As half a million or so New Zealanders know, Sky's Digital service died a bit before 6pm yesterday until reviving about 8am this morning (in the middle of my recording the final Gilmore Girls episode, argh).
I understand that (rarely) satellites fail, and that errors like this are a huge problem, but will sometimes happen, and [...]
Archive for March, 2006
31 Mar
MySky is falling
4 Mar
Is MySky “mature”?
Clearly, TiVo is mature (whether it manages to survive amongst all the competition, particularly from PVRs like MySky that are from content providers, is a separate question). So an easy way to consider whether the MySky design is mature is to compare the features of the two systems.
3 Mar
The Listener’s Take on MySky
My parents have subscribed to The Listener for as long as I remember. When I left home, I subscribed too, and continued for nine years, until Pamela Stirling took over as editor and turned the magazine into a trashy, pale, copy of what it once was. I do occasionally glance over their website, [...]
3 Mar
Latest MySky Correspondence
For a while, I had an email conversation going with SkyTV about the problems, and it did appear that things were progressing. Not any more. They seem to have given up, and have decided to treat me as someone completely unknown. My latest email:
2 Mar
MySky Live Pause/Rewind Failure
A new (just what I need!) MySky problem appeared yesterday: live pause & rewind no longer worked: they displayed a “this program cannot be recorded” error message, even when nothing else was recording (and on any channel).
I managed to fix this with a reboot (hold down ‘go back’ and ’select’ on the front panel), but [...]
2 Mar
More about MySky Series Link
In the comments to an older post, John Porter passed on a very interesting email about how the MySky Series Link feature is implemented.
2 Mar
Quoting and flormat=flowed
A few days back, Hawk Wings had an interesting post about Why Mail.app quotes the way it does. The post linked to the "format=flowed FAQ", which is a great piece that explains how format=flowed quoting works, and why it is a good idea. I’ll update my page about good quoting practice (and the corresponding post) [...]
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