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/var/hack missing on my TiVo Series 1

I upgraded my TiVo Series 1 years ago, adding more storage, a network card, and a web server. Apart from having to replace two drives, everything else has worked smoothly, which is pretty good for a 10 year old computer. I haven't used the tivoweb server much, but today I went to try and use it to add a program recording while someone was watching a show. But no response. So I telnet'ed into the server, successfully, and started to try and figure it out. First typed "ls" and got "command not found". I knew I had installed ls along with the web server and various other things. But I couldn't remember where, and without ls I was a little lost navigating the server. I tried to ftp to the server, but that too was down. With the help of various forum posts and articles on the web I was able to recover my setup. Here's a few things that helped: echo * will show you all the files and directories in the current directory, similar to ls, albeit without the f

SecCopy has stopped working

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I've been using Centered Systems Second Copy 2000 to manage the backups on my home network, and to an offsite server, for years. For the offsite backups I use the "autodial" feature in Second Copy, that configures a profile to "dial" a connection, such as a VPN connection. I recently upgraded to Windows 7 from Windows XP, and when I ran my profiles, Second Copy crashed with the message "SecCopy has stopped working". After some experimentation I narrowed this down to the profile that was using the autodial feature. If I disabled the autodial, and connected to the network manually from outside of Second Copy, then the profile would run fine. I sent a message to Centered Systems support, but didn't get (or missed) the reply. I bought a license to Second Copy 7.1 hoping that this addressed any Windows 7 compatibility issues. But I got exactly the same problem there. I am now successfully using the following workaround. Instead of using the autodial fea