Stuff From the last class

The last class I was in was back in April 19th. Between class being cancled and trips I can not remember any thing from this class. BTW I did finishing a really big test for the military so I can get promoted so my brain is fried and deleteing information from that.

http://www.helmethairblog.com/
http://blogs.motorcyclistonline.com/index.html
I did not scribe to both of these blogs but they both look like they have alot of information on them about motorcycles.

Terms and Acronym.

Tutorial 7 Wireless Networking Security is a really good chapter. There is a lot of information included in this chapter and A LOT of terms and Acronyms.

1. Hot spot. It is a area of coverage in a wireless Network that uses the 802.11 standard.

2. IrDA Infrared Data Association This association is dedicated to making high speed wireless network using infrared devices.

3. MAC Media Control Address. Basically identifies the hardware computer almost same as the serial number does. Can be used to allow access to network or deny it.

4. MAN Metropolitan Area Network A network that provides wireless broadband Internet Access via radio signals in the 2 to 11 GHz and 10 to 66 GHz radio spectrum

5. PAN Personal Area Network A wireless network that uses infrared light waves or bluetooth radio waves to connect personal devices to each other.

6. PCS Personal Communication Service a digital wireless network that transfers voice and text data at a rates of up to 14.4kbs

7. PD.A Personal Digital Assistant A handheld computer that can send and receive wireless telephone and fax calls basically a computer.

8. Piconet A collection of two to eight devices such as PDA and Notebook computer that communicate with each other using bluetooth radio waves.

9. SMS Short Message Service

10. SSID Service Set Identifier A name broadcast by a wireless router or access point that wireless devices use to identify the network and connect to it.

11. VOIP Voice Over Internet Protocol. Basically using the phone over the internet.

12. War driving. Driving around trying to find unsecured wireless internet points.

13. WPA Wi-Fi Protected Access A security measure to counter war driving can be broken.

14. WEP Wired Equivalent Protocol Same as WPA but harder to crack

15. WLan Wireless Local Area Network Is using a wireless router to create and hot spot for you to connect to.

16. WWAN Wireless World Wide Area Network Basically it is what Verizon and At&t use to make internet available to all the phones in its coverage area

17. WiMax, Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access Basically it uses a different signal to make coverage higher.
18. Blue Tooth A wireless technology that uses short range radio waves to allow communication between compatible devices.

19. piggybacking a term used to describe a person who gains access to and uses a wireless network sometimes war driving.

20. Blue Bugging AN attack on Bluetooth devices that occur when a hacker gains access to the devices and also to all of its functions without the owners consent.

21. blue jacking AN attack on Bluetooth device in which a person called a bluejacker sends and anonymous message in the form of a phone contact that is displayed as a text message in an attempt to surprise the owner.

3 Weeks of Blogs I like

blogs.automotive.com , I really like cars that is why I choose this blog.

http://www.training-dogs.com/blog/ I found this blog when trying to find some information about training my puppy.

http://blogs.consumerreports.org/cars/2006/08/acura_tops_most.html I found this blog when I was doing alittle research on my Acura Integra.

Blog Of the Day

http://carbl.com/ I saw this blog looked kinda cool.

Acroymns and Definitions

1. Jpeg-Joint Photographer Experts Group
2. Gif- Graphics Interchange Format
3. Tif- Tagged Image Format
4. Bmp- Bitmap
5. wpg- Word Perfect Graphic
6. PNG- Portable Network Graphics
7. svg or svgz- Scalable Vector Graphics the z stands for compressed.

Today Stuff We learned in The Class

1. We learned about how to get pictures off a camera onto a computer.
2. We learned about a lot of the different types of file formats.
3. Windows Photo Gallery
4. Windows Movie Maker
5. We learned a good bit about of copy right infringement.

MLA- Modern Language Association
APA- American Psychological Association
Citing- Giving the credit for research
Multimedia- is a general term for files that contain sounds, music, or video recording.
Plagiarism- is the copying of text or pictures and claim it as your own.
JPEG- Joint Photographic Experts Groups
Wave Format- Files stores digitaized Audio and can be played on any windows computers that support sound.

Last Class

1. No Spam Award
2. We learned about MLA by researching it.
3. We learned about APA by the other group informing us.
4. I cant not think of any other.
5. We learned about Open Source software
6. I learned about what i got on my mid term.

New Blog of the Week

I have found a new blog for the blog of the week. http://blogs.automotive.com/index.html It has some really good information about automobiles.

This that came from the class

1. I won the Spammy Award for the Best Blog.
2. we learned briefly about Robots.
3. We definitly learned about search engines.
4. I learned what a directory was I never seen or heard of them before.
5. We learned how to use Web 2.0 Tools.
6. We learned a brief explanation about IPv4 And IPv6.
7. How to use google more effectivly.

New Blog That Interest Me

I am posting this blog its about a pet adoption blog. http://en.wordpress.com/tag/pet-adoption/ , Because I am trying to get a St Bernard puppy.

New News for Internet Class

Okay I totally EPIC FAIL. I cant log in the account to post a new post on my blog so I am putting them in the comment sections of their respective Blogs. Weekly article, the launch of the prized Apple IPAD has been delayed to April 3. They have been getting a lot of humiliation about this product. The actually product will set the standards like the Xbox 360 did to the gaming industry.

Acyronmys and Definitons

I figured we used some new terms in this last class that I might update them.
IETF Internet Engineering Task Force
TCP Transmission Control Protocol
IP Internet Protocol
Web2.0 Tools Really cool site that lets you choose the tags you want like Photos and Sharing to find site that allow you to share photos.
32 Bit Addressing basically it is 192.168.1.1 this is a example of 32 bit addressing
128 Bit Addressing example of 128 bit of 128 bit in hexidecimal
21DA:00D3:0000:2F3B:02AA:00FF:FE28:9C5A
AVI Audio Video Format
DRM Digital Rights Management

New Blog

This is my new blog can not log into the last one.

This is for my Internet Foundations Class

This is a blog for my internet foundations class.