A friend (on AT&T) SMS'd me at 2:11AM to ask what time it was. Both
his and his girlfriend's phones were showing 1:11AM.
<insert obligatory rant about how much AT&T sucks here>
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Jordan Thevenow-Harrison" <jtth@jtth.net>
To: "Bloomington LINUX Users Group" <blug@cs.indiana.edu>
Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2009 11:29:30 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: Re: [BLUG] Did ATT mess up your cell phone, too?
Yeah, this happened to me. Luckily my Clocky woke me up at the right
time. It seems like someone must have actively changed something to
make this happen. Also, liabilities?
--
Jordan Thevenow-Harrison
jtth@jtth.net
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 11:26, Barry Schatz<sorbetninja@gmail.com> wrote:
> Who in the Bloomington area noticed that their cell phone had the wrong
> time? I woke up and noticed that my cell phone (which serves as my alarm
> clock) was an hour behind my normal clock (a simple clock radio from
> Radio Shack). I went to my computer and tried date, ntpdate, date again,
> date -u, and I realized that I was late for work.
>
> My girlfriend and a bunch of people at Cook were affected, and a lot of
> people at my job we similarly bothered that the cell tower didn't send a
> reliable timestamp. It seems the Bloomington ATT cell tower is on CDT
> (GMT-5) instead of EDT (GMT-4). Who else got bit?
>
> And now, my obligatory rant about timezones. It's (mostly) a joke.
> If we did away with timezones, this wouldn't be an issue. No time
> changes, no wondering what time it is in another part of the world, and
> greatly reduced jetlag would all be benefits. The weather reports
> already have sunrise and sunset times, so it can't be that hard to add
> in local high noon and midnight times as well. The workday in the
> "Eastern" timezone would go from 12:00 through 20:00. Best of all, we
> wouldn't have the nasty uptick in driving accidents and fatalities every
> Spring when daylight savings time steals an hour.
>
> -Barry
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Who in the Bloomington area noticed that their cell phone had the wrong
time? I woke up and noticed that my cell phone (which serves as my alarm
clock) was an hour behind my normal clock (a simple clock radio from
Radio Shack). I went to my computer and tried date, ntpdate, date again,
date -u, and I realized that I was late for work.
My girlfriend and a bunch of people at Cook were affected, and a lot of
people at my job we similarly bothered that the cell tower didn't send a
reliable timestamp. It seems the Bloomington ATT cell tower is on CDT
(GMT-5) instead of EDT (GMT-4). Who else got bit?
And now, my obligatory rant about timezones. It's (mostly) a joke.
If we did away with timezones, this wouldn't be an issue. No time
changes, no wondering what time it is in another part of the world, and
greatly reduced jetlag would all be benefits. The weather reports
already have sunrise and sunset times, so it can't be that hard to add
in local high noon and midnight times as well. The workday in the
"Eastern" timezone would go from 12:00 through 20:00. Best of all, we
wouldn't have the nasty uptick in driving accidents and fatalities every
Spring when daylight savings time steals an hour.
-Barry
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On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 11:26, Barry Schatz<sorbetninja@gmail.com> wrote:
> Who in the Bloomington area noticed that their cell phone had the wrong
> time? I woke up and noticed that my cell phone (which serves as my alarm
> clock) was an hour behind my normal clock (a simple clock radio from
> Radio Shack). I went to my computer and tried date, ntpdate, date again,
> date -u, and I realized that I was late for work.
>
> My girlfriend and a bunch of people at Cook were affected, and a lot of
> people at my job we similarly bothered that the cell tower didn't send a
> reliable timestamp. It seems the Bloomington ATT cell tower is on CDT
> (GMT-5) instead of EDT (GMT-4). Who else got bit?
>
> And now, my obligatory rant about timezones. It's (mostly) a joke.
> If we did away with timezones, this wouldn't be an issue. No time
> changes, no wondering what time it is in another part of the world, and
> greatly reduced jetlag would all be benefits. The weather reports
> already have sunrise and sunset times, so it can't be that hard to add
> in local high noon and midnight times as well. The workday in the
> "Eastern" timezone would go from 12:00 through 20:00. Best of all, we
> wouldn't have the nasty uptick in driving accidents and fatalities every
> Spring when daylight savings time steals an hour.
>
> -Barry
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On Thu, 2009-07-30 at 11:26 -0400, Barry Schatz wrote:
> Who in the Bloomington area noticed that their cell phone had the wrong
> time? I woke up and noticed that my cell phone (which serves as my alarm
> clock) was an hour behind my normal clock (a simple clock radio from
> Radio Shack). I went to my computer and tried date, ntpdate, date again,
> date -u, and I realized that I was late for work.
>
> My girlfriend and a bunch of people at Cook were affected, and a lot of
> people at my job we similarly bothered that the cell tower didn't send a
> reliable timestamp. It seems the Bloomington ATT cell tower is on CDT
> (GMT-5) instead of EDT (GMT-4). Who else got bit?
>
> And now, my obligatory rant about timezones. It's (mostly) a joke.
> If we did away with timezones, this wouldn't be an issue. No time
> changes, no wondering what time it is in another part of the world, and
> greatly reduced jetlag would all be benefits. The weather reports
> already have sunrise and sunset times, so it can't be that hard to add
> in local high noon and midnight times as well. The workday in the
> "Eastern" timezone would go from 12:00 through 20:00. Best of all, we
> wouldn't have the nasty uptick in driving accidents and fatalities every
> Spring when daylight savings time steals an hour.
>
> -Barry
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My girlfriend and a bunch of people at Cook were affected, and a lot of
people at my job we similarly bothered that the cell tower didn't send a
reliable timestamp. It seems the Bloomington ATT cell tower is on CDT
(GMT-5) instead of EDT (GMT-4). Who else got bit?
And now, my obligatory rant about timezones. It's (mostly) a joke.
If we did away with timezones, this wouldn't be an issue. No time
changes, no wondering what time it is in another part of the world, and
greatly reduced jetlag would all be benefits. The weather reports
already have sunrise and sunset times, so it can't be that hard to add
in local high noon and midnight times as well. The workday in the
"Eastern" timezone would go from 12:00 through 20:00. Best of all, we
wouldn't have the nasty uptick in driving accidents and fatalities every
Spring when daylight savings time steals an hour.
-Barry
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See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Video_Broadcasting
Of note, there are broadly DVB-S (for satellite), DVB-C (for cable) and
DVB-H (for "terrestrial").
I have a dual-analog/digital unit (I forget the model), however if you
read the documentation on it, it only supports DVB-H. In Bloomington,
this means it is only useful if I want to pick up PBS or Christian
stations. (We only use the analog side of it.)
To be able to pick up digital cable signals, you need something capable
of handling DVB-C signals. Specifically, you need something with
CableCARD support. You'll also need to sign up for a CableCARD from your
cable company.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CableCARD
I didn't know that you could get any remotely usable signals without a
CableCARD, so I'm impressed.
Cheers,
Steven Black
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 02:13:10AM +0000, Mark Krenz wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 01:49:37AM GMT, Joe Auty [joe@netmusician.org] said the following:
> >
> > I have, with Myth.. I've used both an analog and digital tuner/receiver
> > with my Hauppauge capture card.
> >
>
> And you are using this with Comcast right? What digital settings
> should I be using? QAM 256? Broadcast?
>
> I've been able to record analogue cable just fine by doing:
>
> cat /dev/video0 > output.mpg
>
> And this was with a Hauppauge PVR-500
>
> But now I'm trying to do digital with a Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-2250, which
> doesn't have analogue support under Linux yet, but does have digital
> ClearQAM and ATSC support. I am able to tune in digital channels, but
> the quality is really poor and there are lots of artifacts. I'm
> wondering if I'm using the wrong settings or something.
>
> Does anyone have a card like this?
>
> --
> Mark Krenz
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