CTP Student Social

06 22 2011

Today worked on Skillsoft for Customer Service and tried to get the Wordpress going into debian server for LAMP.

06 20 2011

Today I worked on my independent study and was able to add foler for my wordpress in debian server. Also worked on skillsoft customer service a little bit. I also helped Austin install some drivers on the computers he was working on. Tomorrow I will continue to work on skillsoft customer service classes.

06 14 2011

Today during Alex Tabony lecture went over the A+ Trouble Shooting Methodology.

Step 1 Identify the problem.
Step 2 Establish a theory of probable cause
Step 3 Test the theory
Step 4 Establish a plan of action to solve the problem
Step 5 Verify full system functionality
Step 6 Document findings, actions and outcome.

During class…[Read more]

Today

06 13 2011

My take home computer’s VGA Card was bad. Previously the day before I tried Plugging a screen to the computer and it did not go blue screen but it was altering to a blue color which I was able to work with still. I changed the hard drive to another computer and put a another VGA card into the PCIe slot. Once that was…[Read more]

Yesterday 06092011

In Jasper’s morning class went over the difference between vector and pixel masks in photo shop. Jasper went over some other techniques such as color range, feathering, using paint brush. Also went into using the magic wand and how to use inverse.
During Employment Thursday went over Mock Interviewing in the 12:00 Noon class.…[Read more]

06082011

Today finished up Debian LAMP Server. Found a guide

http://www.basicconfig.com/linuxnetwork/ubuntu_web_server_setup

for Ubuntu which is similar or about the same to Debian.

Learned from Joe that typing localhost all one word is the same as typing 127.0.0.1 for the IP and that port 80 respondes with the webpage.

06062011

Today googled Avaya and found a manual for the phone system and took a look at it. The link below shows you how to use Bash Shell Command to Find or Get IP address in Linux operating system (debian) while using the terminal.

http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/bash-shell-command-to-find-get-ip-address/

Learned from Joe that the command su is…[Read more]

06022011

Today during Employment Thursday with Traci Young went through practice run of Mock Interviewing. Traci gave examples of what not to do such as talk to long about one thing and to keep it short and simple. Not to elaborate on one thing for to long and when walking into an interview not to carry just a manilla folder which looks…[Read more]

06012011

Today talked to Alex about plans for what I would be doing in Independent study. Went over the internship papers and picked out three things that I thought I would enjoy doing the best.

So we talked about me going over remote desktop for XP and windows 7. Customer Support SkillSoft classes and doing some research on some phones such…[Read more]

05312011

Today in Alex lecture he talked about Application Support. Alex said Microsoft is going in the same direction as Google Apps. Also backing up data most of it backed up on a server. If computer gets lost or stolen, water leak. Probably nothing lost for user. Can be replaced with another computer which is properly configured. The profile…[Read more]

05262011

Today we continued with the permissions lab. The Shares Folder was the only folder that had network sharing on the computer. Admin folder had full control and the student had none. The Student folder had full control and the admin folder had no control. In the dropbox admin had full control and the student had write.
In the control…[Read more]

05242011

Today in class went over the difference between workgroups and domain. Looked through google and through Skillsoft. After the first break split up into groups and went over sharing files. The first computer for the computer description was CTP1 and computer two was CTP2. We then labeled the workgroup as Adeline. We finally got into the…[Read more]

05192011

Earlier today Jasper discussed how a website is on a server. You rent space from it or pay for a host.
A Domain Name for example ronzonie.com, a HOST might be $90.00 and up a year and the cost of a Domain Name ranges from $8-$15 a year. When paying for these prices you are paying for company to store settings. A site to register for…[Read more]

05182011

Today we set up a daisy chain. Definition of daisy chain is a wiring scheme in which multiple devices are wired together in sequence or ring. Joe noted that it is impossible to have the LAN and WAN on the same side. In the LAB all of the IP Addresses started off the same but Joe stated that the LAN and WAN have to have unique addresses.…[Read more]

05172011

Today during Alex Tabony’s lecture went over ping, nslookup, tracert and ipconfig. Through ipconfig you can find out what your ip address is. Through the CTP Classroom there are two Ethernet Adapters one shows media state disconnected and the other shows ipv4 Address 10.61.0.104.
The setup is the WAN Internet cloud at the top, next…[Read more]