Subj : Re: Syndication
To   : alt.tv.farscape
From : Nick
Date : Fri Sep 09 2005 17:37:32

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape

Trouble wrote:

> 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. 
> 

Buy you an external drive case.  You can swap the drives in and out 
of the case for back up purposes or storage.

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