Tag: “blog as notepad”

I just voted by proxy for InitTech. I tried using their interweb thing but it wasn't swamped, so I called the toll free 800 number. Guess what? In order to vote by phone, you should have the ballot handy. I had no idea what I was voting on, so that I just voted against all the board of director items. That was the easy part. Now voting for the board of directors was tricky. They asked for the two digit number corresponding to the each director. Uh-oh. Hmm. How many directors? Who's in who? I just started entering
numbers randomly. The telephone lady didn't squawk on my selection. I guess they're correct. It would have been better if I just cast my vote for none of the above.

Homework 3 is giving me some problems.

nslookup -type=MX www.loyola.edu
Note: nslookup is deprecated and may be removed from future releases.
Consider using the `dig’ or `host’ programs instead. Run nslookup with
the `-sil[ent]’ option to prevent this message from appearing.
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached

nslookup -type=PTR 254.169.in-addr.arpa
Note: nslookup is deprecated and may be removed from future releases.
Consider using the `dig’ or `host’ programs instead. Run nslookup with
the `-sil[ent]’ option to prevent this message from appearing.
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached

Note: nslookup is deprecated and may be removed from future releases.
Consider using the `dig’ or `host’ programs instead. Run nslookup with
the `-sil[ent]’ option to prevent this message from appearing.
Server: 172.16.0.254
Address: 172.16.0.254#53

Non-authoritative answer:
Name: www.maths.leeds.ac.uk
Address: 129.11.36.6

Samba

History

Development Purpose
– UNIX in a Windows dominated world. Cross platform interoperability of file
and printing services.
– Reverse engineered from Microsoft’s proprietary CIFS (Common Internet File
System) and SMB (Server Message Block).
– Similar to network file systems.
– Several transport protocols that it suppports: NetBIOS, TCP/IP, etc.
– Platform independence to access personal files.
– Interoperability.
– Open source development model. Multiple developers.

Key Features
– File and printer sharing. Remote access to files and printers on a network
whether it is a UNIX or Windows machine.
– User authentication and authorization. Security measures and access controls
for files and printers.
– network name resolution. Mapping of a machines IP address to its identification
on a network neighborhood.
– network browsing. Allows graphical browsing of files and printers similar to
Windows File Explorer.
– Transparent interoperability with Window’s network neighborhood.

Windows Network Neighborhood
– Samba strives for being a peer in this aspect of Windows.
– Collection of machines that share files and printer resources.
– Centralized workgroup access to the files as well as authorization.
– Domain controller centralized authentication entity.

SMBD
– Samba’s SMB implementation
– Responsible for receiving service requests from client and provides the shared
file or printer service.

NMBD
– Samba’s naming resoultion and network browsing component.

Authorization Component

Just posting this stuff here so that I can access this information from work. This is for CS 774 Human Computer Interactions, and it is for a paper that I have to write. I didn’t post the previous assignment, because I thought it would’ve bored you. This I am posting so that I can search on it tomorrow because it is on IEEE site which we have free access at work. This is a list of citations I would like to read up on.

Image-browser taxonomy and guidelines for designers
Plaisant, C.; Carr, D.; Shneiderman, B.
Software, IEEE
Volume 12, Issue 2, Mar 1995

Visualization methods for personal photo collections: browsing and searching in the PhotoFinder
Hyunmo Kang; Shneiderman, B.;
Multimedia and Expo, 2000. ICME 2000. 2000 IEEE International Conference on
Volume 3, 30 July-2 Aug. 2000