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I found this website while doing research for my CIT IS project. This is a government website that can provide people with the option to use an Occupational Outlook Handbook to look up a job or field he/she is interested in. It seems like it has every job I can think of. This is a great source I found. You can look up statistics of jobs and whether they are growing or not. I found it to be a big help with my project when I was searching for Network Administrators. It gave me a lot of insight into that career field. This is a great article for our class because we have all been working on our CIT IS projects. Most of us have been researching different jobs within the CIT field. This website will have what you are looking for. This Occupational Outlook Handbook can give us a good idea where each job is now and where that job will be down the road. This goes perfectly with our project. I think this site would be useful for any of us. It is a great way to research what you think you are interested in, and maybe decide whether you like that job or not. The amount of detail on this website for each job is incredible. This website was useful for me. It helped me out with my CIT IS project, and I think I will be using it in the future.

This article is a very interesting one for the computer geeks of the world and maybe even for government. Google is wanting to map out the inside of businesses and large buildings so that you can no only find your way to the building but the nearest door and which stair case to take and which hallway to turn down. Google is starting a new generation of maps online.   Government on the other hand might not like this. If you map out the inside of the building isn't that making it more accessible to terrorists to plan an attack or for thieves to plan and escape after a jewelry heist? Where will google go from there? Could this turn into and invasion of privacy?   What this means to the CIT majors is that almost anything is possible. If google can map out the indoors what is to stop us from doing anything? The sky.... The basement is our limit.

So have any of you ever considered building a new computer and not know what processor to get, and the best processor for the least amount of money? I found this article which helps clarify things immensely! This can relate to CIT because at some point, if we stay in this career plan, we will all need to know something about processors and their performance. It also proves a great source if you are just wanting to work on a project at home. It can definitely help you find the best deal for your dollar.

I chose to bookmark this website because I believe it can relate to many of us in the CIT major. I'm planning on focusing on network security, and I feel that this website helps to represent this interest. With the NSA coming to campus to show us internship opportunities I feel this network security training website fits right in with what is going on in todays computer world. This website gives training courses that can make you a better IT admin in charge of network security of a company, for the FBI, or even the NSA. I can't with for the NSA to visit to see what kind of career opportunities await us after Purdue.

I picked slashdot.org because...well...slashdot is for NERDS! GEEKS!!! Someone who might be in the Computer Information Technology learning community! LIKE ME! On a more serious note though, I picked slashdot because it involves people like the CIT learning community. We are nerds/geeks we know it, and love it. Slashdot is composed of authors that are IT gurus and love to talk about as what there title says, 'news that matters' which is straight and to the point.\n\nLike any good nerd we like to put in our two cents. Slashdot added a message board to reply to any post the authors make. The articles composed by Slashdot will always involve technology in someway. Whether it's a post on the internet's birthday or a post about how red hat enterprise linux 5.4 has been released. Slashdot has posts to the point for people like "us". Its not filled with clutter or garbage about stupid news about Jon and Kate + 43000, its news that MATTERS. Simple as that.\n

This is relevant to CIT because it just shows how bad ass an information system can be. The article is about a Soviet doomsday device, named Permiter that was built in 1985 to counteract "star wars."

This article details a new type of anti virus software currently being developed at Wake Forest University. The software uses small crawler programs called ants to identify worms so administrators can tackle the problem. This is relevant to CIT in that when we graduate we may be using this type of software as network admins. i like the fact that the programs are smaller than your normal antivirus software, and dont have to be loaded onto every computer. a single program can take care of an entire network.

Hey guy/gal reading Gizmodo instead of working: We're hiring a tech writer in NYC. You need some experience, but more importantly you should be able to write like mad and know and love/hate/understand technology. I'm posting again because...

For us, being CIT majors, the blue screen of death been a common mishap. Late night papers due first class period, or printing out that lab report the morning of its due date. " IT SUCKS! "A PROBLEM HAS BEEN DETECTED." What the hell just happened?" There are millions of ways that this problem can show its ugly face. It ranges from hardware to software. It is even our operating systems. So what causes this problem? When it comes to the application side of this terror it is due to programs using more memory then what should be allowed. So who is to blame? Those pesky programmers! Next we come to system crashes. Yes those are the ones that you run to mommy and dad for repair money. " There's a few reasons for that. A major reason", says Maximum PC Editor Maximus Will Smith, "is that Apple and Microsoft have spent a lot of time moving stuff that used to run at really low level, deep in the guts of the OS, up a few layers into the user space, so an application error that would've crashed a whole system by borking something at the kernel level just results in an annoying program-level hang up." What that means is, instead of crashing your whole computer, most application have a self destruct button which tells them application to shut down before your whole computer goes south. The easiest fix for this is to keep drivers up to date. So why are computers crashing less now? Well Apple and Microsoft have been embedding many brutally annoying "send error report" emails within many programs. This has led to many advancements and preventable maintenance on their part. With the new Windows 7, it has many programs to "feel" a problem about to happen, and limit that problem from happening. Yet, there will always be forces of nature causing hard drive problems, and the lazy operator ability to prevent dust from entering the system. So for as long as we wish to make advancement in hardware, programmers will always be there to embed program errors for us

And my second article -- http://gizmodo.com/5046345/a-complete-guide-to-watching-your-favorite-shows-legally-without-paying-a-dime I'm not sure if these articles are exactly disagreeing since there is such a time lag between when they came out, but there certainly is a difference in their theme. The first article is about Hulu's current situation in which it is inevitably heading towards payment requirements for its service. The second article is about Hulu's past, involving the free television that everyone has come to know any love. Personally, I wonder how Hulu can hope to exist with such a drastic change in its purpose. Before, its popularity was created by its free service and convenience. Will it really still have a niche when it introduces fees, even if they are competitive? Well, I guess the most that the average man can do is light a pyre in remembrance of a fond friend and go back to illegally downloading the things that Hulu allowed you to stream legally.

This article discusses a popular opinion poll discussing the possible repercussions of texting while driving. Although this article doesn't contain much scientific backing, its still extremely surprising to see what people think about texting while driving. I was incredibelly shocked when I read that 97% of those polled thought that texting while driving should be illegal. This number is so surprising to me because the act seems to be so prevalent these days. It feels like whenever your walking down the street, on a bus, or driving everyone around you has there eyes down as the stare at and type on the cell phone. I understand that some people are confident in their abilities to multitask, but lets face it some of the same confident people are just being delusional. I don't think everyone can handle this multitasking, as is evident by the amount of time I spend dodging around people that don't even notice me walking towards them. Beyond that statistic there are also several others that are worth taking a look at. Especially that 50 percent of those polled believe that texting while driving should have similar repercussions to drunk driving. To me this seems to be going a bit to far, but I do agree that there should probably be some punishment. But then again, I almost never use my cell phone, what do all of you think about this poll?

Producing fuel out of thin air sounds like a pipe dream, but a new process from a biofuel company promises to be able to turn CO2 and sunlight into fuel, and this is important to us as CIT majors because its just freaking cool and could change the world.

I chose this article because it relates to how technology these days is impacting how we learn the english language. The scary part is that fact that it's true. We are learning to be lazier everyday with twitter and FB taknig over our lives. Being alowed only 140 characters is making our society not have to think as hard and make it seem as tho less is still ok. Also, every student now has access to online papers and sparknotes to handle any writing or reading problem they may have. Today students can just dodge the work, then when it come back at them in the real world it will be a giant blow to their level of thinking.

This is so cool! Like it says, it explains how we all know too many video games can be harmful. Microsoft and leading scientists are trying to figure out how to use the Xbox 360 to help build a computer generated image of the human heart. Basically, while you're playing your games, you're checking to see how healthy your heart is at the same time! What an amazing break through!

This article describes how a modified game chip within an XBOX 360 can detect damaged cells around the heart to detect and prevent heart attacks. It's much cheaper and faster than using a supercomputer to create a 3D model. Video games seem to be the future of our medicine I chose this article because it can go hand in hand with our game night coming up this Friday. The fact that a video game console can save lives makes it seem as if anything is possible. When Guitar Hero is blazing and Wii Bowling is entering the final frame we can all say to ourselves yes, we are saving lives this night!

I chose this article because I think it can connect to literally almost everyone in the computer world and beyond. This article talks about how Facebook almost has as many users as the entire US population. According to their statistics, they gain 800,000 new accounts per day which is pretty insane. It seems like this is the first truly successful social networking site because it finally gained a profit and it hoping to keep that trend going through 2010. Facebook is here to stay for a while I think, and that's just fine with me.

With the class discussion I brought up about Style vs Shakespeare yesterday, it's only appropriate to give you all all the Shakespeare you could ever want. Check out any of these and try to apply style...

This is Google's preview page for Google Wave. Google wave is an up and coming collaboration technology that is being developed by Google. It allows for conversations to occur and grow in a nonlinear fashion. Conversation members can converse and add information to the wave as if they were instant messaging. They can also add images, links, and videos to further enrich the content. Then members can go back to old content and edit or correct it. This is just the basic premise behind Google Wave, there is a lot more information on this website. Personally, I think this is the future of conversational technology and will soon become the new standard. It appears that this will just be another phase in the evolution of human literature. Because of this it seemed natural to include this page on my Diigo bookmarks. I'm looking forward to seeing how writing and human speech adapts to this new technology.

This ultimately outlines the differences between Vista and Windows 7 and I'm inclined to agree that Windows 7 is a much superior option than Vista because it corrects many of the features that were flawed with Vista.

The internet chapter of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, a secret copyright treaty whose text Obama's administration refused to disclose due to "national security" concerns, has leaked. The article states that ISP's will now have to monitor their customers because they will now be liable if they download copyrighted material. If they are found to do so, they will be cut off from the internet. One person from a family could ruin it for everyone. This means that it will be impossible to run a service like Flickr or YouTube or Blogger, since hiring enough lawyers to ensure that the mountain of material uploaded every second isn't infringing will exceed any hope of profitability. I can't imagine this happening in the United States. I don't think it is possible to stop all of the copyright infringement. Lets hope this agreement doesn't happen any time soon.