What LeNub said. iTivo can get stuff from the Tivo onto your Mac; pyTivo goes the other way.
You were very nearly devoured by a giant demon snake. The words 'let that be a lesson' are a tad redundant at this juncture.
Giles ,'Selfless'
Buffistechnology 3: "Press Some Buttons, See What Happens."
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Jon B. - Dec 23, 2009 4:46:33 pm PST #12070 of 25501
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
le nubian - Dec 23, 2009 5:02:53 pm PST #12071 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
it was not immediately apparent that pytivox encodes as it sends it to the Tivo until I had been using it for a few months. If you have an Avi, you don't really need to do anything to it, just transfer it to Tivo and pytivox does the rest.
Liese S. - Dec 23, 2009 7:43:30 pm PST #12072 of 25501
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Isn`t there a new slimline ps3? Also, check sonystyle.com and go to its outlet as I think they`ve got a few refurb blu-ray players right now. I am looking at buying from them shortly as my dvd burner has gone kaput.
javachik - Dec 23, 2009 8:53:55 pm PST #12073 of 25501
Our wings are not tired.
I got the Panasonic DMP-BD605 from Costco for $129. I like it just fine, but don't own any Blu-Ray dvds, so haven't yet seen how good it can look. Gotta say the Roku, with its RGB inputs into the tv makes a damned swell picture. Streaming vid has never looked so good to me.
And a Buffista has claimed my old Sony vcr/dvd combo too! Yay!
tommyrot - Dec 24, 2009 5:22:19 am PST #12074 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Wow, two days before Christmas....
Amazon DOWN After DDoS Attack Cripples Amazon, Wal-Mart, Others
f you've been doing some last minute Amazon holiday shopping on Wednesday evening, you've probably noticed that Amazon's web site was sluggish and, at times, completely down. The same fate greeted Wal-Mart, Expedia, and a number of smaller sites. The reason? A severe DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack on the servers of Neustar, the company that offers DNS services to many major companies under the name UltraDNS.
eta: this is from last night. Dunno if it's still happening....
le nubian - Dec 24, 2009 6:17:25 am PST #12075 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
I was on amazon and it seemed okay. Maybe I chose the right times? it seems fine now.
Liese S. - Dec 24, 2009 1:26:43 pm PST #12076 of 25501
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Wow. I lucked out, looks like. I was actually impressed with my Amazon customer service. (Yes, I caved my one-click boycott from a decade ago, their prices were $40 under their competitor. Forty bucks!) They sent via USPS to my street address, and I'm so rural that I don't get postal service, so I had to call them and tell them their package wasn't going to show up, and I didn't want to wait the four weeks the instructions said to, and what could I do? They said no problem, placed a free replacement order with gratis overnight shipping. Part arrived two days ago, and the rest today. It was supposed to come yesterday but, snow!
Anyway, Christmas is saved and the SO will be very happy with his themed present when he gets to open them tomorrow.
Bummer about the breakdown for everyone else last minute shopping.
DCJensen - Dec 24, 2009 5:55:34 pm PST #12077 of 25501
All is well that ends in pizza.
It occurs that if I set up a second Google Voice account at some point, one that say, is in the Minneapolis Metro area, I can have it so I can call home for free from anywhere in the MPLS-STP metro area.
I could also set up a Google Voice local phone number for my mom, so she or my friend Kerdunge could call it and get forwarded to my home phone.
This could get interesting.
Why, we could set up a Buffistas local calling network.
Liese S. - Dec 24, 2009 7:50:00 pm PST #12078 of 25501
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
I use my Vonage number that way. There wasn't one available in my area when I was setting up my company number. So I made it an Indianapolis number so our family could call us without it being long-distance. But now everyone calls from their cel phones, so it hardly matters. But it's still handy sometimes.
Gris - Dec 25, 2009 3:30:43 am PST #12079 of 25501
Hey. New board.
Tommyrot, look into DLNA server/client setups. Your MacBook can play videos and stream them to a client (there are many client options, including the ps3 and bd390 previously discussed). The computer does all the decoding. You can also use that combined with a program called PlayOn to stream hulu and netflix to such a client, though it's annoying to have to have the computer running for that, at least to me.