lol....yeah, guy...you're having quite the day so far....i am a computer idiot and have no idea even what you're talking about here, but i still found it clever

Alvin - Thanks - It is my "yob main". I'm waiting for the geeks to weigh in. I road tested this on John Penry another geek who is putting this parody on his site texrocks.com. It flies. And the erroneous comments should be removed. I have request that they be pulled as I posted Ann's comment on my own parody. So no one is going to know what this means in the future when nothing is there. =;-)

What alvin said, but sounds like a real techy goody...

: ) I kinda understand that stuff now...not all of course. Good one! 5's

Thanks Pat - We'll make a geek out of you yet.

Excellent concept, Guy. The love/hate relationship between a user and his IP has the same feeling as the relationship in TOS.

JJ - IP can mean two different things - one it is the assigned ip like 192.168.101.40 which is private IP space or IP can mean your internet provider such as Roadrunner.

MAC can mean a MAC PC but that is not what the ref means here. It is the physical address of the NIC card expressed in Hex notation. MAC stands for Media Access Control. It is used as a layer 2 network identifier that switches deal with to find an end host like a PC on a network. It is a unique number that identifies the manufacturer and a whole host of other things.

ARP stands for Address Resolution Protocol and is is the standard method for finding a host's hardware address when only its network layer address is known. It usually has a dedicated server that is able to take an IP address and convert that address to the MAC or physical address of the end host PC. Reverse or inverse ARP is able to take a MAC address and resolve it to an IP address. It bridges values between layer 2 and layer 3 protocols in network topology.

DHCP is Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol and automatically assigns an IP to an end host PC if none is configured on the host PC. It relieves manual configurations of IP space on host PCs thus allieving the need to track and assign IP space. So yes in a sense it is a love/hate relationship between user and IP in two different ways.

Release and renew commands are used to tell DHCP to remove the DHCP assigned address using the release command and then followed by the renew command in which DHCP will give the end host a new IP address or sometimes the same one and assign a new lease value to the connection session. That is where I play with re lease and release in the lyrics. And if anyone thinks I gave away my addressing information save it. The values are made up and you will never tind me using the values in the example in the top comments of this parody. Hope this helps but I'm afraid that I cannot adequately describe all that I'm talking about in this parody using such an abbreviated description. This parody works best for network savvy people who readily know the terms - in other words a geek. Thanks for reading and commenting JJ. I may have just confused things more but I gave it a stab.

Brilliant, Guy - I thought "Re lease me" was inspired.

Guy, I knew IP but the other things not....no one would say or couldn't.

Phil - So glad that a fellow geek writer weighed in here. I felt that this was going over everyone's heads. It finally received its amiright road test from you and it flies. So why doesn't Microsoft write another command called ipconfig /re lease that will do both in one. You'd a thunk that the whiz kids at Windows-Czar-US would have thought of this. Thanks Philbo. And always remember that there is no place like 127.0.0.1.

Pat - I wrote this one a bit deep and I expected that it would get by many. This is fine, really. =;-)

I hope you changed the numbers above, otherwise you may find yourself subject to net attacks via your MAC address. Not by me, of course, that would be wrong ;>}

Not to worry McKludge - they are genuinely bogus. They were gotten from an internet site as an example of the command IPCONFIG /ALL and I'm sure they are not mine. I was not geeked yesterday. =;-)

Hi Guy, even longer time no see. I think everything has been said above, so all I will say is I enjoyed :)

Thanks Pip - Same here, nice to hear from you. Getting ready to go back to work and do this stuff for real.

Thanks Guy. Merry has been extremely unwell (amongst other things), hence the absence... :( I am glad to see you submitting again! HNY!

(ABC05I)

The OS "Release Me" is just too short to write a decent parody on and for what I wanted to say about IP addressing just could not be done in three verses, so nearly tripled the "versage".

I have attempted to explain what all this means in a comment I put out on Jan 06, 2008. So now I have "released" "IP Me" for the ABC-I round of competition.

[ABC] I don't know which is better, the barody, or the original author's name. 5s.

Oh no, my lower case p turned upside-down. Supposed to be parody*.

wow. just wow.. awesome Guy.. you're still my milepost for talent. I'm not there .... I'm not worthy

Just love the techy songs that bring in a lot of the dumb things that are all in code and story story, along with plaintive OS, relays the confusion. Well done!

ABC: Not bad, DKTOS or that much about computers, but not that bad

(ABC) Yeah, the techlingo is lost on me, but a 555 nonetheless.

Great work

(ABC) when you combine your syllable-matching prowess with IT gobbledygook Guy, it is one awesomely strange read - loved the intro - maybe the most bizarre intro ever - 555

(ABC5I) DKTOS (but I do know of Englebert Humperdink due to an Eddie Izzard bit on him), and I know sod all about this kind of heavy computer stuff, so uh...555 anyway!

(ABC) This was technically a very well paced and rhymed parody!!!...and after reading the explanations in the above comments, I think I understood the humor!...The problem I had was that the OS moves so slowly that it seems like it takes forever to get to the punchlines...Nonetheless, it surely rates 555!!!

Wow, quite tecnical here. I don't understand it all, but found this parody quite interesting and have it saved in my favorites folder now.

Um, hmm, I guess I get it--yeah--it just went over my head--way over it. . .but I think I got the jist of it. . .paced and rhymed beautifully, but I think perhaps this one is a little out of my understandability range, which I thought was rare for computer oriented parodies. . .

I'm not computer savvy at all so this one went way above my head... Sorry Guy!

Dos a real nice parody dere, Guy. I loved every bit of it.
Glad to see you networking with the rest of us here in the comp...

Liked the computer commands at the top. Funny parody that rang with me as a computer geek.