You know how people have different coping mechanism in order to make themselves feel better?
Well, this was mine.
Ever since my Dad bought us an unlimited Sun Broadband wireless, my sister and I sometimes fight over who gets to use the modem for the time-being. I later discovered later that it was possible for a Mac(I have a white Macbook, OSX Leopard) to share its Internet Connection via Network Devices.
Ways of Sharing Internet Connection via Airport:
1. Sharing the DHCP connection.
on Mac:
- Open System Preferences.
- Click on the “Sharing” icon
- Click on the “Internet Sharing” item list.
- On the “Internet Sharing” item list, make sure that there’s a written name(i.e. ruzette) in the Computer Name field, selected source of connection (i.e. HUAWEI Mobile) in the Share your Connection from Combo Box and check the Airport Check Box in the To Computers Using list.
- On the “Airport Options”, make sure that the “Enable encryption (using WEP)” remains unchecked.
- Check the “Internet Sharing” check box.
on Windows XP:
- On your Wireless Connections, Click on the Network name provided on the Mac.
- Click Connect.
- If it is not entirely connected (i.e, Limited Connection), go to Command Line Prompt (Start->Run->Type “cmd” -> OK) then type “ipconfig /renew”(It renews all your adapters’ connections). Hit the Enter key.
2. Sharing the WEP connection.
on Mac:
- Open System Preferences.
- Click on the “Sharing” icon
- Click on the “Internet Sharing” item list.
- On the “Internet Sharing” item list, make sure that there’s a written name(i.e. ruzette) in the Computer Name field, selected source of connection (i.e. HUAWEI Mobile) in the Share your Connection from Combo Box and check the Airport Check Box in the To Computers Using list.
- On the “Airport Options”, check the “Enable encryption (using WEP)” box. Set the WEP-length to 40-bit.
- Now this is the fun and vital part. After setting the WEP-length to 40-bit. You can only create hexadecimal passwords, meaning that only numbers from 0-9 and letters from A to F are allowed. Also, make sure that the “$” (dollar sign) is in front of the password (i.e. “$09342ABF”). Click OK. (Any combination using the mentioned numbers and letters is allowed. )
- Check the “Internet Sharing” check box.
on Windows:
- On your Wireless Connections, Click on the Network name provided on the Mac.
- Click Connect.
- If it is not entirely connected (i.e, Limited Connection), Right click on the “Wireless Connection” icon, Click on Properties.
- On the Properties window, click on the “Wireless Networks” tab. Select the Network name on the Mac then select the “Configure” button. Check the “Data encryption (WEP enabled)” and the “Network Authentication (Shared mode)” boxes. Enter the network key we provided on the Mac except that we remove the dollar sign(“$”) in front of the key.
- Make sure that the “Enable IEEE 802.x authentication for this network” remains unchecked in the Authentication tab.
- Click OK.
- Restart your connection if it still does not work.
***Special Thanks to lion for posting the WEP connection how-to on Mac-Forums. 
The procedures on Windows XP can also be applicable on Windows Vista. 
Apple's White Macbook from Apple
After a long, grueling and painstakingly configurations with my Windows XP Guest on VMWare, I’ve decided to use BootCamp instead. This is very untimely for me as I only have less than a day to configure my laptop and I have a thesis presentation in 2 days.
Yes, I am very much aware that I am cramming but if I don’t reformat now, I might be able to say goodbye to my thesis for real.
I have to take this risk. For thesis’s sake. *gulps*
Title: Guidelines in Designing Augmented Reality Games
Author: Richard Wetzel, Rod McCall, Anne-Kathrin Braun, Wolfgang Broll
Url: http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1496984.1497013
Date Accessed: July 27, 2009 read more…
This is it! I think that I’ll be able to use Sun Studio for real!
Seriously, I have no intents of using Sun Studio since all the capabilities that I want from it (C, C++) can be sufficed by the Netbeans IDE. That was what I thought back then until my course subject (CS 131 – Numerical Methods) required us to code in Fortran.
Right now, I’m looking for tutorials for dummies on how I can compile Fortran using Sun Studio. I am quite a dummy at this but I really want to use its Fortran capabilities and maybe show a tutorial here in this blog now and then.
Well, till then!
These are my mock screens for my thesis project at school. Although I haven’t sat on what features I would include in my user interface, hopefully I’ll know it after a while.
Enjoy!
Can’t connect to Sun SPOT?
Installing the Sun SPOT to your PC is as easy as one, two, and three! But if you can’t connect download your source code to Sun SPOT, you need to download the spotfinder binary found at the Downloads section on SunSpotworld.com and replace the one found at …/SunSPOT/sdk/bin .
That should get it working!
I need to focus more on my school’s OSUM than maintaining everyone else’s OSUMs.
Open Jive Regional Contest 2009 Updates
Notification of short listed teams will be on June 12, 2009
Deadline for codes to be uploaded on Project Kenai will be on June 30, 2009
Deadline for Report submission is on July 3, 2009
Philippine Finals is on July 7, 2009
Regional Finals End of July/Early August 2009
Join now while there’s still time!
You may register your team details and a short project description using any of the Sun technologies. Make sure that your project addresses key issues that organizations/countries face today.
For registration, please visit http://bit.ly/openjive09.
