Monday, December 15, 2008

Internet Tools exercise


The tool I used to trace how many routers are invoiced is visual route. It took 23 hops from Ashburn, Virginia to curtin university site.
Here is the analysis of the test.

File Transer Protocol task

Answer: CAPITALIZATION MATTERS!

I have had some minor experience in FTP servers in the past. Mainly when large files which needed to be uploaded to my work website wouldn't upload within the content management system we were using, so some smart guy came up with the idea of using an FTP server. I thought it was pretty hi-tech.

I still think it's pretty hi-tech actually! Yes it's simple, but it's so much more involved than ordinary internet users get their hands on. It gives you a better understanding that essentially, the information that we are viewing on the web are files, they are kept somewhere in the world on a server, and the fact that we can access them in a flash, with a click of a finger is pretty cool.

Soft furnishings for blogger

Would love to "spruce" up my blog. Perhaps change the background, add a few throw cushions here and there... Lets see how I get on over the next day or so.