Approached this module with a bit more confidence because I'm a happy emailer. However, was amazed at what I learnt - as with many technological things, I see I have only used about 10% of the capabilities of Outlook Express. I enjoying looking into some of the nooks and crannies I have never had reason to go into before. Still haven't managed to get the signature thing working yet, despite two attempts, but I'm sure I will get it. Enjoyed asking "data entry" emails to be permanently deleted. Learnt a bit more about attachments - yes, if I can't open something first time I very rarely bother to try again, unless it's work related.
Saw some cross-overs with our unit discussion board, such as the time delay aspect. Sometimes I read that people think they are replying directly to someone's post, but by the time they have posted it, several other posts have appeared and the original is an historic piece.
Yes, it's all about connecting. Good to read we humans really are still in control ;+)
Sunday, December 17, 2006
Thursday, December 14, 2006
Module 2 email tasks
1. What information about a user's email, the origin of a message, and the path it took, can you glean from an email message?
You can identify who the sender is by name or the name of their account, which domain they use (this could be an employer for example, company or institution name). Not sure about the path it took - will have to read up on this again.
2. In what cases would you find it useful to use the 'cc', 'bcc' and 'reply all' functions of email?
CC - sending a copy to others would be useful for talking to several people at once, if you wanted to decide something as a group, or simply to keep other people in the loop for their information. But, not sure of the difference between putting all recipients in the To: field vs using CC?
BCC - wanting to talk to more than one person, but wanting to keep this fact secret, and to not publish the email addresses of others.
Reply all - if you have a group dialogue going on, e.g. planning an event, and want to keep all parties in the loop.
3. In what ways can you ensure that an attachment you send will be easily opened by the receiver?
You could include in the body of your message the format your attachment is in and what it is called. Find out from your recipient what form of encoding they use and which application they will use to read the attachment. If you can't find out, send text files as plain text (ASCII).
Or use Rich Text Format (.rtf) as file format.
Use MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension) as the default attachment encoder.
Finally, compress large files (zip them).
4. What sorts of filters or rules do you have set up, and for what purpose?
I have tonight asked my Outlook Express to permanently delete anything that has the words "data entry" in the subject line as I get bombarded with offers of this kind of work via emails. Looking forward to the result. :)
5. How have you organised the folder structure of your email and why?
Also tonight I have (courtesy of the tutorial) set up two folders for soccer emails, as I manage a junior boys' soccer team and also play in my own team and sometimes get lots of emails regarding both. I can see it will be very useful to find things again - my previous experience of this has been to just view my emails by recipient, and hunt for things that way - usually successful, but it takes time. I will also set up something for our coming trip to NZ, as I have several emails from several people about getting together over the coming weeks, and it's a job to keep track of them all.
You can identify who the sender is by name or the name of their account, which domain they use (this could be an employer for example, company or institution name). Not sure about the path it took - will have to read up on this again.
2. In what cases would you find it useful to use the 'cc', 'bcc' and 'reply all' functions of email?
CC - sending a copy to others would be useful for talking to several people at once, if you wanted to decide something as a group, or simply to keep other people in the loop for their information. But, not sure of the difference between putting all recipients in the To: field vs using CC?
BCC - wanting to talk to more than one person, but wanting to keep this fact secret, and to not publish the email addresses of others.
Reply all - if you have a group dialogue going on, e.g. planning an event, and want to keep all parties in the loop.
3. In what ways can you ensure that an attachment you send will be easily opened by the receiver?
You could include in the body of your message the format your attachment is in and what it is called. Find out from your recipient what form of encoding they use and which application they will use to read the attachment. If you can't find out, send text files as plain text (ASCII).
Or use Rich Text Format (.rtf) as file format.
Use MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension) as the default attachment encoder.
Finally, compress large files (zip them).
4. What sorts of filters or rules do you have set up, and for what purpose?
I have tonight asked my Outlook Express to permanently delete anything that has the words "data entry" in the subject line as I get bombarded with offers of this kind of work via emails. Looking forward to the result. :)
5. How have you organised the folder structure of your email and why?
Also tonight I have (courtesy of the tutorial) set up two folders for soccer emails, as I manage a junior boys' soccer team and also play in my own team and sometimes get lots of emails regarding both. I can see it will be very useful to find things again - my previous experience of this has been to just view my emails by recipient, and hunt for things that way - usually successful, but it takes time. I will also set up something for our coming trip to NZ, as I have several emails from several people about getting together over the coming weeks, and it's a job to keep track of them all.
The day: Completing module 1
The day started badly - felt like chucking it all in. Have begun module 1 about two weeks later than I should have and when finally got to it today couldn't get anything to work. The main problem was that our computer user account was set up excluding me as an 'administrator' therefore I couldn't install the required programs. My partner put me right on this tonight and everything made more sense - I'm always so quick to think it's just my lack of expertise. Have completed all of module 1 tonight (with a bit of help from my friend!) and have enjoyed it all. So much help available on the internet too - some good tutorials and thank goodness for "30 days free trial". Going to bed feeling much better about Net11!!
Module 1 traceroute
1)
5) When pinging Curtin from A-ToolBar on my computer it took 5 hops and 357ms, compared with 5 hops and 294ms from Centralops. I thought Centralops in Texas, USA, would be slower because the server would be further away, whereas the 'tucows' site was running from my computer, closer to Curtin.
6) To traceroute from my computer to Curtin it took 13 hops and 587ms, therefore 7 LESS hops, but 293ms MORE.
| hop | rtt | rtt | rtt | ip address | domain name |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 70.84.211.97 | 61.d3.5446.static.theplanet.com |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 70.84.160.130 | vl1.dsr02.dllstx5.theplanet.com |
| 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 70.85.127.109 | po52.dsr02.dllstx3.theplanet.com |
| 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 70.87.253.17 | et3-2.ibr03.dllstx3.theplanet.com |
| 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 208.172.139.129 | dcr2-ge-4-0-0.dallas.savvis.net |
| 6 | 0 | 28 | 22 | 204.70.192.49 | dcr1-so-6-0-0.dallas.savvis.net |
| 7 | 28 | 28 | 28 | 204.70.193.185 | acr1-so-2-0-0.Miami.savvis.net |
| 8 | 28 | 28 | 28 | 208.172.99.94 | bpr2-so-4-0-0.miamimit.savvis.net |
| 9 | 88 | 29 | 88 | 195.22.206.244 | unassigned.pao.seabone.net |
| 10 | * | * | 88 | 195.22.206.244 | unassigned.pao.seabone.net |
| 11 | * | * | * |
| 12 | 245 | 245 | 245 | 202.158.194.46 | ge-0-0-0.bb1.b.syd.aarnet.net.au |
| 13 | 245 | 257 | 245 | 202.158.194.46 | ge-0-0-0.bb1.b.syd.aarnet.net.au |
| 14 | 258 | 267 | 266 | 202.158.194.17 | so-2-0-0.bb1.a.adl.aarnet.net.au |
| 15 | 294 | 267 | 294 | 202.158.194.5 | so-0-1-0.bb1.a.per.aarnet.net.au |
| 16 | 294 | 294 | 294 | 202.158.194.5 | so-0-1-0.bb1.a.per.aarnet.net.au |
| 17 | 294 | 294 | 294 | 202.158.198.186 | gw1.er1.curtin.cpe.aarnet.net.au |
| 18 | 294 | 295 | 294 | 134.7.250.18 |
| 19 | 294 | 294 | 294 | 134.7.248.65 | te1-1.b309-sr.net.curtin.edu.au |
| 20 | 294 | 294 | 294 | 134.7.134.47 | prodweb2.curtin.edu.au |
Trace complete
2) 20 hops
3) 294ms
4) Curtin IP number: 134.7.134.475) When pinging Curtin from A-ToolBar on my computer it took 5 hops and 357ms, compared with 5 hops and 294ms from Centralops. I thought Centralops in Texas, USA, would be slower because the server would be further away, whereas the 'tucows' site was running from my computer, closer to Curtin.
6) To traceroute from my computer to Curtin it took 13 hops and 587ms, therefore 7 LESS hops, but 293ms MORE.
Tuesday, December 12, 2006
Linking blogs from classmates
Have just been able to add some links for blogs of classmates and though it's only a small thing, am feeling pleased with myself. Mind you, someone did give a mini lesson on how to do it on the discussion board. Am just amazed at the experience some people have. This is like being in a foreign land and not knowing the language, but I'm keen to keep pushing on.
Monday, December 11, 2006
Top five tips for new bloggers
This will be a work in progress, with more added once I get the hang of blogging. But for now...
1. Keep posts short - one for of the beauties of blogging is the immediacy. I don't think people want to read long, long posts. Less is more.
2. Make sure you use a good old fashioned pen and paper to write down some of the details. Because I'm new to this I sometimes forget where I am and how to get back to where I was! Having something written on a piece of paper would help.
3. Remember you can play around with colours, layout, fonts etc. It's good to look at some recommended blogs to loosen up any inhibitions you may have about the look of your blog. Get used to making as many changes/improvements as you see fit.
4. Take care with spelling and grammar in your posts - you may be writing something great, but misspellings and poor grammar will detract from it for the reader.
1. Keep posts short - one for of the beauties of blogging is the immediacy. I don't think people want to read long, long posts. Less is more.
2. Make sure you use a good old fashioned pen and paper to write down some of the details. Because I'm new to this I sometimes forget where I am and how to get back to where I was! Having something written on a piece of paper would help.
3. Remember you can play around with colours, layout, fonts etc. It's good to look at some recommended blogs to loosen up any inhibitions you may have about the look of your blog. Get used to making as many changes/improvements as you see fit.
4. Take care with spelling and grammar in your posts - you may be writing something great, but misspellings and poor grammar will detract from it for the reader.
Getting my blog out there
Have just spent a frustrating time trying to add my blog details to the Presentations part of our unit. Am giving up tonight. Am sure this has been covered in a message somewhere and will have to hunt it up. It's so easy to get lost in all this stuff - sometimes I go down a virtual path and an hour has gone by. I can see this could get addictive for some people. :-)
I think I'll content myself with giving my blog address on the discussion board to start with (as long as I can find a useful place to put it!)
I think I'll content myself with giving my blog address on the discussion board to start with (as long as I can find a useful place to put it!)
My first post
This is the start of my learning log and also my second experience at creating a log (the previous one was for an assignment also). Am feeling rather behind all my Net11 stuff as haven't looked at it for a week and with Christmas and a trip to NZ coming up not sure how I will keep up over the next month. Keeping up with the discussion board is a bit of a struggle, but guess taking a week off hasn't helped. Anyway, pleased to have started my learning log and now I just need to work out how to add in the links to the blogs of my classmates. And, of course, get started on Module 1! Quite looking forward to this unit, but can see that the time of year is not great to be studying. Have just noticed the "post date and time" says 12/11/06, 2.39am so I suppose that must be American date and time?
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