Date: Sun, 1 Aug 2004 20:05:23 -0500 From: Michael Hughes <mdh@jcn.net> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Receiving your address on my tv Message-ID: <20040801200523.01a86e55@logcabin.hem.com> In-Reply-To: <20040801233743.19588.qmail@web61304.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20040801233743.19588.qmail@web61304.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Sun, 1 Aug 2004 16:37:43 -0700 (PDT) stheg olloydson <stheg_olloydson@yahoo.com> wrote: > it was said: > > >questions@freebsd.org is a mailing list. Please keep > >the mailing list > >CCed on all replies. > > > >sylvia bowman <sylviabow@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > >> Thanks for answering my email. Believe me this is > >not a joke. It's > >> driving me crazy. My tv is hooked up to Cox Cable > >in Las Vegas, NV. > >> The channel I'm receiving the message on is CBS. > >The address looks > >> something like this: > <http://>[n:][e:2000101][8A41] > > > >What makes you think this address has anything to do > >with FreeBSD? > > > >> I've received other addressess also, but you are > >the first ones kind > >> enough to answer me. It begins with a solid black > > <snip> > > >> start up again. I've tried to tape it because > >everybody else is asleep > >> and no one believes me, but it won't tape. When I > >play the tape back I > >> just get a blurry screen. > > <snip> > > Hello, > > What you have there is an ingress problem. The > question is what's causing it. It may be due to signal > leakage in the actual cable. If so, your neighbors > should see the same thing at the same time you do. Ask > them. Either way, Cox needs to test the coax from your > set top box all the way to the optical node. Have > someone come out with a strength meter. It may be a > noisy tap, and they won't find that testing from the > headend. > The fact you can't tape it, though, is interesting and > suggests that the signal isn't coming through the > cable. Perhaps someone within wireless range is doing > something that they ought to be doing better, and your > tuner is picking it up. That would be an FCC problem. > > HTH, > > Stheg > > PS. BTW, why _do_ you think > "<http://>[n:][e:2000101][8A41]" is related to > FreeBSD? > > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers! > http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > I have seen this infomation in the close caption data stream. -- Michael D Hughes Loghome living is the best!
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