Hello Everyone.
Well here we are in a new month and nothing much has changed. The Christmas season is getting more and more of a feverish reality and I do not want to keep blogging without giving you all a special Christmas treat for the end of 2009.
Thank you.
The Muffin
3.8: The Language of Business and sentence structures.
There are various ways of speaking English. One way is the language of business. This is the most professional and probably the hardest way of speaking English.
When writing a memo or a letter to a dissatisfied customer (should you have any) then it is imperative that you perform different types of sentence structure and form. These are known as the simple, compound and complex sentences.
A simple sentence is the most common and the easiest sentence in the English language and any other language you may choose to study in your lives. An example of a simple sentence is something like the following below:
“I wrote this example”
In English there is a way of writing sentences known as the SVO method. This works like the following:
Subject: The person or thing carrying out the action.
Verb: The action being carried out.
Object: The person or thing having the Verb carried out towards them.
So in the sentence above I am the subject because I am writing the example. Me writing is the verb and the example is the object because I am writing it. Or in other words I am carrying out a verb towards the object.
Compound Sentences
Compound sentences are two simple sentences put together with a connective in between the two sentences. I.E:
“I wrote this example and I don’t like it.”
Notice this time I used a connective. Connectives are words such as: And, Or, However, any word that basically makes two sentences into one.
I am the subject again. The Example is the object and the verb is me writing. “And I don’t like it” is an informative clause but you don’t have to worry about that just yet.
Complex sentences are a lot easier than most think. It’s just a case of weather or not you know how to write them out and if you can think logically.
This example, as bad as it is, is the only example I can think of.
The way a complex sentence works is if you can take out the middle clause and it doesn’t make sense on it’s own, then you have a complex sentence because:
This example is the only example I can think of
I removed the middle clause and the informative sentence still makes sense because it is now a simple sentence.
As bad as it is
This does not make sense on its own.
Thank You for reading my terrible blogs.
The Muffin
Wednesday, 7 October 2009
Wednesday, 30 September 2009
the start of 3.1
we were doing unit 5 and now we're doing 3.1. I am confused.
anyway time for communication unit.
Hello everyone.
Unit 3.1 is a nice easy break from network and database theory. Even so, I’m struggling to keep up with everything. I’ve yet to start a Duke Of Edinburgh award and I’ve got coursework for all of my subjects and I’ve got two different types of maths exams, three different types of English and coursework for all that on top of all this. Not forgetting work experience and other out-of-school activities!
Anyway, the diploma is the subject at hand now. I must now produce information on communication.
Thank You.
The Muffin
3.1 A: Communication
There are different types of communication. Some are more obvious than others. Some are first hand and others are second but they all, near enough, do the same thing. The different types are as follows:
• Face to face
• Telephone
• Video
• E-mail
• Blogs
• Media
Media is a category within itself. The different types of media are as follows:
• Magazines
• Newspapers
• Texts
• Books
All the types of media above all have their time and their place when they are needed the most. For example: Face to face is best used when you want to talk to somebody when they are standing right next to you. It would not work when you are trying to talk to somebody face to face when they are in another country or very far away in general. Face to face is good because this shows, especially in business, that you are capable of being confident enough to confront the desired person you wish to talk to and talk to them. However, you cannot write the things that you say down. At least not in your average situation in the office you can’t.
Telephone is a good source of communication when you are in one office and the target person you wish to talk to is in another office generally far away. This is about it. It doesn’t really work when you are in the office next to them. Not only will you make an idiot of yourself you are also wasting money and time trying to just connect so you can call them and waste more money and more time and make even more of an idiot of yourself.
Video communication is basically face to face except you can ship the video file over great distances using your network or internet. It is a very good way of face to face communication because you can play the video clip as many times as you want. It is efficient. However, it is not efficient when you want to say a one word answer or statement. You also make an idiot of yourself by sitting on a folding chair or your very uncomfortable office chair and talking directly into a camera with a horrible little optical lens.
E-mails are becoming the biggest and for some reason the best form of communication. This is not a very good type of communication simply because if you E-mail somebody you are failing to demonstrate any real skill of communication within your work group. This is not helpful as your employer or boss will not think much of you if you cannot talk to people up-front and personally.
Blogs are very efficient and useful. Reason being: if you’re a devious foreign to my blogs and have not seen any of my other ones (please do) then you will not be aware that my blogs are very, very long and there’s a lot to read. With blogs you can upload mass amounts of information to the internet. The only thing it comes down to after that is weather the information helps. Please answer the poll.
Newspapers just make things up
Magazines distort the news.
Texts aren’t in English and they are usually off the subject.
Books never help in any situation.
Thank You
The Muffin
anyway time for communication unit.
Hello everyone.
Unit 3.1 is a nice easy break from network and database theory. Even so, I’m struggling to keep up with everything. I’ve yet to start a Duke Of Edinburgh award and I’ve got coursework for all of my subjects and I’ve got two different types of maths exams, three different types of English and coursework for all that on top of all this. Not forgetting work experience and other out-of-school activities!
Anyway, the diploma is the subject at hand now. I must now produce information on communication.
Thank You.
The Muffin
3.1 A: Communication
There are different types of communication. Some are more obvious than others. Some are first hand and others are second but they all, near enough, do the same thing. The different types are as follows:
• Face to face
• Telephone
• Video
• Blogs
• Media
Media is a category within itself. The different types of media are as follows:
• Magazines
• Newspapers
• Texts
• Books
All the types of media above all have their time and their place when they are needed the most. For example: Face to face is best used when you want to talk to somebody when they are standing right next to you. It would not work when you are trying to talk to somebody face to face when they are in another country or very far away in general. Face to face is good because this shows, especially in business, that you are capable of being confident enough to confront the desired person you wish to talk to and talk to them. However, you cannot write the things that you say down. At least not in your average situation in the office you can’t.
Telephone is a good source of communication when you are in one office and the target person you wish to talk to is in another office generally far away. This is about it. It doesn’t really work when you are in the office next to them. Not only will you make an idiot of yourself you are also wasting money and time trying to just connect so you can call them and waste more money and more time and make even more of an idiot of yourself.
Video communication is basically face to face except you can ship the video file over great distances using your network or internet. It is a very good way of face to face communication because you can play the video clip as many times as you want. It is efficient. However, it is not efficient when you want to say a one word answer or statement. You also make an idiot of yourself by sitting on a folding chair or your very uncomfortable office chair and talking directly into a camera with a horrible little optical lens.
E-mails are becoming the biggest and for some reason the best form of communication. This is not a very good type of communication simply because if you E-mail somebody you are failing to demonstrate any real skill of communication within your work group. This is not helpful as your employer or boss will not think much of you if you cannot talk to people up-front and personally.
Blogs are very efficient and useful. Reason being: if you’re a devious foreign to my blogs and have not seen any of my other ones (please do) then you will not be aware that my blogs are very, very long and there’s a lot to read. With blogs you can upload mass amounts of information to the internet. The only thing it comes down to after that is weather the information helps. Please answer the poll.
Newspapers just make things up
Magazines distort the news.
Texts aren’t in English and they are usually off the subject.
Books never help in any situation.
Thank You
The Muffin
Wednesday, 23 September 2009
I am going backwards...
I seem to be going backwards... Have I lost my mind!
I am now doing unit 3.3……. am I going backwards?
They go in order from when I posted them.
Thank You
The Muffin
3.3: Effective Communication and the purpose of it.
I have been instructed to study five websites of the following.
A Retailer
A Manufacturer
A Leisure or Sports website
A Local Government
A Charity
So I will start chronologically.
The Retail website I have decided to study is GAK (Guitar Amp Keyboard). This shop is based in Brighton and it does do some very, very cheap items. It’s not tat so to speak, in fact they’re proper brand-name instruments and instrument accessories which are very high quality if you buy from the shop itself. Buying online is still the same price. All they’re doing is knocking about five pounds off and put five pounds on delivery price. This isn’t a pain considering the main good part of the website is they will compare and beat prices! Unfortunately, not online prices so you have about a 50% chance of actually getting a beaten price. It’s unreliable in-a-nutshell. Much like their delivery service which leads me on to comment on their down-sides, believe me there are a few of them.
Their shop, while it is big, is extremely overcrowded. I had to wait thirty minutes just to ask about trying out a pedal and even then there was a wait time just to get on.
Second was that while the website was very useful and fairly easy to use in buying things, the quality of the box looked like the lowest quality cardboard in the world. You couldn’t get cheaper stuff if you tried.
It arrived five working days late. I ordered it on a Thursday meaning the lateness was appalling.
Trying to park somewhere near the shop when you’re physically going there is dreadful. It’s a bit like trying to get into Fort Knox. You just can’t find it.
If you do manage to actually get someone to help you inside the shop then expect to walk about a lot. The people behind the counter are always sending you to go to someone else in a different department.
While the physical side of the shop is still quite bad, the products themselves are quite good.
The website is easy to use, but the stuff comes late and while you’re ringing them up and saying that your product hasn’t come yet, they say “I’m so sorry I had no idea.”
The next website I’m going to review is the Ibanez Guitar Company. This company is a very, very good company. They give you all the information you need to know about the guitar or bass you need to look at. They give you a very good in-depth spec. of your guitar or bass. They will also give you endorsed retailers near you using a very clever and well designed and thought out database. The only thing I would point out is that the website is a little bit difficult to navigate around. It’s not that hard once you’ve gotten used to it. Overall I can honestly say: “This guitar company is excellent” I’ve never experienced better customer service both online and on the phone! Excellent! Well Done Ibanez!
LA Fitness is my next website I’m reviewing. Looking at the website I can see the cheesy: everyone on the front page is smiling like working is some kind of fun. When we all know, it’s not. This website is hard to navigate around in the sense that it will say: About Us: when you would normally expect then to say some cheesy story about the creator and then their main customer service number. What you actually get on the website is far different. You get this on the front page:
Latest News (this four lines long)
Lifestyle Tip. This one makes me laugh all the time. It says the following:
“We are now working longer hours than any other country in Europe. A survey by the Department of Trade and Industry's (DTI) Work-Life Balance Campaign and Management Today magazine paints a poor picture of working conditions in the United Kingdom.”
How is that a lifestyle tip?
There’s a page that says “Corporate” This means nothing to my age group.
That’s all I have run out of time. I never have enough of it.
Thank you
The Muffin
I am now doing unit 3.3……. am I going backwards?
They go in order from when I posted them.
Thank You
The Muffin
3.3: Effective Communication and the purpose of it.
I have been instructed to study five websites of the following.
A Retailer
A Manufacturer
A Leisure or Sports website
A Local Government
A Charity
So I will start chronologically.
The Retail website I have decided to study is GAK (Guitar Amp Keyboard). This shop is based in Brighton and it does do some very, very cheap items. It’s not tat so to speak, in fact they’re proper brand-name instruments and instrument accessories which are very high quality if you buy from the shop itself. Buying online is still the same price. All they’re doing is knocking about five pounds off and put five pounds on delivery price. This isn’t a pain considering the main good part of the website is they will compare and beat prices! Unfortunately, not online prices so you have about a 50% chance of actually getting a beaten price. It’s unreliable in-a-nutshell. Much like their delivery service which leads me on to comment on their down-sides, believe me there are a few of them.
Their shop, while it is big, is extremely overcrowded. I had to wait thirty minutes just to ask about trying out a pedal and even then there was a wait time just to get on.
Second was that while the website was very useful and fairly easy to use in buying things, the quality of the box looked like the lowest quality cardboard in the world. You couldn’t get cheaper stuff if you tried.
It arrived five working days late. I ordered it on a Thursday meaning the lateness was appalling.
Trying to park somewhere near the shop when you’re physically going there is dreadful. It’s a bit like trying to get into Fort Knox. You just can’t find it.
If you do manage to actually get someone to help you inside the shop then expect to walk about a lot. The people behind the counter are always sending you to go to someone else in a different department.
While the physical side of the shop is still quite bad, the products themselves are quite good.
The website is easy to use, but the stuff comes late and while you’re ringing them up and saying that your product hasn’t come yet, they say “I’m so sorry I had no idea.”
The next website I’m going to review is the Ibanez Guitar Company. This company is a very, very good company. They give you all the information you need to know about the guitar or bass you need to look at. They give you a very good in-depth spec. of your guitar or bass. They will also give you endorsed retailers near you using a very clever and well designed and thought out database. The only thing I would point out is that the website is a little bit difficult to navigate around. It’s not that hard once you’ve gotten used to it. Overall I can honestly say: “This guitar company is excellent” I’ve never experienced better customer service both online and on the phone! Excellent! Well Done Ibanez!
LA Fitness is my next website I’m reviewing. Looking at the website I can see the cheesy: everyone on the front page is smiling like working is some kind of fun. When we all know, it’s not. This website is hard to navigate around in the sense that it will say: About Us: when you would normally expect then to say some cheesy story about the creator and then their main customer service number. What you actually get on the website is far different. You get this on the front page:
Latest News (this four lines long)
Lifestyle Tip. This one makes me laugh all the time. It says the following:
“We are now working longer hours than any other country in Europe. A survey by the Department of Trade and Industry's (DTI) Work-Life Balance Campaign and Management Today magazine paints a poor picture of working conditions in the United Kingdom.”
How is that a lifestyle tip?
There’s a page that says “Corporate” This means nothing to my age group.
That’s all I have run out of time. I never have enough of it.
Thank you
The Muffin
Hello People! This is a picture of a ring network I have put together with my fantastic group of people.
This is known as a ring network. Reason is: It's shaped like a ring.
Ring networks work quite well according to some people however I think that they do next to nothing to help you. While it's still a network it doesnt exactly help with effeciency seeing as the whole network works like a hub! Hubs are bad but this thing exists in it's own little world. Much like politicians.
For information on hubs see my 5.X blogs in my september archive.
I think I have another one to upload. I'm not sure.
Thank You.
The Muffin
Wednesday, 16 September 2009
It's Finally 5.9! does this mean no more unit 5?
I Think this is the last of Unit 5. However I'm not so sure
Hello People
Another Blog and this time it’s on Security and Back-up.
Brief introduction I know but I’m running out of things to say and I’m afraid I might crack a joke!
Thank you
The Muffin
5.9 A: How can physical security be implemented?
Physical Security is a big issue just as much as computer and network security, but if water or fire gets into or onto a computer then the company will have to buy a new computer, put all the past information on it and it will take a very long time, most of it will waste the three most important things:
Time
Money
Movement
However you can prevent this by using what we call it in the trade: Physical security. In Tennis there’s a theory called centre court meaning if you return serve on the right side of the court, moving back to the middle will give you an advantage and theoretically use less power and make you win the game. Try to use the same theory in an office by using some key things to prevent floods, which we will start off with:
Drains in the middle of rooms underneath doors
Drainage systems
That’s about it but you can spread it all over the office and building and use it over and over again. You will find that this is the most common used form of flood-prevention.
In a fire situation however, things are slightly different. You could use things such as:
Air-Con
Sprinklers
Fire Extinguishers
A security phone by all flammable points
Don’t leave ANY and I repeat in block caps, ANY of your computers by a radiator or highly flammable object.
5.9 B: How can these be breached?
It’s scary to think that I am writing a list of ways that can potentially make a company collapse but it is vital to be aware of these things.
Floods
Sparks by water taps
Accident in the kitchen if your companies building has one
Faulty Pipes
Hardware faults
Software crashes
Theft
Collapsed Building from earthquakes e.t.c
5.9 C: Anti-Virus and Firewall
These two can work together very easily, you can actually make your Firewall pick things up and send it to the Anti-Virus so that you can be 100% safe from your computer.
Disadvantage: The Anti-Virus might not detect the virus that is being sent through, this can happen.
Thank you for reading today and I hope I answered some questions.
Thanks
The Muffin
Hello People
Another Blog and this time it’s on Security and Back-up.
Brief introduction I know but I’m running out of things to say and I’m afraid I might crack a joke!
Thank you
The Muffin
5.9 A: How can physical security be implemented?
Physical Security is a big issue just as much as computer and network security, but if water or fire gets into or onto a computer then the company will have to buy a new computer, put all the past information on it and it will take a very long time, most of it will waste the three most important things:
Time
Money
Movement
However you can prevent this by using what we call it in the trade: Physical security. In Tennis there’s a theory called centre court meaning if you return serve on the right side of the court, moving back to the middle will give you an advantage and theoretically use less power and make you win the game. Try to use the same theory in an office by using some key things to prevent floods, which we will start off with:
Drains in the middle of rooms underneath doors
Drainage systems
That’s about it but you can spread it all over the office and building and use it over and over again. You will find that this is the most common used form of flood-prevention.
In a fire situation however, things are slightly different. You could use things such as:
Air-Con
Sprinklers
Fire Extinguishers
A security phone by all flammable points
Don’t leave ANY and I repeat in block caps, ANY of your computers by a radiator or highly flammable object.
5.9 B: How can these be breached?
It’s scary to think that I am writing a list of ways that can potentially make a company collapse but it is vital to be aware of these things.
Floods
Sparks by water taps
Accident in the kitchen if your companies building has one
Faulty Pipes
Hardware faults
Software crashes
Theft
Collapsed Building from earthquakes e.t.c
5.9 C: Anti-Virus and Firewall
These two can work together very easily, you can actually make your Firewall pick things up and send it to the Anti-Virus so that you can be 100% safe from your computer.
Disadvantage: The Anti-Virus might not detect the virus that is being sent through, this can happen.
Thank you for reading today and I hope I answered some questions.
Thanks
The Muffin
Swipe Cards and Security against virus' and hackers
I Have to be more professional...
Hello Everyone.
I Have been told to be more Business-like, more professional and not joking around so much (although I wasn’t aware that I was, I was just putting the blogs in such a way that I felt like I could relate to you) this is not my say in it. This is not under my control either. So here we go, for a blog about Swipe Cards and security.
Thank you
The Muffin
5.8 A: Swipe Cards, Access Codes and Keys to a security room.
Swipe Cards are an advantage in the sense that: it is personal to a specific employee to that company, they are unique and in some sense special. They are bound to the specific person you give them to and they are very hard to hack into. That is Swipe Cards explained in a nutshell.
Disadvantages would be that if there were to be a power cut, then the cards would be rendered useless, meaning no-body would be able to go anywhere. In some cases it would also be very dark in the office.
Access Codes are easier to give out to employees within the company and once again rely on power, a lot of things do. They do not hang around your neck or take up room in your pocket or wallet like Swipe Cards do, they are software as well requiring next to no memory (it doesn’t take up much room to remember a few letters and numbers).
Disadvantages would be that hackers are everywhere these days and always like to watch our modern economy crash and burn (because they think our economy isn’t bad enough) meaning if a company with a lot of money, transferable money is protected by a few numbers and letters then the hacker simply plants spyware and watches type in their password. Once this is done the hacker can type in the password and withdraw all the money that he/she needs.
Keys to a secure room are keys that grant you access to a secure room (funnily enough). Keys do not rely on power so they can still get you from A to B without power (although you will most probably want to get in the room to figure out why the power is gone anyway). They do not require your name on it or anything, they just need to be on your key-ring.
Disadvantages are that the lock can easily be picked, vandalised or simply beaten down. Not the most effective but the differences between good and bad in this case are so great that it is hard to choose between to the three.
5.8 B: Which would I recommend to the people viewing?
I personally would choose passwords seeing as you can trace it, change it and do whatever you want with it.
5.8 C: What is needed to keep a system available 24/7
Quite simply all you need is power, a secure network with a good password and people working the machines.
That’s all, I hope made Mr ICT happy seeing as this is as professional as I can get pretty much.
I would like to thank Wikipedia for helping me out with the information and the link for Swipe Cards is below:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_stripe_card
Well, that’s all for now. Thank you very much for reading and please answer the poll and comment.
Thanks
The Muffin
Hello Everyone.
I Have been told to be more Business-like, more professional and not joking around so much (although I wasn’t aware that I was, I was just putting the blogs in such a way that I felt like I could relate to you) this is not my say in it. This is not under my control either. So here we go, for a blog about Swipe Cards and security.
Thank you
The Muffin
5.8 A: Swipe Cards, Access Codes and Keys to a security room.
Swipe Cards are an advantage in the sense that: it is personal to a specific employee to that company, they are unique and in some sense special. They are bound to the specific person you give them to and they are very hard to hack into. That is Swipe Cards explained in a nutshell.
Disadvantages would be that if there were to be a power cut, then the cards would be rendered useless, meaning no-body would be able to go anywhere. In some cases it would also be very dark in the office.
Access Codes are easier to give out to employees within the company and once again rely on power, a lot of things do. They do not hang around your neck or take up room in your pocket or wallet like Swipe Cards do, they are software as well requiring next to no memory (it doesn’t take up much room to remember a few letters and numbers).
Disadvantages would be that hackers are everywhere these days and always like to watch our modern economy crash and burn (because they think our economy isn’t bad enough) meaning if a company with a lot of money, transferable money is protected by a few numbers and letters then the hacker simply plants spyware and watches type in their password. Once this is done the hacker can type in the password and withdraw all the money that he/she needs.
Keys to a secure room are keys that grant you access to a secure room (funnily enough). Keys do not rely on power so they can still get you from A to B without power (although you will most probably want to get in the room to figure out why the power is gone anyway). They do not require your name on it or anything, they just need to be on your key-ring.
Disadvantages are that the lock can easily be picked, vandalised or simply beaten down. Not the most effective but the differences between good and bad in this case are so great that it is hard to choose between to the three.
5.8 B: Which would I recommend to the people viewing?
I personally would choose passwords seeing as you can trace it, change it and do whatever you want with it.
5.8 C: What is needed to keep a system available 24/7
Quite simply all you need is power, a secure network with a good password and people working the machines.
That’s all, I hope made Mr ICT happy seeing as this is as professional as I can get pretty much.
I would like to thank Wikipedia for helping me out with the information and the link for Swipe Cards is below:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_stripe_card
Well, that’s all for now. Thank you very much for reading and please answer the poll and comment.
Thanks
The Muffin
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