Re: DefCon for kids

2011-06-28 Thread Sam Kreimeyer
Keith, I have two cousins whom recently finished their tours. One is a heroin fiend (with a penchant for killing animals), another (coincidentally an E-5 in the USMC) is thoroughly convinced that aliens from far off galaxies are reading our thoughts at any given moment. Suffice to say, their judge

Re: DefCon for kids

2011-06-28 Thread Lisa Kachold
I think your understanding was of aufthority, not clear and simple consequences? Of course a few might argue joining the military as opposed to some of the other opportunities available might be a perfect example. But of course this is a subject mired in subjective experience, values systems and

Re: DefCon for kids

2011-06-28 Thread keith smith
I have not been following this thread until now.  I found the statement "The human brain doesn't recognize consequences until age 25?" to be very interesting. I'm a little older. I joined the Marine Corps at 18.  My peers and I understood consequences almost from the first moment of entering b

Re: DefCon for kids

2011-06-28 Thread Nathan England
I am of the opinion that science is not always correct, regardless of how much "study" has been done. Science telling me that the human brain is not capable of making a decision without considering the consequences of the decision, yet all our known life came from some primordial ooze, or all exist

Re: DefCon for kids

2011-06-28 Thread Eric Cope
There was a book published with the last few years talking about adolescent decision making. Adolescents have different value systems making their decisions look poor from adults point of view, but actually quite rational. It's was titled "the case against adolescence". Eric On Jun 28, 2011,

Re: DefCon for kids

2011-06-28 Thread Lisa Kachold
On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 6:11 PM, Lee Reynolds wrote: > The human brain doesn't recognize consequences until age 25? > > That sounds like a bunch of nonsense to me, the kind of stuff that is used to make excuses for adults acting like overgrown adolescents. Perhaps the issue is not a matter of neu

RE: DefCon for kids

2011-06-28 Thread Lee Reynolds
The human brain doesn't recognize consequences until age 25? That sounds like a bunch of nonsense to me, the kind of stuff that is used to make excuses for adults acting like overgrown adolescents. Perhaps the issue is not a matter of neurological development, but a matter of parents allowing

Re: DefCon for kids

2011-06-28 Thread Jordan Aberle
DefCon for kids? Why? Just take them to a regular DefCon... On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 5:17 PM, Kevin Brown wrote: > Sounds like Cathy's daughter is the perfect person for DefCon according to >>> Chris' "Why is DefCon like sudoku?" presentation earlier this month. >>> >>> http://mychildssuitcase.

Re: DefCon for kids

2011-06-28 Thread Kevin Brown
Sounds like Cathy's daughter is the perfect person for DefCon according to Chris' "Why is DefCon like sudoku?" presentation earlier this month. http://mychildssuitcase.blogspot.com/2011/06/channelling-energy-of-geeky-techy-kids.html There is a good deal of material presented at DefCon that give

Request for Comments: Moving Hackfest for 3rd Saturday from Gangplankhq.com to Tempe Maker Bench on University at 3-6PM

2011-06-28 Thread Lisa Kachold
I am requesting feedback from the PLUG members regarding our plan to move the 3rd Saturday of every month meeting from Chandler gangplankhq.com Noon-3PM to Tempe Maker Bench on University from 3PM -6PM. Maker Bench: 2010 E University Drive, Tempe, Suite 4. We will still continue to have a hackfes

Re: Router Hacks

2011-06-28 Thread Stephen
I rather agree. I would like to install a network interface into my Smoothwall box and see if i can turn that into a WAP but it is not looking very hopeful in that respect. I would likely need to either learn more about the smoothwall guts or use a more complete distro with the tools i needed. On

Re: Router Hacks

2011-06-28 Thread Nathan England
I have all services on the device disabled now and I use it only as a wireless ap. It works just fine, but why leave something with so much potential to sit and do relatively little? I'd rather it sit and do relatively little with dd-wrt on it!!! ha ha. At least then it has more potential anyway. T

Re: DefCon for kids

2011-06-28 Thread Lisa Kachold
Hi Hans, On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 2:31 AM, der.hans wrote: > moin moin, > > Sounds like Cathy's daughter is the perfect person for DefCon according to > Chris' "Why is DefCon like sudoku?" presentation earlier this month. > > http://mychildssuitcase.blogspot.com/2011/06/channelling-energy-of-geeky

Re: Router Hacks

2011-06-28 Thread Lisa Kachold
HI Nathan, On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 10:56 PM, Nathan England wrote: > I have an Actiontec PK5000 Qwest DSL modem that is no longer being used as a > DSL modem. I would like to continue using it for a wireless access point as > it has a detachable antenna and I can connect it to my 12 dbi antenna >

Re: Router Hacks

2011-06-28 Thread Stephen
Not sure if tomato or ddwrt will work. But if you shut down all dhcp and DNS bacically making it a dumb device and make sure you have your wired/wireless passthrough in place it can still be your AP and whatever you want for firewall can be used (in my case smoothwall). On Jun 27, 2011 10:56 PM, "N

Re: cause of IO wait

2011-06-28 Thread Bryan O'Neal
I too would like some answers on how to track down the source of Io wait but I can ask some other questions. Did you check the raid controllers health? BBU in good shape? Still have all your cache? did you end up in write through? Did you tweak things before and lose your tweaks becuse they were no

Re: cause of IO wait

2011-06-28 Thread der.hans
Am 27. Jun, 2011 schwätzte James Mcphee so: If it's consistently consuming a lot of CPU, doing a "ps auxwww" and checking for blocked state should do it. I hadn't done a good enough job of reviewing procs in blocked state. I was able to restart sendmail and after-the-fact noted that sendmail

DefCon for kids

2011-06-28 Thread der.hans
moin moin, Sounds like Cathy's daughter is the perfect person for DefCon according to Chris' "Why is DefCon like sudoku?" presentation earlier this month. http://mychildssuitcase.blogspot.com/2011/06/channelling-energy-of-geeky-techy-kids.html ciao, der.hans -- # http://www.LuftHans.com/