Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Morrowind is an excellent game that has been around for years winning the game of the year award on both PC and Xbox. The story starts off with you arriving at the island of morrowind you awake from a nightmare as you arrive and are introduced to the world. You are accepted into the kings service and your quest begins. As an RPG it gives you almost absolute freedom within the game you may go where you want when you want. you can even kill the people that you need to win and still play but t warns you that their death affects the reality and recommends that you do not save as you can no longer win.
Combat in this game is average for its time. The health bar for you opponents is only shown when you strike them with a melee or ranged weapon(not magic) and disappears about 10 seconds after. depending on your character build will affect you combat mages are generally ranged chars while fighters are usually melee. your life mana and fatigue are always displayed in the bottom left hand corner of your screen. All move use fatigue from running to spells to reciving blows.
Replay value for me is very high because of the sheer variability of the game there are more than 400 quest thousands of npc's and 100,000's of items magical or otherwise and is one of the largest video games ever created. and the character classes can be customized as much as you like including what your class is called.
For the time the graphics were amazing but are now sub-par and the sound quality is the same.but the layout of the world is intrecit and enticing. For the map can be set to world or local depending upon the use you require it for. the map does not always show enough detail as you would what localy especially in Vivic but with a bit of experience in a city finding place is a breeze.
Thursday, May 6, 2010
Friday, April 16, 2010
In Class Videos.
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Important Questions that must be addressed:
1. The name of the Operating Systems (OS)
Linux red hat
2. Creators (company and individual names if possible)
In 1994 Marc Ewing created his own Linux distribution, which he named Red Hat Linux. Ewing released it in October
3. Why these operating systems were created
4. Comparison of features (what are similar features? What does one have that the other does not?)
5. Advantages of both OS's
older well built os so can fund other newer os such as fedora.
Open source bussiness model.
6. Disadvantages of both OS's
7. Target market (ex. home, business, students, programmers, servers, etc.)
8. Distribution (approximately how many % of people use it?)
9. Reviews (good and bad, what people have to say about both OS's)
10. Cost (if several versions are available, list each one)
11. What is the native file format of the operating system? (ex. NTFS, HFS+, FAT32, etc.)
12. What kinds of programs are available on each operating system? (ex. games, photo editors, desktop publishing etc.)
13. Based on your research, which operating system would you recommend using and why?
One Laptop per Child
Mugshot
Dogtail
Red Hat Exchange
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
An operating system is a code that manages the hardware and software resources of the system. It's perpose is to controle numerours complex systems that would be difficult to run indevidually.
2. What operating system do most computers come preloaded with?
a member of the windows family.
3. Besides personal computers, what other devices have operating systems?
i phones, palm pilots and the likes
4. Do all computers have operating systems? Explain
no not all computers have operating systems for example a microwave does not because it doesn't need it.
5. What are the three most common operating systems? Are there other operating systems? Explain.
the windows family Mac os and linux because linux is a very high end hard to understand system that nasa and such agencies use and windows and OS come with the majority of home computers that you would buy.
6. What is one reason why operating systems are coded rather than physical circuits?
so for a minor change you wouldn't have to scrap the whole system.
7. What are the two main functions of an operating system?
It provides a stable, consistent way for applications to deal with the hardware and it manages the hardware and software resources of the system.
8. What are the four types of operating systems?
9. What are the first actions the computer takes when you power it on?
10. What is the bootstrap loader? What is its function?
11. How does the OS manage the processor?
12. What does an operating system do when two processes are multi-tasking?
13. What is thrashing?
14. What is virtual memory management?
15. What is a driver?
16. How can input/output capabilities of a system be enhanced?
17. How do application program interfaces make it easier for programmers?
18. What is a UI and GUI?
19. Why is Linux being open source significant?
20. What are some other devices that run on Linux?
21. What are 3 things you found interesting about operating systems that you did not know before?
22. What is a question that you still have about operating systems?
Monday, April 12, 2010
LAN
Full Name:Local Area Network
What is it:a group of computers on a single connection in a small area.
Example:at my house the main computer my dads computer and my brothers laptop are all on the same connection.
WAN
Full Name: Wide Area Network
What is it:a computer network that spans a larger area than a normal lan network.
Example: A large company head office has a WAN and so all of the other branches have the same connection.