Table tennis is an indoor sport played on a scaled-down tennis court with a ball and rackets. It started as a recreational game but has become a worldwide sport. The paddle can be held in different ways and has different textures for ball spin. The table is 9 feet long, 5 feet wide, and 2.5 […]
Ping pong, or table tennis, has internationally recognized rules based on standard equipment, serve, score, and illegal moves. A game is won when a player reaches 11 points, provided they are ahead by two points. The first serve is determined by a coin toss, and the server serves two points before exchanging with their opponent. […]
Ping Pong Diplomacy facilitated a friendlier relationship between the US and China during the Cold War. The Chinese table tennis team invited the US team to play in China, leading to the lifting of a trade embargo and eventually a meeting between Mao Zedong and President Richard Nixon. During the tense Cold War era between […]
Ping of death is a type of denial of service attack that sends a signal larger than a device can handle, resulting in a system shutdown, reboot, or freeze. It became popular in the late 1990s but has mostly been eliminated due to fixes in operating system software. It has been replaced by other forms […]
A ping is a message sent across a network from one system to another, usually an ICMP Echo Request packet. It is used to analyze the connectivity of various systems on a network. Pings can be used to create a denial of service attack, so other methods are often used to evaluate network connectivity. A […]
Ping sweep is a diagnostic technique that identifies active computers on a network by sending ICMP echo requests to IP addresses. It can be used by system administrators to diagnose network problems and by hackers to locate targets. Ping sweep utilities like Fping can send multiple requests to multiple hosts. ICMP packets can be disabled […]
