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I won't go into a lot of details, but to cut a long story short, I would like to know how I can block an individual's computer from using our home wireless network. The person is my brother's very rude and impolite girlfriend who gained access to our wireless network because she came to our house saying that her laptop was having a problem that needed fixing. The problem was drivers that needed to be downloaded, so I logged her laptop in to our password protected D-Link wireless network router and her computer automatically saved our network on her laptop.

Since then, however, she has been coming to our house EVERY DAY to download huge files using our wireless network. My brother won't do anything about his own girlfriend, but the reason I would rather not confront her because she is bipolar and she is taking medication; she constantly flips out over nothing.

The solution I have in mind is to block her computer using something called MAC-address exclusion, but I have no idea how to do this-- I've only read about it and no one gave any specific details about how to go about doing this. Please can someone tell me, step by step how to block her computer from using our internet. I believe this is the only way we can block her internet access and not cause any bad blood between my brother and me for doing it. Neither she nor my brother are good with computers so they will never figure out how her computer is blocked, or bypass it.

If anyone has any other solutions as well, please kindly share those with me in detail as well. She is not welcome here and she needs to be stopped from abusing our hospitality, especially when she is rude and impolite to everyone when she comes here. Also, she is using up our monthly data allowance so it needs to stop.

I really like a girl who I see everyday on campus at the university I attend. We have many of the same lectures and we're good friends, but I like her more than she knows. I am afraid to spill out my heart to her because of my fear of rejection, plus the fact that after my feelings are out there, it could ruin our friendship. I like the fact that now we are on good talking terms, so I kinda feel close to her, but if I tell her how I feel and she doesn't take it so well, I'm afraid I may lose the connection we already have. Please help-- I don't know what to do and I think if I delay any further, some other guy will snatch her from right under my nose because she's so pretty and she's such a great person to be around.

I recently started college, but my problem is that I'm really not good at talking to girls! I really don't know why-- it's like every time I have to chat with a girl, my voice becomes really low and I feel really nervous! I wish I was more able to talk to girls because I don't even have any female friends at all except for one or two who are just on a "hi, bye" basis. How can I overcome this inhibition? Please help.

Hey guys, I really need help. I keep getting the error 'Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: main' when I try to run my java programs. I write my code using TextPad and it always compiles successfully, but when I try to run the program, I get that error. I checked all my class names and all my syntax and everything is fine, but I keep getting the error. The odd thing is that SOMETIMES the programs are running successfully, then when you try to run it again, the error shows up! It's really frustrating and I can't find a solution in plain English which I can understand anywhere! Please, if aanyone can help me, I would really appreciate it. Don't know if any of this info helps: OS: Windows Vista, Text Editor: TextPad, and I'm using jdk1.6.0_12.

I'm a bit of an introverted person, but these days I always feel really lonely. I find it really difficult to make friends and I think it's my fault. It seems that every time I start having a really good conversation with anyone, I start to feel really uncomfortable about how well we're getting along and I start to shut down. I just seem to have this need to shut people out and I don't even know why. It's like I'm afraid to make friends, but I just don't understand why I feel like this. As a result, I really don't have any friends at all, except for a few people who are really just on a "hi, bye" level. I wish I had people to talk to and share my feelings, but every time I find someone who is being friendly to me, my immediate reaction is to shut them out and I can't control this. Please help-- why am I afraid to make friends? Why is it so difficult for me?

I really, really liked this girl in high school, but though I tried, she never liked me back. The problem is, I can't stop thinking about all the ways I tried (writing her letters and drawing her pictures and stuff) and I can't help but get this horrible feeling in my stomach which makes me wish the ground would just swallow me whole! Gosh, I feel so embarrassed, because even her friends read those letters and saw the pictures I used to draw her and it's so humiliating that so many people know that I was so crazy about her and yet nothing came out of it. I bet she and her friends used to laugh at my attempts to get her attention. I just can't get over it and it's making me feel really embarrassed and depressed even though it's been more than a year since I last saw her. Why can't I get over this. I feel so embarrassed and humiliated and I've convinced myself I will never express my feelings for a girl ever again, or at least not for a long time because being ignored and rejected hurts so much, and that's all I've ever known from the girls I've liked in my lifetime. Please help-- I just really need some way to get over this.

I don't have a lot of friends and since I started university last week, I feel lonelier than ever because most of my friends (and they are not many) went off to other smaller universities. The university I'm attending now is large and it's in the heart of the city, so everyone is constantly moving and unless you already know some people, it's nearly impossible to ever stop anyone and have a conversation with them. Unlike high school where you'd have your lessons in a classroom seated with your friends, at university you suddenly find yourself in these huge lecture halls where no one knows anyone else and it's just really lonely and frustrating! I'm sorry for whining so much, but please help-- how can I make more friends? And let's not even talk about GIRLFRIENDS! I've never had a girlfriend before and given the nature of life at university, I can consider myself single forever! Any tips on that? I'd really appreciate any feedback/advice please. :]

I've recently started university and there are a lot of really interesting and pretty girls everywhere, but I'm no good at chatting up girls. I barely have any female friends at all; maybe girls just don't find me interesting, so obviously from what I've just mentioned, you would be correct to assume I have never had a girlfriend. But i want to change that now that I'm in university-- I don't mean I'm looking for a girlfriend specifically-- I just mean I would like to also have female friends and to be better at talking to girls. I just find it hard; maybe I'm too self conscious or it's psychological or something! Like today, I sat opposite this REALLY pretty girl on the bus home and I couldn't say a word to her... in fact, I couldn't even raise my head to look in her direction so I spent the whole journey looking at my feet! I know what you're probably thinking: this guy is pathetic. You're probably right to say that, but I want to change it. So please, any tips on how to be better at conversing with girls? I would really appreciate feedback from actual girls on this matter, but guys are more than welcome to share some tips as well, please. Thanks. ;-)

To cut a long story short, I'll just summarize the whole story: I really, REALLY liked this girl in high school. Well, because I'm a really shy person, I couldn't bring myself to approach her in person to let her know how I feel, so I resorted to writing her letters and notes, which she said were "sweet", but she never responded to any of them and every time I bumped into her and wanted to say "hi" or something, she would act like she has no idea who I am. She's really pretty and popular, and I'm a typical nobody, so she probably used to act like that because she thought I was embarrassing or something. Anyway, since I was a pretty good artist, I used to draw her all these pictures which she, and her friends really liked, but never me... Eventually, I stopped bothering, feeling hurt and used (yeah, she never 'asked' me to do any of those things, but I just felt like I'd 'used' MYSELF, y'know?) and I really threw myself out there for someone who didn't even give a crap about me. Well, the problem is it's been about two years since all this happened, but I can't get over her and I feel REALLY embarrassed every time I think about the letters and the pictures and I wish the Earth would just swallow me whole! The strange thing is that sometimes I feel like I really HATE her for being so cold towards me and never really paying me any attention when I was trying so hard! I sometimes just feel angry at her, but more like hurt at the same time and I feel like a loser every time I think about her. Why is she making me feel like this? I really want to get over these emotions and forget about her, but I can't. I feel like she's got a hold on me, and yet I've got absolutely nothing on her, and she probably got rid of all my letters and pictures :( Please help... how can I get over this?

I just wanted to ask any girl who is in love or has been in love with someone, what made you fall in love with the guy who you love/loved? What about him made you swoon, or what is it about him that made him lovable? The reason I ask is that I sometimes feel like I have no lovable qualities. I don't exactly fit into most girls' definition of "hot", I'm really shy and reserved and I think most people just think I'm boring. No girls have ever liked me throughout highschool and now I'm in my first year of university. I see girls flirting with all my friends and hanging out/hooking up with them, and no one even so much as looks at me. I'm always well groomed and I dress well, but it seems no girls have even the slightest bit of interest in me. I'm just wondering, what things make girls like the guys they like. Please tell me what it is that makes you love the person you love?

I opened a new bank account today, and I deposited $200.00 into the account, but when I checked my account balance when I got home, it was reflecting $400.00. I think what happened was that the bank manager entered into the system that I deposited him $200 before he actually took the money, then after he took the money to the tellers to be deposited, they entered AGAIN that I had deposited $200, so now I have double the amount of cash. I asked some friends and they told me to just shut up and act like everything is cool, assuming they won't realize their error, but I feel really badly about this and I'm really not a crook. What would you do if you were in this situation? Would you be honest, or would you just keep it to yourself. This is a really tough morality test for me, because I could really use the money, but at the same time, I know it's wrong and dishonest and I was never raised that way. Please help.

I used to like this girl very much, but being on the shy side, I couldn't walk up to her and talk to her face to face, so I started writing her notes and letters as a way to express my interest and I drew her all these lovely pictures just as a way to express myself. Well, turns out she was simply not interested and she told me to back off at first and then she just started to tolerate me, probably out of politeness but I liked her and I persisted but the feeling was not mutual and I finally just gave up, but not after writing one final letter in which I poured my heart out to her... Anyway, all this happened 2 years ago, and I haven't seen her in over a year since I moved, but now I feel REALLY rotten for doing all that I did. I keep beating myself up over it and I regret writing all those letters and drawing the pictures. What if she kept them? What if she's laughing at my efforts to try and express myself to her. I feel really, really rotten and depressed over this. How can I forget about her and get over this rotten feeling that's eating me up?

I finish high school in less than a month, and I have applied for an undergraduate program in BE(Hons) specializing in software engineering because I want to get into the field of software development, or at most, I hope to get a job as an in-house software engineer at either an animation company like Pixar, or a game design company. I've done a lot of research on software engineering and I have an idea of the kind of work I will be doing. However, I'm just curious: will studying Software Engineering at university put me in a position in which I can make my own software, for my own uses, and to design my own web pages etc., because I hope to maybe use the skills I gain in Software engineering to help me accomplish my own goals, such as making software to help with my music production and designing unique web pages to market my music and my animations. I just don't know; for creating software and designing computer solutions to my problems, is Software Engineering the best place to start, or would you recommend something else. Please, anyone with knowledge on this stuff, kindly share it with me. Thanks.

There's a girl at my school who is really, really beautiful and she is such a cool person. She's really popular and lots of guys who are way cooler and way more confident than me are also interested in her. I recently discovered that we share a common interest in art and certain types of music, and this has only made me more keen to want to get closer to her. The problem is that I am really shy and I find her really intimidating because she is from a really wealthy family, and her parents are quite famous (for being wealthy). While I know this shouldn't really matter, I can't get over an overwhelming feeling that she's out of my league. Please help; I've liked her for over two years and I've only ever talked to her a couple of times over the two years that I've known her. How can I approach this girl if I find her so intimidating?

I know this question is subjective and does not apply to everyone, but I'm just curious about a trend that's pretty common at my school and I hope someone can enlighten me. Why is it that a lot of teenage girls are attracted to 'bad boys', many of whom are pompous jerks (IMO). Girls (at my school) totally ignore the shy, polite and respectful guys and tend to be attracted to the over-confident, rude guys who talk back to teachers and care about nothing but sport. What is it that turns the girls from the 'good' guys to the 'bad' guys. Is it that us 'good' guys are boring, or is it something else? Please, can someone explain this to me?

Last year, I did the stupidest thing I've ever done in my life. I had a crush on this girl for a while and last year, I decided to write her a letter telling her how I felt about her and how much she means to me, and how I'll never forget her etc. I was 17 then and so was she, and now I'm 18, but I can't get over writing that letter. I hate myself very much for irrationally spilling out my heart like that. It is extremely humiliating and I know that all her friends read it as well (and probably had a good long laugh about it), and that really sucks. I'm really trying to forget that incident because it's really killing my confidence because I just feel really dumb right now. Please help. How can I get over doing something I regret? I wish I could just erase it from my past!

I told a girl I like that I thought she was beautiful and her response didn't give much away. She didn't really say anything and I couldn't tell if she liked that I said that or not... or maybe she didn't like hearing it from me? Girls, do you like it when you're told you're beautiful, or does it depend on whether or not you like the guy who's telling you?

I accidentally let slip to a friend of mine that I thought his new girlfriend wasn't as pretty as his first and it seemed to have hurt him that I did not think she's pretty; he didn't say anything in response, but you could tell from the awkward silence that ensued he was upset by it. That happened yesterday, and it was a very stupid and shallow thing to say and I regret it very much. What should I say to him? He already thinks I look down upon his girlfriend, so I don't know how to fix this. I know I don't deserve it, but please help me; I feel very bad.

I am really interested in taking software engineering in university next year because I find computers and software architecture quite interesting. I was just wondering, do you need to know a lot about computers to take the degree, I mean like all the technical stuff about computers, or will you learn all of that stuff as you move along the degree?

I'm sorry if this sounds like a dumb question, but is it hard to be in love? I've never had a girlfriend and I've always found the thought of being in love with someone daunting. If I were to get a girlfriend now, I'd have absolutely no idea what to do or how to act. I think being in love and being attached to someone is a difficult task. Is it difficult to be in love with someone? How do you learn 'how' to be in love?