Extra Pepperoni

When Amy mentioned to Joyce (of Scarce) that she now has a blog, Joyce was amazed and impressed at how cutting-edge Amy is. There’s definitely a geographical factor here, because at my picnic earlier the same day, we figured out that of the 6 adults and Julia present (all Brooklynites), every single one of us has a blog.

Devjani’s is firewalled. Julia’s Journal runs on hand-crafted HTML rather than blogging software, but that’s because it dates back to mid-2002; I will move it over at some point. Sharon has two. In addition to Extra Pep, I edit Securosis.

• http://www.mscrochety.com/
• http://ceolaf.blogspot.com/
• http://cmss1971.wordpress.com/
• http://typewrittenteacup.blogspot.com/
• http://twhos.blogspot.com/

Amy and I were walking across the Gowanus Canal to see Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, when we came across this amusing Easter residue (on Saturday, so pre-Easter, no less!). I like Peeps, but not that much. Amy dislikes Peeps, but not that much. Her comment, upon hearing I intended to submit this photo to Miss Heather? “It’s not a poop. It’s a peep.”

Despite not being feces or canine, this still seemed right up Heather’s alley.

I went out tonight to see Gavin perform (accordion, piano, & backing vocals) with Anna Copa Cabanna at Jalopy, a performance space and instrument repair shop so old-timey and rustic they had a wooden bolt to lock the bathroom door and a wooden box sink.

Getting there was surprisingly difficult. I called a local car service, and they told me it would be 10 minutes. In 6, the car was outside; when I went out, she complained that I’d kept a woman waiting, and spent much of the drive complaining about the car we were in. Then she drove 7 blocks south to 9th Street, and asked me how to get there. Since the driver didn’t know the way, I used Google Maps on the iPhone to give her directions. As we got to the Fort Hamilton Parkway, she began to tell me that Columbia Street (which Jalopy is on) didn’t exist on the other (north) side of the Parkway; I insisted at least half a dozen times, and guided her around the entrance — insisting to me all along that we couldn’t get to the north side of the Parkway, until we saw the place, right where Google claimed it was. To get home I called Eastern, and they were 30% cheaper without arguing or needing directions.

I got some very dark pictures (no flash).

It was a very good show, although as a friend of Gavin’s I didn’t really appreciate the harassment of “Smitty” that’s part of their shtick. On the other hand, I wouldn’t have appreciated him treating her that way either…

Lots of strange songs about New York and America, by a fascinating and deliberately somewhat crazy outsider (Australian import). I was particularly impressed that they managed to do “Beauty Bar” as a real punk song — on tambourine & accordion.

I also enjoyed Royal Pine, but was a bit freaked out when they played a song I recognized — “Pearl Polly Adler”. This is inexplicable because I listen to perhaps a couple dozen songs I don’t know each year (largely from James), so recognizing a ‘new’ song that’s not in my iTunes library was a (pleasant) source of shock and confusion. Apparently I found it while surfing YouTube recently — something I also very rarely do, as opposed to effectively never before the iPhone. The Pearl Polly Adler video looks familiar, but I can’t be sure it’s not all delusional deja vu.

Anyway, I enjoyed that song while racking my brain for where I had heard it before, and “Stone Cold Mamacita” even more, although I enjoyed the rougher and tougher live version more than the recording on Huasteca.

I was walking down the street this morning, burning a piece of paper with some old passwords on it, and holding the box of matches I had used to light it. A woman saw me, and said “Hi. Gimme a match?” I got out a match and prepared to light it for her. Before I could strike flame, the woman leaned over to my burning password paper and lit a cigarette from it, then said “Thank you.”

There I was, standing on the street, thinking “Smoking’s bad, mm-kay,” and wondering why she asked for a match when she wanted a light (yes, I know, I cannot turn off being an editor), and thinking this was probably actually not the first time someone’s lit a cigarette from a burning password, but it’s still unusual.

Today Paul (a neighbor we met at the playground water fountain last week) called the fire department because he saw black smoke billowing out of a building across 2nd St (again within a block of us and visible from our apartment, but a bit farther away this time). They sent 5 trucks, found a burning boiler producing CO, and put it out. Julia and I got there as they were about to pull out.

It sounds like he called in time, and everybody’s fine. Here’s hoping there are no more FDNY emergencies in this area for a while.

We noticed several fire engines and a crowd of people standing on 5th Ave and 2nd St, looking at a building across the street (on the west side of 5th Ave, between 2nd & 3rd Sts). We initially thought Gary’s building was on fire, but there was no smoke — just a couple cherry pickers working at an empty building in the middle of the block.

Ironically, we noticed on Sunday that you can see right through that building, which we hadn’t really noticed before, and I took some pictures:

Very strange, and we still don’t know what happened. We hope nobody was hurt.

http://www.reppep.com/~pepper/album/353-2nd/album/353-2nd/5th-ave-fire/

Update 2007/08/10: They have boarded up the windows, and continued building on top. It doesn’t look like there was a fire; Scott & Christine think there was some sort of collapse of the construction work they’re doing.

Tuesday morning, Amy and I were walking to the subway together, and we saw this amusing sign:

I sent it to Heather & Sam, who run New York Shitty (she acid wit & poop snaps, he back-end hosting), and she liked it. Then Curbed picked it up, and it’s made the rounds.

Time-Warner Cable was here again today. They have called at least half a dozen times since their last visit in May, twice to confirm appointments we hadn’t made, several times during dinner to schedule appointments (the last time he was unable to actually schedule the appointment, though, as his computer wasn’t working), and consistently failed to make promised follow-up calls.

Today they just showed up and buzzed, without the automated appointment-confirmation call yesterday — fortunately we were around. When they arrived, we couldn’t get channels 3, 6, 8, or 10 on either TV.

They ran new wire from Song (next door) over the building and back down, separating us from a neighbor who was apparently on the same coax. When they left, our upstairs (non-HD) TV & TiVo seemed fine, but our downstairs TV was still showing video artifacts and occasionally buzzing loudly, although we were at least getting picture on all channels. Apparently the run is so long they need an amplifier, but didn’t have one. So tomorrow someone should be back to install an amplifier (supposed to take 10 minutes), which should fix our downstairs reception. We’ll see if this also raises the signal:noise threshold, which the phone rep I spoke to said was a hard rule, but both field technicians have said was meaningless.

I just sat with (not quite on) a civil jury this week. I was Alternate #2, which meant I was the same as the other jurors until the very end, but while they deliberated I (and Alternate #1) sat next door; we were the same except in the jury room for final deliberations. Apparently in federal court, alternates participate in deliberation the same as other jurors, which would have made it feel like less of a waste of time.

To my pleasant surprise, the jury selection pool sported an open wireless network and a bunch of PC “terminals” so we could surf while cooling our heels before being empaneled. Unfortunately, apparently nobody in the area knew the PCs’ Windows passwords, so logging out was a big no-no, but I brought a laptop and didn’t really care. The actual jury rooms were not online, but we didn’t spend much time waiting there, except during the actual deliberations.

Fortunately the trial was relatively simple and fast — we started Monday with jury selection, heard a half-day of testimony on Tuesday and again on Wednesday, heard closing arguments and (they) deliberated on Thursday, and heard the verdict read out and got our jury service receipts Thursday. This last part is important, as the receipts keep us from being called back to jury duty for (at least) 8 years — not bad!

In 2000 a music studio was burglarized, and most of the equipment was stolen, including a Harrison MR2 56-channel console. We later heard parts of it were found (apparently in 2003) in boxes, and in a dumpster somewhere. There was a previous lawsuit on this insurance claim in 2006, and there (and perhaps in a negotiated settlement) all issues were settled except the insurance value of this audio recording console. Our only charge as a jury was to determine the value of the console, so the insurance company could reimburse for the loss. It was obvious we were missing a lot of the backstory and case history.

I was amazed by the discrepancies in expert opinions. The plaintiff’s expert claimed the console was worth $75-$85k in 2000, while the defense expert claimed $7,500 as its value. Both claimed (credibly) to be quite familiar with the market for this piece of equipment. I wonder how much of it is markup and attitude — “I can buy one that could be fixed up for $X.” is not the same as “I can put a price tag on this, reading $Y.” The actual purchase price (6 months before the burglary) was $28,000, so we all felt somewhat at sea — no two pieces of information corroborated each other.

We had a couple Time Warner DVRs. One Scientific Atlanta 8000 (non-HD) DVR upstairs on a Sony CRT (mostly watched by Julia these days), and an Scientific Atlanta 8300 HD DVR on our (lemon) Sceptre 23″ 720p LCD TV.

They crash periodically, and Time Warner tells us just to reboot them and not worry about it. They are both inferior in numerous ways to our TiVo Series 1 (which is TiVo’s original model — so much for learning from the competition!). In early April, they both started failing to tune channels, and crashing a lot. We called Time Warner, they sent someone out, he “replaced a splitter” and left. A few days later we had more problems, so a second tech came out, “replaced a splitter” and yelled at Amy about a cabling problem to the TV (nothing to do with the issue, but it apparently caused him to waste some time). He left, but the problems stayed. In particular, a couple days later we got channel 1, but not 2-9 or 81 — I didn’t check beyond that.

Last week, I called Time Warner. The nice lady on the phone told me about channel 996, which provides status info on the DVR (including MAC, IP, and signal strength). She explained that my 33 “Reverse RF” (upstream?) dBmV (signal:noise) value was out of tolerance (35-65), and this was definitely the problem. So she sent someone on Tuesday to fix it. She also said “I’ll put that number in the case notes, so they won’t have any choice but to fix it.” Foreshadowing! She also mentioned that since this was the third call they were supposed to send a foreman, but they did not.

Tired of not being able to get video onto my TiVo, I also asked to have our non-HD DVR replaced with a plain (digital) cable box, so I could reinstall our old TiVo S1. The TiVo has an upgraded hard drive, 10/100 Ethernet, and web server; so I can extract TV shows, convert to MPEG, and watch them on my Treo (it makes my 2-hour-daily subway commute go much faster). Unfortunately, this wasn’t something that could be scheduled with the repair, so it was set for Thursday, at a $30 charge (it would have cost me $10 each way to get a cab to their storefront). Weak!

Tuesday, the repair tech came, disconnected a splitter (the same one that had been replaced by each of the previous techs, I presume, but he wouldn’t say), and (with me) climbed up to the roof tracing out the cable. We then went into Song next door (the cable comes up from their yard, but it’s behind a fence — awkward! He re-crimped a few cable ends.

I asked about the signal strength (now up to 37 instead of 33, but still obviously not very good on either TV). The HD DVR crashed “tuning” to channel 7 (the 5th time Tuesday), so he replaced it (which I was expecting). He insisted that the signal:noise number was meaningless (several times), and we got all the channels, so he left. A half-hour later, Amy was tuning through the channels, and some weren’t coming in again. At least the new DVR didn’t crash on bad channels, just showed black. Talk about lowered expectations!

Oh, and the phone rep (when I scheduled the appointments) had promised me a credit for a month of interrupted service, but instead we got a bill for the full monthly rate. Amy called and the rep mumbled something about billing cycles, but the bill was dated several days after I was told the credit had been applied. Something to worry about next month…

Tuesday night we got a call from a Time Warner, asking if we were satisfied. NO Could they send a tech during the Thursday window, when I would be home? No. The TWC rep would call back, because he couldn’t get a foreman that soon. We’ll see how (if) they handle it. We currently have some channels, but not others.

It’s enough to make us want to switch to RCN or DirecTV.

The pathetic irony here is that our problems have been a walk in the park compared to Alex’s tale of woe. He spent months helping TWC figure out why their CableCards didn’t work, but they didn’t have any good ones to give him, so left him with incompatible CableCards. Last we heard, he thought they might have been fixed remotely, but wasn’t willing to reboot to test this theory.

PS-An oddity is that downloding tystreams from the TiVo is slower than it used to be — long pauses when nothing downloads, and generally just slower than it should be. I thought it was due to being uplinked through an AirPort Extreme via WDS, but connecting my PBG4 directly to the TiVo via an old 100mbps hub didn’t help; something with the ancient TiVo, I guess.

Update: Our phone service was screwed up Wednesday. After several calls with Verizon (where they told us it was an inside problem, and that we should get a new phone, and that they would come Monday to fix it, but expected to charge us $90 to fix an inside wiring problem), someone showed up unexpected Friday morning and replaced an outside cable. Aside from the unpleasant similarities between Verizon and Time Warner, I’m convinced that the TWC repair tech caused the phone problem when he was tracing the coax up and down the outside of our building.

We’re all in here. When I got in we sat on our desks, waiting for computers and chairs to arrive; now most things are unpacked and stowed. Storage is about the same as the old space. Temp is fine. Noise is definitely worse, but it wasn’t great on the old space either. We’ll see.

One nice thing about the Super-Tent: I got 3 gigabit Ethernet jacks. Copying a 4gb Parallels VM from Mac Pro to a first-gen MacBook Pro took 2:42 (using cp over an AppleShare mount), at 206mbit/s. The same copy to a Samba/Linux share failed (likely due to an invalid filename), but cp of the equivalent tarchive took 4:42, at 118mbit/s (apparently the tent’s uplink is busy).

As described in Major Mac Movements, I did a lot of computer shuffling recently. On Sunday night I moved my gigabit Ethernet switch to our private home network, which was much easier than I expected. I labelled all my Ethernet cables (the longest part), then plugged in an 8-port 10/100 switch, moved all the cables from the 8-port 10/100/1000 switch to the new one, and moved most of the cables from the Linksys WRT54G’s 4-port switch to the (now-empty) GE switch.

Now network transfers from the PowerBook to the www (PMG4) max out slightly over 100mbps, and will get substantially faster when I upgrade the PowerBook to a MacBook Pro, and also in the fall when I swap the PMG5 in to become www.reppep.com.

Everything is done except the TiVo swap, although I may have to send the MacBook Pro back to Apple from work because the brightness still flickers, and will see if the 23″ CD continues to flicker in the Super-Tent.

Friday night I got 2 750gb hard drives for the Power Mac G5 I brought home from work. I was very impressed by the elegance of its hard drive bays (which have since been replaced by carriers in the Mac Pro), and it’s much faster than anything else in our house (until Amy gets her MacBook tomorrow — that might be faster), so I’m doing a little iMovie work on it.

I’ve installed Leopard Server several times already, having some trouble with networking/naming, largely around the fact that the Power Mac has an internal hostname & IP, an external hostname & IP, and a DNS hostname for the external IP which didn’t agree. Mac OS X Server is picky about hostnames & IPs, and ironically this weekend I found and fixed a similar problem on my PMG4, which dates back to when it became the production (www|mail).reppep.com (shortly after 10.4.0 [Server] was released); I noticed the old name kept showing up in odd places, and now I know why. changeip is your friend.

I just checked, and I have sent 24 messages to Apple since Friday night; probably 1/4 are updates for existing reports. Most of them are about very small points.

The new box will be a Leopard Server testbed until it’s released, and then the production (www|mail).reppep.com, with much more disk capacity and general “oomph”.

For the stuff I had planned a week ago, I’ve done most of it, but the TiVo isn’t connected yet (it’s sitting under a table waiting for me to take the time, but the APExpress is ready to go); Amy’s MacBook arrives tomorrow, and I just sent my original MacBook Pro to Apple to get its backlight fixed and perhaps battery replaced; once it’s back I am considering sending the new 23″ CD in to have its backlight replaced, as it’s got an annoying flicker in the lower right quadrant.

The rest is done; I can now post images to Julia’s site at 100mbps from my PowerBook, rather than AirPort speeds, and I am considering moving the GE switch to the inside, since that would let the PowerBook run at full speed (and most bulk transfers are betweeen it and the server), and obviously the front side of the network is throttled by our 3mbps/768kbps DSL circuit. But it requires me to use different names for everything to get top speed and bring an old 100mbps switch back online, so I’m not hurrying to implement. I can see the GE is working, though — I just moved a 1.35gb iMovie project from the PMG5 to the PMG4, and it peaked at 300mbps, averaging half that. After I invert the network I’ll see if the PBG4 can do faster transfers than the PMG4.

I decided to hold onto the Dell PC, since nobody else wants it and it’s a fine machine for XP or Linux; I’ll just leave it in a corner until I come up with a worthwhile use for it.

It’s very nice to have an iPod on the stereo again.

Here’s a neat indicator of urban density. Julia & Amy came outside to play this afternoon, and then wandered off, but not before I brought my aluminum PBG4 out to join them. I briefly checked signal strength of our network with iStumbler, and was quite impressed to find 26 visible WLANs from our front door, significantly more than the 16 I picked up inside the apartment shortly before we moved in.

I was discussing this week’s plans for computer rearrangements with Amy, and was amazed when I listed them all. Most of these will happen this week.

1. I’m getting a Mac Pro at work; it has shipped and should be in soon.
2. I got the (very nice) 23″ Apple display already; I’ll connect it as soon as I get the Mac Pro.
3. I’ll bring my current PMG5 home; it will become a Leopard testbed, and after Leopard’s release will become www.reppep.com.
4. The PMG5 has a 17″ Apple LCD with ADC connector, which will come home with it (I don’t have anything else at work with an ADC connector, and nobody wants a 4-year-old 17″ display).
5. I bought a 20″ LCD at work a few months ago, but the ATI video card Apple shipped with the PMG5 can’t drive it and a 17″ display properly. I got a replacement card, thinking it was defective, but the (expensive) replacement part had the exact same problem, so it’s a design flaw with that model. I brought the 20″ display home and brought my own personal 19″ display to work. I will bring the 20″ back to work.
6. I will bring the 19″ LCD back home (I’ll miss the pixels for iPhoto, but otherwise it’s fine).
7. Amy now suddenly needs a new computer (preferably one which can run Windows), and our finances have just gotten tight again, so I have deferred my purchase, and instead bought her a MacBook, which should arrive this week.
8. At work, I have an original MacBook Pro which I use for a) ssh, b) Safari, c) Leopard testing, & d) Parallels/VMware hosting & testing. I’ll bring my own PBG4 in for ssh & Safari, do Parallels/VMware on the new Mac Pro, and move Leopard testing to the PMG5 at home.
9. I’ll bring the MBP home, where it will be much faster than the PBG4.
10. I’m replacing our 100mbit switch (the old gigabit switch died a year ago) with a new 8-port gigabit switch — for $35 ($50 before rebate!!!).
11. I’m running Ethernet to the loft where my desk and printer are; this will free up an AirPort Base Station currently connecting the printer to our home LAN via WDS.
12. I will replace our upstairs DVR with our hacked Series 1 TiVo, so I can once again extract video to watch on the subway with TCPMP; I will use the newly-freed-up ABS to connect the TiVo’s Ethernet.
13. My 60gb iPod photo should be back soon, so I’ll be moving my Eudora Folder (email) back off the old 10gb (which was mine, then Amy’s, then attached to the stereo to share).

Then later this month, we’ll pack up our offices and move everything to the Super-Tent. I’ll be moving the Mac Pro and PBG4 w/ 2 displays, and getting rid of my Sun Blade 100, Dell Windows PC, & Microway Linux PC — replacing them with VMs on the Mac Pro.

I spent the day waiting for Verizon to install a new phone line, but they never showed up (again!). Supposedly tomorrow.

But I did find 16 networks from the new place, and had Internet connectivity most of the day, which made the wait somewhat less unpleasant.

Update: After 5-7 visits; including two simply skipped; one where the installer decided to leave instead of doing the install; one where the voice installer disconnected the DSL circuit to provide voice; another where the DSL installer (despite specific instructions to the contrary) disconnected the voice circuit to provide DSL; and a DSL installer who couldn’t get the circuit up, but did manage to break the inside wiring; we finally got DSL working (thanks, Alex!). What a fiasco. I even tried to switch from Speakeasy service (Covad equipment over Verizon’s wires) to Verizon-branded business DSL service, but couldn’t wait over 2 weeks for the appointment. So we’re back with Speakeasy until FIOS becomes available.

So http://www.brooklynfreespace.org/ needs an Internet connection for 2 700MHz eMacs. Earthlink is cheap for decent speed. I ordered a couple AirPort Extreme cards, a Linksys WRT54GR, and DSL service (and Kid Pix 4 Schools).

Those of you who are eMac savvy will know the first problem already — although the slot (cleverly concealed behind the CD-ROM door) is about the right size, they need an old (802.11b) AirPort card, not an Extreme card. Fortunately I have my father’s old AirPort card, which has outlasted 2 iBooks and still works great (it was worth more than the last iBook I salvaged it from — original blue, with 3gb drive and dead battery).

Second problem: CD-only drives. Target Disk Mode and my PBG4’s DVD drive solved that problem.

Now to the good (bad) stuff:

The WRT54GR comes configured for 192.168.1.1, with DHCP on. The EarthLink DSL modem (which they charged me $20 for, despite telling me there were no set-up charges), comes configured for 192.168.1.1 with DHCP too. Now it’s neat that a $20 piece of hardware is a full router with decent NAT control, but I can’t access it through the WRT54GR, since http://192.168.1.1 goes to the Linksys, and never reaches the DSL modem.

I got them working with Internet access on Sunday, but cannot reproduce yet. Everything is seriously hampered by a strange error that I keep getting out of the DSL modem when I try to configure it. Suddenly, all the configuration pages start returning this:

Protected Object

This object on the P-660R-ELNK is protected

Then I cannot configure the DSL modem until I reboot the Mac I was using. I suspect it has to do with changing IPs on the Mac (perhaps there’s a cookie which it doesn’t like seeing come from another IP), but haven’t figured it out yet. I sent email to Zyxel, in hopes they’ll take pity on me and explain what causes this error (and how to avoid it!).

EarthLink assures me that a full reset of the modem (which they didn’t tell me how to do, and isn’t covered in their docs) will clear the problem. I doubt it, but we’ll see.

So to get support, they want me to use web-based chat. Except that to open a chat session, I have to answer some questions, and click a radio button confirming that the answer wasn’t in their knowledge base, and when I Submit the form, I get an error that I didn’t check the button. So it’s impossible to get support with Safari. I fire up Firefox, and am able to get past that barrier. So much for the first Mac-friendly ISP!

Today, the chat applet didn’t drop my characters, or crash Firefox — a big improvement over 2-3 weeks ago, when I used it to get pre-sales info (and they told me there was no set-up charge).

Also, the school’s EarthLink email address was 31 characters. The service is PPPoE, which requires me to enter the address, into a box which only allows entry of 30 characters! I tried without @earthlink, and it didn’t work. So I went to EarthLink’s support site, and tried to change the email address. I tried three times, and each time it told me I had mis-entered the captcha. It’s 5 upper-case letters — apparently they can’t even get that to work in Safari!

So I got someone from EarthLink to change my email address, and I told him that (since they’re obviously selling more DSL than dial-up), they should either fix the stupid Zyxel web page to remove the stupid HTML attribute that prevents more than 30 characters in the address field for PPPoE, or warn people when they create email addresses > 30 characters. I asked the rep to tell someone about the 30-character limit, but doubt it happened.

So today (actually yesterday, by now), I sent email explaining the problem to support@earthlink.net. I get back an auto-response telling me to use their web form. I fill out the web form (again, doesn’t work in Safari, so I have to use Firefox), and describing my problem, I get a page that tells me they don’t take this type of query by email! I try another, and am again stymied.

Oh, well. That much frustrated effort, trying to help EarthLink fix their problems, requires that I point out their idiocy in a public forum.

Update: I managed to send my report via their Feedback form, which warns me not to expect an answer. But perhaps someone will read it.

Not holding my breath.

And again, this was the Mac-friendly ISP! (Open Door Networks was cool, but never local to me) I remember seeing EarthLink folks getting started at MacLeak’s MVB events pre-Expo, back in the day!

Update: No thanks to Earthlink, I eventually figured out that if I used a self-assigned IP address (instead of one assigned by the DSL modem’s DHCP server), I always got this error. Dumb. People who use static addresses are much more likely than average to use the DSL modem’s configuration interface.

• It’s on its 3rd hard drive (this one is 120gb, but I was unable to find 5400rpm).
• It has a 100mbit Ethernet TurboNet card (previously I had an old-skool 10mbit TiVoNet card).
• It is accessible (on our private home network) via telnet, tivoftp (normal Linux filesystems, not MFS filesystems), and HTTP (TiVoWeb 1.0, with MFSStream v.98).

We watch all our TV on the PowerBook (TiVo2Go only supports Windows as of January 18th, 2005). Unfortunately there are several issues with sucking video off the TiVo onto a PowerBook. TiVo tools seem to be most advanced on Windows, where there are several slick tools for decoding, transcoding, and streaming. Next is Linux, and least-advanced are the Mac OS X tools.

I use MFSStream (a plug-in for TiVoWeb 1.0) to download .ty files through Safari, and tyc (which usually works, but not always) to strip the extra TiVo data and convert them to MPEG2, viewable in QuickTime (with the MPEG2 plug-in) or VLC. I’d like to upgrade to TiVoWeb 1.2.1, but haven’t found a compatible MFSStream module.

Unfortunately, MFSStream generates bogus content-length headers for recordings over 2gb (feature movies). Both curl (latest version, from fink) & wget can ignore content-length, but the human-visible URLs in MFSStream aren’t usable. My current workaround is to click on the link in Safari, which produces a 0-byte .ty file in the Downloads window. Control-clicking on the empty file in this window provides a Copy Address command, which can then be fetched with something like “curl --ignore-content-length -O http://tivo:2000/longpath.ty “.