Recent content by Owen Smith

My parents had long standing friends (now dead) with surname Sidebottom. Like the related name Longbottom this causes sniggering even in the UK, but a "bottom" is a field which is where the name comes from. Related to tits as birds, there are shags and boobies.

Unfortunately it has always been like this on this forum. It's part of the reason for my only intermittent use of it over the years.

When I worked for a Canadian company they were astonished that there is a town in the UK called Maidenhead.

Bear in mind how few of us are active on this site now. 10 years ago it was so busy I couldn't keep up.

Titbit not titibit, and it's been titbit in British English for a couple of centuries or more. Language changes, and as is often the case with language and spelling the American version is older and more original. Colonials don't like to change things, whereas the mother country moves on. Look...

Like I said, explicit foolproof step by step instructions are difficult and time consuming to write. And something will inevitably be different on a different PC.

Bluetit, coaltit, long tailed tit, all UK small birds. Presumably because tit meant small or tiny at the time, hence titbit (and it rhymes better than tidbit).

I'm going to steal that.

I get the feeling you spent a lot of time thinking it was an HDMI sync issue and working to resolve that, when unfortunately that was wasted effort as that wasn't the problem at all. Asking here would probably have revealed that sooner.

@jalba Your choice. There are definitely still options.

That was my thought too. To be able to select a recording, press Opt+ on it and copy it to the other USB interface, and see the LED flashing on the 64GB USB stick, the USB caddy for the original Humax hard disc must have a 12V supply connected.

Original poster is looking for a quick hack to get his antenna system working, rather than the total replacement it is clearly overdue for.

So stripts is in C or similar then? I'm not asking for it to be converted, just asking what it is written in.

It will be very slow, the decryption on the HDR Fox T2 is slow and the USB ports are even slower. That's because it's trying to access the internal hard disc, which is not present. You may be able to press Blue on the remote to change which media it is looking for, select USB. Presumably Humax...

I misinterpreted what was said on the other thread, which was actually pointing out the links in post 1 don't run on current linux systems. What it didn't initially say is "and there's a version that does work dozens of pages into the thread". We're not all mind readers, we can't read in new...