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Hacking the TiVo, 2nd Edition
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 621.38833
EAN: 9781592004812
Edition: 2
ISBN: 1592004814
Label: Course Technology PTR
Manufacturer: Course Technology PTR
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 568
Publication Date: July 31, 2004
Publisher: Course Technology PTR
Studio: Course Technology PTR
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Editorial Review:
You already know the most common uses of your TiVo. Have you ever wondered what makes your TiVo tick-or what kind of performance you could get out of it with just a little tinkering? "Hacking the TiVo®, Second Edition" is here to answer that question! If you're nervous about playing with hardware, relax. You'll learn how to activate secret commands that help you get more out of your TiVo without even opening the box. But if you're feeling adventurous, jump right in and learn how to inexpensively add disk space and how to install and run many open source applications that enable you to schedule recordings over the Web, and get news, sports, and weather displayed on your TiVo screen. Linux®, Macintosh®, and Windows® users will all find TiVo tips and tricks including how to expand your TiVo's storage capacity, back up and restore data, and trouble-shoot your TiVo.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - not very useful
can find most of the info on the internet only for those wanting to open up the tivo
Rating:  - Not very enlightening
This book by the cover appears to be a very in-depth book when in fact it is meant to be a sort of text book. I have taught for over 4 years and this company was a primary source of text books. Over all their text books are of good quality, but leave a bit more to be desired. I found this book to be in-line with my history with this publisher. In fact if I had known that the book was by them I would not have purchased it for myself. That was my mistake for not paying closer attention.
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Rating:  - Excellent Book, Pathetic Editing
As usual for the past 15 years, the editors were asleep at the wheel and completely hosed the vital (to brain-damaged Linux) command line arguments -- at least on page 39 (Chapter 2: Adding a Larger Hard Disk to Your TiVo).
If you're transferring everything over to a larger hard drive using the "mfstool" commands the correct arguments are as follows (I've used "[space]" to indicate a single space between commands):
mfstool[space]backup[space]-o-[space]-a[space]/dev/hdb[space] ... Read More
Rating: - System information
The current, non-DirecTV system, updated by satellite, is actually 7.1 (as of 9 August 2005). I haven't found that any of the hacking books are especialy useful for Series 2 boxes, especially as the software upgrades.
Rating: - DirecTV Tivo System-2 software Updates - now 6.1
While this book contains some useful information for older Tivo boxes, the Series-2 has been Upgraded automatically by the Satellite to an even higher version. While the other reviewer, recently written, says it's now 5.3 and nobody has figured it out without actually tweaking hardware and reinstalling the chip (definately NOT recommended), the Software has already been upgraded again. As of now, 8/1/05, it is Version 6.1.
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