Show of 8-23-2003

Tech Talk Guests

Billy Ball, Linux Guru, Adjunct Faculty, Stratford University, Author of over 15 Books about Linux/Unix
Gina McCabe, Faculty, Stratford University, Graphic and Web Designer? Extraordinaire

Linux News

Joe Pranevich’s excellent wrap-up of new features in the upcoming 2.6 series of Linux kernels. (http://www.kniggit.net/wwol26.html)
Red Hat’s Web site with links to info about upcoming releases. (http://www.redhat.com)
Get the latest news and a link to more than 200 different Linux distributions. (http://www.distrowatch.com)
A program that enables MS Office 97/2000 to run on Linux systems (http://www.codeweavers.com)

SCO versus IBM/Linux

If you want SCO’s side of the story (which can change each week), browse to its home page (http://www.sco.com)
Red Hat, Inc.’s? response to the SCO FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt). (http://www.redhat.com/advice/speaks_rhletter2.html)
The definitive Open Source? Initiative’s response and research paper detailing the facts and falsehoods of SCO’s claims, along with a corporate history of UNIX. (http://www.opensource.org/sco-vs-ibm.html)

Tips for Linux Newbies

Rogue Linux Installs On the Rise

Microsoft and Open Source

MS Running Windows and Linux Side-by-side

Elements of Good Web Site

Visual Communication and Navigation
- Learn Good Design by Looking at Bad Design
- Web Pages That Suckbpages
Good hosting site
- Bandwidth, Space, Management, Support
- WebMasters.com is recommended
Select and Purchase Your Domain Name
- Network Solutions is the largest registrar

The First Disposable Digital Camera

Buying a Digital Camera

Wireless Update

802.11g In the Stores (good option)
- 2.4 GHz? and backward compatible with 802.11b
- 54 Mbps (single duplex) with effective throughput of 20Mbps
- 3 non-overlapping channels
802.11a is loosing ground
- Main advantage is 8 non-overlapping channels.
- Also 54 Mbsp
- Not backward compatible with b
Multimode receivers available (g/b, a/b, a/b/g)

New War Driving Antenna and Gear

Cantenna (www.cantenna.com)
- 12 db Gain
- Circular Waveguide, Linear Polarization
- $19.95
Orinoco Wireless Card (with Lucent Chip Set)
NetStumbler (www.netstumbler.com)

Stratford ?Trends? Seminar Series

China Seeking To Become Technological Lead

Will avoid royalty payments
Will give Chinese companies a competitive advantage
China Developing Cell Phone Standard
- Rejecting CDMA and GSM 3G standards
- Standards will be developed by TD-SCDMA Industry Alliance
- Alliance of Chinese companies
- Cisco, Ericson, Motorola, and Nokia may be loosers
China Developing DVD Standards
- China said it was developing a format called Advanced Versatile Disc (AVD)
- Some consider it a ploy by Chinese manufacturers to strike a better deal on royalty payments to the DVD manufacturers which is $4/unit.
China Developing Digital TV Standards
- Chinese government has opted for the European digital video broadcasting-cable (DVB-C) standard as transitional platform
- China’s domestic standard should be finalized this year.
- It will boast of interactive functions, better support for data services and is more user-friendly compared with DVB-C
- China hopes to save royalty fees of $40/set, which would be over $3.6B for all 100 million cable viewers.
China Plans Rival Format to MPEG Audio-Video
- Manufacturers currently pay $1/device
- New standard will be known as AVS to be implemented 2004

Stratford News

Dates to Remember
- Next Start September 8th, 2003
- Next Seminar August 26th, 2003
Program News
- New Digital Design and Animation Program
- Networking and Security Undergraduate Programs
- Includes Linux and Wireless
- Enterprise Business Management
- Telecommunications