My Mac Mini sees my main PC via my wireless network as Binky

What on the PC are you accessing? I can see the share on Zoe just fine, but if I try and ping Zoe or use any other TCP/IP protocol to connect to it, I need an IP address.

Rob, does your PC see the Macs and do the Macs see the PCs with names via TCP/IP? I mean, is it mutual?

Either way, though, my TiVo is left out in the cold.

I have an iTunes question - is there a way to adjust how much of a podcast needs to be played for it to be considered "not new"? I have my iPod setup only to sync new podcasts, but I'd like them to remain new until I've listened to the whole thing! For podcasts longer than my average commute, it's very annoying to have them deleted from the iPod before I've finished listening. (I can manually mark them unplayed in iTunes to get them back, but then I also have to manually scroll through to find where I left off.)

Jessica,

I have a feeling you probably need to change the ipod setting to sync all your podcasts. Or, you probably should use a smart playlist (or regular playlist) to control how your podcasts behave. Those are the two possibilities I can think of.

For my podcasts, I have two playlists on which I rely:

1) a smart playlist that targets the 40 most recent podcasts (and I select out certain podcasts that I listen to more leisurely) and I set that to update automatically

2) I manually create a playlist where I pick the 5-10 podcasts I want to listen to during a commute if there is a particular order I care about that day.

Sometimes I use #1, sometimes #2 - depending on my mood.

Rob, does your PC see the Macs and do the Macs see the PCs with names via TCP/IP? I mean, is it mutual?

Yes.

Either way, though, my TiVo is left out in the cold.

I think Tivo supports Bonjour.

What on the PC are you accessing? I can see the share on Zoe just fine, but if I try and ping Zoe or use any other TCP/IP protocol to connect to it, I need an IP address.

Ah, OK, I'm only doing shares.

Tivo does support Bonjour, though I have had trouble with Tivo randomly restarting itself when I was using Bonjour as part of iChat. Using Bonjour in conjunction with VNC doesn't seem to have the same problem.

I didn't know it was available for PCs, though. That's interesting.

While I'm here: DNS via dd-wrt

I think Tivo supports Bonjour.

Oh, interesting.

I may very well end up doing both, because they have cool points and I'm assuming simplicity points (i.e. cool without me writing code).

eta: -t, that's even cooler! That's another option my friend suggested, but I knew my router didn't do it. Out of the box, anyway.

Okay, that was scary. Flashed my WRT54G with the DD-WRT firmware, and nada. Zip. Took about 20 minutes of forcibly calm resetting to get anything.

And voila! New router admin interface.

So far I haven't done anything other than the MAC cloning required to play nice with Time Warner. Later today I'll try the fancy stuff.

If there's anything anyone recommends (other than the two cool features noted here so far) for doing with DD-WRT, gimme a heads up.

Off to krav!

Well, I got myself an iMac G5. Should be here Tuesday. I know nothing about Macs, really, so should be fun. Uhm, anything useful I should know?

Realtime bandwidth logging using dd-wrt: [link]

DH says your geekcred just went up tenfold, ita. I told him I wasn't sure yours had that much room to increase, but he insists.

Kevin, I found this link to be most useful.