I decided to install the turbonet card in my Tivo.

I started moving stuff off it (speaker, Foxtel decoder), in preparation for opening it again, I burnt my finger moving the Foxtel decoder. Hmm, stuff shouldn't be this hot. I noticed that the top of the Foxtel box is just basically a plastic mesh, and the speaker was covering most of the holes.

I pulled the Tivo cover off, it was roaring hot in there, I think I might have to get a couple of hard disk fans/coolers and install them, the disks won't last long otherwise. The stereo receiver was also really hot, but it had been running at a high volume all day.

I grabbed some cat5, plugged it into the turbonet card, threaded it through a convenient hole on the back of the case.. oops, hangon, that hole gets covered by the case. I noticed a small hole in the bottom of the case, where the fan sits, I could almost get the rj45 through the hole, but it was being a mongrel. I would have just threaded the cable and crimped a new rj45 on it, but I left my crimping tool at my mates place the other day. Bugger.

I took the fan out, put the cable through (just managed to jiggle it through) and put the fan back, no worries.

I tried to fit the turbonet onto the Tivo motherboard, could not get it to fit on, one side would go on, but when you tried to get the other side on, so it was straight, instead of at an angle, the other side would pop off, it was like a see saw.

I remembered reading something about a bit of plastic that can get in the way, and indeed, there is a foot on the Tivo, and the plastic that holds it on sits just under the edge connector, that's the issue. I undid the little clips that hold the board in, bent it up very slightly, slipped the card on the connector, and pushed the board back down, and did the clips up again. It's a tiny bit bent, but I don't think it's stressed too much.

I booted it up, got into the factory settings menu, had a fiddle with setting ips and stuff, couldn't remember what had to be set in here, so I just booted it without saving my changes. The card came straight up automatically when Tivo booted, it dhcp requested an ip, and was on the network.

I then went about configuring a static ip for the tivo, edited the dhcp config file on my router, telnetted into the Tivo, and ran dhclient, but then tivo disappeared off the network. the serial link came up, but no traffic would work. Stuff it, I rebooted the Tivo, it came back up, and requested the correct IP, good.

I tried ftping and stuff, it seemed a lot quicker. I found the copy of tystudio I had downloaded, ftpd it to the tivo, tried to install it, got some nonsense about "awk no such command", hmm, I must be doing something dumb. Yep, I'm trying to install the linux editing software on the tivo. I downloaded the server (tyserver), ftpd it into the tivo, ran it, installed it, started it.

Downloaded the windows editing suite, installed it, connected, no worries, a list of streams showed up. Woo. None were indexed however, and you can't do anything without them being indexed, so I just left it.

During doing the above bits, my mate I go to dinner with called me, told me some of the support calls that had come in, that he didn't know how to deal with. I rang a couple of people, fixed their problems.

I watched tv for a bit, the home ice cream man came around, so I went out with my brother to get some. Dad came home while we were waiting, and I had a chat to him for a few minutes. The ice cream man turned up, I bought some ice creams, came back inside, watched more tv.

My brother went back inside, came back a bit later to see if I wanted some dinner. I went in and ate, had a conversation about the things I've been doing the last few days (since I've been getting home late). After dinner, my mate called me again, told me the funeral is going to be on Friday, and I arranged to go down with him.

Went back and told my parents, then I wandered back out. I decided to call my adsl mate to find out if the Telstra tech turned up today like he was supposed to, my mate told me he was just about to come around.

I cleaned up a bit, my mate turned up, we had a chat, I told him about the funeral, and that I wouldn't be around for a couple of days if he did get his adsl sorted. We chatted for a while, Dad came out with the phone, A guy I went to TAFE with back in 1998 was calling to ask me about if you could copy games for GameCube, my adsl mate said bye, and took off, I told the guy on the phone that I had no idea if the games could be copied, I had a chat with him for a little while, toild him about the funeral and other things that have been going on, the phone battery was running out, so we left it at that.

I had a shave, and jumped in the shower, I've never been so appreciative of a cold shower.

I just starting mucking around with TyStudio, and decided to finish writing this blog, which I started as I waited for my mate to turn up after I called him.

Oops, I never rang my other mate that got ADSL from us recently to find out the setup details. Must do that soon.

I'm going to get my suit out, and pack my bag for the next couple of days.

My god it is so hot. it should not be this hot at 11pm, it tried to storm/rain out there, but it was a pathetic effort.

There will be no post tomorrow, I'm travelling to Canberra, 5 1/2 hours away, staying down there for the night, and attending the funeral on Friday. I will be coming back on Friday afternoon/night, so I may post late Friday, or Saturday at some stage.