Roxio has shipped Toast Titanium 8! It supports dvd disc spanning, TiVo To Go, Blu-Ray and a whole other lot of features.
Here is a tip! Use FireFox to place your order. When you get to the screen listing Toast for $99, and the mail in coupon (the first invoice screen) just wait. be patient After about 30 seconds Digital River will pop up a “Buy now and save an additional 10%” window. Crazy I know.
Also, yes, even tho I bought online, and am downloading Toast 8 now, I have to mail in this stupid $20 rebate.
Digital River sucks.
Update: This might be the last update from Roxio. They still don’t have my registration email (which I used at digital river to purchase) and to submit feedback, they required me to log in, which doesn’t work, and no registration button.
To get my discount, I had to print out 5 pieces of paper, two labels, use an envelope and two stamps. And fill out a tiny form because their mail in rebate PDF is screwed up.
This is just the conduit. Fiber should be run through in the next couple of weeks, then there is splicing, and then install. By “November” was one unofficial estimate.
The winner is Amazon, with its line of “back” massagers. What a joke this society is we live in that makes a company feel they need to lie about their products.
Man this took me for what seemed like years, I kept losing and losing, rarely played it. Finally installed WC III on my G5, moved files over from the PC, and after a month and three attempts, I started over and won. I used my Hero to keep healing my units, I sent out ghouls just to piss off the other guys, I built nothing other than spirit towers around my wizard if not to damage the incoming but to delay them. I won with plenty of units as they attacked the chanter and I kept healing him
While I am not sure I need this, what is nice is that it is always live, and you can leave the search area in the menu bar. This seems useful for people with screens of 1280 pixels or wider.
Take a gander. What do you think?
BTW, am sure the movie on the first entry was taken with Snapz Pro X
Several months ago Comcast took over my cable modem service from ATTBI. Ever since then, I’ve been randomly punted from my Internet connection with either my Linksys lan or wireless router, and also my Netgear routers. The connection could not be re-established until the router was reset.
After months of haggling, I think I have finally discovered the problem. I first read on Broadband Reports that some attbi customers were being assigned the same IP addresses. This bit of info made sense to me, as it explained why I would randomly get the boot and why I could get back on after a router reset. I did not know the solution however.
Then on 9/24 I purchased a Motorola SB5100 cable modem to replace the Toshiba PCX2200 I had bought the week prior as I did not like the Toshiba’s slow 10baseT, half duplex WAN port. I called Comcast to have the MAC address provisioned, and the gentleman told me I could not, but rather I had to use the SAS registration system. After explaining I had my Toshiba MAC provisioned, he did not budge and asked me to log in.
Being on a Mac, he told me to plug the Mac directly into the cable modem and go to Oregon’s SAS server, sas.r1.attibi.com. IE could not find it, so he put me up to level 2 support. While on hold, I found out from a graphic I downloaded off of broaddbandreports.com that I needed https://sas.r1.attibi.com. Dumb IE, But it got me to level 2 support, so I was happy heh. I was now able to get to the login screen, but I did not have my account ID nor registration code.
The level 2 support guy told me that Comcast is indeed getting more picky about how it hands out IP addresses, and none of my equipment was registered with Comcast! Not knowing that I needed to do this, he cleared out the three MAC addresses registered, gave me my account and registration information and let me log in.
I then was registered, we reset the cable modem and I was surfing.
Then he had me plug in the Netgear WGR614 wireless router, plug the Mac back into the router and reload the SAS server page. Sure enough, it said the router was not registered. So I had two options. Replace the MAC address on the registration with that of the router, or use the Netgear’s cool “Use this Computer” option on the Basic Settings router setup page to clone the Mac’s MAC address into the Netgear. I chose to clone the address and once the router reset, loading the SAS server page showed me as registered.
This was on Wednesday, 9/24 at 11:30 am, I wrote this piece at 6pm on Wed (still running and it was posted on 9/26, 50 hours later. I believe this solved my common drops.
Summary:
Comcast is giving out IPs to any device that requests them, such as a router. My theory is that if that device is not registered, then the IP is not reserved and can later be handed out to another customer. This of course changes the route tables at Comcast and you are effectively “off the net.” If you reset your router, you either get a new IP, or pull the same old one, effectively bumping the other customer off the net.
I have no hard data to back this up - But since we got the MAC address of my equipment properly registered, it has worked fine.
Here is the graphic that I got off broadbandreports.com containing the SAS regions and server names. If you are an ex-ATTBI customer and are having connection issues, give this a shot. If you log into your SAS server and it says you are not registered, it could be the source of your woes. Call Comcast and get your equipment registered.
So today started off with some errands. First off to Staples to see what kind of chair mats they had. I have a vinyl one for hardwood floors and it is fine, except for that the chair makles dimples in the mat, so rolling around becomes a problem. This may be because I have it on a carpet and maybe the carpet mats are thicker, but I’d rather find something hard. Matt suggested plexiglass, so I looked at home depot but they only had this ugly, easily scratched blue stuff. So the search continues. Have ideas? Please leave a comment.
Next door was Comp USA. My I have spent a ton there. A 6 foot USB extension for the scanner and one mouse pad later, I was done. Also spoke with the Apple rep there. I want to see if I can get a deal on my G5. Comp USA had these cool, thin, leather like pads, but they caused too much drag. They only had one of the 3M Precision Mousepads (the best and thinnest on the planet) so I picked it up, even though it is of fish.
Next down the street was Home Depot. No mats there, either.
Across the street I went to Meier and Frank, having learned they are the place that sells my cologne. The store I got it at is half way cross town and they didn’t have any of the deodorant, so I checked my local one and wow, they had a lot of Armani. And I got to watch the Blazer girls dance five feet from me. Not sure what they were doing on the second floor of Meier and Franks, but i sure was not complaining. Amazing how 7 super petite women can make the floor of a dept. store undulate. I was glad to get out of there. The clerks looked nervous too - the pens on the counters were actually rolling back and forth.
So with Orange Julius and deodorant in hand, it was off to Home Depot to check out said plexiglass. I also picked up 200 black zip ties and I needed some rock for the bottom of my newly painted pot, and sure enough, I had to buy a river bed. Well not that bad, but I had to get a 3 cubic foot bag to get 4 rocks. Only cost me $2.97, so if you need some pebbles, let me know. I’ll scatter them around the edge of the garden I suppose.
Then it was to Fred Meyer for soda and juice. I didn’t need a second file cabinet as I cut the side out of the clock box and made a top for my wire cabinet to set the scanner on. I’d like to find someone who can custom cut a piece of glass like my desks for the top of it. Julie says I am the “glass king” now, heh. Welcome to my castle, here is the windex - get to work.
I had been noticing that my car beeper was starting to take two presses sometimes and realizing I have not put batteries in it, that made them about 6 years old, so a stop into Radio Shack and $6 later, I have fresh batteries.
Popped across the street to Worst Buy - I dislike them, but hey, they had tons of 3M mouse pads, so I bought two more. $30 of mouse pads, this office is getting expensive heh. But they work so well! I didn’t get the optical pads - nobody had em, but the normal ones work just fine.
I then headed home, put down my mouse pads, installed my USB extension for the scanner, tested it, and now I need to think about food! I still need to solve the mat issue and a couple of others.
Tomorrow is yelling at Netgear, seeing as it looks like their new firmware for the v2 model of the wired router fixes the connection issues. I have v1 of both wired and wireless, and I want a fix, damnit.
I was iChat video chatting with my bro, and walked around the house and outside with my laptop and camcorder, and gave him a little tour. That is not as easy as it sounds!
I drove out to Las Vegas this weekend with Matt and we met his fiance and her family there. We saw George Carlin who was awesome as usual. Matt took a bunch of photos (the dates are wrong) and I posted them at:
