I thought the whole point of the CableCard was that it was supposed to work, and be a consumer friendly thing!! Now they're saying the CableCard won't necessarily work?? Or is it just that you'll have to get a new Cable Card?
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meara - Apr 16, 2008 5:40:16 pm PDT #5752 of 25501
Liese S. - Apr 16, 2008 5:41:49 pm PDT #5753 of 25501
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Is there anything else that's getting transmitted back to the cable companies with the 2way dealio? Like, Sony style secret info?
Jesse - Apr 16, 2008 6:01:31 pm PDT #5754 of 25501
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
It's a fucking miracle! I couldn't find the disk I needed with the drivers for my modem, but by swapping out every possible cord and a USB drive, I got the drivers and am now online from the new computer!
Phew.
I can tell this is going to take some getting used to.
§ ita § - Apr 16, 2008 6:37:18 pm PDT #5755 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Jesse, are you on Vista now?
tommyrot - Apr 16, 2008 8:13:15 pm PDT #5756 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I thought the whole point of the CableCard was that it was supposed to work, and be a consumer friendly thing!! Now they're saying the CableCard won't necessarily work?? Or is it just that you'll have to get a new Cable Card?
The way I understand it is, the CableCard lets the device that uses it receive all the channels that come over your cable. The problem is, we're gonna start to see cable companies stop sending certain less-popular channels unless your cable box sends a signal to the cable company asking for the channel. CableCard currently does not have this ability to send these requests. This is the same reason CableCard does not currently work with pay-per-view.
Jesse - Apr 17, 2008 2:52:20 am PDT #5757 of 25501
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Jesse, are you on Vista now?
Yeah.
Jessica - Apr 17, 2008 3:35:19 am PDT #5758 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Since I can't afford a new Tivo right now anyway, I think the TruWay stuff sounds pretty darn neat. I assume it means more HD channels too. Whee!
Jon B. - Apr 17, 2008 3:43:46 am PDT #5759 of 25501
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Any Excel VBA gurus around? I've written a bunch of macros that use this nifty functionality that lets me call an Attachmate Extra 3270 session from within the macro. Using the GetObject function, the Attachmate app opens, I automagically connect to a session and can send information back and forth between the two apps. It's really useful for copying and pasting data from my company's mainframe into a spreadsheet. It works great and has saved me a lot of work.
The problem is when I have other people run the same macro. For some people, it works fine; for others, the Attachmate application doesn't open and the macro ends without doing anything.
I can't for the life of me figure out why it works for some people and not others. We're all using Windows XP Pro and the same versions of Excel and Attachmate. Could admin privileges have something to do with it? I have them, but the other people might not.
Jon B. - Apr 17, 2008 3:58:29 am PDT #5760 of 25501
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Errrhg. It's not about whether you're an administrator. It worked fine on someone's machine here who's not.
§ ita § - Apr 17, 2008 5:04:22 am PDT #5761 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
How are you liking it Jesse?