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Monthly Archives: September 2008
iPhone in Vermont, adding to the rumor mill
I was in the Berlin Wal-Mart and stopped by the Unicel kiosk. I asked the sales associate what was going on with the Verizon/Unicel/AT&T deal. He said that AT&T could be in the state as soon as November. The associate’s understanding was that once the Verizon/Unicel deal was free of imperial entanglements (i.e. state of […]
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And I thought my Verizon story was bad…
Today I’m free. Today is the last day of my Verizon wireless contract and in a few short weeks I’ll be a happy iPhone user and an AT&T customer. The company is horrid. My fairly cool Razr isn’t cool at all. My nephews Cingular/AT&T Razr can do all sorts of cool stuff and will communicate […]
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Sid Meier’s Pirates! in on the Mac! Who knew?
I was very disappointed with the initial release of Pirates! The Firaxis guys always seemed to get games out for the Mac fairly quickly, but Pirates! and Civ4 were sort of a downward trend for them. I had given up hope of playing Pirates! on anything other than my son’s Xbox, but a completely unrelated […]
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More good news for CIS-2151
The lecture podcasts are hosted here on skoda.net and you are more than welcome to get them right from my site. In a few hours, you can also subscribe to them off the iTunes music store. As new episodes get posted the feed will update iTunes and you’ll automatically download lectures. This is the link […]
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The take home lab
The take home lab handout is now available in the Assignments area of Blackboard. I will not be in lab tonight or tomorrow night. I will be available and on campus, in the Green 111 lab on Thursday night. If you have questions about the lab or want to see me to talk about the […]
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Lecture-cast, episode 2
In episode 2 I cover the OSI model (ISO X.200) and I talk about layered protocol design. I go through the book definition of the 7 layer model and try to relate it back to network devices. The whole rest of the course is broken out along the layers. This coming week we’ll be […]
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Lecture-cast, episode 1
The first lecture is now available. A few of the items I covered that are not in the book are listed here in the “show notes” RFCs and the IETF live at www.ietf.org Tiers of Internet service providers: 1, 2, and 3. Check out this link for a good formal definition: smartcomputing.com dictionary [podcast]http://www.skoda.net/podcast/cis2151-ep1.mp3[/podcast]
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Lecture-casts in the works
The plan is finally coming together for my podcast lectures and they will appear on the blackboard server on Monday night around 5PM. I’ve sorted out the microphone problems and collected the notes and retrieved my previous audio files.
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Grimlager and Eartha in the Hinterlands
Grimlager and Eartha at the top of the Hinterlands A lovely shot of Grimlager (lvl 64 dwarf hunter) and Eartha at the top of the Hinterlands. We had just run through the troll area and are on the plateau by Sharpbeaks cage. I really liked the sunset, so I took a happy snap.
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Lab tonight
Tonights lab is about Gnu Privacy guard. You’ll be generating your own key pair and sending various encrypted and digitally signed email messages. I’ll be doing a little lecture before the lab since this material is not covered sufficiently in the networking book. Don’t forget the read-ahead mentioned in an earlier post, that will turn […]
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