Cap'n Refsmmat

dave: I've peeked at the host's forums, and they claimed that there should have only been a few minutes of downtime, and that it was over with already (I think.). They haven't had any outages there either, according to their network status section. Hrm. (Dare I also point out that the site is rather slow lately.)

Well, I've managed to figure out why SFN is down, with a bit of WHOIS fun. I did a WHOIS search on SFN and found the original IP of it, after realizing the main problem was that the URL wasn't resolving to an IP. This brought me to a blank page. Knowing that most webhosts have the actual URL at http://ipaddress/~user, I tried a few usernames until I found the right one. Now I got the forums. Of course, there were no images (the images were all linked to scienceforums.net, which timed out) and I couldn't log in (the form action lead to the nonfunctional domain name as well). So I copied the login page source to my computer, modified the form action= statement, and tried again. It worked. So now we know it's the DNS and not the server itself that's the problem. So here I am, posting in the middle of the downtime. I guess I get a star for trying, right? edit: dang, vB looks ugly without images!

It's naturally in tomatoes. They don't have to add it in, even.

It's already (sort of) done in the form of tomatoes and other things. Concentrating it may provide some benefits, but you can't stop telomeres from shortening much, so death is inevitable no matter how hard you try.

I suggest you go somewhere such as http://www.englishforums.com if you'd like to understand English better.

I think the main part is "we will not do your homework for you." We will help you, sure, maybe correct your grammar and give you pointers. If you failed it, even then, don't blame us. The internet is not guaranteed to be reliable.

Dak is probably correct; the links would take you to the search page if the Javascript was not there (the JS prevents it from letting you go there). Most likely, Zone Alarm prevents javascript from loading (or it requires some form of annoying authentication for it, or something) so that happens. Probably the privacy controls. Doesn't happen to me though.

I experienced this problem once, and I am using Zone Alarm (the free one). It went away after that, so I really have no idea what's wrong with yours. Any custom security options?

http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/

My typical reading speed is over 400 words per minute, and I can hit 1000 if I try (hard to maintain it though). This may be true, at least in my case. I have the ability to simply soak in information quickly--I very rarely studied at all in school, and got great grades. Correlation does not necessarily mean causation, however, so perhaps greater intelligence could correlate with increased reading speed and learning ability.

Open your vents and try to find it. If you leave it there it's only going to grow bacteria and spread it throughout your house.

The reason there are flames is because the air is hot. If you make it burn too cool, then there will be no flames.

For X-Chat: Open it up. You should get a "Server List." Add a new server. It should be irc.blackcobalt.net/6667. Set it to log on to #sfn at startup. Hit OK. If it doesn't connect to the server automatically, type /server irc.blackcobalt.net and wait for it to connect. Then type /join #sfn

Well, I've had a few more ideas. Looking at Neowin's subscription system, I see that they actually offer an email address as the main attraction to the service. While I don't think bob@scienceforums.net would be as nice as bob@neowin.net (unless blike registered sfn.net or something else), I think there are other ways we can pull off a service-based system that doesn't rely on forum perks. Not that I can think of them at the moment, though. However, I also have an idea related to the original post. Perhaps paid subscribers could perhaps have a set of other fancy templates to pick from. I know that it may appear that the paid subscriptions may "divide" the community, but again, looking at Neowin, I have not seen that at all. Perhaps that's because people with enough money and time to bother paying for a subscription would also be more mature. edit: and put back the donations button!!!

Sorry, I don't. I haven't even made an installer... do you have a webhost or something similar to run it on? (PM me if you do)

The Fabric of the Cosmos by Brian Greene would be an excellent book to read more about this. Not exactly. It does disappear, but only because the particle now has a definite position, directly in front of one of the slits--if it was not observed, it would not have a definite position and it could pass through both slits and interfere with itself.

Advertising isn't allowed, you know. I daresay that SFN is trying to start its own project/wiki for science, pending administrative free time*. Yes, it's true, but you won't get anything more out of me.

They're hoping they don't have anybody that can actually use a terabyte of space. i.e. it's just advertising.

X-Chat for Windows is paid, but it's under a non-restrictive license so you can get it free. http://www.silverex.org/news/

I think he's using the chat link at the top of the page. In which case I suggest downloading X-Chat or some other decent IRC client.

I'd like to point out that the Apache webserver has a simple little thing that you can also take advantage of: http://www.example.com/script.php/image'>http://www.example.com/script.php/image is equivalent to http://www.example.com/script.php

It's very easy to tell the rate of expansion and how it has changed over the years, giving us a quick estimate of how much it has expanded since The Beginning and how long it would have to be for it to reach its present size. First, you measure the redshift of a star just a million or so light-years away, so you know just how fast it was receding a million years ago. Then you do the same measurement on a star a few million more light-years away, and you get even further "back in time" as you go. Rinse and repeat. I recommend that you read The Fabric of the Cosmos as it explains most bits of current quantum physics, as well as this sort of thing.

http://www.mdsupport.org/library/chip.html Google Alan Chow and you'll find more links. Some of the references in the articles might be useful.