1.4.3 Windows Firewall

Until I came to this class, I thought that the firewall was just another net for an anti virus to use to make sure that no virus came through it. Which it can be, although it is more than just that, it can be the reason why someone can't come hack through your computer and steal.

A firewall is there to limit the operations of information and things that are allowed to take information from your computer. If you are in a private network at home and/or at work, it would be provided that you may use more software to operate. Unlike when you are at a public place, there are many software that you may not need that can store sensitive information. 

This is when the Window's Firewall shines, it allows the software to only have access to the internet when you are in a secured network; Rather then running the possibility of anyone trying to have access to your computer, firewall stops the access in total. 

I have made adjustments to my desktop and laptop so that I may be able to use it in public and know that some of my information will be safe and that I won't have to worry so much about certain software to be compromised. 

Word of the Week

Sonder: The feeling of acknowledging of how strangers live a life as complex as your own.

I found this word as a Tik-Tok, and looked up where the word has come from and found out that is one of many words that has been recently created and being accepted by people to be a word. John Koenig is the man behind the creation of this word and is part of a dictionary that he has created to make the best for ways to express emotions that many people don't have a way to express that feeling.

Many people don't think about this for being so busy with their own lives that these sort of situations go over our head and it is very humbling to know that there are more people that acknowledge that others have a life of their own and things to do.

DnD (Dungeons and Dragons)

Ever since shows like "Stranger Things" showed DND, it has always interest me how many people have actually played that game, being a player is a great experience, but being a dungeon master is another level to the game. Dungeons and Dragons is a such a broad and open world that depending on the people that are with is the way that the game goes. Having many different classes and races of characters there are infinite  ways to play the games and the story quests. Keep in mind that the game does come with stories and books that are already made, but there are always home brewed story lines that are unique and original. If you like RPG games and like stories and acting, this is the game to play.

Has anyone else played Dungeons and Dragons before? If you have, what type of player are you?

I have played both bards and rouges and like being a bard a little more for their free spirits and story progression that they allow for everyone. Right now, I'm playing as a "mute" rogue that has made most of the party annoyed; Since  she will talk at times and other times she has gone on her own and has made them look for her. Being a rogue, she may or may have not stolen things that she wasn't supposed to and well nothing that anyone can prove, has taken some important artifacts from a telekinetic monster that can read minds and see into the past of others.

Although being a month since I last played, because of scheduling and adult life. It is one of the most fun I have had with a character!

Tom Sawyer

This was one of the first animes that I have every watched. "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" is the anime that I have watched when I was about 5 to 6 years old. Both my parents are huge fans of the anime at the time, and being from 1980, it was set in the 1840s Hannibal, Missouri, with the main character being the mischievous Tom Sayer (the boy on the right with blue over-all) and his adventures of growing up. Highly suggest if you are looking for an easy, funny, and emotional show to watch. I have watched again ever since being a kid, and many of the stories now make much more sense then when I was a kid.

Word of the Week

Occhiolism

n. the awareness of the smallness of your perspective, by which you couldn’t possibly draw any meaningful conclusions at all, about the world or the past or the complexities of culture, because although your life is an epic and unrepeatable anecdote, it still only has a sample size of one, and may end up being the control for a much wilder experiment happening in the next room.

I think that this is one of those emotions that being in simple state of mind or somber state of mind it just naturally comes to someone. I like finding words that describe complex emotions or feelings that someone may feel at one point in time.

Has anyone else gone through this feeling as well? I think this is one of the most unique I have found so far.

Initial Thoughts of IS101

Hi Guys,

IS101 is something that it is very exciting to do, looking at a lot of the lessons that we have here is very refreshing to some things that I currently do at the moment as well. There is so much more things are of interest like the MOS Contest and being able to be around others and learn together is very exciting to do!

It is surprising and overwhelming to know how many things that we do everyday have so much effect to our lives that we do and don't take into consideration. I feel that IS101 will bring that information up and learning new perspectives and knowledge will help with knowing the way and the reason behind the way things work and why they work that way.