Wednesday, October 30, 2013
Monday, October 7, 2013
October 7, 2013 - Bootable Windows XP, and Partition Editing
Today we continued our work on the bootable images of discs run off of USB. We (I sorta knew part of it, but didn't think it through fully) found out that some USB drives do not work for booting from on older machines, I ended up having to use the 4GB card one that I keep in my wallet and that worked.
Windows XP we ended up using WinSetupFromUSB.exe to run the installer off of USB. It worked fine for me. For Ultimate Boot CD I ended up just using the ISO that the teacher gave us and ran that through LiLi (Linux Live USB Creator) and it worked fine off of my card drive, but not my Red Kingston (which I usually use for booting from on other computers).
Tomorrow we are actually installing the operating systems. I am going to be installing Windows XP and Ubuntu (because he put up on the board about a UNIX based OS, and I personally prefer Ubuntu :p
Gparted we also found out had a limit of how much RAM it could utilize, so you technically can't make over 16 partitions without it failing and saying that it is corrupt, after using just about every partitioning utility on the UBCD drive I made and finding out that only one of them actually works to make more. The task we were given to find out about this was trying to get a small partition onto every letter of the alphabet to work within Windows for if we reinstalled it.
Windows XP we ended up using WinSetupFromUSB.exe to run the installer off of USB. It worked fine for me. For Ultimate Boot CD I ended up just using the ISO that the teacher gave us and ran that through LiLi (Linux Live USB Creator) and it worked fine off of my card drive, but not my Red Kingston (which I usually use for booting from on other computers).
Tomorrow we are actually installing the operating systems. I am going to be installing Windows XP and Ubuntu (because he put up on the board about a UNIX based OS, and I personally prefer Ubuntu :p
Gparted we also found out had a limit of how much RAM it could utilize, so you technically can't make over 16 partitions without it failing and saying that it is corrupt, after using just about every partitioning utility on the UBCD drive I made and finding out that only one of them actually works to make more. The task we were given to find out about this was trying to get a small partition onto every letter of the alphabet to work within Windows for if we reinstalled it.
Sepember 30, 2013 - Video Cards, Sound Cards, Multimedia Gear, unknown programs, and more excel
Today we talked about video cards and how they work, the amount of RAM needed for the different resolutions, the different resolutions, the different types of displays. Also about the adapters used alongside video cards to get them to work with monitors. There is a plentiful amount of different adapters out there for just about every plug and socket. We had to use excel to come up with a very simple spreadsheet to what we would spend $500 and $700 gift cards on to upgrade our personal rigs for the video cards and video cables/adapters
We talked about sound cards, and also did a bit of research of what ones are available and which one that we would personally put into our personal rigs.
One of our tasks was to use a program that we were not familiar with, and make a project with it. Our task was to use Sony Acid to produce a (hopefully decent) one minute music clip from samples that we were also not familiar with. My clip can be found here if you care to take a listen: https://www.dropbox.com/s/hz16gq9jat3d61c/MinuteLongMP%23.mp3
One of the side projects is keeping an excel worksheet up to update. With this excel sheet we are keeping track of a hockey pool that we selected, here is mine if you wish to take a look at it: https://www.dropbox.com/s/x83aek2f9dikok3/hockey_pool_2013.xlsx
We had to come up with an example image on a 7.1 surround sound system using MSPaint:
We talked about sound cards, and also did a bit of research of what ones are available and which one that we would personally put into our personal rigs.
One of our tasks was to use a program that we were not familiar with, and make a project with it. Our task was to use Sony Acid to produce a (hopefully decent) one minute music clip from samples that we were also not familiar with. My clip can be found here if you care to take a listen: https://www.dropbox.com/s/hz16gq9jat3d61c/MinuteLongMP%23.mp3
One of the side projects is keeping an excel worksheet up to update. With this excel sheet we are keeping track of a hockey pool that we selected, here is mine if you wish to take a look at it: https://www.dropbox.com/s/x83aek2f9dikok3/hockey_pool_2013.xlsx
We had to come up with an example image on a 7.1 surround sound system using MSPaint:
Sunday, October 6, 2013
October 4, 2013 - Bootable USB Software,
Today we worked on bootable USB software
My USB drives have not given as much trouble for booting as it had today...Usually I just run something like Unetbootin (one of the pieces of software that the teacher suggested also) and it works, but on Wendall (the name of the Compaq computer I am using this course) it just doesn't...not even the Sardu drives that I have are working, I am having to use Plop Boot Manager boot CD, but the teacher doesn't want that.
Tyler, Brandon, and I also went and talked to Studio75 (the esthetics and hairdressing classes in our school) about our IDS project (the volunteer one we have to do for our course), and got their feedback on what we are hoping to achieve by the end of the project.
My USB drives have not given as much trouble for booting as it had today...Usually I just run something like Unetbootin (one of the pieces of software that the teacher suggested also) and it works, but on Wendall (the name of the Compaq computer I am using this course) it just doesn't...not even the Sardu drives that I have are working, I am having to use Plop Boot Manager boot CD, but the teacher doesn't want that.
Tyler, Brandon, and I also went and talked to Studio75 (the esthetics and hairdressing classes in our school) about our IDS project (the volunteer one we have to do for our course), and got their feedback on what we are hoping to achieve by the end of the project.
Thursday, October 3, 2013
October 3, 2013 - IC3, Operating Systems
Today we talked about operating systems. Mac, Windows, Unix, Linux, those are all desktop operating systems. Symbian, Android, iOS, Palm, Windows Phone 7/8, they are all mobile (or handheld) operating systems. The main one that we have focused on so far is Windows.
Me personally, I have a bit of knowledge in Linux and Mac as well (more Linux than Mac though). I have used Windows back since Windows 95, Ubuntu since 8.04, and Mac since 10.4 Tiger.
Linux is a (usually) free set of operating systems that are known as distributions. The more well-known ones are the Ubuntu family (Ubuntu, Kubuntu, etc.), Mint Linux, Red Hat (paid for enterprise Linux distribution), and Puppy Linux. I personally used to dual boot Windows 7 and Ubuntu on my original Dell Inspiron 1525 Laptop that I got a few years ago. Linux will run on older hardware pretty steadily
Mac OS X is a paid operating system that is developed my Apple Inc.. To use the Mac OS X line of operating systems you (usually, unless you are willing to do some hacking) have to own a Mac device, whether that be a Macbook (notebook), Macbook Air (notebook), Macbook Pro (notebook), Mac Mini (mini-desktop) or a Mac Pro (desktop). Mac is well known for not getting viruses and for being good on the battery of the notebooks. Macs can and will get viruses, and most of the Mac viruses will hit the system hard (I can speak from experience trying to help a teacher recover from one). The reason that their so good on battery is because of the specialized hardware that the operating system is developed for, unlike Windows which has so many different hardware developers for it. Last year I obtained a 2010 Macbook Pro for Christmas to continue my work on App development, so I have been able to work with that line of OSs recently, as well as when I helped out around my elementary school.
Microsoft's Windows is the operating system that I am most accompanied with. Windows started as an operating system simply known as MS-DOS, which stood for Microsoft Disc Operating System and was released in 1981. Now there is Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8 that are out on the market and still commonly used today. I have had a lot of experience the past couple years with Windows XP and Windows 7, and just recently picked up a Windows 8 notebook for the course (with a Windows 7 virtual machine, and Windows 7 partition on my Macbook).
With Windows, all the way back to Windows XP, there have been multiple versions of the same operating system but with different features added onto it, here are charts that will (hopefully) make it clear on the upgrade paths of Windows
Me personally, I have a bit of knowledge in Linux and Mac as well (more Linux than Mac though). I have used Windows back since Windows 95, Ubuntu since 8.04, and Mac since 10.4 Tiger.
Linux is a (usually) free set of operating systems that are known as distributions. The more well-known ones are the Ubuntu family (Ubuntu, Kubuntu, etc.), Mint Linux, Red Hat (paid for enterprise Linux distribution), and Puppy Linux. I personally used to dual boot Windows 7 and Ubuntu on my original Dell Inspiron 1525 Laptop that I got a few years ago. Linux will run on older hardware pretty steadily
Mac OS X is a paid operating system that is developed my Apple Inc.. To use the Mac OS X line of operating systems you (usually, unless you are willing to do some hacking) have to own a Mac device, whether that be a Macbook (notebook), Macbook Air (notebook), Macbook Pro (notebook), Mac Mini (mini-desktop) or a Mac Pro (desktop). Mac is well known for not getting viruses and for being good on the battery of the notebooks. Macs can and will get viruses, and most of the Mac viruses will hit the system hard (I can speak from experience trying to help a teacher recover from one). The reason that their so good on battery is because of the specialized hardware that the operating system is developed for, unlike Windows which has so many different hardware developers for it. Last year I obtained a 2010 Macbook Pro for Christmas to continue my work on App development, so I have been able to work with that line of OSs recently, as well as when I helped out around my elementary school.
Microsoft's Windows is the operating system that I am most accompanied with. Windows started as an operating system simply known as MS-DOS, which stood for Microsoft Disc Operating System and was released in 1981. Now there is Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8 that are out on the market and still commonly used today. I have had a lot of experience the past couple years with Windows XP and Windows 7, and just recently picked up a Windows 8 notebook for the course (with a Windows 7 virtual machine, and Windows 7 partition on my Macbook).
With Windows, all the way back to Windows XP, there have been multiple versions of the same operating system but with different features added onto it, here are charts that will (hopefully) make it clear on the upgrade paths of Windows
Windows 7 Specific Upgrade Path Chart:
Windows 8 Upgrade Paths Chart:
Wednesday, October 2, 2013
October 2, 2013 - Troubleshooting, ISO to USB,
Yesterday we had to know how to copy a CD/DVD, today we continued that, as well as we had to use a program called "ISO to USB" to turn the CD/DVD copy that we made into a bootable (if needed) USB copy of the disc to use on a (theoretical) computer with
We had to come up with a simple PowerPoint of 5 questions that we should ask people if they call us about IT problems to see about fixing it over the phone.
One of the things I am really looking forward to is the networking section of the course. I have always found connecting multiple computers together really interesting.
In Teksyndicate's newest video, they do a short segment about CompTIA A+ Certification, if you want to see it, here is the link to the section where they talk about it: http://youtu.be/CzbKTpcFsIo?t=27m51s
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