Skipping a hundred or more posts to ask: Is there a reason I'd come home and find my TiVo cycling between a grey screen that says "Welcome. Powering up...." and a screen with the TiVo cartoon that says "Almost there! Just a few minutes more..."? Is there something I should do about that? It's been maybe 15 minutes since I got home, and it's entirely possible there was some sort of power failure while I was gone...but I doubt it was coincidentally just a few minutes before I got home! Which means this may have been going on for some time...
Sometimes I miss having powers... Oh. Oh! I know what this is! This is peer pressure! Any second now you're gonna make me smoke tobacco and--and have drugs!
Anya ,'Showtime'
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meara - Jun 15, 2005 11:21:17 am PDT #3392 of 10003
Eddie - Jun 15, 2005 11:32:38 am PDT #3393 of 10003
Your tag here.
Actually, I just went with
redirect /rss/rss.xml >[link]And it looks okay. Is there a cleint usability difference between the two?Oh sure, take the easy way. The only thing I'd suggest with that is make it a permanent redirect:
redirect permanent /rss/rss.xml >[link]
§ ita § - Jun 15, 2005 2:47:22 pm PDT #3394 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Thanks, Eddie. It's all academic until I resolve the client updating issue -- I'm tinkering with guids now.
Digital SLRs get cheaper and cheaper.
DCJensen - Jun 15, 2005 2:50:16 pm PDT #3395 of 10003
All is well that ends in pizza.
Yup. Yesterday, our marketing assistant walked away from her Mac after setting up a print job. There was a printer error, and the frelling thing started announcing the error to the entire office, scaring our receptionist.
I really hate Steve Jobs.
Pfft. you can turn it off.
XP has talking printer dialogs, too.
DCJensen - Jun 15, 2005 2:55:29 pm PDT #3396 of 10003
All is well that ends in pizza.
Oh yeah, here's a *theoretical* question.
If one were to somehow, hypothetically speaking, get one's hands on a supposed OSX for Intel install DVD, what format would be used on the drive one possibly might have under such alleged circumstances? Fat32? HFS+? NTFS? Linux?
NoiseDesign - Jun 15, 2005 3:13:43 pm PDT #3397 of 10003
Our wings are not tired
I keep lusting after the digital SLRs. I'm planning on buying one in the next month or two. I'm leaning towards the Canon EOS 20D at the moment. In the meantime I just upgraded my pocket size camera. I've been shooting with a 2 megapixel Canon A40 and I'm now the proud owner of a 4 megapixel, ultra tiny Canon SD300.
DXMachina - Jun 15, 2005 3:27:08 pm PDT #3398 of 10003
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Pfft. you can turn it off.
Pfft, yourself. It shouldn't be the fucking default.
Katie M - Jun 15, 2005 3:53:53 pm PDT #3399 of 10003
I was charmed (albeit somewhat perplexed) by the fannish sensibility of many of the music choices -- it's like the director was trying to vid Canada. --loligo on the Olympic Opening Ceremonies
meara - Jun 15, 2005 4:40:10 pm PDT #3400 of 10003
I tried unplugging my TiVo, waiting awhile, and plugging it back in. Now, instead of the "powering up" screen I just get a blue screen of DEEEEEEEEEEEATH.
Granted, this is not as urgent an issue as it would be during other times of the year, but....can this TiVo be saved???
Theodosia - Jun 15, 2005 4:47:23 pm PDT #3401 of 10003
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Oh, poor meara!
Perhaps what could be done is to wipe out the hard drive and start over? You're probably not under warranty, IIRC, you've had that TiVo for a while. Better to call TiVo support to be sure.