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Monday, May 2, 2005
Reminder! We are meeting at the Dundee Dell at 6:15pm. Be there, aloha!
MIS 470
Final Assignment
April 25, 2005
For your final assignment, prepare a group report about your two server installations. Be detailed, and list the software versions, IP address ranges, successes and failures, time spent, etc. Make it a report format, with a cover page and references (if any). It will be due at the final exam time, Monday May 2, at 6:15pm at a location to be determined.
Monday, April 25, 2005
Microsoft patents using 911 to contact emergency services
Microsoft to support Linux in their virtual server product
What happens to your email when you die and your relatives want to access it?
$10K for a magazine? But it talks about Moore's Law
Microsoft ships Windows 64-bit version
It appears that a French court has ruled that DVDs cannot contain DRM - DRM is Digital Rights Management, and this means that you, as a user, should be allowed to make archival or backup copies of your DVD. Now it is a French court decision, but I applaud them for this.
Bowdler Machines Get Congressional OK
Analysts were unsure whether the motion picture industry gained more than it
lost with the passage of the Family Entertainment and Copyright Act on
Tuesday. While the bill makes it a federal crime to use camcorders in movie
theaters or distributing movies and CDs before their commercial release, the
bill also will allow companies to sell DVD players that can filter sex,
violence or indecent language from movies. Passage of the bill is expected
to abort a lawsuit filed against Salt Lake City-based ClearPlay by eight
Hollywood movie studios and the Directors Guild of America. ClearPlay is the
primary manufacturer of players containing filtering tools. "This is
tremendous news for ClearPlay and a real victory for families," said
ClearpPlay CEO Bill Aho. And Philadelphia Inquirer columnist Jane R. Eisner
wrote: "Despite the solemn pleas from famous directors, it's hard to oppose
giving parents the tools to exert some control in their own homes." But
Congresswoman Diane Watson of California, who voted against the bill,
disagreed, saying, "While I support family-friendly entertainment, I believe
this method is not only a violation of filmmakers' copyright protections but
also an infringement of their artistic vision."
Story #1
Cleanflicks
Clearplay
Story #2
Monday, April 18, 2005
Online subscriptions of the Wall Street Journal are surpassing the print versions (20x more profit!)
It's the 35th anniversary of the Apollo 13 mission - read this story. It's long, but shows the management structure and attention to details, and the engineering skills of the ground crew. Also, the movie Apollo 13 is also excellent and highly recommended.
Do you have computer rage? To paraphrase Sheriff Walter Thibido (Harry Morgan) in "The Shootist" (one of my favorite John Wayne movies) - "What I will do on your laptop won't pass for flowers!"
THAT WARM, SECURE FEELING: Auditors for the U.S. Treasury Department tested computer security at the Internal Revenue Service. They called 100 random IRS employees claiming they were from the tax agency's computer help desk to see if the employees would change their passwords to one suggested by the caller. That sort of ruse would allow an identity thief to hack IRS systems and get private taxpayer information. "We were able to convince 35 managers and employees to provide us their username and change their password," auditors said. The audit was a follow-on to a similar test in 2001, when 71 of 100 IRS employees fell for the tactic. (AP) ...What do you expect? They only fired 36 of them in 2001
Tonight - evaluations, TechTips, a quiz, and then Knoppix. I want everyone to get theirs working tonite so we can hook 'em all up next week.
Monday, April 11, 2005
Appeals court rules that you can use a companys name in a domain name that disparages the company
Cell phones are the newest thing to smuggle into prisons
World's largest Linux supercomputer
Star Wars geeks waiting in the wrong line!
Indian call center employees (outsourced) steal account information
Connecticut court says using a GPS in rental cars to track speeders is illegal
Gateway to receive $150 million from Microsoft as settlement
What does GW Bush have on his iPod?
Hey, check this out!
Sparrow.creighton.edu
Tue Apr 5 08:40:07 CDT 2005
8:39am up 365 days, 46 min, 12 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
Monday, April 4, 2005
Supreme Court weighs in on Internet filesharing
Breaking firewalls with OpenSSH and Putty
How do you respond to a computer crash?
HP sues two companies that refill ink cartridges
Internet study finished - 7 years later! Well, at least it says that DNS is good :-)
Interesting twist on the Nigerian 411 scam that I received in my Yahoo email account
Should I grade in a different color?
Monday, March 28, 2005
Thanks to Ken Mattson for a great guest speaker presentation. The material that he covered will be fair game for quizzes and the final, so I hope you took notes.
For class today we will:
1. do News and Views that we haven't covered
2. do TechTips from the last two weeks and today
3. I will return graded stuff
4. We will finish setting up the W2K03 server
5. Group Assignment: Make your server serve out the R+RAS service out to
your client PC. When the client gets it's Internet access from
your server you are finished and each group member gets 50 points
(groups need to email me with your success and group member names)
NEXT WEEK:
Come prepared with your *nix distribution on CD or DVD and be ready
to install it on another PC. That will be the bulk of the class time.
Is IBM set to spam the spammers?
England is the country with the most-hacked systems (USA is #2)
Phishing with VOIP (and SPIT)
Students make better progress without computers - hmmm, should I turn them off today?
How susceptible are you to social engineering?
Monday, March 21, 2005
Thanks to Jack Winslade for a great guest speaker presentation. The material that he covered will be fair game for quizzes and the final, so I hope you took notes. Here's my notes. I won't quiz you on any Sitel-specific information, but Jack did talk quite a bit about WAN technology.
Next week we will have Ken Mattson as our guest speaker. Today we will do our TechTips and "News and Views" review, and then hands-on work. Oh, and yes we have a quiz for today, so I hope you paid attention to what Jack said last week!
IRS workers are prone to social engineering
More than one million zombie computers on the 'net?
A faster release cycle for Debian?
Star Wars in 3D? I hope it's better than the Star Wars Holiday Show (#1) (#2)
Is that a spreadsheet or your screen, or Solitaire? The state of North Carolina wants to know, and may ban it from their computers.
Phishing with VOIP (and SPIT)
Students make better progress without computers - hmmm, should I turn them off today?
Broadband networking on your body?
Monday, March 14, 2005
Welcome back from break! Be sure to show up on time today as Jack Winslade is coming to speak, and it would be rude to show up late for our guest! We will postpone TechTips today until next week so Jack can start at the beginning of class.
A concise guide to the major Internet bodies
Who is the parent of MS-DOS? Slashdot discussion Digital Research story
Kevin Mitnick says: better security is not about technology - beware of social engineering (more)
Linus Torvalds is using a Mac?!!!
US Government agrees allowing IBM to sell it's PC division to China's Lenovo
Uh-oh - Microsoft is acquiring Groove Networks (Slashdot discussion) (MS press release)
The Unix Philosophy, explained
The "decay" of online references
If you use AOL's IM, do you give them the right to use whatever you say? (Slashdot discussion)
Association of Information Technology Professionals - AITP
Dr. Chen is starting up the CU chapter of AITP again, and is holding an
informational meeting on Thursday, March 17th at 3:30pm in BA 315.
At the meeting they will be giving away five one-year national memberships
($35 value) and will have refreshments. If you are an MIS major or
are interested in MIS, stop by!
I have only received the questions for our next Guest Speaker, Jack Winslade, from the following students: Alleman, Blissenbach, Block, Gines, Hood, Kelly, Osborne, Sarawagi, Slater, Swan. These people will get 20 points, the rest need to turn in your questions.
On a related note, when you email me something, please use a subject line that is relevant to the message. I would prefer something like "MIS 470 Assignment One" or similar. I get lots of email and it is easy for things to get lost in the clutter. Also, please put your name in the "from" line, or in the body of the email message.
Holy Thursday, March 24
Yes, we will have class on Monday, March 28th! University classes start at 5:00pm that day.
Monday, March 7, 2005
SPRING BREAK! No class today
Monday, February 28, 2005
Poor Paris Hilton! Her phone was hacked into - Story #1 and Story #2
A teenager in the US is the first arrested for spimming - story here
R.I.P. Jeff Raskin
Apple CFO Gives Info on Company Direction
"Mac World is reporting a recent talk given by Apple's Chief Financial Officer (Peter Oppenheimer) at the Goldman Sachs Technology Investment Symposium. The article illustrates several things about about Apple's business plan, much of which is totally new information about the company's current and future direction. Here's the nutshell summary: iPod "Halo" effect is causing some Windows switchers, little demand for satellite radio/iPod integration, iPod shuffle margins below HD ipods, happy with rate of growth - no plans to license OS X, margins on Mac mini equal to eMac (both below corporate average), retail store to expand to 125, no plans for media center PC - prefers to stream multimedia to TV from primary computer over wireless network, no video for iPod, portable media centers a failure."
My plan for class on Monday, February 28th:
6:15 to 6:30 - email, News and Views, TechTips
6:30 to 7:30 - finish up installation of Windows Server 2003, with patches
and network configuration
7:30 to 7:45 - break
7:45 to ?? - midterm exam (you can leave when finished)
Monday, February 21, 2005
Robert Kahn and Vinton Cerf are getting the 2004 Turing Award for creating TCP/IP
RFID tracking in that grade school is out
Peter Jennings goes one-on-one with Bill Gates (printable version)
In Canada, a business email address is considered private and may not receive unsolicited email
Monday, February 14, 2005
Carly Fiorina is out! Carly Fiorina is out as HP chairman Interesting to note that HP's stock price rose 11% on the notice of her leaving, adding $7 billion to their value. Slashdot discussion here Carly leaves with a severance package of $21.4 million and will gain another $21 million more - (story #2) not bad for driving a once-great company down (stock price has dropped 50% since she took over in 1999). Official HP biography page and HP press release of her leaving. A good overview article is here A great Salon article (PDF) is here. Did she fail because she was a woman, had no operational experience, or was just a marketer? Maybe she just didn't understand The HP Way An interesting article from 2002 on Losing the HP Way. In the last Salon article, who does Walter Hewlett remind you of (hint)?
Is Microsoft poised to collapse? An interesting read....
Meanwhile, Apple is going for a 2-for-1 stock split
And there is a new trojan out there that attacks the new Microsoft spyware program that was just released
Yahoo and the French and Nazi artifacts - the latest update
Here's how to hack the new Pepsi i-Tunes promotion
The Typo Millionaires - have you ever landed on the wrong page because you typed in the wrong URL?
The end of the college landline? OK, how many of you have cell phones? Interesting Slashdot discussion here (especially the part about what faculty members do when phones ring in class)
For those of you in the EU - Windows XP Reduced Media Edition
Orbitz TOS prohibits deep linking - hmmm, does that link violate their linking policy? Anyone who uses their website has to follow rules about linking, such as notifying them and to take down a link if Orbitz wants. Slashdot discussion here. Oh, and the W3C says "any attempt to forbid the practice of deep linking is based on a misunderstanding of the technology, and threatens to undermine the functioning of the web as a whole."
OSI Model on Wikipedia and OSI reference model hyperlinked and James Bond meets the OSI Model Remember that all people seem to need data processing here CISCO explains it YOUR ASSIGNMENT: Get together in your groups, and for each group, pick you level of the OSI model and come up with a presentation on it. After you work on it, each group will present each level of the OSI model to the class! Also for today: Warriors of the Net Video1 Video2 Video3 Video4 Video5
A Valentine's Day Poem
Roses are #ff0000
Violets are #0000ff
All my base
Are belong to you
Monday, February 7, 2005
What kind of physical security do you have?
Microsoft Product
Lifecycle dates
Mainstream support for W2K server edition will officially end June 30, 2005. Redmond's standard policy is to provide Mainstream
Support for 5 years after a product was released, and after that you get 5 years of Extended Support, if you are willing to pay
for it. No further service packs will be released for W2K after June 30-th this year. After that, you will be joining NT users
and no longer have regular free hotfixes.
Is Gmail gearing up for launch? I went from 6 invites to 50!
eBay is going to give real, not canned, email answers
How to take control of a station's wireless network
Monday, January 31, 2005
Remember to show up early for class today, we are taking our tour at 6:15pm!
AOL is pulling USENET access for it's members What is Usenet News?
Tim Berners-Lee has been named the greatest Briton of 2004. You can thank him for what you are reading right now! If it weren't for Tim, you would be using Gopher instead of the World Wide Web. You can check out one of the few remaining gopher servers at gopher://gopher.floodgap.com/1/world. See also Hobbes' Internet Timeline for the history of the Internet.
Microsoft to not offer security upgrades on the Windows 2000 platform (like what service Pack Two tries to do for Windows XP)
Do you have a supermarket loyalty card?
Minnesota teen gets 18 months in prison for creating the Blaster Worm.
Bill Gates' handwriting analyzed Actual doodle is here
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Monday, January 24, 2005
Bill
Gates in a 1983 Teen Beat photo spread No comment!
Also, Bill
and Paul Allen, another of Bill
and a 5.25" floppy disk, would you have
invested in this company in 1978 and of course the infamous mug shot
pictures. UPDATE: Snopes
says that these were publicity photos and not for Teen Beat
magazine. On a different note, check out Steve
Ballmer promoting Windows 1.0
How about this basement lab? (PDF)
How to keep your personal computer personal
Is today the worst day of the year?
Microsoft office for students has arrived! Check your email for the official message.
Monday, January 17, 2005
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An evening with Google's Marissa Meyer - some interesting facts about our favorite search engine
Linux Quick Reference Card (PDF)
DOIT VP honored with Top 100 influential CIOs
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