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I'm having QNAP RAID problems. I have disks 1,2, and 4 in a RAID 5 configuration, and disk 1 is unhealthy. I have no idea why disk 3 didn't make it into the array--I tried to put them both in at the same time and managed to bollix the unit for about a month.
Now I've tried to add 3 to the array--won't take. I've tried pulling the unhealthy disk and replacing it with #3, no dice. I've made #3 a global spare, but that doesn't make anything happen.
Am I missing some principle, or is anything weird about QNAP's implementation? I don't want to start all again.
I've managed to get my new computer to transfer files to my TiVo through Vuze, but they're not in the right format. It's sending HD files to my Series 2 TiVo and on my SD TV they display one tiny corner of the image as huge lines. Googling says that it should be Mpeg2 for Tivo, and I've tried converting files to that, but they still don't display properly. Does anyone know what format I should be using?
I'm just looking for a temporary solution until I can sort out what to do with the rest of my home media.
I've had great success transferring all sorts of video formats to my TiVo using pyTivo. It's free, but it's not the easiest software to set up.
Thanks Jon, I'll check it out.
Amazon FireTV is on sale. $84 instead of $99. FYI.
A friend's niece is on a trip to Hawaii, and her MacBook died. This is not good, particularly since she's missing the first week of school because of an apparent inability to read a calendar. Anyway, she took it to an Apple store, along with copies of the receipt and the AppleCare agreement that my friend e-mailed her. The niece is a flake, but my friend is not. She bought the computer for said niece, watched the store person scan the box in setting up the AppleCare agreement and kept up with the paperwork.
The Apple store said the serial number on the computer doesn't match the serial number on the AppleCare agreement, and the warranty is probably void anyway because there are screws missing on the bottom that make it look tampered with. (The niece is not the sort of person who would tamper with a computer or, for that matter, even think about the fact that a computer has insides.) This is a computer that was purchased about 18 months ago.
Has anyone dealt with something like this?
Can someone click on this link to see if the Naomi Klein blurb appears on the top. I'm not seeing it, but I think may just be caching issue.
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Thanks. I thought that was it. I can see it on my local copy but not over the web , not even on another computer. So I'm guess I have to reboot my router to clear that cache. And if thats not it. I have to wait for my isp to refresh its cache.
