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

10/28 Warm-up

Snow Leopard will help Mac OS X's operating system, enhance its performance, and set new standards for quality. Snow Leopard focuses on performance, stability, and resource efficiency, rather than features. Open Computing Language (Open CL) is a new technology in Snow Leopard designed to make it easier to make use of GPU processing power.

10/27 Warm-up

In the article it talks about how T-Mobile has come out with a new phone to compete with Apple's iPhone that uses the google andriod mobile operating system. It goes on to talk about the companies that helped and produced the phone and talks about the harware in the phone.

10/23 warm-up

Moore's law was founded by Gordan E. Moore. He was also the co-founder of Intel. Almost every measure of the capabilities of digital electronic devices is linked to Moore's law: processing speed, memory capacity, even the number and size of pixels in digital cameras.

10/22 warm-up

The article is basically saying that TV's are advancing extremely fast. I think that TV's will advance to the point of 3D holograms. It's also a possibility if it hasn't already happened that TV's will be programed into the wall.

10/21 Warm-up

The articale is basicly telling that google has evolved its home page "igoogle". Using this application requires a google account. Theere are also things called gadgets that allow the user to look at updated information such as the weather and sports and other things. Then the rest of the articale is just telling the uses of the gasdgets and that you can maximize the gadget.

10/16 Warm-up

Basicly the lowering cost of the NAND memory is causing factories and businesses to not keep up and having to cut thier employeed staff. NAND memory is known as the N-card and is mostly found in hand held games.

10/15 Warm-up

This articale is saying that the smart phone or PDA is possibly the next laptop. It continues to say that most people would rather have their PDA or iPhone or BlackBerry versus taking a laptop due to the new capabilities of these phones. They pretty much do everything that a laptop does.

10/14 Warm-up

This articale is basiclly saying that Apple's laptops are going to be cheapter by at least 300 dollars. This notebook is crafted from single pieces of aluminum using a laser and water jet process known by the code-name "brick". The 9 to 5 Mac web site is a news web site devoted to anything to do with Apple and Mac. The rumor of the factory coming to the U.S. sounds like more of an idea that has a samll chance of actually coming true. Steve Jobs is trying to put in the process of building the ultimate factory run b y robots and Mac's.

Mac V.S. PC

10/13 Warm-up

BlackBerry Storm. Some new features of the BlackBerry Storm is that is touch screen. The articale also says that this is basiclly Verizons come back to Apple's iPhone. This new phone still supports all the features of the old one. This phone also has built-in instant messenger and has GPS capibilities.

10/10 Warm-up

Clickjacking is something that people have been using to listen and watch people who have mircophones and eye cams. They are able to do this if your accessaries are commected to your computer.

10/9 Warm-up

Texting for romantics. Studies say that just the right text at just the right time can go a long way as far as emotions and feelings."For instance, 68% of the respondents said they sent a love note via text messaging, and 67% said they used texting to flirt.", says the article.
http://www.informationweek.com/news/mobility/messaging/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=210800540

Warm-up 10/7/08

The articale is basiclly saying that Nokia is coming out with a new phone called "Tube".Some are calling it the iphone killer because they are saying it's going to make the iphone obsoleate.

Research On Xbox 360

The xbox 360 evolvded the way kids, teens, and adults play video games, watch movies, tv shows, and listen to music. This gaming console was released to the US on November 22, 2005. The consoles capibilities are beyond any other consoles; you can access the internet through your box. You can also hook it up to your computer and download music, vidoe content, and pictures onto you xbox 360. The hard drive on the xbox 360; ranging any where from a 512 mb memory card to a 20gb, 60gb and 80bg hard drives this makes it the ideal video, music, and gaming console. Since the xbox 360 has a hard drive and the software to do so it can take regular audio cd's and rip it to the box like a computer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox

Assignment #2

1. What is nanotube technology?
It is an emerging field of technology to shrink already small components to even smaller components.


2. What does it look like?
It is a series of rolled up carbon tubes that look like hexagons.


3. What might it mean for future technology?
This means that in the future there will be new more productive ways to create chips that will hold battery life longer and better than before.

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/IT-Infrastructure/IBM-Claims-Breakthrough-in-Carbon-Nanotube-Research/?kc=EWKNLINF08272008STR1

Contextual Clue

The word that i am doing this assignment on is microcomputer. From the text "Like minicomputers and mainframes, microcomputers have become powerful, complex machines. Unlike their larger cousins, PC's do not always have multiple users using them at the same time; ...." From the context that the word is used in i think the word means that it is like the PC just smaller and possibly portable.

History of The Computer

In 1939 Hewlett-Packard is founded by the Hewlett brothers in their garage. In 1941 Konrad Zuse completes the Z3 computer. In 1943 during world war 2 the very first flight similator was built. In1946 the public is introduced the ENIAC. In 1948 IBM´s Selective Sequence Electronic Calculator is created. In 1949 the EDSAC, the first stored-program computer, is completed. In 1952 John von Neumann´s IAS computer is created. In 1954 the IBM 650 magnetic drum calculator is established as the first mass produced computer. In 1985 the Amiga 1000 is released to the public. In 1989 intel releases the 80486 microprocessor. In 1994 the Iomega Zip Disk is released.

http://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/?year=1990

The Differance

What is the differance between operating software and application software?

Operating software is the software on the computer that basically operates it. It's the software that does the algerithms for you so that you don't have to and it helps you to access things. Where as the application software is the software that controls your applications such as Word and Power Point.

Comparing Memory

There are four types of computer memory that i am comparing: ROM, RAM, Virtual and Caching. ROM stands for Read-Only-Memory. RAM stands for Random-Access-Memory. ROM uses diodes to connect the lines of intersection if the number is one and if the number is zero then the lines are not connected. These chips are also very reliable and do not use alot of energy and contain all the necessary information to control the device. RAM uses transistors to turn on and off the capasitors at each intersection to create a memory cell. The down side to this type of memory is that it needs to be refreshed often and if not refreshed it will forget what its holding. Plus all the refreshing takes time and slows the memory down; therefore, the more RAM you have the better off you are. Virtual memory is most common in operating systems and desktop computers. With virtual memory, what the computer looks at RAM for areas that have not been used recently and copy them onto the hard disk. This frees up space in RAM to load the new application. Modern computers have both L1 and L2 caches, and now computers also have L3 cache. L1, L2and L3 are levels and speeds at which your computer work. The idea behind caching is to use a small amount of expensive memory to speed up a large amount of slower, less-expensive memory.



http://computer.howstuffworks.com/computer-hardware-channel.htm

Mainframe VS. PC

PC is the personal computer. In the PC you have the CPU, mother board, power supply, hard disk, operating system integrated drive electronics (IDE) controller, peripheral component interconnect (PCI) bus, sound and graphics cards. Then you have what you see the tower which holds all the components, the display monitor, mouse, keyboard and speakers. From some of the articles i have read mainframes for the most part have the same components as the PC. As one article said the main differance is the operating system. PC uses UNIX which is time-sharing, and mianframes use OS/390 which does both batch-oriented and time-sharing. Also another thing thats different is the cost differance and the speed. PC' are cost efficiant while mainframes are expensive and alot faster than PC's.

Smart Garment

Smart Garment is where two companies (Nike and Apple) are trying to incoorporate technology in shoes so that runners can improve there times based on hieght wieght and size.

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

LINUX

Linux is a good open source because of it's ability to be changed and improved to make advancements in the code since 1991.

Windows Make-over

Basicly the article is talking about how Microsoft is going to do an image make-over so they can relate to the people. In the article Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Gates are talking and they are both saying that neither one of them is like the average person. No i have not seen the commercial yet.

Scan disk Memory

Scan disk memory came out with a new scan disk compact flash drive that reads and writes and stores things faster and twice as much. It's not the fastest flash drive but it does store the most information. The product is aimed for people with high defintion camcorders. This product will be $300.

Google Docs

The author for this article is talking about google apps. and the add on's and advances that google is making. They are making it so that college students and average people are able to use it for any purpose. It has a dictionary/ Thesaurus, Encyclopiedias and it still has the simple search engine function making it the ideal app. for anyone. You could use this in college for papers and e-mailing professers. You can use this for businesses or our class to send out memos. You could also use this for yourself to have conversations with friends or send out mass e-mails.

CERN Hacked!!!

CERN is an organization between France and Switzerland . They use a particale collider to conduct particle physics experiments. The hackers were just trying to exploit CERN's security flaws and were not trying to do any harm. The scientist said that they were one computer away from controlling a 12500 ton collider. They could have shut down some parts of the collider. CERN is associated with Tim Berners-Lee.

Interactive Powerpoint Reflection

I liked this activity because it was fun and i learned new things. Everything worked for our group and i think we should do this again sometime. I would have changed the amount of time we put into this activity because i would want it to look better and be more animated.

New Technologies

Our government can use technology to aid natural disaster by using computers to file names and people that have survived or need help. They could use technology to see what is coming as far as a natural disaster and be able to prepare for it better using satilite imagery.

Warm-up 9/24/08

This new application for the iphone campiagn feature is the newest addition of the governments use of technology. This application allows you to follow the polls and information on the candidites. This is usefull for people who are big in piolitics and following the candidites. I see this in tens years probably being used for news sports and other things that have up to date stats and news.

Spet.29th Warm-up

My idea of the 7 perioed day is that it shouldn't. This really doesn't effect me considering that i'm graduating this year.

Sarah Palin's email hacked!!!

Sarah Palin's yahoo e-mail got hacked by a 20 year old kid and the surprise of it all was that he used knowledge from google and wikipedia search engines. Apparently it was very easy to do the hacker said that he found all the answers to the security questions on google and wikipedia. Yeah this could happen to me because if someone knew enough information about me it wouldn't be any problem answering my security question

Warm-up 10/1/08

The articale basiclly says that Mac's are prefered by created types but PC's have more uses and are used more by companies and schools. It also says that both PC's and Macs have thier strong points and thier weak points.

Warm-up 9/30/08 Robotics

I really don't know that much about robotics other than there's people and scientists that are always trying to do things with robotics to make life easier. I really don't know of anybody that has an interest in robotics. I probably wouldn't take the class if it was offered here because i have other classes to take.

Warm-up 10/6/08

This articale talks about IBM getting involed with the iphone. They put an application on it called inotes and it is a free Web application that allows you to access your Lotus Notes E-mail. It continues to talk about the things needed and requirements for the application.

10/2 Warm-up

Basiclly it's talking about the applications and capabilities of the Mac OS X. There are more layout cabilities and more programs like iwork '08, Microsoft Office, PC devices, Wi-Fi, and other programs.

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Apple/Apples-Pages-08-is-All-Grown-Up/
http://www.apple.com/iwork/
http://www.apple.com/getamac/faq/