My CIST and Computer Projects:
1.) How to connect to CIST servers from a Macintosh.
Done. Easy enough, flying blind. See above for info on how.
2.) Understanding the GUI
From the original Finder, copy and paste, and uniform program
rules to OS X.2 and beyond. Ease of use, memorability,
efficiency, satisfaction, coherency, stability, and spaciality.
This is turning into a UI project for #6 below. After that,
it will be part of any programming and HTML, to get the UI right.
3.) Java projects for CIST 1410. Done.
Enjoyable even. But I was still a novice at Java. I still am after
a Java class in the Summer - just less of a novice.
4.)
The MultiOS Project on a 'New World' Mac.
Using an iMac 266 mHz computer that does the range of common Operating
Systems. It boots into OS X.2, and can optionally boot into OS 9.2. It
can also be pushed into booting PPC versions of Linux, which it can then
run natively. I did that in November 0f 2003. Since I've been at
Saint Paul College I have extended this to successfully running
Gnome on top of
X11 on top of
OS X It was a
very busy screen, but it worked well.
For a Windows environment on the iMac I have been trying
bochs
which is sadly under-documented. I can make
bochs run x86 versions
of Linux. Mac OS 7 can be emulated using
BasiliskII. My project extended
to using VMWare Workstation 4.0 on a PC, which allows direct chip access to a
variety of Linux and Windows OS. I have RedHat 9 as host OS for Windows
Enterprise Server 2003, Fedora Core 1, and RedHat 9. It works well. The project
is basically finished, although bochs didn't work smoothly.
5.) My
Bochs Documentation Project, with the goal of making the
bochs
emulation of the x86 chipset easy enough to understand that a
NORMAL person can actually install it and run Windows from a Linux
or Unix or Mac computer. (The program called
wine, a free Windows OS emulator, suitable for running occasional
Windows programs on a PC running Linux, may be for you instead.
It had required a x86 PC chip, but is now supposedly in development for Mac
OSX at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/darwine/ and is rumored to be a part of
Mac OS 10.4.
6.) The
System Development Project for CIST 1415,
a multinational bakery computer expansion to be more decentralized while
more coordinated using object oriented systems. The link to documents for
this project is located ABOVE).
Lessons Learned
is available as a PDF download.
7.) PHP and MySQL are now installed on my computer and functional.
I want to understand how to use them effectively. To that end I am
creating a database useful for bookbuyers. This was begun in CIST 1550, in
which the database worked. The PHP portion is what I'm concentrating on.
8.) Networking with remote desktops. Done with the command line via ssh,
VNC on Mac, and with Windows Remote Desktop, and X 11 between Linux and Mac.
It's do-able and recent success with VNC makes me think it is
almost easy once done the first time.
9.) Networking and HTML internship. was of service to St. Agnes Schools
in their computer support and networking on a shoestring. A good experience.
10.) Bootit as a partitioner and
bootloader. The
Bootit PDF
Page created March 2003, revised May 2003, revised April
2004, revised November 2007.
Page reformatted with CSS July 2003.