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Tuesday, December 16, 2003
FINAL EXAM will be open book, open notes, no collaboration exam. It is scheduled for 4:45 - 6:00pm on Tuesday of Finals Week, which is December 16th. You may stay longer if needed. Final Exam review notes are here.
Users cling to older Microsoft operating systems
Tuesday, December 9, 2003
| JenniCam Closing After 7+ Years |
from the no-longer-refreshing dept.
An anonymous Jenni fan writes "Details are sketchy, but apparently within the past few days, JenniCam has announced that it is closing permanently on New Year's Eve. Jenni Ringley has run the site for over 7 and a half years and was even voted more popular than Linus in a ZDNet poll. Of course, such constant exposure has had its downsides; she has received death threats in the past. Last chance to check out that Slashbox while her life is still online."
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An interview with Marc Andreeson
Tuesday/Thursday, December 2/4, 2003
I am not feeling well and am not on campus today, and am
canceling class for today. I will pick up your assignment on Thursday. Be sure to
have read the last few chapters so we can discuss systems analysis.
The
TOP TEN personal computers of all time
For network security: What would Microsoft do?
Companies moving away from cubicles
On the web, research work appears ephemeral
You can't use the industry-standard term "master/slave" in LA County
Dell is moving it's call center back from India
An ATM card under your skin, or the mark of the beast?
Bill Gates answers readers questions
Here's the letter from SCO to Linux-using companies
Whatever happened to Dennis Hayes and the Hayes modem company?
Thursday, November 20, 2003
'Wal-Mart Says So'
Opinion: If your company wants to do business with Wal-Mart, you'll
have to invest a lot of money and resources into RFID. And don't expect
any help from the world's largest retailer.
What should you
do if the Internet goes down?
Pop-ups prove valuable and persistent
Tuesday, November 18, 2003
FOR CLASS REVIEW:
How
the Internet works
Histories of the Internet
early
history
basic
Internet data
Old Packeteer presentation and how one school handles bandwidth shaping and from Packeteer, a slide show called "Using the Packetshaper in an educational environment."
Here's some pictures of a VPN concentrator
Do you get a lot of spim? Are you soaking in spam?
Wal-Mart to open up an online music store
Bill Gates is still having fun
Revenge on the Nigerian "419" scammers
Best Buy says the DMCA protects their sales flyers while a judge rules that the DMCA can't be used to prevent garage-door openers from being cloned.
Southern drawls confuse voice recognition equipment
Gateway to start selling servers with SUSE linux installed
Thursday, November 13, 2003
My TechTip cool site of the day
Tuesday, November 11, 2003
Gateway to open newly remodeled stores and realign their brand
Attempted "back door" code into Linux
Why blacklisting spammers is not such a good idea
Computer viruses are now 20 years old
Thursday, November 6, 2003
 Your
Rights Online: Microsoft Offers A Bounty On Virus Writers |
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from the must-bring-left-ears dept.
Iphtashu Fitz writes "According to news.com Microsoft will announce a bounty of $250,000 on Wednesday for information on who wrote two recent Windows viruses. The bounty is offered for information that leads to the arrest of the people who released the MSBlast worm and the SoBig virus. Microsoft will officially announce the reward in a joint press conference with the FBI and U.S. Secret Service Wednesday morning. This is the first time a company has offered money for information about the identity of the cybercriminals. Could this be the start of a new trend in going after the writers of viruses & worms?"
A student had a question about class on Tuesday, November 25th. That is the Tuesday of Thanksgiving week. I will continue with my tradition of not holding a scheduled class, but rather giving you an assignment that you can work on during that time, or at a time of your convenience. I will be available for assistance should you need help with the assignment.
UC to build a model Internet to test security features
What platform are the candidate's websites running on?
Whoops! Microsoft forgot to renew the hotmail.uk domain!
Tuesday, November 4, 2003
Will Google merge with Microsoft? Did MS approach Google?
The case of the 500 mile email
Are spammers behind the latest DDOS and worm attacks?
More web servers on the Internet use Apache (Slashdot article)
IPv4 - How long do we have? The answer might surprise you!
Xbox to switch to the PowerPC chip
Thursday, October 30, 2003
Just a reminder that the Wade and Seagate labs will close an hour earlier, at 4:00pm, on Friday so everyone can leave and enjoy Halloween!
Copyright office rules against Lexmark in inkjet printer cartridge refill case
Tuesday, October 28, 2003
Hope had a good fall break week!
Top Ten Ways To Lose Your Data
Watching you: The world of high-tech surveillance
Outsourcing the Technology Boss
A license agreement on a woodworking tool?
Senate passes anti-spam bill. It probably won't make it as law, but it's a good start.
Google is considering an online auction of their IPO shares
Car black box convicts Montreal driver
Defense Department drafts RFID policy
Voice recognition in police cruisers?
Microsoft shows off a preview of Longhorn and the official MS site
Tuesday, October 14, 2003
The Vintage Computer Festival was held this weekend. One of the events was the 30th birthday of the Xerox Alto (more) (more) (more)
Dissatisfaction with Microsoft software running high
John Sculley regrets his decision not to move Apple to the x86 platform
Thursday, October 9, 2003
What is the scroll lock key and why is it on my keyboard?
The new $20 bill is going out to banks today
Multiple monitors increase worker productivity
Intuit apologizes to TurboTax customers
Suing your customers - a winning business strategy?
A cloaking device for spammers?
Tuesday, October 7, 2003
The University of Florida is monitoring student's personally-owned computers for P2P apps
Charter Cable has sued the RIAA, to block subpoenas of their subscribers
Judge rules that Lexmark can prevent users from refilling their printer cartridges
WooHoo! They are finally making a HitchHikers Guide to the Galaxy movie!
Elvis crashes my computer! and fun with a faculty member
Verisign VP defends sitefinder service and How ISPs responded to Sitefinder
Court overturns cable modem rules
The 50 most powerful people in technology. Look at their names - how many are familiar to you?
Internet outage plunges nation into productivity
Thursday, October 1, 2003
Geer sounds off on his dismissal
Japan now requires computer recycling - at the customers expense
Is the Internet your source of knowledge? Let's discuss!
Innocent file sharers could appear to be guilty
Latest worm - check out what it does, it modifies your DNS setting (this sets us up for more lecturing on how the web works!)
Tuesday, September 30, 2003
Criticize Microsoft, and get fired?
Do you have a bang path in your email address?
Microsoft says: Shut that website down!
Thank this guy for "control, alt, delete"
Who has the #1 drive-thru window service?
Thursday, September 25, 2003
Microsoft shuts down world-wide chat services
Designing the ultimate office for computer geeks
Smartcards to track London commuters
House votes 412-8 to reinstate the "do not call" list
Humor: "All you can eat" promotion loses boss his job
She
floppied my hard diskette and dumped me on the Internet...
Tuesday, September 23, 2003
I'm not in the office today. I'm at home waiting on an electrician. I should be able to make class as he is due around 1:00pm. If you want to contact me, send me an email. UPDATE: Well, the guy got busy and won't be here until 11:30am on Wednesday. So I am back in the office.
Internet Architecture Board's response to Verisign's actions. It also violates user privacy on the net.
Intuit is discontinuing product activation
The latest Microsoft worm. This one is very professionally done.
Compaq finally answers the question: where is the ANY key?
Did you know you have to license the Dewey Decimal System?
TIme-Warner sues apartment complex over WiFi
This writer's favorite word processor. Or is it a text editor? Very interesting!
Quiz today! It's a good one. More of a "hands-on" quiz. Also, you will get your first assignment today that is due in one week. More on that at 4:45pm! Related to the quiz, here's a Unix Humor Page and another one here.
Thursday, September 18, 2003
See your email for an article on Verisign's land grab
It figures that someone would use their "picture taking cell phone" for some lurid purpose
How current! Student accused of counterfeiting money in her dorm room with her PC
Tuesday, September 16, 2003
Should Internet users be licensed?
Will the new $20 bill stop counterfeiters?
File sharing battle leaves musicians in the middle
Bill Gates finally gets his sports car road-legal! OF course, this is not the first time, nor the last, that he will be caught speeding.
Can Canadians copy music legally?
Thursday, September 11, 2003
RIAA using file-sharing statistics in their sales plans
Tuesday, September 9, 2003
Hmmm... Notice anything unusual about this product, this product and this product?
Hope they had offsite backup tapes! Note: you need physical security for your computers
How to destroy your computer. Hmmm, how many of these have I seen?
An interview with John "maddog" Hall (question: who is he, and why do we care?)
So, still trying to figure out how to show full headers in your email? Remember, Google is your friend. Try this string. I like the second result. Also, don't forget to use the HELP system in your MUA. I'm amazed at the number of people that won't take the 30 seconds to look at help, or try a search in Google. On the other hand, you can get a reputation as a computer god if you use Google and don't tell your users!
Want to buy a replica of an Apple I?
Court says that pop-up ads are legal
Windows is cheaper than free software - or so says Microsoft
Turn off that cellphone or go to jail!
Did your parents put a "black box" in your car? Does your car have one now?
Interesting editorial on the RIAA from the WSJ and a 12-year old girl is sued by the RIAA and an article on if you are at risk of being sued
58th anniversary of the first computer bug
Thursday, September 4, 2003
Worm suspect speaks: "I am not the one"
Humor: Take this quiz: Serial killer or programmer?
Microsoft issues FIVE new security warnings yesterday - some of them critical.
IBM employees suing over exposure to cancer-causing chemicals
Details on the AOL-MSN outage. Gee, I didn't even know there was a problem!
What is your disaster recovery plan?
Tuesday, September 2, 2003
Congratulations to Andy Huettner! He is the first student to subscribe to our class list. He wins a lovely gift for being the first student on the list. OK, now the other 7 of you need to get on the ball and get on the list!!!
Looks like the FBI is going to arrest a teenager for writing a variant on the latest worm
Why Hotmail is a poor email service:
... while talking to mx4.hotmail.com.:
>>> QUIT
<<< 421-Microsoft ESMTP MAIL Service, Version: 5.0.2195.5600 ready at Service not available, closing
transmission channel
451 reply: read error from mx4.hotmail.com.
This occurred on Friday at 8:20am as I was sending out a message to the
cbastudent list. What this means is that Hotmail is not accepting
email at this time. These students will not likely get this message.
Thursday, August 28 , 2003
Welcome to the first day of class! Please check
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You will need to join our class mailing list. At the present time the mailing list is mis253d@creighton.edu. You will need to be on this list for important class information. To join, send a message to majordomo@creighton.edu, leave the subject line blank, and in the body of the message (on the very first line) put the phrase subscribe mis253d email@address - where email@address is your email address where you read your mail every day. Then send the message. Once I get the request, I will add you to the list. You will need to do this before the next class.
Information about the new Vice-President of Information Services announced on May 29.
STUDY LINKS INTERNET OVERUSE WITH DEPRESSION
"Unregulated Internet Usage: Addiction, Habit, or Deficient Self-Regulation?," a study of the online habits of 465 students in two
Midwestern colleges, indicates that excessive Internet usage is linked to depression. Praised as a thoughtful inquiry into the origins of
compulsive Internet use, the study finds that students typically use the Internet for about an hour and a half a day. Those who turn to the
Internet initially to regulate mood and combat feelings of loneliness often can't regulate usage. The inability to regulate usage can
intensify depressive moods and lead to further isolation. To work around the limitations of the notion of addiction as it applies to
online habits, the authors employ the idea of deficient self-regulation to describe compulsive Internet usage. The study's findings are
consistent with those for excessive use of conventional media, such as immoderate TV watching or reading too many trashy novels.
Chronicle of Higher Education, 2 July 2003 (sub. req'd)
http://chronicle.com/daily/2003/07/2003070201t.htm
COURT RULES AGAINST INTEL IN E-MAIL TRESPASS CASE
The California Supreme Court ruled that a former Intel employee did not
violate trespassing laws when he sent e-mail messages to current Intel employees. From 1996 to 1998, Kenneth Hamidi, a former Intel engineer
who was fired after a workers' compensation dispute, sent six e-mail messages to Intel employees, directing them to a Web site he created
that criticized Intel. In 1998, Intel received an injunction that barred Hamidi from sending messages to Intel employees. The California
court overturned the lower court's injunction and rejected Intel's argument that the messages represented illegal trespassing to its
computer systems. The trespass argument has been used by Internet service providers and companies to stop spam. Jeffrey D.
Neuburger, a New York-based technology lawyer, said, "Everyone is trying to figure
out ways to solve the spam problem, and this ruling doesn't help." Although the case attracted attention regarding free-speech and
employee rights, the California court ruled only on the trespass issue.
New York Times, 1 July 2003 (registration req'd)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/01/technology/01SPAM.html
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