- Who are you targeting. Determining your intended audience will keep things focused, improve search results and keep followers loyal.
- What is your theme. Logical extension of point 1. You can't jump all over the place and expect the people that started following your showjumping blog to still be with you when 2 blogs later you are an expert on quilting.
- Update regularly. Keep 'em coming back for more!
- Easy, to navigate. Keep it in a format were it flows as people expect.
- Consistent. Quality, tone, style. People are creatures of habit so don't freak them out! Keep it consistent and introduce changes gradually.
Ok telnet task.
First, really, really need to get another monitor for dual screen laptop. So seamless at work, so clunky here in garage.
Telnet task.
- Choose telnet client. Download and install software if necessary.
- Telnet to Deakin library database.
- Search by author for books with author name Bennahum.
- Print results to student email account at Curtin.
OMG command line interface. Funny how intimidating for mouse addicts. Not that hard, /? or ?/ I forget, he he, will get you there.
Firewall was a problem, go into antivirus program access and allow telnet.
Screenshots. click on shots for hi res display.
Get telnet service running..
Once in Deakin choose search method
Then choose author..
Then print to email.
Blinkenlights task...
yup here it is...
Being a big fan of the first Star Wars movie, it gave me a chuckle to see this. My first pc was a Commodore 64 and I used to program in basic and I know how long it takes to make the simplest thing happen. This would have taken months to make. But from small beginnings big things grow. From ascii animations to PS3 eyecandy graphics in 25 years. Amazing.
Humans have a knack for deciding something can be done and find a way to do it with the tools at hand. then they make better tools and do it over again until it is what they imagined.
Telnet for its apparent crudeness was a miracle to the people that first used it and similar services like DELPHI, Compu-serve and The Source. Their desire to communicate with one another drove the providers to think of new services they could add to win users from other providers. A lot of these services adapted technology that wasn't intended to do the job, such as Teletext (which started in the 1970's) transmitting in the vertical interval blanks in cable and free to air television transmissions. However the crude adaptions led to refinement, then the creation of new technologies designed from the ground up to do the job properly.
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I enjoyed reading your posts Jason! I remember Teletext well, it seemed a big thing at the time didn't it? Sometimes I tend to forget how far things have come until I'm reminded of something like that. I remember Commodore 64's well. I used to work for Tandy in the 80's and used to sell computers that rivalled the 64, we were always trying to talk people out of buying a 64 and buying a Tandy computer instead!
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Keep up the good work and entertaining reads!
Sheila
Hi Sheila, I have been a bad boy and have been away from my blog and the forum due to work.I will endeavour to hunt you down and see if you still need help with the screenshots.
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