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[Julian Field]

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Glenn Steen wrote:
> On 27/07/07, Julian Field <MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
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>> Glenn Steen wrote:
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>>> On 27/07/07, Julian Field <MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
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>>>> Hugo van der Kooij wrote:
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>>>>> On Thu, 26 Jul 2007, UxBoD wrote:
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>>>>>> Always up for a challenge :) Want to learn more about MailScanner
>>>>>> anyway.  Thanks Jules.
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>>>>> If you are really trying to compete with Jules you should be done by
>>>>> monday. ;-)
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>>>> Oh, you want it documented and stress-tested as well? After all, I've
>>>> got the whole weekend :-)
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>>> No Jules, you should practice the fine art of relaxing... Try doing
>>> nothing for a while, much harder than it sounds;-).
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>> Do nothing? Isn't that, well, kinda boring? I'm not very good at that
>> (not that you would notice).
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> Yep, boring as h*ll... That is why it is hard:-).
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>> On a totally OT, I just got a mail from Logitech tech support telling me
>> they have finally managed to get my Harmony 785 Remote control working
>> with EyeTV so I can navigate the menus and program guide at a decent
>> speed. It was stuck working about 1.3 seconds per button press, and they
>> have fixed it so it works nice and quickly. It beat their first and
>> second line tech support people, it took the database guys 2 attempts to
>> fix it, but they managed it in the end. So I can finally pension off my
>> old Sony programmable remote.
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>> Jules
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> Is it as easy to program as advertised? I've got a really nice
> (old-style) Philips .... programmed to perfection, controlling
> everything... Until the kids spilled some form of fluid into it, and
> repeatedly dropped it on the floor... Still works some of the time,
> but ... I might be shopping for a new one:-).
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It will take you an hour or two to program it. And make sure you start 
off with the latest software available from their website, I would 
ignore the CD that comes with it. If you need a replacement anyway, then 
they're good. I haven't really had mine working long enough to tell you 
if I really like it or not.

The first one I got died within 36 hours of unpacking it, I didn't even 
get the setup finished completely before it died. Then I had to jump 
through the tech support hoops to get them to send me another one. Then 
I couldn't get my EyeTV software working with it properly, and had to 
get their back-room database guys to produce a fix for that. It's only 
been working properly for about 3 hours now. Not really long enough to 
say much.

Jules

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