is there anything like this TiVo stuff for U-verse?
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omnis_audis - Dec 26, 2009 3:45:38 pm PST #12084 of 25501
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
§ ita § - Dec 26, 2009 3:46:52 pm PST #12085 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Are you using pyTivoX?
No, just pyTivo. For some reason the web config tool doesn't save changes to the configuration file, so it wasn't finding the location of ffmpeg.
Not sure how to fix the saving issue, but I can edit the file manually to work around it.
Now to focus on migrating my sister to her new Gateway laptop.
DCJensen - Dec 26, 2009 4:30:07 pm PST #12086 of 25501
All is well that ends in pizza.
Now to focus on migrating my sister to her new Gateway laptop.
For a robot body, it doesn't seem very mobile. Attach it to a Roomba, at least.
§ ita § - Dec 26, 2009 5:13:30 pm PST #12087 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Great. After all that, I have bollixed up the power connector for the Powerbook, so now I can't power on the laptop. It might be over for it, finally.
Sad now.
sarameg - Dec 26, 2009 7:32:50 pm PST #12088 of 25501
Um, I can't be coherent in this question because I don't play with PCs much. But so. My SIL's laptop. Windows XP. All browsers render as if for mobile. Changing the contrast (??) fixes it, but only per boot up. I have no clue. We're mac logic people, which means we're either useless or rude (my dad.) It's got to be some setting somewhere, but I don't know where. I told her to find a PC person in my brother's gearhead friends, but thought I'd check here too.
tommyrot - Dec 26, 2009 7:43:29 pm PST #12089 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.
Huh. What an interesting problem. (Sorry, that's all I got.)
Does this happen no matter what network she's on? Or just one? Is it wifi? or a cellular data network?
tommyrot - Dec 26, 2009 7:53:14 pm PST #12090 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.
Hmm... I just read that there's no standard way for web server code to identify if a client is a mobile device (so the server can then send different code to the client).
In case anyone's interested: Detecting Mobile Browsers
tommyrot - Dec 26, 2009 8:00:20 pm PST #12091 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.
This is browser specific, but an interesting example of how some esoteric setting could cause the server to think it's talking to a mobile device.
I wondered why my Firefox (on a regular Windows PC) was detected as "mobile" by a lot of sites, that wanted then to display me their "mobile" version.
Turns out that I had once an extension to enable it to wiew WAP, so the option (in "about:config") "network.http.accept.default" was set to "text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5,text/vnd.wap.wml;q=0.6".
I reseted it to default value and all works well since then.
sarameg - Dec 26, 2009 8:02:31 pm PST #12092 of 25501
Well, she's only on one wireless network. Standard comcast wifi via a belkin unit. And yeah, I was useless too. Admitted it right up front. I grew up on macs, unix and before unix, vax, and am a complete dunderhead with wireless voodoo, so my logic is useless.
Typo Boy - Dec 26, 2009 8:17:28 pm PST #12093 of 25501
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
If she's on Comcast she might try calling for support. Potluck, but some of the support people are really nice and will go out of their way to help with things that are obviously not their fault (especially if you admit up front that its not a Comcast problem but just called in hopes they might happen to know the answer.) Don't promise they will be either willing or able, but some of them both can and will go out of their way to help talk you through problems that are not strictly a Comcast responsibility.