CALS085 Lecture Two, Week Beginning Monday January 21, 2007

Attendance

Questions?

ANNOUNCEMENTS & ASSIGNMENTS:

Results of the Knowledge Test last week (High of 42%)

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

Labs begin this week! Photos taken.  Bring a data stick (thumb drive) to lab. 

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 your lab TAs 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 Secure Shell FTP (SSH-FTP).

LECTURE:

Information Technology in perspective: Time Line 1

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