CALS 085 Lecture Two, Thursday September 11, 2008

Attendance

Questions?

Results of Knowledge Test from last week

ANNOUNCEMENTS & ASSIGNMENTS:

Website of the Week: http://www.intellicast.com/ and NOAA Weather pages

Labs begin this week!  

Reading: How Internet e-mail works.  

Textbook on Graphing, Sections 1-2 (pages 0-16)

Read Syllabus carefully!

Preview of Lab Next Two Weeks:

1. Power Point Presentation (questions?).  Everyone should be ready to give their presentations in lab next week.  If you are sick or have an accident, notify Dr. Leonard BEFORE LAB or you will earn no credit (zero). 

2. Zoo cluster & FTP.   Draw the connection between PC and zoo.  Learn how to save things on the zoo file server and upload and download these files with FTP.  Download and install WinSCP on your own PC, or Fetch or Fugu on Macs.

LECTURE:

Information Technology in perspective: Time Line 1

What is an operating system? Video: How Bill Gates became the richest person.