I want you on my LAN

beatlesI wrote these lyrics to the tune of “I wanna hold your hand” by the Beatles, with all due credit to them. The purpose was to teach a class of bright youngsters how Ethernet networking works at the hardware level. I thought that my hot dorkage readers might enjoy them. It’s all as true now as it ever was. And in case you don’t understand some of the terminology, it’s all broken down for you at the end.

And in case you’re too young to remember the Beatles (even though they keep popping up on oldies stations) Below see a recording of it for you to listen to. Notice that you have to click to play it. I would never inflict it on you.

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Be nice to your System Admin

My plans to post a Geeky Goodness series on Zend Framework have been delayed by….. well, let’s just call it a “situation.” I have no desire to turn this blog into one of those collections of embedded third party videos that is otherwise content free. But once in a while I find . . . → Read More: Be nice to your System Admin