<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 1:10 PM, Anthony R. Baker <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:baker@low-e.com" target="_blank">baker@low-e.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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From: "Mike Perkins" <<a href="mailto:mikep@randomtraveller.org.uk" target="_blank">mikep@randomtraveller.org.uk</a>><br>
To: <<a href="mailto:piratebab@mythtv-fr.info" target="_blank">piratebab@mythtv-fr.info</a>>; "Discussion about mythtv"<br>
<<a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org" target="_blank">mythtv-users@mythtv.org</a>><br>
Sent: Friday, September 12, 2008 10:22 AM<br>
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Cats and MythTV...<br>
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piratebab-mythtv wrote:<br>
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>> Colin McGregor a écrit :<br>
>>> Recently my cat has decided that the top of my MyhTV box is a great<br>
>>> place to have a nap... This is a situation I am not happy about, in<br>
>>> spite of the positives (like noise reduction), I am concerned about<br>
>>> fur shed and heat trapped. Moving the MythTV box to a place the cat<br>
>>> wouldn't be able to climb/jump on top of isn't an option. I have tried<br>
>>> putting a large plastic toy (a piggy bank) on top of the MythTV box,<br>
>>> but the cat has found she can push that aside...<br>
>>><br>
>>> So, anything that hurts the cat is NOT an option, on the other hand,<br>
>>> stopping the cat from napping on the top of that PC case is a a<br>
>>> priority.<br>
>>><br>
>>> Suggestions?<br>
>>><br>
>>><br>
>>> Colin McGregor<br>
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> > What I like on this list, is the high technical level of all the<br>
>> subjects :-)<br>
>><br>
>Perfectly valid. How to solve the problem of an overheating front-end!<br>
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</div> Double sided tape will keep them from jumping up on a table or<br>
countertop. They don't like how it sticks to their fur. Then after they stop<br>
trying you can take off the tape but if it's low enough to see the top they<br>
will most likely start again.<br>
<div><div></div><div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Sorry if this has been addressed, but I searched the archives and didn't see it: what happens if you use double-sided tape to stick the cat to the top of the computer and _then_ take an old Electrolux and turn it on next to the cat?</div>
<div><br></div><div>This is on a 3.0 GHz Core2Duo. I'm running 0.21-fixes, if that makes a difference. Will the hardware be able to handle it? Will there be tearing? How high will the cat jump using this configuration?</div>
<div><br></div><div>-Jerry</div>
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