Chat

I used to chat online regularly but rarely do so anymore, most of that was using an IRC client and sometimes using ICQ. Although I have MSN already installed I decided to try ICQ again, which I have not used for many years. I was unable to find my old ICQ number so after installing [...]

Newsgroups

I have not used Newgroups for many years. My email client Thunderbird also has the ability to access Newsgroups but I had not yet set this up. I know that Google allows you to view Usenet group via the web but I wanted to try newsgroups with Thunderbird.
After searching the support pages of my ISP [...]

Lists

For this task I have joined a Yahoo group called “The Amstrad CPC Club”, it is dedicated to the Amstrad CPC computer which was popular in the 1980s. The group only has 76 members and doesn’t seem to be very active. I think this group would be very suitable for an email list rather than [...]

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?
If you are using an email client, such as Outlook or Thunderbird you can find detailed information about an email by looking at the source. This usually isn’t possible if [...]

Internet Tools

I used the Central Ops.net website to perform the Traceroute to curtin.edu.au required for this task. Here is the results:
Tracing route to curtin.edu.au [134.7.179.53]…

File Transer Protocol (FTP)

For this task I didn’t use a dedicated FTP client, instead I did it through my Firefox browsers by typing “ftp://recall.curtin.edu.au” into the address bar. As this would be an anonymous connection I didn’t need a user name or password. If a username and password is required I would just use the following in the [...]

Task B

For this task I connected via telnet to “towel.blinkenlights.nl” and was delighted to see a text based version of Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope! This is a dream come true for a geek like me Although it did end just after they rescue Princes Leia, I’ll have to check back to [...]

Task A

My first task was to telnet to the Deakin library database. I’m already quite familiar with using telnet as I use it at work where our national database is on a Unix system that staff access using a Telnet client called “PowerTerm”, however at work it is already configured to connect, all staff have to [...]

Top 5 Tips For New Bloggers

G’day! This is my first entry in my Learning Log. I’m very new to blogging. I attempted to create one last year but only made one entry. Creating this Learning Log has been a great experience and I now have a much better understanding of how to create a blog. I would like to share [...]