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Source text - English Excerpt pp. 6-8, Harville Secker edition.
'Who was that young blonde you were deep in conversation with?' Fred asked me in the car on the way home. She was driving because she hadn't had much to drink and I had had quite a lot.
'I've no idea,' I said. 'She told me her name, twice in fact, but I Couldn't make it out. I didn't hear a word she was saying. The noise ...
'It's all the concrete - it makes the sound reverberate.'
'I thought she might be one of your customers.'
'No, I've never seen her before. What did you think of the exhibition?'
'Drab. Boring. Anybody with a digital camera could take those pictures. But why bother?'
'I thought they had a kind of interesting... sadness.'
That is a condensed account of our conversation, which actually went something like this:
'Who was that young woman you were deep in conversation with?
'What?'
'You were deep in conversation with a young blonde.'
'I didn't see Ron. Was he there?'
'Not Ron. The blonde woman you were talking to, who was she?'
I've no idea. She told me her name, twice in fact, but I didn't make it out. I didn't hear a word she was saying. The noise...'
'It's all the concrete.'
'There's nothing wrong with the heating, in fact it's always too bloody hot for my liking.'
'No, concrete. The walls, the floor. It makes the sound reverberate.'
'Oh . . .'
(Pause.)
'What did you think of the exhibition?'
'I thought she might be one of your customers.'
'Who?'
'The Young blonde woman.'
'Oh. No, I've never seen her before. What did you think of the exhibition?'
'What?'
'The exhibition - what did you think?'
'Drab, boring. Anyone with a digital camera could take those pictures.'
I thought they had a kind of interesting ... sadness.
'Can badness be interesting?'
'Sadness, an interesting sadness. Are you wearing your hearing aid, darling?'
'Of course I am.'
'It doesn't seem to be working very well.'
She was absolutely right. I tapped the earpiece in my right car with my fingernail and got a dull dead sound. The battery had packed up and I hadn't noticed. I don't know at what point in the evening it happened. Maybe that was why I didn't hear what the blonde woman was saying, though I don't think so. I think it must have happened when I went to the Gents, which was after she left. It was quiet in there, and I wouldn't have registered the loss of
volume, or I would have attributed it to the quietness of the Gents compared to the cacophony in the gallery, and when I went back to the party I didn't even attempt to have a conversation with anybody but pretended to be interested in the pictures, which were in fact not at all interesting, for their sadness or badness or any other quality, but merely banal.
'My battery's packed up,' I said. 'Shall I put a new one in? It's a bit tricky in the dark.'
'No, don't bother,' Fred said, as she often does these days. She'll come into my study, for instance, when I'm working on the computer, without wearing my hearing aid because it turns the soothing mutter of the keyboard into an intrusive clatter as loud as an old-fashioned upright Remington, and she'll say something to me which I don't hear, and I have to make a split second choice between either halting the conversation while I scrabble for my hearing aid pouch and insert the earpiece or trying to wing it without them, and usually I try to wing it, and a dialogue follows something like:
Fred: Murr murr murr.
Me: What?
Fred: Murr murr murr.
Me: (playing for time) Uh huh.
Fred: Murr murr murr.
Me: (making a guess at the content of the message) All right.
Fred: (surprised) What?
Me: What did you say?
Fred: Why did you say 'All right' if you didn't hear what I said?
Me: Let me get my hearing aid.
Fred: No, don't bother. It's not important.
Translation - Danish Tekstuddrag pp. 6-8, Harville Secker udgaven.
"Hvem var den unge blondine, du var i dyb samtale med?" spurgte Fred mig i bilen på vejen hjem. Hun kørte, fordi hun ikke havde fået meget at drikke, og jeg havde fået en del.
"Det har jeg ingen idé om," sagde jeg. "Hun fortalte hvad hun hed to gange faktisk, men jeg kunne ikke tyde det. Jeg hørte ikke et ord af hvad hun sagde. Støjen...
Det er al den der beton – det får lyden til at slå tilbage fra væggene."
"Jeg troede hun eventuelt var en af dine kunder."
"Nej, jeg har ikke set hende før. Hvad synes du om udstillingen?"
"Trist. Kedelig. Enhver med et digitalkamera kunne tage de billeder. Men hvorfor spekulere på det?"
"Jeg syntes de havde en slags interessant... tristhed."
Det er en afkortet udgave af vores samtale, som faktisk forløb nogenlunde sådan her:
"Hvem var den unge blondine, du var i dyb samtale med?"
"Hvad?"
"Du var i dyb samtale med en blond kvinde."
"Jeg så ikke noget til Ron. Var han der?"
"Ikke Ron. Den blonde kvinde du talte med, hvem var hun?"
"Nåh. Det har jeg ikke nogen idé om. Hun fortalte hvad hun hed, to gange faktisk, men jeg kunne ikke tyde det. Jeg hørte ikke et ord af hvad hun sagde. Støjen..."
"Det er bygningen."
"Der er ikke noget i vejen med opvarmningen, rent faktisk synes jeg, der altid er for pokkers varmt."
"Nej, bygningen. Væggene, gulvet. Det får lyden til at slå tilbage."
"Nåh..."
(Pause.)
"Hvad synes du om udstillingen?"
"Jeg troede hun muligvis var en af dine kunder."
"Hvem?"
"Den unge, blonde kvinde."
"Nåh. Nej, jeg har aldrig set hende før. Hvad synes du om udstillingen?"
"Hva'behar'?"
"Udstillingen – hvad synes du om den?"
"Trist. Kedelig. Enhver med et digitalkamera kunne tage de billeder.
"Jeg syntes de havde en slags interessant... sørgmodighed."
"Kan ringhed være interessant?"
"Sørgmodighed, en interessant sørgmodighed. Har du dit høreapparat på, søde?"
"Selvfølgelig har jeg det."
"Det ser ikke ud til at virke særligt godt."
Hun havde fuldstændig ret. Jeg prikkede på det højre ørestykke med min fingernegl og fremkaldte en dump, død lyd. Batteriet var fladt, og jeg havde ikke lagt mærke til det.
Jeg ved ikke, på hvilket tidspunkt i løbet af aftenen det var sket. Måske var det derfor, jeg ikke havde hørt, hvad den unge kvinde sagde, skønt jeg ikke tror, det hænger sådan sammen. Jeg tror det må være sket, medens jeg var på herretoilettet, det var efter hun var taget af sted. Der var stille derinde, og jeg ville ikke have registreret at lydstyrken gik ned, eller jeg ville have tilskrevet det stilheden på toilettet sammenlignet med kakofonien udenfor i galleriet, og da jeg vendte tilbage til selskabet, forsøgte jeg ikke engang at konversere med nogen, men foregav at være interesseret i billederne, som hverken var triste eller ringe, men simpelthen blot banale.
"Batteriet er fladt." sagde jeg. "Skal jeg sætte et nyt i? Det er lidt bøvlet i mørket."
"Nej, lad være med at rode med det," sagde Fred, som hun ofte gør for tiden. Hun kommer for eksempel ind i mit arbejdsværelse, medens jeg arbejder ved computeren uden at have mit høreapparat på, fordi det forvandler den dulmende tikken fra tastaturet til en høj, påtrængende klapren som fra en gammel Remington skrivemaskine og siger et eller andet til mig, som jeg ikke opfatter, og jeg skal på et split-sekund afgøre om jeg skal stoppe samtalen, medens jeg febrilsk roder efter den lille pung med høreapparatet og sætter ørepropperne i, eller jeg skal forsøge at kringle den uden – som regel forsøger jeg at klare mig uden, og der følger en dialog nogenlunde sådan her:
Fred: Mumle, mumle, mumle.
Mig: Hvad?
Fred: Mumle, mumle, mumle.
Mig:(trækker tiden ud) Ahaa...
Fred: Mumle, mumle, mumle.
Mig: (forsøger på at gætte indholdet af samtalen) Det er i orden.
Fred: (overrasket) Hvad?
Mig: Hvad sagde du?
Fred: Hvorfor sagde du "Det er i orden", hvis du ikke hørte, hvad jeg sagde?
Mig: Lad mig tage mit høreapparat på.
Fred: Det gør ingenting. Det er ikke vigtigt.
English to Danish: Computer Networks, components - Danish: Computer Netværk, komponenter
Source text - English A network switch is a computer networking device that connects network segments.
The term commonly refers to a Network bridge that processes and routes data at the Data link layer (layer 2) of the OSI model. Switches that additionally process data at the Network layer (layer 3 and above) are often referred to as Layer 3 switches or Multilayer switches.
The term network switch does not generally encompass unintelligent or passive network devices such as hubs and repeaters.
The first Ethernet switch was introduced by Kalpana in 1990. [1]
As with hubs, Ethernet implementations of network switches support either 10/100 Mbit/s or 10/100/1000 Mbit/s ports Ethernet standards. Large switches may have 10 Gbit/s ports. Switches differ from hubs in that they can have ports of different speed.
The network switch, packet switch (or just switch) plays an integral part in most Ethernet local area networks or LANs. Mid-to-large sized LANs contain a number of linked managed switches. Small office, home office (SOHO) applications typically use a single switch, or an all-purpose converged device such as gateway access to small office/home office broadband services such as DSL router or cable, Wi-Fi router. In most of these cases, the end user device contains a router and components that interface to the particular physical broadband technology, as in the Linksys 8-port and 48-port devices. User devices may also include a telephone interface to VoIP.
In the context of a standard 10/100 Ethernet switch, a switch operates at the data-link layer of the OSI model to create a different collision domain per switch port. If you have 4 computers A/B/C/D on 4 switch ports, then A and B can transfer data between them as well as C and D at the same time, and they will never interfere with each others' conversations. In the case of a "hub" then they would all have to share the bandwidth, run in half-duplex and there would be collisions and retransmissions. Using a switch is called micro-segmentation. It allows you to have dedicated bandwidth on point to point connections with every computer and to therefore run in full duplex with no collisions.
[edit] Role of switches in networks
Network switch is a marketing term rather than a technical one.[citation needed] Switches may operate at one or more OSI layers, including physical, data link, network, or transport (i.e., end-to-end). A device that operates simultaneously at more than one of these layers is called a multilayer switch, although use of the term is diminishing.[citation needed]
In switches intended for commercial use, built-in or modular interfaces make it possible to connect different types of networks, for example Ethernet, Fibre Channel, ATM, and 802.11. This connectivity can be at any of the layers mentioned. While Layer 2 functionality is adequate for speed-shifting within one technology, interconnecting technologies such as Ethernet and token ring are easier at Layer 3.
Interconnection of different Layer 3 networks is done by routers. If there are any features that characterize "Layer-3 switches" as opposed to general-purpose routers, it tends to be that they are optimized, in larger switches, for high-density Ethernet connectivity.
In some service provider and other environments where there is a need for much analysis of network performance and security, switches may be connected between WAN routers as places for analytic modules. Some vendors provide firewall,[2][3] network intrusion detection,[4] and performance analysis modules that can plug into switch ports. Some of these functions may be on combined modules.[5]
In other cases, the switch is used to create a mirror image of data that can go to an external device. Since most switch port mirroring provides only one mirrored stream, network hubs can be useful for fanning out data to several read-only analyzers, such as intrusion detection systems and packet sniffers.
Translation - Danish En netværks switch er en netværksenhed, der forbinder segmenter i et netværk.
En netværks switch er en komponent i et computernetværk som behandler og transmitterer data i data-link laget (lag 2) i OSI modellen. Switche som i tilgift behandler data i netværks-laget (lag 3) i OSI modellen kaldes lag 3 switche eller mulitlags-switche.
Betegnelsen netværks switch omfatter i almindelighed ikke uintelligente eller passive netværksenheder såsom hubs eller repeaters.
Den første Ethernet switch blev introduceret af Kalpana i 1990.
Funktion
Som med hubs understøtter Ethernet-udgave af switche enten 10/100 Mbit/s eller 10/100/1000 Mbit/s porte efter Ethernet standard. Store switche kan have 10 Gb porte. Switche adskiller sig fra hubs i og med de kan have porte med forskellig hastighed.
Netværks switche, pakke switche (eller simpelthen: switch, switche) spiller en integreret rolle i de fleste Ethernet-baserede lokalnet (LANs). Mellemstore til store LANs indeholder et antal kontrollerede switche. Anvendt i mindre netværk (SOHO=Small Office, Home Office) benyttes typisk en enkelt switch eller en flerfunktionel integreret enhed der etablerer adgang via en gateway til bredbåndstjenester over en DSL-router, switchen har kablet eller trådløs computerforbindelse. I de fleste af disse tilfælde rummer slutbrugerenheden en router og komponenter der danner snitflade til den konkrete fysiske bredbåndsteknologi, som tilfældet er med Linksys 8-ports og 48-ports enhederne. Slutbruger enheder kan også omfatte en telefongrænseflade til VoIP.
Indenfor rammerne af en standard 10/100 Ethernet switch opererer en switch på data-link laget i OSI-modellen for at skabe forskellige kollisions-domæner for hver enkelt port. Hvis man har fire computere: A/B/C/D på fire switch-porte kan A og B udveksle data samtidig så vel som C og D kan og de vil aldrig interferere med hinandens kommunikation. Med hensyn til en hub vil de alle skulle dele den samme båndbredde, køre i halv duplex og der ville være kollisioner og retransmissioner. Brug af en switch kaldes mikro-segmentering. Den tillader at have dedikeret båndbredde på en punkt-til-punkt forbindelse med enhver computer på netværket og derfor kan man anvende fuld duplex uden nogen kollisioner.
Switches opgaver i et netværk
Ordet netværks-switch er mere et marketing udtryk end et teknisk udtryk. Switche kan operere på mere end et OSI-lag, indeholdende det fysiske lag, data laget, netværks laget eller transport laget (dvs. end-to-end). En enhed, der fungerer samtidigt på mere end et af disse lag kaldes en multilags-switch, selvom termen er ved at glide ud.
I switche beregnet til kommercielt brug muliggør indbyggede eller modulære grænseflader forbindelse af forskellige netværkstyper, f. eks. Ethernet, Fibre Channel, ATM og 802.11 trådløst.
Forbindelser kan etableres ethvert af de ovenfor nævnte lag. Medens lag 2 funktionalitet er tilstrækkelig til speed-shifting indenfor den samme teknologi så er forbindelse såsom Ethernet og Token Ring nemmere at udføre i lag 3.
Sammenkoblingen af forskellige lag 3 netværk udføres af routere. Hvis der er nogen træk der karakteriserer lag-3 switche i modsætning til mere generelle routere er det, at større switche ofte er optimerede til højkapacitets Ethernet sammenkobling.
Hos nogle service-udbydere og i andre miljøer, hvor der er et behov for omfattende analyser af netværksydelse og sikkerhed kan der mellem WAN-routere sættes switche med tilhørende analysemoduler. Der findes firewalls, netværksindtrængnings- og ydelsesanalyse moduler som kan sættes i switch-porte. Nogle af disse funktioner findes på kombinationsmoduler.
I andre tilfælde bruges switchen til at skabe et spejlbillede af data som kan sendes til en ekstern enhed. Siden port-spejling som oftest tilbyder en enkelt spejlet datastrøm, kan netværks-hubs være nyttige til at sprede data ud til flere read-only analyseenheder, såsom netværksindtrængnings systemer og pakke snusere.
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