30gb Zunes

So yeah there was a major problem today with all of the 30gb zunes going down.

So the fix for this is. Let your zune run out of power and charge it tomorrow morning and viola working 30gb zune again. What an easy fix.

I hear everyone whining and complaining about it. Well you know what....Shutayourface. It's one day and yeah it's disappointing but it's going to be ok and fix itself tomorrow. When you are working with millions of lines of code sometimes things get pasted up. I know that Ipod have had there issues in there code which have caused issues in the past. Hey guess what all products do. I'm sure that by tomorrow or friday Microsoft (or M$ for all those haters out there) will have a fix so this doesn't happen again. Microsoft is a huge company with tons of products you can't expect everything to be perfect everytime. Lets not forget the crippled Apple TV 1. So everything has it's issues. I really don't think that everyone needs to dog out Microsoft for some issues they have. All companies do and it's just a part of it.

And seriously why do you have to pay for upgrade for your osx that should really be free? Seriously ask yourself that. Microsoft can update ie, media player, and add other new features absolutely free. Why can't apple?

Enter the fanboy rant...Fuck Ipods seriously...oh and really FUCK ITUNES. Piece of shit port to windows. Seriously Steve do you have to hate windows so much you can't make Itunes work properly on it? I'll stick with media player anyday the week and never use itunes again. The Zune kicks the Ifags ass. Better interface and usablity...Oh wait you can't sync your ipod wirelessly unless you have an overpriced touch...ah I'm sorry. But wait every zune can no matter what size they are. Hmmm, interesting. I had an g4 Ipod for about a year before I got my Zune. I about fell over with how much faster the zune was and how much better the sound quality I received...And that was from the Iphone headphones. Seriously worlds apart in sound quality...End of Fanboy rant.

Yeah my Zune went down for just a day. I'm disappointed but at the same time it's just a day I'll live as long as I get good service from this great piece of equipment in the future. I love my zune and probably won't by anything other than zune for my portable music, podcasts and videos. Except my Sansa because I got a killer deal on it.

DD_WRT and my WRT-350n

So for Christmas I got a Linksys WRT-350N. I take it home and the first thing I do is flash to DD-WRT v24sp1. So far I am completely happy. I spent serveral hours getting all of my settings moved over from my old router Dlink DIR-634M...now a wireless G access point and switch for my roomates equipment. I was really surprised at the ease of setup that dd-wrt allows you. I haven't even gotten into the major project that I want to do yet(Setting up two cable modems load balanced). I'll do a full post on that later.

So far this is what I have setup on the router.
1. ddns on dyndns.org and no-ip.com working flawlessly
2. pptp server for my vpn setup. Will probably switch to openDNS once I have more time for setup. This is helping me a lot as I was using Hamachi which works great but had a good portion of lag to it because it had to contact their servers before coming to me.
3. QOS works pretty good and I'm sure it will work great once I get it finalized and have all of my equipment in there.
4. The Major Project. I'm working on setting up a dual dhcp cable modem connection load balanced on this router. This is going to take a lot of time and I will have to get back with you on how it goes. Hopefully I have it running in the next week or two and I can give a full step by step on how I got it running.

I'm sure I will also setup a web server and some other things along the way. I will continue to post as I add services and configurations to this glorious router and firmware.

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Ars Ultimate Home Theater PC Guide: 1080p HDMI Edition: Page 1

"A PC in your entertainment center

TiVo and its brethren get credit for introducing the average consumer to the concept of the digital video recorder (DVR) and opening the door to bigger and better things. The Home Theater PC (HTPC) is the computer enthusiast's answer to all the things that a DVR generally does, with the potential to do everything a full-fledged computer does. The concept had a bit of a slow start until Microsoft's release of Windows XP Media Center Edition (MCE) 2005, which gave the very familiar Windows a living room interface and the hardware support that HTPCs needed."

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