Follow the Wire Did you ever wonder where the bits and
bytes making up your emails go when they vanish from your computer
screen? A LITS site will let you "follow the wire" from your computer
through the College's routing system to the receiver's computer. This
image is of a wiring closet, which is plugged into a 10baseT ethernet
hub which connects individual rooms to the campus ethernet. Got
that?
An occasional guide to interesting and useful sights among the more than 11,000 pages currently on the College's Web site.
The LITS technical support and repair group has a very useful Web site at http://www.mtholyoke.edu/lits/tsr. Included in its "Help Me Now!" section are frequently asked questions about computers, such as "How do I send or receive an attachment in e-mail?" and "What do I do about this computer virus?" There's also information on creating Web documents, mailing lists, and newsgroups.
And coolest of all is the "Follow the Wire" feature. Find this link on the list of topics in the "local experts" section, at http://www.mtholyoke.edu/lits/network/all/follow-wire.light/. This takes the viewer on a photo tour following an email message on its way from the sender's computer through wiring closets and servers to the recipient's computer.
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