Deuteronomy 31:6
So be strong and courageous! Do not be afraid and do not panic before them. For the Lord your God will personally go ahead of you. He will neither fail you nor abandon you.”
Moses is passing the mantle of leadership over Israel to Joshua. Moses is now 120 years old and God isn’t allowing him to enter the land promised to Abraham. Joshua is the one who is to take Israel into Canaan and God wants to remind them (and us) that He’s with them and He wants them (and us) to be strong and courageous. I love how the New Living Translation says “Do not panic.” One of my favorite books is the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and the guide in the book has the words “Don’t Panic” on the outside of it. Lot’s of things make us panic. The definition of panic is particularly interesting: “a sudden overwhelming fear, with or without cause, that produces hysterical or irrational behavior.” When we give in to fear it causes us to make bad choices. That’s why God says to be strong and courageous. When we are strong and when we are courageous we don’t give into fear. Fear then isn’t able to “produce hysterical or irrational behavior.” How do we be strong and courageous? Remember that God is with you. When my kids get scared where do they go? They go running for a parent, someone who can help them. Let’s keep this in mind. Run to someone who can help you. Be strong and courageous and do not panic.
Here are two methods for auto login on Windows 7. The first if for computers that are not members of a domain and the second is for those that are members of a domain.
Non-domain computer:
1.Press the Windows key + R on your keyboard to launch the “Run” dialog box.
2.Type in control userpasswords2
3.Press Enter. The User Accounts window will display.
4.Uncheck the option “Users must enter a user name and password to use this computer”
5.Click “OK”
6.You will then be prompted to enter the current password and confirm it.
7.After doing so, you will no longer be prompted to enter your password upon login.
Domain computer:
1. Press the Windows key + R on your keyboard to launch the “Run” dialog box.
2. Type regedit and hit enter to open the Registry Editor
3. Then browse to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\
4. Set AutoAdminLogon = 1 (Create it if it doesn’t exist. Make it a string variable)
5. Set DefaultUserName = your username (Create it if it doesn’t exist. Make it a string variable)
6. Set DefaultPassword = your password (Create it if it doesn’t exist. Make it a string variable)
7. Set DefaultDomainName = your domain (Create it if it doesn’t exist. Make it a string variable)
And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.”
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.
I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
I have a dream today!
I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of “interposition” and “nullification” — one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.
I have a dream today!
I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, and every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight; “and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.”2
This is our hope, and this is the faith that I go back to the South with.
With this faith, we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith, we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith, we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.
And this will be the day — this will be the day when all of God’s children will be able to sing with new meaning:
My country ’tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing.
Land where my fathers died, land of the Pilgrim’s pride,
I’ve been trying unsuccessfully for a couple of days to get my Android tablet to browse network shares from my Windows 7 PCs. No matter what I did or how many different clients I tried none of them would connect. After messing with settings on both the tablet and my PCs even my iPad would not connect to any shares even though it was previously working. The rest of my PCs would open the shares just fine. Through troubleshooting the iPad I came across an article on Stratospherix‘s website based on a Microsoft knowledge base post that mentioned a registry setting sometimes needed changed to allow additional network clients to connect to Windows shares. I’m not even entirely sure this is what fixed my issues but after changing this on one of my machines I was able to connect from both the iPad and my Android tablet.
Here’s the registry key to add:
Click Start, click Run, type regedit and then click OK.
Locate and then click the following registry subkey:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanServer\Parameters
Click Edit, point to New, and then click DWORD Value.
Type IRPStackSize, and then press ENTER to name the value.
(The name is case-sensitive)
Click Edit, and then click Modify.
Click Decimal and in the Data Value box, type 30, and then click OK.
Restart your PC and then re-try to connect with the app.
Update: 1/16/2012 – I tested this on another PC and can confirm that this fixed my connection issues. I was not able to connect to another PC on my network on either my iPad or Android tablet. I added the registry key, rebooted and was immediately able to connect both devices. I still had issues using ES File Explorer and credentials that included special characters. If I changed the password to one without special characters I was able to connect but with special characters it would give a login failure. Other Samba clients like AndSMB or Astro worked with the special characters in the password.
I recently installed the Astaro security gateway firewall in my home. They offer it free to home users. It does an excellent job of protecting your home network. One of the downsides to firewalls is there’s always something that gets blocked that shouldn’t. The issue I was having was with Netflix. On tablets and home streaming devices I could not get Netflix to work even though I had told it to bypass scanning for streaming content. To fix it I added the following URls to the exceptions list and skipped all checks.
^http://[A-Za-z0-9.-]*netflix.com/
^http://[A-Za-z0-9.-]*llnwd.net/
^http://[A-Za-z0-9.-]*edgesuite.net/
^http://[A-Za-z0-9.-]*nflximg.com/
