Friday, October 24, 2008

Week 9 Readings

Intro. XML- This piece describes XML as a way to pass information in whole or part to other servers. It says that i is not HTML tags to markup documents or a standardized template for producing particular types of documents. I'm still confused about the difference between HTML and XML but I'm computer illiterate. The other article describe XML to its advantages like the difference between XML 1.0 and XML 1.1. I liked that article because it had tutorials and instructions. The others were like dictionaries that described each word that had to do with XML. They were long and didn't keep my interest for long.

Week 8 muddiest point

What do you mean the disadvatage to HTML is that it doesn't tightly control the layout?

Thursday, October 9, 2008

week 8 reading

This week, I had some trouble with the readings. While I am familiar with the HTML processing but I found these articles a bit too complicated. They did give you step by step instructions, you had to keep the page up while working on examples. I found that the easiest one to figure out was of course the HTML cheat sheet page.

Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Week 8 muddiest point

Is there any way that radio waves from tow laptops simultaneously using the Internet will cancel each other out?

Thursday, October 2, 2008

week 7 readings

I had some trouble assessing the article for this week so hears what I discovered. In the how stuff worked article, it was interesting to find out that the Internet is not something that was created in the past twenty years but was actually created in 1962. It wasn't until 1992 that the network became global. I vaguely remember life before the Internet, but just barley.
I could not access the Dismantling integrated library services article because it needed a password and login id. I did watch Inside the google machine. It was interesting to find out the workings of Google and how you get information so fast.

muddiest point week 6

How far can a campus network spread when the university is a large area, such as NYU? Or, would this be part of a metropolitan network?