Lawrence "The Dreamer" Chen's Blog

According to UPS, an IBM NetVista off-lease refurb Celeron 1.8Ghz with 256MB/40GB/CDRW/NO-OS machine that I ordered to replace my current 'box' will arrive on Monday. The old 'box' was an off-lease from a state auction (via eBay) Celeron 433MHz with 128… more »

In my morning check of my systems, I found that box wasn't responding.... I figured at first that the scheduled mondoarchive of the system had run long (which I normally run at 6 month intervals....March and September....kind of surprised that March h… more »

I had a fustrating experience....in making continued enhancements to my Personal ReplayGuide 'update' script, I added some handling for a missing map entry (Zap2It is not providing a map entry for UHD, even though the site knows that it should be at 715)… more »

Why they are the platters from an OEM Maxtor 7Y250P0 (250GB/8MB 7200RPM Hard Drive). Somehow it wasn't quite as satifactory as when I took apart smaller capacity harddrives. Its the drive that was in my ReplayTV known as "Number 7" (aka "The Dreame… more »

Well, this morning I found that my update hadn't happened. Turns out the dependence of getting the last update time for 'GuideUpdated' was flawed...because the string is set to "Failed" if the last update failed....probably results in an ignored excepti… more »

....for getting to sleep, I think. :yawn: I've been trying, but it is hard to go to bed when I'm not tired...and then I somehow manage to get busy that I forget that I should. Today, it was yet another Zap2it related code change....this time in WiR… more »

A few days ago, Zap2it reduced the amount of data available by DataDirect to 3 days. (they have since removed the restriction, without solving the actual issues that prompted them to do this....) This reduction of data was kind of bad, because I've b… more »

Thinking things over some more, and noting that there was an SA8300 DVR code available....I decided to mess around with my JP1'd URC8910. Key changes.... SAT now controls my Samsung SIR-T351's....it shouldn't because I have two and there's not enou… more »

I had this extra remote (URC-8910) from when I was first playing around with JP1 and multiple ReplayTVs....before I settled on really liking a URC-6131 for the task of controlling my 7 ReplayTVs and TV/Receiver. Opting to use the Momitsu V880N's poor… more »

I was just thinking now there ought to be a program (for Windows) called "I'm Busy" (or "IM Busy", though it should work more than just IM programs). I just had another phone interview, which I thought was very challenging and interesting...hopefully… more »