I gave Julie a Series 2 for her birthday today. We set it up and now it takes 4-8 hours while it downloads and programs itself. Pretty cool. Spendy though - the Home Media Option is another $100, and if I want broadband access (which I do), I have to buy a Wireless USB Adapter. Oh well, we figure to have it for a long, long time and we love our last one. Julie was pissed that I spent more than $50 on her birthday present, but bit her toungue because she got mad at the last Tivo I bought her and now thinks its the best birthday present ever!
On a side note, I discovered that Tivo Central Online (the site to remotely program your Tivo) is Powered By Struts - sweet!
Update: I just got the following e-mail from Julie. I guess you could say that she gives the Series 2 a thumbs down.
i think we should return tivo. i don't think it's
better than the one we have now. you can view another
show while recording but only if you switch the
channel on the tv and watch regular tv w/out tivo. it
just seems like a lot of money for no/few more
options. maybe we should wait a couple years for the
technology to progress.
The XDoclet Team is looking for a new name for XDoclet 2. This is to eliminate confusion b/w version 1 and version 2. Checkout the current suggestions and add your own if you like. If you don't know what XDoclet is, or haven't used it, you're wasting precious development hours IMO.
Here are a number of Java-related treats I found this morning that will likely serve as good personal bookmarks in the future.
- Ryan is looking for an XML-based properties class and one of his commenters (Dmitry) points to this article about the J2SE 1.4 Preferences API. Good stuff.
- From JavaWorld (via Erik): Java Tip 138: Still parsing to generate your JavaBeans' XML representation?
- Dave Hyatt makes XBL look wicked cool! If we could only get Microsoft to support it, it might actually be useful.
- After reading this article I wonder if I should replace my Powerbook (w/in the next year) with another Powerbook, or an Intel based laptop. I do most of my development on Windows because I'm more productive and as an American, I get a buzz from being productive. So why buy another Mac? Intel-based PCs are faster - if I really want a Unix core, I can just run Linux. With VMWare for XP, I find it hard to justify buying another Mac. Besides, I already own one and the desire is out of my system. And furthermore, I dig how Dell will come to your house and fix your PC, whereas Apple makes you send it in for two weeks - what's up with that?!
I upgraded to the latest version of Roller from CVS this morning. Everything appears to have gone smoothly. Too bad this bug didn't get fixed in the upgrade. The bug is that $baseURL doesn't get resolved in IE, but it does in Mozilla. This is quite strange since it's server-side code, and the browser shouldn't matter. Unfortunately, it seems to on my version of IE6.
I gave Julie a Series 2 for her birthday today. We set it up and now it takes 4-8 hours while it downloads and programs itself. Pretty cool. Spendy though - the Home Media Option is another $100, and if I want broadband access (which I do), I have to buy a Wireless USB Adapter. Oh well, we figure to have it for a long, long time and we love our last one. Julie was pissed that I spent more than $50 on her birthday present, but bit her toungue because she got mad at the last Tivo I bought her and now thinks its the best birthday present ever!