- WiFi for the Road ? Phil Scarbrough
- A number of paid WiFi hotspots are available (T-mobile is one of the largest)
- USB versus Firewire ? Jean Jolkovski
- Being screened for ?terrorist? check-in line at airport
- Must have triggered the Computer Assisted Passenger Prescreening System
- Perhaps getting ticket at airport and making last minute reservations contributed
- Burning digital photos to CD at family event
- Paying Virginia pre-payable traffic tickets online (ww.courts.state.va.us)
- Server is IBM HTTP Server running Apache Web Services
- Based on MessageLabs Threat Analysis
- Spam Month Volume for 2003
- Feb (35 Million), Mar (45 Million), April (60 Million, May (85 Million)
- June (60 Million), July (80 Million), August (80 Million), Sept (120 Million)
- Oct (170 Million), Nov (225 Million, Dec (295 Million)
- Spam Infection Ratio for 2001/2002/2003is 1/1.63
- Jan 2001 (1/9000), July 2001 (1/1500), Dec 2001 (1/187)
- Jan 2002 (1/125), June 2002 (1/42.8), Dec 2002 (1/4.7)
- Jan 2003 (1/4.1), April 2003 (1/2.05), Dec 2003 (1/1.63)
- Infection Ratio Definition: 1/9000 means one virus for every 9000 emails
- Virus Threat for All Time
- W32/Sobig.F-mm (33 M), W32/Klez.H-mm (8 M)
- W32/Swen.A-mm (4.5 M), W32/Yaha.E-mm (3.5 M)
- W32/Dumaru.A-mm (2 M), W32/Mimail.A-mm (1.8 M)
- W32/SirCam.A-mm (1.5 M), W32/Klez.E-mm (1 M)
- W32/BugBear-mm (1 M), W32/BugBear.B-mm (1 M)
- Virus Infection Ratio for 2003
- Feb (1/310), Mar (1/340), April (1/350), May (1/205)
- June (1/205), July (1/275), August (1/40), Sept (1/17)
- Oct (1/160), Nov (1/210), Dec (1/255)
- Infection Ratio Definition: 1/310 means one virus for every 310 emails
- August/September dip caused by SoBig Virus
- A MessageLabs whitepaper
- DNS Blacklisting
- Fingerprints or Signatures (used for virus detection)
- Whitelisting (Identifying who to accept mail from)
- Collaborative Filtering (Collective reporting of spam)
- Heuristics (Complex set of rules with parameters, used for virus detection)
- Bayesian Probability (Mathematical learning algorithm using Bayesian probability models. This has been found to be the most effective single spam solution)
- Most systems use a combination (blacklisting, heuristics, Bayesian)
- Virus and Worms Can Be stopped with Virus Protection software
- Spam cannot be effectively stopped without changing addressing standards
- Currently under development by the Anti-Spam Research Group
Consumer Electronics Reporter: Doug Mohney
- Reporter for The Inquirer
- Reporter for Mobile Radio Technology
- January 8-11th, 2003 in Las Vegas, NV
- 2,300 exhibitors occupying 1.35 million square feet of floor space
- Audio, Digital Imaging, Gaming, Home Networking, Home Theater, Mobile Electronics, Video, Wireless Communications
- Digital Entertainment Is the Big and Very Competitive
- Consumer electronics giants like Sony, Panasonic, Sharp and Toshiba are facing an intensifying challenge.
- Microsoft, Intel, Dell and Hewlett-Packard, the stalwarts of computing, have entered the living room.
- Dell and Gateway’s entry into the flat-screen TV market
- HP’s plan to sell television sets, big-screen projectors and an HP-branded version of Apple’s popular iPod music player.
- Carly Fiorina, HP CEO, said. “Most living rooms are in desperate need of a digital makeover.
- Microsoft’s foray into portable media players and Windows Media Center platform (brains of the digital living room).
- Intel announced new chip for digital television
- The greater intelligence and Internet connectivity being added to such gadgets as watches, digital cameras and DVD players favors the PC companies
- Networking Technologies
- Allows users to link digital photos, music, video stored on their PCs to the living room entertainment systems.
- Size of a paperback book
- Features hard drive and 4-inch color screen
- Connects to PC hard drive
- Plays digital video and audio
- Will produce ?film-like? HDTV.
- Predicted $1800 LCOS HDTV displays by mid-2004
- Will compete with TI?s Digital Light Processor (DLP) micro-mirror technology
- 0.8 inches on a side
- 1 to 4 GB capacity.
- May replace flash memory in digital cameras.
- Uses Smart Personal Object Technology (SPOT)
- Uses FM radio subcarrier frequencies to wirelessly deliver weather, news, stock quotes to a variety of devices including watches
- ?Smart watch? that does not need to be set
- MSN messenger can send messages to your watch
- Outlook with sync you calendar
- SPOT services costs $59/year
- Digital Design and Animation Moves to the Web
- Linking the front and back end of web technology is key
- Graphic designers who can script are golden
- ASP, PHP, JSP, SQL, Flash
- Secure Networking Is Talk Number One
- Secure internetworking technologies (Cisco, VPN, etc)
- Security best practices essential
- Voice-over-IP Invades Telecommunications
- Power moves to the edge of the network
- IPv6 is unstoppable
- Programming has become e-Business
- Database driving website technology
- Linked databases using interface standards
- Designed to get the ?right information to the right people?
- Business and IT have morphed together both at the graduate and undergraduate levels
- Video card has a dedicated video processor to off-load tasks from the CPU
- Video processor supports graphic commands (DirectX, Direct3D, OpenGL)
- Buss basics of video (PCI versus AGP)
- Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)
- Dedicated to the video card
- AGP4x (1066 MB per second)
- AGP8x (2132 MB per second)
- Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI)
- Connects all components to the CPU (Drives, RAM, Nics)
- PCI100 (100 MB per second
- PCI133 (133 MB per second)
- Graphic Card Ram (32MB minimum, 256 MB maximum)
- Video Output (S-video output for connection to TV)
- Dominant Chip Sets (ATI Radeon versus NVidia GeForce)
- Get last year?s models for around $100
- Get the two year old model for $50
- These two companies keep getting better
- Competition is lowering prices and raising performance
- If you get a new PC with graphics integrated on the motherboard, make certain to get an AGP plug for expansion
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