Thomas

I'm not a camera expert (mostly I lurk here to learn about the install side of the bussiness) but comparing the bullet camera I have on my desk (not sure the maker) and the pelco regular camera next to it, there is a huge differance. Besides being able to focus it with the lens the pelco has a much, much cleaner image. Color's are crisper, lines are crisper, much easier to read and a much better signal.

Would you guys have any intrest in software that can handle both IP camera's and analouge cameras?

Another trick is a type of Ham radio called packet radio. That should work from an aircraft and has the added bonus of being able to ping the moon.

True Texans call Austin "that den of hippy liberals"

Real time is a number approching infinity. But 24-28 will fool the human eye.

Go for more ram, you won't see any differance with that celeron.

Apprently they aren't that bright either. They can't really stop VoIP unless they start blocking IP addresses, or check every packet for VoIP packets and that is a pain to filter at the ISP leval.

*has that book sitting my desk, knows the PC stuff, but is definitly still learning about the camera's*

It depends on the mobo but most of the time it was a flash update, other times it was a windows patch. w2k has a 124 gb limit that MS goofed on. SP2 fixed it and is part of SP4.

I would leave ten gigs for the OS and software. An auto defragementor probley isn't nesscary (the software is mostly writing, not reading) and NTFS is a bit more robust then FAT as far as fragmenting goes. W2k has a bug that limits drive size, use SP4 to get past it.

Um...MPEG-2 is a very lossy format.

XP has alot more things talking to the outside world then ME so it's more vunerable to viruses. And W2k has that repair feature. As far as dual booting goes, you can do it and there are ample sites on the net that explain how to do it.

XP and 2000 are closely related but not quite the same thing. The kernals are pretty simular, but XP has alot more things interacting with it. W2k is ment for a server enviroment and it's a bit lighter, and doesn't come with as many things turned on, so you get a bit more stability. The downside is that before SP3 it's directX support was pretty poor as well as it's DOS mode support. Alot of the secondary services were re-writen (badly) like LASS, and the RPC stuff. XP intergrates alot more into the OS including DirectX. And all of the security updates is a Window's things, I still get them for my W2k box.

That and I don't think anyone ever explained raid to him.

They do. I've never played with them but I've heard good things about them.

Mostly I'm curious about how it handles multiple bits of concurrent movement.

How sensitive is it?

Belkin has two lower end KVM's one that comes with cables built in (it's alright, better then most of the built in ones) and a slightly more expensive one that has seprate cables. That one is excellent. My KVM at work, the better of the two, is in an area of overlapping EMF's (three video spliters, one really bad one, two PC's, three camera's, two wall strips full of plugs, and a bunch of wires) and it doesn't even hiccup.

http://www.memtest86.com/ It's what I use.

Actully that's one of the toy's I want my boss to get in here. The new verison of our software lets you control a PTZ camera by clicking on the screen (it moves toward where you click) and that would be really cool with our network client and a wireless network and a tablet PC.....

Why is Geo reinventing the wheel? XP/2000/ME (and 98 can install it) already have perfectly servicable virtual keyboards that can be accessed even if you change the shell.

Yep, and you need to make sure you run it for 24 hours at least. Two passes won't tell you anything, you need to make it a proper stress test.

And I don't mean to scare anyone away from using Ghost. When I was working for myself, I saved countless gigs of data off of failing drives with it. Any tech without it is like a mechanic without a battery tester. They might not always need it, but every real pro is going to have one in thier tool kit.

I've found the belkins to be pretty good for cabling. For other stuff (keyboards, mice, ect) I wouldn't use them, but for the consumer caliber stuff, they do alright.

We do have the toughest, and to a high degree dumbest anti-piracy laws, but we aren't the world leader in piracy. China has us beat. When you start seeing companies refuse to do bussiness with the US due to rampent piracy then we'll be in the lead. We're sixth in software, second in music and fourth in movies (using the stats of various trade groups). I don't know the stats for piracy for hardware but I don't see too much fake stuff here, but that may be me.