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Microsoft Senior VP: Why Open Source is Bad
ENO: Please contact me about TechTip #2. I do not have a printed version of your report. If you want the complete points, please get one to me by Friday at 3:00pm.
To the Final Exam Time, Tuesday, May 1 (4:45-6:00pm)
Just to remind you - the class will meet on Tuesday, May 1 from 4:45 - 6:00pm. At that time you will have finished your website, and will turn in your research paper in print form. You will then have between 3-5 minutes to present your research paper and website to the class, using the overhead projector. I plan to have your quizzes graded to return to you at that time as well.
Microsoft Passport: No Marylanders allowed?
Could we have had cell phones in the 1960's? Yes!
Got a cable modem from ATT@Home? If so, AT&T wants to raise rates by $6 per month. Those of us on Cox@Home are safe for now...
Chinese hackers are going after US sites on May Day
WEBSITE TIPS!
Make sure you FTP files into the proper directory. Don't FTP them into
your root directory, make sure you put them into your public_html directory
Make sure you watch your spelling and case! Make sure you spell files correctly and also that you make the file names all lower case, and NO
SPACES or characters like the <>?/*&^%$#@!
Wednesday-Thursday, April 25-26
Generation X: We Invented the Internet
Business: Instant Messenging (IM) is getting out of control
Gateway: Out with stupid rules! Please read that article, and I will pass out a copy of the Fortune magazine article it references.
Microsoft's tech-support server serves out a virus
Got a job offer from Intel? With a hiring bonus? Now they don't need you? How about this?
What you should have on your websites
From Dean Pitts:
Congratulations to Ravi Nath who received the "Technology Professor of the Year" award from the AIM Institute last night at
their annual banquet. Matt Payne, an instructor who teaches an undergraduate MIS course for us, also was honored by receiving
the "Technology Guru of the Year" award at the same banquet.
Friday-Tuesday, April 20-24
Biggest waste of worker's time: email!
Intel introduces the 1.7g P4 processor, and cuts prices
Omaha is mentioned in the top 10 of High-Tech cities
The latest issue of the IT newsletter is out here
Check out this website before you submit your research paper You could pay this or just do this for free or this site here. Be sure to cite your work as shown here - in the past, students would not correctly cite references, especially online references. I will be checking these, so accuracy is important. Not citing or doing a poor job of citing references can result in the loss of a letter grade on your paper!
Wednesday-Thursday, April 18-19
MSNBC, CNN all suffer outages on their Internet sites yesterday. DOS attacks?
This guy won $$ against a spammer.
Napster to blame for slow music sales?
Easter Break, April 11-17
This says something about drywallers, and also about Novell servers!
The .edu domain is now back in control of educause.
Xerox bans the Windows XP beta - story here
Internet & Computer Ethics for Kids
Red Hat Introduces New Linux Version
Red Hat today announced Red Hat Linux 7.1, which incorporates the latest version of the Linux kernel and
improved enterprise functionality, including better multiprocessing performance.
The new version, available April 24, also includes configuration tools designed to make it easier to set up
and administer DNS, Web and print servers and other network connectivity functionality.
The new version supports 64 GB of physical RAM, a greater number of users and groups, a revised scheduler
to handle more processes, greater device support, and an improved multi-threaded network stack. --Mitch
Wagner
Get the whole story:
http://update.internetweek.com/cgi-bin4/flo?y=eDSD0Bdrmj0V30MwR0AG
Friday-Tuesday, April 6-10
Something you don't often think about - power! Say HI! to Reddy Kilowatt for me...
Fun Quotes for the Week
"During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative
in creating the Internet." --Al Gore, former vice president, March
1999.
"I believe OS/2 is destined to be the most important operating system , and possibly program, of all time. As the successor to DOS, which has over 10 million systems in use, it creates incredible opportunities for everyone involved with PC's." --Bill Gates, Chairman of Microsoft, 1988.
Wednesday-Thursday, April 4-5
Microsoft attempts to modify their draconian privacy policy for passports and hailstorm services
SEX.COM THIEF MUST PAY $65 MILLION
In a record verdict against a cyber-squatter, a federal judge in San Francisco awarded the original owner of the sex.com domain name $65 million
for the five years' loss of use he suffered after the address was hijacked by fugitive Stephen Cohen, who now lives in Tijuana. "The number is big,
but it is unlikely that I will ever see more than a small fraction," said plaintiff Gary Kremen. Meanwhile, Kremen's site has dropped the hard-core
images placed by high-paying porn advertisers, and now uses a text-based dictionary that links to other sex sites by topic. "We have done what we
said we were going to do -- reduce the amount of pornography on the site as we transition to more mainstream content," said Kremen. (Los Angeles Times
4 Apr 2001)
http://www.latimes.com/business/20010404/t000028664.html
Friday-Tuesday, March 30-April 3
Ethernet is Changing Dorm Life - true or false?
Is the Internet growing faster than Routers (and routing tables) can handle?
Wednesday-Thursday, March 28-29
RIAA wants Opt-In only for songs on Napster
Patent problems with multilingual domain names
Fifteen products that shook the networking world
Microsoft's specification for the ideal PC
A day in the life of two computer criminals
Friday-Tuesday, March 23-March 27
Want to bid on a piece of MIR?
Do you have a Tivo? If so, it has been watching and monitoring you...
Are you groove-y for groupware?
Windows XP Beta 2 is out - first look here
Would you pay $10 a month for satellite radio service?
The first "Napster proof" CD is ready to go...
Who's spying on your downloads?
Is the web becoming unsearchable?
Friday-Thursday, March 16-22
Follow that package! A story about how a package is moved and the resulting IT that is used by Federal Express.
President Bush has gone cold turkey from the Internet.
Identity Theft of the Rich and Famous?
My first computer! Should I place a bid?
Don't Trust Code Signed by "Microsoft Corporation" More information here.
Watch MIR fall! Get a free taco if it hits this target! CNN story as well.
DNS:
World Domain statistics
Look up who an IP address
belongs to
Generic Domains (.com,
.org, .net, .edu, .gov, .mil, .int)
WORKING VIA THE NET GAINS POPULARITY
A new study commissioned by WorldCom shows that almost half (46%) of the
U.S. workforce works remotely over the Internet at least once a week, wither from home or with colleagues at other company sites. More than
two-thirds say they'd like to do so more often, and 14% say they use the Net for some type of remote work every day. The study found that 91% of
those surveyed said using the Internet for meetings and collaboration saves time and money, and 61% invest that time into more work-related tasks. The
remainder said they use it to spend more time with friends and family.
Fifty-five percent of workers polled said meetings held online or through phone conferencing tend to be shorter than face-to-face meetings, which is
a good thing, says the Gartner Group, because workers with access to instant messaging systems tend to multi-task during meetings anyway. When
meetings tend to drag on "workers will dive into more productive interactions via wireless [messaging]," says a Gartner research director.
One workplace productivity consultant points out that "virtual workers"
tend to work longer hours and have a more entrepreneurial mindset than office-bound employees.
(Investor's Business Daily 20 Mar 2001) (print only)
Wednesday-Thursday, March 14-15
Scientists and Engineers to Computer Sciences: "Computers suck!"
Napster has signed an agreement with an online database of songs to "fix" the problem of misspelled artists and songs. They don't do Pig Latin, though :-) Guess who else is crying, too. NEW Napster now says that the number of songs shared is down 60%. Digital TV and "the Napster factor".
ICQ logs pilfered and posted with dot.com executives. Site with all the log files here. Are ICQ logs admissable as evidence? eFront runs a network of affiliate Web sites, which agree to pool traffic as a way to command higher advertising rates. Revenue is shared among all the sites based on the number of page turns they each produce. Many of the messages in the intercepted ICQ log discuss strategies for weathering an industrywide plunge in advertising revenue. According to Jain, the logs are legitimate but have been "doctored." Several sources whose correspondence or confidential information was included in the logs have confirmed their general authenticity with CNET News.com.
Larry Sheldon is coming to speak on
Tuesday. Here, in a rare picture of Larry, he is standing in front of
the telephone wiring and switches. Bonus trivia question: Where was
this picture taken?
Spring Break Week, March 2-March13
Use of an expert system to detect phone fraud
The oldest image on the web is going away...
Internet gambling is legal in the UK!
Microsoft XP's biggest fears: Piracy and MS itself
Is anti-virus software reading your email?
German court finds AOL guilty of piracy On the other hand, they are not liable for child pornography on their system.
Want to locate your Napster server off-shore? Here's a great place off-shore to put your server. Ted Nugent on Napster.
New.net and their renegade domain naming system.
In the "just what we needed category" the developer of the virus toolkit that developed the Anna K virus has updated it. Story here.
Check out the Obsolete Computer Museum. This link will take you to my first personal computer. More on the PC/XT here. Here is one for sale on eBay (from Australia!). Another at auction here.
Guest speaker on Tuesday!
CALIFORNIA LIBRARIES NOT LIABLE IN INTERNET PORN CASE
A California state court of appeals has ruled against a woman who wanted public libraries to be required to block Internet access to pornographic
sites after she learned that her 12-year-old son had perused such sites using library computers. The woman said her son suffered psychological harm
and had developed an "obsession" that evolved into "antisocial behavior."
The court based its decision on a federal law protecting Internet providers from liability for not restricting access to offensive material. An
attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union said that the ruling "says to libraries, you can maintain your open access policy, your uncensored
access to the Internet, free from the fear of lawsuits." (Los Angeles Times 8 Mar 2001)
http://www.latimes.com/business/cutting/20010308/t000020483.html
Wednesday-Thursday, Feb 28-March 1
Power Struggle: Server farms in California can't find the juice
Fact or Fiction: The state of broadband in the US
An inside story of how Ted Waitt came back to Gateway
Microsoft Antitrust case resource from Princeton University
Fire in the Valley: The Making of the First Personal Computer
Napster faces time crunch
Time is running out for music-swapping company Napster, which faces the possibility
of a court order effectively shutting its service down as soon as Friday. Attorneys for Napster
and the record industry meet again in a San Francisco courtroom Friday at 10 a.m. PST,
as federal Judge Marilyn Hall Patel gets ready to issue a preliminary injunction that will sharply
limit the company's actions. Is there room for a last-minute settlement? March 1, 2001, 11:50 a.m. PT
http://two.digital.cnet.com/cgi-bin2/flo?y=eBYY0G4rM0U0akxf
For class:
Whale
watching expert system (runs in a browser)
The Turing Test page - more than you ever wanted to know, also great links to other systems, such as ELIZA. This guy says his program beat the test.
A short blurb about the American Express ES (still looking for that article from Forbes)
Friday-Tuesday, Feb 23-27
Old e-mail doesn't go away (top ten reasons...)
No more banner ads - now "skyscrapers" and "rectangles" are coming. New styles to get your attention since the "click-thru" rate on banner ads have gone down to .25% compared to 8% in 1996.
NEW! Consolidated report of mail queued on all machines.
Microsoft is appealing their case here.
The analog modem isn't dead - yet. New technology from the venerable U.S. Robotics here. Trivia question: Where did the name "US Robotics" come from?
DIAL-UP ACCESS GETTING FASTER
The new V.92 dial-up modem standard promises to maximize the limited potential of analog connections. Once Internet Service
Providers upgrade their hardware to handle the V.92 standard, the new protocol will shave a few seconds off of logon time,
allow free Internet call waiting, and speed data conversion for faster downloads and uploads. Actiontec's Lesley Kirchman notes
that, while the future definitely belongs to broadband, the V.92 standard could be the last great leap forward in analog modem
technology. ISPs America Online, EarthLink, and MSN have yet to adopt the technology because it is so new, but representatives
have promised that the companies will soon test and debug V.92. Among the new features are "Quick Connect" technology, which
helps a modem to learn connection patterns and hook up more quickly, and the new V.44 compression protocol that makes text
and Web pages move faster.
(Washington Post, 23 February 2001)
NCSA CREATES FASTEST IBM LINUX SUPERCOMPUTER IN ACADEMIA
The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, has built the fastest Linux supercomputer for academia out of a IBM Linux cluster.
The computer will be used to aid in fundamental scientific research. NCSA director Dan Reed said, "The explosion of the open
source community, the maturity of clustering software, and the enthusiasm of the scientific community all tell us that Linux
clusters are the future of high-performance computing." Each cluster combines two teraflops of computing power with a single
computing interface for systems ranging from single-user desktop workstations to terascale systems. IBM has installed the first
cluster, which features IBM eServer x330 thin servers running Red Hat Linux on 1 GHz Intel Pentium III chips. A second cluster will
be built this summer to operate TurboLinux on Intel's next-generation Itanium processor. Altogether, both clusters will
consist of more than 600 IBM eServer eSeries running Linux and Myrinet cluster information network software from Myricom.
(Mainframe Computing, March 2001)
What is your midterm grade going to be based on? Well, it will be based on 6or 7 quizzes (depending if we get them in), one tech tip (including handing in a summary), your research paper topic, and your research paper executive summary.
Wednesday-Thursday, Feb 21-22
Intel and the history of the 4004
Reminder - your research paper executive summaries are due on March 1! I don't have all of your paper topics yet - I will be asking you today for them. Here are the ones that I have...
Latest IT newsletter here
Friday-Tuesday, Feb 16-20
Five Points To Prevent Getting Viruses - and I would add #6 - don't use MS Outlook, as many viruses are directed right to that program.
"A Memorial to the Bell System" Here is a picture of an early transistor.
Domain dispute - a judge gives away the name "ereferee.com" to referee magazine. This is an overly broad ruling and I hope it does not stand up on appeal. Arbitration decision here.
A good, non-technical article on Privacy
Rumor mill: a new Star Trek series, based on pre-federation days
The Minicomputer Orphanage site - check this out, these are the machines you never used, but your parents did!
New York ISP held liable for newsgroup content. This is a troubling decision - more discussion in class on Tuesday.
The legacy of 2001: A Space Odyssey
The fastest PC? A 1600mhz Athlon...
Korea: Dispute over IP sharing. The ISP shut down one of their users who was critical of their service. Remind me to tell you the story of Novia (an Omaha ISP) and my personal experience with them.
Yikes! How much for the cereal?
TECHNOLOGY TESTS THE BOUNDARIES OF YOUR HOME
The Constitution's Fourth Amendment protecting citizens against unwarranted
search and seizure will be debated this week in the U.S. Supreme Court, which is
considering a case in which police used a thermal scan of a private house to
determine if excessive heat from the building suggested that it was being used to grow
marijuana under high-intensity lights. An ACLU executive protests that "if the
government is free to use technology inside our homes, there really won't be anything left
of the right to privacy," and an attorney for the man whose house was targeted
argues: "Since we don't permit police to break into people's homes, should we permit
them to use technology to accomplish the same thing?" The police, however, justify
the thermal scan as no different in principle from having an officer watching a house from
the outside. (AP/USA Today 19 Feb 2001)
http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/review/2001-02-19-thermal.htm
Belgian police raid Napster users
Belgian police have been raiding the homes of suspected
Napster users since December 2000, the Belgian authorities admit Friday.
ZDNet Belgium reported Thursday that the Belgian arm of the
International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) claimed to be giving police
the names of thousands of suspected users of song-swapping site Napster. According to
reports the Belgian police have been searching the homes of suspects since late December
2000. Full story --Graeme
Wearden, ZDNet UK
Wednesday-Thursday, Feb 14-16
More information on Microsoft's XP operating system, as we discussed in class on Tuesday.
Internet filtering software catches about 80% of what you want to block - article here.
Wednesday-Tuesday, Feb 6-13
CLASSES were cancelled at 2:00pm on Thursday, February 8, due to weather. Sorry to disappoint you!
Who owns the name "X-Box"? Microsoft registered it on October 18, 1999 - but a Florida company registered the name on March 10 of the same year. Article here.
Sun's OPEN LETTER TO MICROSOFT about their .net initiative. Please read this.
The Hacker Ethic and SysAdmins.
More on the continuing saga of sex.com (an interesting situation in regards to who owns domain names, etc.)
Here is the FAQ on the Linux Beowulf clusters I talked about in class the other day. Here is another article with more definitions and a good overview. This would make a good research paper topic!
More home users are going broadband.
WooHoo! Download those music files as fast you can.... Whoops! No reprieve here Napster's future?
In prison in California? No email for you!
ALERT! New virus masquerading as a .jpg of a tennis star. Don't open it! It is on campus today - an English prof was talking about it at lunch on Monday, as it toasted his system. Oh, and here's the guy that said he did it.
Friday-Tuesday, Feb 2-6
Check out this article on Juno's privacy policy. It appears that they want you to leave your computer on for 24 hours a day, and they have the right to monitor your site visits and sell that information to other companies. Not my idea of an ISP that I would want to use. Another article about this.
The first business computer installation - and they are still at it. (but not with the same machine :-)
A Love Song for Napster - very interesting reading.
Yet Another Reason to read your mail on a text-based system!
The next version of Windows will be called "XP" for 'experience' - info here. It was previously code-named Whistler.
The Apollo 11 Guidance Computer - look at the specs and compare them to what we have to use today.
The Internet - It's Full of Holes - an article on privacy, and the lack thereof, on the 'net.
POPE PONDERS PATRON SAINT OF CYBERSPACE
Pope John Paul II is considering naming St. Isidore the patron saint of
Internet users and computer programmers, according to Vatican sources. St. Isidore, who
lived in the seventh century, was believed to have authored the world's first
encyclopedia, the Etymologies, which included entries on medicine, mathematics, history
and theology. The Vatican has increased its presence on the Web in the past few years,
first with its www.vatican.va Web site (powered by host computers named Raphael, Michael
and Gabriel), and since 1998 with Webcastings of the Pope's recitation of Angelus prayers
on Sundays and papal audiences on Wednesdays. (Reuters 6 Feb 2001)
http://news.excite.com/news/r/010206/07/net-pope-saint-dc
MEN GIVE GUY SITES THE COLD SHOULDER
While women-oriented sites such as iVillage and Oxygen are struggling to
stay afloat, male-oriented sites are closing their doors without ever having attracted a
following. Among recent casualties are TheMan.com and TheWoof.com, and while Guyville.com
is surviving on private investment, it's failed so far to attract venture capital.
"My research shows that chat rooms are used more frequently by women than men,"
says David Greenfield, CEO of the Center for Internet Studies. "Men come to the
Internet for information and sexual content. Women look for interaction and
interrelationships." Greenfield adds, "For [a men's] site to succeed, it would
have to show men that their life, on a bottom-line level, could be improved through money,
power or control by using the site." Meanwhile, Playboy.com is thriving with 4.5
million individual visits a month. Playboy.com president Larry Lux says his site is
successful not because of the pictorial content but because it targets a variety of male
interests, including sports, music and finance. "I wouldn't want to start a business
aimed at getting men to share their innermost thoughts online," says Lux. (Investor's
Business Daily 1 Feb 2001) (available in print only)
SECURITY EXPERTS TRICKED INTO HELPING LAUNCH ATTACK
Bugtraq -- an Internet mailing list comprising about 37,000 security
industry technicians -- was used as the instrument for launching a denial-of-service
attack against Network Associates, one of the world's largest Internet security companies.
The bizarre incident began when a hacker sent a disguised string of code to
Securityfocus.com, which manages the Bugtraq list. The hacker's message claimed the code
was an example of a program that could exploit a recently discovered security hole in
corporate security systems, but when Bugtraq members opened the code, it caused their
computers to flood Network Associates' Web site with tens of thousands of messages,
disabling the Web site for about 90 minutes. In another strange twist, Securityfocus
admitted that it had forwarded the infected message to its members -- after getting the
code checked and okayed by Network Associates. Industry watchers say the attack could be
motivated by revenge against Network Associates, which was the company that first
publicized the corporate network vulnerability. (Financial Times 2 Feb 2001)
http://news.ft.com/news/industries/infotechnology
JUNO ADDS SUPERCOMPUTING TO ITS ROSTER OF SERVICES
Juno Online Services, the third-largest ISP in the U.S., is adding a new
line of business -- supercomputing. The Juno Virtual Supercomputer Project will require
participating customers to leave their computers on at all times so that Juno can sell
unused time and space on its customers' hard drives to third parties such as researchers
who want to solve large computational problems. The company is still working out the
details, but Juno CEO Charles E. Ardai says in the future, subscribers who opt for free
Internet access may be required to participate in the project. Free subscribers who choose
not to participate could be asked to pay for a subscription. "It's a new way to
derive revenue from a subscriber base of millions of users we already have," says
Ardai. "There will be some people who like it and want to participate and some who
don't -- that's their privilege." (Wall Street Journal 2 Feb 2001)
http://interactive.wsj.com/articles/SB981064415177050251.htm (sub req'd)
See you in class on Thursday. It's been a while since we have had a quiz!
IMPORTANT NEWS! I was admitted to Bergan-Mercy Hospital on Wednesday evening (January 24) due to breathing problems. It turns out that I have pneumonia, which has aggravated my asthma. I was released Saturday but have been told to take some time off of work - but class will still go on!
For Tuesday's class, Catherine Biddulph will fill in and discuss the remaining components of chapter two, and groupware. You will be responsible for the materials she covers.
Tuesday, 13:20: Don't forget to see Prof Biddulph in class today and sign the signup sheet! I will be back on Thursday for class - just in time to start chapter three and the hardware chapter.
For Thursday, February 1:
- We will make up the last couple of TechTips
- Due date for Research Paper topics to be turned in will be extended
- Chapter three!
- There seems to be a problem with Flamingo. I will be taking a look at it on
Thursday afternoon
During my time out...
Microsoft is no longer licensing Windows 95. Will 98 be along soon?
Ted Waitt is back as the CEO at Gateway.
The Museum of e-Failure - take a look and see how many of these sites you used to go to that are now out of business...
Microsoft hit again by a giant DOS (denial of services) attack. More information when I can get it - this is very interesting. Another article here, with more networking information. Looks like MS is now outsourcing their DNS services. More on their outsourcing. A technical explanation (but very undestandable) discussion here.
Do you know anyone who pirates DirectTV? If so, read how they handled the pirates - right before the Super Bowl.
Good article for "newbies" - new users - to the Linux operating system (what we use on Flamingo). Click here to read it, and I will have it as a handout one of these days.
Wednesday, January 24
Fascinating article on how the power grid works.
Problems with many Microsoft websites.
Tuesday, January 23
The story on Comet Cursor. What do you think of programs that do this?
Here's a graph showing why mail is taking so long to deliver. Now the question is: why?
Friday-Monday, January 19-22
Check your email for a message I sent to the class listserv about Packeteer.
If you are not on the class listserv, you missed a free question and answer from the quiz. Subscribe today (instructions below).
In case you forget, I am putting the TechTip presentation list here.
DNS errors resulted in users trying to get to Yahoo and Microsoft went to a pay site instead. We will look at this issue closer when we talk about how the Internet works.
I see that the Packeteer story didn't make the Creightonian this week - must have come too close to the deadline.
Did you read the Omaha World-Herald story on gender issues and computing? I sent it out to the class list a few minutes ago. Please read it as we will discuss it in class.
Thursday, January 18
Wednesday, January 17
Is the Internet the cause of California's power problems?
Hey, what happened last night at 21:30? Maybe it's this! More info here.
Tuesday, January 16
Those of you that are on our class list just got a bonus emailed to you at 8:40 this morning. Enjoy! (and don't pass it around, either!).
Interested in banner and click-through ads from the side of the webmasters? Click here.
From this week's Cringely column:
Meanwhile in Hotmail land, users are reporting excruciatingly slow
performance. On top of that, some Hotmail servers apparently crashed recently, and many
users lost their stored e-mail messages. Complaints about the service are answered with
"pious apologies that seem to have been created by some sort of random sympathy
generator," said one embattled user of Microsoft's free e-mail service.
Related: Mailjay
status queue report and Mailjay mail queue
There was once a young man who, in his youth, professed his desire to become one of the world's great writers. When asked to define "great" he said, "I want to write stuff that the whole world will read, stuff that people will react to on a truly emotional level, stuff that will make them scream, cry, howl in pain and anger!" He now works for Microsoft, writing error messages. <insert rimshot here>
Monday, January 15
I was going over the TechTip signup sheet and noticed that people were afraid to double up - we can have two or three go each day. I will pass it around on Tuesday again.
Sunday, January 14
Not everyone has joined the listserve yet - in fact, only one of you have so far! There are benefits to joining, so do so ASAP. Instructions are below.
Forbe's magazine has an article on the Five Worst Tech Jobs. I'd have to agree on these for sure...
The United States Department of Justice has an online manual for search and seizure guidelines for electronic devices here.
Thursday, January 11
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Don't forget to to check out the Online Learning Center - a review section for each chapter of the text. I am not going to reproduce it here, check it out at the link above.
CREATING A GENERATION OF SLOUCHERS
Young students may risk long-term injury by not observing proper ergonomic
posture when using a computer, medical experts say. Although the problems associated
with poor posture and computer use, such as neck and back strain and carpal tunnel
syndrome, are well known among adults, medical experts have expressed concern that
schools, in their rush to give all students access to computers, have ignored the
potential for problems in children. Few studies of the problem have occurred in the
United States. However, a recent study of 1,404 students by Professor Leon Straker
of Curtain University of Technology, Perth, Australia, found that most did not follow
proper ergonomic procedures and that 60 percent of the Australian children he studied had
ergonomic-related medical problems. A study of children by Cornell University found that
60 percent had a posture classified as "high-risk" while they used a computer.
However, education officials say ergonomics is unlikely to be a major concern for schools.
Outfitting students' desks to be ergonomically proper is too expensive, the officials
argue. It would also be impractical as many students share each computer terminal during
the day. (New York Times, 4 January 2001)
For those of you that didn't know the change in our Internet connection that happened last October, here is a graphic that shows the difference. When we get into the networking chapter, we will discuss this in more depth. Thanks to Jay Langhurst for this graphic.
