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On Sat, 13 Jan 2007 11:34:53 +0000, Mike Henry
wrote:

In , Jerry Brown
wrote:

On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 21:11:37 +0000, Mike Henry
wrote:
Yes, it appeared on the main "TiVo Central" menu, with a green
clapperboard icon.

Similar to the first image on this page for ("Go behind the scenes of
Seabiscuit"):
http://www.pvrcompare.com/dtimages.html
(they use a yellow star these days in the USA for a similar function)

HTH

Thanks Mike. That's cleared up something I've wondered about for years
(I didn't have a TiVo at the time of the incident)..

You're welcome. I had my TiVo at the time, but I had deleted D&J from
the To Do list a few days earlier so I missed out on all the fun! (I
used to regularly prune scheduled suggestions that I didn't like the
look of from the To Do list, hoping it'd pick something else for the
same timeslot instead! There is a backdoor code to make scheduled
suggestions appear in To Do - and D&J was in amongst other suggestions).

Any chance of sharing the code please. I know the usual ones (30
second skip, quick disappear of time bar, etc).

Jerry Brown
--
A cat may look at a king
(but probably won't bother)

http://www.jwbrown.co.uk

Adding memory to Sky+
 

On Sun, 14 Jan 2007 11:43:41 +0000, Mike Henry
wrote:

In , Jerry Brown
wrote:

On Sat, 13 Jan 2007 11:34:53 +0000, Mike Henry
wrote:
You're welcome. I had my TiVo at the time, but I had deleted D&J from
the To Do list a few days earlier so I missed out on all the fun! (I
used to regularly prune scheduled suggestions that I didn't like the
look of from the To Do list, hoping it'd pick something else for the
same timeslot instead! There is a backdoor code to make scheduled
suggestions appear in To Do - and D&J was in amongst other suggestions).

Any chance of sharing the code please. I know the usual ones (30
second skip, quick disappear of time bar, etc).

Jerry Brown

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&r...22&btnG=Search
2nd result, "New Almost Complete TiVo Codes List"
Look in that thread for "scheduled suggestions". "It's in the 6. Triple
Thumb codes (new to 2.5 and up)" bit.

Ta, but I can't seem to get it to work (my system is 2.5.5, so should
work).

I'll have another try tomorrow anyway.

Jerry Brown
--
A cat may look at a king
(but probably won't bother)

http://www.jwbrown.co.uk

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....snip...
Thing is... If you *do* have a bad batch - say PCs with an
under-specified power supply, or PCs that write random corruptions to
the disk, then you're most likely to discover the fault when the PC is
switched on. When you're recovering from a power blackout, that's a bad
time to discover that you've got a bunch of PC failures to deal with. So
if you have some PCs that normally do have to be left switched on,
because they are servers or whatever, then arrange a maintenance cycle
in which they are power cycled individually about once per month.

That's a very interesting point that I'd never considered. Yet another
almost unmeasurable benefit/risk comparison to throw into the mix :-).

Paul DS.

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....snip...
This is on a couple of PCs that have been on all the time and only
have the disks spin down when there's been a power cut and the UPS
battery has given up (probably three or four times). I have now ended
up with more capacity on external hard drives than in all the PCs
here, just need to remember to back everything up regularly...

Beware of the following. Our company invested in some APC UPSes about 5
years ago and they came with a "test cycle". We naively assumed this would
be useful but we discovered that the "test" was to internally disconnect the
mains power, switching 100% to battery for a few seconds. Guess what
happened when we ran a test on a UPS whose battery had died - it wasn't
pleasant!

Paul DS.

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"gort" wrote in message
...

Believe it or not I do actually check the drive brand when setting a
new machine up. Maxtor are not ubiquitous and probably only account
for 25% of the working drives that I see.

Maxtors, at the moment, seem to be failing more than other brands. But to
be
fair I have had mdoels from all makers fail at one time or another, a few
years back IBMS 'deathstars' were all the rage. These things go in cycles.
Who knows, in a few months, it might be Seagates.

Dave

I've had 5 Maxtors fail in the 3 years, a replacement failed 6 weeks after
receiving it and I got caught up in the transfer of Maxtor to Seagate, had
to provide all sorts of info & proof of delivery, went bananas with them
about the time being taken to process.
Received 2 drives last week after waiting for 10 weeks, demanded
compensation or an extra drive, another 2 to fail???

SM