You are right, but I'm just saying that's what the parent meant about lack of expansion. You then went on about series 2, but that isn't really an expansion--it's a complete replacement.
I guess the point here is that you have to keep buying a completely new tivo, whereas with a pc-based pvr, you can just add a part or a software package.
Of course none of this applies to your Joe Average user, only tech-savvy DIY'ers, who have the time for it.
Series 2 Tivos support USB ethernet adapters. No phone line needed.
Lack of expansion?
I believe you just answered your own question.
Do Series 1 TiVos get this USB ethernet adapter option? What about the HMO? Oh, you say you have to throw out your series 1 and get a series 2 now to get this functionality? Can we expect this every year or two?
Re:Stuck with Windows?
on
PC Annoyances
·
· Score: 1
I'm sorry, but if you haven't seen NT/2k be unstable then clearly you've only worked at places with either less than 50 workstations or haven't been one of the people to deal with these kinds of problems.
This stuff happens all the time. And it's not always windows fault. It could easily be a hardware or driver problem, but it still causes windows to be unstable. It would probably cause any OS to be unstable. The point is I've never seen any place with a decent amount of computer not have at least some instability problems with a certain number of PCs at any given time.
Re:Change Linux resolution in REALTIME!!!
on
PC Annoyances
·
· Score: 1
What's ironic is that all us Windows users are practically required to buy and run a 3rd party virus scanner at all times, because MS still can't figure out how secure the OS.
How long has *nix had this feature now?
Re:Biggest PC annoyance...
on
PC Annoyances
·
· Score: 1
My personal webserver runs on port 90 to get around my ISP's block on port 80. IE6 (in a school lab) can't handle my address that doesn't start with "www" on port 90 without specifying the full http://... URL.
Getting them to move to Opera from MSIE/MSOE was almost no problem.
I have my doubts about that.. Maybe it's because Opera's interface is drastically different than IE/Moz/NS/etc, and most 'normal' people are scared just going from IE to Netscape!
I'm not saying that Opera isn't good, or that you got them to switch, but saying that it was almost no problem compared to firebird/thunderbird/moz would seem to be quite exagerrated.
3 of my close friends own PS2's. 3 of them had problems. Mostly with reading DVDs. One would just stop intermittently and another would not play them at all. The third just stopped working altogether.
I find it interesting that you say this in the same sentence. Not only is CD-RW vastly more compatible and Zip, but the media is about 100x cheaper as well!
Oh, I *agree* that some of the problem is my lack of knowledge about AD.:) I assume that there is a way to give the whole IT Team the rights to add/change printer groups on AD? Because I know I don't have many rights when it comes to AD on our system and they aren't going to give me them anytime soon. But if there's a seperate printer config account, then I see no reason why every IT worker shouldn't have access to it.
I've experienced a similar problem even trying to share a local (parallel/usb cable) printer between 2 AD users. We get around it by manually setting the printer up as an LPR port so that it becomes the default printer for any user on the machine, but doing that requires admin access.
Basically, what annoys me is that merely adding a printer to a machine requires an administrator get involved.
This is really 2 separate problems that I'm descibing now... One is AD and one is adding local printers w/o admin access.
1. you can set printers using Active Directory 'policies', which will replicate to all the machines you specify in that domain.
But then the problem has now become dependant on the AD backend, the user's machine being part of that domain, the machine name itself, (often) the user's account, etc...
Where as with cups config, all you'd have to do is copy and paste some text...which seems much easier.
In my experience on our AD domain, printers aren't fun. I would love being able to copy & paste configs.
You must be out of the loop. Netscape 7.1 is the last version funded by corporate money. They recently gave the Mozilla Foundation a parting gift and that was that. Mozilla is completely on it's own now.
Having just finished reading 1984 last night, I would like to know where it mentions "mind reading" devices anywhere in the book? The telescreens are obvious, we have torture and conditioning, but I don't remember any mind reading device...
While I don't agree with his action, I don't think that putting a cigarette butt into a metal can designed to emit hot exhaust from an internal combustion engine can in any way, shape, or form be considered the same as vandalizing or burning a house down.
Unless the house was designed to be burned down.
Re:Plextor's 708A works just fine at 8X
on
DVD-Rs go 8x
·
· Score: 1
What -- fast but ureliable?
Just to be anal about it...
This was true of Ferraris built pre-90s. The reliability of any modern Ferrari has improved many times over.
Thats just like saying , "every one of my classes has information posted on a notice board outside the canteen". How exactly does that make it vital?
No, because I can see every update posted to this canteen from anywhere in the world.
I happen to live an hour away from school (this semester only), and I can hardly imagine having to "check the canteen" every time the prof updates it--which can be multiple times in a day.
Sure, it's doable. But it's doable in about the same way that walking to school is doable.
Oh, I have no problem with the iPod. I wish to own one myself.:)
I'm just saying that the people shopping for the squeezebox aren't looking for a portable player, so why pay $500 for something that you can get much more capacity for less? Not to mention a remote, etc.
"He was the lone senator to vote against the USA Patriot Act last fall, has been its most vocal critic, warning that the act infringes on constitutional freedoms. He also introduced legislation that would put on hold the government's "Total Information Awareness Program"."
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah sure you did, AC.
I've never seen anything of the sort in this Firebird.
You are right, but I'm just saying that's what the parent meant about lack of expansion. You then went on about series 2, but that isn't really an expansion--it's a complete replacement.
I guess the point here is that you have to keep buying a completely new tivo, whereas with a pc-based pvr, you can just add a part or a software package.
Of course none of this applies to your Joe Average user, only tech-savvy DIY'ers, who have the time for it.
Series 2 Tivos support USB ethernet adapters. No phone line needed.
Lack of expansion?
I believe you just answered your own question.
Do Series 1 TiVos get this USB ethernet adapter option? What about the HMO? Oh, you say you have to throw out your series 1 and get a series 2 now to get this functionality? Can we expect this every year or two?
I'm sorry, but if you haven't seen NT/2k be unstable then clearly you've only worked at places with either less than 50 workstations or haven't been one of the people to deal with these kinds of problems.
This stuff happens all the time. And it's not always windows fault. It could easily be a hardware or driver problem, but it still causes windows to be unstable. It would probably cause any OS to be unstable. The point is I've never seen any place with a decent amount of computer not have at least some instability problems with a certain number of PCs at any given time.
What's ironic is that all us Windows users are practically required to buy and run a 3rd party virus scanner at all times, because MS still can't figure out how secure the OS.
How long has *nix had this feature now?
My personal webserver runs on port 90 to get around my ISP's block on port 80. IE6 (in a school lab) can't handle my address that doesn't start with "www" on port 90 without specifying the full http://... URL.
Mozilla works fine. Go figure.
+1 funny please :)
Getting them to move to Opera from MSIE/MSOE was almost no problem.
I have my doubts about that.. Maybe it's because Opera's interface is drastically different than IE/Moz/NS/etc, and most 'normal' people are scared just going from IE to Netscape!
I'm not saying that Opera isn't good, or that you got them to switch, but saying that it was almost no problem compared to firebird/thunderbird/moz would seem to be quite exagerrated.
Perhaps you haven't experienced iTunes?
I have 2 words for you: Smart Playlists.
And there's where the iPod fails: 90 days is a joke
The iPod now comes with a 1-yr warranty.
(I would rather it was a 3-yr, since it's a 300-500 device...)
3 of my close friends own PS2's. 3 of them had problems. Mostly with reading DVDs. One would just stop intermittently and another would not play them at all. The third just stopped working altogether.
Zip Drives rock and if it doesn't fit, CD-RW
I find it interesting that you say this in the same sentence. Not only is CD-RW vastly more compatible and Zip, but the media is about 100x cheaper as well!
Oh man. That was a nice laugh. Thanks.
Oh, I *agree* that some of the problem is my lack of knowledge about AD. :) I assume that there is a way to give the whole IT Team the rights to add/change printer groups on AD? Because I know I don't have many rights when it comes to AD on our system and they aren't going to give me them anytime soon. But if there's a seperate printer config account, then I see no reason why every IT worker shouldn't have access to it.
I've experienced a similar problem even trying to share a local (parallel/usb cable) printer between 2 AD users. We get around it by manually setting the printer up as an LPR port so that it becomes the default printer for any user on the machine, but doing that requires admin access.
Basically, what annoys me is that merely adding a printer to a machine requires an administrator get involved.
This is really 2 separate problems that I'm descibing now... One is AD and one is adding local printers w/o admin access.
1. you can set printers using Active Directory 'policies', which will replicate to all the machines you specify in that domain.
But then the problem has now become dependant on the AD backend, the user's machine being part of that domain, the machine name itself, (often) the user's account, etc...
Where as with cups config, all you'd have to do is copy and paste some text...which seems much easier.
In my experience on our AD domain, printers aren't fun. I would love being able to copy & paste configs.
You must be out of the loop. Netscape 7.1 is the last version funded by corporate money. They recently gave the Mozilla Foundation a parting gift and that was that.
Mozilla is completely on it's own now.
Having just finished reading 1984 last night, I would like to know where it mentions "mind reading" devices anywhere in the book? The telescreens are obvious, we have torture and conditioning, but I don't remember any mind reading device...
While I don't agree with his action, I don't think that putting a cigarette butt into a metal can designed to emit hot exhaust from an internal combustion engine can in any way, shape, or form be considered the same as vandalizing or burning a house down.
Unless the house was designed to be burned down.
What -- fast but ureliable?
Just to be anal about it...
This was true of Ferraris built pre-90s. The reliability of any modern Ferrari has improved many times over.
Ask Ken Lay.
I was thinking the same thing.
Thats just like saying , "every one of my classes has information posted on a notice board outside the canteen". How exactly does that make it vital?
No, because I can see every update posted to this canteen from anywhere in the world.
I happen to live an hour away from school (this semester only), and I can hardly imagine having to "check the canteen" every time the prof updates it--which can be multiple times in a day.
Sure, it's doable. But it's doable in about the same way that walking to school is doable.
Oh, I have no problem with the iPod. I wish to own one myself. :)
I'm just saying that the people shopping for the squeezebox aren't looking for a portable player, so why pay $500 for something that you can get much more capacity for less? Not to mention a remote, etc.
Why would they name if after database software?
Senator Russ Feingold, Democrat Wisconsin
"He was the lone senator to vote against the USA Patriot Act last fall, has been its most vocal critic, warning that the act infringes on constitutional freedoms. He also introduced legislation that would put on hold the government's "Total Information Awareness Program"."
Statement Of U.S. Senator Russ Feingold On The Anti-Terrorism Bill From The Senate Floor
epic.org mentions Feingold