Compsci 82, Fall 2009, November 16

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  1. Suppose Moore's law holds for the speed of computing, and we use the "doubles every two years" version of the law. If computers execute one billion instructions a second today, how many instructions per second will be executed in 2019? Why?
  2. In 1998 Jakob Nielsen said bandwidth grows by 50% a year (measured in downloading bits-per-second). The Duke wireless network uses 802.11n, which is about 100 Mbit/s or 100 Megabits/second. This is about 100 million bits/second. I can download a bootleg/illegal copy of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince that is roughly 1.4 Gigabytes in size. That's 1.4 billion bytes and a byte is 8 bits. How long will it take to download via the 802.11n network. How long will it take in 2019 if Nielsen's law holds?
  3. The url www.youtube.com?v=w2FxTQCgA9U is valid. If every URL with the same length is valid, and any digit as well as upper/lower case letters can be used, how many possible URLs/videos are there?

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  4. In the article you can find the following phrase, "Since each octet (the numbers between each period of an IP) can contain values from 1-255, ...". Explain why the numbers are between 1 and 255.
  5. If you remove cookies every few months will some of the author's concerns by eliminated (e.g., on the second page when the author talks about a "9-month-old search log ... because the cookie values remain".