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can a virus write to a CD-R?

Admin — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 03:31:32 GMT

Someone wrote in the wiki: "One of the best backup storage media is CD. As virus cannot copy itself into the CD, using the same CD on another healthy computer will not infect it, unless the virus is present together with the files when the backup CD is created." in general, that's not true (sorry if i misled you) - the old PC in FSM 2.18 (fortunately) doesn't have a CD writer so it can't write to my CD - But sir, isn't that CD-Rs will become CD-ROM when data are written ...

dreamweaver

Anami48 — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 13:35:26 GMT

What exactly is a dreamweaver? Is it an application to design a website? If it is, can we use it for making our website...that is, if we know how?

Computation & Turing Machine

06b2365 — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 14:21:07 GMT

A computer is a machine that performs computation on information. Computation is the processing of information following a model expressed as algorithm, protocol etc. It is ranging from human thinking to calculations. To study computation, several models of computation are used but the most commonly examined is the Turing machine. Alan Turing discovers Turing machine in 1937, an imaginary machine that consists of an input/output tape. The machine could perform any computations on numbers ...

why we havent put up anything on wiki?

nish — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 13:38:50 GMT

my answers are: 1) in order to post something on the wiki, we have to sign up. which takes a great amount of my so called precious time. 2) i have better things to do. Unless i have alot of free time (like really bored and dont know what else to do), then i'd type something up. 3) i need to be reminded about the wiki frequently. forgetful much? thanks for your answers - it's helpful to me to know how you feel about things like this. i've switched the wiki to a new place http://djhb.wikispaces.com/ ...

How to Change your Character???

Faizal_Ultra — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 01:17:46 GMT

Have you ever notice that the character for the Dollysoft is so uninteresting to see? It just give you the urge to use other program that have a perfect look Character. There is a way of making dollysoft character look cool. For the vista user I recommend you to right click the Tales animator shortcut and find run as administrator before using it. Then just allow it. First you, Click your uninteresting character in the list of actor at view tab. For example: Bear Second, You ...

dollysoft

dee486 — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 06:58:01 GMT

hy every one .need ur help.n also i wn to ask question to mr.david. is it ok if we use other image for our background? we already upload the script.,how is it? david says: yes, of course it's ok. i can't answer your question "how is it?" because you didnt mention your site address. anyhow, i'm sure it is fine, even if it's not perfect. if you want me to be able to see your animation with your background, just upload the background to your website as well. DON'T upload the ...

past papers

Admin — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 02:01:39 GMT

in our wiki http://djhb.wikispaces.com/ there are some questions from past years' exams from CO1601 for you to try, which will help you prepare for your own exam. try answering them in the wiki. i will look at the wiki from time to time, and post here any comment i may have on what you have written (i won't edit your answers in the wiki).

Is dollysoft going to be in the exam?

Annie — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 04:31:30 GMT

Sir, will there be any question included in the exam about the application of dollysoft?

yes. it will be a question that anyone who has participated in their group's project will be able to answer without doing any revision.

How to post our script into our webpage?

Student — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 09:57:31 GMT

Hi everyone. I'm using Alice.org to do my animation. So after I've done my animation what should I do to the webpage? I remember Sir told me that day, something about the folder. So, is it that i just have to print out the codes, that's all? And do i have to put a link in my webpage to the code?

yes, just upload the script to your website host and put a link to it in your webpage

Dollysoft background music trick and other neat stuff!!

Faizal_Ultra — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 01:00:37 GMT

Are you all bored with a silent cartoon that you make... Are you trying to make a music background that suit your cartoon... You come into the right place.. We all knew that dollysoft has these "play" function to play a certain music in a sound folder but dollysoft only support .wav and .midi .(I only recommend that you use these for voice of your cartoon never for the background) This is what I found out when I use the "play" function. At first, when I have ...

some starting places

Admin — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:25:49 GMT

light switch http://www.technologyreview.com/biotech/18488/ http://neurophilosophy.wordpress.com/2007/04/05/controlling-animal-behaviour-with-an-optical-onoff-switch-for-neurons/ bio-nano computers for cell repair http://www.pharmacy.uwaterloo.ca/research/foldvari/about/index.html http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/06/050607002129.htm http://www.futuremedicine.com/doi/abs/10.2217/17435889.3.5.719?cookieSet=1&journalCode=nnm ftp://ftp.cordis.europa.eu/pub/foresight/docs/ntw_12_smith.pdf http://www.nanowerk.com/spotlight/spotid=4718.php bee ...

your opinion wanted

Admin — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 10:43:55 GMT

i've started trying to writing a a book about "Living Computers", aimed at a general readership.. it's on my homepage at http://sites.google.com/site/djhbrown/Home ... you could help me by telling me what you think of it so far.

Living Computers

Admin — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:00:23 GMT

http://www.geocities.com/co1601/LC/LC.html

- an unfinished work in progress

Pencil - an alternative to Dollysoft for Project 2

Admin — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 02:53:48 GMT

i mentioned you could, for project 2, make a movie instead of a dollysoft cartoon. an animation is a kind of movie.... and there's a freeware package for Windows, Macs and Linux called "Pencil" http://www.les-stooges.org/pascal/pencil/index.php?id=Home i haven't tried it out yet, but you could ... if you do, post your comments on Pencil to this topic please.

I need help...

Student — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 11:47:24 GMT

Hi Sir, I got problem with my websites here. I've almost done with my website which is about "Traditional Food in Brunei". I got all the recipes from books, and internet website and i just found out that all the recipes cannot be copyright. It says: All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without any prior written permission ...

comment on wiki of oct 02

Admin — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 08:15:40 GMT

note: the following comments apply to projects in the old wiki at http://www.freewebs.com/djhbrown/apps/wiki/biocomp big improvement, but still a long way to go... the comment from Kari belongs at the beginning the quote from unknown about self-repair is about a very advanced subtopic - worth including but needs a subheading i like the picture, but i'm less keen on the LAN analogy.... or am i? a LAN is a network of peer clients and servers. i suppose you could say individual ...

alternative to dollysoft project

Admin — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 02:00:37 GMT

If you like a challenge, instead of making a Dollysoft animation for your second project, you can make a short movie instead and upload it to your website and/or to YouTube or MySpace. if you choose to make a movie, it MUST be related to a topic in one of the academic subjects you are studying this year. But it doesn't have to be a dry presentation - it can even be a spoof! here are two of my YouTube favourites: maths spoof: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICv_0ln_yzw&feature=related chemistry ...

My webpage

Nora259 — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 01:50:59 GMT

Hi I'm confused.. The webpage we're suppose to create, is it suppose to be only scientific topics or we can do any topics that we want (not related to science at all)?? Helpppp...a confused person on dloose~ david's answer: Project 1 Make and publish on www a simple site on anything you like. Your website should start with your names, ids and photos and hyperlinks to your cartoon script and image files (see Project 2). The only rule is that you must not contravene Brunei ...

wikis

Admin — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 02:48:45 GMT

wikis are great! wikis are collective knowledge. knowledge sharing is the way we humans have managed to conquer the world .... or destroy it, according to your opinion! anyhow, we are taking a step towards a new direction in education. instead of students being passive receptors of monologues from an appointed guru (the teecher), david's students have the opportunity to become active learners, seeking and sharing knowledge with each other. wikis are an extension of the forum ...

Forum.. how to get?

barak — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 04:11:59 GMT

need help

Anyone noe how to add forums to the website? do i have 2 get it from suwhere else and make a hyperlink for it?

peaceee~

How we attract people to our website?

Faizal_Ultra — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 14:15:30 GMT

I think this is the crucial part of the project where we need to attract the attention of people around the globe to participate and interact to our website. A website without a single member but us is just to lonely and useless if it is not alive with people. Let share our ideas. We need advertisement and spread the word but how? Email? Facebook? Blog? Youtube? and etc....

Syntha Site

Student — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 03:00:34 GMT

Hey there! Can i just use the templates that are already in the website? Here i found one free web host here its Syntha Site, here everything is provided like the background and so, and what we just need to do is just drag the icon to the templates and do whatever we want.. Is this okay if we just use that instead of using index.html. Because i'm still a bit blur of using that.

Index.html won't show. It won't overwrite. =( Help?

Lin Ji — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 03:04:21 GMT

My host: www.freewebs.com My problem: Freewebs has already made a page (the welcome page) which could not be deleted. I have managed to create a folder, the index_files and have also uploaded my index.html page. However, this page along with the pictures won't show on the main website. Webpage still shows the Welcome page, freewebs created. I tried creating a new page, hoping that by editing that page, I could somehow use that page as index.html. Unfortunately, there is no such feature that ...

What software other than Microsoft Word can i use?

Annie — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:21:48 GMT

After listening to the lecture on Monday, using Microsoft Word to upload my file sounded complex/confusing, but i will try it first. So im just wandering is there any other software that I can use to make my website file and upload it to the host?

TEDtalk part 1

hazwan — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:58:42 GMT

Quantum Theory Basically, it's the theoretical basis of modern physics that explains the nature and behavior of matter and energy on the atomic and subatomic level. In 1900, physicist Max Planck presented his quantum theory to the German Physical Society. Planck had sought to discover the reason that radiation from a glowing body changes in color from red, to orange, and, finally, to blue as its temperature rises. He found that by making the assumption that energy existed in individual units ...

Query. Can we use ready-made template provided by host?

Lin Ji — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 11:29:26 GMT

I am wondering whether we could use the ready-made template that is provided already by the host, and all we need to do is simply add, upload and edit our information without going through the suggested "index.html" and "index_files" way. In the FAQ, I found one part of it that is relevant to this and it seems like it only applies to people who are using Mac OS...: Is it ok if we use the ready-made template provided by the web host itself rather than using ...

sheep and dogs

Admin — Wed, 14 May 2008 05:25:19 GMT

Welcome to Uni. In school, you were treated like sheep. The shepherd told you where to go, what grass to eat and how to eat it. Baby lambs were bottle-fed, right up to the age of 21 and beyond. If you stepped out of line, the shepherd's dogs would bark at you and - if you were really bad - snap at your heels, but usually stop short of actually biting you. In Uni, you are treated like wild dogs. You hunt in a pack, led by the leader (the lecturer). But, at the end of the day, it's ...

did you ever wonder...

Admin — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 07:44:34 GMT

why do we turn around and go "oooh" when we hear a bang behind us?

What is the feeling of touch?

eusil — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 06:56:54 GMT

Touch is an essential feeling which any living things live with. In reality, within the complex of a human structure, there are five senses � Sight, Sound, Smell, Taste and Touch. Sight can be defined as the act or the faculty of vision (eyes used for seeing), Sound as the effect produced on the organ of hearing(ear) by the vibrations of the air or by other medium, Smell used to perceive the odor or scent through the stimuli affecting the nerves, Taste as the peculiar sensation caused by ...

q & a

Admin — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 07:55:32 GMT

the questions and answers here update the FAQ notes on the class site. i (Admin) will add to them from time to time as people ask me questions that i want to answer for everyone. q: can i use blogspot.com as my web host? a: yes; however, i hope your website will be more than just a personal blog; hopefully it will contain something that someone else would enjoy reading q: we haven't got our student email addresses yet, what to do about forum registration? a: you can Register ...

Forum Improvement?

ChrisFoo — Sat, 10 May 2008 12:23:03 GMT

I think this forum can further be improve. Why not share some ideas? The very first I can think of is: 1) Allow the edit button so that posters like us will be able to edit our post. Any more? Regards Christopher Foo david says: suggestions for improvement are always welcome. as regards students editing their posts after they have appeared and been replied to, it is neither necessary nor desirable, for the following reasons: 1. the idea of the forum is so you can say what ...

april 15

Admin — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 08:41:17 GMT

no queries about the exam so far.... don't forget, April 15, in class is the LAST date for you to hand in the paper copy of your projects this week, April 8, i can't make it to class due to a medical appointment. sorry. Instead, you will be shown 2 videos about animation. The first features Eve, a character that is really lifelike. See how complicated it is to make her. Look closely at her face - who does she remind you of? When you're back at your computer, watch the video ...

i dont know where to start

tester — Sat, 10 May 2008 05:36:51 GMT

help!

what have you learned?

Admin — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 04:03:37 GMT

what have you learned from this class?

and what, if anything, did not you not learn that you were hoping to?

and how could i teach the class better?

and if you were teaching the class, what would you tell them is the most important thing they need to know about human-computer interface design/implementation?

$ sign in Excel

Anonymous — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 17:10:18 GMT

I wonder what the $ sign means ?

Eg. =LOOKUP(B5,Sheet1!$H$6:$H$10,Sheet1!$I$6:$I$10)
=IF(B4=0,Sheet1!$B5,Sheet2!$B4+1)

And why in this case =IF(B5=0,Sheet1!B6,Sheet2!B5+1) has no $ sign ?

Pls answer my query thanks.

colour code

07B1902 — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 04:53:06 GMT

We can set screen colour and pen colour but how do we colour our object. I mean like i want a red ball, as in the inner colour is all red (It does not follow the screen's colour). What command do I need? I tried FILL as I've read that it will flood the area the turtle is with the wanted color but it doesn't recognize this command. Also i've looked at one of the example provided by MSWLOGO that uses SETFLOODCOLOR but I don't really understand how to this command is used for. (thanks for ...

Project progress websites

sol — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 02:50:31 GMT

Here's the link to our website: http://horoscopePP.googlepages.com/ U guys are more than welcome to comment on our designs and layout March 6 - david says: i could say something here, just to keep the ball rolling, but i would rather be on the sideline and watch you guys play. come on U guys, what do you think?!!

user team heuristic evaluation reports

tester — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 03:33:53 GMT

post your report as a reply to this message. you will be able to edit your reply later on so that it develops into your final report, due in week 11. sample format: system title & url design team people user team people (the authors of this report) overview of what the system does good points - something we especially liked - heuristic or usability dimension that it relates to problems discovered - brief description of problem - heuristic that helped us find it - ...

forum message recorded time test

Admin — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 05:46:09 GMT

there's something funny about the recorded forum posting times. i have the system configured as GMT+8 but the recorded times are shifted. this message posted at 13.43 Brunei time. let's see what time the forum software thinks it is...

to 3, or not to 3

Admin — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 05:39:30 GMT

Chris Foo has reminded me that i didnt mention 3 stalls at the start of the semester. I am sure he is correct; it's my habit to update notes in preparation for an improved edition for next year's class and i forgot which edition was relevant to you. Sorry for my mixup. Let me clarify: whereas it makes sense to canvass opinion on more than one food service so that comparisons can be made, you don't have to do 3. The purposes of your Excel project are: 1. to give you something (hopefully) ...

animated pictures or pictures look animated?

Anonymous — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 08:02:04 GMT

We are supposed to make animated pictures or just pictures which give illusion that they are moving?

stumped

Admin — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 02:31:41 GMT

Quote:We are not sure of what to do with our survey data. We are stumped by a few problems, i'll state as follows: (1) our survey's on three diffrent stalls, hopefully what we did is correct, al we need is some data of use to the stall owners right? (2) our data can't fit into one worksheet per page, should we put the datas separately according to the respective stalls (3) is the calculations too simple and not much help? (4) we are thinking of representing our data as graphs to compare the ...

how much is enough?

07B1902 — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 04:51:08 GMT

After getting our data, we need to create our spreadsheets. Then we need to represent our data so that they can be of use to the owners. How are we suppose to do that? By comparison? And how much do we need to calculate and draw charts and stuff before we know it's sufficient? Thanks to whoever that can be of help ('',) not david's answer: student must do what teacher wants. teacher must tell student exactly what they have to do. and, especially, how many pages to write this is ...

exponential growth and finite resources

Admin — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:37:29 GMT

it's fairly clear from the way people lead their lives, the way stockmarkets behave, and the way governments mismanage their countries, that the single most important (to human society) concept in mathematics is not taught properly in schools. that concept is exponential growth. cutting down a few more trees each year, taking a few more fish out of the ocean, building a few more houses/shopping malls/roads, burning a few more gallons of petrol, having more children than parents, borrowing ...

uses of spreadsheets

Admin — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 07:59:34 GMT

where do we come from? and how long have we been here? is a picture worth a thousand words? what is "numeracy" anyway? when the numbers get big, it's hard to see the truth behind the spin. as his term comes to an end, George Bush is, like his predecessors, trying to salvage some repectability by doing Good Deeds. Today, the press reports that Quote:he has promised Uncle Sam will give Ghana $18,500,000 for malaria control What a lot of money! Such generosity!! The population of Ghana ...

what do we have to do?

07B0897 — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 23:55:30 GMT

regarding the 3 food services, i interpret it as self-order, buffet and catering services last time and almost finish the project. Do we have to redo the survey again??

david's answer: no. so long as you create some information useful to the food service operators, it should be ok.

this doesn't mean that everyone has to do it your way !

Excel Project

Windows — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 01:35:58 GMT

How come I see most people do the food court related surveys?
It was just an example of a survey, right?
We can do other kinds of surveys, right?

david's answer: what do you have in mind? your survey should produce information useful to the manager(s) of one or more UBD food services

Code??

07b0856 — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 10:49:01 GMT

Hi, Sir What do you meant by the code below: to movie make " a 0 <----What did "a" stands for?? repeat 72~ <---What did ~ stands for?? [ clean frame :a wait 7 make " a : a+10] <---What did a+10 meant?? Thanks

issues

tester — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 04:07:59 GMT

what things do you need to think about when you are making your interface for someone else to use?

Logo

07B0897 — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 05:23:41 GMT

how to make pictures look animated? david says: by redrawing the picture many times, each time with things in slightly different places, so it looks as if they are moving. for an explanation on how to do this, please see the newly updated course notes at http://www.geocities.com/co1601/Co1603.doc