Computer Addressing Archive
What your garage door opener has in common with Internet addressing
0 Comments Published March 17th, 2005 in the following Categories:Computer Addressing
Have you ever owned a suitcase or attache case combination lock? (click the picture on the left for a larger view)
How many different combinations are possible with that?
Well, if there are three wheels, you have 1,000 different combinations:
0-0-1, 0-0-2, 0-0-3, 0-0-4…and so on.
- How does a computer count to 1,024?
- What is your computer’s address?
- How to make sense out of IP addressing
- My computers can’t understand each other
What is your computer’s address?
0 Comments Published March 15th, 2005 in the following Categories:Computer Addressing
In a previous post, I explained that networking involves the sharing of resources between two or more parties. But that is only possible if the two parties can find each other first.
In other words, before you can go to the movies, you have to know where the movie theater is. To make it easy, […]