Network M@ni@

To get here, to this blog, I simply opened Safari, typed in the URL, or, in fancy terms, uniform resource locator, and clicked new post.  Little did I know before today how many steps these simple tasks require.  It can only be summarized in a seven layer, no not cake, but OSI chart.  And speaking of food, in networking lingo, a cookie is not a delicious baked good, but a miniscule, 4 bit unit.  I have a 16 gigabyte iPod, or, if notated correctly, 16 GB, because capital GB symbolizes bytes.  Therefore, my iPod holds 8,000,000,000 bytes, and a lot more bits than I want to calculate.  In the world of networking, bits, frames, packets, segments, data, data, data is just the basics of computer language.  (Which is HTML, hyper text markup language if you really want to get technical.)  "Please do not throw sausage pizza away."  Ever heard anyone say that to you?  No I haven't either, but this can serve as an acronym was the seven steps of encapsulation, or wrapping data.  Physical, data link, network, transport, session, presentation, application. Everyone's done math right?  3>2, 5<4.  But have you ever heard of Throughput< Bandwidth?  Bandwidth is, if you will, the full "potential" of data that can travel at a given time, whereas throughput is the actual amount traveling, which is always less.  Two valuable lessons.  One, you are never anonymous.  You can ALWAYS be tracked down.  Ever wonder how Facebook knows where you are when you add a mupload?  That's because the MAC, no not the computer, but the Media Access Control, is the original address that never ever ever disappears.  So this is just reinforcement, don't do anything stupid on the Internet, because you will and can be found.  Then, there's number two.  Everything comes down to numbers.  Everything comes down to math.  That makes me wonder if it's bad that I attend a school that has a focus on pretty much everything but math.  Well, everything on the Internet can be broken down into binary code, or, in simpler terms, a series of 0s and 1s.  Put this into a binary translator, I'll show you.
0110100001110100011101000111000000111010001011110010111101101010011000010111100101100011011011110110111101101100001011100110111001100101011101000010111101110011011101000111010101100110011001100010111101100111011001010110010101101011001011110110100101101101011000010110011101100101011100110010111101101111011100110110100100101110011001110110100101100110
Confused?  Yeah, me too.