Wednesday, November 28, 2018

What is an IP address

Questions
  1. What is a protocol?
  2. What is an Internet Protocol (IP) address?
  3. How is it organized hierarchically?
  4. How many bits are in an IPv4 address?
  5. How many IPv4 addresses does that mean there are?  
  6. What is the difference between IPv6 and IPv4.  
  7. Why do we need IPv6?
  8. What is an IP packet?
  9. What is the difference between an IP address and an IP Packet?
  10. What is the purpose of the Domain Name System (DNS)?
1. A protocol is a system of rules that is agreed upon by a set of people for how to deal in a situation 
2. A IP address is a number that is unique to each computing device and it is how it can receive information. It is similar to a mailing address because in order for a server to send info it needs this number to assure it is going to the right device
3. They are organized in bits, the first bits are country/network, then region/network, then sub network, and finally device. 
4. An IP address is 32 bits
5.4 billion addresses
6. IPv6 contains 128 bits rather than the 32 of IPv4
7. IPv6 is important because the internet is so much more popular than ever believed and  IPv4 only offered 4 billion combinations which is not enough.
8. A packet is like a package of mail that is containing the information needed to load something on your device
9. Packets are sent to IP Addresses 
10. The DNS connects names of destinations that we know like Wikipedia and matches them with their IP address so we do not have to memorize the IP address to get to that website. 


Tuesday, November 20, 2018

Group discussion

My group was compromised of Evan Abramson, William Hanlon, and myself. We were assigned to read Koan 3: There is Want in the Midst of Plenty. To Summarize this koan, the author was saying that computer development is moving so rapidly that all the old data is becoming obsolete and that faster new technologies are developed, the faster things become obsolete. I am not completely sure how much I agree with this. Yes it makes sense that data written on paper is becoming harder and harder to come across but that can also be credited to the paperless mindset people have in an attempt to save trees. But when you look at video games systems for example, there are people still playing systems that were made 10-15 years ago, the only thing changing is the graphics. This koan intersects in our student life with the way we use google drive. EVERYTHING we do in school involves google drive but what happens when Bing releases the same thing but better. Then everyone shifts to that platform and all of the data from google is abandoned.

Tuesday, November 6, 2018

First Quiz Review

Last Friday we took our first quiz, I didn't do great, getting only 13 out of 20 questions correct.
The first question I got wrong was question 7; asking what 0100 0100 was in decimal. This one threw me for a loop because I completely forgot that binary started with one so I counted the third digit as 8 rather than 4.
I got number 9 wrong because I confused binary with morse. I was originally going to choose ASCII which was the correct answer until I second guessed my self believing morse was sent in 1's and 0's although it is actually dots and dashes.
Number 10 was a big one that I think most people got wrong and I place all the blame directly on Jack Greenhalgh. Well it's not all his fault but he did write the hex to decimal conversion on the board and it was completely wrong. He had the letters going up to 16 and stopping at F where in fact it only goes to 15 and stops at E. So that means the correct answer is 10.
I got 17 wrong and this was a really hard one so I'm not too surprised I got it wrong. I chose 10 but the correct answer was 16. I don't really understand how it gets to that point though.
Another one I got wrong was 14. I got this wrong because I chose numbers as the answer. I believed that was the answer because what is more important than numbers? Computers are built off of them, but in terms of communication, it makes sense that timing would be the correct answer.