You just bought a brand new laptop with Windows 7 and you take it home to try out all the bells and whistles. You right click on the little computer in the lower right hand corner and select the the name you know to be for your wireless router. You type in the security key as instructed only to find you cannot connect to the specified network. Oh no, what to do? Fear not, I have the solution.
Recently while vacationing in Hawaii, my daughter and I had difficulty connecting to my friend's wireless network with our Windows 7 laptops. I had the SSID and the security key, but still was unable to connect through the normal process. I thought this very strange since our Ipods/Iphones connected fine so I knew the information was correct. It just seemed no matter what I did, I could not connect. Ultimately, I ended up just physically connecting to the router with a Cat5 cable which posed some serious mobility issues. Not to mention bruising my ego pretty seriously since as a Network Admin
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By Carla Carter | Author Blog Posts – Wed, Oct 10, 2012 10:02 AM EDTYou Have a Right to Your Opinion, but Not the Right to Make it Everyone Else's
By Carla Carter | Author Blog Posts – Tue, Oct 9, 2012 2:56 PM EDTWell, after a busy morning, I now find myself with a little free time and so I decided to browse the net. I'm not sure why I'm amazed at what I find there. A woman in trouble with the law for tattooing her daughter, the Taliban shooting a child my daughter's age for speaking against them, and Amber Tamblyn's outside of the box wedding dress are just a few of the stories that were "trending". All of these topics are of interest to one person or another and for everyone who takes one stance on the topics, there is a person who takes the opposite stance.
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The world is full of people who all think, act, and believe differently and I don't understand why society as a whole cannot accept that that is okay. Of course I'm not saying that murdering a child is right, but what I am saying is that it is okay and expected for people to have diverse ideas of right and wrong. The important thing to remember is that while you have the right to your opinions, others do as well. You won't always agree
