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  1. 16mb Flash - US$688 is cheapest online price by jroysdon · · Score: 1 · on Build a Cisco PIX for 800 Australian Dollars

    As others have said, why hack together this box when you can get a PIX 501 or 506 for less than or equal to the cost of the 16mb flash part, and you'd be legal. Plenty of eBay Buy-It-Nows for $439.

    Second, I did a search on PIX-FLASH-16MB= (Cisco part number for the required 16mb flash), and couldn't find it for less than US$688 using Nextag.

  2. Nextag by neutz · · Score: 1 · on Home-Built vs. Store-Bought PCs
    I have been using nextag.com for price comparison and have been very satisfied. The site is friendly and easy to use. Nextag allows users to post reviews after making a purchase, and rank the company from which the purchased on a scale of 1-5. They also have a cool feature (although it doesn't always work) that allows you to enter your zip code and include shipping in your price comparison.

    It never hurts to do your own research. But, nextag.com is a good place to start.

  3. Nextag by neutz · · Score: 1 · on Home-Built vs. Store-Bought PCs
    I have been using nextag.com for price comparison and have been very satisfied. The site is friendly and easy to use. Nextag allows users to post reviews after making a purchase, and rank the company from which the purchased on a scale of 1-5. They also have a cool feature (although it doesn't always work) that allows you to enter your zip code and include shipping in your price comparison.

    It never hurts to do your own research. But, nextag.com is a good place to start.

  4. Nextag by neutz · · Score: 1 · on Home-Built vs. Store-Bought PCs
    I have been using nextag.com for price comparison and have been very satisfied. The site is friendly and easy to use. Nextag allows users to post reviews after making a purchase, and rank the company from which the purchased on a scale of 1-5. They also have a cool feature (although it doesn't always work) that allows you to enter your zip code and include shipping in your price comparison.

    It never hurts to do your own research. But, nextag.com is a good place to start.

  5. Re:Well... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Ideal PDA Feature Wishlist?

    Could you mean this Sharp Zaurus

    Kinda' pricy isn't it?

  6. two places i check first by BigBir3d · · Score: 2, Interesting · on Where Did All The Online Bargains Go?

    Pricewatch, of course.

    Also, Nextag. Similar to Pricewatch, but has more than just computer related items.

  7. The South Park Problem (and others) by a42 · · Score: 1 · on CmdrTaco's Week with Tivo
    Hardware
    Sounds like most of your menu problems were caused by the hard drive. I don't know why there are so many bad units but rest assured you were not alone. We were very lucky in that our unit worked flawlessly right out of the box. The only problem we had was that the batteries in the remote unit had exploded during shipping. Tivo was more than happy to FedEx us a new remote, free of charge.

    Cost
    You paid $699? Shame on you! We paid $515 + S/H for ours before the $100 rebate from DirecTV. We got ours through Pro Active Electronics which we found via Nextag. (Current price direct from ProActive is $575. If you go through Nextag you can certainly get a better deal.)

    South Park
    The quick and dirty fix to your South Park issue is to not delete the episode from your hard drive until the others have passed. I admit that it is a kludge but it works. Well, it works most of the time. If the episode numbers are wrong in the program info (the stuff you download every night and that Tivo buys from a third party, Tribune) are wrong then all bets are off.

    The ultimate solution to this problem would be for TiVo to keep better track of what you've already watched. There's no reason for it to not keep a database of which shows you've watched recently. It should probably track TV shows for about a month and movies for 6 months or so.

    A more common problem for us is that future episodes that should get recorded don't because Tribune reuses episode numbers when they should not. The support people at Tivo know all about this and have yelled at Tribune on my behalf on several occasions.

    Power Puff Girls
    This is definitely a problem. Version 2 will have a systematic way of prioritizing season passes. There's currently a workaround for this as well.

    The Simpsons
    I don't have a workaround for this. This, too, is supposed to be fixed in Version 2.0.

    What you left out
    One of the features that sold me on the whole thing was the automatic software updates. As part of your nightly phone call you receive patches to the Tivo software. Version 1.3 is currently being rolled out and should be coming to a Tivo near you in the next several weeks. (They don't give it to everybody at once in order to do load balancing.) Version 2.0 (big rewrite, lots o' fun stuff) is due out Q3.

    Bottom Line
    If you're serious about TiVo you need to read the TiVo forum at AVS Forum. There is a major TiVo community there; loads of user-to-user goodnes. Also, TiVo has a full-time rep who hangs out there and other places.

    --john