When my wife has an ultrasound to check that our baby is still going well, we get a copy of the imaging that the radiologist sees, which is nice (this is pretty standard, I believe). However, what we get is an SVCD. This plays fine on our DVD player (I’m not sure about [...]
Archive for February, 2006
15 Feb
Gmail and SpamCop
My now lengthy email discussion with SkyTV about my MySky problems hit a new snag today: I have been using my gmail account for this correspondence, and my last message failed to be delivered:
This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification
Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently:
skyweb@skytv.co.nz
Technical details of permanent failure:
PERM_FAILURE: SMTP Error (state 9): [...]
9 Feb
On the subject of MySky…
While I’m pointing out MySky flaws – it continually bounces back to the preview channel. Why?
It also comes up with the ‘conflict’ screen fairly regularly, with a program that is recording or set to recording and a “searching…” ‘recording’. Cancelling the “searching…” ‘recording’ seems to fix the problem. I think this is the series [...]
9 Feb
Another MySky Failure
Another program failed tonight. MySky was set to record Shortland Street from 7pm to 7:30pm. My wife watched last night’s episode while tonight’s was on; the red light was on the whole time, and nothing else was being recorded.
After finishing last night’s episode, she started to watch tonight’s. The planner showed that [...]
9 Feb
NZ Herald MySky Endorsement
A few days ago (I don’t get the paper copy, so only just saw it), the New Zealand Herald ran basically an ad for MySky disguised as an article.
The author, Richard Thorne, praises the unit without mentioning any of the flaws (see any of my previous entries), or that this technology was all available in [...]
9 Feb
Serious MySky problems
Things have not been going well with MySky recently. Badly enough, in fact, for me to contact Sky about the problems.
I’ve posted before about the recording failing to add the ‘buffer’, so that the ends of programs are missed. I’ve mistakenly said 3 minutes in the past when it’s meant to be 2 minutes [...]
1 Feb
Honeypot Success
Nearly exactly a year after I donated an MX entry to Project Honeypot, it was used to catch a previously unknown harvester (Project Honeypot sends an email out to let you know that this has happened). The MX is public, so it could have been harvested from my site (not this one, or the [...]
1 Feb
MySky “Recorded” changing to “Viewed”
MySky suffers from the same problem as iTunes podcasts: they are marked as viewed (played) as soon as they start playing, instead of when they finish.
This is more of a problem with MySky – the automatic space management will delete any programs that are viewed before it deletes ones that are not.
While marking as viewed [...]
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