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I have yet to find an answering machine that will pick-up "call waiting". The only time I had this was when I had the phone company's voice mail.
I came home today and there were a couple of boxes on the doorstep - one was a TIVO box. Guess what I'm getting for Christmas?!?!? I went out Christmas shopping and pretended I never saw the boxes, so the giver (either my mom or my husband) had no idea I know. Squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!
If you only have one line, the answering machine can't record anything other than what's happening on that line. Voice mail, OTOH, doesn't have to use the line to make a recording, since it's not on the end of the line.
Yeah, that makes sense. Drat.
Hey, TiVo early adopters! My first-gen TiVo's remote is eating through batteries. I mean I have to change them like every 2 days now. Has this happened to anyone else? Do I need to get a new remote? And how do I do that?
The TiVo Store at TiVo.com sells remotes.
Jessica,
you need voicemail and call waiting.
I love Sprint (I think I have complete sense) because it has call waiting, but it's kind of a weird call waiting. If I'm online, calls get forwarded to my cell phone and/or voicemail. If I'm on the phone talking, then call waiting kicks in I think.
Voicemail also gets sent to email so I get notification when I have voicemail.
Rio, I'd check the technical boards over at www.tivocommunity.com first, but sounds to me like buying a replacement 'peanut' may be your best bet. It makes sense to me that the remote would be the first thing to fail, as it probably gets the most use of any 'moving part' of the TiVo aside from the hard disk.
Oh! -- and squeeeeeee for lexine!
help! the security updates for SP2 have screwed up my IE browser.
what the issue seems to be: i had no trouble so far with the installation of the basic SP2. then last night i installed some "necessary" security updates. all 6 of them. today when i tried to go online, i kept getting a syntax error code. the address box had "http:///" in it and the computer kept trying to connect to the addy, but it could not. (well duh!) i was not even able to retype the correct addy or get it to STOP trying to connect.
so i did a system restore. and now it is fixed, but i am worried that the security updates need to be reinstalled or at least selectively installed.
any comments or suggestions are appreciated.
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