Response: Codec 2 700C | Rowetel

Acceptable quality open source voice codec in 700 bps

My endeavor to produce a digital voice mode that competes with SSB continues. For a big chunk of 2016 I took a break from this work as I was gainfully employed on a commercial HF modem project. However since December I have once again been working on a 700 bit/s codec. The goal is voice quality roughly the same as the current 1300 bit/s mode. This can then be mated with the coherent PSK modem, and possibly the 4FSK modem for trials over HF channels.

Codec 2 700C | Rowetel

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Response: Site Reliability Engineering – Medium

Four rules for SRE:

1. Always Know When It’s Broken
2. Avoid Global Changes
3. Moving Traffic Is Faster Than Fixing
4. Make Your Mitigations Normal

Good rules, can’t argue with this as starting point. The devil in the detail of all of these and Enterprise IT does none of them.

Site Reliability Engineering – Medium:

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Moving to a Single Domain

For various reasons, I’m changing my DNS provider; the new provider will not support the .guru TLD, so I’m going to drop it, and just stick with rule11.us. I think most folks are pointing to rule11.us anyway, but I thought I’d post this here so you’d see if it not.

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Moving to a Single Domain

For various reasons, I’m changing my DNS provider; the new provider will not support the .guru TLD, so I’m going to drop it, and just stick with rule11.us. I think most folks are pointing to rule11.us anyway, but I thought I’d post this here so you’d see if it not.

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Ubiquiti EdgeRouter Lite ERLite-3 Board Detail

I ran a Ubiquiti Edge Router Lite as my home firewall for a couple of years. The box had a nice GUI with CLI option, and had no problem keeping up with my > 100Mbps Internet connection. The box died after a lengthy power failure that drained the large UPS buffering electrons in my basement equipment rack.

I’m not sure what happened to the ERLite-3, but it’s as dead as the bird in the Python parrot sketch. The firewalls appears to boot. The lights come on, etc. However, the box passes no traffic and responds to no ARP requests. I can get no serial console output from it. I even tried a full factory reset, to no effect.

Until its early death, the little firewall had a trouble-free two year run. For $99 spent according to my Amazon order history, I don’t feel too badly about the loss.

Before throwing it in the bin, I decided to open it up and take a look at the mainboard. Here’s a notated picture for you. Enjoy.

Click image to BIGGIFY and see cropped text.

UPDATES

1. My thanks to @williamhulley for correcting the first version of this diagram.
2. @Brownout suggests that the firewall might have bricked due to a problem with the Continue reading

Maximum route metric on Linux

Ever wondered what is the maximum route metric value you can configure on Linux? man interface and man ip state that route metric is a number, but don’t specify its range.

# ip route add 192.168.113.0/24 via 10.0.10.1 metric 0
# ip route add 192.168.113.0/24 via 10.0.10.1 metric 4294967295
# ip route add 192.168.113.0/24 via 10.0.10.1 metric 4294967296
Error: argument "4294967296" is wrong: "metric" value is invalid

# ip route
192.168.113.0/24 via 10.0.10.1 dev eth0
192.168.113.0/24 via 10.0.10.1 dev eth0  metric 4294967295

It looks like Linux route metric is an unsigned 32-bit integer, ranging from 0 to 4294967295. As you already know a route with the lowest metric is preferred.

Getting started with TMUX

This is one of those ‘I must be living under a rock’ things.  I’m not sure how I’ve never heard of TMUX before but it’s really pretty awesome.  I initially came across it when searching for a way to share a terminal session with another user.  It does that quite well but it’s also a great terminal session manager allowing for pane, window, and session management.  Let’s take a look at a quick example to show you what I mean.

Here we have a server called ‘tmuxtest’.  The server already has TMUX on it by default but if it’s not there you can easily install it (sudo apt-get install tmux, etc).  So let’s say I want to start a new session.  The easiest way to do this is to just type ‘tmux’..

Now we’re in TMUX.  We are in what’s called a ‘session’.  The session can contain multiple panes and multiple windows.  For instance, if I wanted to create a second pane I could do by pressing ‘Ctrl-b + %’…

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Turning best practice into capacity building for community networks development

Cisco Live Berlin

I will be speaking at the CCDE Techtorial at Cisco Live in Berlin February 20-24 (just a few short weeks away)! Come by and hang out, or meet Elaine and I for lunch on Tuesday to talk about the CCDE.

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Cisco Live Berlin

I will be speaking at the CCDE Techtorial at Cisco Live in Berlin February 20-24 (just a few short weeks away)! Come by and hang out, or meet Elaine and I for lunch on Tuesday to talk about the CCDE.

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Large Scale Network Design

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Large Scale Network Design

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Promoting Wikipedia as an Open Educational Resource in Uganda

Packet loss with Fast Reroute

Packet loss with Fast Reroute Do we still lose packet with fast reroute? One of my students asked me this question. And I would like to share the answer with everyone. Before we discuss whether or not we lose packet with fast reroute mechanisms, let’s remember what fast reroute is. It is pertinent to know […]

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BrandPost: How to Beat the Wired Network Bottleneck and Wring More Business Value from your WLAN

If you’re looking at deploying 802.11ac Wi-Fi access point (AP) technology, as most companies have already, you may want to consider upgrading the speed of your wired connection between your APs and your wiring-closet Ethernet switch to avoid the kind of network saturation that puts a damper on worker productivity.  The 802.11ac Wi-Fi standard now accounts for 67.1% of dependent wireless AP shipments and more than 80% of revenue, “setting the stage for near obsolescence of the 802.11n standard by 2018 in the mainstream enterprise segment,” according to the research firm IDC.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Microsoft to Acquire Deep Learning Startup Maluuba

The AI arms race continues.

Microsoft employees say monitoring disturbing content traumatized them

There is a very dark underbelly to the web that is not for the weak of stomach. You may be thinking of 4chan, but that place is just the starting point. Unfortunately, it falls to some people to monitor this garbage for law enforcement, and in the case of two Microsoft employees, it drove them over the edge. In a lawsuit filed against Microsoft, Henry Soto and Greg Blauert claim they were forced daily for months to view some of the most disturbing photos and videos you can find on the internet and that Microsoft did nothing as the constant viewing took its toll on them. They now claim to suffer Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). The two were part of Microsoft’s Online Safety Team, a group formed to investigate content being stored on Microsoft sites, like OneDrive, that should be taken down or reported to police. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Google Cloud Key Management Service could help more enterprises encrypt data

Attackers are increasingly able to penetrate perimeter defenses, compromise accounts and mine data without targets even being aware of the attack, as the Democratic National Committee breach proved. Encrypting data is the best defense.Strong encryption of complex data structures requires a Key Management System (KMS). But implementing a KMS can be challenging, especially for enterprises below the security poverty line that don’t have the budget to hire a multidisciplinary security team. Google may have a solution with its Cloud Key Management Service (CKMS) now in beta in select countries.  To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Google Cloud Key Management Service could help more enterprises encrypt data

Attackers are increasingly able to penetrate perimeter defenses, compromise accounts and mine data without targets even being aware of the attack, as the Democratic National Committee breach proved. Encrypting data is the best defense.Strong encryption of complex data structures requires a Key Management System (KMS). But implementing a KMS can be challenging, especially for enterprises below the security poverty line that don’t have the budget to hire a multidisciplinary security team. Google may have a solution with its Cloud Key Management Service (CKMS) now in beta in select countries.  To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Worth Reading: Tier 1 carrier performance report

As Noction continues to intelligently optimize routing for more and more networks around the world, we find ourselves in the unique position of having great insights into the general Internet performance as well as the performance of specific Internet carriers, when analyzing data collected by IRP Lite instances. Around 200 million successful probes performed by IRP instances over the previous weeks offered us plenty of data for analysis. The current report card covers the performance of major providers within the continental United States. —Noction

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