Twosday

So, here I am sitting in a mall, sucking a connection from a Dell store on an Apple. There's some kind of twisted justice in there somewhere.

I work for a rather large telecomunications equipment company. My group does not however make equipment. No we develop software. The soft forgotten underbelly of the internet. Its not just routers and bandwidth. Its software driving those devices and providing the underlying services. Such as the DNS server that probably pointed you to this site.

Yeah, I know. You keyed in Blog on google and eventually you selected this site. How do you think you found google site? DNS, that's right.

How did you get your IP address from your ISP? Probably DHCP, right? What's an IP address? Well for those who don't know it is simply your address on the internet. It provide routing information to the sites you contact so that they know how to reach you online. Kind of like a return address. (Yes, I know I'm oversimplifying it.)

So, where was I, that's right. DNS, DHCP, IP Addresses and more. That's what team develops. I'm sure this isn't the thread that I had intended.

I know I was going to go off about the injustice that the larger organization forces upon my little software team. But the above, may have been more infromative. (And probably served to calm me down just a bit....)

Afterall, its all just 1's and 0's.