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    Funny / Satire

    The red thread worked great for me. With the current sleeves, more often than not, I spend a half minute failing to grab the little flaps, then give up and rip the long edge off, occasionally ruining the bandaid.
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    Pandemic threat? Anyone else concerned?

    Didn't they give Remdesivir to Trump when he was in the hospital? Another assassination attempt?
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    Dahua WizColor COMING SOON!

    I'd like to say something about that video but I can't even figure out what it is or what it's for. From my experience with grandkids, I think 5 year old girls might think it's kind of neat. Aside from that, will these get blocked from USA over the FCC non-approval?
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    Funny / Satire

    Maybe I can sell mine for a few hundred $ each to boeing? I've got at least 50 of them left. And I built up a pretty good stock of blank CDs and DVDs before they suddenly became obsolete. I'm a horrible pack rat, but have reformed a little. Over the last year I gave up some precious...
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    Funny / Satire

    I suspect that they'd have to go through some very expensive recertification process to change from the floppies, that would be a costly business decision. A lot cheaper to just keep a DOS or windows 95 system around.
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    Camera to watch over garden

    I finally resorted to a 7 foot high fence to keep the deer out. A few years back we had seedlings disappearing from the greenhouse. I put a temporary cam in there and fairly soon found out it was a mouse who quickly got acquainted with a mousetrap. I ran a temporary wire for this to the...
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    US Elections (& Politics) :)

    Hard to decide whether to post this here or in the jokes thread. Leading by Example, Freshman Senator Introduces Term Limits Resolution A self-contradicting proposal? 1. “Term limits must either apply to everybody, or they apply to nobody. The same rules must apply to everyone,” 2. The...
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    SOS, Need a 220v Ethernet switch

    My Cisco small business switch says 100-240 V, 50-60 Hz. I never would have thunk it on my own!
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    Looking for SMART PSS Version 2.00.2 (Update Date: 2017-05-25)

    I've got a close but no cigar version, 2.02.0.R.171124, 32 bit.
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    POE Splitter Recommendation

    Do any passive PSUs placing the power on the data lines (i.e. 4 wires for power and data) exist? I've assumed that all of those are 802.3xx compliant. Yet another bad assumption?
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    POE Splitter Recommendation

    If I'm understanding what I think you're saying, that's not correct. The camera supports both mode A and mode B POE, and I'm assuming what you're calling Passive POE is Mode B. The unit supplying the power controls what mode is used. Of course, you can't split one cable to drive 2 cameras...
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    Buying a used Dahua NVR - yes or no?

    Having a 4ks2, I'm aware of one difference, but it's even more complicated. There's a version 1 4ks2, and a version 2 4ks2. I've got version 1, and some of the newer firmware works only on the version 2. What I don't know is if there's different firmware for the version 2 4ks2, and the 4ks2E...
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    Hall of shame

    What's the problem? Doesn't it have a 100% success rate finding the leak?
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    How is a VPN more secure than port forwarding?

    I learned this the hard way in a previous century when the backup media was the shiny brown stuff on reels. I had been blissfully backing up on tapes for at least a few months before I discovered that they were all blank, even though the software and tape deck looked and sounded like they were...
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    How is a VPN more secure than port forwarding?

    Then it uses P2P, which is as unsafe as servers that manage the connections. I'd guess that it has more risk than the "traditional" VPN, but the risk for both has a lot of zeros to the right of the decimal point.
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    How is a VPN more secure than port forwarding?

    All of the security decisions are based on risk vs. hassle. For myself over the years, the anti-virus software has caused a lot more hassle than any virus has caused. The one virus I know I picked up blew right through the anti-virus software, and I quit using it about 10 years ago. My...
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    Money & Economics

    I think you'll win that bet. I follow 6-month t-bills and they're down about a quarter point since a week ago. That's a huge movement in that short a time period. A similar move happened a couple of months ago and the yield mostly recovered fairly fast. I'm not predicting a darned thing...
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    Camera Triggered by Floating Artifacts

    It's the same principle that when my wife is driving she gets mostly green lights. When I drive they turn red in my face so I have to slam on the brakes. I'm convinced the cameras at the intersections have facial recognition to do this.
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    Money & Economics

    Well, they did have to tailor the equation to get the result they wanted from it.
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    Dahua NVR -- where to set pre-recording seconds for IVS rule

    I can't because I'm not a DMSS user. If you have the camera SD card recording only events, I remember that it will start the playback before the trigger time. I've never tried 24x7 recording on the camera to know how that works.
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    Camera Triggered by Floating Artifacts

    I get the spider web white dot triggers often with IVS. Even with the S3 having the human, vehicle, and animal filters on.
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    Dahua NVR -- where to set pre-recording seconds for IVS rule

    I'm thinking we're talking past each other a bit, so saying differently what I thought I tried to say :) : First I'm talking only about IVS events, and I've set BI's record/pre-trigger-playback-time to 5 seconds. When I click the event in smartPSS, playback starts at the trigger time. When I...
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    Dahua NVR -- where to set pre-recording seconds for IVS rule

    Too many details I can't comprehend this early in the morning! From a strictly user standpoint: With the NVR, when I click on an event, the playback starts at the event time. With BI, the playback starts a few seconds before the event time, and it sure looks like it's the mainstream being...
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    Dahua NVR -- where to set pre-recording seconds for IVS rule

    Isn't the main stream also being recorded 24x7 with BI?
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    Dahua NVR -- where to set pre-recording seconds for IVS rule

    I'm not able to answer because I record full time. I'm such a BI non-expert that I don't even know if BI lets you not record full time. With the NVR I'm a bit mixed up. I thought if you're not recording full time, the pre-record buffer DOES work. Dahua made an early decision to use the Linux...
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    Dahua NVR -- where to set pre-recording seconds for IVS rule

    A not very helpful response I realize, this is one thing that works correctly in BI. I'm not trying to sell BI because there are some things that work better with the NVR. When you pick one, you're blessed with it's particular good features, and stuck with its particular shortcomings.
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    Pandemic threat? Anyone else concerned?

    Today's version is 5 nurses, no cancer. I'm more and more convinced that 90+% of what we read in the "news" media and social media is plain old excrement. 5 nurses who work on the same floor at Massachusetts hospital have brain tumors
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    Anyone created a custom model to identify coyotes?

    I have foxes and coyotes coming through on a fairly regular basis. At least half of the time, neither my wife or I can decide which one we're looking at. I'd be really, really impressed if a machine could differentiate between fox, coyote, wolf, and some dog breeds with good accuracy.
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    Funny / Satire

    Between when my cancer was discovered and the gene test results came back it was assumed I'd be going on chemo and I came within a week of having the port installed. It frankly scared me, mainly because of the part where a tube is inserted into the jugular. I was extremely relieved to find out...
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    Pandemic threat? Anyone else concerned?

    This claim has been going around on social media for a few days. I'm not meaning to make light of it, but it looks like it could be another one of those phony and/or exaggerated stories. Remember how the phony story about hospitals overloaded with ivermectin overdoses came and went? Another...
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