It might be worth reporting it to the Opera guys as a bug.
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Rob - Feb 10, 2013 9:39:41 pm PST #21984 of 25497
§ ita § - Feb 10, 2013 9:48:39 pm PST #21985 of 25497
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
That's a thought. I'll hit up their bug forums tomorrow and see if anyone else has called it out.
Liese S. - Feb 11, 2013 4:07:03 am PST #21986 of 25497
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Fuckity. My vaio says its bootmgr is missing. Won't boot from disk.
§ ita § - Feb 11, 2013 8:43:03 am PST #21987 of 25497
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Is it one of your backed up devices? Unfortunate if you need to test that.
I just had a chat with TiVo on-line sales. Told them I was disappointed at the idea of having to spend $400 for another lifetime service if I got a new TiVo, after having been a customer for 10 years with one lifetime service...and they have zero incentive to be nice to me, right? I guess it's a balance--will she keep buying new TiVos if she can keep her service, or will she stop buying anything from us (as opposed to buying both TiVos and service like we want)?
I don't know. Can't hurt to try, though.
Liese S. - Feb 11, 2013 8:47:48 am PST #21988 of 25497
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Yeah. And actually I'd just gotten the backup working again.
You actually totally just saved me some freak-outage. Because I was on the mac looking at the backup files to see what I actually had, and it looked like the file structure was there, but not the actual files. But then I remembered what you said about Finder's lag time populating from your NAS and that turned out to be the problem. It looks like I have most of my files currently backed up.
But not the one pivotal one.
Which I have from July. That's not as horrible as it sounds, because that's when I need the file to be accurate for. I will have a lot of work to get it rebuilt, but it's achievable work, I believe. I do feel like I'm in a groundhog loop of reconciling those specific months of data, though.
NoiseDesign - Feb 11, 2013 8:57:10 am PST #21989 of 25497
Our wings are not tired
Apparently TiVo loses money on the hardware so not only is there no incentive to help lifetime subscribers like us, there is actually a disincentive.
le nubian - Feb 11, 2013 9:02:36 am PST #21990 of 25497
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
ND, wow.
NoiseDesign - Feb 11, 2013 9:20:00 am PST #21991 of 25497
Our wings are not tired
From a business standpoint it makes sense. Trying to make a company that is really based on a service solvent based on unpredictable timing of hardware sales is very difficult.
§ ita § - Feb 11, 2013 9:23:44 am PST #21992 of 25497
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
there is actually a disincentive.
I wouldn't be surprised, but I really do want to know what's inside those boxes. Given the rise of the cheap PC and MythTV these days, even more curious. I know there are sites that tear down Apple products, for instance, and work out the manufacturing cost. I wouldn't even start to know where to look for that for a TiVo.
le nubian - Feb 11, 2013 9:26:28 am PST #21993 of 25497
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
ND,
but this seems to indicate that perhaps they need to package their software for sale (and not just software + hardware).
I would probably pay a subscription fee for the software alone to slap it on a compatible box to hook up to the tv - or pay for a 3-year software subscription.
It also might allow the Tivo engineers to update the software a bit more frequently.