Contemporary Examples. 1  Some of the images are very poignant, like the one of a boy searching for lice in his clothes. 2  If you have dead bodies, pestilence, lice, with a 90 temperature--mosquitoes, flies--then you have serious problems. 3  All of us become covered in lice and insects, which became maddening.
'IP' stands for Internet Protocol-it decribes the way information is sent and received over the Internet. An IP number is a 32 bit number assigned to any device that wishes to communicate over the Internet. Typically the IP number is represented as a set of four numbers in the range 0-255 - an address is usually written as these four numbers separated by dots. It can also be shown as one big number in decimal or hexadecimal.
How we see IP addresses. You know that an IP address is numbers that represent a device on a network, as a mailing address represents your home's location. But in order to actually assign and use IP addresses, you must understand the format of these numerical identifiers and the rules that pertain to them. Let's first concentrate on how humans read and write IP addresses. To us, an IP address appears as four decimal numbers separated by periods. For example, you might use 204.132.40.155 as an IP for some device in your network. You probably noticed that the four numbers making up an IP are always between 0 to 255. Have you ever wondered why?