Photoshop

Life under the Sea

The Internet

Chris Nolan informed our class on many interesting things about the internet. Anybody can post just about anything onto the internet. Websites such as Wikipedia have information that has been added by people that are not experts just voicing their opinion on a certain topic. This can be very misleading when doing research. When doing important research, Databases that peer reviewed can be very reliable. Usually papers that use multiple resources are the most reliable. People can also post propaganda on the internet and not have it taken off. One example of this was the MArtin Luther King Jr. website that was run by a white supremacy group. There were all types of lies on the website, yet it looked legitimate. You can never be too careful when deciding if a website is not backed by facts.

O.J. Simpson

I chose the mug shot of O.J. Simpson. At one point in his life he was a star football player in college and the NFL. I also chose the picture because it is an important trial case that I have some knowledge of. The picture was on the cover of the June 1994 Time magazine. It was of the mug shot he took in jail. In the picture, Simpson is made to look darker, and the lighting is a lot darker than the original. It was manipulated to make Simpson seem like a bad and evil person. The change in the picture was harmful to Simpson's perception to the public. It makes the public view Simpson as an evil person.

CLT

We visited the Center for Learning and Technology. It is on the bottom floor of the library. There they have all of the updated versions of software that you will pretty much need throughout college. You can go there to get help on basically any technology problem or question you have. The lab is about half Mac and PC. There is also all types of equipment for video and audio editing. I might need to use the lab for classes when I need to make a video project. I can go down there and edit video and have help right there when I need it. I can also go down there if I want to use the computer in a quiet place. Robert said they the computers are open to us if he is not using them to teach other professors about updated software.

Copyright Infringement

Jason Hardin talked to us about Copyright laws. I really found it interesting that Trinity University is bound by the law to give out personal information to the companies that detect IP addresses that are illegally downloading. Trinity has to give the person’s name and address if they catch you downloading their content illegally. Industries such as the MPP and RIAA can come after a student. They can ask for a lot more money than what the illegal downloads is worth. Since students tend to download more content than others, the HEOA requires the university to provide websites where legal downloading can take place. These websites will help with some of the downloading, but a lot of the content being downloaded by students must be paid for or illegally downloaded from programs such as Napster, Limewire, and Bittorrent. People in the music industry go after people for more money than the content is worth because they feel that by it being downloaded, there music has spread illegally, and they are getting ripped off. I feel that the music industry should not be able to claim more money than the amount illegally downloaded. The music industry is being greedy in asking for more.


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My Trinity Network Diagram

Last class took a class fieldtrip down to the data room. There were lots of computers, and it was hot, however the room had it's own air conditioning to cool the computers. We learned that our Y drives, group folder, and N drive are down there. After learning about the Trinity Network, I made my own diagram explaining briefly how the network works.

Computer Tip

Mr. Joe Hatch came to class, and spoke to us about how to keep your computer running fast and different functions it has. The most important tip I feel he taught us was to remove old cache and check for updates on a regular basis. This keeps your computer from keeping old useless data that can fill up your hard-drive. I am going to follow these tips on a regular basis, so my computer will run well.