Case Study 3

All of the movie choices are all about futuristic one. They portray the world several years from now which is as we observe in those movies that there are new technologies. The following are the two movies I already watched:


WALL-E


The movie WALL-E is a 3D animation about a robot named WALL-E who is responsible and design to clean up a waste that covered the earth. He is a good programmed robot because of his kindness and hard-working. The earth there was empty because all the people abandoned it and was transferred to a big ship or they called it AXIOM. There the people are the passengers and they have also a captain who led for their meals and daily routines. The ship sent an advanced robot named EVE to the earth that covered from trash to look for a sign of life there which is a plant. Fortunately, WALL-E met EVE, at first WALL-E cannot come closer to EVE because EVE was a little bit cold robot who do not want to be friend to WALL-E. But because of what WALL-E felts to her he tried his best to make friends with EVE and fortunately they become friends. Eventually what EVE looking was in WALL-E’s area which is the plant, when WALL-E shows it to EVE, EVE was automatically open its body and sealed the plant and then shutdown. The ship get EVE back but WALL-E join her, when they arrived in AXIOM WALL-E noticed the human who were obese and served by the robots. The plant was the chance to get back the people to the earth. EVE, WALL-E and the captain tried their best to launch the plant in order to bring them to the earth and start a new life against the robots who brainwash them.

After watching the movie WALL-E I was amazed because aside from futuristic one it has a moral lesson to us as a human who need to take care our mother nature in order to avoid those matters which is happening in the movie. This movie gave us vision in the possible things happened to the future and alarm us to be responsible in the field of technology.



SURROGATES


The movie Surrogates is somewhat kind of human having its own what we call surrogates or like avatars or humanoids who represent them in doing their works and activities. The human only put a kind of helmet in their head and fell asleep and by that their surrogates or avatars wake up to replace them. It is a remotely controlled surrogates which acts also like as a human. The essence of having surrogates is the operator or the human itself is safe in their own homes and cannot feel pain when they use their own surrogates. A bad human came who invent a new type of weapon which overload to every surrogates, disable the system and kill the operator itself. But there’s a good man who want to stop this bad deeds. He found out that the newly produce weapon who design to destroy systems in surrogates by a virus and kill the operators is in the same company whom surrogates was originated. Going to end this synopsis the good man or agent there was successfully destroy all the surrogates and fortunately all the operators or people came out from their home and realize that the world is beautiful to live.

This movie was good and has also a moral lesson. They help people realized that do not drown yourself into too much advanced or I mean that as a human you are the superior and control every wants you like. Robots are just inventions who cannot replace missions of a human in the world. We should be thankful for having a beautiful and nice world to live. God gave this to us and we must take care of it. It was a great movie to watch and because I watched this movie I like movies which are science fiction-action film.



COMPARISONS


The two movies have the same concept who is a futuristic one. It gives also moral lesson and awake people in the possible things will happen in the future who we know that technologies are fast changing and developing into a better one, brilliant and great features and functionalities like we saw in the movies WALL-E and SURROGATES.

Case Study 2

As a future IT professional, what do you think will be your contributions for the development of technology based on what you learned from college? Define each and state its implications towards our IT society and industry.


Almost 4 yrs. of learning new things about being an IT Professional I can say that it is not only the key for the steps you will take to get what is related to your course. You need also to take some trainings for the degree you have taken, this will keep your skills fresh to manage the work professionally. The following will be my contribution as an IT Professional based on my learnings from my college years:


1. Support FOSS

As an IT student you need to explore things in the internet or anywhere which is related to the field you have. And from that I learned about Free Open Source Software which is I myself is one of the beneficiaries of it. This help students like me to get what we need through the internet through the availability of its source code or somewhat we call free like downloading softwares which we can use for our studies. By supporting FOSS we can contribute for the development of technology in our society.


2. Support Green Computing

We are aware that every minute or every day new technology come out and encourage people to use it because of its features and advantages. As an IT students our life is engage on that matter and before that as a human we are responsible to protect and care our mother nature. By supporting Green Computing this will help lessen the materials used in some technology or machines which harm the environment.


3. Skills in Creativity

As what I learned in my college days, having the creativity to think is one of the key for you to be successful. All the people has this skills but most of them use it. I myself will use this skills for my contribution of being an IT Professional because this would help to develop new and brilliant technologies that is useful for our society. We should think widely or across the boundary for us to have a good product to come up.


4. Managing Skills

This skills is all about managing your time, managing your project and managing yourself or somewhat call discipline. This would help for the development of technology because if you become a project manager you need to cheer up and have a good preparation or plan for the project. By making it you need to manage also your time, every time you waste it deducts the confidence of the project and to prevent that you need to discipline yourself first before entering to that situation. And I can say that I can manage those skills and adopt all of those for the contribution of the development of technology to our society someday.

Case Study 1

Why we use technology today?

When I heard the word technology it simply means to make life easier. Most of us depends in technology today because of its functionalities which help us to manage some works which people cannot handle it in a manual way. Here are some reasons why we used technology today:

- to make a better communication
- reduce human effort and increase the speed in doing some works
- to gain new learnings from its features and uses
- for business purposes


What are some points that have influenced us?


I think to go with the flow of the people around us. We are living in a world of machines or what we call a modernized generation, which when we look from side to side one thing that we can see is some machines working with people or produce for our usage.


What are the factors involved in technology change?

Satisfaction and Human Skills. Satisfaction because when people are not satisfied he needs changes to it that's why when a technology doesn't satisfied its target it needs to have some developments in order to address the problem. And Human Skills because their are some people have brilliant ideas which can produce some amazing works for another features and technologies which they think that it can easily adapt in the environment.


MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR....

Assignment 4 (SAD2)

PRE-REGISTRATION FORM (screen shot by: Joverly Gonzales)
















SRIS (screen shot by: Joan Rose P. Dandoy)



Above images are the Pre-Registration Form and SRIS. Pre-Registration Form is a piece of paper which the enrollee needs to fill-up some inputs or information for them to have records in the corresponding colleges they have enrolled. As we can see the PRF form requires name, address, ID number, and the subject codes and descriptions. Also the students need to check the box of the sex type, type of students whether if your old, transferee or new enrollees. While in the SRIS which is the automated one requires ID number, student’s name, address, class, gender, contact email address, religion, year, type of student, desired career, parents, course, major and the subject codes and description.

Comparing the two tools of the enrolment system in the university it shows some similarity and differences in the data field. But before I will discuss that issue I will first cite the advantages of having this kind of tools for enrolment system. Using or having a Pre-Registration Form (PRF) is good, even though it is manual but it serves us a help or a guide to those encoders which they make their work easier. They will easily encode the data from the PRF to the SRIS and by this it reduce the waste of time. SRIS also has a big help to the enrolment system of the school because aside from being automated it keeps records of the students and it can easily search or track the student records if it is needed. Going back to the issue of the differences between the two tools, the Pre-Registration Form (PRF) and SRIS differ on the system interface, as I observed they has some fields in the SRIS which I cannot see in the PRF. Example of this are the religion, desired career and email address, if you are a new enrollees you need to face the encoder to fill up those fields verbally. I will suggest the uniformity of the two tools must be consistent and the layout of the two tools must be users friendly as what we call in a system, so that is readable and the student can easily understand it. Generally, Pre-Registration Form (PRF) and SRIS are has the same purpose in the enrolment system of the school, although it needs some improvements this two functions well for having a good kind of system in the enrolment.

Assignment 3 (SAD2)

Interview your university network specialist. Ask how various parts of the system communicate with each other throughout the university. (Q) Given the chance to redesign the existing setup, enumerate and discuss your key points for an effective and efficient network environment ideal for the university.
(At least 3000 words)

In this assignment we are task to interview a network analysis in our university. Engr. Ariel Roy Reyes is the assigned network analysis in the university. Supposed to be last week we have an interview schedule with Sir Reyes but unfortunately he could not make it because of some important matter. He wants to have a group or class discussion in order to share his answers to everyone. Good to say that this week he allows us to pass a questionnaire for him to answer via email. Now, I will discuss the questions with the corresponding answers from Sir Reyes.
The first question was all about the components involved in the system/s in the university including the hardware, software, technology they are using, and etc. According to Sir Reyes, he is not the right position to discuss the details of the software components used as there are other assigned personnel for such job. However, talking about hardware component and technology used, basically I, assigned as the network administrator, am entrusted to maintain our different servers to run 24/7. Currently, we have our Web Server hosted here in our University in our HP ProLiant ML350 Server. It’s an old but stable server set-up here in our Networks Office and has been active since Engr. Val A. Quimno , not yet a dean, was appointed as the Network Administrator.
The said server has the following specification:
• Intel Xeon 3.0 GHz, 3.2 GHz, or 3.4 GHz processors (dual processor capability) with 1MB level 2 cache standard. Processors include support for Hyper-Threading and Extended Memory 64 Technology (EM64T)
• Intel® E7520 chipset
• 800-MHz Front Side Bus
• Integrated Dual Channel Ultra320 SCSI Adapter
• Smart Array 641 Controller (standard in Array Models only)
• NC7761 PCI Gigabit NIC (embedded)
• Up to 1 GB of PC2700 DDR SDRAM with Advanced ECC capabilities (Expandable to 8 GB)
• Six expansion slots: one 64-bit/133-MHz PCI-X, two 64-bit/100-MHz PCI-X, one 64-bit/66-MHz PCI-X, one x4 PCI-Express, and one x8 PCI-Express
• New HP Power Regulator for ProLiant delivering server level, policy based power management with industry leading energy efficiency and savings on system power and cooling costs
• Three USB ports: 1 front, 1 internal, 1 rear
• Support for Ultra320 SCSI hard drives (six hot plug or four non-hot plug drives supported standard, model dependent)
• Internalstorage capacity of up to 1.8TB; 2.4TB with optional 2-bay hot plug SCSI drive
• 725W Hot-Plug Power Supply (standard, most models); optional 725W Hot-Pluggable Redundant Power Supply (1+1) available. Non hot plug SCSI models include a 460W non-hot plug power supply.
• Tool-free chassis entry and component access
• Support for ROM based setup utility (RBSU) and redundant ROM
• Systems Insight Manager, SmartStart, and Automatic Server Recovery 2 (ASR-2) included
• Protected by HP Services and a worldwide network of resellers and service providers. Three-year Next Business Day, on-site limited global warranty. Certain restrictions and exclusions apply. Pre-Failure Notification on processors, memory, and SCSI hard drives.
Aside from it, our mail server running under Compaq Proliant ML330 Server, our oldest server, is also hosted here in our Networks Office. Together with other Servers, such as Proxy and Enrollment Servers, both proxy and our enrollment servers are running in microcomputer/personal computers but with higher specifications to act as servers.
Next question was how the system or how do these communicate with one another, (topology, network connectivity, protocols, etc.)? According to Sir Reyes, all Servers are connected in a shared medium grouped as one subnetwork. In general, our network follows the extended star topology which is connected to a DUAL WAN Router that serves as the load balance between our two Internet Service Providers. All other workstations are grouped into different subnetworks as in star topology branching out from our servers subnetwork as in extended star topology. At present, we are making use of class C IP Address for private IP address assignments. Other workstations IP assignments are configured statically (example: laboratories) while others are Dynamic (example: offices). All workstations are connected via our proxy servers that do some basic filtering/firewall to control user’s access to the internet aside from router filtering/firewall management. So, whenever any workstation has to connect to the internet, it has to pass through software and hardware based firewall.

Next question was all about the processes involved in the communication (each system to other systems). According to Sir Reyes, as mentioned above, in item 3, all workstations are connected via a proxy server. It means that whenever a workstation is turned on, it requests for an IP address from the proxy server (for dynamically configured IP address) and connect to the network after IP address is acquired. As connection is established, each system can now communicate and share resources within the same subnetwork and to server following the concepts discuss in your Computer Network Class.

Next question was how do you go along with the maintenance of the system? According to Sir Reyes, Basically, our servers are expected to be in good condition since it is required to be up 24/7. Daily, during my vacant period, monitoring on the servers are observed that includes checking logs, checking hardware performance such as CPU health, etc. If problems are observed, remedies are then and then applied. Once in a week, regular overall checkup is observed as preventive maintenance to ensure not to experience longer downtime if possible.

Next question was the system follow a specific standard? According to Sir Reyes, as I was appointed as the Network Administrator, everything was already in place except for some minor changes. Basically, different networking standards was already observed such as cabling standards, TIA/EIA 568A-B, different IEEE standards as discussed in your Computer Networks Subject, etc.

Next question was how is the security of the system? Are there any vulnerability, risks, corresponding mitigation techniques and access control? According to Sir Reyes, as I have mentioned, we have implemented both software and hardware based filtering/firewall. Basically, Risks or vulnerabilities and different mitigation techniques were considered to increase security in our network. Aside from filtering/firewall, constant monitoring on networks activity also increases the security of the system.

And the last questions are there any interference? During what (most) times do these occur? Explain their effects especially with regards to the business of the university? According to Sir Reyes, major Interferences are normally encountered as an effect of unforeseen and beyond our control events such as black outs, and the like. The said interference would of course affect University’s day-to-day businesses for obviously this will paralyze all our activities that rely on electricity and further this might cause damage on our network devices, etc. that may later be the reason for longer downtime. Problems encountered by our providers such as connection to the National/International Gateway also affect University’s business such as correlating to University’s Business Partners outside and within the country.

Given the chance to redesign the existing setup, enumerate and discuss your key points for an effective and efficient network environment ideal for the university.

For me, if I will given a chance to redesign the existing setup of the network environment in our university I would probably improved or enhance it instead of redesigning it because in redesigning a network environment it takes time, money, and other factors which are possibly cause of failures or delays. As what Sir Reyes said he rather has some improvement and maintenance instead of redesigning another one setup of network environment. And as I observed the existing setup in network environment in the university are providing the needs of the university.

Assignment 2 (SAD2)

Relative to your answer in Assignment 1 .... what's your take on the design of the enrollment system?


From my answer in assignment 1 it was written there that the new enrollment system is much better than the old enrollment system. The administration gave their full effort to have another design in enrollment system because they noticed and observed the problems in the old enrollment system. Having a new design in enrollment system will reduce all the problems in the old one.The administration or the designer of the new system design in enrollment was using a kind of diagram to illustrate the processes or procedures. By this the students can easily understand the flow during the enrollment. But as I observed the new design was not too sensitive in delivering their understanding of the flow to the students. I cannot totally expressed the word/s in describing the design of the enrollment system in the university because all of the designer or the system analyst who were responsible for this were using their full-knowledge in creating a design of a system. Although it has some disadvantages for now, I appreciate their effort which trying their best to improve the enrollment system of the university. I think by collecting and observing the feedback of the students in their enrollment system design will challenge them to create or develop a new one which address the advantages or the problems in the existing one. We all know that we cannot have a perfect system design. They need to have a better plan which is plan to succeed.

Assignment 1 (SAD2)

Above is the diagram of the enrollment system in University of Southeastern Philippines. Based on my experienced I can say that the new enrollment system in the university is much better than the old enrollment system, because the old enrollment system consumed how many days for you to be officially enrolled in your department. I observed that this kind of delays happened because of the process and system used in the enrollment are not enough to enroll a student in the university. This must have some improvements to do in order to address the said delays. That’s why the university has a new enrollment system which they think it will address the problem in the old enrollment system. Based on my experienced again, the new enrollment system in the university takes a few days in order for the student to be officially enrolled. The process of this new enrollment system lessens the delays in the past old system in enrollment. Let’s discuss the process of this new enrollment system and provide suggestions for some improvements so that the few days of enrolling in a university will make an hour for you to be officially enrolled.


Below are the enrollment processes for the old and new students in the university:


1. (FOR NEW STUDENTS) Go to UGTO and fill up student records
2. Payment of fees (Local Council fee, OCSC fee, Headlight fee).
3. (FOR SCHOLARS) Apply/Validate scholarship at the Office of Student Services.
4. (FOR NEW STUDENTS) Enroll in ROTC or CWTS.
5. Submit or present all required documents to the adviser, and get a Pre-Registration Form.
6. Fill up the Pre-Registration form and go back to the adviser to sign it.
7. Submit the Pre-Registration form to the encoder and get the Certificate of Registration.
8. (FOR SCHOLARS) Verify student accounts at the bookkeeper. (For non-scholars) Pay tuition fee at the cashier.
9. Complete enrollment by getting stamped “Officially Enrolled” at the Registrar.
10. Apply/Validate library card.


I will discuss each of the process in enrollment and possibly put some suggestions or remedy for some improvements in the enrollment process.


1. (FOR NEW STUDENTS) Go to UGTO and fill up student records

This is the first process or first step for the new students in enrolling in the university. I think it is good and I cannot provide suggestion to it because this process is not too hassling for the new students, they must fill it up correctly because the information they input is important for the records in the UGTO.

2. Payment of fees (Local Council fee, OCSC fee, Headlight fee).

This process is the first step for the old students and the second step for the new students and this kind of hassle for the students. Based on my experienced as an old student in the university during enrollment when I reached this step I was confused because we must pay the local council fee in the other building which is where your department located and the OCSC and Headlight fee in the other building too. This kind of hassle because like me I’m a BSIT student and our building is far from the OCSC offices. What if these 3 fees will be merged in the encoding process of enrollment and the fees will reflect in the C.O.R. Even though this step is needed first in order to pass the other steps in the adviser because in the adviser’s process they collect the receipts of all the fees for you to have a PRF. By this, it will lessen the work of the adviser and the payment of these 3 fees will be made at the cashier’s office.

3. (FOR SCHOLARS) Apply/Validate scholarship at the Office of Student Services.

This step is okay with me even though it takes time because we all know the fact that almost of the students in the university are scholars. But I have some suggestion, what if the university provides more authorized people at the OSS to validate the scholarship of the students.

4. (FOR NEW STUDENTS) Enroll in ROTC or CWTS.

5. Submit or present all required documents to the adviser, and get a Pre-Registration Form.

From my suggestions in the step number 2 this step will be easy now.

6. Fill up the Pre-Registration form and go back to the adviser to sign it.

7. Submit the Pre-Registration form to the encoder and get the Certificate of Registration.

Based on my experienced when I reached this step it takes time for you to get the C.O.R because the departments is lack of resources and people (encoder), what if the respective departments at the university add encoders, I will cite an example in our department only one encoder are working to encodes all the PRF of hundreds of students. This suggestion will help to make the flow of encoding process faster.

8. (FOR SCHOLARS) Verify student accounts at the bookkeeper’s window.
(FOR NON-SCHOLARS) Pay tuition fee at the cashier’s window.

9. Complete enrollment by getting stamped “Officially Enrolled” at the Registrar.

As I observed it is good that the university provides more registrar’s window because it will cater or entertain more students during the enrollment process.

10. Apply/Validate library card.

I hope that the university will study more the situation happening during the enrollment process in using the new enrollment system which they provide. By that they will see the differences and some problems in that precious day of the students which is the enrollment day. For me, the university will also get some ideas or suggestions from the students because the students are the one who are experiencing the situation in the enrollment.