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Posted Thursday April 12 2007, 2:23 pm
how can you edit the information you've given about yourself here? like when you change ur screenname on aim or something? and how can you write something "about me" ?? cuz every1 has it , i just don't know how 2 do that???
help?

http://www.advicenators.com/settings.php
http://www.advicenators.com/style.php
you must be logged in for those to work

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I downloaded it, fixed my modem for port forwarding and yet it doesn t start downloading even when I am not queued (the only one who wants to download). If it ever starts it slow as hell.
Does it really suck or do I have to do something to fix it?
Thanks in advanced.

Make sure you have port 6346 TCP/UDP in/out cleared on both your firewall and router(you don't need to do anything to a modem). You can read http://portforward.com for more info. Most peer-to-peer networks modeled after gnutella(limewire) protocol are very slow. This includes shareaza's native protocol, Gnutella2 and the other protocols it supports. You'll have much, much faster speeds with bittorrent:
http://www.advicenators.com/talkaboutmetopic.php?t=94&userboard_id=38985
Shareaza can handle bittorrent, but it is slower with it than other applications mentioned in my guide.

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Are pixie sticks good physically to your body?

It tastes so good but I wonder of it's bad because I feel like it's kinda the same as eating a bowl of just sugar.

Thanks and when you answer can you tell me if you're a professional or not so I can know for sure?

The ingredients are:

Dextrose, Citric Acid, and Less than 2% of Maltodextrin, Corn Syrup Solids, Artificial Flavors, Blue 1 Lake, Blue 2 Lake, Red 40 Lake, Yellow 5 Lake, Yellow 6 Lake.

Dextrose is another name for sugar. So yes, it is pure sugar. It's probably just as bad for you as any other candy.

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Any other websites like advicenators?


I'll keep my account here for sure, I love this place! But I want more diversity and different types of questions and all that.

Thanks!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Knowledge_markets

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i swear i think myspace is giving me viruses. not the kind that on my page or anything but like trojans. like when i go to someones page i get a billion popups and its soo annoying! is there a program to get rid of trojans or adware/spyware? like a good free one i can download because my comp is already messsing up and i just got it! thanks

You'll get less popups and some extra protection from viruses if you download firefox( http://mozilla.com ). I also recommend Spyware Terminator( http://www.spywareterminator.com ) for a combined antivirus/antispyware.

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http://www.umu.se/edmeas/np/information/np-formler.html on that website, i need to get the files under b and c & d, for a math-assignment but i can't open it! It just won't work! And I also need all the files for B and C on this website http://www.umu.se/edmeas/np/information/np-tidigare-prov.html but that wont open either, what am I doing wrong?

Does it work for you?
If so, could you copy and paste what it says and send it to me somehow?

If you tell me you can open it, Ill give you my email and you'd be doing me the biggest favor ever!

And if noone on here can open these files, do you know WHY they wont open?

Thank you!

http://pdfdownload.04340.com/pdf2html.php?url=http://www.umu.se/edmeas/np/information/../np-prov/formlerB.pdf
http://pdftohtml.markoer.org/pdf2html.php?url=http://www.umu.se/edmeas/np/information/../np-prov/formlerC-D.pdf
http://pdfdownload.tsone.info/pdf2html.php?url=http://www.umu.se/edmeas/np/information/../np-prov/B-kursprov-vt05.pdf
http://pdfdownload.bofd.net/pdf2html.php?url=http://www.umu.se/edmeas/np/information/../np-prov/B-kursprov-vt02.pdf
http://pdftohtml.markoer.org/pdf2html.php?url=http://www.umu.se/edmeas/np/information/../np-prov/B-kursprov-ht98.pdf
http://pdfdownload.04340.com/pdf2html.php?url=http://www.umu.se/edmeas/np/information/../np-prov/C-kursprov-vt05.pdf
http://pdfdownload.tsone.info/pdf2html.php?url=http://www.umu.se/edmeas/np/information/../np-prov/C-kursprov-vt02.pdf
http://pdfdownload.bofd.net/pdf2html.php?url=http://www.umu.se/edmeas/np/information/../np-prov/C-kursprov-vt98.pdf
http://pdftohtml.markoer.org/pdf2html.php?url=http://www.umu.se/edmeas/np/information/../np-prov/C-kursprov-ht96.pdf
http://pdfdownload.04340.com/pdf2html.php?url=http://www.umu.se/edmeas/np/information/../np-prov/C-kursprov-vt96.pdf
only search advicenators.com

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/636
Make sure you have the latest version of Adobe reader( http://adobe.com ).

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I just joined freewebs.com and i cant figure out how to make a layout like this:
http://www.freewebs.com/mzalicia/
my current layout is REALLY plain. please help!!!!

You don't want that layout. They use improper HTML, so 30% of everyone that goes there can't see it. You can see the markup validation results:
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freewebs.com%2Fmzalicia%2F
I'll be happy to make you a site, with a subdomain and email address, too. Visit http://theymos.com .

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is there anywhere online where you can conert a picture into ASCII for free?
thanx!!
xo

http://www.degraeve.com/img2txt.php
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_text_editors#ASCII_art_converters

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when you go to the font "wingdings" & type a right slash " / " , what does that mean? is it hindi? if not, what language is it?

Forward slash in wingdings is a mailbox.
Backwards slash is Aum: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aum

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where can i download the song "talk about love" by led zeppelin? i've looked on limewire and itunes and i can't find it anywhere.

Led zeppelin didn't make a song called "talk about love". You can see on the complete list* that the only songs with the word love are "all my love", "whole lotta love", and "The Girl I Love She Got Long Black Wavy Hair".

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Led_Zeppelin_discography

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I have a project to do for social studies class and my partner and I have to survey a few people, over the age of 18. The survey is about the amendments, because right now we are learning about the constitution. We would like to have the opinion of many people and not just specific people we survey, so if you dont mind could you please answer these questions.
Also if you have a job that involves government or if you are majoring in that, could you please state that. If your not over 18 that is fine, because we want the opinion of all who know what they are talking about.

I. The Bill of Rights contains ten amendments to the constitution. Which one do you believe is the most important and why?


II. The original intent of the Second Amendment was to prevent the Nation Government from disarming a militia. Today it is used to justify indivisual gun ownership without government interference. What argument could you make again the Second Amendment (gun ownership) ?

III. How would you interpret Amendments NIne and Ten ?


Thank you.

I think the most important amendment is the 10th, as it clearly says that the power should be with the states, and not with the federal government; this is what the founding fathers originally intended. Of course, this amendment has been ignored.

I can't argue against the second amendment, because people should be allowed to have guns. If the government bans owning guns, then isn't the original intention of the amendment gone? The people won't be able to form a militia if there aren't any guns. Note they didn't say "army", they said "militia". There was an army at the time of the bill of rights, but they saw there was a need for a "militia" of the people.

Amendment 9 says that the bill of rights supersedes the original constituion. Amendment 10 gives state governments greater power than the federal government.

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i have a bunch of those little square icons that have sayings or pictures in them on my myspace. but i can only get them to go straight down in a row. i have seen some profiles where they are all bunched together, and like side by side. like theres 4 in one row and then right below theres like 4 more and it just keeps repeating. if anyone knows any special codes to put to make that work, i would really appreciate it! thanks :)

**edit: the image codes contain a , if they are on a new line. The code will look like this:

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using however many letters / characters there are in the
roman alphabet, how many words can be created?

An infinite number, since the words can be of infinite length. If you wanted to limit the length of the words, the formula would be 26^(limit+1). So if you wanted words up to 5 letters in length, you could create 308915776 words. Of course, this would allow for words like cccccc, which is unpronounceable. It would take a complex formula and extensive knowledge of linguistics to compile a list of pronounceable words.

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Hey u answered my question earlier but my computer still isnt workig k i tred the explorer and my comp says its corrupted so i still dont have it back and i tried the system restore and it didnt do anything for my computer and i dont know how to get to the digostic and when i did safe mode my comp froze. Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance.

Put your windows install disk into the computer. Go to task manager, then file, then new task. Type:

sfc /scannow

It should fix itself. If not, go to task manager, new task. Type:

msconfig

Click the "diagnostic startup" radio button, and click ok. If this fixes it, ask me another personal question so you can use all your programs. If that doesn't work, try safe mode again, but remember that at the point where a bunch of text scrolls down the screen, it can take up to 20 minutes to load. And if none of that works, you can ask the free tech support people at http://protonic.com .

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k im in 9th grade and im doin a science fair project. this is my first time doing but i think i can do it all on my own. one problem is my teacher gave 4 deadlines and i only did the first one. the other 3 were about getting research and putting it all together "in your own voice". i dont really get that. he says we can't just read the research and summarize it, he thinks its a form of plagirism. so can anyone give me an example of taking your research thats about your project and "putting it in you own voice?" my topic is battery energy by the way anyone know good sites where i can find research on batteries or battery energy?

Batteries store energy chemically, and give out electricity to be used. The first battery was the Voltaic pile; it was made by Alessandro Volta in 1800. Batteries are an important industry, accounting for $48 billion in world-wide annual sales.

That's putting the first paragraph of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battery_%28electricity%29
in my own voice. Take a look at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battery_%28electricity%29#References
http://scholar.google.com/
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A dumb thing happened. I was getting up from dinner last night and I smacked my knee on the kitchen table leg [its hardwood]. It stung for a few seconds and went away. An hour or so later, it was really painful to bare too much weight on it or bend it. I went to bed with it hurting. When I got up for school, whenever I bent it or went up/down stairs, it really hurt. It still hurts now. Through school it's been a bit of a pest. Basically the pain is coming from bending/moving around weird. If I sit or stand for a long amount of time, its barely there. I thought it was just a bruise, but it feels like a rubber band snapping or something of that sort. Any ideas on what this might be? Is it necessary to go to the doctor?

Thanks!!

Put something warm on it and take some painkillers. If it hasn't gone away in 3-5 days, or it gets a lot worse, go to the doctor.

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my friend and i both use limewire, and our limewires will start up, but when we type in songs..no results come up
is there a problem with limewire? because i know this is happening to other people

i tried uninstalling and installing it again
and i just want my music

is there any way to fix this?
and if not..is there any other good programs to download music?

i tried bearshare but i didnt lyk it

thanks in advance

Make sure you have set up port forwarding for your firewall and router( http://portforward.com ). Even if you haven't installed a firewall, windows firewall is automatically on(and it turns itself on if you disable one you did install).

Make sure you are connected to the network(file>connect)

For an alternative application, you can try shareaza( http://shareaza.com ) or any other gnutella client:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnutella#Software

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ok. i'm like desperate to learn how to make my own layouts. i get bored really easy and i really wanna know how! And i have adobe photoshop the old version but i wanna know how the make their pictures all cool n stuff. and where they get their brushes. anddd especaily how they make the layouts! please any sites or how-tos or anything! please! :p

thanks
-me

The actual code behind the layout is CSS. It's not really that complex. Learn HTML and CSS at http://w3schools.com . Then the only other thing(that isn't readily available) you need to know is the Document Object Model for controlling myspace. Here is how you make "extended network", and some other stuff, invisible:

table tbody td table tbody tr td.text table{visibility:hidden}

What you want to do to get the text before {visiblity:hidden}, is look at the myspace code and work backwards from the element you want to affect. In this case, the element we want to affect is:

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There is something terribly wrong with my computer and i can't firgure out how to get it back to normal. I HAVE NO START AND ICONS! When i restart my computer all i have is a desktop background nothing is there!!!!! Someone please help me firgure this out! The way I get to programs is through the task maneger. And I dont even know how to get to all programs. Any ADVICE on how to get it all back would be helpful. Thank you!

Don't format your hard drive. LagunaBabe is completely wrong. Go to task manager, then file>new task, then type "explorer", without quotes. This should either give you your desktop back, or give you an error with more information.

This usually happens when an important file is corrupted. I'd try these things if "explorer" doesn't work. You can contact me for more info, or search the web:
-system file checker
-system restore( C:\system32\restore\rstrui.exe )
-safe mode
-msconfig>diagnostic start
Good luck!

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ok...someone born on january 24 that is thirteen and someone who is 16 and born on may 7, please calculate the difference for me lol

3 years and 263 days

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