I had a spare half hour, so I knocked together a script that will parse my TiVo’s Tivoweb info page and consolidate the recording information into a little status display, like so: The information is cached and will be updated once every fifteen minutes so as to not overload the TiVo itself. It’ll appear in…
TiVo Status!
By Howard | Published January 22nd, 2005Woohoo!
By Howard | Published January 11th, 2005This doesn’t often happen, so forgive me if I gloat a little, but: I beat Teech at RoN! I can’t remember the last time that happened. Here’s a screen I don’t see very often: Of course the chances are that I won’t be able to repeat it, but victory felt gooood. A swift nuclear strike…
TiVo Video Extraction and the 4:3 problem
By Howard | Published January 8th, 2005As some of you will know, I regularly “rip” TV shows that have been recorded by my TiVo so I can archive them to DVD. This has been a pretty hit and miss affair over the years, until fairly recently when I stumbled across a way to 100% reliably get the data off the TiVo….
The Library of Babel
By Howard | Published January 6th, 2005Whoa. Someone pointed me at this in a discussion about data, information, knowledge (and the differences between them) and knowing the unknowable: A (very) short story called The Library of Babel in which the symmetrically structured library represents the universe as it is conceived by rational man, and the library’s illegible books refers to man’s…
Speed Up IE’s HTTP requests
By Howard | Published January 3rd, 2005This is one of those handy tips that I first found out about around IE 4.something, and keep forgetting to write down anywhere – so every time I want to do it again on a new machine I need to Google for it! So here it is in permanent blog form. To comply with current…
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