Dolphins move around in water much the same way bats fly, and how do you catch a bat? With a tennis racket, because the netting does not show up as a solid object. So it would not be hard to imagine that this might be why dolphins don't just jump over the net. Besides, tuna can jump out of water aswell, so why don't they jump over the net?
Goldfish are so smart they are Emo
they realize they are living a meaningless life, and with out internet access they can't cry about it on live jurnal
1) OpenSource can offer what ever people are willing to program.
2) What is to stop some Corp. like Microsoft from paying a large amount of Money to the ISPs so that MSN Search gets priority over other search engines, and how do you not see this as a problem?
Not Shure, But I have not been able to send any messages containing "/gallery.php" over MSN for some while. I don;t use Norton, so It seems MSN does it's own weird crap like this too. For the longest time I kept wondering why people were missing some links I was sending to them. They were simply never getting them
Those $2000 HDDs are no different then what you could buy at future shop for $100.
Just wait 3 to 5 years for the Waranty to go and just Stick a few 200gb drives in. That is if your DVR has SP2...
I install these systems for a living, and I have yet to see a system be infected by a virus. That being said I think it is a posibility. The bigger problem that I see wih many of these systems is that they are runing Window XP Embeded and as a result have many of the problems a typical Windows machine faces, and many of these problems can not be fix in the traditional way with out voiding the Waranty.
You would be surprised as to how many times I've been called in to fix some ones DVR because some drivers locked up.
I've also come across many other DVRs that have been pluged into the local network and have no firewall protection from any of the other computers on the network should they become vulnerable to viruses or Malware. Clients often don't un derstand the need for extra like this, and your average router will leave the DVR totaly open to all other computers on the local network. Setting up a seperate network with a seperate internet connection is rarly something that a client wants to pay for eather.
Many of the lower end systems with 4 to 9 inputs have thier own OS, but all the high end systems these days are just windows embeded machines, most still have solitare on them, running IIS servers to stream the video to IE, (needs Active X.)
I have asked many of our distributors if there is a linux or unix based DVR out there, only to have them look at me like I was crazy. But then having a system that is Vulnerable to all the things a typical windows system is, with out being able to fix it the way an admin normaly would, helps to sell those expensive waranties I guess.
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Dolphins move around in water much the same way bats fly, and how do you catch a bat? With a tennis racket, because the netting does not show up as a solid object. So it would not be hard to imagine that this might be why dolphins don't just jump over the net. Besides, tuna can jump out of water aswell, so why don't they jump over the net?
Goldfish are so smart they are Emo they realize they are living a meaningless life, and with out internet access they can't cry about it on live jurnal
1) OpenSource can offer what ever people are willing to program. 2) What is to stop some Corp. like Microsoft from paying a large amount of Money to the ISPs so that MSN Search gets priority over other search engines, and how do you not see this as a problem?
Not Shure, But I have not been able to send any messages containing "/gallery.php" over MSN for some while. I don;t use Norton, so It seems MSN does it's own weird crap like this too. For the longest time I kept wondering why people were missing some links I was sending to them. They were simply never getting them
Those $2000 HDDs are no different then what you could buy at future shop for $100. Just wait 3 to 5 years for the Waranty to go and just Stick a few 200gb drives in. That is if your DVR has SP2...
I install these systems for a living, and I have yet to see a system be infected by a virus. That being said I think it is a posibility. The bigger problem that I see wih many of these systems is that they are runing Window XP Embeded and as a result have many of the problems a typical Windows machine faces, and many of these problems can not be fix in the traditional way with out voiding the Waranty. You would be surprised as to how many times I've been called in to fix some ones DVR because some drivers locked up. I've also come across many other DVRs that have been pluged into the local network and have no firewall protection from any of the other computers on the network should they become vulnerable to viruses or Malware. Clients often don't un derstand the need for extra like this, and your average router will leave the DVR totaly open to all other computers on the local network. Setting up a seperate network with a seperate internet connection is rarly something that a client wants to pay for eather. Many of the lower end systems with 4 to 9 inputs have thier own OS, but all the high end systems these days are just windows embeded machines, most still have solitare on them, running IIS servers to stream the video to IE, (needs Active X.) I have asked many of our distributors if there is a linux or unix based DVR out there, only to have them look at me like I was crazy. But then having a system that is Vulnerable to all the things a typical windows system is, with out being able to fix it the way an admin normaly would, helps to sell those expensive waranties I guess.