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This page last updated on Monday, December 10, 2007 10:58:45
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After class...
FYI: The make-up quizzes are from the entire semester. Review your class notes and old quizzes!
Wednesday, December 5, 2007
Last day of class!
The EFF is fighting for a blogger to remain anonymous
Make-Up Quizzes
Downey, Gregory T. - 1
Egan, Margaret T. - 1
Johnson, Ryan A. - 1
Klotz, Lindsey M. - 1
Lamke, Mitchell R. - 1
Mertens, Molly T. - 0
Moore, Joseph A. - 2
Richmeier, Jacob A. - 0
Rodenburg, Eric L. - 0
Rutledge, Alexandria - 1K.
Jones, Sydney - 0
Taylor, Lauren A. - 1
Monday, December 3, 2007
Exploding cellphone kills man!
Video game editor fired over bad review of game
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Universities are outsourcing email to Google and Microsoft - hmmm, let me tell you about a persistent rumor I keep hearing...
Monday, November 26, 2007
No updates!
Monday, November 19, 2007
Remember, no class on Wednesday, November 21, due to the Thanksgiving holiday.
Comcast sued over their traffic-shaping policies
Is Vista in danger of being bypassed by corporations? (much like Windows 2000 was, as they went right from Win 98SE to Win XP)
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Here is why you should always format your drives before use!
Monday, November 12, 2007
Here is some spam information for the CU network
Evolution of Apple products from 1976 to now
Wednesday, November 7, 2007
Flaw in file copy operations in Leopard - A very basic flaw!
Microsoft fires their CIO for "violation of company policies" (second article here)
Video of the Vintage Computer Festival
Monday, November 5, 2007
33% of employees violate IT policies. Here, I know it is much higher!
Remember when I told you that the user ROOT can do anything, including erasing the OS from the computer? Well, check out this video and see what happens when you do a "rm -rf"!
An update on Lenovo's PC sales
Ten biggest web annoyances - which ones tick you off the most? and the Ten worst keyboards ever
A bad YouTube video on "The day the routers died"
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
The Khaki Bandit - how he stole 130 laptops, right from your office
Seagate announces a 1 terabyte drive (for around $350)
Apple sells 2 million copies of OS X Leopard in the first weekend
Testing 1, 2 and 3 gigs of RAM in a MacBook and another test
For Halloween, I am coming to class dressed as Jerry Miculek!
Monday, October 29, 2007
New York state sues Verizon, since Verizon started limiting their "unlimited" network services
Microsoft update automatically installs and starts desktop search, even if administrators say not to
Was it "computer error" or did this guy win $1.6 million at a slot machine?
Seagate settles class action case on drive capacity (shades of the "viewable area" monitor settlement in the 1990's)
What is inside the iPod Nano (lots of pictures)
Walt Mossberg review Leopard (the new Mac OS)
Here is what I did on Saturday! Here is what I shot
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Should the state bid out it's website management?
Not really computer related, but writers are going out on strike
Monday, October 22, 2007
Major news in regard to the campus power outage - stay tuned!
DOS lives! A great article on the command line in Windows
Dinosaur sightings! - "personal" computers from the 1970's.
Monday and Wednesday, October 15 and 17, 2007
Fall Break Week, no class!
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Bought an iPod, got a box of rocks - twice!
Nominate your favorite Sysadmin for Sysadmin Of The Year
Working for the RIAA can give you a black eye and an RIAA juror speaks out
SP3 for XP and SP1 for Vista due out in Q1 of '08 More on SP3 for XP and more on Patch Tuesday for October.
OnStar will soon be able to remotely shut you down (second article)
Mom gets after Steve Ballmer about Vista drivers!
A little fun and games at our match last Sunday
Monday, October 8, 2007
RIAA goes to trial against mother accused of pirating songs - this is the first jury trial. The case should go to the jury on Thursday. And she lost!
Tech support hell for a couple who bought a Dell
An interesting article about the increase in Apple computer sales on campuses
Is Apple hoarding the newest, fastest, Intel processors?
iPod sets pants on fire - of course you have to read this!
More people think they are running antivirus protection than actually are
Wednesday, October 3, 2007
Court allows class-action lawsuit against Target for their website
Monday, October 1, 2007
Check out this new Gateway system - hmmm, what does it remind you of?
Fonzie "jumped the shark" 30 years ago....
Microsoft gives XP a five month "reprieve"
Windows "stealth" update screws up systems
After you back up your data, store it somewhere else
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
Lenovo says they are still interested in Packard Bell
Bug in Excel 2007 gives incorrect results. Reminds me of the Pentium floating point bug back in 1994.
Leopard to exclude older processors?
Check out this old Windows ad!
Monday, September 24, 2007
CEO of Acer says that the personal computer industry is in for a wave of consolidation
Apple confirms video flaw in iPod Touch
Apple rumor time: slim macbooks coming and they won't have an optical drive
Apple Rumor Time II: Mac OS X Leopard gold master
Date: Mon, 24
Sep 2007 14:32:17 -0500
From: Sean Kelly <smkelly@creighton.edu>
In our continued efforts to improve the quality and efficiency of CU
information systems and bring updated service to the Creighton Community,
please note the following outage:
What: Addition of two new e-mail servers.
When: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 7:00AM (Outside standard maintenance
window)
Why: Eliminate mail delays due to the previous server being over processing
capacity.
Systems affected: Email, Bluejay, Exchange, Postini, ZixVPM
During this maintenance, we will be bringing two new mail servers (mx1 and
mx2) online to replace the mail functionality currently handled by the
Bluejay server.
Thank you for your cooperation. If you have any questions or concerns about
this production maintenance, please contact DoIT Service Desk at 280-1111.
Sean M. Kelly
Unix Systems Architect
Division of Information Technology
Creighton University
(402) 280-2264
AIM: smkellyg5
PDF of today's handouts, in case you lose yours
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
It's Talk Like A Pirate Day - arrrgghh!
How much does it cost to build a new Nano?
New York Times to end their paid Internet service
Sneak peek of the new Office 2008 for the Mac
The "smiley face" emoticon turns 25
Monday, September 17, 2007
The most collectible PCs of all time - did you work on any?
Chinese man drops dead after three-day online gaming binge. Man, take a break now and then!
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
Disassembling a new iPod Classic and iPod Nano - take a look to see what they look like on the inside
Ever wonder why you never get those rebates you sent in? Here is one reason why.
Monday, September 10, 2007
Comcast cuts off big downloaders
Unboxing photos of the new iPod Nano
Bought that iPhone early? Think you were screwed? Well, Apple will give you $100 in store credit for being an early adopter. Here is Job's letter to buyers. they did sell one million iPhones in 74 days, though.
Hmmmm... movie rentals in iTunes? Someone slipped up!
Wednesday, September 5, 2007
TODAY: Hands-on with our server accounts.
More iPod rumors: Thursdays #1 and will the shuffle go red? and
Here's some information on the Apple records and Apple computer name resolution
Apple stores not ADA compliant?
More information on Vista SP1 - will a service pack drive a faster corporate adoption rate?
Take your clothes off or get bombed! Hackers getting into online security cameras and targeting businesses.
Interesting statistics on web browsers, OS use, etc.
Google's virtual earth reveals top-secret nuclear sub's propeller design
Monday, September 3, 2007
No class! Enjoy your Labor Day Holiday.
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Gateway: From powerhouse to PC bargain - What a fall, from when Compaq offered $7 billion to them, to where Acer bought them for $700 million.
It's on! September 5 is an Apple event in San Francisco, starting at 10:00am. An article about the new iPod nano, and the iPod Touch and the Beatles on iTunes
Leopard screenshot gallery - coming this October! In the meantime, does OS X suck? (Actually, all operating systems suck, they just suck in different ways)
Head of Acer vows to quit if the purchase of Gateway fails - but did Acer pay too much for GW2K?
Can Apple stop the iPhone hackers?
Apple is now selling one of every six laptops
Monday, August 27, 2007
Acer to buy Gateway, to become the #3 PC maker (#2 is HP, #1 is Dell) Remind me to tell you about Packard Bell computers
MTV-U is now on our campus cable, channel 14.
Taxi drivers may strike over being tracked by GPS - similar to what has happened in Buffalo, NY for snowplows and police cars here in Omaha. Who was the first trucking company to implement GPS across their fleet? Hint - they are based in Nebraska.
Apple iPod event on September 5? Article #1. Also, iPods are in short supply right now. iPods were last updated on 9/12/2006, so they are overdue for an update. New iPods with OS X software? and here.
Interesting: If you play MP3's on Vista, it slows down your network performance by 90%. Hmmm.....
Yahoo adds new features to their email service
Wednesday, August 22, 2007
Welcome to the first day of class!
Rumor Central! New iPod Nanos?
A dress code for the business school?
