Na!Belea

A new Scrat episode...

posted by alex2xlnc @ 10:57 AM 0 comments

21-st Century...

posted by alex2xlnc @ 9:42 AM 0 comments

To my Darling Husband...

To my Darling Husband,

I have to inform you of something before you return from your overseas trip, I had a very tiny, absolutely small accident...

I was returning from work in the ute, as I was turning into our drive way, I slightly accelerated instead of stopping...

I'm really sorry, but I know you will find forgiveness in that sweet heart
of yours!!!

posted by alex2xlnc @ 11:36 AM 0 comments

ENGLISH SIGNS IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES

Cocktail lounge, Norway:

"LADIES ARE REQUESTED NOT TO HAVE CHILDREN IN THE BAR."



At a Budapest zoo:

"PLEASE DO NOT FEED THE ANIMALS. IF YOU HAVE ANY SUITABLE FOOD, GIVE IT TO

THE GUARD ON DUTY."



Doctors' office, Rome:

"SPECIALIST IN WOMEN AND OTHER DISEASES."



Dry cleaners, Bangkok:

"DROP YOUR TROUSERS HERE FOR THE BEST RESULTS."

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posted by alex2xlnc @ 10:30 AM 0 comments

True Joke

Queen Elizabeth II, George W Bush & Traian Basescu died & went straight to hell.
Queen Elizabeth II said "I miss Britain , I want to call Britain and see how everybody is doing there. She called and talked for about 5 minutes, then her Majesty asked "Well, Devil how much do I owe you? The devil replied "Five million dollars" She wrote him a cheque and went to sit back on her chair.
George Bush was so jealous, he began screaming, "My turn! I wanna call the United States, I want to see how everybody is doing there too" He called and talked for about 10 minutes, then he asked "Well, Devil how much do I owe you? The devil replied "Ten million dollars" With a smug look on his face, he made a cheque and went to sit back on his chair.
Traian Basescu was even more jealous & started screaming, "I want to call Romania , I want to see how everybody is doing there. I wanna talk to the ministers, to the deputy, I wanna talk to everybody". He called Romania and he talked for about twenty hours, he talked & talked & talked, then he asked "Well, Devil how much do I owe you? The devil replied "One dollar". Basescu is stunned & says "One dollar??? Only one lousy dollar??"

The Devil says "Well if you make a call from one hell to another hell, it's local"

posted by alex2xlnc @ 4:58 PM 0 comments

What is the Internet?

Brief tutorial that describes this wonderful thing called Internet
What is the Internet?

I got this question out of many of my students. It’s quite difficult to give a scientifically correct definition. Actually, this article is meant to give a quick look at the Internet, rather than analyzing its technological features.

Ok, first, a little bit of history. In the times of the Cold War, America and the USSR where “at war”. Nuclear holocaust was in the mind of every living American. This was partially due to the launch of the Sputnik satellite the soviets put on orbit. The Department of Defense wanted a network that could easily adapt to changes and that could interconnect distant locations. The latter was already achieved; the telephone system was capable of transporting voice over many thousand kilometers. The problem was that if a telecommunications office would be for some reason disabled, all the users attached to that office would not be able to communicate with nobody. So, the smart guys from DoD developed the first Internet, if we can call it like that: ARPA Net. This early Internet could communicate important information among different locations around the US. Most important, the system could “find” another way, in case a communication link came down.

Finally, the Cold War was over. Still, the system remained operational. Soon, universities connected to this network. Soon, the growth became almost uncontrollable and the Internet developed to the form in witch we can fin it today.

It’s important to say two things: nobody is controlling the Internet and nobody is “producing” it. As strange as it may seem, the last phrase is unfortunately in a lot of people’s minds. Actually, some of my students asked me this. Ok, let’s review each statement.

Nobody is controlling the Internet

This is a two-edged sword. The good about this fact is that one can, for example, build a site without much trouble and with a relatively small budget. No one will ask you why you want that site; you just pay for the name of the site and period. Things are pretty loose. The bad thing about the fact that nobody is controlling the Internet is that relative to our example, you can write all you want in the site that you just bought. If it’s poetry, it’s ok. But if you are explaining, for example, how to make a bomb, then things tend to become a little bit ugly. Nowadays, one can find pretty much everything on the Internet. Ok, let’s see now the second statement about the Internet

Nobody is “producing” the Internet

Ok, to put it briefly, the Internet is one huge network of networks. Let me explain that. Suppose in a city we have an Internet Service Provider (ISP) that connects the majority of the inhabitants. Everyone pays a fee (smaller or greater) to the ISP in order to have access to the Internet. Various ISP’s may run in a city. These ISP pay at their turn to a larger ISP for access to the Internet. So the pyramid goes up until we find the top-level ISP’s, that don’t pay anything to anybody. They just establish connections with another top-level ISP, in order to exchange data. It’s a simple as that. Practically, from a newbie’s point of view, the Internet consists of the following:

• Computers: the computers of all the users that access www.google.com, for example
• Traffic moving devices: these devices make sure that one request to view www.google.com reaches Google and doesn’t go anywhere else.
• Servers: everyone has heard of servers. They simply provide the services that we use every day, like e-mail, web-search, sites and so on.

Keep in mind that the above grouping is only meant for understanding purposes. In real life, things are much more complicated.

Before I end this article, I would like to comment on my first statement (nobody is controlling the Internet). In this big network (witch pretty much resembles a huge city) if you want to go somewhere, you need to know the address, right? Everyone has heard of an IP address, but not everyone knows what an IP address is. An IP address is like one’s postal address. It’s unique and identifies your computer. Everyone connecting to the Internet has an unique IP address. The format is a four dotted decimal notation, for example 82.78.213.112. Now, the reason I discussed about this is that, like every good thing in life, IP addresses are not infinite. Roughly, the total number of IP address is 4.294.967.296. So, if IP addresses are finite, precise control is required. For this purpose an authority has been created in order to allocate IP addresses. Its name is IANA and stands for Internet Assigned Numbers Authority.

Now, let me explain a little bit how one as a home user gets an IP address. Top-level ISP’s buy addresses from IANA. As some of you may have already anticipated, these addresses are not sold in a chaotic fashion. Instead, IANA sells “chunks” of IP addresses in a contiguous fashion, for example one ISP cannot buy 82.78.213.112 and 82.78.213.117, and instead he has to buy the whole “chunk” starting from 82.78.213.1 and ending to 82.78.213.254.

So, as we have seen, the first “golden rule” has changed a little bit. We can rephrase it: the Internet is very loosely controlled.

The most important things to know about the Internet are the following:

• it’s a network of networks
• it’s very loosely controlled
• nobody is “producing” it
• every computer connected to the Internet is identified by an unique address, called the IP address

source:NetMeUp

posted by alex2xlnc @ 2:29 PM 0 comments

True Sayings

* A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life, to be thankful for a good one

* Women always worry about the things that men forget; men always worry about the things women remember

* A woman never forgets the men she could have had; a man, the women he couldn't

* He who tries to forget a woman, never loved her

* When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.

* When a man gets up to speak, people listen, then look. When a woman gets up, people look; then, if they like what they see,they listen.

* A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.

* Every woman is wrong until she cries, and then she is right, instantly

* When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife.

* A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears.

posted by alex2xlnc @ 11:24 AM 0 comments