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09/01/10

Permalink 08:37:35 pm, by The Dreamer Email , 419 words   English (US)
Categories: General, TiVo HD / Premiere, Storage

TiVo HD 2 will be blank soon....

...I am now doing the process of removing the old 500GB My DVR Expander from it, which'll surely leave it blank. And, then it'll be the process of bonding it with the new 1TB My DVR AV Expander. There was some thought on when I was going to do these… more »
Permalink 06:48:16 pm, by The Dreamer Email , 277 words   English (US)
Categories: TiVo HD / Premiere, Storage

TiVo HD 1 is blank....

...there's supposed to be like 100 hours of HD programming on it, but that's what happens when I try to add 500GB of storage to it.I finally upgraded the external storage from 500GB to 1TB.I remember thinking about doing this last summer, except… more »
Permalink 10:25:38 am, by The Dreamer Email , 616 words   English (US)
Categories: Home, Appliances, Safety & Security, Healthcare

Surround Air XJ-3800 Intelli-Pro Spare Filter

Soon after owning the Surround Air XJ-3800, I found I didn't like it and had plans to eventually replace it with something else. That's because it uses a metal grid that require periodic cleaning, and that cleaning requires significant dis-assembly, c… more »

08/29/10

Permalink 09:02:47 pm, by The Dreamer Email , 5 words   English (US)
Categories: DVDs / NetFlix

DVD: Avatar

I rated this 5 stars. :rs::rs::rs::rs::rs: more »
Permalink 01:40:24 pm, by The Dreamer Email , 390 words   English (US)
Categories: Software, Networking, Cox HSI, AT&T DSL

ddclient & squid

apt-get source squidapt-get build-dep squidapt-get install devscripts build-essential fakerootcd squid-2.7.STABLE7vi debian/rules Add --enable-ssl \ to “# Configure the package” section./configuredebuild -us -uc -bcd ..dpkg -i squid… more »

08/14/10

Permalink 08:13:47 pm, by The Dreamer Email , 120 words   English (US)
Categories: TiVo HD / Premiere, Cox HSI

Wow Cox can be pretty snappy

So, I purchased the episode that I missed last night due to the storm taking out Cox from Amazon Video On Demand on my TiVo Premiere.And, later I noticed this big download spike for my router. At first I thought it was a 'bug' (overflow/wraparound/r… more »

08/08/10

Permalink 01:49:12 pm, by The Dreamer Email , 519 words   English (US)
Categories: Hardware, Computer, Furnishings, Storage

the 'gumby' upgrade, not so good.

actually, pretty bad....So, while I was looking at the items for the 'lhaven' upgrade...I happened to type other things I might want, and came across a PCI PS/2 adapter.The new 'gumby' is legacy free...which was causing problems working under my… more »
Permalink 12:24:22 pm, by The Dreamer Email , 199 words   English (US)
Categories: Hardware, Computer, BOINC

upgraded 'lhaven', second times the charm...

After having had some time to lick my wounds from trying to upgrade 'lhaven'. I decided to take the plunge and try again. So, I went back on to eBay....and bought another 1GB stick of memory, from the same seller as before...so that I could take the… more »

08/05/10

Permalink 08:55:15 am, by The Dreamer Email , 77 words   English (US)
Categories: General, Healthcare

Pepsi Refresh Update for Narcolepsy Research

If doing the same thing over and over again doesn't get you a different result, its time to try something different. Stanford’s Center for Narcolepsy plans to submit a new grant application for narcolepsy research in the $50,000 category. In order to… more »

08/04/10

Permalink 07:36:47 pm, by The Dreamer Email , 966 words   English (US)
Categories: Hardware, Software, Computer, BOINC, Storage

orac's RAID6 is back

Last Saturday, I woke to find lots of SMART dialogs on orac's screen. It wasn't happy about a lot of drives, I had expected to see one or two...the usual when it does its monthly mdadm checkarray....except it wasn't Sunday yet.I then saw that lots o… more »

08/01/10

Permalink 05:04:06 pm, by The Dreamer Email , 528 words   English (US)
Categories: Stuff, Home Theatre, TiVo HD / Premiere

I got a TiVo Premiere

Actually, I set it up last Sunday....and I bought two weeks before that.I got just a TiVo Premiere, figuring its stock 320GB(?) + 1TB would be sufficient (given that I have two TiVo HD's with their stock 160GB + 500GB each.) What I got immediately t… more »

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