The TiVo HD in the bedroom died last year and we decided to not replace it and the one in the living room acts up occasionally and we will have to really do some serious looking before we decide to replace it. The lifetime subscriptions are just not that tempting now and they have stopped offering hardware upgrade to lifetime owners so you end up getting locked into outdated gear.

Well, Weaknees thinks it's the hard drive, which would be a $99 repair plus the cost of the drive. (I could just order a new drive and swap it out myself, but then if the problem turns out to be the power supply or something else, I'd be out of luck.)

So it'll be an expensive fix but not as much as a new lifetime service sub. Damn those are pricey. The multi-unit discounted price now is $200 more than I paid for mine the first time around.

EyeTV is tempting but I don't know if I want a whole new thing! And price-wise, it's not that much cheaper than fixing the Tivo. Hmm.

Today, I'll be stopping at Radio Shack for an OTA antenna on my way home so DH can cover the Globes for work this weekend. Fortunately he's not liveblogging this time so no need to rewind and fact-check during commercial breaks. But if we don't have a working DVR by Oscar time it's going to be a problem.

(Last resort is calling Cablevision and getting a DVR cablebox. I suppose there's a slight chance the hardware has improved since our last experience with them and it's no longer a worthless piece of crap that doesn't even work?)

Apparently there's some big security hole in Javascript right now, and we're all supposed to disable Java in our browsers?

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Apparently there's some big security hole in Javascript right now, and we're all supposed to disable Java in our browsers?

Java and Javascript are two different languages. The issue is with Java, not Javascript.

Javascript is used on most interactive web pages. Java isn't used on many websites anymore.

Ah! thanks!

Yeah, the name Javascript was just some marketing decision that has caused much confusion over the years.

More on the Java vulnerability:

Apple Blocks Java 7 Plug-in on OS X to Address Widespread Security Threat - Mac Rumors

This applies if you have manually installed Java 7 on OS X, as Java no longer ships with OS X.

If you use Collaborate (formerly Elluminate) for online conferencing you use Java. Alas. Blackboard (which owns Collaborate) might use Java for other stuff, too.

I'm in trouble. My monitor keeps cutting in and out and I'm not sure which is in more trouble...my damaged mini or the monitor itself.

I'm trying to back up my email...Thunderbird...and seem to have a head made of brick.

Every article I see says to go to home/library/thunderbird/profiles and drag that folder to my flash drive.

EXCEPT, I can't find that folder in the library directory.

I'm running OS 10.8.2 and Thunderbird 17.0.

Can anyone help me before I go dark?

Every article I see says to go to home/library/thunderbird/profiles and drag that folder to my flash drive.

When you say "home" do you mean the drive root? 'Cuz there should be application stuff there.

I used to have a Library in my user directory as well. Dunno what happened to it.