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Hey! HDD-based DVR with OTA tuner!
Wow, I had no idea they sold those in the US. Thanks, Gris!
My old DVR I have from BC finally won't pick up the broadcast signal I get free from my cable line, and I really want to replace it.
I get most of my shows through Hulu and Netflix, but I do like to program PBS stuff.
ND, I suddenly remembered that I did make a Mountain Lion install jump drive.
It allowed me to erase the disk, but not to reinstall, saying the OS needs 2GB...which is what the system has now, but which is clearly not enough.
Sigh.
I have no more patience. Will address this issue on another day.
Mountain Lion needs 2 GB of memory, that is different than the hard drive space you've just been clearing out.
That's what I mean. I switched the 2G in the new mini for the 8G in the old mini today.
And, can I just say, the difference in the process of upgrading memory in the 2011 model is as it should be! The mess that is the mid-2009 model (much as I love the onboard superdrive) is unconscionable! Bad developers. No Biscuit.
I bit down hard yesterday and just bought the external superdrive at the apple store. I really have got to move on with my life!
The time I spent trying to make things work and being frustrated when they didn't was truly not worth it.
I was so excited when I read in the new mini manual about using another apple device as the drive. PERFECT, I thought, grab me a short firewire cable and we are good to go!
But no, says the very nice young genius. You can connect the two minis for some stuff, but not the stuff you want.
It just broke my spirit. But, probably in a good way.
Cool. I set up the appropriate port forwarding in my router and now the new NAS is working like my own private Dropbox.
That's awesome.
I am spending too much money on tech these days, but losing the laptop hasn't made me want the big new NAS less.
now the new NAS is working like my own private Dropbox.
Nice. Is there a way to share files on it securely with the outside world?
I don't know. I don't use the public folder feature of Dropbox, so I haven't looked for it with this. My guess would be no.
Well, maybe you could set up the FTP server for anonymous access to a particular folder in your sync folder. I haven't looked into the FTP and SFTP servers yet.
It seemed like there was something in the documentation about using it that way. But I may be conflating things I'd looked at. I remember thinking it wasn't an issue for me because I have data limits, so I really wouldn't be using it that way for any external access. But I guess I probably could.