Archive for March, 2005
How to make sense out of IP addressing
0 Comments Published March 27th, 2005 in the following Categories:Computer Addressing
Take a moment and think about your home address. That’s right — the house or apartment you live in. What is your address?
It probably follows a format like this:
1234
Oak St.
House number
Street name
It’s all very logical: if your street has 25 homes on it, all the homes must have a unique house number while sharing […]
- What is your computer’s address?
- What your garage door opener has in common with Internet addressing
- Upgrading Your Used Laptop to Window’s Vista
- How does a computer count to 1,024?
Know your networking vocabulary
0 Comments Published March 20th, 2005 in the following Categories:Big Picture
If you are going to network a small handful computers (less than 5-10) in your home or office, you’ll probably have some questions about networking vocabulary:
What is a “local area network (LAN)?”
What is a “workgroup?”
What is a “peer-to-peer network?”
- Learn the lingo of wireless / computer networking
- Run your own network wiring
- The “802 Standards”
- “The 3 Elements of Computer Networking”
How does a computer count to 1,024?
0 Comments Published March 19th, 2005 in the following Categories:Computer Addressing
Remember a while back I talked about what your garage door opener had in common with Internet addressing.
Let’s take it a step further.
As you recall we said that your attache case or luggage carrier had a three wheel combination lock (click on the picture for a closer view).
Let’s take this one step […]