ham radio software is the only reason I own a windows machine. I mostly use a MBP.

Every year the raspberry pi is upgraded I do a minor test of the ubuntu desktop. I also used to try with a VM about once a year. I've been trying for about 20 years. I am going to take my old Intel MBP and give it a shot again. If I can get wine running for the ham radio apps life is good.

But because of the Shark RF openspot, I am tied to OSX on a M? procesor. jut cannot win.

One day I'll get the Freedom laptop running linux as my primary laptop.

"On February 1st 2024, AWS will start charging for IPv4 addresses." supposed to be On February 1st 2024, AWS will start charging for PUBLIC IPv4 addresses.
In the scheme of things $3.72 per month per address is noise in most AWS bills.

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Best practice has always been igates of some sort, and NAT servers. Do not expose systems that do not need to be exposed. So the couple of comments on this being a big deal, would love to see your architecture that justifies massive number of public IP addresses.

Perfect, exactly what I was gonna say.

Not sure it is still done, but for H1B, the job ad would be posted in the NY times or Wall Street Journal instead of the local paper. This satisfied the advertising requirement. Again, not sure this is still allowed. Learned about this decades ago when a co-worker's student visa ran out and the company wanted to convert her to a H1B.

Then again, for certain degrees, do not let the brain drain occur. I believe we should give a H1B or even a green card for certain degrees.

Fake interviews, US gov't jobs. Agencies were famous, if you were in the know, you knew not to waste your time on certain postings. Groups were not very quiet when offering a specific person a job. There was a requirement to interview people.

For those of us not paying NYT for access.
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Song written in 1880. The pair that wrote it, the later death was in 1922.
The version played, the singer died in 1945.
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Copyright can still be valid. Sad, but true.

3B in revenue. 35M fine. Like a pimple that needs to be popped.

Went Saturday to pay my final respects. Picked up 3 old fluke DMM's last calibrated in the 1990's and 2 1ft USB cables for just under $23. My buddy picked up a HP 35 in perfect cosmetic condition, with the case. Waiting on a battery to test it.

I remember my first walk about in the late 80's. They seemed to concentrate on old office cubicle furniture back then. One of the owners, made his own wine. Got to taste it. It was really bad.

It was always the place to go to either buy some older hardware you needed, or to walk around with a buddy a reminisce as you saw hardware you used at some point in a previous life.

So, computer literacy gone for years. We lost the local HRO and Digital GURU in the last year. Both due do soaring rents. HRO, it was going to be a 60% hike. Just over a year later, the HRO sign is still there over the door to the empty store.

So you guys know, Bob is looking to retire. So unless someone makes an offer to buy it, HSC is next.

Part of the issue is the number of hardware manufacturing and R&D companies has dropped to nothing. So possible new inventory is disappearing. Some of the inventory at weird stuff and HSC has been on the shelf for over 10 years. Techshop, a short 10 year existence, great concept, wrong execution. Action electronics also gone.

Anchor Electronics on walsh is still around.

Much of today's electronics won't last long enough to be resold. Bang Good, either goes bang or might be good.

Talking about old electronics and junk, Electronic Flea Market will be at Fry's Sunnyvale Saturday April 14, not at De Anza.

I am using protonmail.
When I login, user id, password, and pass phrase for my mailbox to decrypt it.
If I wanted, I can use google authenticator to add 2FA.
Also in Switzerland, so US subpoena is more meaningless.
You also set your PGP keys so you can send and receive encrypted emails as part of the service.

I would call this pretty secure.

They also have a service protonVPN that is nice.

I feel sorry for your students. If you left the engineering field instead of finding a Good company to work for, do not take it out on future engineers. I hope that star in the first robotics program is encouraged to become an engineer.

The POS managers that want idiots willing to work crazy hours and are too young to call bullshit in deadlines in the name of agile get reputations. If you aren't off playing ping pong and getting your work done, 40-50 hours of solid work, and a good manager will notice. The 50+ hours weeks should only be for special events the last less than a month once maybe twice a year. If you are working 50+ on a regular basis, you better be one of the first 20 hires and have ownership in whole percentage points.

Saiyeth the Old man who has followed this philosophy for 30+ years.

Absolutely right. A good engineer is a lifelong learner. With docker and cloud services, no reason not to be able to do deep dives on topics. Setting up a network of computers is cheap enough these days.

Remember during the bubble when a certain country created 300,000 "air quote" "engineers" seemingly overnight? When people here did not understand the difference between a college and University from that country. We have a short fucking memory. Because many of those one trick ponies went to the equivalent of coding boot camps. Now can it work, yes, if you are an engineer. Good engineers are born, not created. You will grow and become a good software engineer, something you would have been no matter what. For most people, no. I have a couple of friends who went to college, did not earn a computer science degree and you would count yourself lucky to have such brilliant people on your engineering team. But they are the exception.

It is sad, but all these people saying that Bill Gate and Zuckerberg did not finish college and are billionaires. First, they did make it into top notch colleges. Second, they proved they were engineers from the get go. The only good thing, is that people from bootcamps are cheaper to hire and they disappear after a while.

University computer science degree means 4 years of writing some level of code for a wide variety of computer science basic topics, a certain level of mathematics. Those general education requirements? How do you think we had enough time to write code for our classes. Taking general ed classes you easily pass going only once or twice a week. Plus, a good engineer thinks out of the box. The more you know about other subjects, the more you can think about solving problems with a different perspective.

This is what I am thinking as well. I use time machine for onsite/home backups.

My only issue is that if there is a fire or burglary, I would be down for days pulling the data back.

Received a couple of notices. Not happy. I need to evaluate something for my dad and something for myself.
One of the features I liked was knowing if something catastrophic occurs they would get a drive to me. Granted I use dual time machine drives, but still.

So now to find another service that does that. Or pay them their $120 and sync data to one system. Which is probably what I will do. But not for my dad, put him on carbonite or something that uses S3 as a backend.

I hope their business customers using the home service hands them a little hell.

I did not get AHS from a forgetting to check box, which is bullshit and Wells should be raked over the coals for that. I took the service when I purchased my place because of another friends positive experience with them.

But I have successfully used them for the 10 years I owned my home.
A/C issue in the heat of summer, multiple years, someone shows up in a couple of days and gets it fixed.
Washing machine rebuild.
Dishwasher fixed.

AHS hold a lot of weight with their contracted vendors. They tend to be higher quality than those I have found on my own. They don't screw around. I have no issues paying the monthly fee.

But Wells, who is my banker, should be raked over the coals for what they are doing.