Pfft. you can turn it off.
Pfft, yourself. It shouldn't be the fucking default.
Gavin, ask yourself this question. What are you more afraid of, a giant murderous demon or me?
Lilah ,'Destiny'
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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.
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.
DCJensen - Jun 15, 2005 5:01:47 pm PDT #3402 of 10003
All is well that ends in pizza.
Pfft. you can turn it off.
Pfft, yourself. It shouldn't be the fucking default.
My my.
Actually? It's been so long since I put a totally clean install, that IU can't recall if it is or not.
OTOH? Life sucks, I hate the default install Microsoft "Hells Bells" opening in Windows 98.
meara - Jun 15, 2005 5:05:04 pm PDT #3403 of 10003
Theo, how would I do that???
And no, not under warranty anymore. It's just over 2 years old now.
Theodosia - Jun 15, 2005 5:13:41 pm PDT #3404 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"
meara, I'd guess that you'd have to do the Linux equivalent of "ghosting" a working hard drive from another TiVo -- and that might not solve your problem if the drive itself has fritzed.
Sorry, you're beyond the point where I could help myself, let alone another person. See the www.tivocommunity.com boards for what to do with a blue screen....
Gris - Jun 15, 2005 5:42:38 pm PDT #3405 of 10003
Hey. New board.
As far as I know, spoken alerts default to "Off" within the OS for OS X. In fact, I'm quite sure about that, having recently done a clean install on my G5 - speaking would have made me go stabby.
The Speaking, however, is an API that any application can access, so it's quite possible for any OS X program to default to speaking certain things - in fact, writing an Apple Script to say, well, anything at all is one of the first basic things you learn in the language. I think it's highly encouraged that speaking be one of those things that requires a ticky box to ENable, rather than DISable. I know that no Apple program defaults to speaking, well, anything.
So hate it all you want, but Steve Jobs didn't do it. He just made it available for others to abuse (or just use. I think it could be useful for announcing who sends me AIM messages from across the room, for example, and may eventually set up my AIM program to do that eventually.)
DXMachina - Jun 15, 2005 6:28:59 pm PDT #3406 of 10003
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
OTOH? Life sucks, I hate the default install Microsoft "Hells Bells" opening in Windows 98.
You seem to be making the huge assumption that because I dislike Apple, I must love Microsoft. I don't. I think they both suck equally, and I don't think either company gives a rat's ass about what their customers actually want. It's just that right now it's a G5 that's giving me the most grief, and I'm getting fed up with it.
§ ita § - Jun 15, 2005 8:19:28 pm PDT #3407 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
My Powerbook has never spoken to me -- what are the instances in which OS X does that?