I legally purchased a digital set top box from Ebay that is model - identical to the one I was renting from the cable company. Thought I would save 7.00 a month. However, when I called my local former-microsoft-executive-owned cable company, they told me that they could not make this box work with their system, that all of the boxes came pre-programmed from Motorola to work with their system. Is this correct, or just an I don't want to screw with you response?
I was under the impression that because of said FCC bill, they had to hook this up for me. Anyone know?
Can anyone actually buy these Digital Recievers and USE them? I purchased one from Ebay, exact same make and model of the other two in my house, trying to avoid the $7 per month fee that Charter charges per month. When I hooked it up, it didn't have the same channel lineup, active channels, etc. for my area. A call to Charter produced the answer, "you must rent the equipment from us." When I told them it was the same model, etc, they said they come pre-programmed from Motorola for that area, and they had no way to reprogram them. Is this just FUD on their part, trying to avoid the hassle of actually having to deal with a customer?
Maybe then I would have a way to listen to my collection of 15,000+ LPs and burn select ones to CD. I am one of those sick people that loves the way a Clean LP sounds on a good turntable, but until someone comes up with a way to play some in the car (reliably), I've been recording using an old reciever as a preamp and running through a Livewire!.
I'll fight with anyone to say that an LP sounds better than a CD (waves vs. sampling, yada, yada), but CD's are just more convenient to pack around.
Kind of like tubes vs. Solid state...
I love how everyone is open-minded enough to think that, "if I don't hear it 5000 times on the radio, it's got to suck." Give other music a chance, people!
Don't get me wrong. Kazaa, Gnutella, they are great services. However, has anyone else noticed that the variety of music available has never equalled napster in it's heyday? As a listener of many different styles of music, it's hard to find as many live shows, jazz and blues artists, punk rock, even my favorite alt-country artists seem to lack a Kazaa/gnutella presence. Napster was great for locating things that are hopelessly out of print. I would gladly pay whatever it takes to have Napster return as it was, however, realistically, I know that's not going to happen. When are the labels going to realize that being able to sample different kinds of music not only causes people to grow intellectually, and culturally, but can cause them to sell thing s besides Brittany and N'Sync for a change??
At work I implemented a Citrix Metaframe XP solution, and have had nothing but good luck since day one. It solves all of the problems that I have run into with Terminal Services vanilla, like printing and allowing users seamless access to their local hard drives. A bit of a pain to license, but better than anything else I've seen that ends in XP.:)
The wyse terminals that have been discussed are creamy as well, just point it to the right IP and go!
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I legally purchased a digital set top box from Ebay that is model - identical to the one I was renting from the cable company. Thought I would save 7.00 a month. However, when I called my local former-microsoft-executive-owned cable company, they told me that they could not make this box work with their system, that all of the boxes came pre-programmed from Motorola to work with their system. Is this correct, or just an I don't want to screw with you response? I was under the impression that because of said FCC bill, they had to hook this up for me. Anyone know?
Can anyone actually buy these Digital Recievers and USE them? I purchased one from Ebay, exact same make and model of the other two in my house, trying to avoid the $7 per month fee that Charter charges per month. When I hooked it up, it didn't have the same channel lineup, active channels, etc. for my area. A call to Charter produced the answer, "you must rent the equipment from us." When I told them it was the same model, etc, they said they come pre-programmed from Motorola for that area, and they had no way to reprogram them. Is this just FUD on their part, trying to avoid the hassle of actually having to deal with a customer?
Isn't dust-bunny-laden Osama's not quite as menacing cousin?
Maybe then I would have a way to listen to my collection of 15,000+ LPs and burn select ones to CD. I am one of those sick people that loves the way a Clean LP sounds on a good turntable, but until someone comes up with a way to play some in the car (reliably), I've been recording using an old reciever as a preamp and running through a Livewire!. I'll fight with anyone to say that an LP sounds better than a CD (waves vs. sampling, yada, yada), but CD's are just more convenient to pack around. Kind of like tubes vs. Solid state...
I love how everyone is open-minded enough to think that, "if I don't hear it 5000 times on the radio, it's got to suck." Give other music a chance, people!
and maybe MC Hammer could make a comeback on Tooth and Nail records...Groan.
Don't get me wrong. Kazaa, Gnutella, they are great services. However, has anyone else noticed that the variety of music available has never equalled napster in it's heyday? As a listener of many different styles of music, it's hard to find as many live shows, jazz and blues artists, punk rock, even my favorite alt-country artists seem to lack a Kazaa/gnutella presence. Napster was great for locating things that are hopelessly out of print. I would gladly pay whatever it takes to have Napster return as it was, however, realistically, I know that's not going to happen. When are the labels going to realize that being able to sample different kinds of music not only causes people to grow intellectually, and culturally, but can cause them to sell thing s besides Brittany and N'Sync for a change??
At work I implemented a Citrix Metaframe XP solution, and have had nothing but good luck since day one. It solves all of the problems that I have run into with Terminal Services vanilla, like printing and allowing users seamless access to their local hard drives. A bit of a pain to license, but better than anything else I've seen that ends in XP. :)
The wyse terminals that have been discussed are creamy as well, just point it to the right IP and go!
Good luck with your decision.