April 7, 2001
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- Napster
Converges on Congress
- Sex.com
Domain Name Dispute Ruling for $65M dollars
- Judge James Ware found Stephen
Cohon liable for fraud and forgery in the five-year battle over
sex.com
- $40M in compensation for lost
profits and an additional $25M in punitive damages
- Gary Kremen from San Francisco
registered sex.com in 1994
- The site gets 25 million hits
per day
- Patron
Saint of the Internet ("When
the saints go logging on")
- Religion
on the Net (helps
to counter proliferation of porn)
- Religious sites have proliferated
- Most religious texts are available
online in full text form
- Search
engines technology
- Google
is the leader (official
Tech Talk search engine)
- Conducting
an effective Internet Search on Google
- To
get exact phrase, use quotation marks (i.e., “stratford college”
)
- To get all the words, just list
them (i.e., stratford college)
- To get any of the words, use
OR (i.e., stratford OR college)
- To
exclude words, use minus sign (i.e., "stratford college"
-avon -dublin)
- Or just use the
Advanced Search page
- Selecting Google
Display Preferences
- Enable translation of search
results (now in Beta testing)
- Filter
pornographic sites using SafeSearch
- Other
free machine translation services
- MacOS
X missing critical drivers
- Torvalds
trashes Apple's new operating system (MacOS X)
- Just
for Fun, Torvalds upcoming autobiography, casts a shadow
on Mac OS X
- Torvalds is highly critical of
the Mach
microkernel, created at Canegie Mellon University
- Torvalds felt that the Mach microkernel
would not be backward compatible with legacy software due to a lack
of memory protection.
- Getting
a job in this tough job market
- First understand where the field is going by reading industry
magazines or "rags."
- Second, get the competencies demanded by the industry,
either through self-study or through an educational institution, like
Stratford University.
- Third, learn the standards and procedures that support
your industry to be in a position to make valid technical decisions.
- Fourth, package yourself with a well written resume that
emphasizes where you are going rather than where you have been.
- Fifth, network by joining user groups and trade associations
(and don't make the mistake of asking for a job at these meetings!).
- Finally, survey employers to find out where they are going.
- Don't
forget that Stratford University specializes in corporate training during
the day
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Next class start date is April 23, 2001
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