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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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