Recent content by tigerwillow1

I see an opportunity for garbled terminology here. Config Tool does not see across different physical networks. It is able to access different subnets on the same physical network. Example for typical home network: Your network subnet is 192.168.100.xxx You can reach the camera at...

^^^^^^ I've often wondered how you change the smoke detector battery when they're at the very top of rooms like that.

It's not only having a .mp4 file, but a codec that understands what's in the .mp4 container. I can export .mp4 files, but my Windows version can't play them. It's possible to add codecs to windows if you find the right one. I need to save videos so seldom that I just convert from .dav to .mp4...

I could go down a similar rant with television commercials. We rarely watch anything without recording it first, but when I'm occasionally captured by a commercial I'm totally aghast at how stupid they are, and how they say little or nothing about the actual product. They're utterly offensive...

When I grow up I want to be a bot :)

I am unable to grasp the level of despicable of these libs. Lawsuit asks Wisconsin Supreme Court to strike down governor's 400-year veto It's a badly worded headline, and it takes a bit of effort to digest what Evers did. In short, he line-item vetoed individual characters in a sentence to...

I'll take a crack at this one. It means some marketing person thinks it sounds really good and might impress somebody. Information-wise, it's somewhat similar to the new toilet paper roll being 60% bigger, but we won't tell you bigger than what?

Amen to that! There are other things to consider beside the electrical specs, like physical space, ease of reconfiguration, how badly you hack up your house, where the wires can be run, and other similar but different details.

Another example of "military intelligence"?

I went with an in- wall box and surface-mount patch panels. It's flush with the wall when the door is closed. The box is kind of busy, besides network connections there's TV antenna distribution, landline telephone distribution, and some security alarm stuff in there. There are 42 punchdown...

No updates pushed for my win 7 for a while :D

Do you realize that on the remote desktop computer you access UI3 with a web browser? Nothing else to install.

My thinking is this type of panel adds 2 more connectors to each cable run, adding more potential failure points. In my history, the single biggest type of failure has been with connectors.

That's a really damning video that would never have existed before everybody carried cameras in their pockets. 20 years ago, say, it would have just been a routine safe landing and never hit the media.