Networking For Dummies
Chapter One
Networks Will Not Take
Over the World, and
Other Network Basics
In This Chapter
* Getting a handle on networks
* Considering why networking is useful (and everywhere)
* Telling the difference between servers and clients
* Looking under the hood at the network operating system
* Asking, "How's it work when a network works if a network works for me?" (Say
what?)
* Assessing how networks change computing life
* Identifying (and offering sympathy to) the network manager
* Comparing servers to clients: What have they got that you don't got?
BLDBLDomputer networks get a bad rap in the movies. In the Terminator movies, a
computer network of the future called Skynet takes over the planet, builds
deadly terminator robots, and sends them back through time to kill everyone
unfortunate enough to have the name Sarah Connor. In The Matrix movies,
a vast and powerful computer network enslaves humans and keeps them
trapped in a simulation of the real world. And in one of Matthew Broderick's
first movies, War Games, a computer whiz kid nearly starts World W ... read full excerpt from Networking for Dummies, 7th Edition ebook
