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I’ve been unable to get the wireless 2.4GHz monitoring system to work. I’ve researched some other options and think that I might have an idea for something that would work.
I’ve found some wireless network cameras that I could use on my existing 2.4GHz network. The problem is that they won’t immediately alert me when sound or motion is detected. They simply send an email.
How much would you charge to write a simple application that would work with a motion sensing camera by opening ( or "bringing to the front") the video view of the camera that detects motion?
I'm not even sure if this is possible but it seems like if the camera is sending 'motion detection information' then a program could somehow capture it and execute the desired processes.
I have some VB.NET experience but probably not enough to make something like this work. It would be fun to figure it out though so I'm going to give it a shot. I just wanted to know if this was something that you think can be done and a "ball park" cost.
Thanks
Brad
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Send me a link to the cameras you are looking at and I'll have a look at what can be done with them.
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Okay, I ordered one of these they were back ordered and it just got here today. Stay tuned.
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In the web interface you can configure an "Intrusion" sensitivity that will react to "Motion" and send an email. Seems pretty cool!
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Hi.
i'm about to buy a new computer for programming as my old one is nearly dead when it comes to compiling.
The new computer contains 2xOpteron 2214 2Ghz processors, is that a bad choice when it comes to C# development? Does the opteron run with a diffrent platform? or are they still x86-64 compatible?
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For most projects that's overkill, but if you're compiling a big project or hosting a large local DB you can never have too much hardware. Opterons are the high end server/workstation version of the Athlon64, they're x86-64 chips.
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According to the Dell Optiplex 745 technical specification, SATA-II drives of up to 250GB are supported. I have a couple of these systems with one such drive in, and now want to put in a second drive.
Is the size limit a BIOS limitation, or just marketing fluff?
Has anyone successfully added a larger disk to one of these?
(And I'm still smarting from the 'feature' of Symantec AV Corp Edition which stopped these puppies from booting, even in safe mode, until I applied a registry patch. Talk about 'fitness for purpose', although I suppose Symantec's legal weasels would argue that you cannot become infected by a computer virus if the computer won't boot, so it provides the protection they're claiming...)
Steve S
Developer for hire
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I think that's a per physical disk limit but you can have as many at/under that size as you want (at least that's what I thought). But it's Dell. Have you asked on the Dell Community site? I ask that not meaning to push you off or be a smart @$$ I'm really just wondering if you have and what kind of response you got.
http://www.dellcommunity.com/supportforums[^]
My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, Commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions, loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Father to a murdered process, husband to a murdered thread. And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next. - Gladiator
I work to live. I do not live to work. My clients do not seem capable of grasping this fact.
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I have two free SATA connectors internally, (since there are four, one in use for HDD and another for DVD), and I am assured by Dell that I can connect in another hard drive.
I looked on the community site first (of course!), and it kind of implied that there used to be a BIOS cap, but that this doesn't apply to SATA drives, so it doesn't really answer the question.
Dell have a vested interest in this, since they want to sell me their drives, and point me at the literature which says up to 250GB per drive, so I don't expect a thorough answer.
Empirically, I could determine it, but I'm not buying a bigger drive just so I can try it, since I'd then lose on reselling the drive if it didn't work. I wondered, therefore, whether anyone frequenting these forums had done this already.
Steve S
Developer for hire
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Well the short answer is no. I have not done this. I've stacked in two SATA drives at 320 gigs and 160 gigs and not had any trouble. That put me at 480 gigs total but I'm not even sure if there was a cap on that particular system.
You are right to not trust Dell in that regard. I just recently learned (and almost regretted) that if you buy one of their servers don't plan on much freedom for IRQ's and adding devices you just won't have the option. All I wanted was dual video cards and getting them to work proved to be an exercise in patience and practice. I think I shot 40 hours right out my behind getting them to work (and I did get them to work, even though Dell said it wouldn't).
So I at least cannot give you a definite answer but hopefully others can. I'd be willing to bet a silver dollar you should be able to drop one in and not have any trouble. But certainly don't try that because my remarks inspired you to do so. You'd have take that decision under your own advice... if you do go that route keep a bottle of Advil close by and you should be okay. "Numb the pain and the brain will follow."
Call me sadistically curious but reply back here if you take the plunge and let me know your results.
My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, Commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions, loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Father to a murdered process, husband to a murdered thread. And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next. - Gladiator
I work to live. I do not live to work. My clients do not seem capable of grasping this fact.
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The Optiplex GX620 isn't "protected" against adding a larger drive, as I've seen a 750GB drive and a second 160GB added into one, although of course, there were additional cables required, since the chassis only has power cables supplied to the first and second drives, so an extra power cable and 2 data cables were needed.
Now if only they'd let me borrow the 750GB drive  ...
Steve S
Developer for hire
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Oh please guys, my boss is gonna kick my @$$, what do I do with this:
Limited or no connectivity , I keep getting this on the local area connection and I just cant fix it..
please help
-- modified at 2:53 Tuesday 13th March, 2007
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Is it wireless if so just move it closer to you computer.
If it isn't have you had a look on google to find out what might be wrong?
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have you tried:
* Stop connection first
* Resume it through command promt or else.
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ok fixed, just disabled a stupid firewall "no need to name it!"
Smile: A curve that can set a lot of things straight!
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I am in the middle of writing a program that calculates the performance of different algorithsm. Im trying to implement a class that can estimate the peformance before any calculations have taken place. Obviously RAM/CPU speed will have a very big influence, so i have taken numerous calculations using machines of different specifications, however i need to fit a Trend Line to it. Does anyone know an 'estimate' to RAM/CPU Performance i.e Log, Exponential, linear?
Thanks MH
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Measuring CPU is easier than measuring ram. You create an algorithm without heavy memory access and a loop calling it. now you can either set a constant loop count and measure the time to execute, or you create a multithreaded application and interrupt the loop after a fixed timeout.
RAM is more difficult, as you need to access it using CPU instructions... That means, that the score will strongly depend on the kind of algorithm you use to measure the performance!
I'd suggest using SSE instructions, since you can bypass the CPU cache that way. MOVNTQ for example.
Most benchmarks I've seen use a linear scale to measure both CPU and RAM. But that also depends on how to evaluate the score with you application.
Don't try it, just do it! 
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I am writing a program that can recognize which file system is being used on an USB drive when USB is plugged in.(FAT 16, FAT 32 or NTFS)
How can I do it?
Do you have any solutions for this proplem?
Thank you !
Nothing Is Impossible !
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GetVolumeInformation is the API you need. If it's a memory stick, odds are good it will be FAT of some kind.
Steve S
Developer for hire
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what is file system for usb drive.
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You will usually find that USB pen drives are preformatted with FAT or FAT32 by the manufacturer. You can, however, format them with other filesystems.
The FS of choice is FAT32, though: MacOS, *nix and Windows can all handle it.
With USB hard drives, it depends on your mode of purchase: If you purchase the IDE2USB interface seperate from the drive (or if you are upgrading an older HDD), you might not have any partitioning or formatting on your disk at all.
If you buy an off-the-shelf solution, you might end up with an HDD preformatted with NTFS or HFS+, depending on the sticker on the box ("Mac-Ready"/"Vista-Ready"/etc).
Cheers,
Sebastian
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i want to create file system on usb .how to do that.
-- modified at 9:35 Monday 12th March, 2007
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