Final Post Week 13: Assessment

            One of the most enjoyable and frustrating things that we have had to do this semester is create an iweb website. I wasn't aware at how easy it was to create a basic webpage and with the knowledge of customizing templates from previous workshops it was rather enjoyable. However there was some issues getting the hang of it and understanding the necessity of the domain, however I'm pretty happy with how it turned out and confident that I can do it again.

RSS is still a little bit confusing to me, however I have become aware of it and know it is an easy way to keep track of updates of the subscribed site. 

 

            Before this lesson I wasn't aware of sites such as Flickr or delicious, I found that both site are helpful with university work and are easy to use. I have used Flickr more than once in my vfx course. Exploring Google was rather interesting, seeing that I use it the majority of the time that I am on the internet it was worth knowing what else I could do with It and how it to benefit me in the future.

 

Starting a blog was something that never crossed my mind until this course. Even back in the day when I used myspace and people where blogging here and there it didn't really interest me. (However on myspace blogs are usually stupid rants anyways) however keeping a journal and summarizing every workshop using our blog has been tedious, but also a helpful way to fully understand the days’ work. Also when we started to learn about templates and customized our blogs was it fun, we could change the fonts, backgrounds, colours add videos, music and games but also it taught us the basics of HTML CSS subscriptions and feeds.

 

Technorati was the last workshop that we had to do, however it seemed to fail the first, second and third attempt at using it. In the end it finally worked and accepted my claim and I was able to add a tag in my blog. Overall it was quite frustrating.

I have enjoyed this semester and have found it challenging but interesting no the less. It has opened my eyes to how the Internet actually functions and the networks that are included and hopefully it will benefit me in the future.

 

See you next semester!!! :D 

FTP and Athene

FTP or Flie Transfer Protocol is a standard network protocol used to exchange and manipulate files over an internet protocol computer network such as the internet.

It is built on a client- server structure and uses separate control and data connections between the client and server applications.

It's purpose is to promote sharing of files (computer programs and/or data)
To transfer data reliably and efficiently
To encourage indirect or implicit use of remote computers
To shield a user from variations in file storage systems among different hosts.

FTP commands and transferred files can be captured using a packet sniffer, if on the same network. This is a problem to many Internet protocol specifications written prior to the creation of SSL, SMTP and Telnet. The solution to this problem is to used either SFTP (SHH File transfer Protocol) or FTPS which adds a SSL or TLS encryptions to FTP protocol.