Cloudy's Cafe-a conversation zone- January 2, 2011

[Elif Godson]

Happy New year y'all

[Dragonshadow]

Evening all. It's gone midnight here.

I'm downstairs at a friend's house as everyone else has gone to bed and I don't want to wake them, as I am going to be up for at least the next seven hours trying to get some work finished for a deadline tomorrow.

Plus I have had a really persistent cold for the last month, which has given me a sore throat and immense pain in my inner ear.

[Wolf Rider2]

That sucks, DS. Not a great start to the year, by the sounds of it.

*pulls sonic screwdriver out of pocket, gives to Bungleau so he can fix M&M dispenser*

[Bungleau]

Thanks, WR2. Been out picking up a fresh pack of Jelly Babies... not sure if they'll help the Endless M&M dispenser, but they can never hurt

Snow, snow, snow... we've barely gotten an inch over the last several days while places like Alabama hog it all. Quit being greedy! We've got a ski industry up here, you know...

DS, hope you've gotten some sleep since that post... and I'm not talking about the shut-eye in class I've had a persistent nagging cough for the last few weeks as well, although not with the additional blessings you've received

*sits down with the Endless M&M Dispenser, using the sonic screwdriver to loosen the bottom plate and investigate, looking for "something funny"*

Jelly baby?

[Cloudbringer]

Hey al! just a flyby to say HI! *tosses hersheys kisses on the counter* Just finished dinner and am relaxing with the hubbymeister. TGIF everyone!

[Firestormalpha]

*cough* *cough*
Ahem, Whew. Dang, it's dusty in here.
I guess we're not much for idle chatter these days.
Well, Just thought I'd mention that I'm no longer living in my sister's house. We found a decent place to rent. Sadly, there is but one bathroom between 3 adults. Still, it's a house.

In even brighter news, my nephew was born on Monday, just narrowly managing to avoid a 3rd birthday in April. Coming into the world at 7lbs 6oz., 21 inches and looking very much like my brother at that age. (a good sign I'm sure)

[Wolf Rider2]

Congratulations on the new nephew, FSA.

*checks out M&M dispenser* Yay, it's fixed

How is everybody?

[Firestormalpha]

Just a quick tech question. It's pretty simple, so I didn't see the point in making a whole new thread for it.

We finally got ourselves a blu-ray player. Vizio VBR120. factory firmware's a bit buggy, found a downloadable update. It downloads as a .iso file. Would I be correct in saying that the idea is to burn it to a cd/dvd and run it in the player in order to update the firmware? And does it matter which format I burn it onto? The file is a little under 45MB. so I'm thinking CD would be best, unless there would be an issue with the format. Didn't see any instructions on the vizio site.

[Kezardin]

Originally Posted by Firestormalpha Just a quick tech question. It's pretty simple, so I didn't see the point in making a whole new thread for it. We finally got ourselves a blu-ray player. Vizio VBR120. factory firmware's a bit buggy, found a downloadable update. It downloads as a .iso file. Would I be correct in saying that the idea is to burn it to a cd/dvd and run it in the player in order to update the firmware? And does it matter which format I burn it onto? The file is a little under 45MB. so I'm thinking CD would be best, unless there would be an issue with the format. Didn't see any instructions on the vizio site.

The usual method is to copy a file to a USB drive, plug it into the back of the player, and run the update procedure.

However, the file needed is a .DSO, not an .ISO, as shown here and here.

[Firestormalpha]

hmmm... yet the file provided from the company website was an .iso. most perplexing.