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Final Exam review - some things to know
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this link
Tuesday, December 10, 2002
When you are designing your web page - keep this page in mind for your color choices!
Story on Google - a good read if you use this great resource
Gateway's "processing on demand"
Need help in converting and uploading your document to your website?
REMINDER! Your paper and website are due on Friday at noon. No later!
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 08:34:50 -0600 (CST)
From: Terry Begley <tbegley@creighton.edu>
To: mis353d@creighton.edu
Subject: Research Paper - title page
Just a reminder - a research paper includes a title page! I've reminded
those that have turned the paper in early that you need this. You can
either turn it in without a title page and lose 5 points, or do the title
page. I will accept them until noon today.
Check this log entry out! If you look at it, you can see that during class (around 5:28) the 23rd desk in our classroom was looking at fire truck pictures! Log files are very interesting....
coba111-23.creighton.edu - - [05/Dec/2002:17:28:33 -0600] "GET /muster2002/parade/thumbnails/muster80.jpg
coba111-23.creighton.edu - - [05/Dec/2002:17:28:33 -0600] "GET /muster2002/parade/thumbnails/muster81.jpg
coba111-23.creighton.edu - - [05/Dec/2002:17:28:33 -0600] "GET /muster2002/parade/thumbnails/muster82.jpg
coba111-23.creighton.edu - - [05/Dec/2002:17:28:33 -0600] "GET /muster2002/parade/thumbnails/muster83.jpg
coba111-23.creighton.edu - - [05/Dec/2002:17:28:33 -0600] "GET /muster2002/parade/thumbnails/muster84.jpg
Thursday, December 5, 2002
The HitchHikers Guide to the Mainframe
Software coding problem forces a University to drop a program
Tuesday, December 3, 2002
BIG NEWS - the campus mail system and Bluejay in particular are still down. Details are sketchy (more in class) but things have been off-line since at least 1400 on Sunday. At this time it is nearly 0800 on Tuesday, so this would make it the longest email outage that I have experienced here since we started using email in 1993. UPDATE: The email system went back online around 11:00am today. As of yet there has been no communication from the computer center about the outage, or when we can expect email to be back online. UPDATE: A voice mail message was broadcast to all voicemail users, and a fax went to all Deans and Dept. Heads. Also, the x1116 hotline number was updated on a more timely basis with a more detailed message. To reach me via email, send a message to terry@terrybegley.com. You can now reach me via my regular address, tbegley@creighton.edu although I will certainly be checking both now.
Update: 8455 undelivered messages at 11:07am
16,841 undelivered messages at 12:44
5,097 undelivered messages at 14:24
3,094 undelivered messages at 15:12
(to check this, on Bluejay at the $ prompt type mailq | wc -l)
FTP is being blocked (for an unknown reason) from going off-campus to on, or vice versa. It works as long as you are on campus to another on-campus machine. The report I get is that "it is being looked into." UPDATE: FTP traffic was being blocked due to the new version of Kazaa, which does port-hopping. There was so much Kazaa traffic that legitimate FTP traffic was being cut off. This has been fixed (hopefully) by reclassifying Kazaa traffic.
More on the Ohio cable modem un-cappers
Don't believe we landed on the moon?
More details on the new Windows
People are hanging on to their computers longer now-a-days
Radio Shack to stop asking for personal information at the checkout counter
Does your Tivo think you are a pregnant gay Nazi male?
The Domesday book and digital preservation
Thursday, November 21, 2002
So, remind me to ask how many are going to the CU basketball game on Tuesday, and those that are traveling early for Thanksgiving. I might be open to a special assignment for that day.
Woz is coming back to MACworld after a 6-year hiatus
Napster assets going up for auction next month
Tuesday, November 19, 2002
Remember the exam is on Thursday! See you on
Tuesday.
Tuesday we will do hands-on with Grackle on web pages and FTP. Tests
will not be returned today as I just picked them up from sPam - hopefully
Thursday!
Packeteer article from Radford University's student newspaper on their new Packeteer
For bulk emailers, pestering millions is the path to profit
IBM to retake "fastest computer" title
MICROSOFT REVEALS 85% PROFIT MARGIN ON WINDOWS
While most of its other businesses were wallowing in red ink, sales of
Microsoft's Windows operating system were generating 85% profit margins
last quarter, according to an SEC filing made late last week. The disclosure is sure to infuriate many rivals, who have criticized the
company's recent antitrust settlement with the Justice Department was much
too lax. Among Microsoft's other businesses, its home and entertainment division, which includes the Xbox console, lost $177 million last quarter;
MSN lost $97 million; the business solutions group lost $68 million; and the CE/Mobility division lost $33 million. (Financial Times 17 Nov 2002)
http://news.ft.com
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 17:02:53 -0600
From: "Darlis (Dar) Vauble" <dvauble@creighton.edu>
To: JAYNet-News@creighton.edu
Subject: [JAYNet-News] Tech Forum Wednesday
The third ICC Technology Forum in this academic year's series is entitled:
Should Creighton University Give Every Student A Laptop Computer?
Several colleges and universities have provided a laptop computer to each full time student. Is this a good idea for
Creighton
University? What are the advantages? What are the drawbacks?
Speakers:Laura Hickman (Duchesne Academy), Dr. John O'Keefe, Dr. Tim Austin
Date: Wednesday, November 20, 2002
Time: 11:30 AM until 1:00 PM
Location: Skutt Student Center, Room 105
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 8:27:21 CST
From: Larry Sheldon <lsheldon@creighton.edu>
To: nobody@Bluejay.creighton.edu
Subject: [labadmin] Email Routing Changes
Last evening we instituted some changes in the way mail is routed to and from
"Postini".
As a result of the changes, all mail destined for "Bluejay" addresses from
points off of our network (and many on it) is being routed through Postini's
processes.
We have made a change at the boundary router such that the only off-network
addresses allowed to open an email session with "Bluejay" are Postini addresses.
Testing and observation shows that this is working well, but there may be corner cases which do not work correctly--we found one overnight.
There are still some accounts _on_ Bluejay that are not actually being filtered--that issue is being addressed and I hope, solved in the next
couple of weeks.
The next intended change involves bring the other mail-handling machines (other than "Bluejay") under the Postini umbrella. This will need the
assistance of the administrator or Postmaster for these other machines.
If you are the custodian of the "Postmaster" account of alias for a machine,
watch for mail from me. (This may require disabling automatic screeners. If my mail is not answered, I will assume that the machine should be removed
from the list of active mail handlers.)
The original message was received at Tue, 19 Nov 2002 09:40:15 -0600 (CST)
from root@localhost
----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
bkaltsas@hotmail.com
----- Transcript of session follows -----
451
rfzielinsk@aol.com,samccarthy@aol.com,Wag45@aol.com,SupMate@aol.com,SY4U22@aol.com,nkyta@aol.com,cli...
brksjff@cs.com,eks11@aol.com,Kenna345@aol.com,jwbaikman@aol.com,Schelbytom@aol.com,JoeSocr13@aol.com... reply:
read error from mailin-04.mx.aol.com.
451
rfzielinsk@aol.com,samccarthy@aol.com,Wag45@aol.com,SupMate@aol.com,SY4U22@aol.com,nkyta@aol.com,cli...brks
jff@cs.com,eks11@aol.com,Kenna345@aol.com,jwbaikman@aol.com,Schelbytom@aol.com,JoeSocr13@aol.com... reply:
read error from mailin-01.mx.aol.com.
451
rfzielinsk@aol.com,samccarthy@aol.com,Wag45@aol.com,SupMate@aol.com,SY4U22@aol.com,nkyta@aol.com,cli...brks
jff@cs.com,eks11@aol.com,Kenna345@aol.com,jwbaikman@aol.com,Schelbytom@aol.com,JoeSocr13@aol.com... reply:
read error from mailin-02.mx.aol.com.
451
rfzielinsk@aol.com,samccarthy@aol.com,Wag45@aol.com,SupMate@aol.com,SY4U22@aol.com,nkyta@aol.com,cli...brks
jff@cs.com,eks11@aol.com,Kenna345@aol.com,jwbaikman@aol.com,Schelbytom@aol.com,JoeSocr13@aol.com... reply:
read error from mailin-03.mx.aol.com.
rfzielinsk@aol.com,samccarthy@aol.com,Wag45@aol.com,SupMate@aol.com,SY4U22@aol.com,nkyta@aol.com,cli...brks
jff@cs.com,eks11@aol.com,Kenna345@aol.com,jwbaikman@aol.com,Schelbytom@aol.com,JoeSocr13@aol.com...
Deferred: Connection reset by mailin-03.mx.aol.com.
... while talking to mx1.hotmail.com.:
>>> RCPT To:<bkaltsas@hotmail.com>
<<< 552 Requested action not taken: exceeded storage allocation
554 bkaltsas@hotmail.com... Service unavailable
451 drewhaa@post.com... reply: read error from post-com.mr.outblaze.com.
Tuesday, November 12, 2002
"Money Wired" - tech in Lost Wages, er I mean Las Vegas
All CDs are protected and you are a filthy pirate!
Arthur Levine pictures of old data processing equipment
Test will be over chapters 6, 8, and 9 from the book, and the hardware and network handouts on Thursday.
Thursday, November 7, 2002
Get your cable TV channels ala-carte?
The third ICC Technology Forum in this academic year's series is
entitled:
Should Creighton University Give Every Student A Laptop Computer?
Several colleges and universities have provided a laptop computer to each full time student. Is this a good idea for
Creighton University? What are the advantages? What are the drawbacks?
Speakers:Laura Hickman (Duchesne Academy),
Dr. John O'Keefe, Dr. Tim Austin
Date: Wesnesday, November 20, 2002
Time: 11:30 AM ^Ö 1:00 PM
Location: Skutt Student Center, Room 105
Find out what's possible!
Darlis (Dar) Vauble
Executive Assistant to the
V.P. for Information Technology
Tuesday, November 5, 2002
Monday, November 4th I will be at the ConAgra Learning Center all day for the Jesuit Business Deans Conference and won't be on campus at all that day. On Tuesday they meet at the Student Center, and I will be over there until after lunch - just in case you are looking for me.
Microsoft settlement put on the web 60 minutes early
$33,000 a night for a hotel room?
The perils of using a wireless keyboard...
Uncap your cable modem and go to jail?
Screenshots from Longhorn, the next version of Windows - or is it?
80% of all cybercrimes go unreported...
"JAYNet 2002 and Beyond" will be presented by Chuck Ruch on Wednesday,
Nov. 6, at 9 a.m. in the Reinert Alumni Library, Union Pacific Room, and again at 2:30 p.m. in the Skutt Student Center, Room 104. Learn
about networking in the new science building and how it will effect the campus as a whole.
I strongly encourage everyone to
attend one of these meetings.
Test update: I think having the exam on Thursday, November
14th will work out the best. That gives us this week to cover
networking and the Internet, and then Tuesday to work on websites (Grackle
has been restored). I will be out of town that day, and will have a
guest "test giver" on that day.
Thursday, October 31, 2002
I am going right into chapter eight today, networking. Check out this Powerpoint slide show that we will use today. I will have a printed copy for everyone today.
Rampant cheating at the SETI@home project.
========================================================
ROBERT X. CRINGELY(R): "Notes from the Field" InfoWorld.com
========================================================
Monday, October 28, 2002
Ongoing saga of the HP warranty
Speaking of shaky trust, the mystery of the HP warranty expiration continues, and the plot thickens. I
previously wrote about a spy entrenched in battle with HP because the printer giant was not honoring a
warranty, saying the warranty actually started when HP got the PO, rather than when the customer received the
product -- which in this case was more than a month's difference. Last week one of my spies told me that my
column piqued the interest of California's state sales tax agency, because here in the Golden State a sale
occurs when title passes. My spy said that HP's policy could come back to haunt it,
on account of the law that says if the "sale" occurs when the PO is cut,
sales tax is due at the same time, generally the month following the date of sale. This means if HP receives
a PO dated Sept. 30, they treat it as a sale on Sept. 30 -- even though the product delivery might not occur
until Nov. 15, and payment arrives 30 days later. So, HP should be reporting and paying the sales tax, at
least in California, by Oct. 30.
Tuesday, October 29, 2002
Man, are we behind! I wanted to get back in time for class on Thursday, but things took longer at Gateway that we had planned. I will be revising the syllabus this weekend and will post the changes here. Sorry about that, but it could not be helped.
Can you be accused of hacking by typing in a URL?
A new superworm that can do a massive DDOS? More on the attack on the root name servers here. And another here.
Who owns your email? Remind me to tell you a story about the worst ISP in Omaha (and perhaps the country)
Thursday, October 24, 2002
Is Microsoft licensing forcing banks to break the law?
The personal digital pen - how cool is this? (if it really works)
Wednesday, October 23, 2002
If you are looking for me today, I have a meeting at 9:00am, then another at 11:00, then another at 3:00. Good luck finding me! I will answer emails and voice mails between (if possible) or later today.
Tuesday, October 22, 2002
Would you want these kinds of statistics from CU?
How about this? Your cell phone rings in class, and *I* get to answer it!
Steve Ballmer sees free software as Microsoft's #1 enemy. Don't know who Steve Ballmer is?
Latest newsletter from the IT department
Judge: ADA does not cover websites
UK ISP's refuse to monitor their users
Thursday, October 24: I will be going to Gateway in North Sioux City, SD for a training session at 7:30am. I will be out of the office all day. Right now the plan is to be back on campus at 4:00pm, in plenty of time for class. However, should something happen I will call one of the COBA staff members and post a sign on the door of the classroom. Just an FYI!
Thursday, October 10, 2002
Western Digital's new 200GB drive!
Interview with the developers of RedHat Linux, the largest Linux distribution
Kevin Mitnick's laptop is for sale!
Tuesday, October 8, 2002
CD pirates take to the high seas. For some reason this reminds me of the time Homer took Mr. Burn's yacht out...
Hollywood -vs- the Supreme Court
Online gambling - a Salon article
Hardware powerpoint slides (NOTE: do NOT print these out. I have made handouts for you and will pass them out in class on Tuesday.
The world's most dangerous server room?
Thursday, October 3, 2002
Check out this quaqmire of lawsuits, counter-suits, etc. about what you can say on the Internet. (hint: this would make a great term paper project!)
Tuesday, October 1, 2002
Tech Tips: The sign-up sheet had the wrong week for fall break. Those that are scheduled for the 15th and 17th are going to do their Tech Tips on the 8th and 10th. Everyone should have one completed by midterms!
Yet Another Reason to hate Kazaa!
HIPAA regulations regarding sports?
USCS bans Windows NT and Windows 2000 from the dorms
Some possible research paper topics
Thursday, September 26, 2002
How telecoms built the fiber glut
Microsoft profits from piracy?
Trivia!
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/tv/gilligans-isle/guide/
http://www.snopes.com/radiotv/tv/gilligan.htm
http://www.scifi.com/startrek/episodes/28.html
Tuesday, September 24, 2002
Microsoft is now getting into the home networking business
Test today! WooHoo! There are several schools on tests, my personal favorite is "lots of questions each worth a small number of points." The test is true/false, multiple choice and matching. Didn't need any short answer questions this time. You can have the entire class period to do the test. Chapter five, ethics, on Thursday.
Hey, what went on with our Internet connection yesterday (Monday)? It was down for around 4 hours. What I know so far is that Great Plains Network, who provides Internet connectivity for the State of Nebraska, had a router go out. This took us offline.
Thursday, September 19, 2002
Corporate users are slow to adopt Windows XP
Tuesday, September 17, 2002
Gateway says they are not for sale
State wins case against deceptive spammer! (a summary judgment, no less!)
Watch your credit card statement - massive credit card fraud
So Bill is only worth $43 billion this year (wahhh...) Check this out and this
Students: swap movies or songs and you are expelled for a year
Linux worm creating P2P (peer to peer) attack network
Check this out:
66.196.65.14 - - [14/Sep/2002:02:37:16 -0500] "GET
/robots.txt HTTP/1.0" 404 282 "-" "Mozilla/5.0
(Slurp/si; slurp@inktomi.com; http://www.inktomi.com/slurp.html)"
66.196.73.14 - - [14/Sep/2002:02:45:15 -0500] "GET /~maoki/ass3 HTTP/1.0" 404 283 "-"
"Mozilla/5.0 (Slurp/cat; slurp@inktomi.com; http://www.inktomi.com/slurp.html)"
Looks like they are scanning us for a
search engine. This
will take care of that - and here
the instructions that I followed to do so
Friday, September 15, 2002
Happy Friday the 13th! and here...
Got my first cellphone spam message today. With Verizon's text messaging service (have had it for nearly 3 years) I got this message: traci@myvzw.com - the complete guide to for attracting and seducing women Attracting beautiful women is easy-if you know how to do it. You aren't allowed to make telephone solicitation calls to cellular phones, but what about text messaging on the phones?
Thursday, September 12, 2002
Vigilante justice in regards to mail relaying - an interesting read
Some sites to learn HTML: Here, here and here. Remember to chmod 755 and 644 (or here) on your directory and files!
A change in schedule (just a bit) - work on hands-on navigation and HTML, and Tuesday a guest lecturer and quiz. Lecture over chapter four, quiz over material in chapters 2 and 3.
Tuesday, September 10, 2002
Maxtor introduces 80 gigabyte hard drive platters
puTTY download site - get the free software that we use to connect to Grackle and other servers that use the SSH protocol.
Warchalking is a map for drive-by spammers
Questions about PING? How about the Microsoft version and Microsoft's official ping page and the *nix version command and another example here. Trivia question: What does "ping" or "ping" stand for?
Someone has figured out how to beat the great firewall of China
Bruce Perens has been fired by HP. Story here.
Some people REALLY want their Internet access!
Dude, you're getting more from Dell A little bit of Dell history
Maxtor announces 320 gigabyte hard drives, to be available later this year
Chain hijacks Google's domain name
Thursday, September 5, 2002
Patent infringement suit filed against eBay
Some helpful Unix commands that will come in handy today in class
Tuesday, September 3, 2002
Anyone want to be a used car?
Baseball is cracking down on fan web sites and a second article here
Google disappears in China ("the great firewall of China")
Here's the one-year status report on the BBS movie
Have you hugged your RJ-11 today? All the connectors you wanted and more...
Thursday, August 29, 2002
Myth: "If I have a Hotmail (Yahoo, etc.) email account, no one - especially those administrators that run my network - can read my mail! Wrong! Check this out.
Tuesday, August 27, 2002
Intel has introduced the Pentium 4, 2.8ghz model.
Federal Court has rejected British Telecom's patent on hyperlinking
Sales of recorded music are down; RIAA blames downloaders
Internet addicts surf on work time - do you?
Check your email! I have sent out some interesting articles and also a bonus for those that have joined the list :-)
Sony is discontinuing the BetaMax. Here are some Slashdot comments.
You can't be a Jedi in Australia
Friday, August 23, 2002
Well, the network connection to the rest of the world is
back as of about 8:15 this morning. I have forwarded to the class
list three email messages from Larry Sheldon with various updates of what
went on. Looks like we have a SPOF
with out Internet connection.
Thursday, August 22, 2002
Welcome to the first day of class!
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