Asynchronous/Virtual class!

We have something special planned for Tuesday night, a class that will be conducted virtually!

 

First, read the class lecture notes at:

http://zorak.monmouth.edu/~posten/homepc.ppt

 

Then tomorrow night you can log in to http://ecampus.monmouth.edu and join the chat room for our IT 102-50 section to discuss issues regarding what you need to think about when budgeting for a home computer.  A log of the conversation will be mailed out as well for an 'asynchronous' learning experience.  You can log in from a home computer, one in the dorms, or actually go to our classroom. 

 

Once the lecture and discussion session are complete, your homework assignment will be to design and budget a 'dream' home computer system.  If unlimited funds were available what kind of computer would you build and why?  Would you want something simple just to email, surf the web and do reports on?  Or would you want a killer audio/video powerhouse that could play all the latest games at their best quality?  Maybe you would want a monster video and audio editing system where you could do photography and make movies.  Or will you go for something simple and elegant with moderate power like an Apple iMac or Dell's new Dell ONE?

 

You will gather a list of all the features and create a powerpoint presentation showing what your system can and can't do and an excel spreadsheet that details ALL of the costs it would take to acquire such a system.  Dont forget printers, LCDs, peripherals and software, also tax shipping and other hidden costs.  Together this should be a 3-4 page presentation and a single excel spreadsheet, and should be ready to show the rest of the class on Thursday night.

 

Let me know if you have any questions, I'll see you (virtually!) tomorrow night.

 

Sam

Is email dead?

Slate thinks so:

http://slate.com/id/2177969/pagenum/all/#page_start

Thomas Hawk agrees:

http://thomashawk.com/2007/11/email-1961-2007-rip-thank-god.html

 

 

You Tube HD?  Yes please.

http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/11/15/youtube-hd-coming-soon/

 

Colussus:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7094881.stm

 

Hacker of the year arrested:

http://www.smh.com.au/news/security/police-swoop-on-hacker-of-the-year/2007/11/15/1194766821481.html

RCRD LBL

http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/15/engadget-founder-peter-rojass-new-digital-music-site-rcrd-lbl-l/

 

Get free downloads today!

 

Also check out:

http://www.niggytardust.com from Saul Williams and Trent Rezner.

What's wrong with Creative Commons?

I dont agree with all of his conclusions but it's an interesting backgrounder from a professional perspective.

 

http://www.jmg-galleries.com/blog/2007/11/12/creative-commons-a-great-concept-ill-never-employ/

 

OF COURSE CC isn't designed for folks like him and it's frustrating that this is so often confused.

Professor Lessig's TED talk

http://www.boingboing.net/2007/11/06/larry-lessigs-ted-ta.html

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How hackers work

From How stuff works….

 

http://computer.howstuffworks.com/hacker.htm

 

Sam

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Yahoo vs. Google

http://weblogs.media.mit.edu/SIMPLICITY/nonflickr/05_yahoogle.html

 

Sam

AP chief on how the net has tranformed news

http://www.ap.org/pages/about/whatsnew/wn_110107a.html

If you put amateurs on the front line of security

You shouldn’t be surprised when you get amateur results…

 

So says noted security expert Bruce Schneier…

 

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/11/the_war_on_the.html

 

Do you agree?  Is escalating every possible incident the right thing to do, cause it only takes one wrong decision to allow harm to happen?  Or do we need to stop living in fear and think objectively?  What’s the easy thing to do?  What’s the right thing?

 

Sam

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FW: [IP] Re: WORTH REMEMBERING djf AT&T says there is no duopoly, net neutrality is bad

From Prof. Farber's IP list.  Have any of you checked out legal bittorrent downloads?

-----Original Message-----
From: David Farber [mailto:dave@farber.net]
Sent: Friday, October 26, 2007 10:52 AM
To: ip@v2.listbox.com
Subject: [IP] Re: WORTH REMEMBERING djf AT&T says there is no duopoly, net neutrality is bad

Begin forwarded message:

From: Edward Almasy <ealmasy@axisdata.com>
Date: October 26, 2007 10:37:39 AM EDT
To: "Matthew Tarpy" <tarpy@tarpify.com>
Cc: David Farber <dave@farber.net>
Subject: Re: [IP] Re:  AT&T says there is no duopoly, net neutrality 
is bad

On Oct 25, 2007, at 8:20 AM, Matthew Tarpy wrote:
> Should network providers not be able to react to the
> usage of their network to increase stability, limit activity that is
> theft at worst, and in a gray nebula of legality at best?

I know this has been said before, but given the questions at hand,
I think it bears worth repeating:  BitTorrent is used every day for
legitimate purposes that are not at all gray or nebulous.

Every single one of the torrents on the BitTorrent trackers listed
below is 100% legal.  bt.etree.org currently has more than 3,300 active
legal music torrents, and it's not just Phish and the Grateful Dead;
you don't hear about it much in the popular media (for obvious reasons),
but Radiohead, Pearl Jam, My Morning Jacket, Ryan Adams, and hundreds of
other very successful artists allow and encourage free sharing of
recordings of their work online.  linuxtracker.org has thousands of 
legal
torrents available, and it's not just software -- they're also using
BitTorrent to distribute educational videos and podcasts.  Even clearly
suspect sites like The Pirate Bay offer many gigabytes of legal content
(e.g. http://thepiratebay.org/user/meetthegimp/).

Traffic shaping or blocking like that practiced by Comcast affects
more than just the downloading of illegal MP3s -- it also hinders
the rapidly-growing community of people using the technology for
legitimate tasks.  If this is representative of what we can expect
without net neutrality, then I can't help but think that some legal
protection for that neutrality is needed.

Ed

http://bt.etree.org
http://linuxtracker.org
http://kickmedown.com
http://torrent.fedoraproject.org
http://www.tapers.org

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Wolfram announces the simplest possible turing machine is universal

This is pretty incredible stuff, and if you believe in the ideas of A New Kind of Science, a big deal towards showing that they really are on to something!

 

http://blog.wolfram.com/2007/10/the_prize_is_won_the_simplest.html?lid=title

 

Also check out Wolframs work on Numb3rs:

http://blog.wolfram.com/2007/09/wolfram_research_goes_to_holly.html?lid=title

 

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This is pretty slick

You might have guessed, but in norwegian languages, Posten means Post Office.  I get a google alert for the name Posten every few days, and one came up with some Swedish Postcards.  One link looked particularly interesting and it sent me to this site, I've never seen one done so well.  Check it out!

http://www.riktigavykort.se/eng/riktiga_vykort_eng.html

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The Wilhelm Scream

http://www.dvconfidential.com/news/wilhelm-scream-on-abc-news

Interesting article on people not being who they say who they are on the net

Really wacky but apparently true story…

http://www.laweekly.com/news/news/the-life-and-death-of-jesse-james/17427/?page=1

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Links for Web stuff

http://zorak.monmouth.edu/~posten/class4.ppt

http://zorak.monmouth.edu/~posten/class5.ppt

http://zorak.monmouth.edu/~posten/class8.ppt

http://zorak.monmouth.edu/~posten/class11.ppt