Increasingly, recently, I’ve been unable to successfully extract video from my TiVo using the TyStudio tools. I first installed them over two years ago, and back then they worked flawlessly – ripping video to MPEG2 files which I then converted to DiVX, or latterly, burned to DVD. For some reason though TyStudio is either crashing…
TiVo Video Extraction
By Howard | Published September 19th, 2004More LinkSys Fiddling
By Howard | Published September 15th, 2004The LinkSys doesn’t behave like a real DHCP server either. So, here’s what I did… I’ve disabled the DHCP server on the LinkSys and told it to redirect queries to the house server. The house server is now running DHCP and DNS servers for the house network. With a real DHCP server running, I can…
Question asked, question answered.
By Howard | Published September 14th, 2004I nipped into PC World before I came into the office this morning and swapped the D-Link router for the LinkSys. I’ve just had a chance to try it out at the office to see what it is capable of. Unfortunately, it’s no brighter than the equivalent D-Link – which I find surprising given that…
Zen ADSL
By Howard | Published September 13th, 2004They finished messing about with extended-reach DSL in Milton Keynes and offered it to the rest of us last week. I placed an order with Zen as soon as it became available – it got activated today. Magic. Slight teething troubles with these new-fangled DSL routers (I’m used to ethernet kit) but I’m sure it’ll…
DSL Routers
By Howard | Published September 13th, 2004D’oh. Turns out that the D-Link DSL-G640T isn’t as good as I hoped it might be. It has a local DNS server, it has a DHCP server – great! BUT, and this surprised me, there’s no way to fix a DHCP lease by MAC address. On my old DI-713P I could put the MAC address…
Dell Tech Support
By Howard | Published September 13th, 2004Have a recent Dell portable? Beware of thermal problems due to a badly designed heatsink!
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