So with all the craziness of the new zune software. I have been hanging out at the Zune forums and found this little nugget.

Zune media collection reset info:

Link

Also here is a link for the diagnostics.

Link

Ah the Post Holiday love. So Here once again are some Cool links for you and yours to enjoy.

Happy Holidays/Merry Christmas

Links:

Remote Desktop session Stuck (here's a way to kill a session.)

Spencers gifts on  ____ (acid/steroids) Fill in blank.

Tony B machine. (That's all I have to say about that)

More Bureaucratic stuff.

Get your Boogie Mashup on!

Free Christmas music: Santastic II and  Santastic III(in 3-D)

Mark Vidler(mashup)

Go Elf Yourself!

Elf Bowling (Because you need to slack off at work/home this week)

Shameless plug of the week:

How do I find the installed drivers on a PC?
How to go about Viewing Installed Drivers on your XP(also works on 2003) box.

If you want to see a list of installed drivers, you can run the driverquery program.

  There are a lot of available switches to view different types of information.
  You can also export it to a CSV file for viewing in Excel.

For example: 

Driverquery  /v  /fo  csv  > drivers.csv

Wow.. This was sent to me last week.  So what if I sold out.

Gotta pay the web hosting bills. (defensiveness over)

Had to get that off my chest.

Lets get to the links....

Predictify

SoundSnap

Spud Server only assuming this is not in Idaho

Google Pirate( Thanks JoeLevi)

Shame Less Plug O' the week!

RileyAdPhoto

So as you all know I purchased a Zune two or three months ago. I love the Zune however since the last great Firmware/Software update the playlist system has become a overly big time waster. I was able to work with the old playlist system fairly quickly(meaning make and distribute playlists with ease).

So after some research(mostly dumb luck) I found that the Zune software will and does respect the m3u playlist structure. Woo hoo or something like that.

So the next adventure was to create m3u playlists. I knew that winamp created these  types of playlists. However being very picky and not liking crapware(unless I have no choice (zune player software ring a bell))

So after hours of googling and trying a way to create m3u's without winamp. I found a simple solution.

@echo off

dir /o:n /b *.mp3 > Playlist.m3u

Open a text file. Copy and paste the two lines above and save as Playlist.bat yes

this will make the file a batch file. 

Go to the folder in which you have the Mp3's you would like in a playlist.

**Of course you probably want to change the "playlist" name in the batch file and the batch file itself.

Other software you can use:

Playlist Creator

Itunes Playlist to M3u converter

So I am looking for the hardest to find game system out there. At least immediatly outside my door. I know I am a hard core Xbox360 fanboy but I need the wii for my family besides it is sooo very cool.

Please email me if you have one for a reasonable price. I would like it before christmas.

my fun with the local redbox machine(BSOD) if you cant see it.

Special shoutout to my wife. Happy B-Day!!!

Lets get to the links:

Lets Start with the END.

More FTP love

Photo On the web

Open Source software for windows

Free File Hosting

Default Router Passwords

Convert bps to KBs

How to exploit PayPal (Not responsible for this one)

PayPal Calculator (making up for the exploit)

Grocery Guide (compare different stores)

Send free text messages through email

Enjoy!

Source:Grocery Guide

So check out this Utah based website. Make sure you check the prices before you go shopping.

Another Great Idea would be a mobile version for those in Beverly Hills.

Just another great .net web site.

So I have been a System Admin and Web Master and Web Developer for well over 10years and I am always looking for a better way of doing things. Mostly it means modding whatever software or hardware to follow my rules. Some of the greater issues especially when you are a windows system admin you run into heavy uses on servers and cleaning up orphaned processes and or memory leaks caused by  buggy code.

I guess what I am getting at is I have been using a little tool that helps me automate those pesky orphaned processes for a while now(at least since windows 2000(I will save the love of windows 2000 for another blog entry))

This little utility once installed basically takes care of the orphaned processes and keeps your processor processing the critical app's it needs to deliver.

Have a look at:http://bednorz.uni2.net/anyland/threadmaster/threadmaster.htm

Download at:

http://bednorz.uni2.net/anyland/threadmaster/download.htm

Thanks for all the responses to my music inquiry.

I know I know the image is old and outdated buy I just have to share it again and again. It means soo much.

Links Time:

•  2for1 flights on Virgin america (diggnation promo)
•  Largest Known Star Demo(Thanks Joe Levi)
•  Digg Filter
• Flickr Browser
• IRC for Firefox
• Blog Matchup

Enjoy!