Re: [Discuss] Cable Modem Woes / Looking to Compare Notes

2013-04-26 Thread Rick Umali
Tom, et al. Thank you for the thoughts on this thread! And Tom, to respond to your questions: > I'm not following whether your in-wall wiring is still in the circuit > going to your cable modem, or if it is only being used for the TV. Was > the hookup to "the side of the house" temporary to pr

[Discuss] SCO's Motion To Reopen the Case Is Denied with a Bonk on the Head

2013-04-26 Thread Jerry Feldman
SCO has been in chapter 7 for a while now, but they have been trying to open their case against IBM: http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20130425204940852 For those who don't remember this case, The SCO Group is a company founded by Glenn Noorda, who also founded Novell. The SCO lawsuits we

[Discuss] Comcast in Arlington

2013-04-26 Thread Gary Johnson
I have a cousin in Arlington who reports Comcast internet is terrible. The house has in the wall cat5, Many service requests. She reports ' it says internet not available" (\ /) (O.o) (> <) http://GaryJohnsonInfo.info Life is a long lesson in humility. -James M. Barrie

Re: [Discuss] Comcast in Arlington

2013-04-26 Thread Jerry Feldman
On 04/26/2013 09:49 AM, Gary Johnson wrote: I have a cousin in Arlington who reports Comcast internet is terrible. The house has in the wall cat5, Many service requests. She reports ' it says internet not available" The issue here can be one or more of: bad cat5 cable. (not Comcast's fault) Fl

Re: [Discuss] encrypted basic cable

2013-04-26 Thread Daniel Barrett
>Daniel Barrett wrote: >> I found a similar no-set-top-box plan on FIOS for even less money, >> $10/month, switched, and never had a problem again. On April 25, 2013, Tom Metro wrote: >You're referring to a plan that only covers the retransmission of local >broadcast stations (and probably public

Re: [Discuss] encrypted basic cable

2013-04-26 Thread Shankar Viswanathan
On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 11:43:11AM -0400, Daniel Barrett wrote: > We have FIOS connected to the QAM tuner in our TVs. This yields about 100 > channels: PBS, ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, Weather Channel, etc. No specialty > channels like HBO. That is good to know. Out of curiosity, do these channels come i

Re: [Discuss] encrypted basic cable

2013-04-26 Thread markw
> Daniel Barrett wrote: >> I found a similar no-set-top-box plan on FIOS for even less money, >> $10/month, switched, and never had a problem again. > > You're referring to a plan that only covers the retransmission of local > broadcast stations (and probably public access stations), right? > > Are

Re: [Discuss] encrypted basic cable

2013-04-26 Thread Daniel Barrett
>On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 11:43:11AM -0400, Daniel Barrett wrote: >> We have FIOS connected to the QAM tuner in our TVs. This yields about 100 >> channels: PBS, ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, Weather Channel, etc. No specialty >> channels like HBO. On April 26, 2013, Shankar Viswanathan wrote: >That is good

Re: [Discuss] encrypted basic cable

2013-04-26 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
I throw this out there for consideration you can ditch cable altogether and get "free" TV. I think most people don't realize this. I use Over The Air (OTA) digital TV, via a rooftop antenna that cost me about $100. Most are HD signals. PBS offers many channels OTA http://antennaweb.org/ So

Re: [Discuss] SCO's Motion To Reopen the Case Is Denied with a Bonk on the Head

2013-04-26 Thread Seth Gordon
This is the case that never ends; It just goes on and on, my friends On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 8:59 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote: > SCO has been in chapter 7 for a while now, but they have been trying to > open their case against IBM: http://www.groklaw.net/**article.php?story=** > 201304252049408

Re: [Discuss] SCO's Motion To Reopen the Case Is Denied with a Bonk on the Head

2013-04-26 Thread Jerry Feldman
And we can blame it on Ralph Yarro. he even has a law named after him. On 04/26/2013 02:26 PM, Seth Gordon wrote: This is the case that never ends; It just goes on and on, my friends On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 8:59 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote: SCO has been in chapter 7 for a while now, but the

Re: [Discuss] SCO's Motion To Reopen the Case Is Denied with a Bonk on the Head

2013-04-26 Thread Daniel C.
On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 2:57 PM, Jerry Feldman wrote: > And we can blame it on Ralph Yarro. he even has a law named after him. I lived in Utah when all of this was going down. Sadly I didn't get to participate in any of the actual pickets or protests (I had to work) but it was really interesting

Re: [Discuss] Aereo available in Eastern Mass, streaming TV sources

2013-04-26 Thread Tom Metro
Daniel Barrett wrote: > We have FIOS connected to the QAM tuner in our TVs. This yields about 100 > channels: PBS, ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, Weather Channel, etc. > No specialty channels like HBO. Nor "extended basic" channels, like USA, TNT, SyFy, etc., I presume. But I'm surprised to see the Weather

[Discuss] The broader impact of Google Fiber

2013-04-26 Thread Tom Metro
This article suggests that even though only a tiny population has benefited from Google Fiber so far, it has already had a larger effect on boosting competition from existing providers and spurring them to improve service. Google Fiber's Ripple Effect http://www.technologyreview.com/news/514176/go