After browsing through the MDAS website, i found out something weird. The website seems to be very up-to date but however, it doesn’t really have areas that is targeting to create awareness to the public. I even search on Facebook to see if they have sort of a group page and shockingly, there isn’t. As a public myself, i don’t even really know that such organization existed. So, something must be done to help create awaresness about MDAS.
MDAS research findings
February 11, 2010MDAS is a non-profitable organization that relies mostly on donations from other organizations and volunteering efforts from the public. They reach out to people with muscular dystrophy and help them overcome many daily challenges faced by them. How? They enrich their lives by teaching them life skills and enrichment programmes. Such of this programmes would be nurturing them with Adobe Photoshop skills, Web Design and etc..
Lecture (Guest Speaker)
December 30, 2009I learned that designing websites can earn us up to a range of 1k to 20k, depending on the design and concept.
Using web 2.0 has allowed many other widgets and application to work on today’s websites as compared to the previous old web 1.0. It’s now a 2 way communication as even the blogs today have tagboards and as for other forum, they have the comment section.
Starting as a freelance is more recommended for people who don’t commit. And if after you get the hang of being a freelance web designer, consider joining a company to obtain greater success.
The guy giving the lecture was young and from what we all heard, he is actually quite successful. He inspired me through his knowledge on web-related areas.
Having a guest speaker would definitely help people see that what we do in school is sort of like a training to prepare us for the real working world outside.
NATIONAL ARCHIVES
December 30, 2009NATIONAL ARCHVES & RECORDS ADMINISTRATION (NARA)
The National Archives was created in 1934. In the past, individual government agencies had to maintaining their own records. For that, only some took great care of the materials, but as for the many others, they did not.
The National Archives was established by the Congress in 1934 with the assistance of the Archivist of the United States as the chief of administrator.
In 1937, the Archivist of the United States reported that nearly 1,360,000 cubic feet of records could be transferred to the National Archives. The volume of records continued to grow as the World War II records poured in.
As for what the National Archives & Records Administration (NARA) is about, it’s the nation’s record keeper. It keeps records of important documents and other materials that are used in business.
When visiting the Archives, they provide services for us to find clues about your family history, also allowing us to find out more about a particular history event that interest you, for example the World World II, etc..
NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF SINGAPORE (NAS)
Singapore’s National Archives (NAS) was established in 1968. It was previously known as National Archives and Records Centre (NARC).
The NAS is a place where we store the memories of Singapore which allows future generation to know more and understand our different cultures and heritage. This memories include things from business documents to private memoirs and photographs to prove. Even i myself find this place a very useful source to know more about the Singapore’s history.
The services provided there consist of Records Management and Preservation, Providing Access, meaning allowing people to use the materials there to understand about certain issues. Also, they provide training and consultation. Seminars will also be held. Last but no least, Archives Conservation Service, by which means treatment to documents so as to conserve it better.
For the NAS, they have online exhibitions consisting of enhanced interactive multimedia to allow viewers learn through the click of the mouse.
Could the Web Run Out of Addresses By 2010?
November 5, 2009
http://mobitec.ie.cuhk.edu.hk/projects/IPv6/img/templogo2.jpg
Upgrading to a newer IP address would help save the world from running out of addresses by 2010. But, from the report released by the European Commission, states that only 17% of 610 institutions surveyed have upgraded from the IPv4 protocol to IPv6.
Based on the current statistics, the IPv4 that uses 34bit can only support up to around 4.3 billion unique addresses. And if we upgrade to the newer IPv6, we would then have no worries that the web would run out of addresses. This is so experts review that the IPv6 uses 128bit can support a possible range of billions more compared to the IPv4.
For information purposes, every website is given its unique IP address such as “56.128.175.15″ , which is then represented by our simple text based url such as “www.wordpress.com“.
With limited addresses left for IPv4, businesses and organizations will have no choice but to adopt the IPv6 format in the future. Also, the migration from IPv4 to Ipv6 requires some spending to ensure that systems using the old IPv4 format can interface with the new IPv6. If the consumers decide to adopt the IPv6 format, most probably they will also need to change their domestic set-ups which might be changing the broadband router.
New users are advised to adopt to the IPv6 rather then IPv4 so as to avoid problems that would be faced in the future when all consumers are upgrading to IPv6.
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