Subj : Re: Syndication
To   : alt.tv.farscape
From : Trouble
Date : Fri Sep 09 2005 12:34:30

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape

Chaya wrote:

> Trouble wrote:

>> Chaya wrote:
 
>>> Speaking of SG-1, I have decided to drop StarGate Atlantis from the
>>> Tivo lineup and replace it with "Threshold" (Carla Gugino, Brent
>>> Spiner). The only seemingly bad thing about it is that Brannon Braga
>>> is a writer... 
 
>> When is it on?
 
>> 2x TiVos... + Networking makes it all better.
 
>> For as much entertainment as we get out of Stargate, we get a similar
>> amount of entertainment out of Atlantis, but it'd be nice to have a
>> show we can watch as the wife doesn't get into BSG at all... 
 
>> As far as the Stargate franchise food comparisons go, its Vanilla,
>> Vanilla is a FLAVOR, Vanilla is not PLAIN which would have no flavor
>> of its own, the flavor of Vanilla is just so innocuous that people
>> don't recognize the difference. 
 
>> If I had to come up with an example of Plain Sci-fi it would be any of
>> the episodes of Outer Limits or Amazing Stories that take place in the
>> "Future" or on a "Spaceship" but don't really have anything novel
>> about them. 

> mmmmmmmmmmmmmmBreyersvanillaicecreammmmmmmmmmmmmmm
 
> Vanilla can be wonderful--especially when they use REAL vanilla
> beans... 

Oddly enough I find that I only really like a creamy vanilla, I thought 
it was french vanilla, but all the high end brands have their own take on 
what that is... the easiest way I've found to get the flavor I want is to 
buy the cheap ass store brand vanilla... 
 
> (and yes, we need another Tivo.)

I paid $89 for my 80 hour Series 2 it was a demo unit, $61 for an 80 hour 
with a bad hard drive, and I'm in about $50-60 in USB network cards for 
them both.


I put a 120 GB drive into the working Tivo and 80 GB from the working one 
into the dead one I got off eBay. The 120 was a hand me down from my 
desktop which got a pair of cheap 200 GB drives.

For reference there are 149 GB of shows from TiVo on my Desktop now.


I now have a $99 250 GB drive, and a $79 250 GB drive just sitting in my 
living room both are the same model, and were from CompUSA sales 2-3 
weeks apart. I have NO IDEA what I'm going to do with them...

One idea is to replace the 200 GB drives with 250 GB drives, and pick up 
close to 100 GB of extra storage.

The other idea is to run another box completely with the 2x250s and have 
it serve the whole house. Ideally I'd like a Linux box that could fake 
being a TiVo well enough that I could trade shows between the TiVo and 
the Server and the TiVos would never know the difference.

-- 
"Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise.
Seek what they sought."
--Basho

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