PC POOL DATES

There is only one date left, and it is for my Wednesday group: December 13 at 7:30. We are not meeting this week in the PC Pool!

I subscribe to a site that hooks up freelancers — I look for the flash jobs — and I couldn’t help but laugh:

Category: Graphic Design / Presentations / Multimedia
Description:
We own a peotry site and would like a total of 12 e-cards, to be sent to all
our members (+ 300). To be sent one per day before Christmas.

We will provide the poems who will be presented in stanses, with music and nice
images (different image per stanses).

PC POOL L2:

Follow this link:

Web Based Threats

Unfortunately, you’ll have to “register” for it. Just make stuff up.

The presentation is kinda long, but interesting. Answer these questions:

Give a list of the different web based attack methods the speaker mentions.

And

What conclusions does he make about how security software needs to change to combat future network security issues?

Please write it down and hand it in at the end of class.

PC Pool Time

Below is the plan for today’s PC pool class. There are five parts.

LISTENING
Working Abroad— 001 General. Listen to the audio, answer the questions. Read the transcripts and check your answers. There are five parts to this, the links are below the main block of text.

READING
Catch the Phish — Can you spot which examples are fraudulent?

VOCAB
Commonly confused words

GRAMMAR
Do the following:.
–Error Correction ex. 3
(scroll down)
–TOEFL Questions
–Test of Grammar & Vocab

FUNNY
Engrish.com.

New PC pool dates

here are the new dates for the pc ool:

Montags, 4.DS am 20.11.und 27.11.06
Mittwochs, 1.DS am 29.11.und 13.12.06
Freitag, 1.DS am 24.11.06

kindly note that there is no “P” in my ool — let’s keep it that way, huh? *dadum ching*

extreme pumpkins

-Mail that tax thing (check)
-Clean flat (sort of check)
-Pack for camp (working on it)
-Pay OTR tribute (here goes)

Old Time Radio Tribute: Yours Truly Johnny Dollar

Thanks to the magic of internet radio and broadband to make it possible, OTR is something I like to put on while I’m up and pottering around. And today I’d like to shine a spotlight on one of my favorite series: Yours Truly Johnny Dollar. Listen to episodes online here.

Dollar is a classic hardboiled investigator with a bit of a twist: he’s got an expense account and travels around busting bogus insurance claimants. The expense account makes him akin to our favorite hero 007. Still, while Bond tries hard to conceal this fact by spouting trivialities about fancy stuff that would make pre-revolutionary French aristocrats seem like phillistines, Dollar gives the lowdown of expenses (e.g. coffee, taxi rides, bribes to slimy informants). It’s something that strikes a chord in a listener, particularly one who, when the hero walks into a swank pad wonders, “how much would the rent be?” This show is planted firmly in both glamour and a very down-to-earth sort of materialism. I guess that combination is what makes it distinctly American. Folks must have liked it; it ran for a whopping 14 years and starred several different Dollars. More info here.

Next week’s cancellations

Due to scheduling conflicts, classes from 23.10 to 29.10 are to be rescheduled.

Tuesday classes will be rescheduled for 1.11. Thursday classes will be made up on 9.11. VHS classes will not be rescheduled, as they are on holiday next week anyway. UNI classes on Monday, Wednesday and Friday will be rescheduled in due time.

Ten common IT myths. An interesting, albeit business oriented article. The layout is a real warcrime, though, spreading out 2 or three pages over seven parts. I guess they did that to make more money off ads.

At twelve past midnight Thursday morning, Noah Anders, son of Jesse Langley and Maria Anders, was born. Maria and Noah will be staying another day or so at Diakonissen Hospital in the Neustadt.