MR2Dave - Slashdot User

Comment Re:geek or not (Score 1) 238

by MR2Dave on Friday September 12, 2014 @01:14PM (#47891207) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Advice On Building a Firewall With VPN Capabilities?

I agree. If you don't mind tinkering, pfSense is the way to go, but it isn't for the sort of people who want something to just work right out of the box.
I run it on a compact Intel Atom box: http://www.newegg.com/Product/...
Round off that setup with 4GB of RAM and a small SSD for a quiet, power-sipping network appliance for around $200.
That setup firewalls/NATs a 50Mb internet connection, runs a VPN server, runs a Snort IDS/IPS, and runs a transparent proxy that captures all http traffic and runs it through a virus scanner.
Add a managed switch that can handle VLANs (Mikrotik sells a 5-port for around $40), and you've got a router on a stick. Now you can run a separate access point to provide free wifi to the neighborhood without compromising your own network, etc.
It's a really flexible setup, and I can't recommend it enough.

Submission + - World's First Full HDR Video System Unveiled (gizmag.com)

Submitted by Zothecula on Tuesday January 18, 2011 @03:07PM

Zothecula writes: Anyone who regularly uses a video camera will know that the devices do not see the world the way we do. The human visual system can perceive a scene that contains both bright highlights and dark shadows, yet is able to process that information in such a way that it can simultaneously expose for both lighting extremes – up to a point, at least. Video cameras, however, have just one f-stop to work with at any one time, and so must make compromises. Now, however, researchers from the UK’s University of Warwick claim to have the solution to such problems, in the form of the world’s first full High Dynamic Range (HDR) video system.

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