This is perhaps the ideal solution, bar the fact that the two machines are in the same building...
This is when someone else's post about backing up to his neighbours computer comes in... Might be a good idea to run that cable a bit further and locate the other machine in the shed or your neighbours basement;-)
The first thing I thought of was six and a half thousand PC's (that's six per camera basically) each with four 120GB hard disks.
Total cost is around £6 million (which is mostly hard disks) and gives you a year of storage. Admittedly that isn't cheap, but it does give you total redundancy and is better than having to buy a warehouse load of tapes every week.
Besides, you get QUICK retrieval into the bargain, although you say you don't need it, I bet someone will say "Quick, we want to review now!". That many PC's could also cut distribution costs, by only requiring a VERY slow (modem?) link to whereever controlled them for sending back video when requested and controlling things, and even then - one at most is going to be needed to send stuff back from the sound of your post...
No doubt someone will shout me down for being stupid, but if you set up the first 2 months of PC's first, then when they start to near maximum capacity you set up the next 2 months worth you get to also add the latest in cheap but enormous hard disks to them, maybe you can cut the years data storage down to £4 million.
The added extra of being able to erase a set of PC's at will and start recording again is also useful. I doubt you need to record that much video over a huge timeframe and with tapes you have to move them around, etc. to reuse them.
It's got nothing to do with the https, I tried a whole set of browsers at getting to https://www.gateway.gov.uk, and they ALL connected and established some kind of connection (TLS v1 and SSL v3 were common).
The certificates are verisign ones (and bar one IE box) were recognised and trusted fine. It also nothing to do with what the browser reports as, since Opera has an option, and I tried them all.
It seems they need Java and Javascript support as far as I can tell so far (my opera 5.01 didn't have the JVM installed).
Is for a not-for-profit organisation (I mean a REAL one...) to have a server set as forwarder (and cache the replies like normal) on each of the root servers, then for that server to simply forward to anybody who wants to run a server and can be vetted as having enough capacity.
Perhaps then domain names could be bought like the items they are? A couple of lines in a text file...
HAHA - Your sig made me laugh histerically!
I spotted what was in the url, and booted up another computer just to test it, A BSOD straight away...
NICE!
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Without that one you could make it really confused with a situation like it needing to kill one person to save many.
See http://www.thebunker.net/ for your friendly Ex UK Government Nuclear Shelter converted to a datacentre.
This is perhaps the ideal solution, bar the fact that the two machines are in the same building...
;-)
This is when someone else's post about backing up to his neighbours computer comes in... Might be a good idea to run that cable a bit further and locate the other machine in the shed or your neighbours basement
The first thing I thought of was six and a half thousand PC's (that's six per camera basically) each with four 120GB hard disks.
Total cost is around £6 million (which is mostly hard disks) and gives you a year of storage. Admittedly that isn't cheap, but it does give you total redundancy and is better than having to buy a warehouse load of tapes every week.
Besides, you get QUICK retrieval into the bargain, although you say you don't need it, I bet someone will say "Quick, we want to review now!". That many PC's could also cut distribution costs, by only requiring a VERY slow (modem?) link to whereever controlled them for sending back video when requested and controlling things, and even then - one at most is going to be needed to send stuff back from the sound of your post...
No doubt someone will shout me down for being stupid, but if you set up the first 2 months of PC's first, then when they start to near maximum capacity you set up the next 2 months worth you get to also add the latest in cheap but enormous hard disks to them, maybe you can cut the years data storage down to £4 million.
The added extra of being able to erase a set of PC's at will and start recording again is also useful. I doubt you need to record that much video over a huge timeframe and with tapes you have to move them around, etc. to reuse them.
It's got nothing to do with the https, I tried a whole set of browsers at getting to https://www.gateway.gov.uk, and they ALL connected and established some kind of connection (TLS v1 and SSL v3 were common). The certificates are verisign ones (and bar one IE box) were recognised and trusted fine. It also nothing to do with what the browser reports as, since Opera has an option, and I tried them all. It seems they need Java and Javascript support as far as I can tell so far (my opera 5.01 didn't have the JVM installed).
Is for a not-for-profit organisation (I mean a REAL one...) to have a server set as forwarder (and cache the replies like normal) on each of the root servers, then for that server to simply forward to anybody who wants to run a server and can be vetted as having enough capacity. Perhaps then domain names could be bought like the items they are? A couple of lines in a text file...
HAHA - Your sig made me laugh histerically! I spotted what was in the url, and booted up another computer just to test it, A BSOD straight away... NICE!