To prepare yourselves for the inter-networks session
After you have created a password protected directory on Isis, look over the readings on this page to prepare yourself for the subsequent session.
But to prepare your password protected directory, download this placeholder page, save it to your client, and then FTP it into your newly created password protected directory.
on Local Area Networks
read these sections of How Ethernet Works by Nick Pidgeon in How Stuff Works (they are short, so you can read more if you wish)
- Introduction to How Ethernet Works
- Why Network?
- Local Area vs. Wide Area
- The Ethernet
- Ethernet Basics
- Ethernet Terminology
- Ethernet Medium
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You might want to go back over these to refresh yourselves with what we talked about today
- How Web Servers Work by Marshall Brain, How Stuff Works
- In Web Design in a Nutshell , 3rd Edition, read parts of chapter 4, "A Beginner's Guide to the Server" Unix Directory Structures, p. 46 through File Naming Conventions, p. 50
Glance over:
- Unix/Linux: Getting Started by UNC-CH ITS
- The Structure of UNIX by beginners.co.uk [three pages, and you'll need to scroll down to see the content]
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