05/04/2011 - Acts & Laws

Good Afternoon (Again),

On the above date we looked into Acts & Laws (as you can see from the title).

There were four subjects we covered:
Data Protection Act
Computer Misuse Act
Freedom of Information Act
Interlectual Property & Copyright

To decide which subject each of us were given we employed what was essentially picking out of a hat.

I was given Data Protection Act.

Once we had all discussed our findings, we had to mock up a Code of Practice explaing each subject for a new starter at each of our companies.

Until tomorrow, it's goodbye!

22/03/2011 - Wireless Networking

Good Afternoon,

Apologies for the late addition here.

On the above date we covered Wireless networks. The task we were set was to set up a Wireless Access Point. To do this we had to first set up 4 desktops however we only had 3 as it would have taken all day to find a fourth one that actually worked! We then had wireless dongles to plug in via USB and then set up the router uses the Out of the Box software. After the access point was set up we tested the connection by pinging each PC from the other PCs. Once the pings were successful we also checked we could get to an IP address. This was sucessful on all 3 PCs. Afterwards we checked whether or not we could ping the other Wireless Network that had been set up (we worked in pairs). After many attempts to change the configuration we were informed it wasn't possible.

Again, apologies for the late addition and I will now add last weeks post!