eScience Lectures Notes : COMP1710


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COMP1710 : Tools for New Media and the Web

Group Assignment due on the 19th of May 2006 (week 11)

You may deliver your submission in the DCS Assignment Box COMP1710 of the room N107 (ground floor) or to my office : N241 of the Building 108

This Week (12) : Last Lecture !
Come with your questions about and/or for the exam !

Final Exam : June 22 PM

Labs : https://cs.anu.edu.au/streams/

Gary Frontin, Rehabilitation Case Manager - "Prevention and Management of Occupational Overuse Syndrome"
Wednesday, 24 May, 2006 - 16:00:00 - 17:00:00 - CSIT Seminar Room, N...
Abstract: http://cecs.anu.edu.au/seminars/showone.pl?SID=194

6 unit course from the Department of Computer Science
2 hour lecture per week Tues 15:00 - 17:00 in CHEM T1
1 discussion/demo session in some weeks Monday 15:00 - 16:00 in PHYS T (DNF Dunbar Physics Lecture Theatre)
A little Ad for the course and its version for a machine without QuickTime !
Assumed Knowledge
Assessment / Assignment
Venue
Books
Links
Lecturer / Contact :  Pascal Vuylsteker
Lecture / Week Lecture Subject Readings / Exercises Handouts
1 / 1 Course organisation
  • Surf the Web
  • Chapter 1 (p6-30) of "Unusually useful web book"
  • No lab this week : register on Streams
html
2 / 1

The web and New Media, some context, history

html
disc / 1 No discussion this week
3 / 2 Web = Hypermedia + Internet / HTML
Internet : history and principles
html
4 / 2
disc / 2 Feedback, questions, What about MacOSX and the first lab ? Join the mentoring scheme  
5 / 3

HTML (1)

html
6 / 3 CSS html
disc / 3 VARK  
7 / 4 CSS
  • Readings : Chapter 4 (pp 44 to 64) of "Unusually useful web book" : Know Your Users.
  • Lab 3 : CSS
html
8 / 4

HTML Tables, Forms

html
disc / 4 Tom Worthington : Web Crisis Management Abstract:Web Disaster Management, Lecture slides  
9 / 5 Forms / The role of Digitisation / Compression / formats html
10 / 5 Images on the Web html
disc / 5 Canberra Day First look at the Assignment : fill the declaration form  
11 / 6

Images on the Web

Video

  • Readings : Chapter 8 (pp 155 to 169) of "Unusually useful web book" : Understanding Design Technologies.
    Be critical of what you read : some part are outdated.

  • Lab 5: Images on the Web

html

html

12 / 6
disc / 6 Discuss the assignment and first chapters of the text book Assignment due on the 19th of May 2006 - fill the group form  
13 / 7

JavaScript

Monday session ; slow introduction to javascript with some examples. Be there if you haven't done any programming

Cf Readings

Some examples

14 / 7
disc / 8 QuickTimeVR and similar, panoramic images  Main Lecture on Monday this week !!!
html
15 / 8 Anzac Day : The Tuesday lecture will be spread on week 8 an 9 Monday sessions  
16 / 8
17 / 9

ManyPage

html
18 / 9

Architecture for a web site, Basic Navigation, notion of Template. Links and meta tags in the HTML HEAD

disc / 9 QuickTimeVR and similar,panoramic images    
disc / 10 Monday session, the 8th of May : Special Assignment Come with your question  
19 / 10

Cookies : Back to Javascript

The Web Wizard's guide to Javascript
20 / 10

Galerie template

Various : Sound and Spam

html
21 / 11 "WEB SERVERS" by Eric McCreath (pdf) Design and usability by Jacob Nielsen pdf 4slides/page
22 / 11 PHP, MySQL   pdf
23 / 11 XML, XHTML, XLST, RSS / Design and usability by Jacob Nielsen

Top Ten Web Design Mistakes of 2005
Top Ten Mistakes in Web Design
Weblog Usability: The Top Ten Design Mistakes
Ten Good Deeds in Web Design

pdf
24 / 12 Web 3D : VRML, X3D and Others / Some clues about the final exam   html
25 / 13 No more lectures  

The course starts on Tuesday the 21st of February 2006 in CHEM T1 (Building 34)


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COMP1710 .... Tools for New Media and Web

Week 1 :

Course : the organisation

Course : the subject : the web and the New Media, some context, History

Next Monday Discussion : MacOSX and the first lab : Survival Kit
Planning Your Site

Enrolment into the labs : use of streams

Access lab form to be filled

DCS Seminar : "A Systems Architecture Approach to the Brain: From Neurons to Consciousness"

Andrew Coward (Visiting Fellow, DCS)
DATE: 2006-02-22
TIME: 16:00:00 - 17:00:00
LOCATION: CSIT Seminar Room, N101

ABSTRACT:
It can be demonstrated on system theoretical grounds that any system which learns to perform many behavioural features with limited information handling resources is constrained within a set of bounds called the recommendation architecture by the requirement to find a compromise between the need to conserve physical information handling resources and the need to learn without severe interference with earlier learning.
Overall architecture, the definition of modules and components, and even device algorithms are all constrained, with the severity of the constraints increasing as the ratio of features to resources increases. Algorithms widely used in artificial neural networks cannot be used in some major subsystems of the recommendation architecture.
There are strong resemblances between the physical forms of a system within the recommendation architecture bounds and the physiology of the human brain including separations between and functions of the cortex, hippocampus, thalamus, basal ganglia, cerebellum, hypothalamus and amygdala; the internal organization of the cortex into layers, columns and areas; and the topology and synaptic algorithms of neurons. Detailed psychological observations of a wide range of cognitive phenomena, including semantic, episodic, working and procedural memory; processes such as arithmetic; the deficits resulting from physical damage; and sleep with dreaming can be modelled in a physiologically plausible manner by a system within the recommendation architecture bounds.
Learning can be bootstrapped from experience with minimal and plausible a priori information. Many phenomena labelled "conscious" can be modelled in terms of physiology. Electronic systems within the recommendation architecture bounds confirm the capabilities of the architecture and point the way to implementation of systems with human like cognitive capabilities.


BIO:
Andrew was employed by Nortel Networks as a system designer and architect in the design of extremely complex real time control telecommunications systems from 1969 to 1999, and participated in successful projects to design and introduce commercially successful state of the art systems with up to 20 million lines of code and custom integrated circuit based hardware.
While still employed as a system architect, he wrote a book on understanding the brain as a system, introducing a novel cognitive architecture. He subsequently obtained a US patent for system architectures which can learn to manage a complex telecommunications network based on the cognitive architecture. Since 1999 he has been full time in academic research into cognitive systems, most recently as a research fellow at the Australian National University.
His new book, "A Systems Architecture Approach to the Brain: from Neurons to Consciousness", was published December 12th 2005 and will be introduced at this seminar.


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COMP1710 .... New Tools for New Media and Web

Week 2 :

Lectures

To do outside the lectures

About Lab 1 and next labs

Internet : history and principles

( HTML : not done that week )

About Last Week

COMP2410/COMP6340 Networked Information Systems 2006 (Instead of COMP3340)

COMP1710 instead of comp1100 in some special circumstances

Books

See "Unusually ..." online when you are within the ANU : http://safari.informit.com/0735712069

How did I find it ? http://books.google.com/

Lab : a new time slot available :

Practical on Friday at 11:00 - 13:00 in Karmel 1 (2.28)

Labs : Register in Streams : https://cs.anu.edu.au/streams/

About the mail usage ...

You will not receive mail from me every week

I do not answer to all my mail individually. I may either use group mail or answer during the following lecture.

 

 


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COMP1710 .... New Tools for New Media and Web

Week 3 :

Lectures

To do outside the lectures

HTML

 

VARK

Some questions/comments :

Lab 1 : Simple ? Yes, very, just  a warm up, but ...

Next lab ... HTML

 


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COMP1710 Tools for New Media and the Web

Week 4 :

Lectures

To do outside the lectures

CSS

Table

Form

WebHosting

About Last week lab

Come to the labs prepared ! When you arrive in the lab, you are expected

And ask questions during the lecture if you think you will not even know how to start the lab.

During the lab ...

Do not ask your tutor to fix your issue : ask him to help you to learn how to fix your issue by yourself.

Convention


About the labwork itself...

anchor name : no space, alphanumeric characters

You get

  1. a list

  2. with numbers

  3. by using <OL><LI> xsdfsd </LI><LI>sdfsdf</LI></OL> structure

From home to text 1 : valid, but ... <li><a href="../LAB2_uXXXXXXX/story1/text1.html">page one</a></li>

Name Surname : <<a href="mailto:uxxxx@anu.edu.au">uxxxx@anu.edu.au</a>>
sould be &lt;<a href="mailto:uxxxx@anu.edu.au">uxxxx@anu.edu.au</a>&gt;

I know when you have been using dreamweaver ...

<a href="file://localhost/Volumes/USERS/page2">page2</a>
Will work only on your machine

<TITLE>INDEX.html</TITLE>

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Back to <a href="index.html">Home Page</a>

A Matrix look and feel : green text on black background...

Where does that come from ?
Monochrome Display : green, orange, and sometime white on black background ...

The defaut configuration on first web browsers was black text on light grey background

One of my lecturers (in Maths !) use to explain to its students that after years of marking exams, he realised that statically, paper written in black on yellow background would get better scores ...


What I learnt from last year lab ...

Mexican

A Victorian

Krikey!

What a stralian crocodile hunter say when he nearly gets his arm bitten off

Mate

An Austrlian word for friend

Canadian

Queenslander

didjavagooweegend

was your weekend break satisfactory?

Wife-Beater

A tank top - usually made of blue cotton

Harold

salt, from the rhyming slang of Harold Holt (a previous prime minister of Australia)

Bugger Off

Expression of Desire to be rid of a nearby person

A Shout

What stralians call buying the round of drinks at a table. EG: "This rounds my shout".
Also; What a stralian does to a mate thats done something good. EG: "I'll shout that one mate".

The story of the Drop bear

Drop bears are known to hang around in trees in the Northern Territory. They wait around in trees for small animals, such as wombats, to pass under their tree. Then they drop down from the tree onto the face of the animal, ripping it off.

Bugger

What a 'stralian says when he realises he should be panicking

Dropbear

Similar to a slightly oversized, dangerous koala bear. Often seen by people who believe it is possible to pat sharks.

Nothing

What women say when they want you to leave them alone but feel guilty

And lots of other Drop bear stories...

I guess I know them now...

As useless (?) web site

http://www.superbad.com/

 


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COMP1710 Tools for New Media and the Web

Week 5 :

Lectures

To do outside the lectures

Forms

The role of Digitisation

Images on the Web

Question from last week

What is the difference between HTML and CSS ?

Last year comments on last week's lab :

Meaningful title in your web page

different title for the pages with and without CSS

Meaninful name for your class

Not connected to the look of the design you use for your version of the document
.red vs .important     or worse : ".style14"

At least, use comments in your style sheet

Structure the content first ... and then use the structure

<dt class="orange">G'day</dt> vs dt {  }

<i> and <b> are like <font> : they should disapear from your code !

difference between <div> and <span>

Be carreful to your suffix when and save your document

changes.css.txt vs changes.css

<Table align = "center" width = "50%" border = "2" ></Table>  Vs  <hr align="center" width="50%" size="2">  Vs CSS ...

 

 

 


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COMP1710 Tools for New Media and the Web

Week 6 : Assignment due on the 19th of May 2006 - fill the group form

"List 5 ANU building by their number (108 for instance), in decreasing preference order."

Already declared Working Group / Subjects / Student looking for a "binome".

Lectures

To do outside the lectures

Image

Video


Next Week  : Javascript
Next Monday : slow introduction to javascript with some examples

  • Readings : Chapter 8 (pp 155 to 169) of "Unusally useful web book" : Understanding Design Technologies.
    Be critical of what you read : some part are outdated, especially about frames !

  • Lab 5 : Images on the Web

General advice

Use online bookmark managers

Announcements

"Two of Canberra's leading interactive players have announced a competition sure to intrigue the region's amateur and professional game programmers and artists. Seeing Machines and the Academy of Interactive Entertainment (AIE) are hosting a competition to develop ideas into working examples of how new 'eye toy' type technology can be used to enhance interaction in games."
More at <http://www.tomw.net.au/screenact/2006/03/cutting-edge-games-competition-public.html>.

Podcasting and the end of the Myth of Live Broadcasting

Tom Worthington, Director of Communications Technologies (The Australian Computer Society )
DATE: 2006-03-29
TIME: 16:00:00 - 17:00:00
LOCATION: CSIT Seminar Room, N101

ABSTRACT:
Podcasting is the distribution of media files using web based syndication to handheld devices. Tom Worthington will outline how it works, discuss some of the public policy issues it raises and ask for input to the ACS's policy on digital broadcasting. To the IT professional, Podcasting is a simple application XML technology to digitized audio (the ANU already supplies students with the digital audio of lectures). However, while technically simple, podcasting raises public policy issues: is it broadcasting? how and should it be regulated? how and who makes money from it?

BIO:
Tom Worthington is an independent information technology consultant and Visiting Fellow in the Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology at the Australian National University. He is Director of Communications Technologies for the Australian Computer Society, and was elected a Fellow of the Society in 1999 for his contribution to the development of public Internet policy.

Labs : From This week new way to submit your work :

About previous lab

Submissions should be self contained

(I found lots of broken links pointing towards a page in a previous lab ...)

<a href="../LAB2_U3011436/demo.html">Go to non-CSS version</a>

No more "font" tags ...

<dt><font class="fontbrown">G'Day</font></dt>

Should be

<dt class="definition">G'Day</dt>

Some confusion between class type selector and tag type selector

<style>
Header1 {
font-family: Arial, san-serif;
font-size: 1.5em;
text-align: center
}

body {
background-color: #99FF33
}
</style>
</head>

<body>
<Header1>This is the demo Page</Header1>
<P>

Try the validator time to time ... http://validator.w3.org/

No need for "&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;& ... nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;" thanks to CSS ...

<a href="/Volumes/u4444444/COMP 1710/Lab/LAB2_U4444444/index.html">Home Page</a>


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COMP1710 Tools for New Media and the Web

Week 7 :

Lectures

To do outside the lectures

JavaScript

Monday session ; slow introduction to javascript with some examples


After the break : Anzac Day so Tuesday will be on Monday !

The Tuesday lecture will be spread on week 8 an 9 Monday sessions

Python for Teaching and Creating 3D Graphics
Hugh Fisher (Computer science, ANU)
DATE: 2006-04-05
TIME: 16:00:00 - 17:00:00
LOCATION: CSIT Seminar Room, N101

ABSTRACT:
A rapidly prototyped talk about using Python for rapid development of 3D models and animation. The current state of py3d, a Python package that has been slowly developing over the past few years into a useful tool for 3D modelling and animation. Some opinions on Python vs Java for teaching and distributing software.

About Lab 5

labs are worth %25 of your marks

virtual.anu.edu.au

You do not send 6 Mb of work by mail !!!


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COMP1710 Tools for New Media and the Web

Week 8 :

Lectures

To do outside the lectures

Panoramic Images / QuickTime VR

About the assignment

"How and where do I get the informations from ?"

This is what building a website is really about most of the time : collecting information !

Lab 5 and 6

Digression on size of images and objects

200 kbps, 3-5 s ... 75 - 125 kB for the file + all the images

An inline image should never reach the size of 1 MB

Any link that point to something more than 1 MB should see the size announced

Ex download the report (pdf 1.5MB) ... Get the full size image (jpeg 2.3 MB)

Interlaced imaged ... longer time are tolerable

The size is not the only thing ... the number of inline images is important too.

DCS system

on the DCS system (partch, iwaki, liskov) ...Most students will have a quota of 100MB, with a "hard" limit of 128MB and
7 days "grace".

partch issue had been fixed, but remember that you may use iwaki instead, for ftp to liskov


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COMP1710 Tools for New Media and the Web

Week 9 :

Lectures

To do outside the lectures

ManyPage and CMS

Next Monday session, the 8th of May : Special Assignment : Come with your questions

Where to find images : on The Oracle, and ...

http://escience.anu.edu.au/lecture/comp1710/lab/assignmentS106/040909_ANUCampus/

Lab 6 and 7 submission

Lab 7 :

First experience with programming = ( or == ?) first experience with debugging

lesson 0 : start with writing clean HTML

lesson 1 : don't just cut and paste existing scripts : understand them

lesson 2 : don't postpone the debugging to the end : test every "noticeable" modification that you enter into your page

lesson 3 : divide and conquer

copy and paste or comment out

window.alert("I went there");

normally, you don't need debugger for that size of program but if you want some help ...

-Use a syntax colouring text editor

- Both Firefox And Mozilla propose a good Javascript debugger
You'll find them in the COMP1710 directory on pebble

Final Exam : Thursday, 4 November 2004, 14:15 / 14:30 / 17:30

Permitted materials: One A4 page with handwritten notes on both sides

Have a look at the rules : http://timetable.anu.edu.au/exams/notes3.asp


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COMP1710 Tools for New Media and the Web

Week 10 :

Lectures

To do outside the lectures

Various : Sound and Spam

Cookies + Galerie Template

  • Chapter 7 of The Web Wizard's guide to Javascript

  • Last Lab : Lab 9 : Sound + Galerie's template

This Week : Last Monday session and Last lab

Final Exam : June 22 PM

You may deliver your submission in the DCS Assignment Box COMP1710 of the room N107 (ground floor) or to my office : N241 of the Building 108


Web Standards Group : WSG

http://webstandardsgroup.org/meetings/index.cfm?event_id=56

May meeting (Canberra)
Date: Thursday 11 May, 2006
Topic: Sahana disaster management system
Who: Tom Worthington
Topic: Web patterns
Who: John Allsopp


When: Thursday 11 May
Time: 3.00 pm - 5.00 pm (please arrive by 2.45 to register with security, even earlier if you need to find a car park)
Where: Bunker Theatre, Department of the Environment and Heritage, John Gorton Building, King Edward Tce, Parkes, ACT 2600
RSVP: gavin.dispain@deh.gov.au (very important to speed up the sign in process)

Danny Butt - "Internet Governance: The Clash of Cultures"

Wednesday, 17 May, 2006 - 16:00:00 - 17:00:00 - CSIT Seminar Room, N101
Abstract: http://cecs.anu.edu.au/seminars/showone.pl?SID=193


Monday session : Question about the assignment

Task 2.6 states that video cameras are not the only source of video.
What does this mean?

You can produce a video in iPhoto by moving or zooming in a image.

Task 2.8 states to describe the organisatin/structure of the web site.
Does this mean a hierarchical tree diagram?

Yes, but with the right balance : you don't need everything

Task 2.9 states a navigational menu for all pages is needed in thesite. Does this refer to frames or organised links within the website?

I would prefer not to see frame, which bring bad Karma according to web usability rules.
The notion of the navigational menu are exposed here :
http://localhost/lecture/comp1710/ManyPage/browsing.en.html
http://localhost/lecture/comp1710/ManyPage/browsing.sum.en.html
and
http://localhost/lecture/comp1710/ManyPage/navigation.en.html
See Chapter 6 of the text book for more details

The idea is that all the pages should offer a similar set of tools (navigational and not)


W e have access to a video camera but do not have access to a firewire cable to transfer the video to the computer. Would it be possible to borrow one? and how would we go about doing this?

The package you can borrow from Pam contains the firewire cable. So use your video camera for more freedom, and borrow the package from Pam when you need to transfer your video.
If you were not there when I did the demonstration of the video, come on Monday and I'll do it ag

 

I want the header graphic of each page to be centre aligned. I've
called this up in a <div> but it doesn't align as intended.
Here's a sample of the code in the HTML:
<div class="pageheader" align="center">
<img src="images/home.jpg">
</div>
And in the CSS:
.pageheader
{
width: 800px;
position: relative;
top: 20px;
}


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COMP1710 Tools for New Media and the Web

Week 11 :

Lectures

To do outside the lectures

"WEB SERVERS" by Eric McCreath

PHP, MySQL

XML, XHTML, XLST, RSS

About ....

Javascript :

This is a great tool for the Web (Cf AJAX technology used in Googlemaps), but in the context of COMP1710, it is just a first, light immersion in the world of programming.
I want you to have a look at it, get an idea of what programming could bring to the web, and get you excited enough to enrol in COMP1710 to learn more on programming in general.
Show that you are able to use some sort of javascript in your code (and understand its purpose, 'readind' some code), and you will have reach the minimal target for COMP1710.
You may then of course keep exploring the subject for yourself.


Danny Butt - "Internet Governance: The Clash of Cultures"

Wednesday, 17 May, 2006 - 16:00:00 - 17:00:00 - CSIT Seminar Room, N101
Abstract: http://cecs.anu.edu.au/seminars/showone.pl?SID=193


The Internet is for everyone! Various (The Internet Society of Australia)

DATE: 2006-05-22
TIME: 17:30:00 - 19:00:00
LOCATION: CSIT Seminar Room, N101

ABSTRACT:
The Internet Society of Australia is holding a free public discussion meeting on Monday 22 May 2006 in Canberra for anyone interested in the Internet, personally or professionally - please pass this invitation on.
After a brief presentation on IPv6 and Internet activities, we will discuss current Internet issues, needs and directions. The aim is to foster public knowledge and input into Internet development and Internet Society policy.
This meeting is supported by the Commonwealth Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts - see reports of earlier meetings at http://www.isoc-au.org.au/TCCM/


The final Exam ...

What does it look like ?

About one question per hour of lecture.

Could you put an example (such as the past one) of the final exam on web ?

No, guessing the question is part of the learning experience.

One thing your should remember after that first semester at the university ...

University is not about learning answers, it is about being proposed to ask the right question and learn how to find your own, right, answer.

Learning :

Exam preparation :

For next week : bring back some questions for the exam !


Network Downtime, Saturday 20 May : from 6.30 am to 6 pm

Group Assignment due on the 19th of May 2006 (2 free marks) or up to the 24th of May (normal 35 marks)

Students should note in particular that commons file spaces, which would
include files of any assignments they may be currently working on, as
well as major applications such as WebCT, will not be available during
the outage. Consequently

From: stafflist.coord@anu.edu.au
Subject: [Staff.all] Network Downtime, Saturday 20 May
Date: 16 May 2006 11:06:58
To: staff.all@anu.edu.au, students.all@anu.edu.au
Reply-To: Stafflist.coord@anu.edu.au
You may have read the notice about the network downtime scheduled for
next Saturday (20th May) on staff and student home pages. The purpose
of this notice is to let you know the reasons for needing such a lengthy
downtime (from 6.30 am to 6 pm) and the measures taken to ameliorate its
impact.
The University has implemented a fully redundant network and server
system to ensure that all enterprise level applications are at world's
best levels of reliability. An important component of the system is an
uninterruptible power sub-system. An extraordinary failure of this
sub-system has led to an emergency response aimed at restoring all
services. The response involves installing a new sub-system, a step
which in turn involves disconnecting our networks and servers for about
12 hours on the 20th.
To assist those who might otherwise have used the commons environment
during the outage, the Chifley Library will be open for extended hours,
as follows, on both Saturday evening and Sunday morning:
*Saturday: 1 pm to 10 pm (note network services will come
onstream progressively from 6 pm)
*Sunday: 10 am to 10 pm
Other Libraries will keep normal weekend opening hours.
Students should note in particular that commons file spaces, which would
include files of any assignments they may be currently working on, as
well as major applications such as WebCT, will not be available during
the outage. Consequently, should students wish to work on these files
at home, in their rooms or in other environments during the outage,
copies of those files should be made well before the outage commences on
Saturday morning at 6.30 am.John McGee
Head, Networks and Communications
Division of Information
Leonard Huxley Building (No. 56)
The Australian National University
Canberra ACT 0200
Australia
Tel. 61 2 6125 4216
John.McGee@anu.edu.au


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COMP1710 .... New Tools for New Media and Web

Week 12:

Lectures

To do outside the lectures

 

  • Chapter  of "Design For New Media"

  • Lab

Last week :

various :