[GRLUG] Saturday Social

Michael Mol mikemol at gmail.com
Thu Mar 24 16:23:32 EDT 2011


I was specifically told 80%; that's why I quoted the figure. *shrug*

On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 4:21 PM, Bob Kline <bob.kline at gmail.com> wrote:
> It's often the case that a fact or
> two can ruin an otherwise nice story.
> Who hasn't been there.....  ;-)
>    -- Bob
>
> On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 4:18 PM, Dagny Scott <parsleyfirefly at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> 80% may be a LITTLE high... plus, it turned out that the network card was
>> shot.
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 4:16 PM, Michael Mol <mikemol at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 3:50 PM, Adam Tauno Williams
>>> <awilliam at whitemice.org> wrote:
>>> > On Thu, 2011-03-24 at 15:16 -0400, Michael Mol wrote:
>>> >> I'm not sure what's happening with the Saturday Social this weekend.
>>> >> I have noticed that most of the people I've run into are not very
>>> >> strongly computer and networking folks. They can certainly use more in
>>> >> that area. I'd intended to bring my spool of Cat6, some cable ends,
>>> >> and train whoever I could grab in how to build network cables.
>>> >> (Hopefully, I might be able to get them to spring for a Fluke cable
>>> >> tester)
>>> >> Anyway, I'll see you guys there if I can. If I can't, I won't. Swing
>>> >> through either way. :)
>>> >
>>> > I plan on being there at or around 16:00 till whenever.
>>> >
>>> > I have passable networking skills and can probably help out if someone
>>> > needs something cabled / setup.
>>>
>>> When the question came up of whether or not a problem being debugged
>>> was a bad cable, I was told "there's about an 80% chance that the
>>> cable is bad. It's from a box of cables we had lying on the floor"
>>>
>>> There are a bunch of teenage-looking types that are there volunteering
>>> and helping out. I figure the best way to help the starving men is
>>> probably to teach them to fish...
>>>
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