My frustration level is now in the red, I persisted with the ICQ task typing in NET11ERS, net11ers, NET11ers ( just in case it was case sensitive) in every possible way of searching on the ICQ SITE and I still CAN'T FIND the answers to the tasks. >:-(
So i'm putting those tasks aside for the moment, or at least until I figure it out or get help from Cynthia or other students. On my next post I'll share the success I had with the alternate tasks, but right now I have to be somewhere. I will also need to update my Resourse Project, which I will be posting on this blog.
Thursday, December 28, 2006
Wednesday, December 27, 2006
ICQ Tasks
Well Christmas is over for another year and the relatives have gone! (-_-) and it's time to get back to the serious business of study.
I downloaded and installed the ICQ5.1 software and registered under the name of SEEKER, getting the ICQ number 424227769. I then explorered the software for a while trying to find my way round, but when I began doing the tasks I had all sorts of dramas (probably due to my lack of knowledge, never used ICQ before)I went to my page on the sight and searched for NET11ers in the people search as well as the ICQ site search I kept getting no results found. But after much mucking around I eventually found a couple of familier names Heather and Dewa's weblogs.
Unfortunately I was unable to find the ICQ number and nickname for the NET11ers, So I haven't completed the tasks yet, but I will trying until I do. (more on this task later)
I did have more luck with the alternative task though :-)
I downloaded and installed the ICQ5.1 software and registered under the name of SEEKER, getting the ICQ number 424227769. I then explorered the software for a while trying to find my way round, but when I began doing the tasks I had all sorts of dramas (probably due to my lack of knowledge, never used ICQ before)I went to my page on the sight and searched for NET11ers in the people search as well as the ICQ site search I kept getting no results found. But after much mucking around I eventually found a couple of familier names Heather and Dewa's weblogs.
Unfortunately I was unable to find the ICQ number and nickname for the NET11ers, So I haven't completed the tasks yet, but I will trying until I do. (more on this task later)
I did have more luck with the alternative task though :-)
Friday, December 22, 2006
Newsgroups
This was another totally new experience for me, (I've never checked out a newsgroup before), following the module guidelines I linked to the following www.usernet.org, and found it confusing for a beginner, I then went to http://dmoz.org/Computers/usernet/ a far more interesting site but still a little confusing, and onto http://navigators.com/usernet.html, which is a great site for explaining the usernet, with links for further exploration on the subject.
I then linked up to http://www.newsbot.com, which was a breeze to use for a beginner being much more user friendly, and after much surfing found myself at a "Dr Who"site, so I subscribed to the site under the assumed name of "Master" (another Dr Who character)began contributing my comments to a question about Emotion and the Cybermen . The link is below, http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.tv/browse_thread/thread/406282db89c69047?
I've pasted my contribution to the group below with my comments highlighted in red.
Re: Doctor Who - Emotional Cyberman
I then linked up to http://www.newsbot.com, which was a breeze to use for a beginner being much more user friendly, and after much surfing found myself at a "Dr Who"site, so I subscribed to the site under the assumed name of "Master" (another Dr Who character)began contributing my comments to a question about Emotion and the Cybermen . The link is below, http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.tv/browse_thread/thread/406282db89c69047?
I've pasted my contribution to the group below with my comments highlighted in red.
Re: Doctor Who - Emotional Cyberman
Master
Master
Astrobiochemist wrote:
> > >> Please confirm that CyberJackie was excitied to see Peter
> > >> and she wanted him to be a cybusman.
> > >She wasn't excited to see him. She just recognized him. As per her
> > >"wanting" Pete to be a Cyberman, that was part of her programming, to
> > >convert normal humans to "human 2.0," as they called it.
> > Induced totalitarianism. Yuck!
> Yes, that was why Lumic had to be stopped.
But was lumic stopped... because he wanted to be a cyberman eventually,
he wouldn't have had the same emotions the other cybermen felt when
their emotions had returned.
I'm waiting for a responce :-)
Saturday, December 16, 2006
Lists
Well this was a new experience I've never gone to a email list site before, I usually surf the web in search for hours sometimes trying to find for the information I want. Following the module 2 task outline I went to the Yahoo group and spent a couple of hours checking out the different subjects and sites available before going to the second list at http://list.topica.com In the list I went to a few scale model sites and SHOCK , HORROR came across a site that wasn't a scale model site at all, BUT A PORNOGRAPHIC ONLINE DATING AGENCY IN DISGUISE! ...naturally I quickly diverted my gaze and immediately got back to my studies. I did notice at these sites that you had to be a registered member to access any of the information available which can be a nuisance if you are in a hurry searching for alot of information from various sites and lets face it not everyone wants to register/join these things.
Thursday, December 14, 2006
ModuleTwo: Email Tasks
The rumours were wrong ...I'm not dead, I'm back, here and blogging my module two email task results.
Well I took the email tutorial and it all seemed pretty basic and I even managed to get all the little quiz questions correct. :-)
My next task was to answer the following
Question 1. What information about a user's email, the origin of a message and the path it took can you glean from an email message?
Answer 1. The email message shows who the sender is and what server or domain the email was sent from. Usually the path route isn't mentioned in the email.
Question 2. In what cases would you find it useful to use the 'cc', bcc' and 'reply all functions of email?
Answer 2. The "cc" or carbon copy function allows a copy of an email to be sent to other chosen recievers besides the original reciever. the "bcc" or blind carbon copy is when an email message is sent simultaneously to a number of people other than the principle recipient. The people who recieve a "bcc" will be unable to see the names and addresses of the other people recieving the message, just their own and the sender's address. The original recipient will not know that any other people have been copied into the same message. The "reply all" function lets you reply to all the recipients of the email, excluding those in bcc, without having to re-enter any email addresses.
Question 3. In what ways can you ensure that an attachment you send will be easily opened by the receiver?
Answer 3. Set default encoding MIME (Mutipurpose Internet Mail Extension) and text documents should be sent using a RFT(rich file format) or when in doubt send an quick email and ask the recipient. You should also compress large files (zip) to reduce the amount of time it takes to download and in the email include a message that you have attached an email including the program/ operating system you used to create them.
Question 4. What sorts of filters or rules do you have set up, and for what purpose?
Answer 4. I have spam/junk mail filters setup, if I get any incoming mail I don't want I just mark it as junk and it automatically gets set to the junk folder ready for deleting as soon as I log off. I can also set rules to highlight the important mail I may recieve.
Question 5. How have you organised the folder structure of your email and why?
Answer 5. I've organised my email folders by the sender and as I rarely get emails from my friends it's usually organizations such as Curtin Uni, OUA, Centrelink, etc. this way I never lose an important message.
Well I took the email tutorial and it all seemed pretty basic and I even managed to get all the little quiz questions correct. :-)
My next task was to answer the following
Question 1. What information about a user's email, the origin of a message and the path it took can you glean from an email message?
Answer 1. The email message shows who the sender is and what server or domain the email was sent from. Usually the path route isn't mentioned in the email.
Question 2. In what cases would you find it useful to use the 'cc', bcc' and 'reply all functions of email?
Answer 2. The "cc" or carbon copy function allows a copy of an email to be sent to other chosen recievers besides the original reciever. the "bcc" or blind carbon copy is when an email message is sent simultaneously to a number of people other than the principle recipient. The people who recieve a "bcc" will be unable to see the names and addresses of the other people recieving the message, just their own and the sender's address. The original recipient will not know that any other people have been copied into the same message. The "reply all" function lets you reply to all the recipients of the email, excluding those in bcc, without having to re-enter any email addresses.
Question 3. In what ways can you ensure that an attachment you send will be easily opened by the receiver?
Answer 3. Set default encoding MIME (Mutipurpose Internet Mail Extension) and text documents should be sent using a RFT(rich file format) or when in doubt send an quick email and ask the recipient. You should also compress large files (zip) to reduce the amount of time it takes to download and in the email include a message that you have attached an email including the program/ operating system you used to create them.
Question 4. What sorts of filters or rules do you have set up, and for what purpose?
Answer 4. I have spam/junk mail filters setup, if I get any incoming mail I don't want I just mark it as junk and it automatically gets set to the junk folder ready for deleting as soon as I log off. I can also set rules to highlight the important mail I may recieve.
Question 5. How have you organised the folder structure of your email and why?
Answer 5. I've organised my email folders by the sender and as I rarely get emails from my friends it's usually organizations such as Curtin Uni, OUA, Centrelink, etc. this way I never lose an important message.
Wednesday, December 6, 2006
(Originally posted) Sunday, December 3, 2006
Hello and welcome to my first ever Blog.
Well...week one of unit net 11 is over and I've read the orientation info and introduced myself to my tutor and classmates on the discussion boards, noticing that there's quite few people (my face racked with fear) with much more advanced IT skills than me.
Week 1 was interesting as I tried things that I'd never attempted before, probably because I've never needed too. But I persisted and eventually, after a couple of attempts just to make sure I did them right, successfully completed the module 1 tasks (more on that soon).
Next came the setting up of a web space for my learning log, assignments etc. in the presentation area, after some quick begging emails to classmates I managed to get it up and running. But there are still a few things needed to be tweaked.
Tuesday, December 5, 2006
Telnet: I've never used Telnet before, but I have heard the name mentioned never really knowing what it was, so I was interested to try it out for the first time. I used the Windows Telnet client for this exercise, at first I didn't know the commands, but after checking out the help files I quickly got a grasp of the Telnet commands. (Help files are very helpfull :-) )
I followed the module instructions and successfully completed the task by finding the author and emailing the info to my student email account at Curtin. The answer to the self test is 'Managed care, Finacial, Legal and Ethnic Issues' I also searched the web for more infomation about telnet and found this summery.
What is telnet?
Telnet is a protocol that allows you to connect to remote computers (called hosts) over a TCP/IP network (such as the Internet). You use software called a telnet client on your computer to make a connection to a telnet server (i.e., the remote host). Once your telnet client establishes a connection to the remote host, your client becomes a virtual terminal, allowing you to communicate with the remote host from your computer. In most cases, you'll need to log into the remote host, which requires that you have an account on that system. Occasionally, you can log in as a guest or pblic without having an account.Telnet clients are available from all major operating systems.
Indiana University,
Knowledge Base
Retrieved December, 3rd, 2006 from
http://kb.iu.edu./data/aayd.html
File tranfer Protocol: Again I've never found it necessary to use a FTP client, but once I had installed the recommended WS- FTP software I was surprised how simple it was to use. I used an anonymous login and tranfered the necessary readme file and answered the missing word in the self test question 'Capitilaztion'. I found additional infomation about FTP at the following link. http://wwwftpplanet.com/ftpresouresbasic.htm
Also after reading Melissa's blog I downloaded Filezilla to give it a try (more on that later)
Internet Tools: Traceroute & Ping
The Traceroute utility checks how many "hops" (transfers through other computers on a network it takes for your computer to contact another computer). You can use traceroute if you know the other computer's IP, web site address, or name.
For this task I used the following link http://centralops.net/co/ and used the traceroute utility found there.
( read the discussion boards or ask classmates ) It also took 23 'hops' to reach Curtin.
It's interesting to see where in the world the hops are and what route it takes.
Ping ?
-- end --
Hello and welcome to my first ever Blog.
Well...week one of unit net 11 is over and I've read the orientation info and introduced myself to my tutor and classmates on the discussion boards, noticing that there's quite few people (my face racked with fear) with much more advanced IT skills than me.
Week 1 was interesting as I tried things that I'd never attempted before, probably because I've never needed too. But I persisted and eventually, after a couple of attempts just to make sure I did them right, successfully completed the module 1 tasks (more on that soon).
Next came the setting up of a web space for my learning log, assignments etc. in the presentation area, after some quick begging emails to classmates I managed to get it up and running. But there are still a few things needed to be tweaked.
Tuesday, December 5, 2006
Telnet: I've never used Telnet before, but I have heard the name mentioned never really knowing what it was, so I was interested to try it out for the first time. I used the Windows Telnet client for this exercise, at first I didn't know the commands, but after checking out the help files I quickly got a grasp of the Telnet commands. (Help files are very helpfull :-) )
I followed the module instructions and successfully completed the task by finding the author and emailing the info to my student email account at Curtin. The answer to the self test is 'Managed care, Finacial, Legal and Ethnic Issues' I also searched the web for more infomation about telnet and found this summery.
What is telnet?
Telnet is a protocol that allows you to connect to remote computers (called hosts) over a TCP/IP network (such as the Internet). You use software called a telnet client on your computer to make a connection to a telnet server (i.e., the remote host). Once your telnet client establishes a connection to the remote host, your client becomes a virtual terminal, allowing you to communicate with the remote host from your computer. In most cases, you'll need to log into the remote host, which requires that you have an account on that system. Occasionally, you can log in as a guest or pblic without having an account.Telnet clients are available from all major operating systems.
Indiana University,
Knowledge Base
Retrieved December, 3rd, 2006 from
http://kb.iu.edu./data/aayd.html
File tranfer Protocol: Again I've never found it necessary to use a FTP client, but once I had installed the recommended WS- FTP software I was surprised how simple it was to use. I used an anonymous login and tranfered the necessary readme file and answered the missing word in the self test question 'Capitilaztion'. I found additional infomation about FTP at the following link. http://wwwftpplanet.com/ftpresouresbasic.htm
Also after reading Melissa's blog I downloaded Filezilla to give it a try (more on that later)
Internet Tools: Traceroute & Ping
The Traceroute utility checks how many "hops" (transfers through other computers on a network it takes for your computer to contact another computer). You can use traceroute if you know the other computer's IP, web site address, or name.
For this task I used the following link http://centralops.net/co/ and used the traceroute utility found there.
| Traceroute | Trace the path from this server to another | |
| ||
| source code: | |
|
|
Tracing route to curtin.edu.au [134.7.134.47]...
| hop | rtt | rtt | rtt |
| ip address | domain name |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 70.84.211.97 | 61.d3.5446.static.theplanet.com |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 70.84.160.130 | vl1.dsr02.dllstx5.theplanet.com |
| 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 70.85.127.109 | po52.dsr02.dllstx3.theplanet.com |
| 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 70.87.253.17 | et3-2.ibr03.dllstx3.theplanet.com |
| 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 208.172.139.129 | dcr2-ge-4-0-0.dallas.savvis.net |
| 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 204.70.194.158 | dpr1-so-6-2-0.dallasequinix.savvis.net |
| 7 | 4 | 75 | 2 |
| 208.173.178.134 | |
| 8 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 144.232.20.80 | sl-bb20-fw-6-0.sprintlink.net |
| 9 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| 144.232.11.218 | sl-bb21-fw-14-0.sprintlink.net |
| 10 | 2 | 31 | 31 |
| 144.232.20.131 | sl-bb22-ana-12-0.sprintlink.net |
| 11 | 42 | 32 | 165 |
| 144.232.1.173 | sl-bb21-ana-15-0.sprintlink.net |
| 12 | 103 | 32 | 32 |
| 144.232.1.30 | sl-gw28-ana-0-0.sprintlink.net |
| 13 | 46 | 46 | 32 |
| 144.232.1.30 | sl-gw28-ana-0-0.sprintlink.net |
| 14 | 197 | 47 | 47 |
| 144.223.30.26 | sl-aarne-3-0.sprintlink.net |
| 15 | 209 | 209 | 198 |
| 202.158.194.77 | so-3-1-0.bb1.b.syd.aarnet.net.au |
| 16 | 218 | 218 | 218 |
| 202.158.194.17 | |
| 17 | 219 | 245 | 219 |
| 202.158.194.17 | |
| 18 | 245 | 245 | 245 |
| 202.158.198.178 | |
| 19 | 246 | 246 | 246 |
| 202.158.198.178 | |
| 20 | 246 | 246 | 246 |
| 134.7.250.18 | |
| 21 | 246 | 246 | 246 |
| 134.7.248.65 | te1-1.b309-sr.net.curtin.edu.au |
| 22 | 246 | 246 | 247 |
| 134.7.248.65 | te1-1.b309-sr.net.curtin.edu.au |
| 23 | 246 | 246 | 246 |
| 134.7.134.47 | prodweb2.curtin.edu.au |
Trace complete
In this trace route it states that the IP number is 134.7.134.47 But the self test states it as being 134.7.134.101. the last few digits are different , I'll have to make some investigations to why?( read the discussion boards or ask classmates ) It also took 23 'hops' to reach Curtin.
It's interesting to see where in the world the hops are and what route it takes.
Ping ?
Ping is a program that sends a series of packets over a network or the Internet to a specific computer in order to generate a response from that computer. The other computer responds with an acknowledgment that it received the packets. Ping was created to verify whether a specific computer on a network or the Internet exists, and is connected.
Some have claimed that the word "ping" is actually an acronym for "Packet Internet (or Inter-Network) Groper", deliberately contrived to play on the fact that pinging with a computer is similar to what submariners do with sonar. Both the computer and the submarine's sonar send out a "ping", in the form of either a series of packets or a brief burst of sound. The ping "bounces" off the target and then returns to let you know the target is there.Ping is both a noun and a verb, e.g., "Ping that computer", or "the router didn't return a ping".
Ping is built into almost every network-capable operating system. To ping a computer, go to a command prompt and enter ping , a space, and then the network or Internet address you wish to contact.
Indiana University
Knowledge Base
Retrieved, December 3rd, 2006 from
http://kb.iu.edu/data/aopu.html
| | See if a host is reachable |
|
| |
Pinging curtin.edu.au [134.7.134.47] with 32 bytes of data...
Results
| count | ttl (hops) | rtt (ms) |
| from |
|
|
| 1 | 237 | 246 |
| 134.7.134.47 |
|
|
| 2 | 237 | 246 |
| 134.7.134.47 |
|
|
| 3 | 237 | 246 |
| 134.7.134.47 |
|
|
| 4 | 237 | 246 |
| 134.7.134.47 |
|
|
| 5 | 237 | 246 |
| 134.7.134.47 |
|
|
Statistics
| packets | sent | 5 |
|
|
| received | 5 | 100% |
|
| lost | 0 | 0% |
| | | | |
| times (ms) | min | 246 |
|
|
| avg | 246 |
|
|
| max | 246 |
|
As you can see the average speed is 246ms (round trip) the same as the trace route task.
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