TEC101

Security is one of the most important things to have set up when it comes to your computers at work and at home. It is important because it enables you to protect your data from getting into the wrong people’s hands or being corrupted indefinitely. There is a lot of information that is stored on work computers and personal computers that could be used to steal identities and credit card information. A denial-of-service attack can happen by using ping commands. An attacker can use ping commands to overwhelm a computer leading it to eventually deny service and stop working. Phishing is a type of attack that uses fake tactics like emails and text messages to get personal information from someone with malicious intentions to steal money for example. A basic computer virus is any type of malware that attacks and spreads through computers normally accessing data and possibly losing it altogether. The National Cybersecurity Alliance points out that computer performance issues, missing files, ...

  The industry where computers are the heart of the operation is healthcare. A main way that hospitals and healthcare in general use computers is to store medical records. I remember when the hospitals were hacked by North Korea, and it was safe for the hospital to operate without their access to patient information and that highlights how important computers are in the industry. Another way computers are used in healthcare is for doctors to map out patient’s genetic code and see if they have genetic predispositions to certain diseases and that helps the doctor map out a percentage chance that the patient may end up getting certain diseases. Computers can also analyze blood samples and check levels of vitamins, proteins, and other things to help a patient start focusing on getting the right nutrients in their body. Employees need to know how to document all their patient’s data into a computer so it can properly store that patient’s information for future use if it becomes necess...

Packets travel through the network in a series of getting to the destination by going through different checkpoints until it reaches its destination and then sends a receipt back saying it was received. Two of the websites that I did a traceroute for were quite similar, google.com and youtube.com. They both hopped around 25 times and started timing out around the same level and just about as many times until completion. The one website that differed from the first two was apple.com, it had significantly less hops and did not time out at all. The conclusion I made comparing the results that geographical location does directly affect the return time because if the distance is longer than the more pitstops it must go through until it gets to the destination and returns to where it originated. I believe ping and traceroute commands can be an integral part to troubleshooting connections between all the components that the data must travel through to get to its destination. It is just like...

To illustrate how my day would go I used a variety of different applications to express and display the day-to-day activities. The following blog is a reflection on time spent on the application, pros and cons of each, and what each one would be best suited for. The functions of each application were vastly different and had their great qualities to each of them. Firstly, writing a journal entry is perfect for the word application because like writing in a journal entry you can play with all types of ways you would write whether it be in cursive or your number things in a list or just continue writing paragraph form all the way through. The spreadsheet application was a great way to quantify everything that I wrote down in the word document and it was very interesting to use the app to calculate activities by adding formulas and to see it in various charts depending on which you choose. Lastly the presentation was a creative platform to take what I wrote in Word and give it more life...

This week I decided to be a critic for the door dash app. This app has increasingly become more popular since its introduction to the app world because of it ease to get food delivered rather than going out and picking up your food orders yourself. Even though you might pay a bit more than you would if you had ordered through a phone line and picked it up, it offers me the chance to just stay where I am and have the restaurant orders come to me. I enjoy many things on the app but firstly I enjoy the usability from all the available food sources having a picture of a meal from their menu to easily navigating the menu through the various categories it offers. There is also a neat feature at the top that allows one to see what is trending which could include new places that have opened which one might not be aware of yet and offers a substantial review and rating for some of the food choices in the area. I also love that you could cater to how much you are willing to pay by using a “price...

Building a program on Scratch was pretty user friendly. Each block was clear on what code it accomplished and made it easy to see where events could be added and when. I also like that all the command choices were categorized and color themed to make it even easier to create your program. I found that not all programming is tedious to learn and operate and that are simple options whenever you are creating a program and I learned some different movements and commands that are possible when you create a program yourself. I think Scratch was a lot easier to use than Python because the code is written in easy simple commands that everyone is familiar with, while Python you must write out the code instead of dragging and dropping and instead of it being a simple read you must know what commands inputs do produce. I found Python to be the easiest once I learned how to write the code. If you follow the basic rules in order, it makes lots of sense how it operates. I think if you are working ...