Gerard BraadIf you have suggestions for something I should work on, what should this be?
- like learning a language or skil
- a computer technology
- etc.
I am curious what you come up with that you consider useful.
Dmitry Tantsur@gbraad not sure about you, but I'm pondering learning something that will make me more employable given that everything goes to shit. For instance, I'm embarrassingly bad at networks.
@creepy_owlet That is one of the things I am actually good at, and virtualization.
So yeah, that is a good topic. I gave my associate some homework a few weeks ago, about HDLC... and he saw the reason why after experimenting with it.
But anything IP level, or TCP+UDP is important. If you need some suggestion, please.
Start for sure with Tanenbaum's book. Not the best, but still a good starter
@gbraad anything that would let me refresh TCP/IP and then progress to modern stuff like TCP multipath and complex topics like BGP. A good book is preferred, but I'm not sure about the practical part.
Aleksandra FedorovaI have "Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach" by Kurose and Ross on my bookshelf. It seems to be less famous, but I find its style more interesting.
They do not feel like a collection of protocol specifications. And they have some homework assignments.
But i haven't still read it beyond first chapters :o
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60209775-computer-networking
zhenech@bookwar @creepy_owlet @gbraad
It's a good book! We used it in uni back in the day. Not sure how much it had been keept uptodate with developments after ~2010 tho.
my uni also used a different book, written by the teacher himself; possible self-interest/commission ;-D. Thought it was a straightforward book, just only in Dutch.
A large section was about IPv6. Boy, that was useful ;-)
@gbraad @bookwar @creepy_owlet
The German translation of "Top Down Approach" was/is by the prof who taught the networking course, so I can see some parallels here :)
@zhenech @bookwar @creepy_owlet
sneaky, smart or ... ? ;-)
... they just do not trust other people's work
probably not an original print ...
get the PDF
I would suggest to try somthing like Inkscape.
It is different from what you usually supposed to do as an engineer. But it is fun and becomes useful in various random places.
@bookwar And use it a lot for application icons;
I used it quite a lot for presentations and diagrams.
And then learned about measuring and manipulating path lengths just yesterday for drafting sewing patterns. Such a useful tool with so many applications.
@bookwar dang, that I did not even know. That is kinda useful... so essentially it can be a CAD tool (but of course it can ;-))