Posted by Ben Reubenstein
Mon, 30 Jan 2006 22:37:00 GMT
TiVo is amazing. It has drastically increased the amount of TV that I can watch while eliminating commercials. But there is a very big label that is missing off the box that should say, analog phone line required!!! You heard me, you need an old school phone line to get through the intial setup.
Being me though I ran right out and picked up a recommended USB ethernet adapter. Heck I already had one Tivo working on the network... How hard could another one be? But at the end of the day you need an analog phone line to connect the first time through...
Now you'll read on all the forums various methods to get around this. I did... Spent hours doing it. Tried to get it to work over the vonage line by putting in ,#319 to crank the speed of the modem down... No dice. I then tried ,#401, ,#410, and a meriod of other phone prefix combinations to go straight to the ethernet adapter. Called Tivo, and there advice is the advice I give unto all of you... Go to your parents house, they definitely have an old school phone line, and get it started there. Then when you finish a message will be waiting for you to tell you it has NOW detected your broadband adapter.
Posted by Ben Reubenstein
Mon, 23 Jan 2006 14:38:00 GMT
Want to use AWStats but don't run Apache? Here is a tutorial I wrote on getting AWStats and Lighttpd to work together. If you don't know what I am talking about, AWStats is a log analyzing package. It is a very useful tool to get some good metrics on website traffic. When I moved to Rails I also moved to Lighttpd as a webserver. Luckily AWStats came along for the ride.
Posted by Ben Reubenstein
Fri, 20 Jan 2006 16:33:00 GMT
DeLynn has finnally released his Userstamp Plugin for Rails. In a nutshell if you place fields in your database named updatedby and createdby it will fill the values in for you when the particular model is saved with the current user. Obviously there are some more technical things to do to get it to work, but I tested it in my app and it works as described. Instructions and source can be found here:
Posted by Ben Reubenstein
Tue, 03 Jan 2006 15:55:49 GMT
After a long weekend outage the server is back. I am hoping to get my previous posts back up on the new Typo powered blog. Look for some new posts shortly. Also be sure to update your RSS feed urls!
