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.
Joyce: And what did you do tonight? Dawn: Irritated Giles. I'm beginning to get why Buffy likes it so much.
'Get It Done'
Buffistechnology 2: You Made Her So She Growls?
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§ ita § - Dec 15, 2004 5:49:26 pm PST #565 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Jessica - Dec 15, 2004 5:58:37 pm PST #566 of 10003
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
Yeah, that makes sense. Drat.
Rio - Dec 15, 2004 7:50:08 pm PST #567 of 10003
Are you ready to be strong?
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?
DebetEsse - Dec 15, 2004 8:37:52 pm PST #568 of 10003
Woe to the fucking wicked.
The TiVo Store at TiVo.com sells remotes.
le nubian - Dec 16, 2004 2:50:26 am PST #569 of 10003
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
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.
Theodosia - Dec 16, 2004 3:02:46 am PST #570 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"
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.
Theodosia - Dec 16, 2004 3:03:15 am PST #571 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! -- and squeeeeeee for lexine!
halfrek - Dec 16, 2004 4:37:22 am PST #572 of 10003
The appearance of things change according to the emotions and thus we see magic and beauty in them,
while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves.--Kahlil Gibran
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.
tommyrot - Dec 16, 2004 5:23:04 am PST #573 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.
2005 Classic Computers Calendar
- Jan - Commodore Pet 2001
- Feb - Atari 400
- Mar - Sinclair ZX81
- Apr - Texas Instruments TI-99/4A
- May - IBM PC 5150
- Jun - Commodore 64
- Jul - Apple IIe
- Aug - Enterprise 128
- Sep - Sony Hit Bit 75
- Oct - Apple Macintosh
- Nov - Atari 1040 STf
- Dec - Commodore Amiga 500
What, no Tandy Model 100? (Was the first popular laptop.)
dcp - Dec 16, 2004 5:30:59 am PST #574 of 10003
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
No Trash-80 either. They're just anti-RadioShack.