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Looks like the only way to get programs off a Tivo is to use a series 1 (legacy, no longer sold) unit. Looks like the only way to get support for digital audio is with a series 2 unit. Not an appealing compromise there. :(

As one of my engineer friends says, the problems USB has on Windows are largely the fault of Microsoft, not the USB spec. I'm inclined to believe him: neither Macs nor BSD machines seem to have any problems with USB devices.

And I'll point and laugh, 'cause I know better than to buy a Western Digital product.

I like Pineapple juice a lot. Not in the least alcoholic and it has a nice fringe benefit for your "athletic sleeping" partner (*) On the rare occasions I'm forced into a lounge or bar - usually by a client who wants to meet there - I almost always drink cranberry juice or juice and soda water...

Is there a way to transfer the individual files off the tivo (direct or otherwise) and watch them elsewhere, without another encoding step?

Has anyone used Canto Cumulus before?

Yes. Some of us like stuff that's good. :) The 2nd season of "Angel" just came out on DVD. I'm working through that, and when I'm done, I have the 3rd season of "Family Guy". And then a long wait before anything else that's good comes out (Shield season 2 maybe, or Sopranos season 4) I have a...

Modern music production is such that any schmuck can be made to sound reasonably good. This is why Britanny Spears has a musical career. Otherwise she'd just be selling her body on the internet like thousands of other reasonably attractive 18 year olds. Anyway, I found the music to be genuinely...

1. I've graduated to 56k, which is hopefully temporary. 2. I still browse with most images filtered out.

I'm not much for horror films any more. I used to like them a lot, but that's before I looked old enough to rent pr0n (horror movies being the easy road to T&A). :) I plan to see Cabin Fever when it comes out on DVD though. Also, I'd really like to see "Lost in Translation", which is something...

I realize that it could work both ways.. A lot of database engines that do support BLOBs have (or had, the last time I looked) file size limits that made databases of that sort less than desireable.

Perhaps Eric will show up with a bright idea or two. I recall him as someone else who had outrageous image-storage needs.

How about the letter "i" in a nice font? How about a monocle?

I worked on a "Zeus" today. It was a dual Xeon 550 with 1GB RAM. I'm sure at one time it was a pretty nice machine but I was decommisioning it for a 2.8GHz dualie that I named "Cronus". Greek gods are passe. Every once in awhile I run across the germanic pantheon or (more likely) Apostles or...

Yeah, thumbsplus isn't gonna cut it. I sicced it on a directory that only had 80,000 images in it, let it run over night, and had to kill the process when I woke up this morning. It looked to me like it barfed before it even did anything. I'd like to be able to use the filesystem rather than a...

Outlook 2003 - now with less suck.

Maybe Great Britain or Japan.

My favorite change story: I stopped in a 7-11 to get a drink one hot summer day on my way home from work. While I was in there deliberating between their fine selection of tasty cold beverages, a positively stunning young woman walked in: short blond hair, daisy duke-style cutoffs and something...

That was tried. We ended up with Aussies. A group of people with an international reputations for being simultaneously as loud and obnoxious as Americans and also so laid back that the whole country is practically comatose. Hm. Know of any other big islands?

It's those damn Kiwis. I knew there was a reason I couldn't get broadband! It's their fault! Off wi' their heads! Now that I've got that out of my system... the truth is, telco networks are so outrageously overbuilt right now that there's really no reason why they can't do this. I don't know...

procmail on *nix can do that. I imagine you'd find a number of similar projects on freshmeat.net. Some of them might even work with Windows. Exchange has some conditional filtering builtin as well (I don't pay much attention to my Exchange server, so I can't be much more specific).

Arrr! I be plannin' to make the lives of me hearties a great deal more surreal on September 19th, Talk Like a Pirate Day. I'm tired of boring, somber religious festivals Talk Like a Pirate Day is the kind of holiday I think everyone should partake in.

I need to get organized. I don't know how many images I have. Between digital cameras and collecting fine art images and yes, porn, I have a LOT of images. Very possibily more than a million (the computer I'm sitting at has ~123,000 .JPG files on it, and it's not one of my file servers). I've...

In 1970, Pierre Trudeau declared martial law in Quebec. So why not name Montreal's airport after him? Yes, I am posting this just to get a rise out of Coug. Retaliation for the Gabe Newell thing. ;D For those who dont get the DC reference... In 1981, Ronald Reagan fired a whole lot of...

I don't think Hannibal Lecter would want to share new blood. I think he'd enjoy it with fava beans and a nice chianti.

The Carthaginian General who marched elephants across the Alps only to have his ass handed to him at Zama?

Do you remember his name?

Dammit Coug, you made me start IE. 1. I don't have a neck. 2. I have fewer chins 3. My glasses are WAY thicker 4. If I left the house with that hairstyle, it would only because I was already clinically brain dead yet retained enough motor function to operate a doorknob. Other than that, yeah...

I've heard that the largest collection of porn in the world belongs to the Vatican. I'll settle for second place. SteveC, I think there're nightly builds of .6 that'll probably work. I generally use Moz though, so I downloaded the version that works with my browser (it's about halfway down the...

The "pink underwear sheriff" has made national news for being tougher on inmates than anyone else. He's actually famous for it.

I won't buy any drive that only has a one year warranty. I have a lot of 160GB Samsungs now and the odd 200GB Maxtor with a valid 3-year warranty.

Attack of the paleolithic threads! I just found this which is quite possibly the greatest tool man has developed since the printing press, no, make that the Wheel. Install it, restart Moz or Firebird, and then when you hit CTRL-SHIFT-S, everything in all tabs thereafter is instantly saved to a...

People buy Seagate ATA drives? Like, of their own free will? When was the last time Seagate did right by its customers in the consumer market, anyway?

I thought I was having a positive day once. Turned out I was on a morphine drip. Congratulations!

The place where I work does TONS of Microsoft Office training. Yet the other trainers would only get maybe 3 or 4 of those jokes. :( Besides, you can't say whether or not you're too geeky until you've found the "Top X Signs that you are a geek" thread.

It's a button! You press it! Lots of computers ONLY have a power button nowadays. How hard can it be? Sometimes it's labelled. I'll admit, the standard 1 / 0 label is a little obtuse (lots of my students aren't aware of the standard layout or symbols for tape recorder and VCR buttons...

You might be able to get away with an 18" LCD at that price point, if you dropped the hard requirement for 1600x1200. You could also do a flatscreen 21" CRT if you were willing to accept a lease returned display. In fact, I'd say that's you best bet.

<Insert MP3 of cackling laughter> The article on HL2 performance is, uh, interesting. I'm an incredibly pessimistic guy, but reading that, I honestly wonder if there wasn't a problem with their testing methodology. 33% - 50% differences in performance? The best "optimization" for the...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/67/32742.html

When I left work at 7:30PM CDT on 9/10 this fix was not being distributed by Windows Update. I found out about this patch from the newswire blurbs on salon.com at about noon today, and I checked all day long. The -036 patch wasn't there. That's some marvelous frickin' work they're doing...

CD to CD works fine, even if they're both in USB2 enclosures.

You can't afford the $.15 a blank 700MB CD costs?

I should amend my comment: I am disgusted on a whole new level. The US had no right to invade Iraq. We were the aggressor and the conqueror. But, we rationalized that Saddam was lying about his weapons and he was a cretin to his people. Except, he (apparently) wasn't lying. So he was a...

If that is the case, then I am disgusted beyond words.

IBM isn't the company of the monopoly any more. They haven't been for a long time. I've worked with/for IBM's service division, and the truth is, that group will work with whatever you put in front of it, as long as you pay your bill. On the hardware side, IBM's PC servers traditionally ran...

Title says it all. Two of the Walgreens in my area (both the ones I've been in today) have 15-packs of 4x DVD+R discs for $32. You can get 4x discs cheaper in bulk, but they usually cost $2 apiece in small quantities, without shipping charges, so this is a pretty good deal.

Most distributions have shell scripts to change your window manager.

Well, after the ether binging and all the mescaline, we usually go looking for hookers. Once we're good and drunk, we fight over whose turn it is to give The Giver a bath. We pal around with our celebrity hangers-on and the hookers, snort record cleaner, make threatening, vaguely-coherent phone...

Whoops. That was directed at Howell. i's post wasn't there when I started. :(

Dear you, You suck. Thank you for your attention in this matter, Mercutio :)