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Thursday, September 19, 2002
Thought I'd come up for air and give a shout out from class up in beautiful Billerica, Mass. (actually, all I've seen is an exit off route 3 and the inside of one of those "99" eateries. yikes.) Three days of hardcore TCP/IP training, and I'm totally digging it. Yes, I just said that. Huge gaps in my networking knowledge are being filled in... like perfect little puzzle pieces clicking into place. Hell, even some math stuff I lost from college is coming back (I can now convert from Hex to Dec to Bin to Hex to Bin... without a calculator, even. Yowza.)
IP Addressing, Subnetting, Routing, DNS, DHCP, ARPing, etc, etc... all stuff I've picked up over past few years, but was never sat down and really taught. Man, I needed this. Ok, are you asleep yet? Sorry. Know what else I learned? Well, the entire interstate highway system was actually spearheaded, and mostly funded, by the U.S. Military, same as the Internet. Why? Landing strips in the event of an attack. Yup, it's contingency planning at it's most scary. When the highways were built, it was actually a requirement that in every 5 miles of road, there's 1 mile that is completely straight and completely flat so that jets can land on 'em. You blow up this stretch? Well, then I can just land right over here, thank you very much. There are spots in Vermont that I always wondered about... where parts of Interstate 89 could have easily gone around a little hill instead of blowing right through it. Now I know why. If they say you learn something new every day, well, I'm stockpiling for the next couple months. At some point there will be Provincetown pictures. I know you're just dying to see them. Lunch is over... back to learnin'...  |
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