Good ideas here, all.

I vehemently avoid the appliance route. I can, with parts on hand, replace/repair a system at a site (we have 24) in never more than 1 day, usually several hours. We have a PC on the shelf to shove out when needed.

I was called by a former employee last year to look at an NVR appliance at her location (new job) because they couldn't connect to it. The ethernet port was borked. The device had a mainboard with everything soldered to it. No slots, nada, zip, nothing. The company that installed it said that they would gladly replace it for them for $2200 since they couldn't repair the one in service.

I use GeoVision (it was here when we began to install these) and they work fine. I have analog HikVision cameras mixed in feeding an 8 port video server made by GeoVision that connect via ethernet to the NVR without additional off brand licenses.

There are so many brands that recommending anything that you don't have experience with is hard. I'm sure that there are many here that would disagree, but poke and hope. There are many good brands and systems out there. I've used Pelco, Axis, HikVision and GeoVision. All are good, some are quite expensive.

I'm sure that I've hit them all.
My new mantra is 'big picture, please'
I use it almost every day right when someone cuts me off on the way to work.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scotth said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Windshield time. Moron on a cell phone drove off with the fuel hose in the car. Girl hits the e-Stop (which is what we want), but the dispensers don't always talk after power is restored.
No talky, no pumpy, no go vroom, vroom

Sounds like a fun morning.

Yeh. Breakaways don't always break away like they should

Windshield time. Moron on a cell phone drove off with the fuel hose in the car. Girl hits the e-Stop (which is what we want), but the dispensers don't always talk after power is restored.
No talky, no pumpy, no go vroom, vroom

@scottalanmiller said in Buying a New Car:

And living outside of the country a bit of the time, that has quite the negative impact on owning.

All of that -- no doubt.

Add an 'n' -- ow'n'ing. All depends on what you want.

I grabbed a Galaxy Tab A in November. Works great for eBooks. 50 bucks at Verizon....$10/mo. added onto my cell bill which will be cancelled as soon as I can without penalty

I've had an S8 for about 6 months. Works great

@brandon220 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@DustinB3403 What are some of the main reasons you use xcp-ng over KVM? I have been spending a ton of time working with KVM to steer totally clear of MS (even though Hyper-V has been great). I have mentioned numerous times that backups of guests are one of my priorities. I would rather make a few clicks to backup/export/etc at guest than risk making mistakes on command syntax.

XCP-ng is Linux based

Dunno if this helps.... This is what I get when the connection to Mangolassi wigs out.

My next vehicle is an Ascend. Gotta go big.... my wife is disabled.

Sweet

Oh geeez. I can't believe that I forgot this.
We were at the Ohio State Fair in the early 70's in Columbus. Mom wanted to see Johnny Cash and we did.

Bob Dylan -- Richfield Colosseum aka Cleveland Colosseum. June 1978

Pick the best time on the worst day and leave it there, imho.

@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Today's quote: "Watching telenovelas for the drama is like reading Playboy for the articles."

I totally used to read Playboy for the articles.

But I looked at it for the pictures.

Silly people no one "reads" pictures..

Baywatch for lifeguard training

Just starting into The Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@murpheous said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

time keeps slipping, so I fixed it.

I wish that worked in my office!

Go west young man

@coliver said in Buying a New Car:

@scotth said in Buying a New Car:

@coliver said in Buying a New Car:

@Obsolesce said in Buying a New Car:

@coliver said in Buying a New Car:

@Obsolesce said in Buying a New Car:

@wrx7m just curious, to you, what sets the WRX STI apart from the rest of the cars in that price range? It seems like a nice car, but I've not owned one like that.

Driving a WRX is seriously one of the most fun things I've done. It's got an amazing amount of power for the price. And handling under acceleration is just awesome. It's a ton of fun to ride along with someone racing one too.

I understand. I would have liked that maybe 15 years ago, but now I just drive easy and would never notice these.

Oh yeah. It was my dream car when I was 16.... today I drive a minivan and am extremely happy with that.

Two cars ago, I was looking for nice car for my wife. I found a '98 Acura 3.0 CL. What I didn't realize, was that I was really buying my 'midlife crisis'. Too much power, runs on the back roads like it has DNA for it. Few things feel as nice as a hot car.

Haha, I'm only 29... plenty of time before I'm allowed a mid-life crisis. If I want to go fast I do it on the snow.

Make the wife drive You'll do both

@coliver said in Buying a New Car:

@Obsolesce said in Buying a New Car:

@coliver said in Buying a New Car:

@Obsolesce said in Buying a New Car:

@wrx7m just curious, to you, what sets the WRX STI apart from the rest of the cars in that price range? It seems like a nice car, but I've not owned one like that.

Driving a WRX is seriously one of the most fun things I've done. It's got an amazing amount of power for the price. And handling under acceleration is just awesome. It's a ton of fun to ride along with someone racing one too.

I understand. I would have liked that maybe 15 years ago, but now I just drive easy and would never notice these.

Oh yeah. It was my dream car when I was 16.... today I drive a minivan and am extremely happy with that.

Two cars ago, I was looking for nice car for my wife. I found a '98 Acura 3.0 CL. What I didn't realize, was that I was really buying my 'midlife crisis'. Too much power, runs on the back roads like it has DNA for it. Few things feel as nice as a hot car.