new years resolutions

Mike Meyer mwm at mired.org
Sat Jan 4 12:15:44 EST 2003


[WTH, we're so far off topic it doesn't matter any more....]

Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed at ix.netcom.com> writes:
> Peter Hansen fed this fish to the penguins on Friday 03 January 2003 
> 06:31 am:
> > doing.  On the other hand, there are these new-fangled gadgets that
> > let you just enter a code in the TV guide and it will record the
> > selected show at the right time and duration.  Easy as pie.  Not
> > really programming.
>         muahahahahahhaha
>         The most confusing thing about using those codes is getting the VCR 
> channel assignments correct... Unless you are only using off-air 
> reception. For example, my local cable has off-air NBC-11 located on 
> VHF-cable 3. And I don't even want to consider the cable-only channels 
> which don't even have an off-air channel assignment.

Gotta love a TiVo. Higlight the program in the on-screen guide, and
tell it to record.

Now, if only the on-screen guides were perfect. But they're good
enough.

        <mike
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