Day 25

We changed what we're coving slightly for our project. I'm now covering the history of viruses and famous viruses.

Day 24

Our presentation is on viruses. I'm going to cover common and famous viruses. I found this website that lists the top ten viruses of all time and will cover a few of those.

This site has a lot of examples of common virus types.

Day 22

How e-mail works:

For e-mail to be sent it must go threw an e-mail server. On the server is essentially a text file (ex. JSMITH.TXT) for each user that can only be accessed by that user.

When someone composes a message in an e-mail client and then hits send their name, the recipients name, and the text of the message to the server. The server then formats the message so that it is readable and adds it to the end of the recipients text file.

The message is stored on the server until the recipient checks their mail, then their e-mail client retrieves the message and allows the recipient to read it.

Data other than text, such as pictures or audio, is sent in a similar way, it just takes up a lot more space and your e-mail server and client do more to format the data so that it is easier to read and use.

http://communication.howstuffworks.com/email.htm
http://www.ehow.com/how-does_4815237_email-work.html

Day 18

Ted Stevens

Senator from Alaska from December 24, 1968 – January 3, 2009.


Ted Stevens is famous for his "series of tubes" speech.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Series_of_tubes

Stevens authored the bill, S. 2686, the Communications, Consumer's Choice, and Broadband Deployment Act of 2006.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_stevens#Internet_and_network_neutrality

Basically Stevens is opposed to net neutrality even though he has no clue what it really is.

Day 17

1. My IP address is 152.33.60.212. I looked up one of the TV stations in my hometown and it's domain was registered by godaddy.com (http://www.networksolutions.com/whois-search/charlottesvillenewsplex.tv).

Day 16

1. I was sent yestreen which is a Scottish word meaning "last evening or night."

2. I sent ripostes which means "a fencer's quick return thrust following a parry."

3. It took us 55 minutes to send all of the messages, it took me maybe 5 minutes less to finish.

4. I thought it was easier to send because even if you messed up the message you still sent something. When you were receiving you had to be really careful that you wrote down the right thing.

5. It got difficult when several people were trying to send at once and would try after every person. At times everyone would get into a rhythm and it would work for a few messages but then someone would get off and mess it all up.

6. The process would be a lot easier if you could come up with some sort of pattern that did not result in a loop. If every person was given a number and went in that order it might work better, though some people would be stuck going last every time.

Day 15

1.Addressing - You could use an address (IP address?) to identify each computer and have someway that computers could find each other by their address. I know IP addresses are a series of somewhere around 9-10? numbers, maybe the first couple find a broad group of computers and the later numbers narrow down which exact computer it is.

2. Communication conflicts - You could allot a certain amount of bandwidth per computer or per application depending on how much bandwidth was available and how much was being used. If you could send 400 MB a second, you could allot 100 to amazon, 100 to IM, 100 to e-mailing the letter, and 100 to the radio.