I've had that happen, Beth. Unplugging the cable box fixed it.
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Lee - Nov 26, 2006 7:07:59 pm PST #9614 of 10003
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
beth b - Nov 26, 2006 7:11:01 pm PST #9615 of 10003
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
the cable box? like turn it off? not the TIVO?
Lee - Nov 26, 2006 7:17:31 pm PST #9616 of 10003
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
beth b - Nov 26, 2006 7:23:03 pm PST #9617 of 10003
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
cool . Looks like a number of people on the TIVO forums have had the problem - and no one is sure if it is a TIVO or Cable upgrade problem ...
I'll have to try it after it stops recording for tonight
Cass - Nov 26, 2006 7:47:54 pm PST #9618 of 10003
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
I'm guessing a cable upgrade because my TiFaux is pulling the exact same nonsense. Will try the fix tonight.
Sean K - Nov 26, 2006 9:27:25 pm PST #9619 of 10003
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
So I downloaded the Ubuntu disk image and am posting from it now. It's not permanently installed yet, I just booted from the CD for a test run, but so far I'm liking it.
I wonder if S's old iBook will be able to see this computer now, and possibly the printer, through the router we use to share the DSL.
Theodosia - Nov 27, 2006 2:07:19 am PST #9620 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"
And my TiVo that is connected to the cable box had channel-changing problems last night!
However, the other TiVo didn't come back from a blackout quite right -- all I'm getting is a loud noise from the hard drive and the empty TiVo Central screen moving very slowly. I'm leaving it on in the hopes that its doing something mysterious but healing with hard disk space....
ETA: Now it's acting normal, if a bit loud. So I guess I'll eke out a little more use of it. Really, I'm just waiting until the poor thing dies so that I can justify getting a new one....
beth b - Nov 27, 2006 10:06:25 am PST #9621 of 10003
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
well, the cable box restart didn't do it, but it looks like the TIVO restart may have fixed the channel changing problem
DXMachina - Nov 27, 2006 11:02:05 am PST #9622 of 10003
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Does anyone have any experience mixing ATA and SATA hard drives in the same machine? My motherboard has connectors for both, but so far I've only installed ATA drives. I'm in the market for a new drive, and I'm considering adding a SATA.
tommyrot - Nov 27, 2006 11:33:23 am PST #9623 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.
Just out of curiosity - how big is your bookmark file?
I use the google sync thingie for Firefox, so each computer has the same copy of all my bookmarks. Anyway, my bookmarks.html file is 292 KB, and my bookmarks.xml is 286 kb.
I'm on my work computer at the moment - the Firefox bookmark file on my XP machine is here:
C:\Documents and Settings\MyUserName\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\default.m13\bookmarks.html