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Windows 7 and above has a neat feature called hosted networking. This allows you to turn your laptop into a wireless access point. This is very useful if you want to share your laptop’s Internet connection with other wireless devices or (the reason I use it) for testing.

To set up a network open a command prompt and run the following commands

netsh wlan set hostednetwork mode=allow ssid=”GremlinsTestAP” key=”Pa$$w0rd”
netsh wlan start hostednetwork

This will create a wireless access point named GremlinsTestAP with a password of Pa$$w0rd

To shutdown the network run

netsh wlan stop hostednetwork

More detailed info can be found here:

• How to: Create Wireless Hosted Networks in Windows 7
• How to Turn Your Windows 8 Laptop into a Wireless Access Point
• About the Wireless Hosted Network

He he, Just found this article about a blue screen of death (BSOD) during the Olympic opening ceremony on Gizmoda.

Update: Turns out that the giant footstep fireworks were faked ! What a shame, I thought they were one of the best bits of the opening ceremony.

Update: Now it appears that the little singing girl wasn’t singing either !