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I Hate Hardware

Spending most of this afternoon trying to restore our TiVo to working order (an attempted re-upgrade to a bigger hard disk and a database cachecard and a network card) after having somehow made it ill after the last time—the TiVo has been dying a slow death for a month—I'm doing it all over again.

Remembering to change jumpers on a hard drive back and forth, connecting and disconnecting and reconnecting hard disks to the insides of a PC (I know, right???) and burning linux boot CDs from ISO images found on the net...it's going to kill me.

Oh, how I long for software-only solutions. Or Apple coming out with a box that does it all for me already and is integrated with iTunes, iMovie and iDVD...

I feel dirty. And dusty.

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you lost me at database cachecard.
we have a DV-R through Time Warner for only $6.95/mo (no extra fees for subscription or anything) and it's great.

it has to be said. nrrrrrrrrrrrd! sorry the baby is giving you trouble.

Did you let it defrost it first? :)

iTelevision? *fans self* Stop getting me all riled up before bedtime, Jeff. Hope you got the hardware working.

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