EECS seniors,
The results of your voting have been tabulated. I am pleased to announce the following two projects received top honors.

First place
Havoc Command. Dehler, Raymond C.; Moreno, Brandon K.; Supinski, William D.; Watson, Stuart T.

Second place
Electric Vehicle Drive System. Arlint, Steven O.; BinSaeed, Abdullah A.; Buscho, Dustin D.

Both teams will be presenting in the afternoon session at Founders Day along with teams from other SOE departments.

If you wish to review the voting, please stop by my office.

Again, congratulations to these two teams!!

Regards, Dr. Lillevik

In a related note, we’re almost ready for beta release!

Graduation is in less than 2 months, and I’m still lookin for a job. I now have a complete(r) list of places to look:

• On Autodesk’s job site (Still crossing my fingers)
• On Intel’s job site (Relative)
• On HP’s job site (Friend)
• Job sites Craig’s List, dice.com, careerbuilder.com.

*crosses fingers*

Havoc Command is really coming along. It HAS to be done by April 11, 2006, so it’s crunch time. We have a bunch of “alpha version” screenshots of the game, which include Kara’s artwork (the portraits).

So I received my new, cheap Linksys WRT54GL router from FON.com. I was finally able to install it.

It came prepacked with FON’s custom firmware. The web interface of FON’s firmware was rather ugly, and the layout they used was buggy; you aren’t able to see some options or fields with Internet Explorer… So I simply reloaded the firmware with the latest from linksys.com.

At first, I wasn’t able to connect to the router. The DHCP server wasn’t handing me a correct IP, but if I set my IP to 192.168.1.100 (gateway 192.168.1.1) for example, it worked. Then I enabled the necessary options in the panel, which enabled the DHCP server, WAP and everything else.

I still wasn’t able to get an IP from comcast. If I plug the cable connection into the old router, it’s able to release and renew its IP, but the new router plugged in isn’t able to get an IP using the same methods. What you have to do is unplug the cable modem for about 1 minute, plug in the new router to the cable modem, then plug in the modem again. This allowed the new router to get a new IP.

I’m not sure why this has to be done, but it’s the only way to make the device with a different MAC address get a new IP. I think Comcast has this to discourage multiple hosts on one connection, but don’t quote me.

Do you see anything wrong with this picture?

The car is getting worse… I’m counting down the days until it dies.