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tommyrot - Jun 22, 2006 8:42:43 am PDT #8353 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.

Huh.

There's a new version of TiVo Desktop available today. It's version 2.3 (for Windows). And it does some nifty new tricks.

If you have an iPod, a PSP, a Treo, or other portable video device you'll want to check it out. Not only can you tell it to automatically transfer new recordings of your favorite shows to your PC, with a small upgrade it'll also convert those files automatically to play back on your favorite portable device.

The upgrade? While TiVo Desktop 2.3 is free (as always), and the automatic transferring of programs to the PC is also free, the ability to convert those recording for portables has a small cost. It's $24.95 to unlock that ability (there's stuff in there that we have to license, and we can't give that away to everyone for free). But it's a one time fee...you pay once, and you can convert your recordings for playback on your portable automatically, every time they're transfered.

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DebetEsse - Jun 22, 2006 11:58:42 am PDT #8354 of 10003

Woe to the fucking wicked.

But is there TiVo to Go for the Mac? No. Of course not. t blows raspberry at TiVo

evil jimi - Jun 23, 2006 4:06:55 am PDT #8355 of 10003

Lurching from one disaster to the next.

anyone wanting a chuckle, run a traceroute on ThePirateBay.org :)

DXMachina - Jun 23, 2006 4:54:49 am PDT #8356 of 10003

You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

The traceroute is timing out for me, but I do know that if you go to their home page, the title of the browser window is now "The Phoenix Bay."

(And the traceroute finally worked. Heh.)

Jon B. - Jun 23, 2006 5:46:46 am PDT #8357 of 10003

A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

How do you run a traceroute?

Tom Scola - Jun 23, 2006 5:48:42 am PDT #8358 of 10003

Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

From the command line, type "tracert ThePirateBay.org", or on Linux or a Mac, "traceroute ThePirateBay.org".

The punchline can also be discovered by typing "nslookup 83.140.176.146".

tommyrot - Jun 23, 2006 5:51:40 am PDT #8359 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.

In Windows, open a DOS window and type 'tracert thepiratebay.org' or whatever.

In Linux, Unix and OS X, open a terminal window and do the same, except I think you use 'traceroute' instead.

eta: x-post. I shoulda' known it took me way too long to find that out....

Jessica - Jun 23, 2006 6:28:05 am PDT #8360 of 10003

And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Interesting article about VoIP services.

The BBB says it has collected 1088 complaints against Vonage (which operates the largest Net phone service, with 1.6 million customers in the United States and Canada) in the past 12 months. During the same time period, Verizon fielded 1039 complaints filed against its landline service--though it manages 48.8 million phone lines nationwide. Another VoIP provider, BroadVoice, is the eighth-most-complained-about company in eastern Massachusetts, Maine, and Vermont, according to the BBB office serving those areas.

Jon B. - Jun 23, 2006 6:37:39 am PDT #8361 of 10003

A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

Thank you, Toms!

Jessica - Jun 23, 2006 7:12:09 am PDT #8362 of 10003

And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Ugly-ass watch = cool-ass phone!

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