I have an old Series 2 TiVo and DIRECTV, and if I'm getting an HDTV, I suspect that I'm screwed in terms of an HD TiVo until DIRECTV and TiVo launch their new HD DVR.

Am I right?

I think you are, sadly. I have the Directv HD dual-tuner DVR, and it's pretty nice, but not Tivo-tastic.

There was a Directivo that was HD, but a) probably not available anywhere and b) a lot of stuff has changed since then.

HD Directivo is one of the vaporiest of vaporware products in the history of ever, but I still await its coming like a faithful supplicant.

Anyone an Outlook 2010 user? I have the desktop client and need to schedule meetings for other people - specifically, create meetings between various people and a resource (a desk). So far I cannot figure out how to make myself NOT an attendee of these meetings - there is no way to uncheck myself in the meeting scheduler. Ideas? (Also, is there a way to not send emails for each meeting? I want them to just appear.)

As long as we're talking home networks, has anyone used something like this to put hard drives on your home network?

Why wouldn't you just use a NAS with internal SATA bays? It seems like you'd bottleneck at the USB 2.0 connectors. I'm not sure what the advantage of wireless would be in this case, then again wireless is so cheap, it might not make much difference.

Anyhow I think something like this:

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Would have a lot better performance. Put in a couple of 2TB drives and you'd got 2TB with redundancy. I don't think you can mirror drives efficiently with a USB based setup and if you're going to add network storage, I think it's good to add some data redundancy along with it.

Can you sign in and make the meetings as the desk? Or can you bee a designate of the desk? I make meetings (that I do not attend) for my boss as her designate. (but I have Outlook 2007)

How can I set the blending properties of a layer in GIMP the way I can in photoshop? I can set the blending layer of pain on a given layer, but then it interacts with other items on that layer in that manner, and I don't want it to. Just blend through in one fashion.

Never mind! Found the layers dialogue box!

I'm dealing with some kind of malware/virus masquarading as an AV program. I rebooted my computer in safe mode with networking - does that mean that I can't access the Internet? I'm trying to update my various protective programs and can't get any of them to update. Firefox was giving me some kind of proxy server message. Help?

I would try at first running in Safe Mode without networking and doing all the scans you can. The virus is probably blocking your attempts to update.

Dana, I ran Avast and it didn't find anything. Everything else (CCleaner, AdAware) hasn't been updated in probably at least a year if not years.

Trying what you recommended.