Big Picture Archive
Mini-Sensors for “Military Omniscience”
0 Comments Published April 4th, 2006 in the following Categories:Big Picture || Network Hardware || Wireless Networking
Network technology is being applied in lots of interesting ways.
Take this application, for example, detailed in DefenseTech.org:
Spotting insurgents, sorting out friend from foe – it’s beyond tough in today’s guerilla war zones. So tough, that no single monitor can be counted on to handle the job. The Pentagon’s answer: build a set of palm-sized, […]
- More information is better
- Q&A: A lost interview with ENIAC co-inventor J. Presper Eckert
- Wireless Networking Explained
- The Story of the First Internet Worm
It’s a Binary World - How computers count.
0 Comments Published March 29th, 2006 in the following Categories:Big Picture || Computer Addressing || History || How To...
by Tony Stockill
Many have cursed their computer for taking things too literally! It’s easy to blame the computer when something goes wrong.
You get to the checkout at the market, and the item you bought ‘on special’ comes up at the full price. The manager has to be called to fix it up, and what […]
- How does a computer count to 1,024?
- How Do Wireless Networks Work?
- Holy cow! This was my first computer, c. 1963
- Run your own network wiring
Basics Of A Router
0 Comments Published March 23rd, 2006 in the following Categories:Big Picture || Computer Addressing || Network Security || Network Hardware
by Robert Thatcher
A router is a computer device that receives or forwards data packets to and from the Internet towards a destination in the process called routing. A router is the essential component of the computer networking that enables any sent data to arrive at the right destination.
As an illustration, imagine that the Internet is […]