CIT112
CIT112 – Assignment 5
IT Careers: Network/System Administrator
Duties:
The duties of a network/system administrator typically includes managing network equipment, servers, and desktops. Depending on the organization, the network administrator might also be in charge of the lower level technology staff/tech support. Additionally, network administrators will be troubleshooting failures when the occur, as well as implementing new systems and other [...]
Chapter 6 Issue Project
Free speech on the Internet is an important topic.
What is legal in one country may not be legal in another, so there might be some questions about what country has jurisdiction over a particular website.
Generally, it is up to the country where the site is hosted, however there has been cases where the US has [...]
CIT112 – Chapter 5 Lab
Bluetooth is a pretty useful protocol that can be used by mobile devices to do many different things. Bluetooth has a much longer range than IRDA, and supports higher speeds (and is also not line-of-sight). So Bluetooth has replaced IRDA for most of its tasks. Here are some of the most popular uses of Bluetooth:
Transferring [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )CIT112 – Chapter 6 Lab
I vaguely remember when my family got AOL in the mid-to-late nineties. I was probably around nine at the time. I didn’t use it a whole lot then; it took a few years for me to really start to use it. I was really into flight simulators at the time, so eventually I came across [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )CIT 112 Issue Project
I think that open source software is a really good concept, in that it makes it very difficult for a single organization to totally take control of something and kill it if it no longer suits their business interests, or impose unnecessary restrictions on it. The great thing about OSS is that most projects are [...]
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Standard Software Packages
Career-wise, I want to design and or run networks for a company(either as a consultant or as a network admin for a single company). People in these fields should be familiar with lots of different software. Some of the most frequently used software is listed below.
As with any job in an office setting, [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )CIT112 Lab 2 – Future of Hardware
I think we are moving more and more to multicore processors. Also, in the future I think it will be hard to find pure 32bit hardware that does not support 64 bit operating systems. Microsoft has sort of acknowledged that this has already happened in servers, when they released Exchange 2007 in Q4 2006. In [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )CIT112 Lab 2
There are many different types of cases that some people might like.I found four different types of cases on NewEgg that illustrate some of the options available.
Sun Bean Case
$79.99
This is an ATX compatible case which and is a clear blue color. It supports seven expansion slots, and up to 9 external 5.25″ bays for devices [...]
CIT112 Assignment 2
To make things a bit more interesting, I decided to find parts for a server. Since there was no budget specified, its pretty expensive. I used NewEgg exclusively.
Basically, I used a barebones kit for the case, powersupply, and motherboard. Its a 2U rackmount case, and it has dual 700w power supplies. The motherboard has two [...]
Assignment 1 – Resume Builder
For the resume builder activity, I took quizzes on three different websites (www.livecareer.com, ww.princetonreview.com/cte/quiz/, http://www.myfuture.com/toolbox/workinterest.html). They all had different ways of categorizing people’s potential career interests, so it somewhat difficult to directly compare them. However, I think that they generally seem somewhat accurate, based on my interests and abilities. The results for all of them [...]
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