Is it your new HP, ita? I've had that happen randomly with HPs before. Sometimes it would uninstall it completely. Check their website; they might have a driver update that will fix it.

I'm no help on the stat you're looking for, Vortex, but there are also signal range extenders you can buy that may be a cheaper solution to your problem.

Our 5 year old Canon G4 digital camera is starting to flake out (on Halloween the screen seems to have died). mr. flea poked around at Ritz camera and seems to have fallen in love with the Nikon D60 (he used to do photography some in college so knows a little bit; I am a point and shoot girl but I take most of the pictures, go figure). He turns 40 in two weeks so it seems like the right time to get him a big ticket present - anyone have experience with this model? Some reviews I have read say it isn't much different than the D40, which runs more than $100 cheaper. Are there other intro-level DSLRs you'd recommend?

javachik's camera is a Nikon D40

Looks like the big difference with the D60 is an image sensor cleaner and a jump from 6Mpixel to 10Mpixel.

I still like this site for reviews: [link]

Yeah, what I'm reading implies that once you are at 6 megapixels, everything is so good why bother adding more, even if you are printing posters. Do you agree?

javachik's camera is a Nikon D40

Wow, what a good memory!!

I went back and forth between getting the D80 and the D40 and finally decided the D40 was enough camera for me. I think it takes very nice photos. One of the determining factors for me was weight; I don't know how heavy the D60 is, but the D40 is considerably lighter than the D80.

Do you agree?

I dunno. I rarely print any of my photos, so that's not a factor for me, but higher resolution means higher effective digital zoom, which means you don't have to be as close to the subject, or frame as carefully -- you can crop the shot later on the computer to get what you want.

But if I had to choose between spending money on a higher resolution sensor or better lenses, I'd choose lenses.

I've got a Canon Rebel XTi that I'm very happy with. As for the difference between the Nikon and the Canon they both get excellent reviews and it really comes down to which lenses you want to use and which interface appeals to you. I've got one of the Canon Image Stabilizer lenses that is really wonderful for working in low light.

I've had a Canon Rebel XT for quite awhile now. It's been great and it works well for point and shoot as well.

I was wondering if anyone could help with a Wordpress issue, please. I'm working with Wordpress 2.6.1, trying to adjust the default/Kubrick theme to the design I want. Everything's going along fine--I've moved the sidebar from the right to the left, the fonts are the right color, and the header graphic looks fine. But when I try to make the blue sidebar expand along with the longer posts it doesn't do so I've tried putting in a repeating background image that puts blue and white where I want it, set to repeat-y, and it's not showing. I've tried faux columns, and they don't show. (The php files are separate, so I may not be putting the <div id="wrap"> in the right place.) Suggestions, please?

Calli, one way to fake it is to make the div a minimum height. Unfortunately, if you do that, it will always be that height or more, but never less.

Another way to fake it is to put a transparent gif in the sidebar of the size you want--but that will have the same problem of being X tall even if the post is only B tall.

The last way to do it that I know of is to put enough plugins in the sidebar that the content fills it up to a certain height.

Most of the WordPress installs I've seen have just enough sidebar to contain the content and are quite often much shorter than the post.