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Random Bits.
Please accept my apologies in advance for the upcoming infrequency and brevity of posts. I am working on a new backend for Pew Pew Laser Blog, so I will spend more evenings doing that. Here is a trio of distractions to assuage the pain:
- Human Tetris - Courtesy of Japanese game shows. Hooray for Japanese game shows.
- Thomas Phinney's Web Fonts Survey - Adobe's Manager of Fontery wants to know how web designers would like more fonts.
- There's some new content for Battlestar Galactica nuts. Battlestar Galactica Razor appears to be a 2 hour episode to tide viewers over until the new episodes are out. You can catch BSG Razor in a theater, or on the SciFi network on November 24th. There are also some 2 minute shorties featuring a rookie Bill Adama.
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Troubleshooting.
Some thoughts upon troubleshooting theory. Two methods of troubleshooting exist:
- Things you do because, based on your knowledge of the product, you suspect it will make a difference.
- Things you do only because you can.
Our DVR has been acting comcastic lately, by which I mean craptacular. It refuses to respond to the remote, it freezes or resets in the middle of recording, et cetera. There are exactly two things you can do with the DVR, both of which are troubleshooting steps of the 'becuase I can' varitey.
- Turn it on and off using the power switch.
- Turn it on and off by unplugging it.
Even though these steps have never failed to resolve the issue for the moment, we've had to do these things far too often. Grrr! The stupid thing should just work.