The Second lesson in Digital Media Technology was fun and different.
we learnt about Network, Protocol, Server, Client, and The Internet.
Tim has used interesting metaphors in representing how a network works and how it communicates from one computer to another. Which creates a better visual and idea of what network is really about.
Where the expression that he used was about a customer and a waiter at a restaurant. The customer will communicate where he/she will put an order of what he/she would love to eat. Which is known as Input in a computer's point of view where we will communicate to the computer by typing in the search engine field to what we're looking for.
After ordering your food you than receive the end result where either you been served with the right or wrong meal.
For example if you ordered chicken but in the end you received a steak. This could be because the exchange in language is different.
In a computer terminology this is known as Protocol which is the transmission of data where the language is the most important subject.
Here is a link of what I thought would be a great example about Network.
It's a funny ad about Pc and Mac where PC and Mac are holding hands which is networked together and the Mac is also holding hands with the latest digital camera which is a Japanese girl.The Japanese girl is than communicating in Japanese to the Mac and the PC has no idea of what the Japanese girl is talking about.
In a computer's point of view the PC and the Mac are both networked together and the new digital camera is networked to the Mac where the Protocol or language is than recognised and than both the digital camera and Mac can communicate to each other. Although in the end the PC can't communicate to the digital camera. Even though the Mac is like a server providing a service to let the PC use the digital camera.
incase you guys can't see this short ad here is the link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ph-bU2zfBI
In Conclusion
Network is:
A connected system of computers or people.
Exchanging data from one computer to another.
Protocol is:
A way to communicate between computers or people.
Server is:
A computer on a network which provides a service to clients.
e.g email, internet, scanner.
We also did a quick activity in class where I shared my computer with another student I think her name was Seema she said she didn't know what to do but hey we went through it like as if we knew what we were doing hehehehehehehe. Thanks Seema.
During this activity we found our computer's IP address and the IP address of the UTS web server also how to ping and also we had to register a domain name checking if our name is already taken on the internet.
Seema was lucky she had logos of prestigious cars under her domain name.
I had a engineering service company how boring is that.
Alright I need a good cold beer right NOW or a few Tequila or vodka shots........zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Ohh yeh here is my SWOT analysis.
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