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how should we descide upon the terminology? stick with the common usage, take a vote, look them up in some dictionary, leave it to the admin/mods etc?

yeah, i already looked into that. after uninstalling/reinstalling drivers and utilities, and generally pissing about loads in a variety of different ways, we came to the conclusion that the hardware is shafted. he's bought a usb wireless card for £20, and is all connected now. cheers for all the help.

i just tried uninstalling/reinstalling the driver/utilities, and no joy his laptop used to be connected to a network via ethernet, and is now connected to the router via ethernet; its just the wireless card that is problematic.

4nums has a driver, but no other software (utilities etc) net diag gave me this info, which means absolutely nothing to me: ------------ [00000012] IEEE 802.11b MiniPCI Wireless Network Adapter Caption = [00000012] IEEE 802.11b MiniPCI Wireless Network Adapter DatabasePath = %SystemRoot%\System32\drivers\etc Description = IEEE 802.11b MiniPCI Wireless Network Adapter - Packet Scheduler Miniport DHCPEnabled = TRUE DHCPLeaseExpires = 03:14:07 19/01/2038 DHCPLeaseObtained = 09:12:59 04/02/2005 DNSEnabledForWINSResolution = FALSE DNSHostName = Leigh DomainDNSRegistrationEnabled = FALSE FullDNSRegistrationEnabled = TRUE Index = 12 IPConnectionMetric = 1 IPEnabled = TRUE IPFilterSecurityEnabled = FALSE IPSecPermitIPProtocols = 0 IPSecPermitTCPPorts = 0 IPSecPermitUDPPorts = 0 IPXEnabled = FALSE MACAddress = 00:0E:9B:F3:A8:78 ServiceName = M2400 SettingID = {87C2B03F-1174-4576-B7E5-5400B6906857} TcpipNetbiosOptions = 0 WINSEnableLMHostsLookup = TRUE --------------- as for the other stuff: no useful/new info. E.coli ya, wireless router is working, and my computer will connect to it, just my housemates won't iv tried setting his wifi card to the propper channel etc, but nada. no detecting networks or anything (plus, when i scanned for networks on my pc, i found my neighbours wifi network aswell as mine, neither of which my housemates pc will detect) stoopid networking cheers for helpin', both.

sorry, duplicate post

found this website whilst pootling about the web. I think there are a few web desiners that use this forum (in addition to the admins) -- i have absolutely no idea how useful this site will be to you, but it seemed like it might be useful, so there it is: a website that shows you what your color scheme looks like to color-blind people.

my housemate has a laptop with, according to the devise manager, an internal wireless internet card. All of the things that mention this 'ieee 802.11b minipci wireless network adapter' (such as device manager, wireless network wizard etc) report that its there, enabled and functioning correctly. however, i can't actually get his laptop to do anything wifi-y, eg detect my wireless router. i dont know that much about wireless networking, but i think iv got the basic potential problems covered -- the router is set to simultaniously transmit 802.11b and g, its not stealthed, it doesnt have encryption yet etc -- so i was wondering if theres any way that i test it to see if its broken? my pc connected to the router fine, so im pretty sure theres no prob with the router. hes running win xp sp2, with above wifi card (apparently), and its a belkin router.

^ yeah, javascript can be used for a whole range of annoying/malitiouse purposes, so i wouldnt be surprised if ZAPro has some kind of anti-malitouse-javascript thingy that is mistaking the SFN drop-down javascript for malitouse. just a guess tho; i only use the free, bog-standard-firewall ZA. edit: aha! linkagah seems like it could have been the ad-blocking bit of ZAPro.

maybe zonealarm pro disables java or something? I believe thats how the drop-downs are done. Did you deactivate avast!/norton before you installed ZAPro? multiple anti-viruses can cause all sorts of problems if the active protection is activated for more than one of them (I'm assuming that ZAPro is the firewall/av/anti-slyware suite). Come to think of it, i occasionally have that trouble with the drop-downs: if i click too soon (ie, before the page is completely loaded) then it redirects me to the search page rather than giving me a drop-down; maybe ZAPro increased the d/l time or something, so you were clicking before the page was fully downloaded (before the javascript was read/applied?)

ditto. are you using zone alarm or zone alarm pro?

forgot that bit: windows xp sp2, and behaves the same in both firefox 1.0.6 and IE 6.0.2900

Ka-bump! its not working, at least for me, since the upgrade. clicking on new posts > daily sends me to the url blah/forums/search.php?do=getdaily&type=hms&days=1 which brings up a message that says "Sorry - no matches. Please try some different terms." If i clip out the '&type=hms" bit, then it works and actually gives me the new posts from the past 24 hours; ie blah/forums/search.php?do=getdaily&days=1 not sure what that means, but there you have it.

Avast all ye newcomers, and welcome to science forums and debate

Nowhere does it say what SFN is, or have a link to an 'about us' page. I know its pretty obviouse (the name of the site kinda' gives it away), but i always like to have a little statement available saying what the sites about, and stuff. sorta like 'hey, we're a science site populated by people of a variety of ages/skills/etc, so dont feel that you cant join just because you've not even got your gcse's yet. cum talk aboot science, from random stuff your curiouse about, to help with your homework. etc. or just a 'hi'. also, there seems to be a link ('SFN', under 'community') that points to the homepage, which is a tad bizzare and usless as the link itself is on the homepage. maybe a link to a quick forum tutorial, for the computer illiterate? maybe a 'donate' button would make people more inclined to donate if they joined up and stayed; kinda raise the profile of the fact that this site needs money for bandwidth etc.

the short arm of chromosome 6 contains most of the genes for the MHC protien, which plays an inportant role in the immune system, hence the link between chromosome 6 and the immune system. I have heard that a few genes on chromosome 6 are linked to humans' impressive mental abilities, but it was in a sci-fi book, and i have no idea wether it was based on fact.

It might be better as an extention for IE/FF. Im sure that there are situations where a split-screen would be desireable, and so an extention that added split-screen functionality to either IE or FF could go down well.

actually, the mis-rendering of the reply box is fixed now; its mainly just sfn-logo.jpg and the googleads frame that mis-render (google ads overlaps the SFN logo), which is due to my 800*600 screen size. so its not too much of a problem. happens in both IE 6.0.2900 and FF 1.0.7 on windows XP SP2. P.S., the little drop-down by the page-select thingy is cool.

am i just being slow, or do we not have the option to use the SFN old-style theme anymore? I still get ugly mis-renders using the new style. Not too much of a prob, but a tad annoying.

Ignooring Phi and glider's 100% correct advice, you could always rent a hot male whore, get him to pull your ex, and get it filmed it on the sly, and show the new boyfriend the tape in order to split the relationship up; be warned, tho, that you will forfeit your soul if you do this. other means to the same end could be planting some knickers in his coat pocket. another, slightly less evil, retort involves good-ol'-laxative: laxative the new boyfriend. Laxative is a classic, and so clichedly funny (without that many people acctually having done it) that people wont be able to concider it exessively nasty with a strait face. laxative the x. depends on how much you like her, of cource. this could be funny if theyre having sexual relationships. seriously tho, id advise you follow phi and glider's advice. alternatively, if you are still on good terms with the x, you could always have a word with her about it, and maybe she'll stop him rubbing your face in it when shes their, or maybe shell bitch-slap him into stopping. maybe he's not even aware of the fact that he's rubbing it in. ooooh, if your still on good terms with her, maybe you could pull her, and get a third party to film it and show him. If anything, this will soil your soul more than the rent-a-whore idea, but if theyre not going out, he cant rub your face in it. or you could bed his mum and rub his face in it. there's a comeback for you. "im with your ex" " yeah, well im with your mum" hmm... bedding his dad would probably be more effective.

how about we provide a service for a small fee? We already have a news section; how about aggregating the news into a newsletter and distributing it every week/month via email for pittance? or something similar.

It was a joke, for all the british people in here; I was also leading up to some kind of "what crazy, bizare and fundamentally stoopid alien race would put the month before the day" kinda joke, but carnt be arsed now. plus, i didnt attend elementary school, so

personally, i think its an alien holding the sign up -- i mean, they must come from a distant planet, because we dont have 21 months here on earth.

I was thinking lights from a road, but that doesnt really explain the blue light.

no, alkaly = -log[H+]. there are free-floating H+ ions in water. acids make there be more H+ ions. alkalys introduce OH- ions that bind to H+ ions, resulting in there being less H+ ions. so... lots of H+ ions = acid = low pH. lots of OH- = very few H+ ions = alkaly = high pH

glad to be of help as killbox is desighned to delete malware, it will have made a backup copy of the txt/exe hybrid file at the location C:/!submit/[filename].exe. as you havent accessed the backup copy yet, it should be easy enough to delete by deleting the !submit folder; but if not atlest the problem has moved somewhere more discrete