5 days...
The date is fast approaching, and I'm just trying to get all of my ducks in a row before we fly out of here. I spent a good chunk of Sunday figuring out bullet train timetables so we can go to Hiroshima and Kyoto. I haven't even looked at the Tokyo subway system yet. That's going to be a challenge. I've been finalizing my list of stuff that needs to be packed. I'll start packing on Saturday. The flight leaves Sunday at 2:35pm.
I'm pretty nervous and excited right now. I haven't had much time to learn any of the language, but I've been doing a fair bit of reading/documentary watching on the culture. I wouldn't consider myself a "Japanophile" by any stretch of the imagination, but I have an appreciation for the culture now that I wouldn't have had before my "research." Seeing it in person should be quite enlightening.
Good news on the TiVo front - yesterday I got the upgrade hard drive from 9thtee.com (who gets their drives from PTVupgrade.com). The drive installed beautifully, and booted perfectly the first time. It's obvious they're using some fancy customized TiVo image, as they've got their logo added to the startup screen, and they have far more channel logos than the stock TiVo software ever did. Not to mention that their setup for TiVoWeb/telnet/ftpd is incredibly easy. I had TiVoWeb up and running in 5 minutes. I remember spending several hours with the old drive, yanking it out of the TiVo, plugging it into a PC, copying over telnetd and tivoftpd, manually hacking rc.sysinit to get them to start, then praying I didn't screw anything up. Which is funny, because I once accidently forgot to make rc.sysinit executable. Well, there went my fully booting TiVo. And again out comes the drive to be fixed via that PC. Sigh.
Hats off to PTVupgrade.com's NetReady TiVo drives. Super easy installation, good documentation, and quick procedure. And 24 hours after installation, no TiVo freezes. Wooo!
The fixed TiVo's now fulfilling Nicole's TV habit. And now there'll be less Spongebob and Beavis & Butthead on the living room TiVo :-D
I'm pretty nervous and excited right now. I haven't had much time to learn any of the language, but I've been doing a fair bit of reading/documentary watching on the culture. I wouldn't consider myself a "Japanophile" by any stretch of the imagination, but I have an appreciation for the culture now that I wouldn't have had before my "research." Seeing it in person should be quite enlightening.
Good news on the TiVo front - yesterday I got the upgrade hard drive from 9thtee.com (who gets their drives from PTVupgrade.com). The drive installed beautifully, and booted perfectly the first time. It's obvious they're using some fancy customized TiVo image, as they've got their logo added to the startup screen, and they have far more channel logos than the stock TiVo software ever did. Not to mention that their setup for TiVoWeb/telnet/ftpd is incredibly easy. I had TiVoWeb up and running in 5 minutes. I remember spending several hours with the old drive, yanking it out of the TiVo, plugging it into a PC, copying over telnetd and tivoftpd, manually hacking rc.sysinit to get them to start, then praying I didn't screw anything up. Which is funny, because I once accidently forgot to make rc.sysinit executable. Well, there went my fully booting TiVo. And again out comes the drive to be fixed via that PC. Sigh.
Hats off to PTVupgrade.com's NetReady TiVo drives. Super easy installation, good documentation, and quick procedure. And 24 hours after installation, no TiVo freezes. Wooo!
The fixed TiVo's now fulfilling Nicole's TV habit. And now there'll be less Spongebob and Beavis & Butthead on the living room TiVo :-D
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