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Wednesday, 01 December 2004

 Blog 10

This is just an excerpt from a news article from the Raleigh News & Observer, which I found online: www.webster.edu/

   After dodging the authorities for the last two years, the hacker legend, Kevin Mitnick was caught by the FBI in Raleigh, North Carolina, on February 15, 1995. Mitnick's criminal acts include the theft of thousands of programs and data files and over 20,000 credit card numbers from computer systems all over the country. Despite all the break-ins and violations, he received a very light sentence. In fact, for all the numerous computer crimes that he has committed over a span of 15 years, he has seemingly been treated liberally by the authorities.

    This is crazy, I never thought something like that would happen so close to home, And to think this man was highly intelligent if he was able to commit all those crimes on computer and even phones. He was tapping into programs like: California Dept. of Motor Vehicles, an Army computer system, Motororla's Cellular Division, and many different schools. All because he had a bad childhood, this let you know right now parents, “Pay more attention to you kids” or else the will turn out to be some kind of criminal. If you wan to read up on this case or see other articles on this cases or similar check these articles out: Hafner, Katie (1995, August) "Kevin Mitnick, Unplugged", Esquire, p.81-88.

Minor, J. R. (1995) ' "Hackers, Phrackers, and Crackers”, The true story of
Kevin Mitnick-World famous Computer Hacker', Interzine.

Sussman, Vic (1995, February) "Gotcha! A Hard-Core Hacker Is Nabbed",
U.S. News & World Report, p.66.

Blog 9:

Page Resource: Retrieved December 1, 2004 from http://www.pageresource.com

This site offers tutorial for HTML, JavaScript, CGI/Perl and it allows you to view web articles that give instructions and issues that you may have with various types of computer programs.  Other features on this site are: Forums, web-links and Graphics that allow a type of interaction within the site. Other things such as: books and web assistance is also offered on the page.

Usable Web: 970 links about web usability, Retrieved December 1, 2004 from http://www.usableweb.com

This sites appearance is far more complex than the previous one I checked out this site offers everything from links about information architecture, human factors, user interface issues, and usable design specific to the World Wide Web. Along with books that are electronically published about topics pertaining to web design and computer technology. I think that this site is very informative because you are allowed to view bad web-pages and good one, compare and contrast and see what you’re really doing wrong with your site.

Accessible Web Design: Retrieved December 1, 2004 from www.washington.edu/doit/Resources/web-design.html

I was browsing through University of Washington’s site and came across a well thought out page that was exclusively for the Web Design and accessibility. This site offers Bobby, a check list, color-blindness links, audio recording links and website’s that will help you improve your site. I recommend this site to any college student who’s preparing to make a site in the near future. This site is great.

Blog Assigment 8:

I found a site entitled: Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections

link for Google. I could not think of a valid reason to why this site isn’t placed on mainstream web, but I do think that some evidence reveal that the editor and formatter of the site speaks of truth and their real feelings, so that might be a downfall for the approval that is needed to be obtained to be on mainstream. Personally, I think this link is very informative and it offers a lot of things you can do to stay connected with the site. You should check it out at: www.uselectionatlas.org

Blog #7:

http://www2.kumc.edu/netlearning/examples-ani.html

With this site I noticed that the modules are broken down in the first slide, it revealed how the Human Eye is constructed and what each part is. The rest of the slides give a type of demonstration of what they were pertaining to. I would honestly, consider these slides to be boring, the interaction and animation are extremely simplistic; it appears that the constructor is an amateur with animations.  In the event you want to educate a certain audience these animations are very appropriate for all audiences that want to gain a better understanding of a certain material. The typical audience that for these animations would range from about 7 and up, although it appears to be simple the animation is far to complex for children aging from 1 to 6.

Tuesday, 30 November 2004

Blog 6: You should check this out:

As I was navigating through the computer looking up blog entries, I could submit, I came across a site that was, exclusively, about old computers and new ones. Basically, the site was an online museum that allowed you to go back and see how computers have emerged since the 1950’s to today. The site featured computers like the Whirlwind, which was considered the first real-time computer, and the first with graphic displays and core memory. And it also featured the world’s largest computer ever built, AN/FSQ-7. I really think this site is great for all those “computerologist” out there.

Poison Pill-A strategy used by corporations to dampen a hostile takeover by another company. The target company attempts to make its stock less appealing to the acquirer. There are two types of poison pills: A "flip-in" which allows existing shareholders to buy more shares at a discount and a “flip-over" allows stockholders to buy the acquirer's shares at a discounted price after the merger.

In the court case Oracle vs. PeopleSoft, Oracle is suing PeopleSoft for the establishment of what is known now as the “Poison Pill”, with this PeopleSoft has been capable of taking over large corporation, placing them in the lead over Oracle, making PeopleSoft the world’s second largest enterprise software company. The deal between  JD Edwards and PeopleSoft was expected to boost PeopleSoft’s earnings per share straight away. When the merger was announced in early June, the companies said they would generate $2.8 billion in annual revenue and hold 17% of the enterprise software market. And they did, with this so-called poison pill, which put a damper on Oracles bid, and caused the suing process which is now postponed until more evidence is available.

Monday, 29 November 2004

Blog 5 Merging OEMs with IEEE:

IEEE- Abbreviation for the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, founded in 1884 as the AIEE, the IEEE was formed in 1963 when AIEE merged with IRE. IEEE is an organization made up of engineers, scientists, and students.

 OEM- stands for original equipment manufacturer, a company that has a special relationship with computer producers. OEMs buy computers in bulk and customize them for a particular application. OEMs are not the original manufacturers -- they are the customizers.

I recently, read an article entitled: “Warp Nine engineering to provide OEMs with IEEE 1284 pic sources code VIA Verligo Programming Language”   Warp Nine Engineering-is a peripheral connectivity solutions provider with state-of-the-art products that connect peripherals to host computers using new and emerging interface technologies. The merge that was preformed in this article was a merge between OEMs and IEEE, which would then allow the OEMs to integrate and modify IEEE so that it would then be functional to all OEMs needs based on the high speed, bi-directional means through a parallel port that IEEE 1284s provides. Researchers say that the model will be best suited with things such as scanners, specialized printers and TV satellite receivers, which would allow these things to transfer codes faster and easily.

Saturday, 13 November 2004

http://www.internet.com

Weblogs or Wiki's, you choose!:

I recently, read an article entitiled, "Give your users the power of the press with Weblogs and Wiki's" by the Managing editor of Crossnodes, Michael Hall. The article discusses how Weblogs make publishing easy and Wiki's making communicating much more sufficient. With using Weblogs you are allowed to create a publication, quick and easy without any worry about formality, deadlines and limitations. A Wiki on the other hand, has a main concept of, if you publish it, it can be changed and editted for you, but they do have some limitations to how much of your original work can be changed, by using passwords and incremental back-ups to block any vandalism towards your work. The article allows readers to choose which type of communication will suit them best. By stating that both styles have some bugs that need to be tweaked, but they have there up-points that will allow a community to interact through internet more quickly, as opposed to"Word of Mouth".

Monday, 25 October 2004

Google Bombing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googlebomb

"Google Bomb is an attempt to influence the ranking of a given site in results returned by Google, and other search engines." -Wikipedia

 This term is new to, but the actual concept of it is not. As most may think that Google Bombing is intended to be funny, well I beg to differ. Google Bombing to me is considered annoying, because it allows a search engine to present information that is within a site, without giving the exact location of the searched information. Google bombs make searching for information tedious and rigorous. If you were to delete all the google bombs from search engines, then it would allow student, or who ever uses the search engine, less time and work in order to find even the hardest things on the web.