My blog of interest for the week of April the 28th

How many times have you looked at your credit card statement and seen a bill for $9.87 and figured "oh well", it is only ten dollars? I know I have many of times. Maybe you might want to read what the latest research has found and how fake companies are robbing thousands of unsuspecting credit card owners and the owners just look over the small amount.

Shortcomings of Vista.............my article of interest for the week of April the 28th

Wow....a 25 items list for the new O/S Vista. The CRN Test Center made a list of these items that VARs should be aware of when using and deploying Vista. Some which include: SMB2 a new variant of the SMB protocol, which could cause compatibility with Samba or Linux, Hardware not performing adequately, and needing hardware upgrades, Third-party antivirus applications not yet compatible with Vista, Drivers that manufacturers do not have available and third-party applications not yet fully supported just to name the first five. OH MY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Class Terms for April the 28th.

1. - Decimal Number System - A base ten number system.

2. - Base - With number systems, it describes the number of digits used.

3. - Radix - another term for the base of a number system.

4. - Most Significant Digit(MSD) - The leftmost, largest weight digit in a number.

5. - Least Significant Digit(LSD) - :) The rightmost, smallest weight digit in a number.

6. - Reset and Carry - An action that occurs when a column had reached its maximum count.

7. - Binary Point - A symbol used to separate the whole from the fraction in a binary number



Thanks to: Introductory Computer Mathematics, Second Edition, Nigel P. Cook, Prentice Hall Publishers, Chapter 9, pages 200-202

Class Discussion on April the 28th.

This weeks discussion was on Number Systems and Codes. We discussed the history of the Liebniz's Language of Logic. Gottfried Wilhelm Liebniz was born in Germany in 1646. In 1676, he turned his focus to mathematics. His focus was on the binary number system. Ironically, for all of his work, he failed to make the connection between the famous 1666 essay and binary to the universal language of logic he was seeking. The discovery remained hidden until George Boole uncovered it a century later after Liebniz's death. We also discussed the Decimal Number system which has a base of ten. We also learned that the term radix means base. We talked about the reset and carry operation. Finally, we talked and learned the binary number system. We also learned how to convert the decimal number system into binary number systems and binary number systems into decimal number systems.

Thanks to my Introductory Computer Mathematics Book, Second Edition, Nigel P. Cook, published by Prentice Hall, pages 198-210

Terms for April the 21st.

1. - Analog Data - Data recorded very similar to its original structure.

2. - Analog Circuit - An electrical circuit known as an operational amplifier.

3. - Linear Circuits - the basis for neural membrane models.

4. Ohm(Kiloohms) - the unit of resistance. The larger values are measured in
kiloohms which are equal to 1000 ohm's.

5. - multimeter - a device that has the capability to turn analog into digital and digital into analog.

6. convergence - the combinations of communication and computers and the combination of the two.

Multimeter references: 1. Digital Multimeter Measurement Fundamentals.
2. Agukebt 2458A Digital Multimeter Data Sheet.


convergence reference: Citation: Robert M. Janowiak, "Computers and Communications: A Symbiotic Relationship," Computer, volume 36, no. 1, pp. 76-79, Jan., 2003

My blog of interest for the week of April the 21st.

It has only been a month since Vista released the SP1 to Windows in 5 languages, and it is now been downloaded by millions of people on their PCs. Now, Vista has announced the next stage that anyone running Vista in any of the supported languages can now download this manually. I guess Vista has its good and bad points.

Look out Wirless Carriers: Cellular South?

Look out wireless carriers, Cellular South is offsetting horrid early termination fees by crediting their account with $200.00. Cellular South believes customers should have unlimited calling, texting, emailing over the web over their wireless cell phones. I know I will be looking into this and keeping up with Cellular South.

Class Discussion on April the 21st.

I was not present for the actual class, but I know we discussed Chapter 8 out of Introduction to Computer Mathematics. The chapter consisted of analog, and digital data and devices. The class also took the online tests that went along with our textbook and printed out two copies with our names on them, I sent mine via email, and plan on giving them to my advisor on my advisement date of the 25th of April. The class also encoded and decoded binary number's and looked at the ASCII charts. I missed you guys.

Terms and Definitions for April the 14th.

1.- Assessment - the process of documentation and measurement of what one knows on a particular subject.

2.- Main Page of a Wiki - the welcome page to a wiki.

3. - Editing a Wiki - use the edit mode to enter text.

4. Media File Link - is a tool for an edit page of a wiki.

5. Internal Link - another tool for an edit page of a wiki.

6. Sub page - a separate page in our wwki from the main page.

7. WWKI - What We Know Is



Thanks to Professor D for the typed assessment of our WWKI.

Blog about Networking....................................

Since I have been in Network +, I have grumbled and griped, but I am amazed at what I am being taught, and see in all reality that when I go online, I see blogs about the 20 most useful sites for IT professionals. Wow!!!! Networking is a HUGE world.

Yahoo comes out Swinging.............go yahoo.

Microsoft threatened a hostile takeover to Yahoo. CEO Jerry Yang was not having it. Yang responded the letter written on 4/5, with a letter of his own. Yang said that Microsoft's bid of 44.6 billion dollars undervalued Yahoo not only in its current state but also its given potential. On 4/9, Yahoo announced Index-tools which is an online advertising analytics provider. Then later that same day, the company also said that they will run Google ads alongside its own search results, for exploring options for gaining revenue and market share and keeping it out of Microsoft's hands.

Class Discussion on April the 14th for IT Foundations

We made so much progress on our class WWKI, I am so very proud of the whole class which includes our teacher. This has been an amazing class for me this semester, I was introduced to this blog, which I believe I am doing very well, and we began a WWKI, Wow, AWESOME. Today we made an assessment on what we did accomplish on our class WWKI, and now we are headed towards Computer Math. I am not overwhelmed at all, even though at the beginning of the semester, my first semester, after all the new information that has been taught to me, it was taught in a way that the teacher learned with us, we are just a bunch of geeks, and I love it. I really am going to miss the class but will continue with my blog.

Acronyms, and other IT terms related to class for April the 7th.

1. - PHP - ( Hypertext Processor ) is a computer scripting language used for producing dynamic web pages. The PHP License and The Free Software Foundation considers it to be free software. It is also the most popular Apache module among computers using Apache as a web server. The recent version is 5.2.0.

2. - Apache Http Server - a web server that plays a key role in the growth of the WWW. It was the first viable alternative to what is now known as the Sun Java System Web Server and has since evolved to rival with Unix as well.

3.- PERL - a general purpose programming language originally created for text manipulation. But...now it is used for System Administration, Web Development, Network Programming, and GUI development.

4. - CGI.pm module - a large and widely used Perl module for programming Common Gateway Interface(CGI) web applications. It is written and maintained by Lincoln D. Stein.

5.- ASP - (Active Server Pages) - Microsoft's first server-side script engine for dynamically generated web pages. It is included as a free compound of Window's Server 2000 and up.

6.- VBscript - (Visual Basic Scripting Edition) - an active Scripting language developed by Microsoft. It is installed as default in every Desktop release of Windows Operating Systems since WIN 98. Must be executed in a host environment.

7.- Byte Code - a term used to denote forms of instruction sets designed for efficient execution by a Software interpreter and is also suitable for further compilation into machine code. The name stems from the Java Instruction Set.

A Blog about Wiki's imagine that............

I visited this blog out of curiosity. Since the past two classes have been about our wwki's, I searched "Blogs about Mediawiki". KCKeditor is a pure extension for MediaWiki. It looks as if this might be a breakthrough. I read and I saw what was working for them and what was not working for them. All in all I think this could also help us, it surely can't hurt us.

Class Discussion on April the 7th for IT Foundations

Our class discussion today was to get our WWKI up and running. We are gaining progress, and all learning together. We have found out our WWKI is using PHP programming language, and it is not very friendly to us users. But...we are getting there. We have our individual student blogs with the links, and we have ten terms on the main page. We also talked about the remainder of the semester, and were given our Math books. It looks as if we are going into binary numbers, and hexadecimals, which is all behind the scenes. I am looking forward to seeing the remainder of this semester, I have already learned so much, I hope my brain can retain all of this technology. I love it.

The Grid..............next generation of the internet.

Wow....the next generation of the Internet. Not only do we have programming languages transforming into "meta" languages, it looks as if we have the "supercomputers" turning into "metacomputers". The grid originated from an idea that involved connecting to a supercomputer from a remotely controlled place. The word grid actually comes from the "electricity grid" which seems to that any compatible device will be able to plug in anywhere on the Grid and have some level of resources. Wow!!!!

Terms and Definitions for March the 24th

1. Spring Break - S. - surprising
P. - pretty
R. - roses
I. - involving
N. - new
G. - green grass

B. -Beautiful
R. - Relaxation
E. - everyday
A. - And
K. - Kind to self


Blame it on Carla Dianne, it was her idea, we love you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!