The reason I asked is because I used to work for Taos, Inc. and they laid off like 2/3rds or so of their workforce (including me) a couple of years ago. I was just going to be incredulous at their misuse (IMNSHO) of resources considering all the people they fucked over.
But nevermind:)
Notably, as well, they have gone from being "The Sys Admin Company" to "We can help you fire people but make the leftovers work twice as hard!". Nice.
They fired us by email. It was my birthday. Seriously.
My company, the godsend that it is, buys food for any employee who wants it, but the order can be in no later than 5:20p. (We get to order off or an actual menu from an actual restaurant)
So, I have a Calendar alert pop up daily at 4:55p, or I'd miss out (very often, in fact). I don't get hungry until 6:00p or so, so I have to visually remind myself to order if I *think* I'll still be here at 6:30p (when the food arrives)
I know it was meant as funny, but it is useful for people like me who can forget to pee for 6 hours because their brain is 'on a roll' with soemthing.
From the first link, the proverbial horses mouth of tivo.com, the VERY FIRST note (the second sentence, not counting the initial question being answered): "You must use the phone line to complete initial Guided Setup."
"It is possible to do the initial setup on a series 2 SA TiVo via Broadband without a landline." Do you know what SA means? Stand Alone. Did you miss all the times I referred to DirecTiVo? DirecTiVo != SA TiVo
Same post: "You must use a supported USB to Ethernet adapter -- wireless broadband is not available until the TiVo updates its software to version 4 during one of the first calls following setup." So. You need to call on a phone line to get to v4. Hm. So, how does that get around the need for a land line, again?
So, long story short. If you get a Series 2 TiVo that happens to have the right version of software pre-installed on it, though there's no way to check beforehand, and if it's a standalone TiVo which is not what I would be buying anyway because why would I cripple myself that way, and if I buy some additional hardware that may or may not work, then it'll work with no problems.
Yeah, great. $40 a month (yes, really. SBC rapes you. $35 or so just for the line, and we had to get Privacy Manager to stop the 10+ calls a day of the telemarketers' war dialers just calling and hanging up) so I can call 911 if I'm bleeding on the floor.
So for the next 27 years that comes to, uh, $12,960. Assuming no inflation.
Want to split it? You can make emergency calls, too.
Notably, even "inactive" phone lines still connected to the grid have to be able to make 911 calls (as mentioned by another post).
You know, like, when you, like, buy it, and you have to, you know, like, set it, you know, up? They, um, you know, make you, uh, like, call this, like, number on a, you know, like, phone line.
After it's set up, you can use whatever the fuck you want. With DirecTiVo, I don't think you *ever* need to call over a phone line or connect via any "wires" again (not having one of my own, I can't speak to this with authority - though, I know my upstairs neighbor has not asked to re-borrow my phone line since setting his DirecTiVo up several months ago).
So either a) pay attention or b) give up on your lame attempt at astroturf FUD.
My upstairs neighbor had to use my landline phone to set up his Tivo
The third floor guy has no landline phone, but doesn't have any use for one.
If I go landline-free, who would I be "sharing" with? There are only 3 units in my building and, as I mentioned, the other two are all-cellular. The only building within a few hundred feet is a restaurant which happens to be run by a bunch of assholes.
I suppose I could take my hypothetical new TiVo over to a friend's house, but they would have to have a Satellite feed (else it's impossible to verify that the TiVo is working/set up) as well. The closest friend I have meeting these requirements (and with whom I would feel comfortable highjacking their phone line and raping their A/V set up to graft in my equipment temporarily) is about a 45 minute drive. That's just retarded.
I should be able to make a "normal" call out of a cell phone. If the technology existed 15 years ago (as mentioned in an earlier post on this thread - I remember such a feature on older cell phones as well), why does it not exist today?
Well, upon looking to Google for answers, I came up with something, but that's quite a few coins ($100 up to $130, depending on model) for such basic (I would think) functionality. And it's Nokia-only, and then works only with certain models.
Anyone know of anything similar that's more in the, say, $50 range?
You can't even record a single show without first making a telephone call on a landline. Even the DirecTiVos which get their listing from the satellite.
Is there a way to plug a normally landline-connected device into a cell phone for the occasional call?
If he's referring to the little "spots" like previews and such on the TiVo menu, I was of the understanding that these were downloaded from TiVo over the phone lines pre-encoded, not "taped".
There is. it's in the menu. No TiVo Suggestions, or some such. I'm not at home, or I'd just go look at mine.
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My girlfriend made me buy her a stand mixer for xmas last year.
I generally consider myself a good gift-giver - trying to balance "will this actually be used?" with "would the person otherwise not get it for themselves?" (a requisite in my mind).
Just hooking someone up with what they're too budget-impaired to save for on their own is not a gift, it's charity (IMNSHO).
You're the wrongest wrong person who's ever been wrong.
I just checked and, lo, it still works like it has for the last few years.
`man u<TAB>`
(shows list of every available man page starting with "u") `n<TAB>`
(shows everything "un...") `am<TAB>`
(completes command to 'man uname ' - space at the end, in case there are more arguments. How smart!)
So, how does a person get to be so wrong? Is it hard to not bother to try the simplest of commands on your own? I know it would bother me to blather about concerning subjects I know nothing of.
I wouldn't be stupid enough to call a judge from a non-payphone (with my head in a sock, just in case).
But, I would call the court itself and let them know that I'm going to give them a call every time my constitutional right to not be harassed in my home is violated.
(405)609-5000
Here's the link to the Google search on the number, so you know I'm not setting you up for a visit from the Secret Service:)
I don't think Denon makes one with less than 11/8 these days (not counting the welfare offshore models). Though, you're spending $1000 for a good deal on the cheapest "good" model.
Kenwood has something like 11/10 on their Sovereign series. Sony and Pioneer both have receivers that fit these specs, too, I believe.
Right, but the people who are judging the age of the subject (spaceman or mouse) have aged, as compared to the subject, at an accelerated rate.
So, if the mouse subject was born in year 1 and the space flight took 2 years, but the judges aged 100 years, the judges would say "god DAMN that's one old mouse! I remember when he was born! He's 100 years old!"
Have you ever read any "distilled" summaries of the theory of relativity?
The classic example is the spaceman who is rocketed out somewhere far away (many lightyears) at barely < speed-o-light. When he gets to his destination and "calls home" he'll find all of his immediate family and friends to be dead and his children to be old folks.
(In the "happier" version, it's something like the spaceman is a twin, and his twin is an old man and he is not. Something like that. The Happy Guy wasn't going as far, I guess.)
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The reason I asked is because I used to work for Taos, Inc. and they laid off like 2/3rds or so of their workforce (including me) a couple of years ago. I was just going to be incredulous at their misuse (IMNSHO) of resources considering all the people they fucked over.
But nevermind :)
Notably, as well, they have gone from being "The Sys Admin Company" to "We can help you fire people but make the leftovers work twice as hard!". Nice.
They fired us by email. It was my birthday. Seriously.
WTH is Taos Linux? Google doesn't seem to know, either...
My company, the godsend that it is, buys food for any employee who wants it, but the order can be in no later than 5:20p. (We get to order off or an actual menu from an actual restaurant)
So, I have a Calendar alert pop up daily at 4:55p, or I'd miss out (very often, in fact). I don't get hungry until 6:00p or so, so I have to visually remind myself to order if I *think* I'll still be here at 6:30p (when the food arrives)
I know it was meant as funny, but it is useful for people like me who can forget to pee for 6 hours because their brain is 'on a roll' with soemthing.
I just "stripped" my phone service on Monday. $5.26 + calls, now! woo!
Yep. Still regarding the Standalone TiVo. Still not what I'm talking about.
You're brilliant!
From the second link:
- "It is possible to do the initial setup on a series 2 SA TiVo via Broadband without a landline."
- Same post: "You must use a supported USB to Ethernet adapter -- wireless broadband is not available until the TiVo updates its software to version 4 during one of the first calls following setup."
So, long story short. If you get a Series 2 TiVo that happens to have the right version of software pre-installed on it, though there's no way to check beforehand, and if it's a standalone TiVo which is not what I would be buying anyway because why would I cripple myself that way, and if I buy some additional hardware that may or may not work, then it'll work with no problems.Do you know what SA means? Stand Alone. Did you miss all the times I referred to DirecTiVo? DirecTiVo != SA TiVo
So. You need to call on a phone line to get to v4. Hm. So, how does that get around the need for a land line, again?
Wow, simple. Thanks for posting.
Since TiVo just loves to send hardware out with ancient versions of the software.
They're up to, what, v4.0.1 now?
v1.3 was obsoleted June of 2001.
Yeah, great. $40 a month (yes, really. SBC rapes you. $35 or so just for the line, and we had to get Privacy Manager to stop the 10+ calls a day of the telemarketers' war dialers just calling and hanging up) so I can call 911 if I'm bleeding on the floor.
So for the next 27 years that comes to, uh, $12,960. Assuming no inflation.
Want to split it? You can make emergency calls, too.
Notably, even "inactive" phone lines still connected to the grid have to be able to make 911 calls (as mentioned by another post).
The INITIAL call has to be over a phone line.
How many times do I have to repeat it?
Initial call == phone line.
You must use a phone line for the initial call.
if [ $1 == "initial call" ]; then phone(line); fi
The initial call? Phone line.
You know, like, when you, like, buy it, and you have to, you know, like, set it, you know, up? They, um, you know, make you, uh, like, call this, like, number on a, you know, like, phone line.
After it's set up, you can use whatever the fuck you want. With DirecTiVo, I don't think you *ever* need to call over a phone line or connect via any "wires" again (not having one of my own, I can't speak to this with authority - though, I know my upstairs neighbor has not asked to re-borrow my phone line since setting his DirecTiVo up several months ago).
So either a) pay attention or b) give up on your lame attempt at astroturf FUD.
The third floor guy has no landline phone, but doesn't have any use for one.
If I go landline-free, who would I be "sharing" with? There are only 3 units in my building and, as I mentioned, the other two are all-cellular. The only building within a few hundred feet is a restaurant which happens to be run by a bunch of assholes.
I suppose I could take my hypothetical new TiVo over to a friend's house, but they would have to have a Satellite feed (else it's impossible to verify that the TiVo is working/set up) as well. The closest friend I have meeting these requirements (and with whom I would feel comfortable highjacking their phone line and raping their A/V set up to graft in my equipment temporarily) is about a 45 minute drive. That's just retarded.
I should be able to make a "normal" call out of a cell phone. If the technology existed 15 years ago (as mentioned in an earlier post on this thread - I remember such a feature on older cell phones as well), why does it not exist today?
You still have to make the initial call over a phone line. I'm positive.
Anyone know of anything similar that's more in the, say, $50 range?
How will TiVo know what's going on?
You can't even record a single show without first making a telephone call on a landline. Even the DirecTiVos which get their listing from the satellite.
Is there a way to plug a normally landline-connected device into a cell phone for the occasional call?
If he's referring to the little "spots" like previews and such on the TiVo menu, I was of the understanding that these were downloaded from TiVo over the phone lines pre-encoded, not "taped".
There is. it's in the menu. No TiVo Suggestions, or some such. I'm not at home, or I'd just go look at mine.
I generally consider myself a good gift-giver - trying to balance "will this actually be used?" with "would the person otherwise not get it for themselves?" (a requisite in my mind).
Just hooking someone up with what they're too budget-impaired to save for on their own is not a gift, it's charity (IMNSHO).
You're the wrongest wrong person who's ever been wrong.
I just checked and, lo, it still works like it has for the last few years.
`man u<TAB>`
(shows list of every available man page starting with "u")
`n<TAB>`
(shows everything "un...")
`am<TAB>`
(completes command to 'man uname ' - space at the end, in case there are more arguments. How smart!)
So, how does a person get to be so wrong? Is it hard to not bother to try the simplest of commands on your own? I know it would bother me to blather about concerning subjects I know nothing of.
Wow. This several-year-long (and ongoing) hallucination rocks, then.
You obviously have no idea what you're talking about.
If you're a bash user, I suggest looking up "bash-completion". it's an optional package in many distros these days.
Note: this is not the regular old tab-completion for paths that comes stock that I am referring to, either.
you OBVIOUSLY need to use a shell with auto-completion.
bash or zsh are the ones I like, but many have that capability (whether inherent, like zsh, or via creative scripting, like bash).
No lawyer is that stupid. It's the times zone the court is in.
But, I would call the court itself and let them know that I'm going to give them a call every time my constitutional right to not be harassed in my home is violated.
(405)609-5000
Here's the link to the Google search on the number, so you know I'm not setting you up for a visit from the Secret Service :)
I don't think Denon makes one with less than 11/8 these days (not counting the welfare offshore models). Though, you're spending $1000 for a good deal on the cheapest "good" model.
Kenwood has something like 11/10 on their Sovereign series. Sony and Pioneer both have receivers that fit these specs, too, I believe.
There are many choices, look around.
I usually end up at activebuyersguide.com, myself.
Right, but the people who are judging the age of the subject (spaceman or mouse) have aged, as compared to the subject, at an accelerated rate.
So, if the mouse subject was born in year 1 and the space flight took 2 years, but the judges aged 100 years, the judges would say "god DAMN that's one old mouse! I remember when he was born! He's 100 years old!"
Of course, to the mouse, he's just middle-aged.
Have you ever read any "distilled" summaries of the theory of relativity?
The classic example is the spaceman who is rocketed out somewhere far away (many lightyears) at barely < speed-o-light. When he gets to his destination and "calls home" he'll find all of his immediate family and friends to be dead and his children to be old folks.
(In the "happier" version, it's something like the spaceman is a twin, and his twin is an old man and he is not. Something like that. The Happy Guy wasn't going as far, I guess.)