Monthly Archives: January 2006

I wasn’t the villain in Transporter 2

Posted on by Jon
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For a while T has been telling me that I need to see Transporter 2. I thought it was a rather lackluster sequel that even taken as an “action” movie at times bordered on the absurd. What makes this film amusing is the fact that the villain’s name is pronounced almost identically to my own.

Transporter 2 screen cap

Watching the DVD with subtitles shows that it is spelled with an extra “h” – even so it is still pretty funny to hear.

Transporter 2 screen cap

I like to think that I would make a far better evil terrorist mastermind. At the very least I would be sure to have an evil sidekick / girlfriend who did not look like she was trying to overcome an eating disorder.

Nintendo WFC and the Linksys WAP11

Posted on by Jon
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Heather, being the cool wife she is, got me a Nintendo DS a few weeks ago since I had mentioned I wanted one. She got me the Mario Kart bundle so I have been having fun having my ass handed to me by other players online. The built-in Wi-Fi feature is pretty cool, my only gripe is that the DS only supports WEP encryption. Fortunately, as a techie i happen to be swimming in extra network gear so I was able to make use of an old access point for the DS without having to downgrade my router from WPA2 encryption.

I ran into a couple of snags initially getting connected to the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection at home with an old spare Linksys WAP11, fortunately, a bit of googling did the trick:

  • the basic transfer rate needs to be set to 1-2 Mbps – thanks to John for figuring this out :)
  • the WEP key on the Nintendo DS needs to be entered in HEX and not as the passphrase used to generate it – RTFM was helpful

I’m looking forward to getting my hands on the online enabled Tetris DS that is due this March.