice. As our firm typically provides and installs well known, mainstream products from Pe,Ho, DM, and Sp; usually these use propriety software solutions running on Windows, or open solutions such as CMS - running on Windows. All of the browser based applications seem to require Active X, (an insecure solution at best). We're zealous believers in Linux (we use a variety of Linux distro's in the following order: Ubuntu, Fedora, and Backtrack) our hands our tied as we're forced to offer insecure solutions requiring Windows OS management at a minimum, with fully featured viewing applications requiring Windows as well. Typically there are apps that may run on another OS or via a non-active X browser, however our experience with such apps have been riddled with buggy with incomplete features which don't provide full management or potential viewing capabilities of a given freestanding DVR or NVR. Can you suggest a high quality stand alone analog DVR that is designed to use a Linux or Mac based management and viewing applications? I want to hear about residential, commercial, and enterprise solutions. The one I'm currently looking for has gotta be one that's robust since our applications may include datacenters and prisons. We're also interested in non-Windows based NVR's for use with I.P. cameras. While the cameras usually run on a Linux kernel the control and management applications seem to be written for Windows. The comment I most typically hear from the design engineers from the major firms is "We design our product for the largest market segment, and since 95% of all computers run on Windows we focus on that market." Funny, isn't that exactly why many virus authors choose to target IE. I'm not looking for all the methods in which one can emulate a Wintel box, nor am I looking for solutions using Wine or any other virtual machine. While the efforts made by many to enable such possibilities are admirable, this is NOT the answer we're looking for. Your comments and suggestions are most appreciated. Thank you. P.S. We can discuss why Windows is so insecure elsewhere in this forum, please don't flame me here for my seemingly imprudent and noob comments regarding your favorite McOperating System. TY