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Google Talk and WinAmp Issue Resolved!

Jonathan Harriot — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 17:33:18 +0000

So there’s this wonderful problem that came about with WinAmp and Google Talk. If you try to “Show current music track” in Google Talk while WinAmp is playing some music it will have a cardiac arrest, freeze up and force to CTRL+ALT+DEL it into oblivion. I tried logging into Google Talk via Gmail to change the status message to something else or even opening iTunes (which works wonderfully with Google Talk I would like to add!) just to get Google Talk to stop freezing up. I searched the internets and found some advice around forums and here is what I found that worked for me in less steps than were posted on almost all the forums:

Option 1:

Close Winamp and Google Talk (also any other music player type programs)
Download and run one of the following files:
- For Windows Vista 32 bit (x86), Windows 7 32 bit (x86), Windows XP (x86) and earlier versions of Windows
- For Windows XP 64 bit Vista 64 bit and Windows 7 64 bit versions
You’re Done! (hopefully)

Option 2:

Close Winamp and Google Talk (also any other music player type programs)
Go to the Start Menu (bottom left corner of your screen), click on “Run” and paste in the following: C:\Program Files\Winamp\ then hit Enter or click “Ok”
A new window will open and inside of this new window select “File” then “New” then “Text Document”
Change the new text document’s name to “winamp.m3u” and re-open Winamp and Google Talk

Hope this was helpful, cheers!

EDIT: 2010-04-20
I have added versions for 64 bit versions of Windows (XP, Vista and 7)

It’s Just A Font

Jonathan Harriot — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 21:55:30 +0000

Banksy Desktop Backgrounds

Jonathan Harriot — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 03:52:18 +0000

download them all or download the originals

I was really bored tonight and decided to revamp my background selections. So bored with work. So incredibly bored…

Del Taco’s AllNightLongBaby.com Database Fun!

Jonathan Harriot — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 05:41:54 +0000

I was cruising around Del Taco’s website, scouring up and down for coupons other than Free Macho Drink or Big Fat Breakfast taco (Buy 1 get 1 Free) I found a small exploit in their admin tool, you can’t write to the database but you have read access:
http://shared.sprokkit.com/admin/?task=display&object_type=slist&object_id=252 (here’s a backup link in case Del Taco or Sprokkit catches this error after appearing on Digg

Del Taco has a minisite to promote their “All Night / 24 hour a day / It’s 3am, I’m drunk and need to sober up” Fast Mex grub (allnightlongbaby.com/). where users submit how they define the difference between a “late night” and “all night”. These are their responses with the approved AND rejected submissions.

Samples:

Order 1219

Late Night Text Red Bull

All Night Text Cocaine

Approval Status Rejected

Order 1263

Late Night Text a head ache

All Night Text a butt ache

Approval Status Rejected

Order 1307

Late Night Text wondering where you left your coat

All Night Text wondering where you left your underwear

Approval Status Rejected

Order 1366

Late Night Text breaking her bed

All Night Text staining her walls

Approval Status Rejected

Late Night Text a donkey

All Night Text a donkey punch

Approval Status Rejected

Brought to you by someone with a love for Del Taco who went on a hunt only for Del Taco Coupons but found much more. Cheers!

UPDATE: Del Taco’s director of marketing just sent me an email, the jig is up, but they were very kind about the whole thing. Thanks for having a sense of humor!

Order	1219
Late Night Text	Red Bull
All Night Text	Cocaine
Approval Status	Rejected

Order	1263
Late Night Text	a head ache
All Night Text	a butt ache
Approval Status	Rejected

Order	1307
Late Night Text	wondering where you left your coat
All Night Text	wondering where you left your underwear
Approval Status	Rejected

Order	1366
Late Night Text	breaking her bed
All Night Text	staining her walls

Approval Status	Rejected

Late Night Text	a donkey
All Night Text	a donkey punch
Approval Status	Rejected