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Okay, it is not really right to be blogging during office hours, but it is my break time. And I am not using company resources except for the network connection. :)

I've been checking my GMail account for (yes) work-related concerns, but of course, GMail shows you all your messages, not just the work-related. So I came across Kevin Paquet's Pinoy Teens Online FeedBurner message - I recently subscribed to him when I realized that I had not really been keeping track of one of the brightest bloggers this side of the country. Earlier, I noticed that kevinpaquet.com showed domain parking ads. Since we are contacts at Facebook (not accessible from school again, no thanks OpenDNS), I sent him a chat message about the matter and I was informed that he just actually put up those domain parking ads purposely.

Pinoy Teens Online mentioned us in their latest post, and I wanted to check on the actual site - even though Kevin thoughtfully provided the entire text of the post via feed, it is always better to read what is on the site, and you can comment too - but look what comes up:

No thanks OpenDNS. Nudity? Pornography? Hey Kev, what do you have there, the Hayden Kho and Katrina Halili scandal?

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There are at least two ways of setting up a two-PC network, if you just want to play games with your brother using the desktop PC and you using the laptop.

The easier but more expensive way is to use a router or a switch. Enabling DHCP on the router would then assign different IPs to the computers; the only thing you need to remember is to set the default gateway to your router's IP address (usually 192.168.0.1 - this is the address you type on the address bar which allows you to go to your router's configuration).

The more difficult way, but is less expensive because you don't have to buy a router is to use a crossover cable. This is simply a LAN cable with some wires interchanged. You can go to your nearest computer supplies store which also do services and ask them that you need a crossover LAN cable of a certain length. This is not something which you can buy right away, at least not in Cebu City. This is so because not so many people requests for these; only the very geeky (or cheap) ones do. Then you have to manually configure the network. Assign different IPs to the network cards of each PC, and use the IP address of one as the default gateway for the other. For example, if the network card in PC1 has the IP address 192.168.0.1, and that in PC2 has the IP address 192.168.0.2, then the default gateways are as follows: 192.168.0.2 for PC1 and 192.168.0.1 for PC2.

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So I finally got myself a laptop. At our boarding room, I play network games with my brother; he uses the desktop PC and I use the laptop, via an adhoc two-PC network. At my girlfriend's boarding place, I've installed a router which connects to the Internet and assigns a unique IP to my laptop automatically. At my workplace, I have to connect using a preconfigured IP and gateway.

Unfortunately, there has never been an easy way to change from one network profile to another in Windows XP. So I have to do everything manually.

Windows Heaven's suggestion does not seem to work from my end.

Thank goodness I've found the NetSetMan utility via LifeHacker. Now I can set different profiles at will. The free version of NetSetMan allows up to six profiles, pretty well above what I really need.

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