It seems like it drops the signal about every two months

Mine does that too -- I think the upstairs neighbors' wireless network is confusing it, poor dear, because it never did this in the old apartment. I've found that if I switch the network setting from "closed" to "peer-to-peer" and then back again, it usually does the trick.

My Tivo connection has been rock solid on the internet since day one. I did it back when you had to pay for the home media option. I've been both wired and wireless. Currently I'm back to wired since I'm moving files on and off the tivo across my network and there's a slight speed advantage that way.

Currently, it's claiming not to find a DCHP (is that right?) server via wireless or plugged into the cable modem, and I can't tell if it's my equipment (Tivo, modem, router, etc.) or something on my provider's side that's frelled.

Does anyone have any thoughts, by the way, on where the problem is most likely to be?

Brenda, I'm not sure what your network setup is.

Do you have a wireless router? Is it set up to be a DHCP server?

I believe the most common home network scenario (or at least mine) is for your ISP to give you a single IP address (though their DHCP server) and then you set up your router to provide multiple IP addresses on your interior network by having your router be a DHCP server too.

Do you have a wireless router?

I do.

Is it set up to be a DHCP server?

I have no idea.

I'll try to figure out what I can tomorrow. thanks for the info.

Just holding a Nano is... damn. It's the perfect electronic device (at least aesthetically).

So, after a few weeks of wrangling with it, setting up my small spare hard drive as the master, installing XP again on that drive, downloading the (I thought) appropriate virus removal tool, and other fun shenannigans, I have finally looked at the old main bad drive and run the fixtool on it.

It says there is no W32.sasser.worm on my computer. Either drive. My problem is not a sasser worm, though all my online research says it is.

I'm beginning to think my drive is utterly unrecoverable. I tried just fixing the installation, but that didn't work. Now I'm reinstalling.

Anyone know of some new fucking virus thing that screws up lsass.exe, but is not actually the sasser worm?

Everyone knows I can't code for shit. Well, everyone who would care to think about my coding abilities, anyway.

I'm trying to just put together a small little thing on my book, and for some reason, I have three columns showing up when I just want the text to fall in blocks under each other.

Also, does anyone know why there's an enormous space between the apostrophe and the "s"? Should I try a different font?

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Appreciate anyone with the time and patience.

Allyson, I don't see 3 columns.

You've got a superscript 1 instead of an apostrophe here:

When Allyson Beatrice isn't watching television, she¹s

That's what I see too, though the second apostrophe is fine.