Introduction

Hi my name is Jonathon Mills and i made this blog for my operating systems class and so far this has been a good class.I am a senior this year and i play varsity soccer and varsity baseball. I look forward to this class because not only so far has it been fun but computer technology is the field of study i am going into in college so this will be a great help to me. As you can tell from my layout pictures i love cars, movies, and vidoe games.

Open Source Software

"Open Source Software is the software that releases a source code under a license ensures that derivative works will also be available as source code, protects certain rights of the original authors, and prohibits restrictions on how the software can be used or who can use it."


http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2005/09/15/what-is-opensource.html

Chapter 7 Flowcharts

Netwoking a Printer

Warm-up 11/6/08

The article explains that two major changes have occured; an african- american elected for president and the end of the television presidency era and the begining of the internet presidency. It then continues to talk about how Obama got alot of his supporters where "made" through the internet. It then talks about Obama's foundations.

Warm-up 11/5/08

Windows 7 looks cool and is supposedly going to have more gadgets than vista. There is also a different start menu instead of it saying start it is the windows icon. Its also going to be device friendly. The new internet explorer will also now have a awesome bar and a warning screen. It will also have a magnifier application.So basicly there are going to be more applications and not as many problems as vista.

10/30 Warm-up

The article starts off saying that these new TV's are releasing gases into the atmosphere and are now four times the amount than what they thought. This gas is called Nitrogen trifluoride and is 17,000 times more effective at warming the atmosphere then an equal mass of carbon dioxide.This colourless, odourless, non-flammable gas is used by the electronics industry mainly for equipment cleaning, for etching microcircuits and for manufacturing liquid-crystal flat-panel displays and thin-film photovoltaic cells. I honestly don't know what to do about it i mean the way i see it is i'm not going to be here if something were to happen so i'm not worried about.

10/29 Warm-up

The article is basically saying that with the use of the mobile phone and the feature if the internet on that phone, that people in devolping countries are going to be able to access the internet."For the developing world, the Internet experience is going to be a wireless experience," says Susan Schorr, the head of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) 's Regulatory and Market Environment Division, noting that 61 percent of the world's 2.7 billion mobile phone users are in developing countries, compared to 10 percent of the world’s 1 billion Internet users."

http://www.internetevolution.com/document.asp?doc_id=143698&cat=whitepaper&cid=nl_IWK_daily