CALS 085 Lecture Three, 11:30-12:45 Thursday September 17, 2009

Pass Back Assignments

Attendance

Questions?

ANNOUNCEMENTS & ASSIGNMENTS:

First Exam: Three weeks away (Oct 8).  Be on time or lose points!  Exam will cover anything presented in lecture, lab, and readings online and in the textbook.  Old Exams are online.

Websites of the Week: Facilities Scheduling: finding when a classroom is open,  National Center for Biotechnology Information, TED (Technology Entertainment Design) Talks: view Michael Schermer's Talk

Preview of Lab Next Two Weeks:
This week:  Power Point Presentation (questions?).  Everyone should give their presentations in lab this week.  If you are sick or have an accident, notify your lab TAs BEFORE LAB or you will earn no credit (zero). File and folder management on thumb drive and WinSCP.  Do not put things you want to keep private in your public_html directory.
Next Week:  Working with Unix command line, and safe fast email client pine.

Questions about Zoo cluster & FTP?

Labs: Next week bring a memory stick to lab.  View safe unplug method here or Here.

Reading:

Digital cameras from How Things Work,  How digital cameras work from Sci Am .  

Text Section 3 (pages 17-23)

LECTURE:

What percentage of people have Internet access?

Anatomy of the PC: System units & Motherboards

Difference between Memory and Storage, and Units

Video: How Bill Gates became the richest person in the world continued...