Lawrence "The Dreamer" Chen's Blog

Last night, in the #k-slug channel I heard that a movie was playing on AMC. So, I popped over to my TiVo HD to see if I could record it, but it had already started (and no other airings in the immediate future)...so I tried to watch it live instead (mor… more »

As in Cablecards from Cox. :>> This time around things went much better, despite a small hiccup during the process. This time the installer seemed to know his way around a TiVo. He put the first card in by itself first (instead of popping both in… more »

One of the things I had grumbled about was now having to switch inputs on my Zektor HDVI5 more often than usual. Namely, going between my two TiVo HD's. The other two devices, my DVD player and the Cox HD DVR, were getting little use. Like, I'm only… more »

I have scheduled the installation of a[nother] pair of Cox Cablecards, for my 'new' TiVo HD DVR. I don't remember what I paid for installation last time, but it sounded much higher this time around. I may strongly consider the retirement of the Cox H… more »

The 'New' TiVo HD arrived today. It was supposed to come yesterday, but the UPS delivery didn't happen until 15 minutes after I had given up waiting for it to show up. This time I booked the morning off, and waited those extra 15 minutes. Perhaps it… more »

Of course, I'm talking about my Ubuntu server (well, maybe not obvious....except that I'm not known for doing upgrades). I had debated waiting for Hardy Heron's release before building this Linux server. Except that I had bought the box back in Decem… more »

Well, now that things seem to be working, I was making use of the TiVo HD last night....to the point where I didn't check any of my other recorders for content last night.... There's quite a bit of channels that I got on the Cox HD DVR, that I don't s… more »

Well, I got to a point where it said it was going to take a long time to update. So, after waiting a while....I decided to go in to work. When, I got home, it was still finishing its connection. It was the the slow count up of "Loading". It was at… more »

The process got off to a rough start...the installer put card 1 in and then put card 2 in, and called to do the pairing. During the call he was instructed to remove cards and then do them one at a time. That seemed to go somewhat better. He didn't… more »

Well, I pulled that trigger.... I called Cox, navigated through the phone menus...entered my old Vonage phone number (the Ohio one)...and then got to talk to someone about getting CableCards. The only hang up was how many did I need? I asked if th… more »

Today, I came home late from work...and found sitting on my doorstep that FedEx has left the TiVo HD DVR there. Odd, when I ordered the Cox HD DVR, they wouldn't do that...and even though I waited at home all day by the front door, they claim that I was… more »

I've had it with lack of line up updates from DNNA, and the need to call a non-tollfree number and wait on indefinite hold to fix something they should be keeping up on. So, I looked at remapping some data to get the one channel that I'm missing out o… more »