Thomas

Please tap the caps lock key. Then take a screw driver and remove it. But there are capture cards that work just fine with via chipsets.

Because you don't find any CCTV cameras that put out enough of an image to bother with 1024x768.

Yeah, working with multiple types of IP based cameras isn't fun.

Don't go wireless. Just don't do it. For the love of god, don't do it.

Volume vs costs. Development, good development costs money. Shipping. Tech support. Sales staff. Marketing.

Except that grabbing the firmware from a USB and emulating it is easier then cracking a CD check. You don't need to monitor the I/O for anything. The USB standard allows for some tricks to grab firmware on and off the device. Then it's as simple as mounting the device. With a CD you can do drive geomonitry checks to see if the media matches what it should be. But in the end, Geovision can't win. Online activation helps, but even that isn't going to solve the problem. But you asked for solutions: Stop using UDP as their card maker. They called us up and hinted that they would be happy to sell us the same card for development. Some of the pirated cards are from other fab plants, but mostly they are buying from UDP. Online authentication. It sucks yes, but it's generally one time.

I'd like to think we're a good choice. The important factor is the upload at the site. The download on a DSL line will almost allways be greater. You could do that with a USB hard drive.

Key Dongles are a return to a bad idea. Dongles used to be done via the serial port way back in the Apple IIe/286 days and were abandoned after a while. Cracking them becamed trival. Emulating them (and using USB will just make this easier) isn't very hard either.

Diebold doesn't really make anything. They aquire companies that make products and they just rebadge. But it's one of those things that the banks just want to one vender as much as possible.

One thing to note. The frame rate has no bearing on how clear the image is. Clarity is a factor of compression with S/N loss.

The reason that the PC should be dedicated to just being a DVR is simple. Stability. It should be viewed like any other mission critical system (ie one's who's uptime you want to get as near 99% as possible). The more you install, the more you run, the more you do with the system besides being a DVR, the better the odds you'll get an unstable system.

One thing to note. If you make a DVR, the machine should only be a DVR. No web surfing. No office. No gaming.

Wait till you can really play with RAID. 3.2 TB in redunancy. Ponder how long that will store video.

Raid is something you do for drives Rory, not a type. Redunant Array of Inexpensive Disks. Basicly it does what you want, makes many disks into one (or one disk to the PC). From there you could partion it as you wanted.

Naw, a good firewall and not using IE or Outlook (or even just having Outlook setup safely) is enough for most users. But Windows does need a better way to set up non-admin users that works. I don't get the Mac despising though. [/i]

Naw, 10k is over kill for a system drive.

If the drives aren't spinning up, then you're failing the POST test before it even starts. Do you have another chip to test with? Second, remove the mobo from the chassie and set it up on the desk. Make sure it's grounded and on a nice piece of cardboard. That will let you elimanate the chassis from the list. And I may be over reading this, but are you hot swapping that CPU?

DO NOT SPAN NON-RAIDED DRIVES. Drive spanning as done by Windows is a very good way of having to make a service call. Rory, the simple (not really) is install the drives, install windows to the raid (using the driver disks) and then partition the drive the way you want it.

That's because you've never used a real command shell.

The Mac Mini is pretty reasonably priced.

I don't know Geovision, but there is some onetime overhead, like the GUI, motion detection, ect.

1 Known trojan, and one bit of Malware (not a true virus, no way to spread itself beyond sharing via Limewire). It's pretty slick, I got my wife one of the Powerbooks for her graduation gift.

Depends, might be some challange responce kind of deal, not too hard to beat. Or it could be they wanted the S/N to make sure he's legit.

It depends on who you're looking at.

Your going to have to go IP based. One glaring problem comes to mind. File storage space. You need to select software that will let you write to a file server, because that laptop drive is going to have next to no storage.