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After class ended
Thursday, October 11, 2001
Last class!
Tuesday, October 9, 2001
My Schedule this week:
I've got a bunch of meetings this week. On Tuesday I will be at the
dentist in the morning and won't be back in the office until after
lunch. Wednesday I have an employee seminar from 8:30 to 11:30, and
then a lunch seminar from 11:30 to
1:00pm, and will need to leave around 4:00pm. Thursday morning we have a
COBA staff meeting from 8:30 to 9:30 or so, and then I am scheduled to make
a presentation to the SAC (Staff
Advisory Council) at 1:00pm (till 1:30 or ??).
I'll be around campus, but not necessarily in my office. I would recommend that you email me first, and then call me second.
Excite is in a death spiral...
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Thursday, October 4, 2001
Good article on RSI and equipment to prevent it, with pictures
RIAA is planning to go against KAZAA, Morpheus, etc.
Terrorist attacks make more want to telecommute
Wireless in Manhattan - new opportunities for firms in light of the disaster
IBM introduces a new multiprocessor *nix system
Yahoo Serious is fighting a trademark battle with Yahoo
Expert Systems:
Online
expert system for renting a Disney movie
Link to a
bunch of medical expert systems
Tuesday, October 2, 2001
Bid to tax satellites is rejected (finally!)
New CDs designed to stop "ripping"
Email is 30 years old! Here is a story on the first email message
Acer laptop has biometric security feature
Microsoft boosts enterprise licensing (and raises it quite a bit)
Thursday, September 27, 2001
Catch that free wireless wave!
Publishers trounce Universal in copyright fight
AT&T to bid on Excite@Home assets if they declare bankruptcy
How one school shapes bandwidth and Napster was nothing compared to this years bandwidth hogs Here are some CU statistics in a PPT show
Tuesday, September 25, 2001
Attack Can't Erase Stored Data - A good story about hot site backup locations and how they work.
First computer shipped with Windows XP.
Using technology to map the debris at the World Trade Center site
The September issue of the Information Technology newsletter is now available online. If you are interested in reading the newsletter you can access it from the IT homepage or go directly to it by clicking on the following URL http://www.creighton.edu/IT/newsletter/current.
Dr. Zowie writes: "This morning at about 10:00 UT, a major explosion occured on the Sun. The solar X-ray output went up by over 1,000 times. About a billion tons of material are speeding toward Earth at over a million miles per hour, and should hit sometime in the next couple of days. Low latitude aurorae and anomalies in radio communications and power service are likely consequences. You can see the event from the SOHO spacecraft's home page -- images and movies are here. In the movies, watch for the burst of radiation hitting SOHO about 13:00 UT -- that's a high energy proton storm caused by the flare itself. You can also see the earthly effects of a similar event from last year."
Thursday, September 20, 2001
Due to the important speech by the President tonite at 8:00pm, I will be cutting class short. We will start at 6:15pm and then stop shortly before 8:00pm. You will have the choice of leaving, staying to work in the classroom until 11:00pm when the CUWOC closes, or watching the Presidential address in the conference room. I would normally break and then start class again, but this congressional address could run long.
Largest supercomputer to do global weather simulation
"Freedom Flies From Terror" - an editorial about the events after 9/11
Judges will have their Internet use monitored after all
Not exactly a computer question, but more of a privacy concern: A woman was filmed, in public, doing embarrassing things that were recorded on a "Girls Gone Wild" videotape and is being sold. She is asking for damages and the tapes be recalled and destroyed. What rights do you have in a public setting?
Verisign clamping down on disaster domain names
Singapore net connection to the USA is slow due to an undersea cable snag
Due to the recent tragedy and rescheduling of class activities, I will change the due date of the research paper outline from today until Tuesday, September 25th.
Tuesday, September 18, 2001
Did the hijackers communicate using library computers?
What happens to your CPU when the cooling fan dies?
The technological effects of "2001: A Space Odyssey"
ClearChannel: Songs to avoid playing on the radio
Some info on the worm that hit campus (and other places) today....
Info on WalMart's computer system
Why I hate Hotmail Part 2:
Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2001 11:05:44 -0500 (CDT)
From: Mail Delivery Subsystem <MAILER-DAEMON@creighton.edu>
To: mis353wc-owner@pigeon.creighton.edu
Subject: Returned mail: Service unavailable
The original message was received at Sun, 16 Sep 2001 11:05:37 -0500 (CDT)
from root@localhost
----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
tmcgargill@hotmail.com
----- Transcript of session follows -----
... while talking to mc1.law13.hotmail.com.:
>>> RCPT To:<tmcgargill@hotmail.com>
<<< 552 Requested mail action aborted: exceeded storage allocation
554 tmcgargill@hotmail.com... Service unavailable
Thursday, September 13, 2001
REMINDER: Larry Sheldon is guest speaking on Tuesday, instead of tonite.
REMINDER: Exam over chapters 1-3 tonite, first thing in class. After everyone is done with the exam, we will continue with the Hardware presentation. Don'tcha just love talking about hardware?
The FBI is issuing search warrants to Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to gather information about any emails, etc. that might be related to the terrorist attacks. It appears that both AOL and Earthlink are cooperating with authorities, based on this story. It appears that the Feds are now pushing the installation of Carnivore onto ISPs. Coursey: How terrorists got your privacy rights, too.
The importance of having a "hot" off-site backup data center Verizon networks seriously damaged
Wall Street to reopen on Monday, after doing tests
eBay bans trading on items from the World Trade Center and Pentagon
Red Cross in New York needs technical help, not blood
Tuesday, September 11, 2001
EXCELLENT TIMELINE AND INFO (WITH PICS) ON THE TERRORIST ATTACKS TODAY
REMINDER: Larry Sheldon is guest speaking on Thursday!
REMINDER: Exam over chapters 1-3 on Tuesday, first thing in class. After everyone is done with the exam, we will start the Hardware presentation.
PC makers charging around $20 for a coupon to upgrade to XP, instead of free as in previous upgrades
More Microsoft XP questions answered
Poll backs limits on cell phone use
Low priced Pentium 4 PCs ($800)
Autopsy of a dot com - rebel.com
Info on the exam - it will be true/false, some multiple choice, and four short answer questions, of which you will pick and answer only two. You will have enough time to complete the exam (an hour? We'll see) and then after everyone is done, we will start the regular class. I have copied handouts of the Hardware lecture and we will start that after the exam.
News sites reel from air attacks
By Jim Hu Special to ZDNet News
September 11, 2001 8:28 AM PT
Moments after airplanes separately crashed into both towers of the World Trade Center, and then later the Pentagon, Web sites for the major news
outlets were swamped by an overflow of traffic. Major Web news outlets such as CNN.com, MSNBC.com, Yahoo News, ABCNews.com and FoxNews.com have
been left unaccessible or slow to respond.
"We expect traffic demands to site to be enormous, but right now tabulating audience isn't a priority," said MSNBC spokesman Ben
Billingsley. "We're dedicating all of our resources to covering this story thoroughly and accurately."
Tuesday, September 4, 2001
HP to buy COMPAQ - this makes them the worlds largest PC maker
More questions answered on Windows XP
Motorola chip breakthrough: gallium arsenide instead of silicon
Email overload? This Prof won't do email. How about you? How many emails and instant messages do you get? What about your cell phone -do people think you have to always answer your phone all the time?
Labor Day weekend, 9/1 thru 9/3, 2001
Gateway exec Ted Waitt on the PC industry downturn
@Home executive on their perilous future
PC History, rewritten. Interesting article to keep in mind for the coming weeks.
From Slashdot:
Posted by timothy on Sunday September 02, @11:56AM
Jim42688 writes: "Looks like the prices Amazon was reporting for Windows XP a while
back were right. On the back of today's ad for CompUSA, it lists the prices to preorder.
Home Full, 199.99, Home Upgrade, 99.99. Professional full, 299.99, Professional upgrade,
199.99." Perfect timing -- Fwis writes: "Use your power as a consumer to Boycott XP. The site is now functioning smoothly, and
we invite you to log in and participate in discussions, polls, and news stories related to
Microsoft's release of the XP line of products." There are some interesting links on
this page if you (or someone with purchasing power at your company) is considering XP.
Thursday, August 30, 2001
Have a good Labor Day Weekend! Don't forget we have class tonite and also on Tuesday. The Wade Center/Seagate Labs will be close on Friday at 4:00pm and will remain closed on Saturday, Sunday and Monday. Normal hours will resume on Tuesday morning at 8:00am.
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html in case we need this tonight in class.
'PARASITIC' COMPUTING
Researchers at the University of Notre Dame have demonstrated
"parasitic" computing -- using other people's servers to do your own
processing. Although several projects have harnessed the power of distributed
computing for a common research goal, the difference here is that the Notre Dame
researchers didn't ask the other server owners' permission. The methodology exploits
technical protocols that ensure reliable communication by, in effect, turning the Internet
into a distributed computer. Servers can then be harnessed to perform computations on
behalf of an uninvited users, solving complex mathematical problems while engaging in
standard communications. (InfoWorld 30 Aug 2001)
http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/01/08/30/010830hnparasite.xml
Here is an example of our SETI@HOME stats for Terry
Wednesday, August 29, 2001
AOL in China - You Have Dissidents!
The biggest blunders in tech history? How many of these are you familiar with?
"Revealing Information Online" - interesting article about your privacy on the Internet
Tuesday, August 28, 2001
Linux: The Operating System That Could
Internet reaching it's growth limit? Talks about IPV4 (current standard) and IPV6 (new standard). Here's who is using IPV4 address space, and guess who wants IPV6?
Creighton is blocking http://biz.yahoo.com. Why? More info later...
Monday, August 27, 2001
Wiring up the ArpaNet - we will refer back to this article when we discuss the history of the Internet.
Intel announces a 2 gigahertz Pentium IV processor
Sunday, August 26, 2001
Have you joined our mailing list yet? If not, you have missed some things!
Telecom Digest
Risks Digest #44 and Risks Digest #45
Privacy Digest
Friday, August 24, 2001
I've resized the page here to accomodate the 800x600 resolution of the projector. I'll give it a try on Tuesday to see how it looks.
Thursday, August 23, 2001
Welcome! This is going to be an interesting class - this is the first time that I have taught out at the West Campus location, and also the first time I have taught this class in an eight-week session.
COBA is going wireless! Dean Pitts has approved the installation of wireless transmitters in the Eppley building. We will be placing two transmitters on the first floor, one each on the second and third floors, and two on the fourth floor. This should be exciting!
The Powerpoints from the publishers are *still* not here. As soon as they arrive I will post them on the site and update the link from here.
Excite@Home Australia is scanning their users' downloads for copyrighted materials.
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.
