Thomas

Skip the raid 1 logical drives. File systems are pretty robust now and drive failure is more likely to kill the drives then file system failure. Go with 2 x 300 GB Sata and put them in raid 0 or 1 ( 1 would be my peferance) and move the OS to a 20 gb sata drive.

It all depends on how you transfer the data and what you ask of the client side.

You know you could just use better writen software, right?

I still perfer the Dummy VCR trick. All Electronics generate heat. Some generate heat more then others but in an area that has no ventilation you are going to get heat build up. Opening the door for a few hours will lower the tempature but not by as much as you think. Can I make a sugesstion? If storage is this important, use a PC DVR and a NAS box to store the video on. Even if they steal the DVR you still have a copy on the NAS box. Or a USB Hard drive hiden in a crawl space. Phoenix, if I may be so bold to make a suggestion, it's cards on the table time. One post with budget, needs, situation, etc and let the pros shred it. If you decide to do it yourself then you will have been told what not to do at least. But to be honest, I hope they convince you that it's worth the money to hire a pro. I have seen alot of do-it yourself jobs and they make me cringe.

For general multimedia work you don't want any of the products you'll find on here. You want a video card with an TV-import and one of Adobe's fine products. The logic in our software, in Geovisions software, are designed with very differant goals in mind then video editing. You can try to make one of these solutions work for you but you'll spend more time and effort fighting with the software then it's worth.

No method cooling in there? That can be a major problem.

You haven't seen OZ have you G-Men? Not a gentle family show.

Are you looking to use these cameras for CCTV use, or general multimedia work?

It can be. I can see the application for multi-threaded apps but I have never played with it all.

It's good for a very narrow task. For certain types of processors it has a very fast responce speed. It's not something you would use on a desktop though.

The Axiom isn't accessing from the same network as the Demo.

I'm probley the worst person on the boards to ask for Geovision support from.

We are using Javascript, not Java. I'm not sure why you are having problems with IE on PPC, we have it running on a Dell Axiom PPC right here.

Go to run and put in control userpasswords2 Uncheck the box there and select the account you want it to boot as.

Oh, I don't recomend the fist to the throat for a dog trying to maim you. That's just going to hurt. I'm refering more to the petty mean dogs who like to bite. The problem with defending against dogs is that they tend to be all attack and no defense. This is really tricky for most people because it's hard to imagine an attacker not trying to protect themselves in any way. Most men will try to protect against a crotch shot and almost all people have a reflex to defend the neck. If a dog attacks, accept that you are going to get hurt. Tasers work fairly well (and they hurt like hell, having been enough of a dumbass to wonder what it felt like) but I thought the data on them killing was still in dispute?

I was wearing shorts here just a few days ago. The natives were a little confused.

Actully I ment the BNC Crimper. Dogs and I generally get along...but if the dog isn't a pitbull or Doverman (both have extremely high amounts of jaw strength) and bites your hand, curl your hand into a fist and push back toward the throat. It becomes a wedge that the dog can't force down. The dog may try it once or twice more but after that they will never, ever try to bite you again. But the dogs smelled the fear on you guys who ran. And I get that, a friend of mine family had a retired police dog and the first day I met him, he leaps on me and pinns me down. The look in his eyes said "you like your throat where it is, and I'm too lazy to enjoy ripping it out so if you just stay still then we'll both be happy."

Go play-do!

It snowed last Christmas here and the natives thought the world was ending. God knows I don't miss shoveling it.

*coughs* They can leave a mark...and I promise there is a good story behind that.

http://www.demovi.com/VideoInsight/Pages/camerasm.aspx We don't run as a client side app but a server side app so there is nothing to download, nothing to install.

No camera can ever be truely digital. Not untill you get the sun to put out a digital signal rather then an analog one.

Adding hardware encyrption to the mix will add a layer of overhead and it still doesn't prevent network sniffing and man in the middle attacks. I can still kick the camera off the network and I can still send false data to the server. Hardware encryption is a wonderful thing but you are going to add to latency to the network. You are also going to increase network traffic (encyrption always increases file size, depending on the type of incryption you are generally looking at 1% to 10% for good encryption.) on a tight amount of bandwith. Adding latency is going to kill frame rate and create havock with motion detection.

Woohoo! Adding five mins to comprising the network. Mac address are sent unencrypted. Give Snort five mins to decrypt the WEP key, or a little longer for WAP and then you kick a camera off the network and pretend you are it via spoofing your own MAC address. Voila....you can either emulate the camera or you can view the other cameras. Going wireless isn't as trival for large installations as it seems.

Any potential arguement that the video is tampered with by a man in the middle attack comes into play no matter the network but it would be a better arguement on a wireless network. Ideally the cameras would be on seperate wired networks. Wireless cameras need to be segmented by firewall from the wired ones.