(Part 2) Best internet & telecommunications books according to redditors
We found 1,977 Reddit comments discussing the best internet & telecommunications books. We ranked the 591 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the products ranked 21-40. You can also go back to the previous section.
Is it me, or is THIS book cover slightly sinister?
http://www.amazon.com/Building-Accessible-Websites-VOICES-Clark/dp/073571150X/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1229707604&sr=8-4
Edit: I'm here from the main page as well. Googling around I found this book "The Hobbyist's Guide to the RTL-SDR: Really Cheap Software Defined Radio" on Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00KCDF1QI/
You can read it for free with a 30-day free trial of Amazon books.
It goes through everything from setup to advanced usage so I'm gonna give it a shot. Hopes it helps other people get started!
Hey there, I happen to design electronics for construction and ag equipment. Construction and ag companies generally like to use the automotive EMC standards as a baseline so I am familiar with those standards and designing for them (ISO 11452 for radiated/conducted immunity, ISO 10605 for ESD, CISPR 25 for radiated/conducted emissions, ISO 16750 vehicle battery transients, ISO 7637 vehicle transients). I think it's helpful to walk through the required tests and determine what protection you need for each.
For the purposes of this post, I will assume that your "RTD signal conditioning" block consists of some sort of op amp circuitry or similar.
ESD
A suitably sized TVS diode is my go to. I usually choose it based on the data sheet calling out that it meets a particular ESD standard that is comparable to the one I am using. However, for analog lines you need to be careful about leakage current from the TVS diodes causing error in your analog reading. Maybe that's why you have the resistors in series? I haven't seen that before. Overall, set the clamping voltage of the TVS to something higher than your analog signal voltage so that you are guaranteeing an acceptable amount of leakage current from the TVS diodes for your application.
When you lay out your board, you need to put the TVS diodes as close as possible to the connector pins. make connections between the connector pins and the TVS diode pads as wide as possible, up to the width of the pads of the smallest component pad. Do not have any traces routed to your connector pins in between the connector and the TVS diode. You want the easiest path for ESD to go is directly to the TVS and shunted back out onto the cable connection. Any traces that need to be connected to the connector pins should be routed to the TVS pads. This is absolutely critical for passing the packaging and handling ESD test where the unit is unpowered and they hit the connector pins directly with +/-8kV.
Now, one more thing about ESD. You will likely have to pass a test where the unit is powered and ESD (+/-8kV direct, +/-15kV air typically) is applied to your device. Zaps are applied to locations that could touched when the unit is plugged in and powered. So, no TVS is really going to help you here because your connector pins are likely not exposed (since the connector is plugged into something else). The path for ESD to your board is not through the connector and thus you need to protect the board in other ways. This is where you need to either (a) ensure that any zaps applied to your electronics go around them and straight to ground (e.g. a grounded, metal housing) or (b) ensure that you have no exposed metal subject to the ESD test that is within 15-20mm of your electronics (use mechanical design to ensure nothing an be zapped that will be able to jump to your board). Why 15-20mm? Well, the dielectric strength of air is about 1kV/mm. With 15-20mm, you are ensuring that you have at least 15-20kV of isolation between the ESD gun and your board. Consequently, there is no path for ESD in that case. If you can't do that, then you are down to changing materials, adding shields, using "tortured path" mechanical design, or just simply having to deal with ESD on your board and the effects of that (bad!).
Immunity (i.e. protecting against injected noise)
Here you're likely looking protecting against noise at frequency ranges in the 1MHz to possibly 3GHz range. It depends on the company you are designing for usually. However, this is where you usually want to start off with a pi filter (cap - ferrite - cap) right after your TVS diode. A good bet is something like a 0.1uF cap - ferrite - 0.1uF cap. Whatever you do, you want to try and filter in the frequency range where the test will be done. One caveat here is that there are some standards (ISO 11452-4) where there is a bulk current injection test. It's a lot to get into, but generally you need to take special care in passing a BCI test if it is required.
Emissions
You have two circuit defenses against emissions. The first and best is to have ample decoupling and bulk capacitance on your board. Conduction emissions is a result of your board not having enough local charge storage and thus pulling high frequency currents across your power cables. This can also lead to radiated emissions. Two things are critical in providing this local storage. (a) You can't have too many bulk caps. Use many and ensure they are sprinkled about your board so that no IC is more than say 1-5mm away from bulk capacitance. (b) Decoupling caps need to be placed as close as possible to the VCC pins of each IC. 0.1uF is a good starting point. Keep traces very very short. Keep vias to ground and power planes directly off of the side of the cap, as close as possible to each other to keep the loop areas small. The more you do this, the more effective they will be. Multiple vias for each connection to the power and ground planes can be used to increase performance too.
The second circuit defense for emissions is the pi filter from the Immunity section above. That will help filter remaining emissions before it reaches the cables and outside world where emissions are measured. Conducted emissions is typically around 150kHz to 100MHz. Radiated emissions is typically higher, about 200MHz to 3GHz.
Board Layout
This is where EMC performance is made or lost. You need to be a complete stickler about your board layouts. Don't settle for bad practices in layout because they will be the thing that kills your EMC performance. I've mentioned a few layout related things already, but here's a couple more.
These are the types of things you really want to take care about if you are serious about designing high quality boards for automotive. Henry Ott's book is a great resource that I feel can greatly help explain the above comments in much better detail than I can here.
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Good luck! Let me know if you have questions.
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cover of the book
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/073571150X.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg
Review his book! http://www.amazon.com/Building-Accessible-Websites-VOICES-Clark/dp/073571150X/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1229616758&sr=8-2
As someone else said - don't spend $900 on this. There's nothing you can't learn through the internet.
I started with the SEOMoz Beginner's Guide - it's lenghty, but free, and after reading it you should have a solid understanding of where to go through there.
I also own The Art of SEO which might be good if you want to get serious about it and have a reference on hand.
I read Search Engine Land daily and check the SEOMoz blog regularly. There are plenty of good news sources, which are important to keep up on as things change so quickly. Those are the two I read most often.
Knowing the basics of HTML, PHP, hosting and such will also help you in SEO; and there's CodeAcademy and Youtube for that. I'm assuming you are familiar with HTML but if you aren't it's easy to learn. PHP and SQL is good if you're looking to get more advanced but you can do without.
If you want to send me the link to the website I can make some broad recommendations. Most importantly, have a goal. Is it e-commerce - you want someone to buy something - or articles that you're generating ad traffic on? SEO is marketing, so understand what you're selling and who you're selling to.
Best of luck - I got into this about 2 years ago; I'm a marketer and SEO is there; but I'm hoping to use it to eventually reach a management/director position down the line.
I followed the rabbit-hole a bit, and landed at this book: https://www.amazon.com/Practical-Cryptography-Niels-Ferguson/dp/0471223573/
In which "double SHA-256" is discussed as a way to prevent attacks on SHA-256 from affecting your hashing algorithm. There's a known advantage to running multiple rounds of a hashing or encrypting algorithm (see
bcryptwhich is recommended for multi-round hashing of passwords for storage in a database).There are also semaphores which are the beginnings of telegraphy that eventually evolved into the internet. Here’s a book about our first telegram president, who was much better than our Twitter president. And here’s a book with the history of telegraphy comparing it to the modern internet. But it all started with flags as letters. Fun fact, semaphores are also a thing in programming. It’s flags all the way down.
>Just give it a read and let me know what you think. Thanks
sure, have an upvote and a real reply: I think the Forbes article makes a bunch of big, ideological claims that I simply don't agree with, such as
> The U.S. government has shown time after time that it is ineffective at managing much of anything.
I don't want to get into a big debate overall about liberalism versus libertarianism, so I'll just say that a comment like this is flamebait which is going to rile up people who disagree, and get those who agree nodding their heads. So, we should should instead try to focus on very specific things. I think this article does a very bad job of that, to me it reads basically "private industry good [citations needed], government bad [citations needed]." If we look at what we have in other utility industries (I work in Power) -- power is mostly a confederation of regional monopolies which have been very tightly regulated. I think in 2018 internet access is more like a utility than it is like television, and I think that model might work to some extent. Now we're in an era of that regulatory grip loosening in the power sector, and there is certainly interesting innovation happening as a result, but, two key thoughts there:
> If the telecoms are forced to compete in a truly free market, Comcast and Time Warner won’t exist 10 years from now. They’ll be replaced by options that give us better service at a lower price.
Again, huge red flag and citations needed from where I sit; the existing entrenched telecomms in many cases own the lines and the copper right down to the last mile. Disrupting that is not going to be as "easy" as disrupting the cab industry or something.
I am equally dismissive of the second article because the author very clearly states that they're not a subject matter expert and then makes a bunch of dubious claims. Comparisons to the early days of the internet do not hold water for me; I was online through a VAX server in 1991, it was a completely different landscape, it was mostly limited to military and academic use and had almost no utility to the average person. Also, the internet was (and still is) a government weapons project. That's tangential, but this book is pretty good because it paints the whole mythology of the internet in a very different light and makes a strong case that at its core it's a surveillance system for government and corporate interests: https://www.amazon.com/Surveillance-Valley-Military-History-Internet/dp/1610398025
The article suggests that there is zero middle ground by which we could have basic neutrality ensured and also allow, for instance, T-Mobile's Binge On to be legal. That's much too black and white, so it strikes me as either naive or willfully obtuse.
Okay, I read your articles end to end, here are a couple I would offer:
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/11/the-conservative-case-for-net-neutrality/382650/
https://www.ft.com/content/1a421e0a-b4d7-11e8-b3ef-799c8613f4a1
Just my .02 as someone who requires broadband to eat.
First of all, for any software development questions you may have, I suggest you post your questions on Stackoverflow because the people there will surely provide you with answers.
Now, for a list of books I recommend:
JavaScript
JavaScript: The Definitive Guide; if you're new to JS, start with this one.
JavaScript: The Good Parts; not a beginner's book, but a must-read if you are going to use JS
If you are going to be using JS, you will most probably be developing using a framework, and for that I seriously recommend mastering jQuery because as they say, you will write less and do more!
CSS
CSS Mastery: Advanced Web Standards Solutions
Web Usability
Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability; the book that shows the users' perspective when viewing a website
Performance
High Performance Web Sites: Essential Knowledge for Front-End Engineers and Even Faster Web Sites: Performance Best Practices for Web Developers;if you want to get serious about performance for your websites
I'll let you guess the lookalike...
http://www.amazon.com/Building-Accessible-Websites-VOICES-Clark/dp/073571150X
Aside from the books others mentioned, I wanted to also suggest one that recently came out: "Serious Cryptography" by Jean-Philippe Aumasson. What I like about this book is that it focuses on teaching crypto via programming practical implementations. So if you like coding and learning by example I highly recommend it.
Link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1593278268/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_RSWKAbQZMK4FV
This isn't new. I witness the same behavior on newsgroups before the Web even existed (well, it existed, but its whole contents could be listed in a book). It is partly the anonimity, but mostly the fact that there are additional "filters" to the conversation. This also happens with phone conversations, or by writing letters: people could say things using these they would not in a face-to-face conversation. The distance created by the media lowers inhibitions.
lol, not even fox news is pinned as "state funded". youtube is obviously partial towards US propaganda.
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as is expected.
https://www.amazon.com/Surveillance-Valley-Military-History-Internet/dp/1610398025
Javascript: The Definitive Guide
is a great book concerning Javascript FWIW
He has been a fraud since day one.
This is really surprising because he has been a part of at-least 2 nanodegree programs with Udacity for around 3 years.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0316380504/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_B6DUzbMW4VQGM
Here is a book that will show you just all the little ways this aggregate data can drive your life without your knowledge OR consent. You're sounding mighty ignorant on the subject so brush up, buttercup.
I think the guaranteed admission to the other programs is the real seller here, not the content. And they know it.
I also found the guy obnoxious and his tendency to call himself a "YouTube star" is a red flag to me. He gives me the impression of tending towards fluff. Reviews of his book:
https://www.amazon.com/Decentralized-Applications-Harnessing-Blockchain-Technology/dp/1491924543
Despite all that, I am still considering enrolling because of the guaranteed admission to the other programs. Now whether those other programs are any good, I don't know.
A part of me is really skeptical that they can produce a job-worth autonomous vehicles engineer in a year. Perhaps a sort of technician maybe at best.
Georgia Weidman's book covers just about every topic in the OSCP (Writing a basic buffer overflow exploit, exploit modification, enumeration/privilege escalation, etc).
Penetration Testing: A Hands-On Introduction to Hacking by Georgia Weidman http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00KME7GN8/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_udp_awd_H9KIwbNSZC22M
Good question. Iterative hashing in the hope of finding a short cycle actually has a name: the "rho method". It's called this because the lowercase greek letter rho (ρ) has the shape of a detected cycle. The idea is that if you find such a cycle, it means you have found a collision in the hash function (the value before you entered the cycle and the last value in the cycle both hash to the first value in the cycle).
A memory-efficient algorithm to search for these cycles is the "tortoise and the hare" algorithm:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cycle_detection#Floyd.27s_Tortoise_and_Hare
The algorithm involves keeping two values and double-hashing one (the hare) and single-hashing the other (the tortoise). If the tortoise is ever the same as the hare then you've found a cycle.
The rho method has several applications, but in the context of cryptography there is a very accessible description in this recently published book: https://www.amazon.com/Serious-Cryptography-Practical-Introduction-Encryption/dp/1593278268/
No question, W. Richard Stevens' books on the protocols and the implementation were the definitive works.
I haven't gone back to them recently to see how they've aged, but much of what I know about TCP/IP, I learned from those books. (I was tasked with switching over the internal communications on a large telecom system from a proprietary protocol to TCP/IP - again, I'm talking about the communications between boards in the system, not outside to switching centers and COs.)
Unfortunately, Vol. 3 pre-dated HTTPS (and SSL in general), too bad, I'm sure if he were still alive, Stevens would have done that topic justice.
Email service Lavabit abruptly shut down citing government interference
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/aug/08/lavabit-email-shut-down-edward-snowden
Snowden's email provider, Lavabit, shutters citing legal pressure
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2046261/snowdens-email-provider-lavabit-shutters-citing-legal-pressure.html
THE N.S.A. AND ITS TARGETS: LAVABIT SHUTS DOWN
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/closeread/2013/08/the-nsa-and-its-targets-lavabit-shuts-down.html
JJ Luna writes:
"If the feds every go after you: No email you've ever sent will be secure. No previous cell phone numbers (in or out) will remain hidden. If you carry a smartphone, any remaining shred of privacy will disappear."
http://www.jjluna.com/myblog
http://jjluna.com/Questions
http://www.amazon.com/How-Be-Invisible-Protect-Children/dp/1250010454/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1376021399&sr=8-1&keywords=how+to+be+invisible
"I have been forced to make a difficult decision: to become complicit in crimes against the American people or walk away from nearly ten years of hard work by shutting down Lavabit. After significant soul searching, I have decided to suspend operations. I wish that I could legally share with you the events that led to my decision. I cannot. I feel you deserve to know what’s going on--the first amendment is supposed to guarantee me the freedom to speak out in situations like this. Unfortunately, Congress has passed laws that say otherwise. As things currently stand, I cannot share my experiences over the last six weeks, even though I have twice made the appropriate requests.
What’s going to happen now? We’ve already started preparing the paperwork needed to continue to fight for the Constitution in the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. A favorable decision would allow me resurrect Lavabit as an American company.
This experience has taught me one very important lesson: without congressional action or a strong judicial precedent, I would strongly recommend against anyone trusting their private data to a company with physical ties to the United States.
Sincerely,
Ladar Levison
Owner and Operator, Lavabit LLC"
http://lavabit.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavabit
Encrypted email service used by Snowden mysteriously shuts down
http://rt.com/usa/lavabit-email-snowden-statement-247/
No domestic spying? How NSA collects Americans' cross-border emails
http://rt.com/usa/nsa-snowden-xkeyscore-overcollection-235/
Chinese media on Snowden: Washington 'ate the dirt' this time
http://rt.com/news/china-us-obama-media-233/
I strongly recommended The Well Grounded Rubyist
This gives you a great foundation, it's extremely well written and a nice reference to go back to.
I also recommend Practical Object Oriented Design in Ruby
This book is just amazing. If you're new to object oriented programming, and even if you have a bit of experience, this is going to improve your skills dramatically.
Good luck!
https://www.amazon.com/Sound-Reproduction-Psychoacoustics-Loudspeakers-Engineering/dp/113892136X/ref=sr_1_6?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1511848230&sr=1-6&keywords=audio+engineering
I can't recommend that book enough. It will give you a great overview over the services the kernel provides, design decisions and data structures.
In addition to that, these resources might also be of interest to you:
Mastering the art
These two are basically the EMC (electromagnetic compatibility) bibles.
https://www.amazon.com/Electromagnetic-Compatibility-Engineering-Henry-Ott/dp/0470189304/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1473423741&sr=8-1&keywords=henry+ott
and
https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Electromagnetic-Compatibility-Clayton-Paul/dp/0471755001/ref=pd_sim_14_2?ie=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=NH25ENV6BABM8C93TMJA
https://www.rtl-sdr.com/ is a great place to start. They also have a book that will cover much of the basics from the different radio's you can get, antennas, filters and a walk through of large amount of projects. If you want to go a bit deeper you should check out the book Field Expedient SDR: Introduction to Software Defined Radio. There are three books to that series.
As for your first SDR Nooelec NESDR Smartee bundle is a great start. Once you have an idea of what other projects you want to work on you can upgrade to something like LimeSDR (or mini) or a hackrf. I would recommend the LimeSDR Mini.
Don't be silly. The Whole Internet is a big 500+ page book! It would not fit in that hole.
Strictly speaking in terms of bang for buck, I like Robert's courses. They are Altium-centric, of course, but the concepts he teaches will apply to any tool.
http://www.fedevel.com/academy
I highly recommend one book if you don't have it in your library, Henry Ott's EMC engineering...it served as a constant reference for me in the lab:
https://www.amazon.com/Electromagnetic-Compatibility-Engineering-Henry-Ott/dp/0470189304
JS is hard, especially for people new to programming. Basically, JS as we know it today is an evolution of a browser hack that only recently became a seriously useful language. The syntax is terrible, math and numbers don't make any sense, the regex system isn't super robust, oh and it's not really an OOP language. Technically, it is multi-paradigm and includes some oop-like things and classes are on the way to browsers, but it's for naught anyway, because you don't need classes in JS - It's a prototypical inheritance based language.
If you're new to programming in general, I'd say you should start with a more sane environment, like Python. It will teach you programming concepts while railroading you into making good coding decisions. It's really common for people to start with Learn Python the Hard Way - don't. Go to /r/learnpython and search "LPTHW 31" and just count up the people struggling with it. Zed Shaw is an idiot, there are better things to read, I'd recommend watching the google IO talks, get a buddy to learn with. Honestly, I've never read a python book cover to cover, but I feel pretty comfortable with the language from just googling "How do I do X in Python" millions of times, usually if a link comes back to docs.python.org, I click that one first. The docs are wonderful, you don't need a book.
But, since JS is one of the most important languages due to it's integration with the most common form of media distribution in our time, I'd recommend reading / watching talks by Douglas Crockford. Check out Javascript: The Definitive Guide and Javascript: The Good Parts. The second one is a little easier to digest, while the first is really the definitive guide.
In both cases, I'd recommend doing the challenges on hackerrank.com.
The Rails 4 Way is excellent. It really covers everything, filling in gaps that you may have in your knowledge.
I would suggest reading this once you have a bit of rails knowledge. I've read the book over twice, and it was responsible for a surge in my rails knowledge/abilities.
I would actually suggest you make sure your understanding of Ruby is absolutely solid before you read the Rails 4 Way. It's not necessary, but I think the best way to learn Rails is to first have a full understanding of Ruby. That way, you truly understand what's going on under the hood when you're learning about various Rails features.
For Ruby, I recommend The Well-Grounded Rubyist. This is a great book, and it doesn't require you to code along with it (thought it does allow you to if you want, and it comes with sample code you can download).
America is now pretty much an intelligence agency. https://www.amazon.com/Surveillance-Valley-Military-History-Internet/dp/1610398025
To my knowledge, no one else explains it better:
https://www.amazon.com/Sound-Reproduction-Psychoacoustics-Loudspeakers-Engineering/dp/113892136X/ref=dp_ob_title_bk
Hi, I'm also an online business owner that wished to remain anonymous when I started about ten years ago. Throwaway account for hopefully obvious reasons. Like you, it's not nefarious. We sell a normal, high quality product... I just value personal privacy. A couple things have worked for me.
Method 1 was using a "Doing Business As", or DBA for short. This one's easy. Usually when you get a business license, you will have the opportunity to register any DBAs. This is usually used if your business name is, for example, Widget Holdings, LLC, but your store is called "Widgets R Us".
But you can also add whatever you want as a DBA. So you can add a personal name. This legally let me still use an assumed name while doing my business, sign contracts, add the name to a business bank account so checks to this name can be cashed, etc. without using or revealing your own name.
Method 2 is if you want a little more in-depth privacy. You can create a Limited Liability Company, or LLC, for a similar purpose. For example, you would register Sally Draper LLC in a state with lax information requirements like Wyoming, Nevada, Delaware etc. Since LLCs are often legally treated as a person, you may now use Sally Draper when opening bank accounts, owning or registering property, even signing a lease, etc. without ever revealing your name.
If you want to do this with nearly complete anonymity, you can find people in these states who will perform a unique service for you: You register the LLC, and are only required to list an agent and in-state address, which this person provides. Any official LLC mail will be directed to their address and forwarded to you, and these people will not reveal the name or information of the owner/principal(s) of these companies unless compelled by a search warrant. So if you aren't concerned about the law, this is golden. Usually costs a couple-to-a-few hundred a year. If you want more guidance, How To Be Invisible is an excellent resource for this and a great many more aspects of remaining private in situations like yours.
Just one word of caution from my own experience using an assumed name: First, my thing really took off and despite my caution, locals eventually found out about my business, including people who knew my real name. Out of the blue, a well-known local magazine reached out to do a write-up. Now, do I use my business name and confuse people who know me? Or use my real name and compromise my setup? I chose to stick with my DBA since it was professional, but either path leads to some confusion.
Also don't let customers do local pickups! Drop off or make 'em pay shipping. Locally, it's not that expensive.
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I'm just finishing up a book now called The Well-Grounded Rubyist. This is one of the best introductory language books I've read. I'd recommend it most for someone who has some familiarity with other OO languages. Moves fast.
I'm not worried in the slightest. This book has everything you need to know to make yourself "invisible" and impossible to find if you want to be left alone by friends and family.
I'd pick up some acreage or a ranch and work towards having an amazing off grid, self sufficient lifestyle. I'd invest and make sure my children and eventual grandchildren were able to pursue their dreams and goals with no risk of ever being destitute.
I'd be content to just spend life relaxing, eating great food and creating art or music.
$1.49 and its yours for those of you curious.
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https://www.amazon.com/Whole-Internet-Users-Guide-Catalog/dp/1565920635/ref=sr_1_fkmr2_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1539048215&sr=8-1-fkmr2&keywords=the+whole+internet+1993
You can check this book : How to Be Invisible: Protect Your Home, Your Children, Your Assets, and Your Life. This book has full guides how to be anonymously for our physical and digital. There's one reviewer say that this book takes you too extremist about privacy in life, but I think you can choose the method of this book offer where you like to try or useless.
Read a book. There are many, but Sound Reproduction by Floyd E. Toole is a must read for every audio “Engineer”.
I'm reading a book: metaprogramming in ruby. Learning a lot about how ruby and rails works. Take a look.
http://www.amazon.ca/Metaprogramming-Ruby-Program-Like-Pros/dp/1941222129/ref=dp_ob_title_bk
Also ruby under a microscope: https://www.nostarch.com/rum
https://www.amazon.com/Sound-Reproduction-Psychoacoustics-Loudspeakers-Engineering/dp/113892136X/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=floyd+toole&qid=1572283051&sr=8-1
You can start there. There's decades, DECADES of science explaining the worst and best speaker qualities. And among the worst is a cabinet that adds any audible distortion to the input signal.
Metaprogramming Ruby was by far the best thing I read coming to Ruby from Python and other languages.
A copy of Metaprogramming in Ruby http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1941222129/
I've heard very good things about JavaScript: The Good Parts, but have not used it myself. I have gotten a lot of mileage out of JavaScript: The Definitive Guide... it's quite thorough.
To add to this: Practical Cryptography by Schneier and Ferguson is my top recommendation.
Nice work! Coming from python, when I started learning Ruby I was kind of miffed at the absence of something like this. However I found David Black's The Well-Grounded Rubyist to be a decent substitute.
An easy read is Kevin Mitnicks "The art of Invisibility". It goes into some shallow concepts of privacy and what you can do to stay private in an ever snooping world.
https://www.amazon.com/Art-Invisibility-Worlds-Teaches-Brother/dp/0316380504
Another book, which looks particularly at the social impact of the electric telegraph, is "The Victorian Internet", by Tom Standage.
https://www.amazon.com/Victorian-Internet-Remarkable-Nineteenth-line/dp/162040592X
I reccomend this book (also available as an audiobook)
https://www.amazon.com/Art-Invisibility-Worlds-Teaches-Brother/dp/0316380504
Serious Cryptography is a great introductory book to look at before you dive into Blockchain. Blockchain: A Practical Guide to Developing Business, Law, and Technology Solutions would be my personal recommendation once you're ready to get more specific.
If you have zero background in crypto so far, check out this crash course article. It's a really short read and I think it's an awesome starting point. If you read nothing else before getting into blockchain, at least read through that article once or twice.
http://www.amazon.in/dp/0316380504/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_kqlyzbPGDBYG3
This book covers pretty much everything you're after https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hobbyists-Guide-RTL-SDR-Software-Defined-ebook/dp/B00KCDF1QI
free PDFs are also available online https://www.surviveuk.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/The-Hobbyists-Guide-To-RTL-SDR-Carl-Laufer.pdf
btw he has an o'reilly book .... https://www.amazon.ca/Decentralized-Applications-Harnessing-Blockchain-Technology/dp/1491924543
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reviews explain it all
Seomoz guide is great for getting an overview
http://www.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-seo
The art of seo goes in to more details and gives a pretty good introduction to basic whitehat seo
http://www.amazon.com/The-Art-SEO-Eric-Enge/dp/1449304214/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&qid=1341331571&sr=8-8&keywords=Seo
Read lots of blogs. I like inbound.org, kaiserthesage.com, viperchill.com for the white/grey and Blackhatworld.com for the darker stuff. BHW has some really good ressources, but also some really clueless people, so take everything with a grain of salt. And of course frequent r/seo
This is the most comprehensive online guide I've found.
> http://billstclair.com/matrix/
Also good reads..
> How to Be Invisible by JJ Luna
> How to Disappear by Frank M. Ahearn
It is, there's sections dedicated to metrics in speaker design that have shaped how Harman designs their speakers, theory on room acoustics, etc. He has both a 3rd edition and a 1st/2nd (1st and 2nd are identical, 3rd is restructured and changed a bit while addding some).
Link to 3rd edition here [no referral]
wow... r/java is probably not the place for this, you should be in r/crypto. crypto is a big and in depth field, expect a very long learning path. Taking this and reading this will give you a start. For java, try bouncycastle and his book. We regular folk are not advised to write algorithms or protocols.
No problem at all, I'll explain.
I'm new to the forensic department mt past experience has been with areas not directly related to computers, the below is one such example of a field that contains almost no computer related content:
https://www.amazon.com/How-Be-Invisible-Protect-Children/dp/1250010454
This book is pretty much the top in the feild despite being a few years old, and metions very little (if anything) about computers.
I started with this book: https://www.amazon.com/Practical-Cryptography-Niels-Ferguson/dp/0471223573 and can't recommend it strongly enough as an entry point.
It doesn't get into the algorithms but instead the different types and modes of encryption, when you would want to use them, and why. That can serve as a nice jumping off point to more detailed research.
It's a very approachable book and you'll come out of the book knowing how to use crypto well.
Try Metaprogramming Ruby 2 -- tons of advanced technique with real-world examples from current gems. It will expand the way you think about Ruby and give you design ideas for your Rails projects: https://www.amazon.com/Metaprogramming-Ruby-Program-Like-Facets/dp/1941222129/ref=dp_ob_title_bk
I found this book really useful. It's mostly projects from the website and you have to translate some of the instructions from "I did this one time" to "how do I do this now". But it's a great intro into a lot of different project ideas.
I got the airplane tracking thing going and also read my power meter broadcasts (and my neighbors). Found a bunch of medical pagers and police/EMS freqs. Also a bunch of weird things, including a neighbor who apparently watches TV while wearing RF wireless headphones.
I had a very difficult time capturing any frequencies I found listed online. In particular, I didn't find even one Ham thing of any kind. I know the HF freqs are out of reach, but the repeaters etc should be there. Radio silence.
In that case, I'd recommend a companion text:
Controlling Conducted Emissions by Design (J Fluke)
Ott has some great books as well (the book on EMC):
Electromagnetic Compatibility Engineering
Noise Reduction Techniques in Electronic Systems
"Extending and Embedding PHP" https://www.amazon.com/dp/067232704X
It was released in 2006 and is based on PHP 5.2 so naturally a great many things have changed about the internal APIs since then. The first five chapters are solidly still relevant, and several others are usable with a pinch of salt (array APIs have changed dramatically, zvals are stored at one level of indirection less, and PHP4 objects are beyond irrelevant).
take a look at this http://kickass.to/usearch/adwords/ and http://www.amazon.com/The-Art-SEO-Eric-Enge/dp/1449304214
>>> Would you say that the majority of linux administrator jobs out there are partly plain help desk support?
No, not the majority. Help desk type support is in the "IT" or "Office sysadmin" category. You can avoid those kinds of jobs especially since they usually require windows administration skills/knowledge.
>>> Or is there something else, something more advanced where you wouldn't have to deal with ignorant users, fixing the same issues over and over again?
Most internet type companies with funding and a practical business model will have "IT sysadmins" who support office/user systems and another group (something like "operations") that handles design, infrastructure, and maintenance of backend multi-stage environments. It seems like the latter is what you're interested in.
>>> Are there any particular technical skills (related to linux) that I should focus on to make myself more appealing to the employer?
The most successful unix sysadmins I know are always learning new things. Most of them would also be classified as alcoholics, but that's a different question for later on in your career.
Everything you ever wanted to know about cryptography (but not necessarily all cryptographic algorithms) is in Practical Cryptography. If that doesn't fill your cup, then put on your big-boy pants and dive into Applied Cryptography. You will note that Brian Schneier is a common author between those two books. There is a reason for that. :-)
You might want to take a look at Sara Golemon's book on extending PHP. It might only cover a little bit of what you're looking for though. It's also near 10 years old now which makes it likely that a major city library might have a copy.
The Victorian Internet (user review excerpt):
> The parallels between the Victorian Internet and the present computerised internet are remarkable. Information about current events became relatively instantaneous (relative, that is, to the usual weeks or months that it once took to receive such information). There were skeptics who were convinced that this new mode of communication was a passing phase that would never take on (and, in a strict sense, they were right, not of course realising that the demise of the telegraph system was not due to the reinvigoration of written correspondence but due to that new invention, the telephone). There were hackers, people who tried to disrupt communications, those who tried to get on-line free illegally, and, near the end of the high age of telegraphing, a noticeable slow-down in information due to information overload (how long is this page going to take to download?? isn't such a new feeling after all).
Generally I go here if I want a good overview and operational view.
TCP, UDP.
If I want to go for the long haul and depth....I start here (I used this list as it's nice and abbreviated of what does what in RFC land). Reading through those will give you a much better idea of how things were "supposed" to work. How they work with a vendor will always be up to interpretation, but the vendors are interpreting those RFCs.
There are quite a few books on Amazon that will teach it to you as well. I honestly would consider getting them too. This, this, this, this.
There's so many good books but those should give you that deep understanding.
Some CTF’s have good cryptography challenges. picoCTFs has a few good ones
Also this book is pretty good Serious Cryptography: A Practical Introduction to Modern Encryption https://www.amazon.com/dp/1593278268/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_3cOFDb0DBDJ1N
>most legit speakers designers go by ear rather than just letting the computer do the work.
Most legit speaker designers have a ton of measurement equipment and do the math.
Yes, there is a lot of art involved, but it's principally an engineering and physics endeavor.
If you're interested in what we do and don't know about loudspeaker design and what makes a good loudspeaker, this book is essential reading:
Sound Reproduction: The Acoustics and Psychoacoustics of Loudspeakers and Rooms
Learning Rails is harder without coding. I recommend Ruby books instead: Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby and The Well-Grounded Rubyist.
You have justified your logic, but, with all due respect, it is flawed. It reminds me of a joke about a scientist that taught a fly to fly on demand, and observed that when he removed it's wings, it went deaf, because it didn't fly on demand anymore!
The human brain is tricked very, very easily. In 1910, Muzak was invented: phycological based music systems! If you have any doubt on how easily the brain can be tricked, PLEASE search for audio myths on reddit and watch and listen to the videos. It will blow your mind, if you believe what you wrote. They demonstrate just how easily the brain is tricked. In fact, you can be talked into hearing things! Fact. The softwares we are speaking of, such as Sonnarworks, measures reflections on a spectral analytic basis, as well as time differences, as well as phase and inversions, natural comb filtering and much, much, much more.
It does, indeed negate the effects of the room, actually better than room treatment, in most cases, so your speakers are indeed sounding as if they are in an anechoic chamber.
>On top of that there is a frequency curve and we perceive different frequencies at different volumes.
It does take into effect the fact that human ears are most sensitive at 1000 hz and the rollouts of the human ear. For headphones, they go as far asking for you to send in your cans, as they measuring each side of YOUR headphones, for they differ, it is that accurate. Andrew Shepps ( if you into audio engineering, you know his pedigree - If you don't, you should) swears by it, as more and more engineers are, and they are in fact using it to mix now - grammy winning mixers using it and swearing by it - I'm not second guessing Schepps and his golden ears. I'm not going to challenge the incredible work Sonnarworks engineers either.
>Throw a digital room correction into the mix and you are now lying to your brain and it can no longer tell fact from fiction.
This is baseless, my friend. High end home theater has been doing this for well over decades with wondrous results, in high end home theater, I'm talking the custom stuff, a point source mic is put at every listening point in the room to correct the room. The before and after is stunning - jaw dropping. The consumer's brain doesn't 'fix it'. Even regular consumer home theater, best buy stuff, has Audyssey MultEQ XT32, LFC, Sub EQ HT, Dynamic Volume and Dynamic EQ. Sonnarworks has taken it to pro level.
>our brain can perceive this room correction and correct for it in the mixing process, because at least your brain is hearing the truth
Our brains lie to us, our brains lie to us every day, for it tries to quickly piece together bits of sounds, and sights, for that matter, and quickly try to come up with something that makes sense. i.e. the man on the moon syndrome: our brains try to do it's best to create a whole picture out of pieces. It does the same to audio. I'm sure you've seen optical illusions. They work extraordinarily well! Sonic illusions do too!
>Your brain can perceive this room correction and correct for it in the mixing process, because at least your brain is hearing the truth.
Now we're getting ridiculous. If this were true, than why do all, as in every one, without exception, of the best mixing and mastering engineers treat their rooms? Because their brains cannot decode the complex array of waves bouncing all over a room.
>Throw a digital room correction into the mix and you are now lying to your brain and it can no longer tell fact from fiction.
Where are you getting this from? You just pulled the wings off the fly! I'm not sure if you can tell fact from fiction, as you are writing baseless fiction, posting it as fact. Are you Trump???
>Digitally correcting a room is imperfect and leads to worse results than the original uncorrected signal.
This is America, you are certainly entitled to your own opinions, but nobody is entitled to their own facts.
I mean no disrespect, but you are misguiding the OP with baseless nonsense. If I understand you right, your point is, the more you do to correct for ones room's imperfections, the worse sound you are going to get. by extension of that theorem, no room should be treated in any way, physically or electronically.
Look, I'm usually a really nice, helpful guy on Reddit. I rarely will call someone out. But your uneducated statements are wrong, on many levels. They are baseless, incorrect, misguiding and it's not a very nice thing to do to the OP and others who might think what you are posting is fact. At least the first poster started his post with, "this is simply my observation.....".
Now I'll give you that the brain can 'learn' headphones or speakers, and even a room, (to a very small degree if at all). You can only to an extent on, all of them. The issue is, we are never finished learning them....ever. That's why we listen to our mixes on different transducers in the studio, headphones, the car, and as many different places, because we are never sure! We never ever fully learned a pair of speakers or even a room with room treatment!
Please read the following and get back to me:.
"Nonlinear-acoustics" this is a good primer, and a freebee
“Sound Reproduction: Loudspeakers and Rooms”,Floyd E. Toole, This is a Classic
“Acoustics and Psychoacoustics”, This is advanced
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>Also tell how you hear a “resonance”
Lol. You need help bud. Best to just start here.I have the 2nd edition on PDF. Worth every penny.
Acoustic Resonances
For me, these two books are essential:
The two of them are based in Ruby.
Also, I'd watch anything by Sandi Metz, starting with All the Little Things.
That for OOP, but for grasping Ruby the best book I've followed so far is The Well-Grounded Rubyist by David A. Black.
Two books that helped me get to another level were:
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If you like books and are interested in modern cryptography, "Serious Cryptography" was excellent. A more introductory text with historical context is "The Code Book".
Yeah, I updated my post with a an online streaming service. If you're already familiar with radio and just need to bridge the software gap, I recommend this book:
https://www.amazon.com/Hobbyists-Guide-RTL-SDR-Software-Defined-ebook/dp/B00KCDF1QI
Also, one thing I have prepped on is bringing back cellular service. If you have an OpenBTS tranciever station backed to a working PBX, you can restore cell service for a small area (1/4 mile) using minimal equipment.
Cell towers won't last beyond 2-3 hours without power. I know from experience: I was in the 2011 Southwest Blackout. The backup power failed on most of the towers within 3 hours. It was a complete grid-down situation for 13 hours for my area. Nothing worked (not even the water or gas)... except my old dial up modem which had backup power ;). My local grocery store got fully cleaned and looted within the first 4 hours. Traffic completely ground to a halt. I mean a complete halt. We didn't move even 2 ft for an hour, and we chose to abandon our car like everyone else and walk a couple miles back to my house (which we just left from). There were other problems too:
>The outage caused significant losses to restaurants and grocery stores, which were forced to discard quantities of spoiled food; perishable food losses at grocery stores, eating establishments and households were estimated at $12 million to $18 million.[14] The outage also caused some sewage pumping stations to fail, resulting in contaminated beaches and potentially unsafe water supplies in several areas.[15] As a precaution, in some neighborhoods, residents were told to boil their water or use bottled water for several days after the outage.[16] Due to the failure at the sewage pumping stations, diesel generators have been installed at five pumping stations.[17]
>The hardest hit region of the blackout, the San Diego-Tijuana metropolitan area, was essentially brought to a standstill. Surface streets became gridlocked due to the loss of traffic signals, and the San Diego skyline went dark. The San Diego Trolley system was shut down as there was no power to operate signal lights and related functions. Citizens in Tijuana and in inland areas like the Coachella Valley stayed outdoors late into the night to escape the heat.[6] Freeways in the Southern California megalopolis experienced extreme clogging, especially on the I-15 and I-5 corridors between southeastern Greater Los Angeles and the San Diego area's North County.[6]
I know a lot of people back east are like "meh, 13 hours, try 3 days." But it is completely different dealing with a blizzard where everyone is locked indoors, and a heat wave without power. Things fall apart a lot quickly when there is not extreme weather preventing people from going outside. It was like a lightswitch: Now there's infrastructure, now there isn't. I was in a blizzard about a decade ago in the PNW where the power went out for a couple days, and it was no big deal. I'd much rather be in that situation than deal with normal clear weather where the power grid, cell systems, water systems, gas systems and core networks just disappear from the map for a day. It gave a real clear view of what would happen if shit really hit the fan in a metro area. Pretty much all infrastructure will die off within a day or two, including water. Thankfully POTS is always really reliable in extended outages, and if you can find a working phone line anywhere you can jump back online and into an IRC channel or other low-bandwidth message system to get information flowing again. Land lines will usually last well over a week without power, they're usually the absolute last communication network to go down, they can be vital for getting information in and out of an area that's in crisis.
I recently read "Serious Cryptography: A Practical Introduction to Modern Cryptography"[1] and I recommend it.
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It explains the basics without going too much into the theoretical bits and proofs and even goes a bit into post-quantum stuff.
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Other than that, I really enjoyed Dan Boneh's Cryptography I course on Coursera [2]. I did not have time to do the assignments when I took it, but even just the theory is very interesting and up to date.
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[1] https://www.amazon.com/Serious-Cryptography-Practical-Introduction-Encryption/dp/1593278268/
[2] https://www.coursera.org/learn/crypto
Art of exploitation is a good book nonetheless but it could be a but hard to chew, it digs heavily in reverse engineering and binary exploitation. I don't know your skill level but for a newbie it could be overwhelming. I recommend just researching on general penetration testing like https://www.amazon.com/Penetration-Testing-Hands-Introduction-Hacking-ebook/dp/B00KME7GN8/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1492472386&sr=8-2&keywords=penetration
The Art of Invisibility: The World's Most Famous Hacker Teaches You How to Be Safe in the Age of Big Brother and Big Data
https://www.amazon.com/Art-Invisibility-Worlds-Teaches-Brother/dp/0316380504
Check out the reviews of his 2016 BlockChain book at Amazon. I'd say there's a pattern here.
"It's horrible and filled with unexplained terminology"
"The author uses Word Salad liberally, throwing around terms and marketing boilerplate, while defining very little."
"This really feels like it was rushed out to cash in on the current hype. I was very disappointed with this."
Couldn't find any reviews of the course, or school. Seems like an interesting course that moves fast and covers a lot.
Checked out reviews of his book on amazon, to find them than favorable.
Yeah, it's watermarked so I doubt very much that you'll be able to get an up to date version.
If you just want the knowledge, this book contains a lot of similar information
https://www.amazon.com/Penetration-Testing-Hands-Introduction-Hacking-ebook/dp/B00KME7GN8
This is a very good book. Much more than just the Object Model.
http://www.amazon.com/How-Be-Invisible-Protect-Children/dp/1250010454
> Man how did you get these skills
i did overthewire BANDIT series to get comfortable with linux
https://overthewire.org/wargames/bandit/
i read this book inside and out
https://www.amazon.com/Penetration-Testing-Hands-Introduction-Hacking-ebook/dp/B00KME7GN8
i consumed many walkthroughs for vulnhub boxes, reproducing them step by step until i understood why it worked
i created my own writeups for each box i did so process and method would stick
i watched a LOT of ippsec
Excellent work. Thanks for contributing to the open-source community.
As for your question about four layers vs. two: oof. That is a surprisingly complex question. Generally, I follow the rules of Henry Ott in his very useful textbook, Electromagnetic Compatibility Engineering. I can't personally say if going from four layers to two layers is going to work. My gut feeling is that it will. I just wanted to be sure when I was doing my design.
> It's the first time in human history that the ability to communicate with nearly anyone on Earth has existed
akshually
I was in your position, so I can tell you there's not a lot out there that walks a software person through radio and even less that walks a software person through ham radio. I'll share some key things that helped me:
a. GreatScottGadgets shortish overview of some basic concepts from an SDR perspective
b. A really neat website that introduces many fundamental DSP concepts
c. A free book that explains DSP in detail step by step
I see your nanogoatse and raise you a quad:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/073571150X/ref=ase_456bereastree-20/104-8806028-9414320?s=books&v=glance&n=283155&tagActionCode=456bereastree-20
The one sold by rtl-sdr.com. I bought my dongle/antenna from them as well.
Some of the chapters from this and this might be useful to you
Hi, Penetration Testing Georgia Weidman is a good read, https://www.amazon.es/Penetration-Testing-Hands-Introduction-Hacking-ebook/dp/B00KME7GN8 .
Start by reading this book:
https://www.amazon.com/Penetration-Testing-Hands-Introduction-Hacking-ebook/dp/B00KME7GN8
And do ALL exercises.
Start with this book and then try and think about privacy as a philosophy in the same way you need to think of security as a philosophy.
It is a life choice, not a bolt on accessory.
Sara's book is also an excellent one on that topic.
Javascript: The Good Parts
and
Javascript: The Definitive Guide
I use the Definitive guide as a reference book, but if you have the patience and want to learn, definitely a good read.
I'm currently going through this:
http://www.amazon.com/Head-First-HTML-CSS-XHTML/dp/059610197X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1320572247&sr=8-1
Going to do the Java one after. I'm hoping to get a web development position in OC/LA at some point in early 2012.
It's useless because it's a BA that isn't accounting. Any job you get with it isn't going to be because of your CLS degree (unless you get hired through your Field Study internship), it's going to be because of networking.
i used this to learn basics after trying w3schools
http://www.amazon.com/Head-First-HTML-CSS-XHTML/dp/059610197X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1321902275&sr=8-1
idk how o'reily is generally viewed on reddit, but as someone who had never really touched html, i thought this book was pretty good
this 1 star review is a bit apt:
>This is a book of CSS for those who can't concentrate on just one thing at a time. It's scattered, strangely organized, and filled to brimming with little notes, pictures, graphics, and comics. I hated the layout of this book and can only imagine it's for people who have to multitask, even when they're reading a book.
but hey, i learned.
I thought about the writing extensions part myself, but i think it is too much stuff to cover.
I'll probably put some reference (there is only one -decent- book anyway on the subject : Extending and Embedding PHP ), there is a couple articles on Zend.com that do a nice job on this specific subject.
Interesting that out of all of the PHP programmers out there, of which I am pretty sure that most are men, that the most prominent PHP-extension tutorials are from women?
Damn straight. I remember archie, email on vax, usenet, icq. Ah, the heady days of youth.
Somewhere at home I have a book called The Whole Internet. And yeah, it pretty much had the whole thing.
As a professional web dev, I HIGHLY recommend you start with this: http://www.amazon.com/Head-First-HTML-CSS-XHTML/dp/059610197X
You will learn WAY more from the $20 for the book, then the 1 hour of instruction that would buy you.
There's a great little book that talks about this, called The Victorian Internet. It's a history of communication, and shows a lot of parallels between the advent of the phone to today's internet (and how people were afraid the phone would be the downfall of society). But it's full of interesting stories like this.
The world of networking is huge. It's a marathon not a sprint. Huge repositories of information exist. Take your time to go through them.
Start with these -
https://www.amazon.com/TCP-Illustrated-Vol-Addison-Wesley-Professional/dp/0201633469
https://www.amazon.com/TCP-IP-Illustrated-Implementation-Vol/dp/020163354X
Use this to help supplement your studies -
https://www.amazon.com/Network-Warrior-Gary-Donahue/dp/1449387861/
As always Cisco has a ton of white papers -
http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en_us/about/security/intelligence/urpf.pdf
Free Presentations from Cisco Live -
https://www.ciscolive.com/online/connect/search.ww
If you wish to look at things from a different vendors perspective look into Juniper Day One -
http://www.juniper.net/us/en/training/jnbooks/day-one/
Finally RFCs are good place to get the nitty gritty of the protocols/standards -
OSPF
Okay, so I know it's been over three weeks since you asked, but I'm going to go ahead and answer, anyway.
I graduated with a BA in Professional and Technical Writing in May 2010. I didn't get my first job until January of this year and that required me to move across the country. There are a lot more technical writing jobs in metropolitan areas.
I don't know if you've got another career and are looking to try something different, or if you're trying to decide what to do after college. Either way, employers want experience. I was actually really lucky to get my job with no experience. They tried two other people who didn't work out so they gave me a call.
Overall, I love my job. I learn something new every day. I'm working for a software development company and I knew nothing about software development before I started here.
The work can get a little tedious at times. Also, this definitely isn't creative writing. I work on a lot of proposals for government contracts and 90% of the content is copied and pasted from previous proposals, then tweaked to meet the requirements of the new proposal.
All of WitchDr's advice is good. I'd also recommend working on your portfolio. Create a website. Write a manual for software or a product that you use.
I also think you should learn HTML. This book is awesome.
Just buy this.
My understanding is that placing the caps on the other side of the board isn't optimal, but will work, so long as you remember to keep the connections low inductance.
As for the value, it's partly determined by the frequencies you'll see in the circuit.
When considering the frequencies of the board it's best to look at periodic high frequencies, like clocks. But remember, because the clocks are "square waves" not sine waves there are a lot of higher order frequencies contained in them. Take the Fourier transform of a trapezoidal wave to see what I mean. These higher order frequencies are the ones you need to worry about.
0.1uF is good for circuits that are lower frequency, above 100MHz or so a lot of engineers will use 10nF or smaller caps for decoupling.
Check out a book on EMC for more information. [This] (http://www.amazon.com/Electromagnetic-Compatibility-Engineering-Henry-Ott/dp/0470189304/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1333128646&sr=8-1) one contains a lot of good information of board design.
Edit: One thing I think forgot to mention is that you should generally route power and ground first. If you're using planes on inner layers this is really easy, if not try to make a grid of power traces on one side and ground on the other. This is because each parallel connection you have that is far enough apart to minimize the mutual inductance will reduce the overall inductance. At it's limit this becomes a plane.
Once you have your power and ground routed then do the clocks, then the digital signals.
This does not address the issues with analog signals on the board, as they should be segregated from all digital circuitry and power supplies.
I found the headfirst series refreshing for a technical book. Pretty limited but for newbs it will do the job
http://www.amazon.com/Head-First-HTML-CSS-XHTML/dp/059610197X
Something like that.
I think you just don't understand the logic behind javascript. Maybe the auto-insert semicolon thing is annoying, but if you want to seriously use any language at the expert level you really should read a book about it. I recommend The Definitive Guide if you actually want to improve your skills. Javascript is more complicated than it seems at first. jQuery greatly helps manipulating the DOM if you are sick of browser compatibility issues.
Someone should write a book on Goatse
As a semi-new web designer myself, I can say I prefer and recommend Sitepoint for their web design books. But, beware, their books can be extremely marked up at some bookstores. Other good books I love to death are Head First Web Design and Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML.. even though the latter is a bit outdated.
Also, it's non-fiction, but maybe also
The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-line Pioneers by Tom Standage.
Yes and no. Its better in some ways in terms of security or privacy in terms of the sensible defaults you get, but its ultimately up to you to keep things secure and private. There are no magic bullet solutions, and you should be careful to avoid the cargo cult mentality.
If you want to take your privacy seriously, I would highly recommend that in addition to starting your Linux journey, please pick up a book titled The Art of Invisibility by Kevin Mitnick. He is a legendary hacker, but wrote this book for a wide audience. It does a great job of covering the most important issues, while remaining easy to understand. I also recommend his other books that tell stories about hacking and social engineering.
You may consider a hobbyists book to start with, something like this Eagle Book
or this user
But for the real details I recommend this book or similar
Besides knowing the tools you really only need to know Tx Line analysis and (Signal/Power) Integrity information. Which may be some of the most important details to PCB design in my very limited opinion.
It's a very dated recommendation, but uhh.. I'm old.
https://www.amazon.com/TCP-IP-Illustrated-Implementation-Vol/dp/020163354X/
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Helped me lots, way back when.
The US Navy developed TOR and spun it off into the private sector, and ever since then the US government has been giving TOR something on the scale of 70-80% of it's income. Read this book. The government needed other people to use TOR. It doesn't matter if the people and destinations can't be matched exactly if the only people using it are the government, every person and destination is still relevant. Hence, spinning it into the private sector to gain users to cover the secret shit.
The government likes TOR, having developed it and funded it. It's anti-government stance is mostly BS, like most tech companies.
Which really does make you wonder why the fuck the CIA didn't have its sources using TOR. After the Iranians found their sites, they just tracked people who went to it and where they accessed the sites from to find them. Easily could have saved their lives to use TOR and/or a VPN
FWIW, Paolo Perrotta's "Ruby Metaprogramming 2" has a nice explanation of it in an appendix:
http://www.amazon.com/Metaprogramming-Ruby-Program-Like-Facets/dp/1941222129
The ever-excellent Khan Academy has produced a very nice and short series of videos explaining how cryptography works. Anyone who understands basic high school arithmetic can follow this. If you have ever been interested in the science of codes, ciphers, breaking them, etc. this is worth a look:
http://www.khanacademy.org/science/brit-cruise/cryptography
More in-depth treatments of cryptography can be found here:
https://www.coursera.org/course/crypto
and here:
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL71FE85723FD414D7&feature=plcp
And for the truly hard-core some of best books on crypto are:
http://www.amazon.com/Applied-Cryptography-Protocols-Algorithms-Edition/dp/0471117099/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1340524661&sr=1-1&keywords=applied+cryptography
and
http://www.amazon.com/Practical-Cryptography-Niels-Ferguson/dp/0471223573/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1340524712&sr=1-1&keywords=practical+cryptography
and
http://www.amazon.com/Cryptography-Engineering-Principles-Practical-Applications/dp/0470474246/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1340524751&sr=1-2&keywords=practical+cryptography
forgot the link https://www.amazon.com/Extending-Embedding-PHP-Sara-Golemon/dp/067232704X
I would recommend you the two guides -
His websites are the best place to start, but his personality is a bit more tempered there than in person. They cover an "eclectic" range of subjects, but usually researched.
I managed to dig up a couple of discussions from the archives:
http://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/7k4b1/if_you_send_disparaging_emails_about_me_to/
http://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/7kbq5/joe_clark_knows_about_our_reddit_discussion_is/
People also had some fun with his goatse-style book cover:
http://www.amazon.com/Building-Accessible-Websites-VOICES-Clark/dp/073571150X/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1229616758&sr=8-2
Not a class, but the book "The Art of SEO" from O'Reilly came highly recommended to me. They keep updating it so be sure to get the latest version.
It is unfortunate that anyone ever took him seriously to begin with. But it is also clear that his audience is built primarily of those with little to no background in Computer Science, or are looking for a quick-and-easy way to enter into a domain in which they believe they will be able to make lots of money from. His audience has proven to be either gullible, or just the epitome of the internet-age, where people are more interested in headlines than actual content.
https://www.amazon.com/Decentralized-Applications-Harnessing-Blockchain-Technology/dp/1491924543
Siraj wrote a book that can be considered a prelude to much of this. The difference is that the book was read, and heavily ripped apart, by people who actually know what they are talking about; and by people who can objectively criticize his work.
It makes sense that Siraj drifted into the YouTube space. Want to learn a programming language? Real engineers don't watch YouTube tutorials. Want to learn Machine Learning concepts? Real engineers don't seek out a collection of buzzwords.
This industry requires work. Siraj is a marketer.
> After much contemplation, wonder and imbibing of beverages, I return to thank you.
You should save the contemplation and beverages for when you get the eargear - it's a common witticism among audiophiles that the best upgrade to your system is a higher BAC :P
>On the contrary, this is fascinating! I'm in science writing (nonfiction and fiction), so I get to appreciate this kind of nerdery. It kind of answers this hazy question I have about why does good audio equipment cost so much. We're still sciencing it out, which is cool. I mean, that goes for most technology, so it's not unique, but for me, it's a whole new world.
If you like that, Sean Olive, a fairly major person in most of the above links, [has an infrequently-updated but occasionally pretty neat blog] (http://seanolive.blogspot.com/), and on the heavier end of things his mentor Floyd Toole has a [wonderfully detailed and IMO shockingly readable text on sound from a music/listening standpoint] (https://www.amazon.com/Sound-Reproduction-Psychoacoustics-Loudspeakers-Engineering/dp/113892136X/).
I will say, while there's definitely a component of development/progress being funded here - particularly in headphones, an area which has been seeing both a vast increase in prices and a substantial rise in quality over the past decade or so - I'd also point to two other factors driving high audio equipment prices:
The first is that, in many respects, audio tech develops exceptionally slowly - there were condenser microphones and electrostatic headphones made in the 1960s and 70s that are in many respects comparable to modern high-end equipment, and we haven't got that much more efficient at making them either. Unlike, say, integrated circuits, the core mechanisms of electroacoustic transducers haven't really become smaller, more efficient to make, or higher performance, at least to nearly the same extent, nor have we developed many alternative methodologies - we have better diaphragm materials, stronger magnets, and better assembly processes than in 1920 or 1970, but not to nearly the extent of, say, transistor or capacitor manufacturing, and almost all headphones, speakers, and prior to the smartphone revolution microphones are still the same style of moving coil design that existed at the start of WWI.
This, to some degree, keeps our buying power a bit low compared to what we're used to - I can get a 1980s supercomputer in my pocket for $100, but it's not that much cheaper to make a high-quality headphone now than it was then (and, indeed, some high-end headphones from that era that have persisted since then - Stax's Lambda series, for example, and Beyerdynamic's DT880 - have seen their prices track with inflation for the most part, or in some cases rise).
Of course, I'm neglecting the increasing use of modern technology in some bits of audio tech - digital signal processing, in particular, has immense potential, and has yielded exceptional results in many cases - but that's partially because the field of high-fidelity audio has been comparatively slow to adopt things like digitally controlled speakers and headphones, and where they do exist they tend to in fact be closer to the commodity end of the price range than the high end (and, sadly, they often underperform their potential as a result of this lack of attention).
The second is that the higher end of audio equipment primarily consists of [Veblen goods] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veblen_good) - while there are many fine speakers, headphones, amplifiers, and so on available at higher price tags, for decades the highest end of the hobby has been defined at least as much by luxury and status as by actual technical performance. This isn't really that pertinent in the price ranges that sane people talk about - a $100-400 headphone or speaker definitely has some status signalling component for its buyer, but it also just plain costs money to make these things, and often as you climb past the "sold in gas stations" price bracket you see massively diminishing sales volumes, with the attendant loss of economies of scale. That said, outside of "lifestyle/consumer" products, a lot of the field is driven by the eccentricities of the higher end, and when that segment isn't looking for cost reduction (or, in fact, may be looking for the opposite), it has some weird impacts on how resources are allocated and what sorts of products are developed, even outside of the realm of $10k/meter cabling and $200k per pair speakers.
Erm, sorry to ramble at you, but I'm really into this stuff, and sometimes I get carried away.
>Makes sense. Would my unrefined taste buds really appreciate a $1,000 bottle of wine over a $30 one? Probably not.
Oenophiles are a [common comparison point with high-end audio] (http://nwavguy.blogspot.com/2012/04/what-we-hear.html), as a matter of fact - although usually from the standpoint of "past a certain point, you aren't really getting more quality" rather than "your palate isn't refined enough" in my experience.
> I have no idea what this means but it got me searching how do brains process sound, good stuff.
It's a really fascinating topic, although I'm mostly hip to the parts that are pertinent to headphone design (my profession) more than the neurological (or physiological in general) side of things - in general, once you get to the eardrum, my job is pretty much done. A lot of weird stuff happens by that point, however - you can spend a fair while just getting your head around how the binaural hearing apparatus lets us locate sounds in three dimensions.
> I think I want a better sound experience, and it's worth it in my situation to invest better in both speakers and headphones. I've actually decided to downgrade to the 3700x build in order to grab better eargear.
I hope that it ends up being worth your while! I'll be interested to hear your thoughts on the gear, if you have any.
I haven't read it yet, but Kevin Mitnick has just published a new book The Art of Invisibility: The World's Most Famous Hacker Teaches You How to Be Safe in the Age of Big Brother and Big Data. I haven't bought this one yet only because I want my son to get it for Christmas on our Kindle account, not earlier...
Taking a hard look at 'The Well Grounded Rubyist':
https://www.amazon.com/Well-Grounded-Rubyist-David-Black/dp/1617291692/ref=pd_bxgy_14_img_3?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1
http://www.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-seo
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/why-link-building-strategies-fail
http://www.amazon.com/The-Art-SEO-Eric-Enge/dp/1449304214/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1342790729&sr=8-1&keywords=the+art+of+seo
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/the-noob-guide-to-link-building
that should be a good beginning
If you want to go the book route, a good beginners' book is Head First HTML with CSS and XHTML. The other books in the series are also awesome if you need something slightly different.
The journalist in that website made Freedom of Information Requests toward several government agencies that provide Tor with funding. Most of these requests were shot down for national security reasons, but one of the organizations wasn't covered under such an exemption and the government provided him with the data he asked for. He then published emails between Tor developers and that one particular government agency that showed how The Tor Project provided the agency with newly discovered bugs that security researchers brought to their attention.
Here's the book that the journalist eventually published:
https://www.amazon.com/Surveillance-Valley-Military-History-Internet/dp/1610398025
I'd also recommend JJ Luna's book called Hiding from the Internet.
Bruce Schnier and some other guy's Practical Cryptography
Don't know how I forgot about her. Got my information mainly from her book Extending and Embedding PHP.
I highly recomment Practical Cryptography - I heard there's a newer version out from the author but I haven't read that one personally, it's probably worth checking into. It's a great book for beginners, it goes over mostly methodologies and implementation, a bit of the math too.
https://www.amazon.com/Surveillance-Valley-Military-History-Internet/dp/1610398025
It comes free with this book...
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1565920635.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg
I can't believe this book existed...1992. Mentioned on the W3 website. :)
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/social/swf/1565920635/o=ShareProduct/ref=tsm_1_aw_swf_d_sp
The Art of SEO is probably the most comprehensive - and Paddy Moogan's The Link Building Book is fairly worthwhile. You'll need to supplement these with blogs, but you'll get very far with the books alone.
> After all if javascript is a language like PHP and built into the web browser it should be exactly the same everywhere. Shouldn't it?
Python, IronPython, Jython and Stackless Python are all different implementations of the same "Python" language, yet they're all subtly different. g++ and Visual C++ are two different of the same "C++" language, and yet they're both subtly to completely different in the subsets of the language they're able to handle, and the way they implement it.
So no, there is no reason that it should "be exactly the same everywhere" because there is no single Javascript implementation for everyone to use. And yet it does manage to be mostly the same everywhere...
> Standards don't apply
They actually do, "Javascript" itself, as a standard, is mostly well implemented across browsers (the only quirk I could list being the whole Date.getYear fuckup). The area where various implementations start differing is the DOM, which is not Javascript-the-language but Client-side-javascript-platform.
> Mochakit
MochiKit, please.
And it's not really a framework, much more of a javascript library.
> Rest assured Mozilla will soon create its own framework or library and make things "better"
Why the hell would they do that when they can improve the language itself (as far as they're concerned)? See Javascript 1.6, Javascript 1.7, Javascript 2.0
> Hard to find good books and documentation
Only when you don't know where to look.
Beginner? HowToCreate's JS Tutorial (http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/tutorials/javascript/important) is one of the best resource to get up-to-speed with the basics
Beginner or designer? Go for Jeremy Keith's "DOM Scripting" (http://www.amazon.com/DOM-Scripting-Design-JavaScript-Document/dp/1590595335/ref=pd_bxgy_b_img_b/102-8282999-1322522?ie=UTF8), clear book, not too advanced or clean javascript but more than enough to get things done.
Want some more? PPK's "PPK on Javascript" (http://www.amazon.com/ppk-JavaScript-1-Peter-Paul-Koch/dp/0321423305/sr=8-1/qid=1161173272/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/104-4964908-7079955?ie=UTF8) is reliable AND practical, plus PPK's WebSite, QuirksMode (http://www.quirksmode.org/) is one of the most practical "advanced javascript" resources one can find, especially on the DOM issues. Could've been more advanced, but PPK wanted it to be an intermediate-level book, not a guru-level one.
You want to know everything there is to know about JS, or are a language lawyer? Javascript: The Definitive Guide 5th Edition (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0596101996/ref=pd_cp_b_title/102-8282999-1322522?ie=UTF8) is the ultimate Javascript book & reference. Everything you may need from scoping rules to interfaces to SVG and E4X is in there.
> The community is your only hope
Only a subset of the community is really useful, and most of it already has blogs. Most of the community, on the other hand, is completely and utterly clueless.
Above all, what one must realize to work with javascript is that javascript is not a "sub-language", a "toy" or a "scripting language", it's a full-fledged, dynamically weakly typed programming language.
And it's not java.
The Art of Invisibility: The World's Most Famous Hacker Teaches You How to Be Safe in the Age of Big Brother and Big Data
i highly recommend this book....and good fucking luck
Care to elaborate on what you mean by functional program framework?
Are you talking about doing functional programming in C? I think there is a book on that. I think it's this one: http://www.amazon.com/Functional-C-International-Computer-Science/dp/0201419505/ - I'm not so sure though.
Are you talking about building framework/programs that are functional (as in robust, secure, ...)? If that is the case, then there is an interesting book named "C Interfaces and Implementations" going through several kinds of modules you might want to implement in C, and going through how you'd elaborate an interface and an implementation for them => http://www.amazon.com/Interfaces-Implementations-Techniques-Creating-Reusable/dp/0201498413/. This book covers the sort of thing that I believe you should be studying after learning the overall language syntax and semantics, how to combine features of C to solve not so trivial algorithmic problems, and so forth. In summary, it talks about modules design (both interfaces and implementations) in C.
There are more books here, like those listed in here http://www.iso-9899.info/wiki/Books. You can also check some more learning resources here http://www.iso-9899.info/wiki/Usenet and here http://www.iso-9899.info/wiki/Web_resources.
Still on my second interpretation of your functional program framework (because idk much about the first one besides that book "Functional C"), there are tons of very complicated systems built in C, like operating systems, server software, and so forth. And for many of them, there were books written. Here are some software for which you can find books on their design and implementation:
There are probably more, but those are the one which came to mind.
No need for a parabolic or a horn antenna. You can try a home-built Yagi, or an introductory book to the RTL SDR suggests a QFH antenna. There are other options that will work. A QFH is your best bet since it will be RHCP. I suggest purchasing this book:
https://www.amazon.com/Hobbyists-Guide-RTL-SDR-Software-Defined-ebook/dp/B00KCDF1QI
it is absolutely excellent and it includes a tutorial on how to receive from GOES. But if you just google how to build a QFH tuned to the proper frequencies, you should be fine.