Andrew’s blog.com.au (My uni weblog)

Hi all

Just finished module 2 and had a bit of fun on ICQ but i can say i have learnt a lot more about computers.

anyway here is my results for the module................computers,computers,computers.

E-MAIL,e-mail and more e-mail........!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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?  When receiving e-mail massages within Outlook express I can find from where the message came from (Including the senders e-mail address in which one can find the name of a business and location within that business or in the case of a private sender where the e-mail server is or their service e-mail provider such as Sheoakmax@bigpond.com.) who the message is intended for and a subject of the massage informing me of an idea on what the message contains (Information).I cant investigate the exact path of a message within outlook express.

2. In what cases would you find it useful to use the 'cc', 'bcc' and 'reply all functions of email?  IN outlook express one can use the ‘’cc’’ button to locate contacts (names and e-mail addressers) to insert for the recipient of your message and the reply all feature would send a reply to the sender plus anyone else that recieved the original message as the same one that you are reading. Cc is also used to send your messages to multiple recipients (In outlook express you can use this to send to your contact list).I do not use the Bcc within outlook express but I would if I had multiple recipients but I did not want each other to know who received the message.

3. In what ways can you ensure that an attachment you send will be easily opened by the

receiver? Within all my e-mails that I send an attachment I always ask for a reply confirming to me that the file (Attachment) opened up ok, and I request this reply in all of my e-mails that I send to university faculties when submitting an essay or an assessment task (PDF file) or any other e-mail that I have sent with any particular attachments.

4. What sorts of filters or rules do you have set up, and for what purpose? I do not have many at all but I do have virus scanner enabled and I have the option of some e-mails, which display certain qualitys, such as advertizing, going to my junk file folder and from there I can read them or delete them straight away. I subscribe to many e-mail lists that outlook placers in this folder when received and it actually gives me an idea on what the e-mail is which is good.

5. How have you organized the folder structure of your email and why?  My structure is simple; inbox receives most e-mails as well as junk folder and any message in which I want to keep such as essay or assessment confirmation or blog passwords I keep in a separate folder.

I am subscribed to many e-mail lists and I find them to be a very useful tool, as part of one’s e-mail set-up.

 What are the pros and cons of email lists versus discussion boards?

 Are there certain kinds of communication or purposes more suited to one than the other?  I find the e-mail lists that I subscribe to announce articles or discussion board posts on the particular subject that I am subscribed to, I really think there is a difference between the two, and both serve a different purpose. Before I go to the discussion board, I can find out what the general topics are because of an e-mail list or I can decide not to post anything and with a list, I can go directly to an article on a particular subject.

NEWSGROUPS

I had never joined a newsgroup before so this was another exercise that was new to me and to enable me to use the internet as a powerful communication tool.

Anyway, here is my post for this exercise

Follow your chosen newsgroup for a couple of days, and then post a message to the group. You should be able to see that message shortly thereafter. Now cut and paste a copy of the entire message, including the header information.

Gumtree Forum Index ->

Interesting selection for the Blues side this year.

The newsgroup I signed up for is Melbourne and Sydney news within Gumtree and I suppose its more of a forum then it is a newsgroup (It’s promoted as a newsgroup within the usernet.org system) however the topics that you can sign up to and be a part of are interesting and varied. Once signed up for gumtree you can then go the home page of an individual city in Australia or all over the world.

Gumtree

ICQ and IRC

Think about the following question: how does IRC differ from other chat or messaging such as ICQ, MSN or AIM? Which system do you prefer?

I downloaded both ICQ and IRC and used IRC in the alternative exercise but I found IRC to be a little outdated to my needs and after completing the exercise I deleted it.ICQ on the other hand is very exiting and as soon as I installed and logged in I started chatting in overseas rooms. Compared to the others I would recommend ICQ and MSN as the applications to use for online chat. I think IRC differs a lot from the others especially with the features that ICQ and MSN contain.

Still working on NET11 modules 2 & 3,but i am having fun (Well sometimes anyway).

In my other subjects i have been reading and studying a lot on computer systems and hardware/software and also studying computers and the internet as a communication source including major website reviews.

Anyway back to it.

I do study other subjects as well so i will post logs of that to,so if anyone is interested they can leave a comment.

They are COM22-New media:Communications in the electronic age and CPT11 Imformation technology.

So i will start leaving posts at the end of the week for anyone that is interested.

Hi all.

Finished module 1 and the exercises and I must say that I learnt a lot more then I expected to when it comes to networks, servers, and web sites. I also learnt (From another student, talking via our blogs) how to screen dump and capture images from my desktop.

To do this place your mouse over your desktop, press the PrtScn key (Above the delete or home key).This will save the desktop image. Go to start then to all programs and then to accessories and then to paint. (This will depend on where you have windows paint within your menus/directories).Once in paint, click on edit, then paste and within paint you will now see the desktop image, from there you can crop or edit or whatever, when I was finished I went to file clicked save as and saved as a jpeg.

The first exercise completed was the telnet exercise. When we connect to the web we use a web browser such as internet explore or firefox, however telnet was really the first type of ‘’internet connection’’ if you could call it that or one of the first ways a computer user could see imformation.The proper use of telnet originally was to use a desktop remotely, in other words one could use another machine without being there, from any other machine. This was the first application used for ‘’remote access. Our telnet exercise was to download information from the Deaken university libray, for a selected Author and once the required imformation was retrieved it was to be sent our Curtin university student e-mail address.The screen images for the telnet exercise is in the photos link and there you will see what the window looks like once you have the telnet application up and running.

As you can see I don’t have my icons on my desktop as I prefer to take advantage of my wallpapers as I have a large collection of art, digital and 3d art, and digital photos and I change the wallpapers once or twice a day. In addition, you will notice the telnet window changing colours.I changed the text and background colours as the default are the standard b/w as per a command prompt window.

If you want to use telnet you may need to download a telnet client, or the best way to see if your machine has telnet and that it will run is to type a telnet address eg: telnet:// library.deakin.edu.au. into the run menu box (Click start,then run,type address then click ok)If it is installed on your machine the window will appear on your desktop (See telnet images).From there just follow the prompts and the rest will be easy. Once my connection was established I completed the exercise that was to look up details of an author and then call up a particular publication of the selected author. I found telnet to be very useful and if you are able to find addressers to information, telnet could be used as a useful data and information tool, such as library catalogues. I did telnet a very cool site (Star wars) at telnet:// towel.blinkenlights.nl, so if you have time you can view the star wars saga.

File transfer protocol (FTP)

I did not know much about ftp File transfer protocol, accept when downloading music and even the program I use does it all so when it came to detailed specifics I really did not know much, however by the end of the exercise I now know to use an FTP client and understand the workings behind it all. I downloaded ws_ftp for this exercise and it is a 30-day trial version. I will uninstall the program after the trail period, as I really do not have a need for an FTP application as I use a full program for music files and I do not send or receive other files at all, accept images, but I download these direct from a website, such as art or 3d art. I completed the exercise of the file transfer that was a readme text file from the curtin.edu.au ftp server. I don’t really go much on this type of file transfer (and I know its popular) as I found it at times to be a little frustrating (I was not the only one), anyway after opening the file I could answer the Question that being ‘’capitalization matters’’, although I’m not quite sure what it means when read in the full sentence ‘’This server runs on Linux so capitalization matters’’.

Trace Route and ping

This exercise was interesting as I already have a basic knowledge of trace route and pinging as I use a program called visual ip trace. It’s not the best program around for trace routes but it does provide a good explanation of the hops and the admin behind a particular website, such as owner’s location and server details. I used central ops.net as the online tool to complete the exercise and the results are as follows:

Hi all.

I am taking it easy first week of study for the new period, so I noticed that some students are already completed module 1….Oh well, I will catch up (Only taking it easy because of a heavy week last week).

Anyway, I have been playing around and having fun with telnet and I have to say its good fun.

But, and there IS always a but, I have not completed the total exercise yet so when I do I will post it here with instructions so anybody can have a go…but I say that with a view that everyone’s computer is different so you may or may not have to download software to make it work but the way I did it will actually test to see if it will work directly on your machine, without having to install anything.