Internet Definition and 319 Threads

I now have 8 Meg and it is nearly 7 according to download testers, amazing for a tiny village miles from anywhere.

My boyo has a PS3 and has asked if it can be hooked up to the internet. I've got a Linksys wireless router (2 actually, the 2nd is cascaded) and the PS3 has a LAN port. So the mechanical connection is pretty straightforward. What issues can I as a homeowner, network manager and billpayer...

His recent attack on Smolin 0803.2926 has driven me to do an spires "fight": http://www.slac.stanford.edu/spires/find/hep/www?rawcmd=FIND+A+SMOLIN+OR+A+MOTL+AND+TOPCITE+50%2B&FORMAT=www&SEQUENCE=citecount%28d%29 And I noticed that while Smolin was a lot better in colaborative papers, the...

How many megabytes does it take to say surf two hours of internet a day for a month (without downloading anything substantial like songs or movies etc)?

So I'm taking a computers for business class and the teacher did a lecture on how everyone on the interent is trying to steal from me. One thing he talked about was phishing. What I don't get, and he couldn't really answer, is that phisherman(phishers?) use websites to mimic legit sites to get...

I have Windows Internet Explorer, the version that has tabs like Firefox, but it has brioke, and this is a major problem, since it is the only computer I have that runs Mastering Physics. When I load up it starts up with a white screen. The address tab is at the top, but the status bar/tool...

How many people remember the days of the birth of the www? I cut my teeth on Dr. Neutrino back in '96. It's only been 12 years, but seems like a lifetime.

Hi, I don't know what's wrong with my PC that when I close the last browser (IE), an error message will pop up, then the Visual Basic C++ automatically runs for the error debugging. I always use Ctrl+Alt+Del to stop it. How to stop the Visual Basic C++ running automatically? Thanks

Hi... sometimes while I'm using the internet with Internet Explorer browser, suddenlly internet explorer windows opens one after the other and rapidly without stopping..tens of windows open and more till I stop all of that from task manager and ending iexplorer.exe process! any information...

This is driving me crazy. All of the icons on the bottom right of my screen say that I am connected to the internet with great connection, and yet I cannot connect! Basically, almost everything non IE related won't connect, almost all websites (except for google, physicsforums, downloads, and...

This problem always appear for me why? Internet Explorer has encountered problem and needs to close If you were in middle of something the information you were working on might be lost Please tell microsoft about this Problem We have created an error report that you...

I have found some time ago on the forum a link to the internet where old relativity books are presented in a scanned variant. Please repeat it. Thanks

Hello. A few things first: I have been trying to figure this out off and on for at least half a year and only come up with hack-jobs, most of which either worked poorly or not at all. My math skills are rusty and my memory forgets formulas easily. Although my current problem involves...

Not sure where exactly this belongs, so I thought I'd try GD. Note that I have no clue as to the actual answer is, but I"m interested in what people's opinions are.

Yale has just made Physics 200 freely available as an internet not-for-credit resource: http://oyc.yale.edu/physics/fundamentals-of-physics/" . Shankar has a reputation at Yale for being a good lecturer. Enjoy.

Something weird is happening to my internet. I have DSL and broadband as a phone company, my router is a d-link. Anyways, a couple of months ago nothing would happen when the phone rang, but now everytime the phone rings and gets turned off (after ending a call turning off the phone), my...

First let me say that I couldn't decide on the best forum for this, so if any other staff members feel that this belongs elsewhere, please feel free to move it without objections. I have observed that because of the internet, ideas once reserved for only advanced students or graduates are...

Homework Statement You observe a lead brick with a rest mass of 27 kg. What is its apparent mass if it is moving away from you at 0.73c? The speed of light is 3e8 m/s. Answer in units of kg. What if you are moving toward it at -0.73c? Homework Equations The Attempt at a...

"The Cult of the Amateur: How today's internet is killing our culture" http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/media/july-dec07/internet_09-17.html streaming...

If net neutrality isn't enforced, and businesses are allowed to manipulate the pipes of the internet possibly allowing only a small number of websites who can afford the fee faster transmission, do you predict that The Internet will just be another version of cable or satelitte tv , where , just...

I'm having a problem with my LAN. For some reason whenever I try to open a webpage (in IE or firefox) I get the error "can't find server". But when I try in Linux (fedora) it works fine. So it must be some problem with windows. What problem would give me that error? Was a setting in the firewall...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070716/ap_on_re_us/neglect_internet_addiction They're blaming the internet, not their own idiocy and lack of self control.

I would like to know the specific name for the bar where you type the internet addresses. Also, what do you call the list that opens down when you type something that you've already visted in the bar? Thanks.

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Just a warning, my laptop came with mcafee and windows vista installed, once i had registered mcafee my internet speed dropped to a crawl (even with mcafee protection turned off), the only way i could get my internet speed back was to uninstall mcafee, do people not test compatibility issues?

I enabled personal web sharing on my mac, but I'm behind a router and so I can only share with other computers behind my routers. That doesn't help very much, or I would just put on network sharing! I'm having trouble figuring out how to use an IP that is, uh, the real one, instead of a...

http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/internet/03/22/internet.blocking.ap/index.html?eref=rss_topstories Good! Again, there is a greater imperative. Also, I believe that the worst thing that we can do is to start censoring the internet based on moral or political interpretations. And again, shame on...

This may not be the best place to ask something like this, but I want to know how website security systems work. I don't have any malicious intent. Its just that cryptography interests me. How does encoding/decoding data over the net work?

is there a serious IQ exam to be taken on the internet? if possible for free, just feel curious about my IQ

http://www.cnn.com/2007/LAW/02/18/chat.room.lawsuit.ap/index.html :rolleyes:

I have a small network at home (with all machines running Windows XP and norton internet security). One machine is connected to the internet and shares the connection with the rest. I find it odd that all machines have a decent speed when accessing the web, except the one that serves the...

Hi everyone, I'm having a minor but irritating problem with IE. By default when IE is opened, just above the taskbar there is a thin beige/white bar which shows the address of the link that the cursor has been placed on top of. One day it suddenly disappeared and I don't know how to get it back...

Internet Explorer 7 ? lol..any one notice that they're trying to get it to look like fire fox =] lol.. gotta love fire fox!

At work i accidently created some Javascript that crashes Internet Explorer 6 & 7. I decided to put it on a page so that anyone can crash their IE by clicking a button. It's interesting because it doesn't use an infinite loop or anything like that, it's just a straight crash...

My internet is going very slow. I can barely download a website nevermind a file over 1mb. I have Spybot and cleared all spyware and immunize the files. I did an Norton Virus scan, and got rid of a cookie I had. That was all. I have wireless system hooked up, and like "repaired" the thing...

hi everyone I am a new member to this forum and i study physics.. i would like to know if you know any sites with free e-books about physics :confused: thanks a lot

I recently set up a new DSL connection to this computer and am having a problem with the connection. I called the tech support at the company and they said the connection is fine and the appropirate lights on the DSL modem are all on. Yet when I move from page to page I frequently get the IE...

When I try to open a calendar applet on my bank's homepage to pay some bills, a window pops up for a split second and then dissapears immediately. I tried turning the pop-up blocker off, I tried letting Active-X go. I hate IE usually but both Opera and Firefox seem to dislike my new computer so...

I can't seem to get my two computers to see each other on my network. Both computers have direct access to the intenet via a Linksys Access Point / router and DSL. I'm at Add Network Place Wizard and I know the name of the target computer (VIRGINIA) and a shared folder (temp) on it. When I...

How do you learn new material (internet or books) for courses? Would you think that an individual would learn more efficiently using the internet instead of using books?

Does it do any good to contact the webmaster (or another position - security?) of a provider (like Yahoo) to report incidences of fraud ("I have $2.5 million for you") using their network to communicate?

I just built a new computer. I installed XP Pro, everything boots up, and seem to work, except I can't connect to the net. The light on my ethernet port and router are both on, but there are no packets sent or received, and I can't repair my connection. Help!

Is there a way to completely remove Internet Explorer from Windows XP for good?

anyone on here use msn I have have a cable modem so I am always connected to the internet ... however when a program like msn is running does it amke it easier for my computer to become infected with a virus

When using Internet Explorer, I could type in Alt+0178 (i.e. hold down the 'Alt' key and type in the numbers 0,1,7,8) and it would make a supersript number 2, and I would put these into posts. Now using Firefox, I can't do that here. I can actually still do it at another forum, and can type it...

I have IE 6, and when I go to type in URLs into my address bar, and I type in an 'h' say, then since I have Hotmail bookmarked, a little thing will appear below the address bar saying Hotmail.com. Also, if I have recently been to a site whose name starts with an h, then it will show up there...

"[URL Internet culture spells doom for strait-laced orthographers[/URL] Straight-laced vs strait-laced free reign vs free rein colour vs color honour vs honour ok sure they are misspelt. But honestly. What is the purpose of speech and writing? It is the method to communicate or...

I had to post this. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,6-2111848,00.html So I did a little check on the National UFO reporting center's database. http://www.ufocenter.com/ Year Reports 2006 [to date] 448 2005 3999 2004 3829 2003 3363 2002 2954 2001 2817 2000 2420 1999 2301...

http://www.cnn.com/interactive/world/0603/explainer.china.internet/frameset.exclude.html This a slide show showing how china censors the internet.

I have a recipe for ice cream that requires me to "scald" the milk. :confused: I type in "scald milk" into google and, sure enough, I get a list of web sites that explain how to scald/scorch milk. From O Chef Okay, after that, it actually does explain what's meant by scalding/scorching...