GaryS

A step closer - or is it? ADHD, Autism May Sometimes Share Gene Mutations Just love this... Bin DSM V then

Sorry for sounding suspicious but are these "experts" well recommended? If the network is "connected" then it can't be a hardware problem. Once the network driver has initiated and hooked the physical hardware to the network "packets" that are flying around; from then on it is all software. If hard wired network, there are two ways this is shown; there will be a LED at each end of the wire, one at the PC another on the port you plugged into on the router (or switch). The second is on the PC, there will be an icon in the notification area showing that there is a connection made - this will also show on wireless systems. Once the network protocol has been accepted and recognised (resulting in the above status) the PC will attempt to get an IP address from your router. Without this you will not be connected to the internet as the router won't know who is asking and can't send anything. There are three reasons you don't get an IP address - 1. The router is not set up correctly to issue IP addresses, 2. the PC is belligerently insisting on an IP address which the router is refusing to allow or 3. the PC is manually set to a IP address that has been used elsewhere and again the router is refusing to allow this. The next step is that the PC assigns a Gateway server which is almost always the router unless something very unusual is going on (in a domestic situation anyway). I must assume the router is OK as you say other PCs are working OK (but see note below). The procedure I set out above will clear out the "preferred" IP address from the and thing should work again. If the PC is set to a manual IP address it is a simple procedure to change it. [ note: there are circumstances where the router can be fooled but this is usually malicious but always straightforward to sort out.] If you have a unsecured wireless network then I suspect some kids has been playing around with your router - very easy to do if you don't set pass keys on the router - I've had a few instances of this and can get it expensive if the "computer expert" isn't. As I said, if you are getting a connection to the network but no internet it is a very straight forward exercise (and shouldn't be that difficult even if there is no network access) and even if it is necessary to un-install networking components and reinstall everything it shouldn't take more than an hour so £40 or so max. However, it's not unusual for some computer shops to charge for complete software re-builds in these cases and miraculously they were able to recover all of your data and reset everything exactly the same as you gave it to them, minus the "complicated" fault. Strange that.

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I think this is a total mess up with the network settings, best to start again which can be somewhat protracted. I don't know what version of Windows you're running but this should work for all. Go to the start menu and click into the "run" (XP,Vista) or "search" (7) box and type CMD and hit enter You will be presented with a new window with a plain black background. Type the following EXACTLY, a space is denoted by [ ] and don't type the brackets! IPCONFIG[ ]/release IPCONFIG[ ]/flushdns IPCONFIG[ ]/renew IPCONFI|G[ ]/registerdns EXIT The window will disappear after that last command. This will clear all connections and links to the internet for those connections, then re-attach all networks, searching for internet connections. The "gateway" messup can usually be solved by the procedure above, and the gateway should be the IP address of your router as this is the first "hop" in the internet chain. The router should have a list, or contain an IP address of another router with a list, of "Domain Name Servers" (DNS) which converts the domain name of the location you are looking for into IP addresses (which is why it's called a router!); without this the network can't access the location of the page you are looking for. Let me know if this works.

??? What is the message exactly? What does the network connection icon in the notification area of the task bar look like ?

I'd rather not screw my brain up at all.

This may help in a future episode

Possibly, neither are free of side-effects.

Nope mine sorry.

No lecture, simple facts.... I'm a biochemist, worked in forensic toxicology and been around and interested in "recreational drugs" for over 30 years. THC, one of the "active" constituents in weed, appears exactly the same to the brain as a natural substance called Anandamide. "Anandamide is synthesized enzymatically in the areas of the brain that are important in memory, thought processes and control of movement. Research suggests that anandamide plays a role in the making and breaking of short-term connections between nerve cells, and this is related to learning and memory. Animal studies suggest that too much anandamide induces forgetfulness." Half-life of Anandamide is 20 mins or so. (Half-life measures how fast the body removes a chemical) Half-life of THC is around 24hrs THC stays in body fat for a longer time. The brain is mainly fat. Those on the autistic spectrum have unusual brain growth and unusual or incomplete processes in each of the neural pruning stages. Late adolescent/early adult neural pruning is perhaps the greatest and may affect the rest of the individual's life, certainly the subsequent twenty years or so. It is CBD not THC that provides beneficial effects, THC brings along euphoric effects. Current illegal weed husbandry is selecting breed high THC producing strains and not concerned with CBD. Now I'm not sure about "negative side effects" but I'm completely sure that I have a great deal of respect of a chemical that mirrors a very powerful natural neurotransmitter, stays around in the brain over 50 times longer and really messes with inter-nerve cell communication. I'd have extra special respect of it if my genes were telling my brain cells unusual things particularly at a time when my brain is going through a major, perhaps THE major spring clean.

I'm with you on the probiotic "culture" , but there is some science in it. We injest so few bugs these days and our gut flora have a hard time adjusting with our processed sugar, high protein diet. Throw in a dairy reduction and it's hard work for the necessary bugs. I just use an occasional yoghurt but admit to swilling down a yakult or two after antibiotics. I also love greek yogurt over grapes but the sins of diabetics are fairly boring to most.

Raffinose : close, it's a complex sugar and yes responsible for hot air from beans (which was my rather poor inuendo - I thought you rewally did like hummus!). Err.. Cheesy dunno, depends on majority foodstuff, fruit?. If vegatable, tends to be more sulphide production (bad egg) but if it really is a problem then a quick dose of probiotic to sort out any potential gut flora imbalance (there are some soya probiotics like GoodBelly if he's OK with those). Some medications cause problems too.

I've felt this way SINCE my early twenties. If you feel your public words may come back to haunt you, don't use them, perhaps find someone you can PM and get it off your chest that way if face-to-face is too daunting. I find with many smart people on the spectrum have a different sense of intelligence because of their intelligence. Many "intelligent" people I have met with the mainstream accolades of PhD's etc are actually not that smart. Sure they can tell you all about the mating habit of some esoteric South American mollusc or recite page and verse on some photon time dilation proof of Special Relativity but they can actually be quite dumb. Don't get hung up by mainstream assessments of intelligence, there is more than one method of judging how clever people are and we should be the last to make that judgement of ourselves.

As I've posted elsewhere : I'd always use Spybot Search & Destroy (http://www.safer-networking.org/) this has a small residentprogram that "immunises" from malicious programs other than viruses. It doesn't catch everything but does let you know when something tries to mess around with the computer registry (Windows's internal configuration list). S&D along with Malwarebytes and a decent (?Avast) anti-virus program will keep your system healthy. A pathological aversion to programs (other than the ones you have installed AND intentionally running) that report you have a problem is always a useful obsession especially ones with garish windows warning of impending doom. Oh and by the way - do a backup

Ah! that explains a great deal - lots of Raffinose in them chickpeas