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After some testing on my own to see what I could do to fix the problem I have come to the conclusion that there is some interference from the bluetooth connection and my Airport connection. After disabling my airport and using the wired connection for hours I have had no problems.

Apple, please get this issue resolved soon. I don’t like being all tangled up in wires.

UPDATE: Just wanted to give everyone an update on how I fixed the issue. I found that I have a new wireless network in my area now, which I believe was set to the same channel as my router. I went into my router settings and changed my wireless channel from 6 to 9 and applied the change. I haven’t had a problem since. Apple suggested that I buy a Airport basestation because it supports more then the 2.4GHz spectrum. This would also fix my problem, but for $200.

If the oldest question in history is “What’s for dinner?” the second oldest is “Were you looking at her?” The answer: Yes — yes, we were. If you’re sure your man doesn’t look, it only means he possesses acute peripheral vision.

“When a woman walks by, even if I’m with my girlfriend, my vision picks it up,” says Doug LaFlamme, 28, of Laguna Hills, California. “I fight the urge to look, but I just have to. I’m really in trouble if the woman walking by has a low-cut top on.”

Granted, we men are well aware that our sizing up the produce doesn’t sit well with you, given that we’ve already gone through the checkout line together. But our passing glances pose no threat.

“It’s not that I want to make a move on her,” says LaFlamme. “Looking at other women is like a radar that just won’t turn off.”

Secret #2: We’re unnerved by the notion of commitment, even after we’ve made one to you

This is a dicey one, so first things first: We love you to death. We think you’re fantastic. Most of the time we’re absolutely thrilled that we’ve made a lifelong vow of fidelity to you in front of our families, our friends and an expensive videographer.

But most of us didn’t spend our formative years thinking, “Gosh, I just can’t wait to settle down with a nice girl so we can grow old together.” Instead we were obsessed with how many women who resembled Britney Spears we could have sex with before we turned 30. Generally it takes us a few years (or decades) to fully perish that thought.

Secret #3: Earning money makes us feel important

In more than 7.4 million U.S. marriages, the wife earns more than the husband — almost double the number in 1981. This of course is a terrific development for women in the workplace and warmly embraced by all American men, right? Right?

Yeah, well, that’s what we tell you. But we’re shallow, competitive egomaniacs. You don’t think it gets under our skin if our woman’s bringing home more bacon than we are — and frying it up in a pan?

“My wife and I are both reporters at the same newspaper,” says Jeffrey Newton, 33, of Fayetteville, South Carolina. “Five years into our marriage I still check her pay stub to see how much more an hour I make than she does. And because she works harder, she keeps closing the gap.”

Secret #4: Though we often protest, we actually enjoy fixing things around the house

I risk being shunned at the local bar if this magazine finds its way there, because few charades are as beloved by guys as this one. To hear us talk, the Bataan Death March beats grouting that bathroom shower. And, as 30-year-old Ed Powers of Chicago admits, it’s a shameless lie. “In truth, it’s rewarding to tinker with and fix something that, without us, would remain broken forever,” he says. Plus we get to use tools.

“The reason we don’t share this information,” Powers adds, “is that most women don’t differentiate between taking out the trash and fixing that broken hinge; to them, both are tasks we need to get done over the weekend, preferably during the Bears game. But we want the use-your-hands, think-about-the-steps-in-the-process, home-repair opportunity, not the repetitive, no-possibility-of-a-compliment, mind-dulling, purely physical task.” There. Secret’s out.

Secret #5: We like it when you mother us, but we’re terrified that you’ll become your mother

With apologies to Sigmund Freud, Gloria Steinem.

Secret #6: We don’t really understand what you’re talking about

You know how, during the day, you sometimes think about certain deep, complex “issues” in your relationship? Then when you get home, you want to “discuss” these issues? And during these “discussions,” your man sits there nodding and saying things like “Sure, I understand,” “That makes perfect sense” and “I’ll do better next time”?

Well, we don’t understand. It doesn’t make any sense to us at all. And although we’d like to do better next time, we could only do so if, in fact, we had an idea of what you’re talking about.

We do care. Just be aware that the part of our brain that processes this stuff is where we store sports trivia.

Secret #7: We are terrified when you drive

Want to know how to reduce your big, tough guy to a quivering mass of fear? Ask him for the car keys.

“I am scared to death when she drives,” says LaFlamme.

“Every time I ride with her, I fully accept that I may die at any moment,” says Buckingham.

“My wife has about one ‘car panic’ story a week — and it’s never her fault. All these horrible things just keep happening — it must be her bad luck,” says Andy Beshuk, 31, of Jefferson City, Missouri.

Even if your man is too diplomatic to tell you, he is terrified that you will turn him into a crash-test dummy.

Secret #8: Give us an inch and we’ll give you a lifetime

“I was on a trip to Mexico, standing on a beach, waxing my surfboard and admiring the glistening 10-foot waves, when I decided to marry the woman who is now my wife. Sure, this was three years before I got around to popping the question. But that was when I knew. Why? Because she’d let me go on vacation alone. Hell, she made me go. This is the most important thing a man never told you: If you let us be dumb guys, if you embrace our stupid poker night, if you encourage us to go surfing — by ourselves — our silly little hearts, with their manly warts and all, will embrace you forever for it.” Ty Wenger

And that’s the truth.

The main thing to me is this new view in iTunes 7 called album view. In which a user can graphically scroll through album art to the chosen album and find your music. It is very sleek and sexy. The problem I encountered was that if you have a soundtrack that has multiple artists songs in the album, you get the same album over and over in they view only because iTunes recognizes that they have different artists. Come on APPLE! It is one album, I’m sorting by albums, SHOW ME THE ONE ALBUM. NOT 11 OF THE SAME STINKING ALBUM!

Now that I got that out of they way, gapless playback. I love this idea for gapless playback, its great to listen to songs with no gap and get the real feel the artist was going for.

I have also noticed, with other users, that when you login or off MSN, or you lose your internet connection, you music playing in the background suddenly stops, and a minute later resumes.

My last nudge with the release is when I play videos. When I play my TV shows (The Office for example) in a small window on my desktop, I lag out. The video is all stuttery and slow and the refresh rates are horrible. When I change over to full screen all is well. This has never happened before, why start now?

UPDATE: After reading some other bloggers post about there experiences (problems) with iTunes 7, I have come to realize that iTunes is using more memmory then it did in version 6. In version six I got about 20,000 K – 40,000 K Memm Usage, and now I get 144,000 K Memm Usage.

Here are some links to other bloggers issues.
-iTunes Memmory Hog
-Huge Problems with iTunes 7
-iTunes 7 Bug Discovery

So first things first, the install. So the install was easy, nice, simple, cleaner then previous versions of Windows where the wizard would nag with all these questions while you were eating your sandwich in the other room, only to find a half an hour later that you install isn’t done because it’s asking you a question. All in all much better then what it has been, but I think they could still improve.

After about an hour long install later (keep in mind I was putting this on a minimum requirement system, to see how well it works) I was in the GUI and feeling refreshed with this new, for Microsoft, eye candy feel. What I mean by that is that I feel the number one change from XP to Vista is the GUI, but all it is coping old Mac style.

Once logged in I saw so new features.

One, the “gadgets” bar. A sidebar that is modeled from Mac’s widgets idea, the only difference is that it is not as good as widgets, and it’s on a sidebar.

Two, menu bar has changed slightly, adding some new features to easily access different functions. I don’t really care to much for this “improvement”. I feel they are just moving things around to make it seem different, when it really isn’t. The address bar on the other hand I really do feel is an improvement. The basically changed it from a simple address location, to a tree. You still can enter addresses in the old way.

Three, the start menu is slightly setup better. I feel that access programs is a lot better now, because instead of hovering over the programs menu and getting a pop out menu, it replaces quick link area with the programs. So, if you’re running XP right now, open up your start menu and you see (depending on how you setup your start menu) 5 quick links of the programs you most use. When you hover over programs in Vista, that list is replaced with the list of programs. A well need improvement. The last thing in the start menu is that they added the search right to the menu, and again they changed searching over to the indexed system (again, building on old Mac technologies).

If you are a parent with children, and want better parental controls, I have to say, Vista does a fantastic job at the parental controls. You can use when users are able to log on to the computer. Meaning, if you don’t want “Timmy” (your twelve year old son) playing video games, or searching the internet at 2:00AM while you’re in bed, just disallow “Timmy” login at 2:00AM, etc. You can also change ratings for games, and disallow games to be played that have no rating. You can make it so “Timmy” can play “T” rated games, and “Sarah” (six years old) “E” rated games.

Overall these are the main features in my opinion that stood out to me. There is so much more, but I really don’t feel like typing about all of it. So let me sum up my feel on Vista.

Overall Vista is better then XP, when it’s finally released. The beta is still screwed up and I would say not to bother with it yet. Vista in my opinion is still XP, just some “new” stuff added on. All Microsoft has done is implemented old Mac technologies. Apple is pushing out everything new and Microsoft copies to the best of its abilities. Mac OS X put out spotlight, the indexed search, Microsoft added indexed search. Mac gave us widgets, Microsoft makes “gadgets”. Mac gave us the eye candy we all know and love, Microsoft tries to give us eye candy. Mac gives us security, Vista doesn’t.

So is Vista a buy or upgrade when it is finally released? Well the thing is that the only “good” version of Vista is to go all the way and get Ultimate, all the other editions are crappy and lacking key features. The key to all of it is purchase price. I simply say that if you have access to a genuine serial number of Vista Ultimate, upgrade, if you don’t, do not waste your money, stay with XP until you upgrade your machine and then get Vista, or at lease until you finally figure out Mac OS X is better.

“…portability engine for Intel-based Macs, offering game developers and publishers the ability to deploy Windows-based games on new Macs quickly and easily, without the need for traditional arduous porting.”

It looks like I was right. Things are starting to slowly merge and close the gap. Don’t get me wrong though, Windows and Mac with never be the same.

So now for another prediction! With all the talk about next week and Apple’s WWDC 2006, I’m going to make my predictions as to what Apple will unleash.

1) Power Mac will be replaced by a new Intel Xeon Processor, and a availble Intel Core Duo processor.

2) Mac OS X 10.5 (of course) but here are the features im guess at will be added.

a) tabbed browsing inside Finder.

b) new iChat features (possible to sync to iPod)

3) New…..er MacBook and MacBook Pro.

I’m betting some updates to some of things they have been having issues with, and maybe a new processor.

4) New iPod!

a) Wifi, Bluetooth capabilities

b) ya, it will be a phone. (thats my guess anyways)

5) New iPod Nano colors. This is probelly my only guess that I don’t really think will happen, but it could.

Anyways, I just had to go and make some predictions because everyone else is. I can’t wait to get this next week over with so I can sell my PC and by my MacBook, that is, if they release a new…er MacBook.

I have finally got bored enough with my site that I am going to be changing the template soon, I hope you guys will like it, I know I like it. I have given a clue in the site right now, giving you a hint of what the next template will consist of. You will have to find the clue on your own, but I’ll give you some help. Delete your cookies, cache, and history in your browser, and reload the page. You may not notice the clue, but that makes it fun.

I’m still looking for someone to take over development of K2 Reloaded. I plan on working side-by-side with the new guy, so that we can get everything working, I just need someone to actually work on it. So if you interested, and I have recieved many emails asking me about it but nobody seems to get back to me, drop a line and let me know.

Tarski Reloaded is almost ready too, but again, I need someone to finish it.

I have one last thing to make you aware of. I am currently making a theme for people to download and use, that will be completely made from scratch. It will not be a “reloaded” theme.

So there you have it.

Two, I can’t fully forget Windows. My job requires me to know everything there is to know about all OS’s. I couldn’t possibly imagine not keeping up-to-date in Windows world.

I have changed my mind however. I have seen the signs, and I read them right. I had a feeling Apple would switch over to Intel, and soon I feel AMD will come into the picture too. There were signs that Apple was working on getting .exe’s and Windows working on there machines and its true, Windows works on the Intel macs, and they even put this out.

Windows on a Mac? Introducing the Boot Camp Public Beta

The next major release of Mac OS X, Leopard, will included a new feature called Boot Camp, which lets you install and run the Windows XP operating system on Intel-based Macs, like the new Mac mini and iMac. To experience this today, download the free Boot Camp Public Beta. Switching was never such an easy choice.

With the move to intel boards, it is my feeling that more and more of the good games, will come to the Mac. I also feel that Apple will soon put out something to match, even beat ActiveX.

With all of this, I have decided today that I am going to be ditching my PC, and I’m going to by a MacBook Pro. I don’t plan on buying it for two to three more months, and hopefully they will have Rev. 2 of the MacBook Pro out by then.

More people should follow in my steps

We have suffered some losses lately and I have lost two team members with Shosholoza Technologies. I am now looking for anyone who is willing to commit some time, and talents, for free to join the team.

What we are looking for:
-Graphic Designers
-Coders
-Advertisers

Skills and Experience needed:
-We are looking for people that are serious about there work, and really know there skills. You should have plenty of background on your skill.
-Should have experience working with teams
-Needs to have plenty of experience with wordpress.
-Should have some background in the other jobs, even if its not the one you do. Meaning, if you are a coder, you should still now some graphic design.

What the team does:
We get together and help each other with projects. We are always making new templates, and improving others work.

So if you are interested, drop a line in the comments section and let me know.

Do not fret though my fellow windows zombies, there is a tool that windows has added that is very secret. I have no clue why it is secret, cuz everyone should know this. Maybe its not a secret, but more of just not talked about, but anyways its called “taskkiller”.

The consecpt is easy enough, good into taskmanager, find the name of the task that won’t quit, and write it down. Then open up Notepad and type something like this

@echo off
taskkill/im NAMEOFTASK.exe /f

and save as a .bat (Batch file)
In place of the NAMEOFTASK type in what you wrote down earlier, and run the batch file, and ta da! Instant end of the task.

Hopes this helps some of you techs out there that have been emailing me

P.S. Incase you are wondering a breakdown of the code to get the meaning, here it is.

taskkill= the .exe that runs to kill the task
/im= the image name of the task to be killed
/f= to force the kill

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Yes, these means now that I will start work on releasing the Audio Plugin, and I will release it in K2 Reloaded when it is done.

Thank you to everyone who has helped out!

Check it out at http://eric-taylor.com/k2reloaded

Take support questions here in the comments, or at http://eric-taylor.com/forums

I keep changing my theme because I am never satisfied with one. It is like houses to me. A person believes that it is possible to build the perfect home, I on the other hand do not believe that to be true. As you learn and develop you always find new and creative ways to do things. I guess that is why my theme keeps changing. Just to let you know though, the current theme will not be changed for some time. I want to fix the bugs and be done with it for a while, and to give me more time to spend on other projects.

Here is a project that you may know about. K2 Reloaded! It is my modified version of the K2 theme. I have just done some simple changes to it to make it more unique and bring it in to 2006 terms. You can check out what is happening with K2 Reloaded at:

http://eric-taylor.com/k2reloaded

The other project I haven’t talked much on lattely is my modified version of the Audio Player Plugin. I am still in the prebeta stages on this project. What will the modifications be? Well, I plan on making it able to have playlists on hand, which you can make right in the control panel of wordpress, and I also want to include a smart mp3 search engine that will find free music for people to listen too.

So there is a little of what I am doing just to inform you. I may not be replying to comments as much as I should, but that is because of how busy I am. Thanks for your good reports and awsome comments.

So here are some really easy things to do on your computer help protect your computer.

1-Changing your boot sequence, and setting BIOS password.

A person can easily still all the data on your hard drive by sticking in a live CD, like Knoppix, loading it up, and taking anything they want. They do this by putting in the CD to the drive, restarting your computer, changing the boot sequence to CD first, and booting their CD. When the user is in, they can take you SAM.SAM file (Windows Password File), crack it, and know your passwords.

It is really easy to fix this problem, but keep in mind, this will only discourage the hacker, or make slow him down, but it is not impossible to get around… like any other type of security.

Restart your computer and wait until the boot diagnostic screen tells you that you can enter the CMOS Config. To enter the CMOS config, hold down the key your boot diagnostic screen says, it will most likely be the DEL, F2, or F12 key.
Once you have entered CMOS, get to your boot loader page (all CMOS Configs are different, so I can’t really say where you will find it on your CMOS) Once located, change the setup to: FIRST= Hard Drive, SECOND= Floppy Drive, THIRD= CD Drive.
Now go in CMOS and find your “Set Supervisor Password” and password protect CMOS so a hacker can not change your boot sequence.
Save all changes

It is as easy as that, but remember the CMOS password will only slow down the hacker, or discourages him, if he really wants to get into the CMOS, he must pull the battery from the motherboard, or reset the CMOS by using the jumper on the motherboard.

2-Saving only NT Hash passwords

Microsoft for some reason saves two password hash files when you save a password to say… your user. You get a LM hash file, and a NT hash file. The difference is that NT hash is newer, and more secure, and LM hash has been used since Windows 3.1.

The funny thing is that you DO NOT need the LM hash at all! Your computer will run perfectly fine with out it, making your computer more secure.

So let’s get rid of that nasty LM hash

Log in as an Administrator
Go to the “Start” menu and click on “Run”
In the “Open:” text box type in “regedit” and click okay.
On the left hand side of the window you will see a tree menu, click on the folder HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE.
Then click on SYSTEM, then CurrentControlSet, then Control, and then Lsa.
On the right side you will see the register file called “nolmhash”, double click and open that.
Change the “Value data:” to 0, and hit OK.

That wasn’t so bad now was it?

3- CTRL+ALT+DEL Real User Check

Some virus are coded to automatically login and begin to execute their code, we can easily stop them but screwing up there login code by making a user push CTRL+ALT+DEL, before logging in. In addition to that, we can change the login from the click and point to a user, to typing the in the Username, hence making your computer more secure (because the hackers won’t know your username).

In addition, say you have a little kid brother, or sister, and they love to screw with your computer. By doing the Real User Check, you can make it harder for them to login.

Log in as an Administrator
Go to the “Start” menu and click on Control Panel. (You may have to type “Control Panel” in your address bar in a explorer window if you do not see it on your start menu)
Go to “User Accounts” Under “Pick a task…” click on “Change the way users log on or off”
Uncheck “Use the Welcome Screen”.

You will now be switched back to the classic login, which is more secure.

4-Make a Lock Screen Shortcut

It is just one of the many human urges we get when we see someone else’s computer, or user logged in and unattended to. One just loves to get on and dink around with another’s stuff to screw it up.

It is so easy just to log off, but we don’t want to because that means closing apps. and when logging back on we would have to load all of are startup items again. So make a handy shortcut right on your desktop that you can easily click and lock the screen allowing no one to make any changes to your computer while not having to close any apps.

Right click on the desktop and click on New> Shortcut.
A wizard will come up and ask you to “Type the location of the item:” Point it to your Windows/System32/rundll32.exe (example: C:\WINDOWS\system32\rundll32.exe) Click Next
Name the shortcut something like… Lock Screen
YOU’RE DONE! That easy!

Well that was simple.

I hope you found all these tips helpful and trust me, it really does help. Questions are comments may be posted.

Soldiers tell their memories of horrific images of bodies being bulldozed into pits, gold being stolen from there teeth, human hair bundled for recycling, and shattered families. The Nazi concentration camps enslaved thousands of innocent people, being tortured and murdered. All for a good cause some say. What good could come from such horrific acts? Hitler justified his actions by saying that they could cure cancer, and when he was researching the cure, Josef Mengele stumbled upon genetics, so Hitler began to restore purity. Basically he was talking about genetics and humans. Restoring the blond haired, blue eyed, people. Any scientist that works primarily with genetics can tell you that all the research that Germans did taught us a lot about genetics. Some even say that European nations were becoming over populated, and Hitler’s killings lowered the population, hence saving Europe from what today China is beginning to see.

Littleton, Colorado, April 20,1999. Two teenage students, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, killed twelve of their fellow students and a teacher, as well as wounding twenty-four others before committing suicide. Students that witness the massacre will now have those memories to haunt them for the rest of their lives. Families lost loved ones who were killed in the shootings. Some say that the boys are evil for what they did. But by them shooting and killing twelve students, really save thousands? After the shootings there were major debates on gun control laws and bullying. Schools began to think more about students’ safety. Some say this act helped America by learning to begin to take action against bullies and possible threats. People started to aim at things like Goth culture, social pariahs, heavy metal music, the use of anti-depressants, and violent movies/videogames. The world was sinking into a hole when it came to some of these things like violent movies/videogames, and music, it did open a lot of parents, and teens eyes to what some of the effects of these activities could have on a person.

The bible favors that good can not come from evil. When ever evil acts are shown there is always a consequence, or a sudden change in heart. The bible has two parts two it, answers to one’s life beliefs, and what good, and bad are. The biggest percentages of people on the earth are religious, and the biggest percentage of people that are religious, are Christian. Since most Christian religions base believes on the bible, and the bible teaches that good can not come from evil, then can’t one say that why the majority of people that say that good can not come from evil is because of what the bible teaches. So who decides what is good and what is bad?

The question “Can good ever come from evil?” asks whether evil intent can bring good results or not. As long as you can produce good results as a byproduct, then the evil intention you had in the beginning can be justified, right? Since right and wrong is as just as clear to use as black and white, and we make wrong and right based off of are beliefs, and the only way you can say good can come from bad is by justifying your actions, so isn’t justification the real “grey”?

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I will be changing hosting at the end of the month. The fact that in order to get good hosting you have to go with a major company has finally hit me, and it punched me square in my face. I guess all these little companies that think they can come in to cock fight as a chicken and win, are completely wrong. I have had the worse problems with hosts. First it was the all time worst xero-tech.net, and now torreliwh.com. I do have to say that torreliwh.com did give better support then xero-tech.net, but with all there “server fixs” and “updating security” days, I’m so fed up that I’m paying for downtime. Who pays for downtime?! Not me!

So if anyone is hosted by bluehost.com, or knows someone that is, please get in contact with me, and let me know what you think of them. The should be pretty good. I have looked up reviews and they are the fastest growing company out there right now, and got a award for best tech support. The real seller to me is wordpress.org has them on there “hosting” page. Anyways… if you have been wondering why the site has been down lately, that is why.

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You are an average on-line user. You may surf the Web a bit too long at times, but you have control over your usage.

And yes, I did answer it truthfully.

What to take the quiz? Take it here.

First, Zypher is now going to be a podcast.

This should allow us to get episodes out fast, and easy.

Q-What will Zypher be about now?

A-Zypher will still be a tech show. We are going to be taking emails, of questions that you might have and need answered. We are going to touch up on other podcasts such as TWiT, and Diggnation. We will try to get the most recent and exciting tech news out to you.

Q- When will Episode I be out.

A- Just as soon as we get are RSS feeds up and running, and finish the edit. It should be long…no longer then 2 weeks, and yes, the news on the podcast will be up to date.

Please post you comments on what you would like to hear on Zypher.

I have called an all out war on xero-tech for deleting all of my files, and banning me in there forums because I wanted my files.

I have moved to a new host that is giving me better service, I do have to pay now, but its all good it’s only $4 a month The host I have now is called Torelliwh.com, and they are great!!! Excellent service.

I have lost all the comments people have made on posts. I had to redo all of my posts. Lucky I had a screenshot of my webpage before it was deleted so I could remember my posts. Umm…lets see here…oh, please leave comments again. I can promise you that eric-taylor.com will not be down for a long long time.

Making this was really hard for me because I love so many Classic Rock songs. I couldn’t quite decide what I wanted for number one. It was a battle between “Stairway to Heaven” and “Hotel California” Please comment on what you think of the list.