Thursday, December 11, 2014

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This is a network diagram that I made in Prezi for my IC3 course.

Tuesday, November 4, 2014

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Document Merge Project



            In this project, I pulled information directly from my Excel spreadsheet and merged the data directly to my Word document.  I created the data in the spreadsheet using generatedata.com.  Below is a link to my final merged document as well as the Excel spreadsheet that I got my information from. 




Tuesday, October 21, 2014

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PowerPoint Performance Assessment


PowerPoint is used to create electronic presentations on a series of slides that when put together, create a cohesive project.  PowerPoint can be used for word processing, drawing, simple animations, charting, outlining, and presentation management.  It creates clean, professional looking projects that have a lot of room for personal design.  I created this presentation to demonstrate the things that I have learned while working with PowerPoint.  The PowerPoint that I created includes a 3-D object, two custom font that I uploaded to my presentation, a custom background, an animation using PowerPoint's animation tools, transitions between slides, and animations within slides,  and a list of fonts and colors that I used while making the PowerPoint.  Below is a downloadable link to the PowerPoint template I created.





Creative Commons License
Jenna's PowerPoint is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Tuesday, October 7, 2014

11:09 AM Posted by Unknown 1 comment

Computer Interface Project

        An interface is where two independent systems can meet and interact with each other.  In this computer interface project, we focused on the hardware interface. We looked at how wires, plugs, and sockets are used to connect different hardware devices.  There are many different types of hardware interfaces for connecting external devices to a computer, the most common being the USB.  A USB can be used to connect printers, cameras, flash drives, music players, auxiliary cords, and optical drives.  Other common connectors include SATA cables and HDMI cables.






1. Molex connector
2. The connecter is named after the company who designed it, Molex.  
3. A molex connector ia a two-piece pin and socket interconnection, usually used as a disk drive connector.
4. Molex connectors are designed to carry a large current, up to 11A per pin


1. Sata cable
2. Serial Advanced Technology Attachment
3. A connector cable for connecting computers to outside storage devices
4. SATA cables can transfer data at a rate of 1.5 Gbit/s, 3 Gbit/s, or 6 Gbit/s

1. Gateway Support K
2. Gateway Support
3. Used for all IDE devices, mainly hard drives or cd drives
4. Up to 16MB/s

1. PSWD Jumper
2. Password override jumper
3. Remove the jumper and join the center pin to the opposite pin
4. No data transfer rate/other versions

1. Pin Fan
2. Called Pin Fan because it connects to the fan and it has pins
3. Connects to fan
4. There are two different versions, 3 pin fans and 4 pin fans.  The 4th pin in the 4 pin fan controls the speed
1. USB 3.0 b
2. Universal Serial Bus
3. It allows connection for things to go into computer or devices
4. 100 MBps

1. Jumper
2. It “jumps” over different pins
3. Conductor used to break in, open, or bypass part of an electrical circuit
4. Only one version



1. Sata Power
2. Serial Advanced Technology Attachment
3. Cable that transports a direct current of power into something
4. 3.0 Gbit/s




1. USB type A&B
2. Universal Serial Bus
3. It allows connection for things to go into computer or devices
4. 12 Mbps, 480 Mbps, or 10 Gbps
1. PATA Cable
2. Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment cable
3. Required for the connection of storage devices
4. 66/100/133 MBs/second



1. USB type C
2. Universal Serial Bus
3. It allows connection for things to go into computer or devices
4.100 Watts

1. PS2 port and Cable
2. Personal System 2
3. Connects mouse and keyboards into computers
4. 100kbps





1. USB 3.0 Pinout
2. Universal Serial Bus version 3
3. What USB devices plug into
4. 100 MBps

1. Firewire
2. High speed transfers, hence the “fire”
3. Used for high speed, real time data transferring
4. 400 Mbps or 800 Mbps

1. VGA port and plug
2. Video Graphics Array connector
3. standard monitor connection system
4. 31.469 kHz




1.HDMI Cables
2.High-Definition Multimedia Interface
3.Connection for HD video devices
4. Types A and C are faster than type D


1.Expansion Slots
2.Add more chips
3.Allows you to add more RAM cards and other things to a motherboard
4. Four different types, PCI express, PCI, AGP, ISA






1.Computer Display Port/Cable
2.Transfers whatever is being displayed onto a computer
3.Connects a video source to a display device
4. Only one type of Computer Display Port



1. Thunderbolt
2. Named after the logo found on the plug and next to the port
3. connects peripherals to a computer. Examples: keyboard, monitor, flash drives
4.20Gb/s Standard on every Mac

1.Ethernet Cable/Port
2.Ethernet instead of internet because it goes through the ground
3.Wired Internet Connection
4. 10 Mbps-1000 Mbps

Sunday, September 28, 2014

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Kali Linux Logo
The distribution that I chose to install was Kali Linux.  It was designed to be the most advanced penetration testing distribution ever created, with over 300 penetration testing tools.  It is a Debian based distribution with a variety of tools for security and forensics.  Kali Linux was developed by Mati Aharoni and Devon Kearns, the creators of the OS distribution BackTrack.






    It was really easy to install Kali Linux onto my computer.  I just inserted my cd that had the distribution on it into the computer and it booted straight from the cd.  When I tried installing the distribution for the first time, I chose forensic mode from the boot menu but I never actually was able to boot it up in forensics mode. Every time I tried the distribution would run so many tests on my computer and the whole process would start to take hours.  I then tried booting it up in the first option on the boot menu, but it was really unreliable in that mode as well.  Sometimes it would boot up really quickly, but other times it had a lot of errors and took a really long time ,so every time I went to boot up the distribution I wasn’t sure if it was going to work. Once I was able to start the distribution I got to the graphical user interface I saw that it had a very minimalist design, with a small drop-down menu in the top left corner and the rest of the screen was empty with the exception of the Kali Linux logo in the middle.
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Boot menu
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In the process of booting up

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GUI
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The drop-down menu




    The OS distribution I chose had some really cool features.  It came with some really basic applications such as a calculator, a video player, and an internet browser, as well as some really cool penetration-testing programs.  It had a port scanner named nmap (it probes a server for an open port), a password cracker called John the Ripper, and my favorite, a packet analyzer called Wireshark.  I thought Wireshark was really cool because I had never heard of something that can intercept information traveling across a network, and I liked how it showed how powerful this distribution could be.  Kali Linux definitely has a minimalist GUI, but you can definitely tell that it is very powerful.  It might not be my first suggestion for everyday use, but it has some really cool features.
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Ettercap, a feature of Kali Linux that can
 "sniff" live connections.
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Wireshark, a packet analyser
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Web browser




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Calculator

Wednesday, September 17, 2014

8:26 PM Posted by Unknown No comments
High End Computer



This computer is built with really high end parts and would be used at a soccer stadium to take the feeds from all of the cameras in the stadium and put them on to one computer so someone could switch between all of the cameras really easily.  It would make it easy to air a  game on live television because the computer would have the necessary components, including four graphics card, a sound card, and a video capture card,  to show the game from a variety of cameras and angles.  The total cost of this computer would be $8449.15.

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Reasonably Priced Computer



This computer is built with reasonably priced components and is like a typical computer that someone would own at their house and use for general computing.  The total price of this computer is $734.93.


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