References

Results of the midterm poll.

For midterm 1, there are some parts in the book that you can skip.

Inofficial usage policies on the UIC network. Learn how to avoid getting filtered by security.

This may help in figuring out how you're doing so far: Course Score Calculator for CS450.

Cosmic radiation on airplanes is no joke. It's not enough to start worrying about your health though.

Good tutorial on LaTeX

Papers

Chord paper in SIGCOMM

The BackBlaze Pod excellent blog post about how to build a dirt-cheap massive storage array. Not particularly networking related, but well worth a read. Almost one order of magnitude cheaper than Dell!

RFCs

RFC1035 - Domain names - implementation and specification

RFC2616 - Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1

RFC2821 - Simple Mail Transfer Protocol