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3/25    Is Ping an Asian last name?
        \_ No.  But it is a common Chinese first name. -emarkp
           \-YMWTS: The Story of Ping --psb
             \_ Do you mean "The Story About Ping"?  Read an old beat-up copy
                when I was a child.  Have a nice new copy that I read to my
                kids. -emarkp
                \- I mean the "insightful and intuitive explanation of one of
                   Unix's most venerable networking utilities ... The book
                   describes networking in terms even a child could understand,
                   choosing to anthropomorphize the underlying packet struc-
                   ture." --psb
                   \_ Yes I found http://yyz.us/ping.shtml  Same book. -emarkp
        \_ Yes, it is one of the 100 Chinese last names.
           http://www.chinapage.com/biography/lastname.html , 6 rows down,                 2nd from the right.
           http://www.chinapage.com/biography/lastname.html
           6 rows down, 2nd from the right.
           \_ So is there a Chinese man named Pong Ping?
              \- No, but there are 500k Chinese names Lo Fat, and sloda
                 has its own Hi Fat Pet.
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Hemos on Monday February 01, @11:30A M from the it-all-makes-sense-now dept. Doc Technical, one of our highly trained book reviewers, has submitted fo r us Marjorie Flack, Kurt Wiese's book The Story about Ping. A rare tech nical manual, this is one of the few computer books in the field in whic h the illustrator is as important as the author. To truly understand the glories of Ping, click below to read more. The Story About Ping, by Marjorie Flack and Kurt Wiese , 1933, 1961. Review in a Nutcase: New perspectives on a classic networking utility. reviewed by Doc Technical Using deft allegory, the authors have provided an insightful and intuitiv e explanation of one of Unix's most venerable networking utilities. The book describes networking in terms even a child could understand, cho osing to anthropomorphize the underlying packet structure. The ping pack et is described as a duck, who, with other packets (more ducks), spends a certain period of time on the host machine (the wise-eyed boat). At th e same time each day (I suspect this is scheduled under cron), the littl e packets (ducks) exit the host (boat) by way of a bridge (a bridge). Fr om the bridge, the packets travel onto the internet (here embodied by th e Yangtze River). Ping meanders around t he river before being received by another host (another boat). He spends a brief time on the other boat, but eventually returns to his original host machine (the wise-eyed boat) somewhat the worse for wear. For example, with a story set on a river, the authors might have sunk to using that tired o ld plot device: the flood ping. Who Should Buy This Book If you need a good, high-level overview of the ping utility, this is the book. I can't recommend it for most managers, as the technical aspects m ay be too overwhelming and the basic concepts too daunting. Problems With This Book As good as it is, The Story About Ping is not without its faults. There i s no index, and though the ping man pages cover the command line opti ons well enough, some review of them seems to be in order. Likewise, in a book solely about Ping, I would have expected a more detailed overview of the ICMP packet structure. But even with these problems, The Story About Ping has earned a place on my bookshelf, right between Stevens' Advanced Programming in the Unix En vironment, and my dog-eared copy of Dante's seminal work on MS Windows, Inferno. "), without shaking their head with dee p understanding. For my next review, I will discuss the internals of several well-known ro uting protocols as described in the Old Testament. New contemporary evid ence points to the possibility that Job was a sysadmin on an early MULTI CS system. The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 17, @01:49PM As a recent graduate of the University of Michigan, I thought I'd tell yo u about the book we used to study the concept of packet forwarding in CS 489 (networks). It was called "Paddle to the Sea", and it was about how a little boy's toy craft passed through the Great Lakes on its way to t he ocean. Along the way, helpful fishermen (routers) put the boat in to the body of water most likely to lead back to the Atlantic. User Info) Yes, I remember back when I was just learning about pings and packets. My parents didn't want to give me a fun book, instead th ey gave me a technical book. User Info) I think both the old and new testaments were the first open source docume nts. Also, Moses had RFC 1 , the rules with the capital R The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. Search The makers may make and the users may use, but the fixers must fix with b ut minimal clues All trademarks and copyrights on this page are owned by their respective owners.
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When a bri de marries into the family, she assumes the last name of her husband. Wh en a daughter marries, she leaves the family and assumes the last name o f her husband. One Hundred Chinese Names The list of "Hundred Names" was compiled many years ago by order of the E mperor as the 100 most popular surnames (or last, or family names) in Ch ina at the time. School children used to memorize them, or at least the first few names from the list. The top 8 Chinese last names are: Zhao Qian Sun Li, Zhou Wu Zheng Wang. The list of last name is short, and the number of first names is in the billions .