PaulHowarth/Blog/2007-07-15

Sunday 15th July 2007

Fedora Project

  • Updated mod_fcgid in EPEL-5 to the same version as the Fedora branches, so it now has a -selinux subpackage

Sony RDR-HXD860 Resetting Problem

I'm on the verge of returning my Sony RDR-HXD860 PVR, which I've generally been very happy with, as it's recently (in the last couple of weeks) started exhibiting a fault whereby it powers itself off from time to time and loses any recent updates made on the disk (e.g. whatever it was recording, changes to titles etc.). This has rather spoiled my enjoyment of CSI, CSI:NY, and The Shield, as I've lost episodes of all of these to this problem.

However, it seems I'm not alone. I'll try the suggested workaround of turning off software updates and see if it helps.

Update (23rd July 2007)
Since turning off the automatic updates, I've not had a single occurrence of the resetting issue so in my opinion the workaround is a good one. Apparently there's a software upgrade to version 1.01.10 available this week (advertised on the engineering channel); perhaps this will fix the problem. I'm going to re-enable updates and leave the tuner tuned to Multiplex B (e.g. CBeebies) and we'll see.

Update (24th July 2007)
Machine is now upgraded to software version 1.01.10. There's an official announcement about it on the Sony UK website, saying that it should fix the problem. Recorded CSI: Miami from Channel 5 without incident so hopefully this is now resolved.

Allotment

Dug up all of the remaining new potatoes, and got quite a decent yield. I just hope that they taste as good as the ones I dug up earlier in the year; the heavy rain won't have helped.


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