1. you are sad after finishing all the books in the library.
2. you comment on peoples grammer in conversation.
3. your use perfict grammer while texting.
4.you know more about your parents work computer than they do.
5. you spend too much time on sites like this one.
6. you search books for miss-speled words
7. you use better grammer than your parents.
8. you read smithsonion religiosly.
9. you take these kinds fo rules from you own life.
10. you tell your friends that you cant hang out today besause you are too busy debating on the net.
11. you can come up with more than ten of these rules.
12. your dogs name is .com.
13. your fluent in some dead language.
14. you have online enimies, and have to oppose anything that they say.
15. you are on the computor for more than two hours, for recreation purposes.
16. you are proud of your "nerdy-ness"
17. you send submitions for websters every year.
18. if you train your dog to type.
19. if you can actually type with your nose.
20. if you are actully good at typeing with your nose.

be proud of your "nerdy-ness" i am!

149. You watch an entire season of 24 in 24 hours

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140. "Frak" (alt. "frack") is in your vocabulary, and you use it often in lieu of other f-words.
141. You also say "gorram" often.
142. You give yourself labels based on what movie franchise/TV series/etc. you worship (i.e Trekker/Trekkie, browncoat, and so on)

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143. You learn the chinese from firefly and use it
144. you despereately want a long brown leather jacket like Mal's
145. Instead of a normal swear word you have used "sith spawn" as a curse word in reguler conversation

147. You actually know what they are talking about.
148. You have watched the entire series in one night before.

146. You have your flash drive on your key ring so you are never without it.

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141. You also say "gorram" often.
142. You give yourself labels based on what movie franchise/TV series/etc. you worship (i.e Trekker/Trekkie, browncoat, and so on)

dude... you are a god amongst men for those references.

143. You learn the chinese from firefly and use it
144. you despereately want a long brown leather jacket like Mal's
145. Instead of a normal swear word you have used "sith spawn" as a curse word in reguler conversation

143. You're desparate to correct all the grammar and spelling errors in the first post.

140. "Frak" (alt. "frack") is in your vocabulary, and you use it often in lieu of other f-words.
141. You also say "gorram" often.
142. You give yourself labels based on what movie franchise/TV series/etc. you worship (i.e Trekker/Trekkie, browncoat, and so on)

139. Frag is part of your reguler vocabulary

138. You stay up until 2am doing homework...on a Saturday.

136. You feel identified with these guys
137. You know what carbonite is

I did resolve my problem already, thanks for the expertise though Speed.

134. You take several hours to write something that should have taken 30 minutes because you keep getting caught up on the way it is worded...
135. ...and you would never turn in something you weren't 100% satisfied with.

meg, incase you still haven't solved your problem here goes:

It's probable that the surge rebooted your router somehow deconfiguring it, it happens a lot, routers tend to do things like that but it's easy to solve.
Call your ISP, give them your data and have them tell you your conection stats. They should be an IP assigned to your router, a default gateway through which your laptop accesses the router, and the primary and alternate DNS which you connect to. Write all this down.
Once you have this go to control panel, network conections, Properties, and double click TCP/IP, once there just type in the numbers they've given you in teh corresponding boxes.
Also, make sure there isn't an IP conflict between your laptop and your desktop, just follow the same process and check your computers IP adress on the same screen, once you've done that copy the same adress to your laptop and increase or decrease the last number by 1(standard should be 192.168.1.X)
Your configuration may be set to automatic, in which case just select manual configuration and do the above.
If it doesn't start working immediately try reseting you router.

on a side note:
132. You know what ISP means(internet service provider)
133. You're familiar with everything I've just described

127. Games that don't make you think are a waste of your time.
128. You no longer look at the keys when you type.
129. You see "LAST" written in a survey and immediately think "LSAT!"
130. During the summer, you count down the days until school starts again.
131. You have an uncanny love of all office supplies.

121. Your Sims have more of a life than you do
122. Every time a book is made into a movie, a little piece of you dies inside
123. You have space wallpaper in your room
124. You like watching movies with subtitles
125. You're addicted to Stumble
126. You know the difference between there/their/they're

107. You joke about your plans to take over the earth
108. You actually have a plan to take over the earth
109. You freely use acronyms and actually know what they mean
110. Techno? oh yes
111. You have gotten in an argument about proper coding technique
112. You know what an emulator is
113. Your sci-fi collection resembles an actual library
114. You know basic latin for scientific needs
115. People have offered to pay you for website design and/or homework help
116. a "Surge Protector" is something you can't live without
117. You've fried a graphics card because of over clocking it
118. You've fried a whole computer from over clocking it
119. You laugh at the lower intelligence's difficulty with simple tasks such as genetic engineering (true story, take the DNA science course at my HS and you to can brag like this)
120. You've lined your hat with tin foil for sheer amusment

That is the nice thing about my particular laptop. Swapping out the hard drive is easy, and I can even upgrade the wireless and video, though my options for both are fairly limited. I haven't actually opened the case up to see what's what, but since I ordered it with a video card (as opposed to integrated graphics), I'm supposed to be able to switch it out.

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As desktops go, I'm with amp; I'd rather build my own.

I'm trying to figure out how to build my own laptop but you need to have such tight specs that it's almost impossible for us home-builders, however there is way for us to have our revenge! and build a superior model of portable compy. http://dudecomputers.com/ has put out a guide to home build and one of their guides is for their "little dude" computer set up, which uses an Shuttle size tower (smaller then a loaf of bread) here's their example: http://dudecomputers.com/store/index.php?act=viewProd&productId=8
Made by them it's expensive though higher performing then an alienware of similer price (which is what it's designed to take on) but I messed around on tigerdirect and built up a price list for a little dude that was more all around for... I think it was something like $800 and it would perform better then my dad's expensive laptop. The big price killer here is a mobile screen that's road ready and a tote bag to carry it in. There are road ready screens like the one shown in the picture but damn if I remember then name. I'll find it if any one is really intrested.

The thing I hate about laptops is that once their done their done, with the exception of some minor components you can't really upgrade them for the most part so you can't drop in a new vidcard or even a new hard drive in some cases. So instead of buying a $150 harddrive or a $100 vidcard and swapping it out you need to buy a new laptop or send it in to have them handle it which limits parts selection and increases costs to you.

Edit: link to the shuttle case section at tiger direct
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/category/category_tlc.asp?CatId=3427

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My only advice is to disconnect your Internet connection from the router and unplug it's power. Wait a little while and plug the power back in and then the Internet connection. Usually, a reboot like that will fix the problem. If not, I don't know what to tell you, but I'm certain you don't need to do anything about your computer.

Yeah...I went to the Dell Support website and posted in the forum there. Someone there gave me the same advice...and was baffled when it didn't work.

I'm bringing my computer to school today to see if it will connect to the wireless there...

My friend's dad works for Compuware, his job basically entails trying everything he can to fry a system in order to figure out how good they are and where they are vulnerable (or something like that). Hopefully this also extends to being able to undo most of that stuff...

Under NO circumstances should you shell out money to fix your computer unless you are sure of three things: 1) the problem is actually with your computer, 2) you can't fix it yourself, 3) no one you know can fix it for you. Then and only then should you pay to fix it. Nothing is worse than paying for computer repair only to find out your computer was fine. It's like calling a plumber to do a plunger's job.

Anyways, my bet is that the problem is with the router, not the computer. Since both the Gateway and the Dell have encountered IP-related errors, the problem lies in the common denominator: the router.

A router gives out unique IP addresses to the computers connected to it. These IP addresses are "renewed" every so often, especially for wireless connections. Inability to renew means the router isn't doling out IP addresses. I know next to nothing about troubleshooting networks, so I have no idea what would cause a router to do this. My only advice is to disconnect your Internet connection from the router and unplug it's power. Wait a little while and plug the power back in and then the Internet connection. Usually, a reboot like that will fix the problem. If not, I don't know what to tell you, but I'm certain you don't need to do anything about your computer.

I own a Dell laptop, but I've never needed to deal with the Dell tech support. Of course, I've been troubleshooting my own computer problems since I was 13, so I don't talk to any tech support unless I really need to (warranty questions, hardware replacement, etc.). My laptop, though, is really nice. I've heard horror stories about Dells, but this one's given me no problems, and it was a lot cheaper than the alternatives. As laptops go, you won't get anything better than a Dell unless you're looking for a hardcore gaming computer, in which case you should look at Alienware. Dell lets you customize your laptop more than any other big computer company I've encountered (such as Toshiba, Sony, HP, etc.). As desktops go, I'm with amp; I'd rather build my own.

Well, that was a nice diversion. Let's add to the list, then.

105. You get into arguments regarding computer manufacturers.
106. You have no need for tech support. Evar.

My computer was actually relatively inexpensive...I had a coupon where if you spend certain amounts, you get certain amounts off. I was inbetween amounts and had to figure out how to increase my cost some insane amount in order to actually save more money, so I upgraded my hard drive and other stuff. (My best friend has the same computer...she went with a better graphics card and screen and kept the 40 gig hard drive, insisting that her computer was better than mine. She is now debating whether or not to buy a new hard drive.)