11/29/2013 - Practicum Blog

So today I spent the day working on the order that I currently have and I think I'll have it done by Monday or Tuesday now. Currently I have around 42 of the desktops ready but I can only Burn-In around 12 each day so depending if I run into some issues with some of the remaining desktops I should have them all done no later than Tuesday.

One issue I had today was 2 of the desktops were not wanting to take power at all, so naturally I assume the power supply is no good and put in ones that works, and It just so happens that was the problem and got them running again.

I'm absolutely loving it here and I look forward to each day because there is always something new to keep me busy. As soon as I'm done my order I get a new one right away so I'm always working and getting experience. I'll more than likely do my second practicum here as well, I don't see why I wouldn't. So yeah that was my day today, I'll inform you all how things go on Monday!

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11/28/2013 - Practicum Blog

When I arrived this morning I had 12 desktops that were doing a Burn-In over night so I got those out of the way and got new ones in there places. The Burn-Ins is whats going to make this a long order but I should have them all done by Wednesday I'm hoping. But this is what I like doing I'm getting a lot of hands on work and some troubleshooting skills along the way, so that's always good.


Tomorrow is going to be the same thing, more Burn-Ins and adding hardware, really hoping I can finish Wednesday so I can start my next order. Overall this place is great, I'm loving it there and I'm enjoying each day :)

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11/27/2013 - Practicum Blog

Today when I arrived I packaged up my order from yesterday and got that all done and out of the way, then I got right into my next order. This order calls for 60 super upgraded desktops, and all I had to do was pull out the old HDD, put in a new one and add 4GB of RAM to them. Seeing as the order calls for 60 desktops I was pretty much doing hands on work all day, which I love!

So after lunch I hooked up 8 desktops to do a Burn-In test on them and went right back into upgrading desktops since Burn-Ins take 3 hours per PC. here's a picture of the desktops I'm working with,



This was pretty much my entire day, and it will probably be working on them all tomorrow too since its such a big order.

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11/26/2013 - Practicum Blog

So today was day two of my practicum and it was really good, I started off with my two orders right away which was setting up five upgraded laptops to be shipped, and my other order was to inspect and clean thirty 19" screens. I got the five laptops done quick today because I did most of the work on them yesterday.

I did manage to get the thirty screens ready too just before the day ended so tomorrow I'll have to package them and they will be done. Then I have to get some new orders so its going to be a mystery tomorrow because I have no idea what I'll be doing. My supervisor told me that he wants to get me some server experience but I have no idea when I'll be doing that. I hope soon :)


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11/25/2013 - Practicum Blog

Today was the first day of my practicum and it actually went really well and I enjoyed it! I'm currently doing my practicum at Computers for Schools B.C which is a non profit organization that supplies computers for libraries, schools and ect. These are a couple pictures of what the place looks like.
















The back area is pretty big warehouse where all the computers/monitors/printers are stored. It looks a lot bigger in person. So once I got there in the morning I was given an order right away. I had to get 5 laptops and make sure that they have the specs that are requested in the order. It took me pretty much all day to get all 5 ready to be shipped because I had to put in the appropriate hardware in them and then do a Burn-In test and install Win7 onto them. While the laptops were doing their thing I started my next order of 30 monitors, which is a pretty simple order, you just have to clean them and make sure that that actually work so its not hard at all, just time consuming. So that was pretty much my first day and I'll inform you guys what I do in tomorrow blog


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11/20/2013 - Blog

Today was our last day in class pretty much since are we starting our practicums tomorrow, so we spent the majority of the class working on our study notes and just doing a few little catch up assignments to get in some last minute marks.

After break we had a little task where we had to make some flashcards and put on some questions on them and then later we asked the class a question on one of our cards. I had some basic ones like what is "CLI" and if anyone doesn't know THIS will tell you everything about it,

I'll be starting my practicum on Tuesday so I'll start my practicum blogging then,

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Late Blog Post -

Here I am doing some old tasks we had to do the past 2 months, The first one will be about my 7.1 Paint setup. The picture explains it all!

This is the Sound Card That I chose for a previous Task-

Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium HD 24-bit 192KHz PCI Express x1 Interface Sound Card powered by THX TruStudio Pro Price: 159.99$

11/19/2013

Today in class we had our last Final, which was Living Online and I was told it was the hardest one so I was a little nervous coming to class, but I did manage to get a passing grade. I just have to pass my re-takes on Friday and I'll be set

After break we finally managed to get all the networking figured out and we played Risk II for a little while which was a lot of fun haha. Other than that the majority of the day consisted of the test and more review.


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11/18/2013 - Blog

Today in class, we started off right away with our IC3 Exam, I felt like I struggled more with Excel than I did with Access which is strange because I feel more confident in Excel. I unfortunately was like 3% away from getting a passing grade so I'm going to have to take a re-test which I don't mind doing.

After that we got right back into our study notes and working on the practice tests to prepare us for the finals in January. I don't mind spending the days doing review because its only going to benefit us. After break we worked on our networking task where we have to get 9 computers in a single game, but we were having issues with the wireless card drivers, but we got them and now we only need 2 more PCs working and we'll be able to play!

If anyone is curious how to network bridge I recommend THIS, This will help you figure it out

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11/15/2013 - Blog

So today in class we had our first final exam, and even after all the review we've been doing and all the studying I'm doing at home, I feel like I could have done better. I did manage to get a better mark than what I was getting on the practice exams, but I still feel like I can get a higher mark. I'm really going to study this weekend so I can be happy with my mark on the next final on Monday.

We spent the majority of the class doing review and finishing those study tests which I'm happy we did. After break we tried something new where we tried setting up the LAN so we can have all of the students playing in the same RISK game but unfortunately we ran out of time and didn't get to do so.


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09/30/2013 - Late Posts

This day we had to spend the gift cards to purchase 2 video cards, this is what I picked out




And this is my Meme Projector Power Point

11/13/2013 - Blog

Today in class we started to review from our IC3 book to get us ready for the upcoming finals. We have our first one this Friday which I'm really going to have to study for because I would really like to get a good mark on it. We spent some time printing out more labels with all the names on separate labels which was pretty easy since we have done this before.

After break we were each given small tasks to go do, and I got the one to configure the
wireless modem. It took me a bit to figure out but now I find it easy, I just had to reset the modem, change the SSID and the encryption to what the task asked, and that was it. THIS was what I used it and was easy to use, so i recommend this to anyone who needs help on setting up your Dlink Router.

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11/12/2013 - Blog

Today in class we started off with presenting the posters, my topic was RAM. I'm glad I had this topic because I found out a lot more about RAM that I didn't previously know. One neat thing I found out about RAM is, Say you have a computer with 16 GB of RAM and you have a 32 bit OS, the computer will only address up to 4GB with a 32 bit OS, you have to have a 64 bit OS to address the full amount of RAM. I didn't know this but I'm glad I do now

Near the end of the day we started on coding. I have zero experience with coding so I found this a little tricky, Greg's got us off on something fairly easy to start off with and  THIS is one of the many programs that we're using. Its really simple to get it ready so I recommend it to anyone thats curious to try it.

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11/08/2013 - Blog

So today in class we did some IDS preparation, we spent some time asking everyone some questions that could be asked during our IDS powerpoint presentation, as well as answering those questions. I personally need to work on talking about myself, because I'm not so great at it. After that we worked on the actual powerpoint that will be presented.

One task we did was to 'break' a computer for someone in the class to fix it, I don't know a bunch of ways with keeping someone locked out, only the basics, but I was going more towards locking someone out so that they HAVE to use a certain tool that Greg is wanting us to utilize. Just in case you guys forgot or maybe this is a hint to how to fix my compaq, I suggest giving THIS a read over.

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11/07/2013 - Blog

Today we started off with a video project, we each yelled out what topic of IT we would like to make a 1 minute video of, and I chose Hardware. I had fun doing this and I look forward to seeing the finished video that our group came up with.

After that we took some time into creating a reset disk to where we can reset passwords for XP machines, I didn't manage to get it downloaded in time because it was gonna take an hour plus, but I've took some time into reading the steps online, so If anyone is needing help with this please take a look at THIS

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11/06/2013 - Blog

So today in class we started off with working on the compaqs making sure they all had a running copy of Win XP, After that we started with some notes on Virtualization, we played with a few programs to get an idea of what it does, and personally, I don't think I'll use this myself, but it's certainly a good thing to know about because there are a lot of instances where it will be extremely useful.

We were also given a task where we had to give our reason for why a company shouldn't use the setup they were using and my answer to that is.. I wouldn't because if a single computer went down, all the others would suffer for it, You would have to have a extremely good PC for it to handle that kind of work.

After the notes and break, we started a project where we will have to do a 5 minute presentation about a certain part of a PC, I chose RAM, I'm pretty confident I can ramble on for 5 minutes about RAM so I'm not too worried.

I'm not 100% with Virtualization so I took some time into researching more about it and I came across THIS,  I can't say this made me understand it completely but it did help me a little bit, so maybe it will for you too!

11/05/2013 - Blog

So today we didn't have our regular class, it was our WHMIS day, we spent a good 4 hours reviewing and talking about what WHMIS is and what to do when we encounter a situation when we are around hazardous materials. After we did our review we started with the test. I'm pretty sure I did fine because there was only a couple questions that stumped me but I manage to get a answer written down. We'll have to wait and see till next week if we passed and get out WHMIS certification.

Today was also picture day, Greg did not mention this to us! haha but I didn't mind. After class Curtis, Brandon and I worked on our IDS project and managed to get another class filmed, and for the most part, we got it done fairly quick.

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11/04/2013 - Blog

So today in class we started off with a practice exam which I was not ready for at all, I did manage to do better than I expected but I'll definitely have to study before the real exam. After the exam we took notes on Securing Computers and talked about polices and securing your computer. These are some policies that I found that would be useful to implement.

1. Maximum password age.
2. Minimum password age.
3. Minimum password length
4. Password must keep complexity requirements
5. Store passwords using reversible encryption

They are pretty self explanatory and I'm sure know why you would want to think about enabling them. After notes we spent the remaining time of class playing around with our compaqs where we had to lock them to stop unwanted users accessing them. Curtis and I found out a neat little trick on how to disable the BIOS password which is extremely good to know :)

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11/1/2013 - Blog

Today was our final day with IC3, we finished lesson 16 which was about finding information online. We spent a good amount of time doing browser related searches which I found kinda entertaining. We also spent a little time on Ergonomics where Bryce and I got to point out the discrepancies of our computer lab, which I think it was pretty easy to do lol.

Near the end of the day we had a good ol debate, the debate was basically about Ultrabooks vs Giant laptops, I'm not going to go into details but our group (Ultrabook) won

We also had to do this task where we have to choose a specific license for our company and explain why, and show the other companies we'll have to out play. This is what I came up with,


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