The traceroute from my computer to curtin.edu.au

There were 16 hops neded to get from my compuer to curtin.edu.au. From all the tasks i have completed so far i found this one to be the most intresting. It brought the workings of the internet to life for me. It showed how things dont just happen, but rather there are a million little stpes being done in an extremely short amount of time. This was a very educational task for me, yet important as i now understand a little bit more about the workings of the internet.

Ftp Task

Above is a printscreen of the Ftp Software in use

I have just completed the Ftp task and have spent some time doing the task and exploring the software. i have also read up quite a bit on the uses and functions of the software. i have found it to be very intresting and have seem to understand the use and purpose of it better then i have the telnet software.

By the way, the mising word was CAPITALISATION. It makes sense to me that infomation which is just there on the web, can and should be access years later and that sending and recieving data shouldn't be the only was of accessing informationa and data.

i have realised that all my fellow students have had the same hold-ups as me. Accessing 'recall.curtin.edu.au' was hardly a bother but finding the file wook some time. i couldn't find anyway to search for the file, although i tried, i seemed to be making the search to specific, but i didn't know how to search the whole database. i therefore, went through each folder manually and by luck, i found it within a decent amount of time. Yet this point is something that if i would use this software extensively, i would have to improve on.

I have had a really successful day, and due to this, nothing seems as daunting as it did just few hours ago. I am really happy with the work i have achieved today.

so long for now,

Breindy

Telnet-Blinkenlights

Above is a printscreen of Star Wars in Telnet

I have gone and done the extra task, task B which is further exploring the Telnet facility. I have found his to be very educational of the different functions and purposes that Telnet provides. I have realised that telet can transmit information and creat animations and the like, with the use of dots and dashes. althought i like the look of updated modern animation better, due to their colour, clarity and real-life appearence, i found the star wars animation very clever.

Telnet is now-a-days not used very much for this purpose, as the public prefers the mordern forms of entertainment. it is apparently used today to search for information from govement sites and libraries, like i have just done.

On a more technical side of things, telnet had several drawback, least of all is that it is not very user friendly and the instuctions and functions are hard to follow and have to be done correctly down to the last letter and space-bar, as well it is text based so therefore limited in its compacity to achieve things.

so long,

Breindy

Telnet task-finally

Hi,
Sorry i haven't written in for ages. I have been in collage so I found it hard to perform most of the tasks that i needed to do. I tried to do the first task the telnet task from a public computer and i had major trouble doing it. i tried all different ways but i was denyed access every time and i couldn't figure out the problem. i did all types of research on the subject and read up on all my fellow students blogs, trying to see if they had the same problem that i had and if they could give me a clue on how to fix it.i spent hours on it. now i have finally managed to try the task out on a private computer and in a second the task was completed without any probems.now i feel so much better about it and i realised that if you have the right tools to do something it can be done in a second. telnet might not be such a bad thing after all. i am going on not to try out the extra cool thing that the task says and see whats going to hppen.
so long for now,
Breindy

telnet

Hi,
just tried to do the first task. reading the material was fine but trying to do the task was harder. i think there is a probelm with the computer i am using. it has telnet, but when i tried to connect to library.deakin.edu.au. it didn't worki am going to move on now, and when i use a different computer tomorrow i am going to try again. just remember that when given a task follow the instructions, they are very helpful and when understood correctly, get you where you want to go. so long for now.
Breindy

Starting the Net11

Just started the Net11 and i have never been more confused. I have just randomly surfed the curtin web site, and so next time i come on it i will hopefully have more of an idea of what to do. i have read the messages that students have written and have found them to be very helpful. through it i learned how to make thins blog from a student that had trouble with it before me. next time i come online i am going to start with the first Module.
so long
Breindy