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I wanted to see the Marlins in HD for like the 5th time this week (oh the shame).

She wanted to see Soundstage, I suggested she watch it upstairs on the 36" SD TV, she got pissed, and said why don't I watch the game there and I said "cuz it looks like crap, compared to this one"... then she said it... something I never thought she'd say to me considering I had to bend her arm backwards and nearly drug her to get my RP-HDTV and HT set...

"We need another HDTV upstairs then"

Thanks Voom you are making me spend money DAMN YOU. :shocked
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I don't know about extra money from satelliteguys.us :D I looked at my bank account and there was no deposits made from this source. :D
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Man, I don't know what it is with wives and HDTVs, first off I had to convince her to get at least 1 decent HDTV for our HT Room, so I went ahead and bought a Mitsubishi WS-55413 last year, ordered Voom last february and hooked it up, apparently she liked what she saw, and wanted another HDTV set for our bedroom, so I bought a Sony KV-34HS510 and got Voom installed on the bedroom as well, now she's complaining that we need another HDTV set downstairs in the family room beside the kitchen so she could watch HD while cooking ( we currently have a 27" JVC SDTV downstairs on the small niche on the wall ), so once again I had to shell out and went ahead and bought the new Mitsubishi Diamond Series DLP WD-62825 ( got a pretty good deal from www.mitsubucks.com for it, the downside is the TV won't be delivered until this coming October ) can't wait to get it because it has a built-in HD PVR which is capable of recording 12 hrs of HD content, that should be enough til Voom releases their own HD PVR. So now I have to move all of my sets, my 55" RP-HDTV goes to my bedroom, 34" CRT-HDTV goes down to the family room and 62" DLP goes to the HT room once it arrives... a lot of work but it'll be all worth it. 1 more month of waiting :)

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Current Set-Up:
HT Room
Mitsubishi WD-62825 DLP-HDTV ( pending delivery )
Harman Kardon AVR-8000 A/V Receiver
Polk Audio RTi100 Tower Speakers
Polk Audio CSi40 Center Channel
Polk Audio FXi30 Rear Channels
Polk Audio PSW650 dual 10" drivers Subwoofer
Samsung HD-931 DVD Player
Motorola DSR-550 STB (Voom)
Sony SAT-T60 STB w/ Tivo (DirecTV)
JVC Hr-S3800U Super-VHS Player
Microsoft X-Box w/ Monster Component hook-up
Nintendo Gamecube
Sony Playstation 2 with Monster Component hook-up

Bedroom Set-Up:
Mitsubishi WS-55413 RP-HDTV
Harman Kardon AVR-520 A/V Receiver
Polk Audio DS-7200 speaker package
Motorola DSR-550 STB (Voom)
RCA DRD-430RGA STB (DirecTV)
Sony DVP-NS715P DVD Player

Family Room Set-Up:
Sony KV-34HS510 CRT-HDTV
RCA DRD-430RGA STB (DirecTV)
Motorola DSR-550 STB (Voom) ( pending )
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Walter L. said:
Dvlos:
I have the same problem. My wife wants the big screen to watch soap crap. I'm thinking about buying another HDTV or a new wife :D


In the long run I think the new wife idea is cheaper
DarrellP
No wife, no problem. I watch what I want, when I want, Yee-haw. But then, what I pay her in child support, I could buy a couple of new plasmas per year (ouch!)
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Ok, I'll chime in...I have a small 26" Samsung HDTV with HD OTA Tuner in my bedroom. An InFocus X1 for the living room/theater set up. And a Panny 32" HDTV for my girlfriends house (couldn't stand going there to watch a movie in SD - had to buy her a HDTV set).

I'm currently in the midst of converting my X1 into a 60" rear projection unit (I may upgrade to a HD2 projector when the case is finished). Designing the case and optics myself. My goal here is to use the X1, which I am happy with, to project the 60" screen but have total light control. I'm tired of my living room being referred to as the cave.

-GT
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We have a Breakfast and Dinner thread so... :)
Continuing from the Breakfast thread, found Cornbread mix so ...
Yellow Cornbread Mix
2 Hatch Green Chiles -diced
1 Egg
2/3 cup of milk
add to greased pan
Bake for 400f 20-25 minutes(From instructions)
now to put together and try... this to go with pinto beans...
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Club sandwich and corn chowder. Iced tea.
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Chili dog bowl, water… (homemade chili)
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Leftover wanton soup and pork fried rice. Water.
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Sweet tea…
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Tuna salad sandwich on toasted honey whole wheat bread with a handful of kettle chips. Water.
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Sometimes a thread gets so many posts in it that is can cause issues for the server so that why today we introduce The Song Name Game Part 3!

So let the game continue!

The last song was added by Bobby who posted...

One Meat Ball - Andrews Sisters

CONTINUE ON AND HAVE FUN! WELCOME HOME TO SATELLITEGUYS.US!

Here are the original rules for the game as posted by WebbyDude back in 2006. http://www.satelliteguys.us/threads/68645-Song-Name-Game

Just name a song title and the band who performed it. The next person does the same thing, but needs to list a song title or band name which includes a word from the previous entry. Pick songs from any genre.

Example:

Long Live Rock and Roll -- Rainbow

Rainbow in the Dark -- Dio

Another example:

Ride the Lightning -- Metallica

Lightning Strikes -- Ozzy Osbourne


Get it?


An additional note: we all know that song titles, sometimes, use profane words. Because this is a family friendly website it is advised that you clean up that title up a bit. This is accomplished by using something like sh!t instead of the real word. Thanks....
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I Wanna Talk About Me - Toby Keith
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98.6 - Keith
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I'm Easy - Keith Carridine
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It's Easy - Boston
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Take It Easy On Me - Little River Band
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Last reply · posted in Computers and Gadgets
Lately my eight year old Dell laptop has been shutting off even when I have a full battery. I have had to keep it plugged up all the time to keep this from happening. Any idea what is causing this? I replaced the battery about three years ago.
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A recalibration might be needed. Even if it shows full, the individual cells may have become unbalaced. And the BMS chip in the battery reports false information to the pc.
Try this. Start it up in the bios/uefi and leave it there until the battery dies and it shuts off.
It might just keep running longer than in Windows. Or run for a short while and shut off.
If it's the first case. Probably just needs a balancing. If the latter, the pack might just be dead.
Not throwing stones but perhaps just a cheaply constructed battery with substandard cells. Could be.

Patience. Keep restarting it in bios/uefi until it won't fire up anymore.
Then plug the charger in and let it complete a full charge. And see what happens. If it's better.
Do the same thing one more time. Run it until it dies dead-dead. Then just let it charge, pc shut off.
When charged, it might be better. It might not be.

There are bench jigs that read the actual BMS and override it to let a tech manually monitor and charge the separate packs. They can also reset any "time bombs" in it that cause an otherwise good pack to show bad.
Maybe Santa will be good to me some year.

You might just need a new battery. Maybe the PC power management chip is going. A Dell common thing.
Leaving a laptop plugged in with a full battery is known to reduce the life. Asus for one recommends that you don't leave the charger plugged in all of the time even when shut down. And setting Windows to charge the battery to 85% instead of 100% increases life.
That's all I got.
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That's all I got.
That was quite enough....I definitely learned something from your post. Thanks
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I set up a music server for my brother a few years ago. It's basically a small headless computer but it needs to have a DHCP IP address reserved for it in the router settings. This was easy to do in his DSL router. He's switching to Starlink now and I was wondering if these setting are easily accessible in the Starlink router. I'm pretty sure he will be getting the latest V5 router.
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I set up a music server for my brother a few years ago. It's basically a small headless computer but it needs to have a DHCP IP address reserved for it in the router settings. This was easy to do in his DSL router. He's switching to Starlink now and I was wondering if these setting are easily accessible in the Starlink router. I'm pretty sure he will be getting the latest V5 router.
If you can't get into the router to reserve an IP address just don't use DHCP on the device that needs connected and assign it to a specific IP address in the network settings.
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I set up a music server for my brother a few years ago. It's basically a small headless computer but it needs to have a DHCP IP address reserved for it in the router settings. This was easy to do in his DSL router. He's switching to Starlink now and I was wondering if these setting are easily accessible in the Starlink router. I'm pretty sure he will be getting the latest V5 router.
They are not. Your best bet is to set up a third-party router, attached to the Starlink for your server, that you can get into, like a Linksys, etc
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…it needs to have a DHCP IP address reserved for it in the router settings. This was easy to do in his DSL router. He's switching to Starlink now and I was wondering if these setting are easily accessible in the Starlink router. I'm pretty sure he will be getting the latest V5 router.
The Starlink V5 Install Kit I just got comes with the Mini Router. It is pretty limited in what it can do. For example, it can provide only one IP subnet at a time, no Guest Network, but it does support the pass-thru to a third-party Router. You can also split the Wi-Fi into separate 5 GHz & 2.4 GHz SSIDs to help some IoT devices that don't support 5 GHz bands to work.

The larger Starlink Router that still comes with the V4 Kit does support a Guest Network with separate IPv4 Subnet, but it's $120 from Starlink. And it still won't do DHCP Reservations.
harshness
If you can restrict the DHCP address space to assign addresses to one end of the subnet (i.e. x.x.x.50+), you can manually assign the IP address on pretty much any operating system. This is a default behavior on several popular routers. As the Router Mini only supports 235 devices, I expect that's already done.

Another option is to use a router that supports PoE to power the antenna. This article discusses that option (under PoE Power heading):

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Now that I've had the v5 kit with the Mini Router, it's not as bad as I first thought. Yes, no DHCP reservations, but you can set up multiple SSIDs that have separate IPv4 subnets, and like the big brother, you can select from 192.168.x.0/24 or 10.x.0.0/16 (where "x" is 1-4).

You can also split a subnet and have different SSIDs for the 5 GHz and 2.4 GHz channels to handle some IoT devices. I haven't discovered what subnet the 2nd NIC on the router assigns, I'm guessing it's the first subnet.
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Sorry for posting the wrong link. Just corrected it.
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Terrible tragedy. You would think that they would have safe guards in place that would prevent something like this from happening. I guess if you are going to ride in a passenger train it might be best to get a car near the rear.

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Terrible tragedy. You would think that they would have safe guards in place that would prevent something like this from happening. I guess if you are going to ride in a passenger train it might be best to get a car near the rear.

They will have to look at the switching sections to determine WHY 2 trains were on the same track ... at the same time.
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Thought this article might be of interest to some of you who might travel via train.