MacGroup: mini-Mac for brainrot

2005-01-13 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello All, I have a Tivo, it's the best thing since sliced bread... My wife the technophobe can't think of living without it. You have the price of the box, which in my case came with the satelite system I have for an extra $50. If you want the ability for the recorder to search for progr

MacGroup: mini-Mac for brainrot

2005-01-13 Thread Marta Edie
John, what Satellite system do you have? I was told the same thing as you. I have not done this before, but want the German channel, so have to go with Dish, the only System that offers it. Since I don't know the Tivo from the other DVRs, are they all the same, is Tivo simply the brand nam

MacGroup: mini-Mac for brainrot

2005-01-13 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Marta, I have DirectTV, but you can get dvr with Dish tooyou'd have to check with them to see what they offer I fairly certain they offer some form of dvr box, just not sure if it's Tivo If you have any questions feel free to email me John > John, what Satellite system do you h

MacGroup: Macworld coverage

2005-01-13 Thread Bill Rising
d "server", so I thought that the Macmini would be the whole shebang. Bill -- next part -- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/pkcs7-signature Size: 2373 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail

MacGroup: Macworld coverage

2005-01-13 Thread Lee Larson
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MacGroup: mini-Mac for brainrot

2005-01-13 Thread Lee Larson
amazing how fast an hour of West Wing goes by when you zap out all the commercials. -- next part -- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/pkcs7-signature Size: 2363 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macg

MacGroup: mini-Mac for brainrot

2005-01-13 Thread Rex Baldazo
> I can see that these boxes are going to kill the TV business > as we know it because none of us watch commercials any more. > It's amazing how fast an hour of West Wing goes by when you > zap out all the commercials. Yeah that's the big gorilla in all this TiVo/DVR stuff. Making shows isn't

MacGroup: mini-Mac for brainrot-getting OT

2005-01-13 Thread Rob Kersting
Actually, it's the beginning of the end for us, not the TV business. Advertisers and TV execs have found it much harder to sell TV time because of all of us skippers, so they've decided on a different strategy. Sometime in the next couple of months our TiVo boxes will receive new software that wil

MacGroup: mini-Mac for brainrot-getting OT

2005-01-13 Thread Lee Larson
I'm pretty sure the VBL coding will be "fixed" by the networks to make this impossible. -- next part -- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/pkcs7-signature Size: 2363 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20050113/cab21cdf/attachment.bin

MacGroup: mini-Mac for brainrot-getting OT

2005-01-13 Thread Rob Kersting
Hmm...I always wondered how that worked. I've got a VCR with commercial skip that works pretty well. Occasionally it'll miss one, but not too often. You're right about the networks changing the codes, but right now they're concentrating on the growing DVR market. The downside of TiVo is that you

MacGroup: Looking for a Web-site designer/programmer

2005-01-13 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Looking for a Web-site designer/programmer >> We're looking for a local programmer/Web-site designer to work at >> home by the job. >> >> Must be able to hard code in HTML, CGI, Perl and Java. Should know >> Dreamweaver and other software applicable to Web-site design and be >> familiar with th

MacGroup: Looking for a programmer/Web-site designer

2005-01-13 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Jan 13, 2005, at 2:08 PM, jblake at win.net wrote: > Looking for a Web-site designer/programmer > >>> We're looking for a local programmer/Web-site designer to work at >>> home by the job. >>> >>> Must be able to hard code in HTML, CGI, Perl and Java. Should know >>> Dreamweaver and other so

MacGroup: Looking for a programmer/Web-site designer

2005-01-13 Thread Mike Watkins
Jane, Congratulations to the lucky groom and good luck to you both! I hadn't heard about your marriage... Mike On Jan 13, 2005, at 3:47 PM, jblake at win.net wrote: > > On Jan 13, 2005, at 2:08 PM, jblake at win.net wrote: > >> Looking for a Web-site designer/programmer >> We're looking fo

MacGroup: 2 MacWorld stories from Ziff Davis

2005-01-13 Thread Jeff @ SLYN Systems
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1750708,00.asp and http://www.eweek.com/category2/0,1738,1368154,00.asp Jeff Slyn, Owner SLYN Systems & Peripherals (502) 426-5469 serving Kentuckiana clients 7 days a week since 1985! | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be January 25