Rohan Karamandi

Well..its time for midterms again, I just want to wish everyone the best of luck on their midterms!

To connect to CAMPUS-AIR is actually pretty simple with Windows 7 if you use the right settings.

Open Network And Sharing Center

Click "Manage Wireless Networks"

Click on "Add"

Click on "Manually create a network profile"

Fill in the choices with this information

Now, it will have added it, but wont connect, because you need to make more changes

Click on the security tab, and make sure the settings are exactly as shown

Click on the settings tab next to the PEAP dropdown and make sure the settings look like this

Press OK and close the window, going back to the old window, and press advanced settings. Make sure the settings are the same as above.

After you close the windows, you should get an authentication box like this. Type in your network username and password. You may have to do this a few times (I'm not sure why..)

If all goes well, you should have connected! If you’re having trouble, feel free to ask me in person, or leave a comment.

Theres 2 ways you can synch now:

1) Use Xmarks to synch with your IE/FF/Opera/whatever else
Sign up here

2) Upgrade your Google Chrome Browser to 4.0.201.1 by following the steps here. Now, all you need to do is run your Chrome browser with the “–enable-sync” flag, and go to “Wrench”->”Sync my bookmarks…”

Now, all I ask for is Adblock plus…

My friend Brad and I have been thinking for weeks to get a DTV antenna (aka HDTV antenna/ATSC antenna). After a few days of searching around Oshawa, we came to the conclusion that there’s nowhere that sells DTV antennas for fairly cheap. Actually, not one place we went had the external DTV antennas. Apparently “The Source” does carry them from what someone told us, but we assumed that they’re expensive and didn’t bother asking them the price or seeing if they carried it.

We decided that we’re better off on our own. After following a post on Lifehacker.com, we were able to make our own DTV antenna for around $6. We had coat hangers, and some wood that we found in the garage. We went out and bought wood screws, washers, and a 75 – 300 ohm matching transformer, which we picked up at The Source for around five bucks.

We put it together using these instructions, and plugged it in, and to our surprise, it works marvelously!

Compare the quality for yourself between regular cable, and DTV (thanks Brad and Ben for the pics):

NBC on Cable TV

NBC on DTV

You can see the lack of a high resolution on the cable image =(

We plan on building a second antenna, just like the first, to combine it with the first to make a DB8 antenna. I’ll post up results when we get around to making that.