What I found this week

You know nobody wants to be involved in an accident but Ford has introduce new technology for back seat passengers.  They have come out with the rear seat inflatable seatbelt.  This seat belt inflates slower that the front seat air bags and it uses a different inflation method.  The front seat air bags inflate using a warm chemical gas and the rear seatbelt inflates using a cold compressed gas.  This restraint is design to reduce neck, chest and head injuries.  Ford received the AJAC award for best new technology.  I found this to be interesting because I am thinking about buying a new car after graduation and I was leaning toward a foreign vehicle but now I will look at domestic.

The more I study the more I learn

This week I learned more about setting up a network and increasing the security on my network.  I did the usual and created a new user name and password but there are a couple more things that  pretty standard that you can do to add layers of security to you network.  One thing was changing the SSID that comes as a default name for whatever router you purchase.  Then there is the ability to create a security key through network and security.  As  I have said in the past it is rewarding to read and actually use what you read.  Until next week Happy Valentine day!!!!!!!!

Being open minded

We recently had an exercise where we had to give information on setting up virtual environment.  I knew of a couple but my mind was tilted to the cloud.  I did a lot of reading on the cloud and setting up the cloud and all the cloud software that you need to accomplished the scenario that was presented.  then while going through my instructors blog again  I happen to click a link for Gigaspaces and there I read about XAP 8.0 a new product produce by an old company.  It is a single product that when used creates the precise scenario of my exercise.  I put a lot of time in my investigation but there is still a lot of products out there you just have to keep your mind open and not rely on your first choice.  

Mistakes Setting up this blog

I have been racking my brain trying to remember my userid and password and it never came to me.  I submitted my email address and it came back saying there was no blog.  I went back over the instructions for creating the blog and followed them and i got to my blog but once again I could not login.  I was laying in the bed this morning thinking about the 0 that I would get and it hit me.  Try another email address and I did and here I am.  What I have learned about computers this week is do not trust your memory it is always best to keep good notes about everything that you do and everything you create because one day you will have to revisit .  You try to follow the instructions that you were taught but there is always that one time when things don't work like they should.  Remember keep you a notepad or notebook that you can use whenever you start a new endeavor, keep track of ID's & pwd.

New stuff from my classes

    I was doing my classwork for one of my CTS classes and it taught me a process that I could use that day.  It did require me to set it up but the benefits I think would be greater than the time that I would donate to the task.  It is called mail merging which allows you to personalize form-letters that requires mass distribution.  I know that this has always been out there but it is just the joy of learning something and being able to make it apart of your daily life.  Just as it will be once we all graduate and get that first job that will pay us for doing something we love.  Once there then you will know the joy that i get from these little insignificant moments that I like to share with you'll.