Valkyries
The Æsirs reigning and valkyries serving at raschi.de are:
- Dagr, the god of daytime, is a.k.a as HSG02467 as his earthly name
- Buri, the first god in the norse mythology, is my big old desktop tower
- Thor, god of thunder, is my iPod
- Gna, one of the three handmaids of Frigg, the one who takes care of Frigg’s matters around the world, is my almighty SonyEricsson P990i
- Gullveig, the mysterious goddes who was burned three times in Odin’s hall, to have been three times born, and to live yet as a seeress performing dark magic, my dear old SonyEriccson T68i which appears to never die
- Heimdall, the guardian of the gods, is my Fritz!Box Fon WLAN 7170, which connects me to the internet and offers telephone service via SIP Call
to be completed…
Nice selection of names since most tech app names are rather dull. =)
August 16, 2006 @ 15:48
[…] As you can see in the screenshot of the WLAN monitor in the admin interface, I am now running WPA and WPA2 in parallel. That means that the older hardware in Valhalla can still connect, yet the newer stuff is as secure as possible. Admitted, as long as the WPA connections are up an attacker could simply try to break that and since the key is the same to all clients, also the WPA2 connections are compromized. But since only the old hardware such as Buri are running WPA (since not capable of WPA2), I think that’s acceptable. […]
January 14, 2007 @ 18:52
[…] For a couple of weeks already I had some trouble with Gna’s touch screen. It seemed to send it’s controller the signal as if someone touched the lower right corner of it (where the battery indicator is located). Thus the backlight of the screen was switched on and depending on the lock being applied or not, the message to unlock or the battery status dialog would appear. As you can imagine, having the backlight illuminated all times drains the battery terribly. Stand-by times of less than half a day were the consequence. Since I played with the thought of replacing Gna anyway (which was postponed due to other “investments” of higher urgency), I finally did the move. […]
February 14, 2007 @ 10:10