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I’ve been using the free version of Macrium Reflect link to do a daily image of my laptop (daily incremental to a weekly full). You create a bootable rescue USB.
I suspect your issues are a mixture of a UEFI / GPT HDD and an old MBR DVD i.e. a foot in both camps, the problem is they are mutually incompatible. If the HDD is UEFI / GPT your rescue media should match. You can create UEFI bootable DVDs but I’d suggest a USB stick is the best option these days. It looks like Aeomi can do either for you link to instructions
I generally thought the colour change was OK. I didn’t think it needed changing but nothing wrong with the new one.
However, I’ve just looked at one of my recent posts and thought damn, I forgot to put that link in it. Except I had. The link was a tiny shade lighter than the surrounding text and I don’t think anyone would realise there was one there.
You can take away whatever you like from what the members of any Parliament say. Nigel Farage is an MEP and his views on the matter will be radically different from other MEPs. Get a certain sort of politician in front of a microphone and anything can happen (Boris).
It seems you can also take away whatever you like from what the May government say (or don’t). Some say we’re headed for a hard Brexit, others say it’ll be no Brexit at all and their “feet must be held to the fire”.
Breaking news about our special relationship with the USA. It seems the EU will get their trade deal before the UK. Here’s the link to the Mail Online in case anyone thinks it’s a Gruniad story. Trump seems to be hitting the reality of the world and becoming a pragmatist.
General Elections take on a life of their own. This one is supposed to be about Brexit, who knows what it’ll end up being about. Let’s wait for the manifestos, that’ll drag up all sorts of crap.
No it wouldn’t work with a PoE switch or injector for two reasons.
When cameras are powered directly it’s (usually) 12v. The idea with the passive splitters is that at one end you plug in the RJ45 to your switch and plug the cameras 12v (or whatever) wall wart to the power socket on the lead. The 12v is then put down the 2 unused pairs of the Ethernet cable. At the other end it’s split out again so that the Ethernet only carries data and the power is supplied by a plug.
So if you ignored the first splitter and plugged an Ethernet cable into a PoE socket, at the other end the power is split off from the data. That power is 48v so you couldn’t use it to power the camera directly.
So these splitters are used to carry power over most of an Ethernet cable run to a non PoE camera. It’s an old trick from the analogue world where you have a coax and power cable at either end, but the middle bit is an Ethernet cable. Converters do the mixing of power and conversion of coax to Ethernet and back again at the other end.
Didn’t get chance to get some screen shots as a duff (new) patch cable caused endless intermittent problems with one of the PTZs. But we’re going back on Wednesday as he wants a couple more cameras being impressed with what we’ve done already.
Put all the fixed cameras in today. PTZs go up tomorrow.
I’ll see if I can get some screenshots as the view is spectacular. It’s on the southern edge of the Cotswolds, right on the edge of the escarpment, over looking Dyson’s modest home – Dodington Park.
I’ve been looking at some cheap Zmodo cameras on Amazon . They use P2P, indeed it seems they only use P2P and you cannot access them in any other way. Some have no local storage but most do (SD card) which raises some concerns over the longevity of the cloud service, but at £40 a pop it’s not a huge risk. I’ll let you make up your own minds up video review but 720P and H264 are a nice surprise at this end of the market, as is sound as well as motion as a trigger.
At that price it’s not worth mucking about with a Pi.
I’m sick to death of it already.
It’s all a pack of lies, all of it from all parties. You cannot trust a single word any of them say. What they say today, even if they mean it today, can change tomorrow under the flimsiest of pretexts no matter how “reluctantly” they do it. The current “on message” crap is why TV debates are irrelevant just because TM won’t join in. Wait for that to change when she inevitably does.
Let’s see what complete load of bollocks gets written on the battle buses this time :negative:
Yes, 30MP cameras. At 25fps that’s 240mbps bandwidth and 108GB storage per hour per camera. Going to need plenty of CPU power too. The detail is astounding (scroll down) but when would you need it?
However large MP can be useful for fisheye cameras covering large areas. Due to the nature of the lens to keep the detail up at even a relatively close distance you need the MP even when it’s dewarped. However the idea is to cover that area with 1 camera rather than many, so the resources used for a given area would be the same. The largest we’ve used is a 2464 x 1520 4MP covering a reception area and it’s 3 entrances which it does very well.
IMO at -75 that’s too low. Shame about the extra wall.
That TPL Homeplug kit is the way I’d go.
“Hikvision (the ‘Apple’ of ip cameras)”
No, that’s Axis or Aviglion and to a lesser extent Vivotek.
“however they do all appear to need a real time operator”
You’re quite correct. However one reason for spending a bit more is for some technical trickery.
You can have up to 300 preset positions and can set up defined patrols. This model is 3D positioning aware, so any motion detection areas you set up stay where they are in the real world, they don’t spin with the camera i.e. the motion detection area is still on the shed door even though you’re looking at the bottom of the garden (although clearly it’ll only detect the motion when it’s looking at the shed door).
Other models have auto tracking but of course if it’s looking one way it’s not looking at the other. That’s where the PanoVu cameras come in. The 16MP 360°Panoramic + PTZ is £4.1k +vat trade should you wish to monitor your local motorway junction ?
£462 inc vat. There are several @ £405 but we needed the 150m IR.
Yes there are cheaper alternatives out there, there always are. But we need an integrated system and this is just one part of it.
As a one off that Amazon Sony cmos one looks OK. No PoE but I found these Passive Power over Ethernet PoE Adapter Injector + Splitters for a fiver that let you do it. Work a treat with my camera tester.
Considering Labour are the largest party in Europe
There’s a big difference in being the party with the largest membership and the one with the most people voting for it.
As far as being in power goes it’s the latter that counts not the former.
It always seemed obvious that it would have to happen.
The only chance of getting the Tories out locally is for no-one to vote Tory or for all the other parties to unite. This is the winker who backed the idiots who charged Park Run. I wonder if he’ll be voting with the Govt on the change of law to stop that happening again? It’ll be interesting as he’s never rebelled.
Just watching Diane Abbot on the ITV News. They’re doooomed I tell ye, doooomed. Oh dear, she ‘s just said she’s not anticipating anything going wrong.
At least this should see the end of Corbyn and UKIP, but somehow I doubt it.
It depends on what you want to achieve. 4mbps+ will see you stream HD and that’s all most people want.
My daughter has just informed me she will be hosting a LAN party on Wednesday evening. There’s an Ethernet cable going to the satellite receiver in the kitchen so I’ll probably hard wire them all in. Or I could set up a dedicated LAN for them, I have enough kit laying about!
What socket / chipset Lee?
Ubuntu will not mount a Windows NTFS drive that’s in a hibernated state.
Windows 10 does not shut right down if you have fast start enabled (which it is by default), the kernel enters a hibernated state. That’s what makes it boot so quickly. It’s called a Hybrid Shutdown.
Ubuntu will also not mount a drive that’s “dirty” either. The dirty flag is set when Windows boots and only cleared when it shuts down, so if you just pulled the plug you’d get around the hibernation issue but run straight into the dirty flag issue.
You can disable Fast Start entirely, but that’s a cut your nose off to spite your face job. There are a couple of ways of doing a one off full shutdown. At a cmd prompt type “shutdown /s /f /t 0” (Hybrid would be “shutdown /s /hybrid /t 0”). That’s a zero at the end as /t means shutdown in X seconds and we want it to be immediate. The /f forces applications to close.
If you hold a shift key down whilst clicking on Start – Power – Shutdown it should do the same.
EDIT was that worth a pint of Unicorn?
No I haven’t changed my mind, but there’s been some quite complicated scenarios discussed in the past and some that have gone round in circles.
The decision to change to a different WAP is totally under the control of the devices drivers, unless the WAPs can do “zero handoff”. As you can imagine that’s not home grade kit as the WAPs have to talk to each other. The devices can have a habit of hanging on too long, hence why having a different SSID you can easily identify can be handy. It also makes no difference to the device. Even with the same SSID it sees it as a different network.
Passwords for different SSIDs? Just give them all the same one.
Lite? Just done some Googling and no, you shouldn’t.
I was recently asked about W10 for someone who didn’t want to move from 7, the answer is Classic Shell and it worked for them.
The key to using an wireless extender is it’s position. Many people place it in the weak area as they think it amplifies the signal, it doesn’t. It halves the signal coming out so must have a good signal coming in.
Re DDWRT I doubt your old router will be able to have it’s firmware flashed. Even if it can it’s still just a repeater and probably no more “powerful”, so location, location, location still applies.
Choosing the same SSID and password will not let you roam seamlessly around the house. You need WAPs that are capable of talking to each other and handing off to do that properly. Otherwise your devices drivers will decide when that happens. MACs are extremely unhelpful in this respect. iOS makes it’s mind up and there’s nothing you can do. Windows and Android let you rank them in order of preference. For that reason I would use a different SSID so that you can manually intervene whatever the device.
A Homeplug with wireless capability is a good alternative for casual use as location is less of an issue. In your position that’s the route I would go down if you can’t position the Sky repeater properly. If your adapters are AV200 or Av400 compatible they should just work with another manufacture, unless you changed the password. In which case change the password of the new device to match.
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