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If anyone in here is interested, I'm in the midst of another round of house cleaning with regards to technology. I've got a G4/400 that is going to be going in this round. I'm planning on putting it on ebay in the next couple of days but I figured I'd let folks here have at it first.
It's a G4/400 with a DVD ROM drive, 20 GB HD, 80 GB HD, 1 GB RAM, Dual Channel UltraWide ATTO SCSI card, ATA100 PCI card, and it's got OS X 10.3.9 on it.
If anyone here is interested I'll let it go for $399. This beast is heavy ground shipping will probably be around $40-50 as well. It will be going on ebay by Monday I suspect. I'm just in the midst of pulling the 200 GB drive, and the two other 80 GB drives out of it and moving the data off of it.
TiVo's updated their service agreement:
WITH RESPECT TO ANY NEW TIVO SERVICE SUBSCRIPTION ACTIVATED ON OR AFTER SEPTEMBER 6, 2005, YOU AGREE TO SUBSCRIBE TO THE TIVO SERVICE FOR NO LESS THAN 12 MONTHS (THE "SERVICE COMMITMENT"). IF YOU FAIL TO MEET THE SERVICE COMMITMENT BY CANCELLING YOUR SUBSCRIPTION TO THE TIVO SERVICE (OR IF TIVO TERMINATES YOUR SUBSCRIPTION TO THE TIVO SERVICE DUE TO A BREACH OF THIS AGREEMENT), YOU AGREE THAT TIVO MAY CHARGE YOU A $150 EARLY TERMINATION FEE, AND YOU AGREE TO PAY ANY SUCH EARLY TERMINATION FEE.
The way things are going with Tivo I'm happier and happier that I just paid for the lifetime service way back before it cost an arm and a leg. I think I only paid $99 for mine. I've also had a Tivo since either 98 or 99.
Damn. I'm glad I have lifetime service too, but that bites.
I would be all "eeeevil" except, well, it's not like you're going to pry my TiVo away from me except by way of my hands being dead and cold, so...
if they're having a big problem with people not making it one year - mustn't they be doing something wrong/inadequately?
Not that I know what that is, loving mine like I do.
OK I have a big problem. My computer crashed violently a few days ago. I had to erase and reformat my hard drive, which was very painful, as I lost a lot of stuff that meant a lot to me. Not to mention all the songs in my iTunes. ANYWAYS. I reloaded my programs, and now I can't send email from my house. I could send it from the Apple store, which leads me to believe it's a port problem. I don't understand why the port number would have changed just because I reloaded Apple Mail, which is my mail program, but whatevs.
We get Internet access from my upstairs sister's Airport. Her ISP is Ameritech AND/OR SBC Yahoo, she's not sure. Any idea what my settings should look like in Apple Mail? My mail account is a .mac account, and right now the settings are as follows:
Incoming mail server: mail.mac.com
Outgoing mail server: smtp.mac.com:[MY NAME]
Server port: 25 [I'VE CHANGED THIS TO 143 BUT THAT DOESN'T WORK EITHER SO I CHANGED IT BACK]
Authentication: password
PLEASE SOMEONE TELL ME WHAT I'M DOING WRONG. I AM GOING CRAZY OVER HERE.
Please note that I can receive mail just fine; I just can't send it. I get a "port timed out" message when I try.
Are you using Apple Mail?
Try these settings:
Outgoing mail server: smtp.mac.com
Server Port: 25
✓ Use SSL
Authentication: Password
Username: [YOUR NAME]
Password: [YOUR PASSWORD]
That's how they're set right now, but still, no go.
