Day 17 IP address

My IP address is 152.33.51.201. I also looked up my parent's company schaefferbmw.com. They are register with Network Solutions, LLC and they are due to expire in the year November 2010. Also I found that there IP address is 72.247.52.133. I tried to type in my first name with .com on the end but that took me to a search engine that brought up related sights with the name carolyn in them.

http://www.networksolutions.com/whois-search/schaefferbmw.com

Day 16

I was sent the word aasvogel. It means a number of species of the South African Vulture. hmmmm.... i never would have guessed that! The word I was sending was uxorious, which means doting upon, foolishjly fond of, or affectionately submissive toward one's wife. I have never heard of that word either! It took me around 40 minutes. I got the first 5 done very quickly but because of the different ways of communication that we tried I was unable to get the rest of my message across until the end.
I thought that both sending and retreiving were fairly easy. Sending was very simple as long as you did not clash with another person who was trying to communicate and retrieving was easy as long as it was easy to understand the person. So people read very quitely, making it difficult to understand. A few troubles that we hit while trying to get out messages across were everyone speaking at once and then a connection was called then more people trying to jump in. Also the other methods we tried were difficult because not everyone was able to send a recieve messages. As for making it fast.... I think that the way we did it was the fastest because though we had some collisions it was still faster than going in a circle and everyone had the opportunity to speak, sometimes the more organized you try to be the harder it is. Also people were left out because everyone has to send and recieve.
Overall I really liked the exercise!

Day 15

A way to connect computers and insure that your message gets there in one piece could be similar to to the bus idea. Having all computers connected to a strip of wires for communication however a down fall of the bus could be that the bus itself would get so busy that it would cause communication to be transfered slowly. Maybe if you had more than one bus and you used one bus for certain types of communication ex:email and the other bus could be for another type of communications for example sending excel sheets and word documents. This way the bus would not get to over crowded because not all of the computers are going to be sent the same things, more buses would help to give more lines of communication. Rather than all computers trying to communicate through one line.