Bernaard

Riktignok er Wallander forholdsvis underholdende, og det er også strålende at NRK endelig har begynt å legge ut slikt som krimserier, ikke bare egne produksjoner. 1 mbit/s ser ut til å være maksimal båndbredde, men det er da ikke så verst. Men (og det er alltid et men) det har hakket, og til tider infernalsk, på vi-skal-alle-se-på-Wallander-kveldene (uten noen annen aktivet på ei 3.5 mbits-linje…) Hallo! Har man sagt A, så får man si B. Sveiv i gang bedre linjer og sørvere, NRK! Bernaard med det lange, våte håret betaler lisensen sin!

It turned out that my CWA 854-repeater (from CNet) had been mounted a year without repeating anything. Why? I don’t know, the settings turned out to be all right.

However, the CWA 854 does not like encryption, and that was the problem. So now I am sending extremely sensitive information (for example about Trechinsky and van Wunderwelt) over an unencrypted connection. I have to communicate with The van Wunderwelt Committee. It’s really bad that a wireless repeater doesn’t work with encryption. Shame on you, CNet.

So, if you have been as stupid as me and bought a CWA 854 from CNet, then you can make it extend your wireless network by turning off any kind of encryption on all wireless routers and setting the CWA 854 in AP+WDS mode (Wireless>Basic Settings). Do turn on MAC filtering and hidden essid. Keep your essid absurd, like “coldironhands98cc” (find your own absurd one, do not use my example), do not use your name or street address as an essid! These precautions will keep 97 percent of all unwanted visitors away. The last three percent are impossible to keep out, anyway(s).

If you don’t understand what I’m talking about, then you’ve got to give the CWA 854 back to the shop and tell them the truth: this equipment reduces the security of any network!

The bloody knight
with the long, wet hair
brings an aeon of misery,
and bubbles full of stars.

The curtain, the heavy curtain,
I’ll bless you with the curtain,
I am the curtain.

Like a curtain of love
he seduces the boys
dressed in blue satin.

Let the bull surrender
in the early morning;
let the kitten sleep
in its long, wet fur.

It is as horrible to Bernaard, as it is to anyone with a minimal sense of justice, to see the Olympic torch pass through the streets of Lhasa with thousands of people dancing and celebrating to the tones and rhythms of the authoritarian Chinese regime.

How could the Olympic committee accept that the torch passed through occupied territory—a country in which ethnic Tibetans have been suppressed and killed? Did the committee not realise that this is a victory to the dictators of China, an acceptance of China’s ethnic cleansing of Tibet? Perhaps the committee has been convinced by Chinese propaganda claiming that Tibet has been Chinese all the time? (Which is nothing but one of several lies generated by the Chinese system.)

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