I wonder if the problem with the pullups is that one team measured them in inches and the offshore team measured them in centimeters?
(before you reply, yes, I'm kidding. I know perfectly well about pullups and i2c; but was just having a bit of fun, here. I'm too fat, myself, to do ANY pullups, these days, but that's for another thread, another day...)
speaking as someone who specialized in snmp for over 25 years and who works for a whos-who of netmgt and networking companies, snmp is mostly DEAD for hiring. its all done in india and china, now (and very VERY poorly, too, I might add).
I made a living being really good at mibs and snmp - but there is no pay in it anymore, no one in the US hires for this and its all commodity 'good enough for the stupid customer' stuff. customers don't push hard enough for snmp/mib quality and vendors staff with the most entry level garbage programmers (sorry if the truth hurts) and so you get what you get. crap.
I hate having to say this as I invested many years in being an expert in my field; but the bottom dropped out and there's no resurge in this field that I can see.
I can't speak to the other 'languages' but I found it funny to see asn.1 listed. it did, once, make a very nice living for me and got me quite a lot of opps in great companies; but after about 10 yrs ago, things pretty much dried up here in the US (for netmgt) and its all outsourced to the lowest bidder, now.
shit, you can even do snmpwalks on some cisco boxes, juniper boxes (etc) and find glaring bugs, cycles (loops; should never happen in a treewalk!), data type errors and laughable encodings (yeah, sure, store floating points as strings. if you have to ask, you clearly don't get it). and no one cares anymore, either!;(
yes, and flac means the data rate is higher so you have to fetch more data from the media into memory and then spool out audio from memory.
with mp3, you get a bigger compression ratio so you fetch once and then spool out, say, 10x before the next i/o seek and read.
finally, mp3 is now in pure hardware so needs no cpu time at all. flac never had full hardware support. wav, yes; but you have to expand flac to wav and that needs cpu.
I just tested a friend's android samsung g5 with usb/audio dongle out and flac players. it truly did play back 24bit 96k audio that I gave him as a flac file. just get an OTG cable and a usb/uadio (uac1 prefer but maybe someday they'll all support uac 'event' style protocol) and a good flac player app.
no reason to carry a music player anymore if you have a phone. and more phones are starting to support usb OTG and that opens up the usb/audio dongle market to them..
sony can't be trusted to build electronics anymore. they are more chinese than japanese, these days (if you get my drift) and their caps are as fake as any ebayer's from china. they'll last a year, then blow and then the unit will need new low ESR caps again. if you do the fix, it will probably last years after that, but sony has taken a nosedive like all the rest of the cheap no-name china vendors.
30 yrs ago sony was GOOD. even great. now, they are the most hated company to many of us (tech wise) and I'll never buy a sony finished product as long as I can help it.
haswell brought amazing power savings, and for the first time, I was able to build a truly fanless/silent i7 system.
that was a game-changer for me. nice HTPC (also doubles as a linux build server) that will handle any video I throw at it, even ones that hardware decoders have trouble with.
my last 2 system builds were fanless: one was haswell i3 and the other was the amazin haswell i7-4790t (tray only - very hard to find) 45w (!!) cpu. with a decent heatpipe case, its my first truly silent, fanless i7 system. I love it! builds linux kernels (make -j9) in less time than it takes to write this post;)
the i3 is a 35w cpu and pretty amazing on its own, but the fanless i7 (mini-itx board, btw) is really something else!
only down-side is that intel farked up usb in some way so that my 24/192 uac2 audio dongle no longer works (stutters in both linux and win7 so its not a driver or dongle issue but something intel did really wrong on their usb system).
nope, sorry. won't ever take a job like that unless I'm 6mos late with the rent and have no other option.
try to control me to that level and you will fail. and you won't get anyone worth having, either, as only sheep will put up with such treatment.
modern life means that personal stuff 'happens' and it happens while at 9-5, too. to say 'no' to this is rude and inconsiderate and I want NO PART of any boss or company that disrespects me to that level.
tl;dr; show-stopper. I won't take a job like that and neither should anyone, here.
people are NOT saying 'enough' ! they should, but they are sheeply accepting everything that is told to them and forced upon them.
its some of us geeks that object; but we are a tiny minority, pretty much entirely powerless in this world (where it counts).
the UK folks are not pushing back at all, from what I can tell. but then, the US and canadians aren't doing much in that direction, either. the difference is that, in the US, we do have a formal set of laws that allow free speech. many other countries don't have that on their laws.
also the same nation that gave us The Prisoner (tv series). interestingly, one of the episodes was about 'anti social behavior' and how number six was shunned by the village when he didn't play by their rules.
the UK seems obsessed with 'anti-social behavior' problems. ie, they INSIST you be social (huh??)
I'm over 50 and I block sms on my cellphone. more often than not, its junk/spam and I hate having my phone beep or vibrate only to find out it was not a call or email but some stupid texter.
texting is for teenage girls. and I'm not that. nuff said.
email me. email works. don't IM me! don't text me. just email me. we all know how to use email and email is much more spam-proof than voice (these days) or texting. and email is fast enough so that you don't really need IM (I never understood what the draw of IM was; seems like yet another client to have to install, secure and search for incoming messages).
where will it all end, though? this does not, as they say, 'scale well'.
suppose everyone who offers inet service wants to do the DPI redirect shit on you? "you cant get to this website unless you take our survey. what was the last car you bought? how much do you make? etc etc."
I understand the free access portals even though I think its still a bad idea to have people 'login' to a free service. but this is your HOME service that you are now being filtered at, unless you 'respond' to this or that question of the day.
that's unacceptable.
it breaks automation (curl, wget, scripts) and sets a really bad precedent, overall.
it reminds me of the traffic stops they have on holidays in the US. they stop every 'n' random car and give the driver a hassle, hoping to fish for something to arrest him on. this is really against the constitution (I realize the article is about UK but I'm not in the UK) and yet, we have let it pass 'for the good of the people' (deep sigh).
same with this: its intrusive and a common carrier should just transport ip packets and nothing else! no filtering, no redirecting, no private local dns maps, no SYN resets, no dpi and no bullshit. just carry my packets - that's ALL we want from you.
how am I supposed to 'decide' when the site I WENT TO is not the site I was DELIVERED TO?
this is why ssl and vpns are the way of the future. letting the isp see what you do is never good. NEVER.
"but I'm just going to xyz site? whats' the big deal?"
if you have to ask, you will never understand. just trust us, if you don't get it: the spying will only get worse unless we go fully encrypted END TO END.
at this point, I would not trust any US TLA as far as I could throw them. they are all rotton to the core (or is that, corp?).
they have their own sets of laws, their own agendas, cannot be monitored by the citizens, have private budgets that we can't see (entirely) and, again, they are all above the law. they convince themselves that they are fighting the good fight, but power corrupts and they have too much power to be trusted.
the fbi says this or says that- yeah, right. they say things for their own reasons. this is not to be confused with The Truth.
I wish this was not the case. it would be so nice if we could trust our own enforcers. but as we have seen over the last few decades, they are as trustworthy as the thieves and bandits they are supposedly trying to stop.
its at the point where I can't tell the bad guys from the really bad guys;(
but I'll never take the fbi (or cia, or nsa) word at face value. its like a salesman: how do you tell they are lying? their lips are moving.
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the current NSA is an imoral, ILLEGAL, unamerican organization.
I see nothing at all wrong with actively trying to avoid them and their illegal unconstitutional spying.
demanding privacy != 'guilty of something'
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(wrong thread?)
I wonder if the problem with the pullups is that one team measured them in inches and the offshore team measured them in centimeters?
(before you reply, yes, I'm kidding. I know perfectly well about pullups and i2c; but was just having a bit of fun, here. I'm too fat, myself, to do ANY pullups, these days, but that's for another thread, another day...)
and DIBOL and BLISS.
all from good old DEC.
(rip)
speaking as someone who specialized in snmp for over 25 years and who works for a whos-who of netmgt and networking companies, snmp is mostly DEAD for hiring. its all done in india and china, now (and very VERY poorly, too, I might add).
I made a living being really good at mibs and snmp - but there is no pay in it anymore, no one in the US hires for this and its all commodity 'good enough for the stupid customer' stuff. customers don't push hard enough for snmp/mib quality and vendors staff with the most entry level garbage programmers (sorry if the truth hurts) and so you get what you get. crap.
I hate having to say this as I invested many years in being an expert in my field; but the bottom dropped out and there's no resurge in this field that I can see.
I can't speak to the other 'languages' but I found it funny to see asn.1 listed. it did, once, make a very nice living for me and got me quite a lot of opps in great companies; but after about 10 yrs ago, things pretty much dried up here in the US (for netmgt) and its all outsourced to the lowest bidder, now.
shit, you can even do snmpwalks on some cisco boxes, juniper boxes (etc) and find glaring bugs, cycles (loops; should never happen in a treewalk!), data type errors and laughable encodings (yeah, sure, store floating points as strings. if you have to ask, you clearly don't get it). and no one cares anymore, either! ;(
45watts and this case make it 100% proper and clean:
http://www.amazon.com/Streacom...
not a hack. proper install with more than enough heatsinking.
check it out!
yes, and flac means the data rate is higher so you have to fetch more data from the media into memory and then spool out audio from memory.
with mp3, you get a bigger compression ratio so you fetch once and then spool out, say, 10x before the next i/o seek and read.
finally, mp3 is now in pure hardware so needs no cpu time at all. flac never had full hardware support. wav, yes; but you have to expand flac to wav and that needs cpu.
there is zero market for this.
I just tested a friend's android samsung g5 with usb/audio dongle out and flac players. it truly did play back 24bit 96k audio that I gave him as a flac file. just get an OTG cable and a usb/uadio (uac1 prefer but maybe someday they'll all support uac 'event' style protocol) and a good flac player app.
no reason to carry a music player anymore if you have a phone. and more phones are starting to support usb OTG and that opens up the usb/audio dongle market to them..
sony can't be trusted to build electronics anymore. they are more chinese than japanese, these days (if you get my drift) and their caps are as fake as any ebayer's from china. they'll last a year, then blow and then the unit will need new low ESR caps again. if you do the fix, it will probably last years after that, but sony has taken a nosedive like all the rest of the cheap no-name china vendors.
30 yrs ago sony was GOOD. even great. now, they are the most hated company to many of us (tech wise) and I'll never buy a sony finished product as long as I can help it.
haswell brought amazing power savings, and for the first time, I was able to build a truly fanless/silent i7 system.
that was a game-changer for me. nice HTPC (also doubles as a linux build server) that will handle any video I throw at it, even ones that hardware decoders have trouble with.
35w i3 and 45w i7 chips are a big step forward.
my last 2 system builds were fanless: one was haswell i3 and the other was the amazin haswell i7-4790t (tray only - very hard to find) 45w (!!) cpu. with a decent heatpipe case, its my first truly silent, fanless i7 system. I love it! builds linux kernels (make -j9) in less time than it takes to write this post ;)
the i3 is a 35w cpu and pretty amazing on its own, but the fanless i7 (mini-itx board, btw) is really something else!
only down-side is that intel farked up usb in some way so that my 24/192 uac2 audio dongle no longer works (stutters in both linux and win7 so its not a driver or dongle issue but something intel did really wrong on their usb system).
they really should have been more careful. see, the phone cops are real. they've always been real.
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I failed the portion of AC current theory when I went for my motor radio license.
really gives new meaning to the ID string "this is whiskey alpha two, alpha bravo, mobile 6, over."
nope, sorry. won't ever take a job like that unless I'm 6mos late with the rent and have no other option.
try to control me to that level and you will fail. and you won't get anyone worth having, either, as only sheep will put up with such treatment.
modern life means that personal stuff 'happens' and it happens while at 9-5, too. to say 'no' to this is rude and inconsiderate and I want NO PART of any boss or company that disrespects me to that level.
tl;dr; show-stopper. I won't take a job like that and neither should anyone, here.
'electric pencil' for me, please.
GOML
POTS didn't do it.
they are really such a twisted pair, they are; but they didn't do this hack.
and for extra security, I use write-only high level languages, such as C++ ....
people are NOT saying 'enough' ! they should, but they are sheeply accepting everything that is told to them and forced upon them.
its some of us geeks that object; but we are a tiny minority, pretty much entirely powerless in this world (where it counts).
the UK folks are not pushing back at all, from what I can tell. but then, the US and canadians aren't doing much in that direction, either. the difference is that, in the US, we do have a formal set of laws that allow free speech. many other countries don't have that on their laws.
also the same nation that gave us The Prisoner (tv series). interestingly, one of the episodes was about 'anti social behavior' and how number six was shunned by the village when he didn't play by their rules.
the UK seems obsessed with 'anti-social behavior' problems. ie, they INSIST you be social (huh??)
I'm over 50 and I block sms on my cellphone. more often than not, its junk/spam and I hate having my phone beep or vibrate only to find out it was not a call or email but some stupid texter.
texting is for teenage girls. and I'm not that. nuff said.
email me. email works. don't IM me! don't text me. just email me. we all know how to use email and email is much more spam-proof than voice (these days) or texting. and email is fast enough so that you don't really need IM (I never understood what the draw of IM was; seems like yet another client to have to install, secure and search for incoming messages).
where will it all end, though? this does not, as they say, 'scale well'.
suppose everyone who offers inet service wants to do the DPI redirect shit on you? "you cant get to this website unless you take our survey. what was the last car you bought? how much do you make? etc etc."
I understand the free access portals even though I think its still a bad idea to have people 'login' to a free service. but this is your HOME service that you are now being filtered at, unless you 'respond' to this or that question of the day.
that's unacceptable.
it breaks automation (curl, wget, scripts) and sets a really bad precedent, overall.
it reminds me of the traffic stops they have on holidays in the US. they stop every 'n' random car and give the driver a hassle, hoping to fish for something to arrest him on. this is really against the constitution (I realize the article is about UK but I'm not in the UK) and yet, we have let it pass 'for the good of the people' (deep sigh).
same with this: its intrusive and a common carrier should just transport ip packets and nothing else! no filtering, no redirecting, no private local dns maps, no SYN resets, no dpi and no bullshit. just carry my packets - that's ALL we want from you.
better filter out all bible sites, then. there is a lot of extreme violence (much of it by our so-called loving god!) in the OT.
how is my robot going to make a decision??
suppose I am doing curl or wget?
how am I supposed to 'decide' when the site I WENT TO is not the site I was DELIVERED TO?
this is why ssl and vpns are the way of the future. letting the isp see what you do is never good. NEVER.
"but I'm just going to xyz site? whats' the big deal?"
if you have to ask, you will never understand. just trust us, if you don't get it: the spying will only get worse unless we go fully encrypted END TO END.
its a multiply-sourced denial of service.
ie, MS-DOS.
north korea failed the Genuine Advantage test and their WAN is in hobble-mode until they buy a non-hacked license key.
credibility of a US TLA?
hang on...
A HAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHAH
(wait, you were serious??)
at this point, I would not trust any US TLA as far as I could throw them. they are all rotton to the core (or is that, corp?).
they have their own sets of laws, their own agendas, cannot be monitored by the citizens, have private budgets that we can't see (entirely) and, again, they are all above the law. they convince themselves that they are fighting the good fight, but power corrupts and they have too much power to be trusted.
the fbi says this or says that- yeah, right. they say things for their own reasons. this is not to be confused with The Truth.
I wish this was not the case. it would be so nice if we could trust our own enforcers. but as we have seen over the last few decades, they are as trustworthy as the thieves and bandits they are supposedly trying to stop.
its at the point where I can't tell the bad guys from the really bad guys ;(
but I'll never take the fbi (or cia, or nsa) word at face value. its like a salesman: how do you tell they are lying? their lips are moving.