Raiders of the Lost Blog

So a good news bad news thing. I just got my new tivo, a series 2 unit from TiVo. They had a deal where refurbs for 60 hour units for $149. Cheap!

It arrived yesterday, and turns out the modem is failing on it. Ugh! I tried all kinds of cables and jacks, but the only way to get it to dial successfully every time was to actually pick up the phone and listen to it call in and leave the phone off the hook during the call. Crazy, but it worked.

So I was ready to call up tivo and send this one back, wait a few weeks for a new one, when I found out that the new series 2 already works with USB Ethernet! If you have an approved USB Ethernet adapter (there’s a list here) you can connect up to an existing LAN. The TiVo will then use my DSL connection to update instead of dialing up. If that works, I won’t have to bother sending the TiVo back. Then my sister Corinne will get my old TiVo that much faster…
Oh, TiVo has a FAQ up for the new features coming in their home network software.

Update 6/14/2004: TiVo now offers the Home Media Option for free! Check out details here. All you need now is a supported wireless or wired adapter . They also have instructions for connecting to an existing network.

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I posted a few new pictures I’ve taken this Winter here in Brooklyn. Click on any photo to go to my Photo Gallery and see them larger, as well as more pictures than shown here.

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Saw this in a mailing list I’m on…

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If you wanna make some quick cash from the evil empire called the music biz, check out this article:
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-CD-Settlement.html

Go to this site for the claim info:
http://www.musiccdsettlement.com/english/default.htm

And fill out this form:
https://webform.musiccdsettlement.com/english/forms/questions.aspx

You only have to answer 3 questions and you can get between $5-20 for having purchased any recorded music from 1995-2000 (which I know you all have).

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