2007-04-08 PVR Update

The Tivo boots fine, batteries in the remote are good, everything is happy. The selection on the HD is the sort of thing that people really do not need a Tivo for. Apologies for the super hokey analogue hole capture, but I currently do not have a TV capture card installed in any computing machinary at the required locale, and this TV is the best I could scrounge up to use as a display with the Tivo. Honestly. The Tivo has the lifetime subscrption on it. Spiffy.

The replay does not seem to boot. The batteries and the battery compartment cover were missing from the remote. It will be fiddled with. Keep wtaching this space. Both of them needed a good cleaning, there was all sorts of fluff inside. Yes we violated the warranty on the replay in order to do this but the Tivo seemed to have no little stickers informing us of this.

2007-04-07 Tivo and Replay

Somebody really went to town and bought both a Tivo S2 and Replay. Then, some time later they apparently tossed both of them. Investigation will proceed into the gems of television culture left behind on the HDs. Both remotes are present, as shown in the pic. Tivo is only the 80G model, not sure abnout the Replay's HD size. For now, a pic, watch this space for more details later.

2007-04-07 Speakers

A set of fancy logitech surround sound speakers and suchlike. All very fancy and of little or no use for us but again exactly what a friend wanted. Straight into the arms of a happy new owner.

2007-04-07 Printer

A fancy looking HP printer. Guy who tossed it said it worked fine so figured it was worth a look. Tests out fine, ink is low but all the vaious modes of operation seem to work.

Found at the same time but not related I think is some printer ink new in the box. One in date and one expired. Ebay for the good one.

2007-04-07 P3 Dell

An acquaintance asked me, "Have a you a junky machine I could put OpenBSD on to make a home firewall?". Off we went looking for such a device and we found a nice Pentium 3 Dell PC in small form factor. I loaded him up with lots of spare ethernet cards and a extra partial machine or two for even more spares and hopefully he is now firewalling away.

2007-04-07 Firewire kit

A firewire enclosure that looks like it was made to appeal to 1st gen iMac users. Really ugly. But that is OK because again it was just what somebody wanted, now hopefully being used by its new owner.

2007-04-07 Bubbles

Some bubbles stuff, mysteriously abandoned but fully functional. Great for offspring entertainment purposes.

2007-04-01 Pack and Play

Graco 3-way pack and play, almost new, with changing table, net cover, canopy etc etc. Again, super fancy example of its type, almost new but no use to us. Already sold.

2007-04-01 Combi Dual

Combi dual stroller in almost new condition, a very recent model, if not still a current model. We never knew these things came with so many features:

• Folds two ways to get super small (relatively speaking).
• 3 cupholders for offspring usage
• 2 cupholders plus handy little bag for the driver of the contraption.
• 5 point harnesses, usable as 3 point in the fortunate event your offspring is not pathologically inclined to launch self forward out of stroller (we have never used a 5 point harness in a stroller and our offspring lives yet).
• Fully reclining seats.
• Accepts a car seat (only one at a time though).
• Individually detachable hoods with the little flaps and windows in the back of them.
• Shoulder carry strap.
• Foot pouch thingies.
• Other usual stroller things like brakes etc.

This thing has more features and special thingies than our cars. No way we need all that stuff or any dual so off this goes to craigslist.

2007-03-30 Dell

Dell Pentium 4 1.7Ghz PC with 256M RAM and a 40G HD. Has the funky paired memory with blanks required for unused slots. Bit of a pain. Machine had Windows XP install and hung for no real reason late in boot process, seemingly just prior to login. Eh, who cares, Knoppix is the answer. (But then also note that for some rather large set of computing machinary related questions or problems, Knoppix is the answer). Points to note on contents of HD:

• Family had Canon PowerShot A60 and curiously neglected to take a picture of the computer or of the box the Canon came in. How weird, though I suspect they had a prior machine when they bought the camera. Zero points for self-referentiality anyway. Pics of kids and Temple Sinai all over the HD, in fact everywhere except the My Pictures directory.
• Family also have some form of scanner and was digitizing various older pics and diagrams etc.
• No digital audio or video media.
• No word docs etc.
• No porn except for the possibly inadvertant image file in cache named penis_enlargement_stretcher[1].jpg.
• Beanie Babies and Baseball in the cache directory, how curiously appropriate, both are completely pointless by design and each markets multiple functionally exchangable instances of the same thing.

Pic shows what might be the family dog winking with one eye and getting redeye with the other. Maybe it knew it was destined to have this picture shown on the interwebs??