Our bedroom TiVo died this morning, aged 3+. More specifically, on rebooting from the frozen screen it came up with what I'll call the Green Screen of Death (inspired by Microsoft no doubt). You can hear the disk thrashing away, probably spewing little bits of magnetic plasma all over the place. We're debating now whether to rebuild it (we have the technology), turn it over to Tivo for "service", or let "frisket" dig a hole in the front yard and bury it.

Update @ 10:22 a.m.

The darn thing seems to have fixed itself, though we're taking this as a warning shot (it's been on continuously for 3+ years. Somehow I doubt it's as robust as a hardcore computer server). Must have fsck'd all the filesystems. (Um, no, that's not an obscenity, it's an ancient unix command, short for filesystem check, kind of like chkdsk but for a real operating system).