Week 6 Muddiest Point

This may be a rudimentary muddy point but I'm just curious as to what the traceroute information generated from that website would be useful for. I used CMU's link from www.traceroute.com and am curious about what the list means. the IP address I used is from my laptop that I was using on my home wireless network.

Here's what I got from CMU:

traceroute Results

Results from: /usr/sbin/traceroute 136.142.64.121:

traceroute to 136.142.64.121 (136.142.64.121), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets
1  POD-C-NH-VL4.GW.CMU.NET (128.2.4.44)  0.247 ms  0.214 ms  0.204 ms
2  CORE255-VL908.GW.CMU.NET (128.2.255.194)  0.317 ms  0.285 ms  0.272 ms
3  POD-I-CYH-VL987.GW.CMU.NET (128.2.255.250)  0.490 ms  0.397 ms  0.417 ms
4  bar-cmu-ge-4-0-0-2.3rox.net (192.88.115.185)  124.024 ms *  133.533 ms
5  pitt-cl-i2.3rox.net (192.88.115.151)  0.497 ms  0.457 ms  0.472 ms
6  cl2-vlan712.gw.pitt.edu (136.142.2.162)  3.056 ms  0.839 ms  0.633 ms
7  cl-wan5-cl-core-2.gw.pitt.edu (136.142.9.18)  1.300 ms  1.328 ms  1.281 ms
8  nb-cl.gw.pitt.edu (136.142.253.30)  112.341 ms  10.279 ms  106.211 ms
9  * * *
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20  * * *

Error!

Timed out while processing: /usr/sbin/traceroute 136.142.64.121.

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It appears the route goes from CMU to Pitt and then eventually to me (unfortunately, it kept timing out). Neat stuff!

Week 6 comments

http://randhall2600.blogspot.com/2008/09/week-6-readings.html

http://kirstenbell.blogspot.com/2008/09/week-6-readings-and-muddiest-point.html

http://petersblog-landark.blogspot.com/2008/09/reading-notes-week-6.html

Week 5 Muddiest Point

The one thing I was kind of confused about was how/why compression was developed for fax transmission and what type of compression it uses even now.

Week 6 readings

Computer Networks & LAN articles

The first article was helpful in describing the different types of networks since I had only ever heard of local area networks previously. Also helpful was the explanation of intra- and extranet since these are used by my department at Pitt but I never quite understood what they were.

The LAN article brought up an interesting point that networks started basically to save money since at that time, disk space and printers were much more expensive than they are now.

RFID

It doesn't appear that RFID would be that useful in a library setting. For reasons mentioned in this article, it is unclear whether the hassles/problems outweigh the benefits. The article is from 2005 and I wonder what, if anything, has changed since then.

Assignment 3

Hi - here's my link to my 40 articles on citeulike:

http://www.citeulike.org/user/monicalove

For my elderly and libraries topic, I had to tweak it a little to be able to find articles on citeulike since the searching on there is a bit difficult.

Week 5 comments...

https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7036399065753048748&postID=6474850926400396154&page=1

https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9004604055760573247&postID=382369493207682627&page=1

https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6887347751761325191&postID=836221725702419076&page=1

Week 4 Muddiest Point

The one thing I was a little confused about (and maybe I just missed something) was when discussing meta data harvesting and combining various collections and the ability to search regardless of the metadata format, is this the ideal or is this able to be done now? I wouldn't think so since things like the Dublin Core and other standardization methods haven't really been able to come to fruition yet.