Thomas

Yes, you can do a slipstreamed verison of windows legally. Make sure your licences are legit and you're good.

Actully the bottleneck isn't oil supply but refining. Opening up the reserves would drop the price of home heating oil but not gas. And terrorism in the US isn't new.

*coughs* Javascript. Not Java.

Bah, the concession stand behind the exhibit area had drinks for $1.25 or so.

While you can't burn a chip carrying the BIOS out, you can render it unable to accept information if it is flash writable.

Don't make it overly painful to register. That seems to be more effective.

The drive serial is spoofable as well. Basicly Rory, trying to use those things for copy protection isn't going to work perfectly.

Some processors have an ID, some don't. All network cards will have a Mac address, but that is spoofable. You can change it on some cards and at the software level. You could look at an licence key but that can be spoofed as well.

Still doesn't add up. If the kid gets caught with the audio recorder then that situation is even worse. If the cops were wiring the kid live...that might make sense.

Naw they are benchmarked too much to pull that.

Naw they are benchmarked too much to pull that.

You going to make the business owner change thier site to 87? Because I've seen alot of embededs in which you aren't going to change the web server.

I also have some experance with child abuse and parental reponce and that is well outside the normal responce. Even more odd is the wanting of video. The odds of a covert cam seeing anything useful is slim to none. Audio would be a better choice but even then the odds are still pretty low.

Some general replies: 1. Viruses are a red herring. For a small systems they should be firewalled. For larger networks there are other ways to handle it. And they should be firewalled if they are embeded or PC based. Embeded systems can be "owned" as well. Ask Cisco. 2. Embeded systems don't network well outside of a vanilla network. They don't scale up well at all. What if I already have my companies web server on port 80? 3. Except the replacement lifecycle for this kind of thing isn't three years. Companies are aiming for five to ten year life cycles for thier systems and most companies are running them that long. For embeded systems, if it's a cheap system then you can't replace a part. For one of the majors you're looking at the cost of a new DVR to replace a motherboard.

Pros of PC based systems: 1. Upgradable. 2. Can be intergrated into a network with more ease. 3. Replacement parts are much cheaper. Those three come to mind off the top of my head.

They have screwed up every order I've ever dealt with them on. The types of errors are as follows: Wrong Cables Shipped. Tech Support telling the dealer the wrong cables. Ship dates missed. Shipping types screwed up Multiple times for each of these.

Is there anyone else who does this that you recomend? I've sent dealers over to them and they have yet to not screw up an order.

You can check for a few things in an osilliscope. You can look at the S/N ratio, you can see 1v p-p, you can look at the color responce.

Except that one of the selling points is that the interface is only via the front panel. I don't know if your DVR stores the files in a PC readable form or not. I think I need to be clearer on what I ment. To trick remote software into viewing locally, you need to be emulating the local server. Most of the time the software is streaming it. To view the files via a file browser then you need to be able to read the format of the drive. For that to happen it needs to be in something like ext2, ext3, fat16/32, NTFS, ect. It's possible with embeded systems to not use any of these. As far as transfering files via RS-232....do you have a few weeks?

You can't just take a device and give it an IP address. You have to have something to handle the TCP/IP stack. It might be possible to mount the drive and trick the software into looking locally. This makes the following assumptions: A) You can emulate the connection protocols between the remote/local system. or B) If you can get the drive into a machine readable format. (i.e. File system drivers.) Most of the time the software is streaming the video, rather then giving a full read(server)/write(local) like a file transfer.

Got to admit, that was the best part of tech support.

Okay, offically those are the uglest cameras ever.

Every compression type has it's strengths and draw backs. MJPEG: Most OS's have native support or trival to get support for this codec. (Just about any media software for Linux will play it when installed, Windows is built in, Mac built in, BeOS built in, *BSD will do it with media play back software installed, same for other Unix family members). This is one of the few codecs that you can do something with as far as image enhancement. (Not much and if you think you'll do what you see with CSI then please go sprint into the wall before asking me how to do it.) Not the most space effiencent. MPEG 2/4/H.263/H.264 : Very efficent compression, but doesn't always play well on playback. MPEG codecs can have issues playing well with each other. Not a big deal on the DVR, can be a problem for the cops. It is possible to get larger MPEG 4 files under certain situations. Since each fram contains positional data along with RGB value, then you can end up with some very large frames if you have rapid and intense light changes. WMV: Great compression but extremely processior intensive. Going to be a *** to move. JPEG2000/MJPEG2000: Better then MJPEG in some respects (color/resolution) but much more expensive for a manufacturer to implement. Wavelet: Is a differant approch to recording that works with change in texure. Now the question you all want to know. Which is best? Ha! It's all going to depend on what they are set at and what you want.

Can Video be run on Cat 3 (one pair)?

Um....no.