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Buffistechnology 3: "Press Some Buttons, See What Happens."

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Jon B. - Jan 15, 2009 4:48:32 pm PST #8871 of 25501
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

And minutes after I wrote the post above, they stopped working. No warning. Nothing. Verrrry strange!


§ ita § - Jan 15, 2009 4:58:20 pm PST #8872 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I want to use tivo.com to schedule a recording on my non-HD TiVo (it's not responding to the remote) but I can't work out how to have it not send to the primary TiVo. It tells me the name of the machine it's going to program, but that's not even the same as either of the names I have defined on the TiVo DVR Preferences page.

eta: Aha! There is more than one "record this episode" page. I found one with a DVR dropdown.


Vortex - Jan 15, 2009 8:06:06 pm PST #8873 of 25501
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

Now, if your only content is mystuff, I'd toss it entirely and just go with mywebsite--is it?

no, it's for my job. My office has 4 separate functions, each of which needs its own page and subpages. Also, my office's name has changed, so we're changing the general website name. Therefore these issues have come up.

so, we're looking at "honors.university.edu" or "www.university.edu/honors".

What's the deal with using the www or not?


Sophia Brooks - Jan 16, 2009 4:05:58 am PST #8874 of 25501
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

At my university, only separate schools have the school.university.edu, and the departments have university.edu/department.


sumi - Jan 16, 2009 4:57:40 am PST #8875 of 25501
Art Crawl!!!

Is the "on-the-go" playlist thing something I do on itunes so that I can have sort out music to put on my nano when I have more music in itunes than the nano can hold?

(I think that this is my problem - too much stuff on my itunes and it's overloaded my nano.)


Gudanov - Jan 16, 2009 5:12:37 am PST #8876 of 25501
Coding and Sleeping

And minutes after I wrote the post above, they stopped working. No warning. Nothing. Verrrry strange!

I'd try clearing CMOS.

After that, one of the things I like to do in these sort of cases is to boot a Linux live CD. Then I can determine if it is a software or hardware problem.


Sue - Jan 16, 2009 5:22:12 am PST #8877 of 25501
hip deep in pie

On-the-go playlists are one created on the iPod by holding down the centre button for a few seconds.


sumi - Jan 16, 2009 5:37:37 am PST #8878 of 25501
Art Crawl!!!

I think I have it figured out now. (i.e., it did what I wanted - allowed me to sync manually and whew - I was afraid it was broken somehow.)


Vortex - Jan 16, 2009 5:39:46 am PST #8879 of 25501
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

At my university, only separate schools have the school.university.edu, and the departments have university.edu/department.

well, that would make sense in a school that had some sort of consistency in their web presence and design. Here, not so much.


Jon B. - Jan 16, 2009 6:14:09 am PST #8880 of 25501
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

I'd try clearing CMOS.

How do you do that? Is that the same as resetting the BIOS?

After that, one of the things I like to do in these sort of cases is to boot a Linux live CD. Then I can determine if it is a software or hardware problem.

I think I've already got an Ubuntu CD. Would booting from that and seeing if the various USB plugs recognize my flash drive do? I haven't played around much with Linux so i don't know if the default Ubuntu bootup would normally recognize flash drives...