Week 3 De-Briefing

                                                                                                          Mark Bartlett  Feb/9/2013             

So I took yesterday afternoon off from all duties involving homework :P

Now let me get straight to the points; In the past week we mainly went over how to properly use and format information and budgets in Excel. Now one neat feature I really do quite enjoy about excel is the automated dates function, you can grab the corner of the cell and drag it down or across the grid, and it will fill it in with the correlate with the proper dates. I already had some knowledge of this program so I found it good to review it.

We had a pop quiz each day of the week, except for the WHMIS training day(which I passed) I gradually got better in scores, And I now have a portfolio full of questions that will most Likely be on our quizs in the end :D 

One connector I learnt about this week, that I had no prior knowledge about was the RJ series jacks. RJ-11(Phone jack) and the RJ-45(common internet connector) these two little buggers really do mean quite a bit in the connector world right now, I'm not sure how long they will be around though with technology catapulting it self in advancement.

I also Learnt a bit about DVI and how it has 3 sub categories, Now the differences are some have dual link; The dual link options have 6 more conductors then the single link connections. The extra link also accomodate's higher speeds and signal quality.

One note I have to leave to anyone planning or taking a+....Remember all pins and connectors and speeds of the hardware requirements.
On another note, Today me, a classmate and a network admin are having a meeting with a Agency who had approached me to brainstorm a solution, And well we may have solved the problem! Wish me luck.

-Mark Bartlett

Day 14

So I come to you again, After a long day.         Feb/7/2013

Today we went over our letter of introductions before we got into the good stuff.

After our letters, We got right into video Ram Technology, and the most useful purpose for each type.

As I said a few posts ago, I will now get into one of the programs we are reviewing its called Excel.
Today we Learnt and reviewed creating flow charts, and graph charts, We had to use a table we created in word, and transfer it to excel, and color code the info, then we had made the table into a chart.

We really got a good concept of Excel. As today was a half day, I do not have much else to talk about. Oh yeah we did a pop quiz today on Memory, I did not do too hot, But My memory was not incorrect, I was so confident I raced through it, And answered the opposite of what I should of on a few questions. So all in all the pop quizs are really helping me, and they sure are a eye opener.
Well I end this blog by saying one thing, Information Technology is really grand.

-Mark Bartlett

Day 13

ITTech Journal entry                                                                   Feb/6/2013

So today was a great day, We met one of the stake holders, He really struck me as a brilliant  gentleman.

The man has many plans for the IT structure out here!

Now moving onto what I have learned today.

I will start out with by diving into the RJ( Registered jack) the two most common jacks are RJ-11 and RJ-45 RJ-11 is a phone jack, You will find it in your office or home, The type of cables are called Satin.

The Rj-45 connectors are much larger then the RJ-11 connectors, And more commonly found on the ethernet networks, they use twisted-pair cabling. Majority of NIC(Network Interface Card) have a RJ-45 jack on them. On my final note about RJ's they have a small locking tab on them.

 Moving onto Video Display Cables and Connectors

The DVI Connector offer much higher performance than the original digital standards, Such as CGA and EGA. This connector will appear like a D-SUB connector, but it is very much so different, The number of pins are far greater then the D-SUB connector, and the pins are asymmeterical in their placement on the connector.  I almost forgot to mention the DVI was a jump from Analog connectors to Digital, The reason for this fact is because all adapters and digital display technologies are now dealing with Digital information.

DVI Subcategories

DVI-A DVI-D DVI-I

The DVI-A  and DVI-I connectors come in two different varieties, single link and dual link. The dual link option has more conductors(6 of them to be exact) then a single link, The extra link accomodates higher speeds and signal quality, This additional Link can also be used to increase your resolution from 1920x1080 to 2048x1536 for devices with a 16:9 aspect ratio.

In the end you can just purchase a adapter, because these connectors are pin compatible.

I will end this entry into my Blog by saying this, I can see a bright future for my self in the IT Industry.

-Mark Bartlett

Day12

So day 12 was doing WHMIS for the day, It was fairly straight forward, And tomorrow we get to meet a stake holder in the ITTech program. As today I learned WHMIS I will not be filling you in.

Day 11

Review of today’s lesson                                                             

So today we went over our Resumes’ put them on word if not already, enabled tracking and editing, and emailed them to a friend, Edited/commented. Then we had also sent it back.

We also then went over a letter of introduction; Mine is not too great as I do not have much experience in the Field I will be applying for.

So that was the early morning, Quite straight forward no learning curve at all. We now move onto Integrated Memory Controllers and how it “optimizes info” between the Mobo and the CPU, We did not go over much at all about thte IMC, But we did cover quite a bit about the Integrated GPU, It moved from the GPU adapter to the CPU, saving size energy and costs.

Here are different mountings  PGA/Pin Grid Array And we have LGA/Lang Grid Array (CPU with contacts and the socket on the mobo holds pins) Zif Socket/ Zero Insertion Force socket, chip socket that allows one to insert  a chip without special tools.

Moving on we learnt a bit about Input devices, and what creates a Multimedia device, Such as a Webcamera, It is a microphone and a camera put in one, Therefore Multimedia as it produces more then one type of input media. Now I learnt a quick fact or two today as well, USB has 127 devices and 4 different type of standart port versions, from 1-3.0. Now the sizes also have many variations from a,b,mini a,mini B, uA,Ub; Generally speaking the A port is larger and its meant for the PC, And B port is smaller and meant for the device., The lengths of the usb input devices goes as such, 1.1 – 2.0 5M 3.0 No restriction.

Now Moving onto the more difficult part of the day. Adapter Cards and the Bits and Characters that go along with these aparatus’. These are the 5 main components of the Video Card, Modes Mobo Connection, Circuitry, Video Mmeory and Connections cables.  I wish I could tell you more, But I’m reviewing the notes And the class was so rushed we could not go in too greath depth, I will have to touch base on this again on a later date.

-Mark Bartlett

Projector PowerPoint Slide                             Mark Bartlett                                 Feb/4/2013

Ok ladies and Gents! I present you my latest power point on projector variations.

http://www.slideshare.net/bartlett111021688/projector-power-point-slide

I hope you all enjoy It was made to get familiar even further with the application and give the viewers a idea of different Projector types and variations.

-Mark Bartlett

Day 10(Week 2 DeBriefing)

Week Two De-briefing 

This week's learning curve took a ping for the positive! I learnt quite a bit about hardware, Including DDR ram types and speeds, And how in the future the density will be increasing greatly the bits, For instance take old ECC unbuffered ram, it has 64x8 bit, But Higher density RAM has 64x4 bit, The 4 bit is the higher density. So the point of upgrading your RAM to higher Density DIMM RAM is to increase your processor performace.

Now Lets move onto the MOBO I learnt a bit about the ATX formfactor. This was Intels son of the Baby-AtForm factor, This factor was created to kick the butt of the baby-atFormFactor in many ways, Better I/O interface, current processors  future processor technology advances. This formfactor was put out the masses in 1995.

Lastly I will touch base on UPS(uninterruptible  power supply)

This is a very useful piece of hardware, This baby will instantaneously fire up when you experience a blackout or brownout, And it will run on battery power, On average these will run for a few minutes, before running out of battery power. They used to be mainly used for servers, business' and Government agencies, But now can be found in home based servers etc.

Ok I hope this summary can give everyone a gimpse into the week of my school. We do learn quite a bit more,and right now alot of our learning is involving programs, I may start getting into them as well. 

-Mark Bartlett