The family wanted to watch one of their TiVo’ed programs but it turns out the box has lost its mind. It wasn’t seeing any signal and consequently recorded nothing (nothing meaning several programs of zero length). Rebooting it resolved the issue: it sees its channels again.
So who’s got, I say, hoosgot a way to reboot the beast programmatically? I know there’s a linux heart beating in there but I don’t have the time or patience to hack it and start messing with its innards. Is there anyway to send a signal to it? Or better, a way to have to tell me when the signal goes away?
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You think canned beans are weird? Try manhole covers. How can it possibly be cheaper to ship a 500 pound chunk of cast iron from India to New York than it is to source it domestically? What happened to the US steel industry? (Also, the organic canned tomatoes at PCC, last time I looked, came from Israel. *boggle*)
What happened to the US steel industry, indeed? But that kind of work requires equipment that canning beans or tomatoes doesn’t.
It’s a slippery slope, though. If you required municipalities to source infrastructure from domestic entities it would take less than no time for someone to try and game the system. So we have Indian manhole covers and Chinese black beans in our Mexican dinners.
Don’t get me started on Chilean grapes . . .
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