This is another tale from Andy Skinner who tells us, “Another geek joke, this one from a computer networking class.”
The professor was speaking on some aspect of computer networking, and gave an example of a user named Bilbo Baggins. I asked whether the system he was explaining would work well on a *Tolkien Ring.
*You have to know that a token ring is a kind of computer network.… Read the rest...
http://shaggy-dogs.briancombs.net/geek-joke-of-the-rings-2/
This is another tale from Andy Skinner who tells us, “Another geek joke, this one from a computer networking class.”
The professor was speaking on some aspect of computer networking, and gave an example of a user named Bilbo Baggins. I asked whether the system he was explaining would work well on a *Tolkien Ring.
*You have to know that a token ring is a kind of computer network.… Read the rest...
http://shaggy-dogs.briancombs.net/geek-joke-of-the-rings/
This computer tale was sent to us by Andy Skinner who says, “This came to me during a computer architecture course at UNC.”
As fast as computers go these days, one of the strategies of a computer processor is to allow multiple operations to go on at the same time. You have to ensure that things happen in the correct order, however.
If a program instructs the computer to read from a certain memory location and then write to it, … Read the rest...
http://shaggy-dogs.briancombs.net/programming-problems/