Thomas

Or you can do it via the registry. [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer] "NoWinKeys"=dword:00000001 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer] Standard warning, playing in the registry is dangerous. If you don't know what it does, or what a key vaule means, do not touch it. Edit: Rory users are better off going this route to stop it. His method alters the scancode. Any further changes (locking out caps lock, alt-ctr-del ) would require a new scan code. Also, changing the keyboard to dovak would overwrite his method.

I know there are some companies that sell software for the Kodicom boards, but you aren't going to get software that isn't writen for it to work.

Except the CCTV wasn't the deterant. The firing of those who got caught was.

Security through obscurity is a poor arguement. Apache has proven that being number one does not make you the biggest target. The footprint arguement applies to windows but linux can be run at under a 1 MB. And all of your arguements apply to the current crop of embeded systems.

What benfits? They are selecting off the shelf OS's to start with. They aren't doing the R&D. I'm curious to know what the benfits are to the end user?

You'd be amazed how effect that sales techinque is. If someone thinks they are gettin X at X-100 cost....well who reads spec sheets? But why choose a standardized OS and reinvent the wheel when you have a large number of options already? Linux comes in embeded and RTOS embeded. Then there are the 47+ other embeded OS's out there. Linux will be for sure ported over. I'm sure at least some of them will be ported to Cell. But what does an industry standard OS offer to the companies, where is the money in it?

Again, in the embeded market, this is alot more important. And how does GE/Bosch/Pelco compete if the guy from China is saying it's the same OS? That's the point where people's eye's glaze over.

I have a strange view point on this, but I work in an office full of cameras. Some are just for internal viewing, some just external. It takes about a week to forget about them.

The IP Camera software works without the board. Contact me and I can tell you pricing. I don't know of the IP camera MPEG4 beta is up on the FTP, let me check and come back to this thread.

For the standalones, anyone in the embeded market would be a player. But here is a monkey wrench for your works. What if I want to put it in a windows domain? With Linux I can use Samba, Windows has native support for it, but other RTOS's don't. You're perfect OS is going get bloated quickly if you start supporting everything.

One thing to point out....CCTV is a piss poor deterant. The only people who notice the cameras are people in the industry and then it's more of "who are they using?" kinda of notice.

Don't revert back to the older version of the .Net framework. 1.1 is the current stable. The .Net framework doesn't have any native services or apps, it's just a compiler/enviroment. Was the user it installed "aspnet" or along those lines? You may find some web apps won't work.

The problem with a stanardised OS is it will never be perfect. It will always be missing something. And developing an OS is expensive. Who will pay for it? Will it be OSS? Will it be licenced in a friendly manner?

It probley will. From what I've been reading Cell looks like it's going to be a beowulf cluster kind of tech. Great for processes that writen in parallel, less useful for some other things. But I don't expect to see it in PC's anytime within the next few years.

If Cell works out it will be insanely powerful. But note that in that example it was simply displaying already encoded video.

The FAQ is a little out of date. The site is being updated to reflect the new VJ cards. They offer alot more options for recording. The V30 cards were discontinued for a number of reasons, but mostly because the 4 camera isn't profitable for us. Our main market tends to be large installs and they aren't looking at four but thirty-two or sixty-four cameras. We group cameras into groups based on shared compression chips. Each chip handles 30 fps. On the VJ240 two cameras would share a chip. So if that second camera isn't turned on, then the camera would get a chip to itself. The resolution doesn't affect the FPS, but it does affect CPU usage. The reason we don't see a drop in FPS with an increase in resolution is the design method. Standalones do it a little more elgantly to save power/horsepower needs. But it doesn't scale up as well. Our method is a little more brute force but it scales up a little better.

We do support 640*480 recording.

Most, not all.

We'll be adding MPEG-4 and WMV support in June. We do offer a DIO card that can accept inputs and act as a limited relay. (It's an electrical relay, rather than an informational relay.)

Nope it just makes you wish were dead.

Apache is the most common webserver.

Intresting to see Ogg vorbis being used.

We've been working on the honor system. It's been successful. The fee is simply for updates and techincal support.

What is the FOV for that camera at what distance?

The BIOS limitation can be bypassed in Linux. Windows needs the bios because it won't look directly at the hardware.