ita, what would make you think the Tivo USB modem might be faster?

TiVo sells their own wireless adapter...I wonder how much faster it really is.

There's a thread at Tivo Community Forums about the adapter.

what would make you think the Tivo USB modem might be faster?

They say "Optimized wireless performance with your TiVo® Series2™ DVR" which has led to some speculation over what tweaks they might have made. I haven't seen any benchmarking yet, but the preliminary gadget blog reactions seem optimistic -- zatznotfunny says "off-loads some of the network processing, by utilizing a “full MAC chipset,” resulting in improved throughput over, say, my Netgear WG111."

Anyone have any suggestions regarding a new battery for my 12" powerbook? It's currently good for maybe 20 minutes. Should I just buy the one from Apple? Or go somewhere else? It pisses me off that I should have to buy a new battery every 18 months!

Let's say hypothetically that I had a DVD with 2 unaired episodes of a certain cancelled television show. What would be the best way to share them? (Other than mailing the DVD around, which is certainly possible, but slow and likely to take years.)

[edit: And if your answer is "make a torrent," please include specific instructions with helpful links!]

[eta2: "Mail it to me and I'll make a torrent for you" would be an acceptable answer as well.]

From Slashdot:

The U.S. Military has created the first ever prototype for an exoskeleton to be worn by soldiers capable of making its 100 pound weight and a 70 pound supply package feel like five pounds." From the article: "Bleex 1 consists of a pair of hydraulically powered leg braces, more than 40 electronic sensors, a control computer, and an internal-combustion engine providing power from an attached backpack. The plastic and carbon-fiber braces are affixed rigidly to the soldier through a customized pair of standard Army boots, with more compliant and giving connections at the chest and waist. These looser connections prevent blisters and abrasions."

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Created by billionare scientist Tony Stark...

Bleex 1

Huh. That article seems to imply the only purpose of the exoskelton is to increase the load carrying capacity of a soldier (70 pounds in the current model, 200 in Bleex2) and its fuel supply only lasts 15 minutes. To what end?

That's probably why it's still in prototype stage...

meara, I went ahead and bought an a battery from Apple when I had the same problem, and I've been happy with it. I'm trying to follow their suggestion of running it down pretty frequently in the hopes that that willextend it's life. I've only had it a month or two, so I can't tell how well that's working, yet.

I'm going to send off my old batter to be reconditioned as soon as I have the time and energy to deal with it. I've heard that that works well. And I've also heard that third party batteries last longer than Apple, but I had a hard enough time figuring out what battery I needed to get while only considering the official Apple ones, so I didn't go that route. Also, buying from Apple meant going to an apple store and getting a battery right then rather than waiting for something to come in the mail. But I don't know that there's a wrong answer, really.

Once you have the file ripped to a decent size, Jessica, the torrenting part isn't really that hard. That's the best part to get it really out there into the world, including to anonymous folk. Is that what you want, or do you want to do something more pointed, like yousendit?