Archive for January, 2008
iTunes Grief Part 2
I finally figured out how to do what I wanted (with regards to finding songs that do not have files). Here is a step by step instruction guide (mostly so that the next time I run in to this problem I won’t have to “reinvent the wheel.”)
Create a normal (non-smart or manual playlist) play list [...]
Notepad: Finding all of your MP? (mp3, mp4, mpg, etc.) on your HDD
dir /ogen /a-d /b /s “*.mp?” >find_mp.txt
dir /? will tell you what all of these do, so I’m not going to bother to explain.
The Archive
In cleaning my house and purging it of various bits and pieces I tend to come across a few things that I want to save, some are just “I want to save the idea” and others are “I want to save the item.” This is one of those “I want to save the idea.”
Sadly, as [...]
Finally, evidence of a higher power…
The EMI is looking to restructure their spending, because it seems some people have come to the realization that the RIAA just doesn’t work in this digital age of MP3s and music downloads. This very well could lead to the downfall of the RIAA and an end to the senseless prosecution of violations against the [...]
iTunes Grief
iTunes 7 is woefully lacking in library management tools.
For some obscure reason after the regular Windows Update procedure (Windows rebooted to install a security patch), iTunes launches and starts indexing my entire storage capacity. Unfortunately (at least in this case) my third HDD which I use for data redundancy (since my new PC is a gaming rig [...]
Building Wikis
I’m building a number of wikis lately for professional and personal projects. It’s quite fun, but it’s a ton of work. If you happen to find yourself interested in the books by CJ Cherryh, you should check out the Cherryh Wiki a community of fans are putting together, led by yours truly.
Programming Advice
http://xhtml-css.com/blog/7-top-advises-to-program-like-a-master
English is clearly not his first language (he admits it’s his fourth in the article) but he has some excellent suggestions.. Now if only I could figure out how to deploy a versioning control system.. I’ve been spending hours and hours lately cleaning the house and throwing away things that I’ve not looked at in years, and [...]
Upgrade To Do List
With a newer version of phpbb3 and wordpress released, the time has arrived to start evaluating what it takes to perform an upgrade.
Here is a todo list which I will try to keep up to date (since some of you visitors actually care about the upgrade to the phpbb forums)
Backup and remove all remnants of [...]
Sweeny Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Sweeny Todd is perhaps the most graphic movie I have been to in years. I did not expect it from Tim Burton who has often done dark and even creepy movies, but morbid? No. This movie is rank of graphic murder, complete with robust arterial spray and cannibalism.
You want to like Sweeny Todd, played by Johnny [...]
Backups on a Budget
One of my favorite tools when working at my last job (besides vbscript and cmd batch) was robocopy. It’s included in the Windows Server Resource Kit. We used it for all sorts of things, from getting a difference log between two directories to mirroring one computers files to another.
Although my last job wasn’t dirt poor [...]
