80% may be a LITTLE high... plus, it turned out that the network card was shot.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 4:16 PM, Michael Mol <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mikemol@gmail.com">mikemol@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im">On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 3:50 PM, Adam Tauno Williams<br>
<<a href="mailto:awilliam@whitemice.org">awilliam@whitemice.org</a>> wrote:<br>
> On Thu, 2011-03-24 at 15:16 -0400, Michael Mol wrote:<br>
>> I'm not sure what's happening with the Saturday Social this weekend.<br>
>> I have noticed that most of the people I've run into are not very<br>
>> strongly computer and networking folks. They can certainly use more in<br>
>> that area. I'd intended to bring my spool of Cat6, some cable ends,<br>
>> and train whoever I could grab in how to build network cables.<br>
>> (Hopefully, I might be able to get them to spring for a Fluke cable<br>
>> tester)<br>
>> Anyway, I'll see you guys there if I can. If I can't, I won't. Swing<br>
>> through either way. :)<br>
><br>
> I plan on being there at or around 16:00 till whenever.<br>
><br>
> I have passable networking skills and can probably help out if someone<br>
> needs something cabled / setup.<br>
<br>
</div>When the question came up of whether or not a problem being debugged<br>
was a bad cable, I was told "there's about an 80% chance that the<br>
cable is bad. It's from a box of cables we had lying on the floor"<br>
<br>
There are a bunch of teenage-looking types that are there volunteering<br>
and helping out. I figure the best way to help the starving men is<br>
probably to teach them to fish...<br>
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