The guys have figured out that they can quickly escape through the dog door, yeah. We heard the dog door Saturday night and realized it was awfully quiet in the house. Then quickly realized both of them were standing on the patio.
They are growing like weeds! Absolutely awesome and fun to watch and expirience. Another new trend is a netflix addiction to Shaun the Sheep, its a great little bbc claymation. Check it out!
-demon117
So the wife took the boys to her sisters house to visit with family in town and I had the opportunity to go and watch Inception. This was a good movie, predictable or maybe ironic is a better term for it… however, it was Awesome.
I love movies/books that make me think. I don’t mean just causing thought, I mean thought processes that may question “reality” or push the bounds of what our current minds accept as reality. Movies like the first ‘Matrix’, like the book ‘Stranger in a Strange Land’. Both of these had awesome concepts of thinking, there are more but unfortunately I have not been doing as much thinking and exercises in thinking as I have in the past.
The movie Inception was about dream sharing, but not just dream sharing but information theft via dream sharing. Mind Hacking, if that’s a term, would be appropriate for the movie. The concepts don’t seem that foreign if you get past the whole dragging your mark into a shared dream state that was created to do a number of things, trigger familiarity, confuse possible security measures put in place, and by means of social engineering get the target to expose the information by manifesting it in a predictable area.
What interests me is not the capability of attacking another person or mind, there are plenty of ways to do that that are much more simple than even the contemplation of attacking the mind directly. My interest is in self discovery, not the “who am I?” questions, but the deeper questions that make up the underpinnings of why I do what I do and how I can push myself farther. Essentially exposing and manipulating the processes of going deeper into the rabbit hole of my conscious and sub-conscious.
I don’t know the actual percentage of the amount of the brain an average person uses but it seems that we can always do more, unlock new worlds so to speak. Some people reach out to using chemical substances to enhance thought, I’ve heard of people that use other chemical substances to actually slowdown their thought to the point they can survive at work and with social interaction (interesting indeed). I don’t agree with using any illegal substances to help speed up or slow down thought, I do however consume a good amount of caffeine on a [all to] regular basis. This could be beneficial in some cases but as my dependance has grown it’s most likely semi-detrimental at this point.
This movie, along with a few other influences present, has helped me remember that I love learning about my mind, exploring and advancing my thought. As I just posted earlier, I will be switching up the content on demonwerx, I may just have to put a part about philosophy and other mental exercises on there. We will see.
Ok, I think this is my longest post so far on all of my blogs… enjoy.
~Demon117
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I’ve talked in the past about moving www.demonwerx.com over to here, well the blog and gallery and more personal stuff. I think I may be setting that in motion shortly, after deconstructing the “splash page” it’s been on my mind.
I will focus on demonwerx as a site of producing something, using this blog to hold more of the scatterbrained and life stuff. I have yet to come up with what to put on demonwerx specifically but that’s just fine.
-Demon
With the final purchase of an Microsoft Wireless N adapter for the Xbox it became very clear that it wasn’t the xbox’s fault that it couldn’t connect to the router, but the lame Linksys routers fault.
So I went to BestBuy and purchased a NetGear Simultaneous a/b/g/n router (the $109 version not the $150 with gigabit and possibly dual N).
The router rocks! I will have to play with the Stateful Packet Inspection capabilities one of these days.
I am on a fanatical quest to reduce the latency in my Xbox connection without running a cable to it, which is turning out to be a larger headache and more expensive too.
I bought a nifty madcatz device the other day that looked slick but didn’t want to talk to my router. I returned this, picked up a Wireless-N Xbox adapter, only to have it connect to my router in 802.11G mode. To say the least I’m extremely unhappy about this.
I will do some research on the Wireless-N adapter and return it if I can’t get it to talk at N speeds.
As Amok said, it’s definitely a love/hate thing with technology. I think it hates me in this realm. Or linksys just SUCKS.
~Demon
I’ve added a Security Blog to this site – Demon on Security.
I will be putting hopefully all of my findings and interesting things there, I most likely will post some of the things I find important to share with family/friends on this and demonwerx.com/blog.
However, one of these days I will execute on deciding how I want to use which site for what… like demonwerx.com for a ‘business-like’ site and this for my personal info/rants, etc.
We’ll see.
~Demon
So a friend advised a way to incorporate Game logic into buying a car, we all know that price is a sticky thing as they will only move so much and sometimes you either don’t want to or can’t pay the amount they want. So you negotiate.
If you’re like me, I strongly dislike 99% of the car salesmen out there. This makes negotiating challenging because I spend most of my time not wanting to punch the guy across the desk in the head rather then making a good decision.
Call the dealer up ask for the fleet sales guys email address and inform them you’ll be conducting communication through email. Start the process, I think most dealers have some sort of internet inventory search (or they should) and you can play with prices this way until you need to either see the car or hit a point where you must come in to finish the deal.
This is 1000% easier for me, and we just used it to get a new Forester XT!
More on this sometime else.
~Demon
There I was in my car
Haven’t driven very far
Behind me is a little white car
Until the black SUV shows up passes by the little white car
Suddenly the SUV is closely behind me
And the little white car was angry
With a few quick moves he was next to the SUV
And then behind me
Hehe what an angry little white car
I didn’t sleep much last night but this was pretty funny, the SUV was a cell phone talking douche and it definitely hit a nerve with the driver of the white rodeo. I’m glad there no accidents as they were all just about kissing my rear bumper *shudders*
So if you’ve ever dealt with a project you may have heard with the term “Scope Creep” it can be a pain in the butt if you are the team or a part of the running/building/managing of the project.
What it is:
You get the needs from the customer and you build to that specification and then it changes:
Start-
Customer: I want a two wheeled gas propelled ulta-economy vehicle
You: Ok, so you want a scooter/small motorcycle
Customer: yes, exactly
Later (30% Complete) (enter Scope Creep)- Checkin
Customer: we’re thinkin a 600cc is a must plus some nice ferrings
You: …
Later (90%) -
Customer: I told you I wanted a Ferrari f430, in black with snake skin seats and we agreed to this
You: ….
Something dies.
Now to my next point comes to legitimate need changes, initial start of a Massive multi-million dollar undertaking the direction comes down from the highest level possible – this must be completely ITIL, we will adapt or process to the tool.
8 months later, 1.5 weeks prior to release in the wild the question is asked – we’ve never seen this tool, we have been requested by the same person that rolled out the initial directive/direction for this tool to provide specific information back from it. This is the place to house it, we need to adapt the tool to the process.
I guess in my random possibly unclear rant is 1. do not let highest level folks make the call that overrides the grunts playing cannon fodder (this ain’t the military people!) 2. everything can change, find common ground work to be successful not just to cover your ass.
And lastly HP is going to save this Hemi.
Demon
Some scope creep “Change in Needs”
I just sat through a meeting to go over an event that could impacted my Saturday morning severely. As it worked out, I was awake for an hour or so of work and did have some trouble going back to sleep.
The reason I am blogging about this is more to the point of, like the title, when does one “understand the risk?”
This restaurant is notorious of bad food and it will make you sick… do you continue to eat there on the chance you will be vomiting for a day or two?
Moving the majority of your network traffic coming in to your company from this set of devices into this set of devices… and it may stop flowing.
Touching this set of servers could in fact bring down an indeterminate portion of your revenue generating website, and we don’t have a means to most likely bring them back.
Risk Assessment and Capacity Planning are seriously freaking important, how do you do it properly? What point do you communicate to, prepare for, and expect the worst from, and for how long is it supposed to do this specific function for?
Another thing, if you’re pitched in the battle of whatever it is your doing and things aren’t looking right when do you stop? When do you push back and say I can’t hit this deadline for this reason? And what solutions do you offer? Or how do you handle when the trigger is pulled and something goes horribly wrong that you’ve laid out in writing, or what happens if you haven’t?
Why are we so happy to hang someone out to dry saying “Hey I caught the bastard!”
Awesomeness incarnate!
~Demon