EricBall's Tech Projects - TiVo happiness

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I love eBay. Where else can you easily buy something like a 25' headphone extension cord dirt cheap? Yeah, there might be a local supplier but I have no idea how to find them. And places like Radio Shack will charge you the item's weight in gold. It's the long tail idea.

 

And why did I want a 25' headphone extension cord? To connect my old TiVo on the first floor to a computer in the basement via it's serial port to retrieve guide data. So now I can use the TiVo's far superior search & record capabilities to record stuff off digital cable. Previously I had to use the STB's clunky & clumsy interface to select shows to record (then set up manual recording on the TiVo side).

 

My next trick is to install Win2K on an old Thinkpad 760ED. Hopefully it will be more stable than the MediaGX PC which I'm currently using as a PPP gateway.

 

 

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