Recent content by Owen Smith

I should add I run two HDR Fox T2s at my house and set everything to record on both boxes. One uses AR and the other padding, this gives me redundancy of which recording method works for that programme. I mostly watch HD channels so being major channels AR usually works. But this setup also...

I would have given up if this much work was needed to repair one of my discs, after all it's only telly and I can stream on catchup most things I recorded recently anyway. Fortunately fixdisk has always worked for me.

One of the eternal issues in computing: are end addresses inclusive or exclusive? Personally I favour exclusive ie end address is first thing not in the item being described, because then length = end - start. But the decision has been made differently in many existing cases.

I tried that on iOS 18.7 and it didn't work. I'll have to try again now I'm on 26.2 (which I detest, they've ruined almost all aspects of the UI).

This thread is short, I see no reason to start a new thread to post what you did. EDIT: And that's the first time I've seen anyone who's opinion I have reason to respect say MS Copilot has been useful to them.

No you can't, not on iOS. I spent ages trying all combinations, there isn't one that says there is something to read without displaying part of it. The descriptions may imply you can have that, but it doesn't work.

And the problem with showing previews is it shows the 2FA code from the bank or whatever on the lock screen. That's right out for me. What I want is just an icon telling me there is something to read, I don't want the contents! A count of how many there are to read would be a useful bonus.

They think it won't happen to them. Dad's phone doesn't even auto lock being a dumb GSM phone, and he won't let me turn auto lock on.

As do I. But my parents won't let me set theirs like that, they say it's far to inconvenient for texts from friends. What is annoying on iOS is there is nothing on the lock screen to say you have messages, so you have to unlock it only to find there aren't any and lock it again. Sigh.

I'm still using original 512MB drives that came with the four Humax HDR Fox T2s I manage. The one my parents use had a faulty drive from new, but by the time custom firmware got good enough to know that it was too late for a warranty claim. There were nearly 100 bad sectors the first time I ran...

gov.uk is every time I change to a different page within the gov web site. It can take a dozen text messages to do my tax return in one session of a few hours. That's way too much.

Yes it is rather annoying.

Did the long disk self test finish? There's an option in the telnet menu to tell you the result of the last disk self test, I forget its name.

That works for me, the recording changes to match EPG data when it updates even without AR in use. But I'm in the UK.

I love the name Element Man for the site. Clearly someone with an appreciation for classic films.