HTML vs CSS

HTML(Hyper text market language): Basically gives you the basic building blocks for websites.

CSS(Cascading Style Sheets): Gives the look and format of a document (the writing)

H1, H2 etc: Are the according levels of importance it titles etc. So H1 is like the main title.

Basically websites have to use both of these so they can have central control over all there pages

Privacy

TELLING THE WORLD (OPENNESS is GREAT!?!)

Facebook makes you comment because you are always looking for kind of jolt that provides you with positive attention.These responses/comments drive us to tell the world more.

Facebook has taught us to tell the world everything we do.

Problems when actions and reviews are far away (e.g. cigarettes, alcohol or facebook) won't then bother us as it is too far away. So we do something and don't worry about it straight away, but when we get cancer or obese or you don't get a job because of something you said or did but didn't think about it.

If you block everything you have to teach your kids that they don’t need security, grooms them to devalue their privacy as they are used to people watching them(surveillance). Basically we teach kids that being private is really bad.

Some school network systems contradict their own existence by selling info to certain companies and dictatorships giving them the ability to sell their products or blocking off certain sites to the public.

FEEDBACK

Must be as close to the attempt as possible. You want to do better immediately. 

E.g. you get shot in game you get red blood coming up on screen you get angry, but if you get a bad mark in a test and get the result back a week later you don't care.

Questions on Storage Devices

The RED writing is the answers.

RAM and ROM are types of storage.
(a) Explain the major difference between RAM and ROM:
RAM is random access memory and is read only memory.

Ring two items which are storage media.
A. Flash memory card 
B. Graph plotter
C. Magnetic disc
D. OCR
E. OMR
F. Touch pad

Ring two items which are magnetic storage media.

A. CD ROM 

B. DVD ROM

C. DVD RW

D. Floppy disk
E. Hard disk
F. Memory stick

Ring two items which are storage media.
A. Bar code reader
B. DVD RAM
C. Joystick
D. Magnetic tape
E. Sensor
F. Touch screen

                                                                                                    True     False       

Backing storage devices are examples of software                      X

Use of Backing Storage at Kings College

• Fixed hard discs- Used in every computer in the school
• Portable hard discs- Used to store large files
• Magnetic tape- Uses serial access for reading and writing.  Used for backups of file servers for computer networks. Optical backing storage media such as CDs and DVD and is quite cheap for backing up files at King's.
• Optical backing storage media such as CDs and DVD-CDs tend to be used for large files (but smaller than 1Gb) which are too big for a floppy disc to hold such as music and general animation.  DVDs are used to hold very large files (several Gb) such as films at school.
• CD ROM/DVD ROM-Applications which require the prevention of deletion of data, accidental or otherwise for students.
• CD R/DVD- Applications which require a single burning of data, e.g. CDs Z recording of music downloads from the internet, recording of music from MP3 format, recording of data for archiving or backup purposes at King's.
• CD RW/DVD RW-Applications which require the updating of information and ability to record over old data at King's.
• DVD RAM- Same properties as DVD RW but quicker access and data can be overwritten more easily. 
• Blu-ray-Capacities of 25Gb, 50Gb and 100 Gb.  Used for storing films (movies). 25Gb equates to 2 hrs HDTV, 13hrs standard definition TV
• Solid state backing storage-Smallest form of memory, used as removable storage at school.  More robust than other forms of storage. 
• Memory sticks/Pen drive-Used at Kings to transport small files conveniently.
• Flash memory cards-Used in digital cameras, palmtops, mobile phones, MP3 players at Kings

Thanks Robert Sheetz for this.

Why Back Up?

Why Back Up?
You should back up you data because, if your computer is hacked, there is a power surge(which could fry your mother board, destroying the file that you had saved it to), or your computer just dies in general. All of these things would result in your loss of data if you hadn't backed them up.

On to What?
You could back up your files onto an external hard drive that you could remove afterwards and store somewhere safe, or you could back it up onto the hard drive in your PC but there are the risks that I have mentioned above.

How Often?
Ideally you should back up your data every few hours but being realistic you should try and do it once a day or so

Database Report

Go the the report wizard, do not make it from the table, make it from the query. Press the arrow or double arrow to get the Available Fields across. Modify whichever fields are necesary in the remaining pages, depending on what the exam asks for.

If it says summarise in a task, press the Sigma button.

Cheers Wilson Downes for some info for this blog.

Creating Access

Step 1. Open up access and create new BLANK database called the Exam Name.
Step 2. Click on External Data, then Text File.
Step 3. Then import steps 2,4. (If your in Mr Wells class you will get it.)
Step 4. Then browse for the file in my case it was J8prods, then click finish.
Step 5. Then right-click on the tab in the top left and click on Design View.
Step 6. Change the categories to what you need to, however on the 08 and previous exams they made a mistake so you need to change the Yes/No to Text to keep the Y's and N's. You don't need to do this for exams past 2008.
Step 7. Click continue on the next few bars that come up, it will display a gray screen. Double-click on the name of your database and you have finished Q1.