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Does anyone know of a good, ideally free tool for making pretty graphs of a large amount of raw statistics I'm gathering?
I don't know how much time you want to invest in this, but there is a highly regarded set of statistical/graphing tools available from the r-project, which is a collaborative freeware effort by academics. It's not the most user-friendly thing available but it's flexible, free, and very good.
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On the very limited but easy side, you might be suprised at what Excel and Powerpoint can do now.
So I got a new software update on the Tivo. This new update includes a feature where I can turn off the Tivo magic lights at the front of the unit.
Why would I want to do this? Why did they include that feature?
There is one feature I'm dying for and they had to include that one?
Why would I want to do this?
Because you have a second TiVo in the bedroom and the little green light keeps you up all night. (Actually, I just dimmed it.)
Why would I want to do this?
Because you want to totally immerse yourself in the movie you're watching, and those lights just take you completely out of it?
Because the glare of the lights keeps washing out the picture from the little secret spy camera in the front of the TiVo.
I've seen this discussed in the past but I never cared that much before because I didn't have a Tivo. Why does my Tivo record the same Daily Show over and over and over when I have it set to record only "first run" TDS?
I'm guessing there is some glitch with Comedy central, but is there any way around it?
It's a glitch with the program listings, Stephanie. The listings are all identical, and in those situations where TiVo can't tell, it grabs everything.
Sometimes the listings include the guest name, and then it'll only record it the once. I assume this is because Comedy Central doesn't supply the right listings to whoever TiVo pulls from.
I've not worked out anything other than manually fixing it.
I have to manually fix it. I used to have it record TDS and only keep 1 episode on the Tivo. But I only do that if I can watch the show right away. Which happens never these days.
It seems like they usually have the listings right when it's a week with new shows, but they have the ones with no guest listed when it's a week of reruns. I'm not positive that's what it is, though.
Sometimes the listings include the guest name, and then it'll only record it the once.
Thanks - this explains some of my confusion. Last week I was getting just a few copies (and I noticed the guest names were included). This week, I've been getting the same episode over and over. It seems like I've been getting the same one 3-4 times a day.
