tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4546861738945743651.post7756526566248434775..comments2009-03-03T12:15:41.669-05:00Comments on Blituri: Derrida and Texts and Technologysanoehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15083210938495812276noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4546861738945743651.post-35687368975283541632009-02-11T00:28:00.000-05:002009-02-11T00:28:00.000-05:00Suspending the first two and playing the third que...Suspending the first two and playing the third question, deconstructing Landow starts in the index looking for LAN and not seeing entries for GNU or Linux, reasoning therefore that any entries for FOSS or open source are likely to be skewed. This both validates and suggests he will stumble in LANs, lacking thorough technical knowledge from long habituation to human readable accounts of open, standard network protocols implemented [preposition] hosts and routers [verb] free, open source operating systems. (The blog software did not accept the phony parts of speech tags used as pseudo code (almost BNF), so the angles (less than and greater than) symbols were replaced with square brackets.) Landow:<BR/><BR/>Third, the term network also refers to an electronic system involving additional computers as well as cables or wire connections that permit individual machines, workstations, and reading-and-writing sites to share information. These networks can take the form of contemporary Local Area Networks (LANs), such as Ethernet, that join sets of machines within an institution or a part of one, such as a department or administrative unit. Networks also take the form of Wide Area Networks (WANs) that join multiple organizations in widely separated geographical locations . . . which until the arrival of the World Wide Web . . .<BR/><BR/>His examples differentiating between Local Area Networks as Ethernet, and Wide Area Networks, for which he gives examples of precursors to the World Wide Web, suggests that he does not appreciate network protocols such as TCP/IPv4 make the network more so than the level of 'Ethernet'. Recall TCP/IPv4 with respect to the OSI model: it falls in the mid to upper levels of encapsulation, whereas Ethernet is down there with the wires and the rest of the physical layer defined electrically in IEEE 802.11.American Socrateshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08608656469194433845noreply@blogger.com