Week 8: NO CLASS

Due to the Week 8 class falling on Memorial Day, the campus will be closed.

HOWEVER, you should email me the first draft of your term paper by no later than 11:59PM Monday May 28, 2007. As we discussed in class on the 21st, this should be a fully written paper, with references and so forth. Those of you that have not completed an outline should do that as well.

I am asking you to submit a draft of your paper so I can give you notes on what to improve for the final version. This will be your last chance to get feedback from me on your ideas, writing and style.

Please use the email address listed in the syllabus to submit your work.

Week 7: Presentation Project Definition

[DOC] [PDF] [HTML]

Week 7: System Administration Tasks, Part 2

We will look at more daily tasks for a UNIX system administrator this week. We will install software, do system updates and learn how to check log files.

There will be no homework assignment this week. I want to make sure that everyone has sufficient time to work on the first draft of their paper which is due next week.

Week 7 Slides

Week 6: The Future of IT in Business

The following article talks about a prediction made by Forrester Research concerning the future of IT in business. From the article:

"The pure techies are going to fare poorly. They value tech more than anything else, and now it's about the business. The way it will break out is that there will still be an engine room for them. But if they don't have great people or writing skills, their going to be a lousy business person," Phil Murphy, Forrester principal analyst, told eWEEK.

Where Will All the IT Cowboys Go?
By Deborah Perelman
eWeek
May 16, 2007

Week 6: System Administration Tasks, Part 1

We have a busy night ahead of us this week....

To start with, the project outline, command line lab and quiz second-chance are all due at the beginning of class.

We will then have a short lecture concerning common system administration tasks including installing software, performing system updates and backing up and restoring files.

Finally, we will have the second quiz for the term. This will be open book, notes and web, but no collaboration is allowed. The quiz is due at the end of class.

Week 6 Assignment: [DOC] [PDF] [HTML]

Week 6 Slides

Week 5: Late Assignment Reminder

This is a reminder to send me an email so I can let you know what assignments you need to hand in by next week. After this, I will begin docking 10% on any work submitted a week late and will not accept work that is more than one week past due unless you have a VERY good reason.

Week 5: Presentation Slides

As promised here are the slides for all the lectures so far. I saved these as PDF files as the powerpoint files were a bit too large to put up on the web.

Week 1
Week 2
Week 3
Week 4
Week 5

Week 5: Command Line, Part 2

This week we will continue our exploration of the basic commands needed to work with the command line on Linux. We will look at the permissions and ownership model used on UNIX systems and learn the associated commands.

The assignment for this week will be to finish the worksheet from last week. Questions 1-9 covered commands we learned in week 4, the remainder of the worksheet will cover this weeks material.

Finally, this week we will begin working on the term project. Details can be found in the usual formats: [DOC] [PDF] [HTML]