Oh yeah. If you don't have a linux server, there are similar packages for windows. All the same hardware will work just fine (and a lot of other hardware too).
We had our cars getting broken into and did basically the same thing (minus gun).
We have a linux file server at home, so what I ended up doing was getting a V4L compatible video capture card off ebay (I got a 16 input card for $80). 4 port capture cards are common and cheap. Just make sure it's compatible with linux.
Then go to dealextreme.com, or I think they're also at dx.com now. There you can get cameras, and the video balun's to make it simple to use cat 5 to run your cameras. A camera is about $20 for a decent night vision one, and the balun set (8 baluns to run 4 cameras) were about $25.
Once you've got your hardware all set up, you can use either "motion" or "zoneminder" for the actual surveilence. Both will do what you want. I use motion, but zoneminder is a little more polished in the UI department.
Finally, set up an rsync script or other mirror software to get those files off site in case they actually try to steal your server.
I don't know who approves all the stories (you could look at who posted them all since it's displayed on every one of them).
I can't really tell if you're being sarcastic, since *EVERYTHING* you listed is available for purchase using bitcoins. Bitcoin sites do tend to call the "new pc" a "mining rig" instead, but some places can even be seen selling them as pc's.
We had five, yes five duplicate tape backups sets for a final copy of our obsolete accounting system. All tapes were verified good when they went onto the shelf (in a climate controlled room). A year later, it took us more than 10 tries to get one of them to restore successfully.. I think it was tape set 3 on the 4th try or something before it restored.
I have a linux server for a file server at our house, and I'm building a pretty decent system on the very cheap (not just because it's cheap, but because it's fun too) using a few different technologies..
My plan is to combine a few things into one system.. Security cameras, security sensors, and home automation including zoning. I'll list some of my resources below.. 90% of the battle is knowing what to look for..
zoning: search for 'diyzoning' and follow links from there to the real stuff.. diyzoning is actually being replaced..
automation: 1wire automation and sensors (cheap gadgets of all sorts): www.hobby-boards.com you can find all sorts of other sites with 1wire and ibutton devices (ibuttons are a particular type of 1wire device, great contact based digital keys) zigbee: easy to find when searching, it's more expensive, but makes a wireless mesh network which is easier than wires.. I like wires though, so I don't know much about these..
Security camera: I currently use anything that works with linux and use "motion" for watching the cameras.. it takes videos only of events.. if you've got it tweaked right, it can also make an excellent intrusion sensor, you just have to be careful you don't get false positives.. it's very tweakable though) Another security camera option that I've considered switching to is zoneminder.. It's got a web gui to make monitoring and configuration easier, but other than that it's very similar.
Another thing to do with the security cameras is to use something like rsync to get copies of events off site in case your server is stolen.. with any luck you'll still have the video of the person stealing your server.. I bought a card at a great price on ebay that takes 16 video inputs, and then I got balun's and cameras from www.dealextreme.com to hook to it.. easy as pie, and the $20 cameras from dealextreme have ir led arrays for pretty decent night vision..
Well, that's about all I can think of right off the top of my head.. Don't let people tell you a system like this is useless unless you pay a ton of $$ for it.. Even if you don't get broken in to, or you do and they still get the stuff and get away with it (happens with monitored systems too, I've seen it often at my work) you'll still have a lot of fun with the tech. I love blasting through the time lapse videos that motion puts together for me..
When trying to learn HTML, don't use IE... Use firefox with the firebug plugin loaded.. it'll actually let you see what is going on/wrong and will let you experiment on the fly.
How exactly is having a virtual machine with whole disk encryption any less secure than having the entire machine with whole disk encryption in the case of the machine getting lost or stolen.. I realize that a key capture program on the host could capture data on its way to the guest, but that's certainly not the lost or stolen scenario, and a key capture program installed inside of a fully encrypted disk would still have the same affect if the entire machine were encrypted.
If their IT department were smart, they'd be distributing encrypted VM's and software to to run them instead of trying to mess with the entire machine.
Just like your point, and every similar one, must necessarily be meaningless and useless because there might be a "procurement law" where the poster resides.
No, there is a chance that the suggestion is useless and/or irrelevant, but there is a very good chance that it's not. Many cities, countries, states, counties, provinces, governments etcetera have this sort of law. The mention of the idea is certainly less meaningless than your comment (yes, a double negative.. were you able to follow that correctly?).
Yeah.. performance on the Mybook World is pretty less than stellar.. It's already struggling to provide files on the network share quickly.. It doesn't go far beyond that..
Yep.. you understood your problem domain, and easily recognized where parallelism existed. Then you stated your solution like a practical intelligent person, not like some moron trying to claim that everything is always simple because he is so damn smart that he transcodes all his videos using a neural interface to his own brain while he sleeps. It was simple you know, because brains are massively parallel, and can kick the shit out of your PC when it comes to overall processing power.
I think the iphone is fairly close to meeting these requirements..
It's not even close on the display/light but:
The screen is very readable (even outside in sunlight as long as it's not direct)
Battery life has been pretty good for me.
It'll handle a pile of formats (sometimes with help from Google's office tools
It's interface is very nice for easy reading.. You've never seen smoother scrolling on a portable device. You can easily keep reading while you scroll, and control it precisely to boot.
It'll actually do a couple other things too.
OK, I know I sound like the SNL Iphone commercial: It's a phone, a camera, a gps, a condiment dispenser, a tennis racket, a pillow, a beard trimmer, a hammer, and a prophylactic.
Once it's on the big disk, spend about $100 on an xbox, and $10 on a duox2gs mod chip. Once it's modded, install the latest XBMC, and use it's media library management database to organize everything for you.
Are you that guy that called me direct in the middle of the night because Kali/IP was pretty laggy that night? I remember taking an ass whooping from someone running keyboard only.
I knew I was in trouble when my spiral of bullets was navigated without a scratch (flying an inverse spiral of course) and with only a single return shot fired I had taken serious damage from a missile right to the center of my windsheild.
..If they're going to make us pay a "pirate tax", then that means we can download as much as we like. They've been compensated, and we no longer have to feel like pirates. I'll take the flat rate pirate tax plan to purchase all my music from now to eternity.. at least for as long as it's reasonable.
Of course, in the time it takes for all this to happen, they'll probably expire you the rest of the way, and release the domain because of non-payment.
Then you can just pick it up via a decent registrar instead, and get your $$ back via your credit card company.
...and in response to someone else's message: You're correct. You are not the only one wondering which registrar we're talking about here.
yeah.. I'm surprised I haven't seen any more suggestions of Reiser4. It does atomic writes and keeps everything consistent without the use of a journal at all. It seems like that would keep your writes cut in about half without any real downside to your project.
I know it's still somewhat experimental, but I've used it before just for play, and it didn't throw any of my files away, and that was about a year ago.
I know Hans is in jail, and Reiserfs's future is uncertain, but at least for now it seems like that best technical solution.
Openvpn... Free, full of features.. Open source.. reliable.. Most everything you'll want, even including a windows client and server (never used under windows though).
Third and Finally - Even though TV tells you that cell phone triangulation is a common practice, it's not.
Actually, it is. In the US now it's automated. The cell phone companies were required to do this to support 911 service. I've not read the technical details of it, but I do know that every 911 call can be traced to an exact address when it's made from a cell phone. Your actual location is what shows up on the dispatcher's screen, not the address your phone is registered to (unlike voip). I assume they use triangulation between towers, gps in the phone, or some combination of the two. I've actually heard that it's a combination (to increase accuracy), but I don't know how reliable the source of that information is.
I'm not saying that there isn't a core to the internet. It's there, but that's not by design, it's a convention to keep the internet from totally sucking.
His question was, "Is there a way". The answer is yes, but you don't want it, so people stopped doing it. Anyone can peer with anyone else, but the copper/fiber cost to take the core out of the picture prevents anyone from wanting to do it. If you're worried about big brother, encrypt.
If he really wants what he's asking for, he can start finding peers on the other side of the net, and he can keep *his* traffic off the backbones once he has enough peers (and he's built some enormous route tables as well).
It would look an awful lot like the internet we have now.
You're describing the original design of the internet, which we're still running with essentially.
In practice though, it would be insane to let everyone with a DSL line to two different locations update routing table through the entire internet. The mechanisms to allow this exist (bgp, ospf) but major ISPs that don't want their network to fall
apart prevent it because their service would quickly turn to crap. ISPs with missing filters have actually caused internet wide splits, when the entire internet tried to route through someone's T1's connected to two different ISP. BGP with a little better cost system could help that, but anyone could still cause a split anytime they liked. Think of an entire internet that acts more like IRC.
The core of the internet is still just a bunch of peers, but if you want things to stay up, they've got to be a select group that really know what they're doing. You're still free to peer directly with anyone you want, just don't expect everyone else to use your internet connection to get there too. Most people don't want to have to buy two internet connections for marginal gains anyway.
Perhaps a software solution like TOR or Freenet could help you sleep better at night?
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You can also go even cheaper and use a simple USB webcam when you're only looking
at fairly short distances.
Oh yeah. If you don't have a linux server, there are similar packages for windows. All the same hardware will work just fine (and a lot of other hardware too).
We had our cars getting broken into and did basically the same thing (minus gun).
We have a linux file server at home, so what I ended up doing was getting a V4L
compatible video capture card off ebay (I got a 16 input card for $80). 4 port
capture cards are common and cheap. Just make sure it's compatible with linux.
Then go to dealextreme.com, or I think they're also at dx.com now. There you can
get cameras, and the video balun's to make it simple to use cat 5 to run your
cameras. A camera is about $20 for a decent night vision one, and the balun set
(8 baluns to run 4 cameras) were about $25.
Once you've got your hardware all set up, you can use either "motion" or "zoneminder"
for the actual surveilence. Both will do what you want. I use motion, but
zoneminder is a little more polished in the UI department.
Finally, set up an rsync script or other mirror software to get those files off site
in case they actually try to steal your server.
I don't know who approves all the stories (you could look at who posted them all since it's displayed on every one of them).
I can't really tell if you're being sarcastic, since *EVERYTHING* you listed is available for purchase using bitcoins. Bitcoin sites do tend to call the "new pc" a "mining rig" instead, but some places can even be seen selling them as pc's.
We had five, yes five duplicate tape backups sets for a final copy of our obsolete accounting system. All tapes were verified good when they went onto the shelf (in a climate controlled room). A year later, it took us more than 10 tries to get one of them to restore successfully.. I think it was tape set 3 on the 4th try or something before it restored.
Tapes suck.
I didn't think they allowed pragmatism here on /. You're going to lose your account man!
I have a linux server for a file server at our house, and I'm building a pretty decent system on the very cheap (not just because it's cheap, but because it's fun too) using a few different technologies..
My plan is to combine a few things into one system.. Security cameras, security sensors, and home automation including zoning. I'll list some of my resources below.. 90% of the battle is knowing what to look for..
zoning: search for 'diyzoning' and follow links from there to the real stuff.. diyzoning is actually being replaced..
automation:
1wire automation and sensors (cheap gadgets of all sorts): www.hobby-boards.com
you can find all sorts of other sites with 1wire and ibutton devices (ibuttons are a particular type of 1wire device, great contact based digital keys)
zigbee: easy to find when searching, it's more expensive, but makes a wireless mesh network which is easier than wires.. I like wires though, so I don't know much about these..
Security camera:
I currently use anything that works with linux and use "motion" for watching the cameras.. it takes videos only of events.. if you've got it tweaked right, it can also make an excellent intrusion sensor, you just have to be careful you don't get false positives.. it's very tweakable though)
Another security camera option that I've considered switching to is zoneminder.. It's got a web gui to make monitoring and configuration easier, but other than that it's very similar.
Another thing to do with the security cameras is to use something like rsync to get copies of events off site in case your server is stolen.. with any luck you'll still have the video of the person stealing your server..
I bought a card at a great price on ebay that takes 16 video inputs, and then I got balun's and cameras from www.dealextreme.com to hook to it.. easy as pie, and the $20 cameras from dealextreme have ir led arrays for pretty decent night vision..
Well, that's about all I can think of right off the top of my head.. Don't let people tell you a system like this is useless unless you pay a ton of $$ for it.. Even if you don't get broken in to, or you do and they still get the stuff and get away with it (happens with monitored systems too, I've seen it often at my work) you'll still have a lot of fun with the tech. I love blasting through the time lapse videos that motion puts together for me..
When trying to learn HTML, don't use IE... Use firefox with the firebug plugin loaded.. it'll actually let you see what is going on/wrong and will let you experiment on the fly.
How exactly is having a virtual machine with whole disk encryption any less secure than having the entire machine with whole disk encryption in the case of the machine getting lost or stolen.. I realize that a key capture program on the host could capture data on its way to the guest, but that's certainly not the lost or stolen scenario, and a key capture program installed inside of a fully encrypted disk would still have the same affect if the entire machine were encrypted.
If their IT department were smart, they'd be distributing encrypted VM's and software to to run them instead of trying to mess with the entire machine.
Just like your point, and every similar one, must necessarily be meaningless and useless because there might be a "procurement law" where the poster resides.
No, there is a chance that the suggestion is useless and/or irrelevant, but there is a very good chance that it's not. Many cities, countries, states, counties, provinces, governments etcetera have this sort of law. The mention of the idea is certainly less meaningless than your comment (yes, a double negative.. were you able to follow that correctly?).
I didn't know they could go back in time and undo the incident. Very impressive!
Yeah.. performance on the Mybook World is pretty less than stellar.. It's already struggling to provide files on the network share quickly.. It doesn't go far beyond that..
Yep.. you understood your problem domain, and easily recognized where parallelism existed. Then you stated your solution like a practical intelligent person, not like some moron trying to claim that everything is always simple because he is so damn smart that he transcodes all his videos using a neural interface to his own brain while he sleeps. It was simple you know, because brains are massively parallel, and can kick the shit out of your PC when it comes to overall processing power.
I think the iphone is fairly close to meeting these requirements..
It's not even close on the display/light but:
The screen is very readable (even outside in sunlight as long as it's not direct)
Battery life has been pretty good for me.
It'll handle a pile of formats (sometimes with help from Google's office tools
It's interface is very nice for easy reading.. You've never seen smoother scrolling on a portable device. You can easily keep reading while you scroll, and control it precisely to boot.
It'll actually do a couple other things too.
OK, I know I sound like the SNL Iphone commercial: It's a phone, a camera, a gps, a condiment dispenser, a tennis racket, a pillow, a beard trimmer, a hammer, and a prophylactic.
Once it's on the big disk, spend about $100 on an xbox, and $10 on a duox2gs mod chip. Once it's modded, install the latest XBMC, and use it's media library management database to organize everything for you.
I knew I was in trouble when my spiral of bullets was navigated without a scratch (flying an inverse spiral of course) and with only a single return shot fired I had taken serious damage from a missile right to the center of my windsheild.
..If they're going to make us pay a "pirate tax", then that means we can download as much as we like. They've been compensated, and we no longer have to feel like pirates. I'll take the flat rate pirate tax plan to purchase all my music from now to eternity.. at least for as long as it's reasonable.
Today is kinda light. I'd estimate that I'm normally at more like 40 windows with about 20 tabs spread across 5 browswers.
Then you can just pick it up via a decent registrar instead, and get your $$ back via your credit card company.
I know it's still somewhat experimental, but I've used it before just for play, and it didn't throw any of my files away, and that was about a year ago.
I know Hans is in jail, and Reiserfs's future is uncertain, but at least for now it seems like that best technical solution.
Openvpn... Free, full of features.. Open source.. reliable.. Most everything you'll want, even including a windows client and server (never used under windows though).
Actually, it is. In the US now it's automated. The cell phone companies were required to do this to support 911 service. I've not read the technical details of it, but I do know that every 911 call can be traced to an exact address when it's made from a cell phone. Your actual location is what shows up on the dispatcher's screen, not the address your phone is registered to (unlike voip). I assume they use triangulation between towers, gps in the phone, or some combination of the two. I've actually heard that it's a combination (to increase accuracy), but I don't know how reliable the source of that information is.
His question was, "Is there a way". The answer is yes, but you don't want it, so people stopped doing it. Anyone can peer with anyone else, but the copper/fiber cost to take the core out of the picture prevents anyone from wanting to do it. If you're worried about big brother, encrypt.
If he really wants what he's asking for, he can start finding peers on the other side of the net, and he can keep *his* traffic off the backbones once he has enough peers (and he's built some enormous route tables as well).
Uhm.. The impedence of the device will dictate the current draw. You just need a powersupply that can send enough..
You could have a power supply that'll do 500 amps.. It's still not going to hurt your 2 volt LED if you only feed it 2 volts.
You're describing the original design of the internet, which we're still running with essentially.
In practice though, it would be insane to let everyone with a DSL line to two different locations update routing table through the entire internet. The mechanisms to allow this exist (bgp, ospf) but major ISPs that don't want their network to fall apart prevent it because their service would quickly turn to crap. ISPs with missing filters have actually caused internet wide splits, when the entire internet tried to route through someone's T1's connected to two different ISP. BGP with a little better cost system could help that, but anyone could still cause a split anytime they liked. Think of an entire internet that acts more like IRC.
The core of the internet is still just a bunch of peers, but if you want things to stay up, they've got to be a select group that really know what they're doing. You're still free to peer directly with anyone you want, just don't expect everyone else to use your internet connection to get there too. Most people don't want to have to buy two internet connections for marginal gains anyway.
Perhaps a software solution like TOR or Freenet could help you sleep better at night?