[mythtv-users] After the crash: Mythdora or something else?

[Nick Rout]

On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 3:25 AM, Stephen Otto <sotto at emsco.com> wrote:
>> > Anyway, for some reason, I thought, "Do I have a good connection?"
>> > I don't know why I thought that, but I'm glad I did. There was no
>> > software
>> > solution needed. I just needed to plug the spdif cable in!
>> > Yah, that's embarrassing. I guess it got pulled when the new drive
>> > went in.
>>
>> LOL your story got me chuckling, and reminded me of the time I
>> rebooted a machine several times (along with grepping logs, removing
>> and loading drivers, and kicking the damn thing) trying to figure out
>> why it did not get a dhcp address. Got really annoyed, pulled the
>> machine out to install a pci ethernet card to replace the obviously
>> borked one on the motherboard and discovered the ethernet cable was,
>> errr, disconnected. It worked better when plugged in.
>
> Slightly OT but about a decade or so ago I got my new TI laptop fresh with
> Windows 98 and a US Robotics PCcard modem. Slapped the pccard into its slot
> but couldn't get the computer to react to the modem at all so I returned it
> and got another one. Same deal. Called TI service and after several calls
> over several hours with no progress moved on to US Robotics with the same
> exercise. Customer service suggested that this modem was also bad and I
> returned it a for a different model. Tried again on the 3rd day again with
> phone calls back to customer service and again no luck. At this point the
> service tech asks me for the serial number on the modem. When I went to
> eject it I accidentally bumped the card all the way flush into the notebook.
> Windows popped up and loaded the drivers and the modem was working. The
> reply from the service tech... " You know, we make these things plug and
> play. All that we ask you to do it plug. Can't you at least do that?" :-/

Oh that's very good. And we complain that thise phone-line people are so bad...