10/28/09 1030

we learned that now-a-days alot of people put personal information on social networks such as facebook/myspace/twitter/etc... and that this can lead to a big problem, just by doing some research on someone with their first and last name you can find alot of personal things about them, so we need to be cautious of this stuff. this applies to computer as well, by downloading files, we risk them having added malware/virus/botnet in them that can steal personal information. I learned that just because we have locks on our doors, or anti-viruses on our computer, we are never totally secure.

10/21/09 1030

I learned about how we keep ourselves safe and how that relates to keeping our computer safe, I first learned about how we physically keep ourselves safe, and will we always be safe? the answers no, even if we take the most precaution we possible can we will never 100% be safe, and thats the same thing with our computers, we can do whatever it takes to keep our computer and personal information safe, but it will always still be vulnerable. It might not be "as" vulnerable but still will always be breakable.

10/20/09 1120

Again I learned a little more about the deployment tool, we also dan showed us a program new program on how to backup an entire hard drive. and while we were waiting for that to copy over, we talked about why that hard drive took the time it did, and how we could do it faster? and how could we do the same thing on 24 other laptops? but in a faster way.

10/19/09 1031

Today, we just talked about future class "Supporting XP" about why or why not should we take the course following this class. and talked about why would we support XP when XP is going to diminsh soon?

10/19/09 1030

Today, I learned more about routers/hubs/switches, and more about ip addresses with LAN and WAN. I also learned about some common problems people have when they change a setting on the router but forget to reset switches/hubs/routers that are connected to the main router, or forgetting to ipconfig /release /renew them if not reseting the other switches/routers/hubs.

10/15/09 1120

Today we learned a lot about the new microsoft deployment program and asked us if we wanted to learn this deployment method or just go the simple way and learn how to make a golden image of a hard drive. Dan talked to us, so i learned about the pros and cons about it and how it would benefit us, but also letting us know that we might just be wasting our time because this hasn't been tested by him before. and also that it would be real time consuming, such as 4 weeks to set it up with a 400+ page deployment instruction e-book.

10/14/09 1031

The first 20 minutes of class dan was talking to the IT guy about deploying the laptops and what security issue he wanted fixed. Then when class actually started, we were missing many people so Dan decided to hold off on checking our virtual box images, and we just talked about what would happen the rest of the other half of the semester if we wanted to take Supporting windows XP

10/14/09 1030

I was late to this class period so i missed about 40 mins of class. but as I walked in we were talking about the OSI seven layer model, and what layers are more important, and what we would dedicate our foundation on etc... I didn't learn much today, but I did get a feel for the OSI seven layer model

10/13/09 1120

Today, we went over our freemind drafts... We discussed everyones drafts to see what differences we had. Dan wanted to show us how differently we see different problems and different ways of approaching it. Dan also wanted us to have a different prespective by looking at other peoples drafts to see if it might spark something in our minds, and if we left anything else out.

10/12/09 1031

We just talked more about ip addresses, and reviewing octets, how much bits are in an octet, etc...
also that we should bring our virtual hard disk clones next class period.

10/12/09 1030

Today, we talked more about ip addresses, a little more about the octets but this time. we talked alot about hex and decimals. i learned that hex goes from 0-9 and a-f, as for binary it only goes from 0-1.

10/08/09 1120

I learned alot about freemind today and all the benefits it has, such as being able to put notes and more about out desktop management of 50 computers, today we talked more about the applications of it, and what applications would we put on the machines and "WHY". do we want our teachers to decide what programs we want on the computers or should we ask the past students? we would definitely ask the past students because they are the ones using the programs and would know what to use.

10/07/09 1031

Today, i learned alot about ip addresses in virtual machine, and why the ip addresses and subnet gateways are how they are. and why the virtual machine is going to have the same ip address as the physical machine, but different physical addresses.

10/07/09 1030

We talked alot about IP addresses today and how they work, i learned what type of ip addresses are consided class a, class b, class c, etc.... and a little bit on how networks work. to understand ip addresses, you must know about binary codes, that is where the binary game came in handy.

10/06/09 1120

Today, we went to learn key to meet michael myers the IT Guru, we watched him as he filmed learn keys newer A+ cert practice exams and videos. It was really cool because I had never been in a filming studio before. we learned a little about routers and how they work.

10/05/09 1031

Today, we talked more about virtual machines, and errors on why some could not clone vdi, i learned windows and linux both use different slashes. also vista has different file directorys than xp.

10/05/09 1030

we talked about dan dropping his laptop when his computer was on and why we should not do that, he inquired corrupted data on his documents folder and took him a good 27+ hours to retrieve the data and put on new hard drive, which was a real pain for him because he switched hard drives into an indentical laptop which had a junk vista on it. so it took him even longer. then i learned about virtual box and system internals.

9/29/09 1120

today we talked about going on a field trip to go see a new A+ cert be made. we then talked more about the computer management of 50 laptop computers. we went and looked at the room etc... how big it was, and what security issues would be involved. I learned that we usually always need to inspect the area where we will be deploying computers because you might be able to see potential problems.

9/28/09 1031

Dan taught us how to make a virtual disk image, and showed us step-by-step on how to do it because, old instructions online were out dated and hard to figure out for the inexperienced computer user. homework to go home and clone a virtual disk image. I learned that many things can change over time, because technology is always changing.

9/28/09 1030

we talked about our budget computers and what would we upgrade in our budget computers, and why! i learned that the motherboard is the heart of a computer, a computer should be build around the motherboard, we learned that we should have a good case with good ariflow, because a cool computer runs better than a hot computer, and heat issues can cause lots of problems.