Sounds like there are issues going on there that is a bit freaky. Sometimes unplugging the box works as a reboot.
On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Martin Baxter <truthseeker...@hotmail.com>wrote: > > > Yep. Last two weeks we were Comcrap customers, the boxes worked for a day. > I had to get up every morning, hook them all up to the three TVs we have and > run through the set-up to see if they worked, then take them off if they > didn't. And, even when they did work, it wasn't full-on. Lots of channels > still AWOL. Until yesterday, I'd laid eyes on the History Channel *once* in > the last four months. > > > "If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in > bloody hell hired the director?" -- Charles L Grant > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik > > > > > ------------------------------ > To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com > From: hellomahog...@gmail.com > Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2009 14:58:08 -0800 > > Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] GE makes it final > > > Why were there so many people at the same time? Is the equipment that bad > where you are? > > > On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 2:46 PM, Martin Baxter > <truthseeker...@hotmail.com>wrote: > > > > Keith, I ahve a little hope for you, then. > > I said, yesterday or the day before, that I'd finally freed myself from the > yoke of Comcrap. Yesterday, my younger sister had to go to the service > center near my house to turn in our boxes, and I rode along with her. > > There was a line running out of the center and onto the sidewalk, all > people turning in their equipment. > > "If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in > bloody hell hired the director?" -- Charles L Grant > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik > > > > > ------------------------------ > To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com > From: keithbjohn...@comcast.net > Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2009 01:59:33 +0000 > Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] GE makes it final > > > > it'll take a year for all the final hurdles to be cleared, but this is > horrible, horrible news. I'm in the midst of a battle with Comcast now, over > a cable box they gave me three years ago. It was given as a two-for-one > deal, in which i'd never pay for that box. But, even though the box was hand > delivered and turned on, they never recorded it.So, every single time it has > a problem, they deny its existence, then give me some answer that's either > "start paying for it and you can keep it", or, "just give it up to us and we > won't charge you". > > The incompetence, dishonesty, and disregard of Comcast makes me sick all > the time. These are the people who were blocking bit torrent traffic, the > ones who were threatening to cut off users' Internet access for downloading > too much data, but not telling them what the download limit was. Them > gaining this much power is a bad thing. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mr. Worf" <hellomahog...@gmail.com> > To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com > Sent: Thursday, December 3, 2009 7:33:07 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern > Subject: [scifinoir2] GE makes it final > > > Comcast now owns NBC. You may commence to screaming aloud... > > -- > Bringing diversity to perversity for over 9 years! > Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ > > > > ------------------------------ > Windows 7: Unclutter your desktop. Learn > more.<http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/videos-tours.aspx?h=7sec&slideid=1&media=aero-shake-7second&listid=1&stop=1&ocid=PID24727::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WWL_WIN_7secdemo:122009> > > > > > -- > Bringing diversity to perversity for over 9 years! > Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ > > > ------------------------------ > Windows 7: Unclutter your desktop. Learn > more.<http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/videos-tours.aspx?h=7sec&slideid=1&media=aero-shake-7second&listid=1&stop=1&ocid=PID24727::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WWL_WIN_7secdemo:122009> > > > -- Bringing diversity to perversity for over 9 years! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/