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Jeremiah reported a problem in Verizon on September 03, 2009 08:13:

FiOS STB interrupts DVR playback and recording for emergency tests

The FiOS STB interrupts DVR playback for EAS (emergency alert system) tests. Tests! This is wrong — it's not live TV. And then to top if off you're dumped to the last tuned channel after the test, left to dig back through the menus to find the recorded program you were just watching. Completely wrong.

Are you also going to interrupt my watching DVDs or playing Xbox or seeing movies in the theater?

Additionally, if you're watching live or time-shifted TV, your viewing "history" is erased when these tests occur, and you can no longer rewind to before the test happened. So if you had paused a program, and were watching it delayed (aka catching up), you would lose everything from the point you were watching up to "live." This is wrong.

Please fix this.

Jeremiah started following the question "Import playhistory, playcount, ratings from Winamp." in Songbird.

Jeremiah replied on January 24, 2009 21:57 to the question "How do you customise the 'event' handler?" in TweetDeck:

On Mac OS X, the default browser is set in Safari preferences. See comments here:
http://www.ryansteele.ca/2008/04/18/m...

That doesn't help me, because for some reason the Minefield test version of Firefox takes the default for any version of Firefox.

Jeremiah replied on January 24, 2009 03:10 to the question "How do you customise the 'event' handler?" in TweetDeck:

For some reason TweetDeck picked up a test version of a browser i have installed as the default, and it doesn't even properly work because it's a test version. There is no way to reassign it to my default browser.

AND when you use the "Copy Link" funtion, it has "event:" prefixed i can't even directly paste it in to my browser, i have to delete that part first. Big FAIL.

I'm on Mac OS 10.5.6. Default browser is set at Firefox, but might have had multiple browsers open when i installed TweetDeck.

Jeremiah started following the question "How do you customise the 'event' handler?" in TweetDeck.

Jeremiah replied on January 13, 2009 07:38 to the problem "The do-not-bookmark switch (dash) was passed to my services." in Ping.fm:

Ok, well it appears to be working correctly now under the same conditions:
http://twitter.com/pingfm/status/1111...

Not sure why it didn't work for me that one time.

Jeremiah replied on January 13, 2009 07:33 to the problem "The do-not-bookmark switch (dash) was passed to my services." in Ping.fm:

uh, posted via the google/gmail chat bot from within Gmail. Haven't posted any non-bookmark links since.

Jeremiah reported a problem in Ping.fm on January 11, 2009 09:07:

The do-not-bookmark switch (dash) was passed to my services.

http://twitter.com/miahz/status/11106...

This is new. Normally, ping.fm "absorbs" the dash prefix on URLs in updates before they're sent to services. Links were not bookmarked, which is correct.

Posted via Google chat bot.

Jeremiah replied on January 02, 2009 07:48 to the problem "My fake HTML "tag" was stripped from my post" in Ping.fm:

Ok, thanks. I'll try posting via email.

Jeremiah replied on December 30, 2008 03:54 to the problem "My fake HTML "tag" was stripped from my post" in Ping.fm:

It also strips < and > characters in "tags" encoded with AMPlt; and AMPgt;

Jeremiah reported a problem in Ping.fm on December 30, 2008 03:50:

My fake HTML "tag" was stripped from my post

i made a post with something like "this is my post </faketag>" and the fake "tag" was stripped. Why? It was just a status post to services that only accept text, so should have been encoded as plain text.

Jeremiah replied on November 21, 2008 04:35 to the problem "Twitter not getting updated from Ping.fm" in Ping.fm:

Another ping to Twitter was dropped 15 minutes ago, all other services updated. Likely a Twitter outage - nothing mentioned on Twitter Status, but just noting for the record. Updates from a few hours ago went through fine.

A comment on the problem "Twitter not getting updated from Ping.fm" in Ping.fm:

Yep. It was the password mismatch. – Jeremiah, on November 17, 2008 19:16

Jeremiah marked one of Adam's replies in Ping.fm as useful. Adam replied to the problem "Twitter not getting updated from Ping.fm".

A comment on the problem "Twitter not getting updated from Ping.fm" in Ping.fm:

Ahh, i think that's it - i might have changed my password. I'll report back to confirm. Twitter's API needs a better account linking method if changing my password breaks all the links for other services. – Jeremiah, on November 17, 2008 01:34

Jeremiah replied on November 16, 2008 22:36 to the problem "Twitter not getting updated from Ping.fm" in Ping.fm:

Right. But, Twitter is up and fine during the time i posted. I actually just posted again two minutes ago, and it never landed at Twitter. I had to manually ditto-post at Twitter.com.

My Recent list has all the updates i've sent (i also have them logged in Gmail). My other services like Facebook, MySpace, Pownce all received the updates. The last of my updates that Twitter caught was from Friday night.

I also tried posting directly to Twitter (@tt), and it didn't go.

The point being all i get is: "Got it! I'll go ahead and post that for you." I get no error or message notifying me of the failure. So i didn't even know they weren't going through for a couple days.

I can send further details if it will help resolve the problem. Thanks for any help!

Jeremiah replied on November 16, 2008 19:56 to the problem "Twitter not getting updated from Ping.fm" in Ping.fm:

Just noticed that Ping.fm has dropped my updates to Twitter from the past two days. They went out fine to my other networks. What's up?

Jeremiah started following the problem "Twitter not getting updated from Ping.fm" in Ping.fm.

A comment on the idea "Services you'd like to see added to Ping.fm" in Ping.fm:

since i post from gmail chat bot, it's not that hard to copy/paste, but this would still be nice. – Jeremiah, on October 31, 2008 20:33

bface's reply to "Services you'd like to see added to Ping.fm" was just promoted to the most useful! Jeremiah and 2 other people think it's one of the best replies.

i'd like to add AIM Status to the list :)