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Jessica - Sep 21, 2005 11:44:16 am PDT #4618 of 10003
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

As if one needs a reason. I mean, really.

When my upstairs neighbors' network was confusing my Tivo as to how it was supposed to connect, I wasn't able to do online scheduling either, but it sounds like your error messages are different than mine (I was shut out of the system entirely). Will it let you schedule by time/channel?


§ ita § - Sep 21, 2005 11:58:59 am PDT #4619 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

In Opera 8, it's not showing me any stations under 100 (and the ones over 100 are WRONG). In Opera 7 and IE, it's not showing me any stations at all in that dropdown, but it shows me channel 7 on the show page and barfs "Sorry, but we encountered an error while processing your request. Please try again later." at me when I try and get a season pass, or record the ep.

::sigh::

I'm going to leave this alone till I get home, and, well, torrent anything it refused to record.

So there.


le nubian - Sep 21, 2005 12:09:38 pm PDT #4620 of 10003
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

ita,

tivo's online scheduling goes kersplat for me somewhere in the neighborhood of once every 2 weeks or once a week. I have found it unreliable enough that I always doublecheck it. There is no rhyme or reason why it is unreliable as near as I can tell.


Lee - Sep 21, 2005 6:54:17 pm PDT #4621 of 10003
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

I need to export my itunes song list in a readable format, but I don't have excel on my home computer, and all three of the options for exporting it that itunes gives me (plain text, unicode text, and .xml) don't work. Any ideas?


§ ita § - Sep 21, 2005 6:55:55 pm PDT #4622 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

When you say don't work, what happens? Or doesn't, precisely?


Lee - Sep 21, 2005 7:01:43 pm PDT #4623 of 10003
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

It saves it, but the file is not in an easily readable or reformattable format.


tommyrot - Sep 21, 2005 7:10:47 pm PDT #4624 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Perkins, do you have a Mac? If so, there are scripts you can download to do exporting in all sorts of formats.


Lee - Sep 21, 2005 7:11:55 pm PDT #4625 of 10003
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

I do have a mac. Do you have links, or should I start exploring?


tommyrot - Sep 21, 2005 7:13:28 pm PDT #4626 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Gimme a sec....

OK: [link]

Check out the "exporting info" catagory - I think that's the one. There should also be instructions on how to intall the scripts (they just need to go into a certain directory).


§ ita § - Sep 21, 2005 7:15:12 pm PDT #4627 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

What does the first bit of one of the lines look like, Perkins?

eta: Excel reads my (tab-delimited) text file just fine