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meara - Sep 21, 2006 6:55:06 pm PDT #9008 of 10003

OK, so I have a DVD-burning TiVo. Burned a DVD of ANTM to watch on the plane, but DVDplayer that came with my Powerbook kept freezing. I remember this happening LAST time I tried to play a DVD with it too.

Oddly, playing the DVD using VLC worked fine, though something popped up about an error, when I hit OK, it went ahead and played.

Odds that (a) my TiVo is messed up, (b) the blank DVDs I bought are messed up or (c) my computer is messed up (I swear, I thought having 1.25 gigs of RAM would've fixed this!)


DCJensen - Sep 21, 2006 7:06:03 pm PDT #9009 of 10003
All is well that ends in pizza.

Beej, I don't know if this still works, but for Entourage

Tools>Schedules>Edit Send & Receive All. You can then change it to check as often as you'd like.


NoiseDesign - Sep 22, 2006 1:12:04 am PDT #9010 of 10003
Our wings are not tired

An 80 GB iPod takes forever to load.


Jon B. - Sep 22, 2006 1:22:02 am PDT #9011 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

Let me wipe away your tears with the 20 GBs I don't have.


NoiseDesign - Sep 22, 2006 1:23:58 am PDT #9012 of 10003
Our wings are not tired

This is a 50 GB increase for me. Looks like I'm squeezing about 2/3's of my music onto it along with a few videos.


tommyrot - Sep 22, 2006 5:34:33 am PDT #9013 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.

The new iTunes gives more control over what videos get uploaded to an iPod, so I've now gone from less than one GB free to about 3 GB. So maybe I can postpone my 80 GB iPod purchase until the holidays (it could be my x-mas present to myself)....


beekaytee - Sep 22, 2006 5:50:13 am PDT #9014 of 10003
Compassionately intolerant

Daniel, you continue to be my hero. Thanks for always responding, and for bailing me out of my kiddie pool of confusion! Much obliged.


evil jimi - Sep 22, 2006 5:56:31 am PDT #9015 of 10003
Lurching from one disaster to the next.

Rage on the ABC just played the new Weird Al video. Absolutely hilarious ... and the song is equally funny.

Donnie Osmond is awesome doing the Numfar dance.

Oh man, I laughed hardest every time he appeared. So fracking cool.

...I totally missed that Seth Green...

Count moonlit and I as others who missed him. If he is in it, it must only be a fleeting glimpse.


Gudanov - Sep 22, 2006 5:59:23 am PDT #9016 of 10003
Coding and Sleeping

I missed Seth Green too, where is he in it?


evil jimi - Sep 22, 2006 6:12:14 am PDT #9017 of 10003
Lurching from one disaster to the next.

YouTube has the video (just do a search for "Weird Al"+nerdy). Seth is in the video when he talks about his action figures being cherry. He's the dude in the background who slaps his own arse.

eta: I missed it the first time but Weird Al also does a very quick parody of the "Star Wars Kid"! :)