we are GEEKS!

The 2nd ICEAN CONGRESS was another successful event for the Society of Information Technology Students (SITS) and the League of Mayors of the Institute of Computing held at the University of Southeastern Philippines' Social Hall last November 26, 2010(yesterday).

Here is the program

8:00 - 8:30	Attendance
8:00 - 9:00	Opening Ceremonies
9:00 - 9:30	Getting jobs the AWESOME way - Eric Su
9:30 - 10:00	Photoshop Seminar - Milvene Mineses
10:00 - 11:30	Resume Writing - Offsourcing Inc.
11:30 - 1:00	Lunch Break
1:00 - 1:30	Registration(DevCon in ICEAN Congress)
1:30 - 2:00	Opening Program Opening Remarks: Engr. Val A. Quimno Intro to DevCon: Mark Magalona
2:00 - 2:20	Keynote Speaker - Edmund Lee
2:20 - 3:200	Lightning Talk -Veniza Joy Macaraeg on "IC on Tour" -Tina Ortiz on "Turning a passion into a career" -Jong Jison on "Umbraco" (Open Cource ASP.NET CMS) Eric Su on "PicLyf" -Rodney C. Jao on Igniting Developers for Windows Phone 7
3:20 - 3:30	Intermission
3:30 - 4:30	BOF (Birds of a Feather) - Internet Browser
4:30 - 5:30	Hackathon
5:30 - 6:00	Closing Program

But the schedule was not properly implemented due to certain problems.


It was very fun and informative especially the different events handled by the DevCon (Developer's Connect): Lightning Talk, Birds of a Feather. and Hackathon(which I had the opportunity to join).


Hackathon is somewhat(or is) like a programming contest. When we knew that our co-competitors will be three groups of higher years(which includes the smartest of their batch), we said to ourselves, "wa na ta ani bay!". But we still tried to solve the given problem. The problem was to create a Flickr search interface that will accept input then show to the user the pictures that relates to the input of the user coming from the Flickr website using Flickr's API. We tried really hard - but we failed :( We were stuck on the interface only. We didn't know how to use the API to retrieve the photos. The higher years used PHP language that we did not learn yet.  But it was okay!! :) the experience itself was already a great reward.


Here are some of the pictures during the event:(credits to Ms. Sherry Ann Marie Casal)
The pictures are in no particular order.

Some "FIRST"s in this semester....

We had our first activity in our Arts class and our first chapter test in our Database 1 class but before that let me tell you what happened to me during the start of the day... :))

I decided to set my alarm 1:30 am to study for our quizzes in CSO(but we found out that it was only a false alarm) and in DB 1. I set it up early because I attended my aunt's birthday party yesterday so i didn't have time to study. Expectedly, my alarm rang at exactly 1:30 am(obviously...) but I was too sleepy to study or even stand so I pressed the snooze button. I repeated that every time my alarm rang without minding what time it is. After I heard my younger brother getting fixed to go to school, I immediately woke up and when I checked my alarm, it was already 6:30 am!! I said to myself "Whoa!... I snoozed my alarm from 1:30 am to 6:30 am. That's the FIRST."  So I started getting ready to go to school even though our first class for today was scheduled 10:00 am I have to get ready because I still have a 1-hour ride to go to school.

I arrived early so I grabbed the chance to study. After a few minutes, we had our FIRST activity of our Arts class and It was to draw a symbol to represent the first year commemoration of the Maguindanao Massacre. It was a difficult task for me because I am not good in drawing. But I have no choice. I still have to pass something. I drew a hand going out from the soil reaching for the word "JUSTICE". I made it simple. I only used black coloring pencil and black pastel to color it. And that was basically it!

After Arts class was our CSO class, but, as you read above, the quiz was just only a false alarm!! My reaction was a mixture of "WHAT! I already studied hard..." and "YEHEY! no quiz !". We just discussed how to convert decimal to any base n.

After that we took our lunch, and it was the time for our Database 1 FIRST chapter test. The test was divided into three parts: First, arrange the items in chronological order [it was the easiest]. Second, match  the item to where it belongs [it was the trickiest part of the test!!!]. Lastly, Define the word "Meta-data"[I'm already familiar with it because we used it last semester but I'm not quite sure if I did defined it correctly]. Well, lesson learned! I should have studied harder! But it's not something to grieve about. It was only the  FIRST chapter test and there are still more and when they come I will be more prepared!

And thats about it! Thank you for reading..! 

P.S.

I almost forgot!!! It's also my FIRST time to post about myself!!! Sorry for the typographical and grammatical errors!! I'm still new with this blogging thing :P Constructive criticisms  are accepted just comment it here!

CASE STUDY #1 - EXAMPLE OF EACH CATEGORY OF AN OPERATING SYSTEM

Batch System OS Example

The IBM System/360 mainframe

BOS/360 (Basic Operating System/360) was an early IBM operating system that was made only for the IBM/360. It came in 2 versions, 4K BOS and 8K BOS.

The operating system disk contained a source language library, a macro library and a core image library. The macro library included all the options for the supervisor, which was assembled by the 360 assembly language compiler, the only language available at the time, although RPG came a little later. The other crucial component was the Job Controller, which was fed by punched cards using JCL (Job Control Language). Most BOS users upgraded to DOS and added more core, typically to 32K or even a gargantuan (for the time) 64K. DOS was the first System/360 operating system to introduce multi-programming. It could be configured with 2 foreground partitions, typically used for spooling while the main JOB Stream ran in the background.

Interactive System OS Example

CDC 6000

KRONOS is an operating system with time-sharing capabilities, written by Control Data Corporation in the 1970s. KRONOS ran on the 60-bit CDC 6000 series mainframe computers and their successors. CDC replaced KRONOS with the NOS operating system in the late 1970s, which were succeeded by the NOS/VE operating system in the mid-1980s.

The MACE operating system and APEX were forerunners to KRONOS. It was written by Control Data systems programmer Greg Mansfield, Dave Cahlander, Tate and 3 others.

Real-Time System OS Example

QNX (pronounced either Q-N-X or Q-nix) is a commercial POSIX-compliant Unix-like real-time operating system, aimed primarily at the embedded systems market. As of September 12 2007, the source of the QNX kernel has been released for non-commercial use.

QNX default desktop

The QNX kernel contains only CPU scheduling, interprocess communication, interrupt redirection and timers. Everything else runs as a user process, including a special process known as proc which performs process creation, and memory management by operating in conjunction with the microkernel. This is made possible by two key mechanisms – subroutine-call type interprocess communication, and a boot loader which can load an image containing not only the kernel but any desired collection of user programs and shared libraries. Message handling is prioritized by thread priority.

Hybrid System OS Example

Screenshot of Windows XP

Windows XP is an operating system that was produced by Microsoft for use on personal computers, including home and business desktops, laptops, and media centers. It was first released in August 2001, and is the most popular version of Windows, based on installed user base. The name "XP" is short for "eXPerience".

Windows XP was eventually released for two additional architectures, Windows XP 64-bit Edition for IA-64 (Itanium) processors and Windows XP Professional x64 Edition forx86-64.            

Embedded System OS Example

Screenshot of Windows XP Embedded Evaluation

 running several Windows components.

Windows XP Embedded, commonly abbreviated "XPe", is a componentized version of the Professional edition of Windows XP. An original equipment manufacturer is free to choose only the components needed thereby reducing operating system footprint and also reducing attack area as compared with XP Professional. Unlike Windows CE, Microsoft's operating system for portable devices and consumer electronics, XP Embedded provides the full Windows API, and support for the full range of applications and device drivers written for Microsoft Windows. The system requirements state that XPe can run on devices with at least 32 MB Compact Flash, 32 MB RAM and a P-200 microprocessor. XPe was released on November 28, 2001. As of October 2008, the newest release is Windows XP Embedded Service Pack 3.

The devices targeted for XPe have included automatic teller machines, arcade games, slot machines, cash registers, industrial robotics, thin clients, set-top boxes, network attached storage(NAS), time clocks, navigation devices, railroad locomotives, etc. Custom versions of the OS can be deployed onto anything but a full-fledged PC; even though XPe supports the same hardware that XP Professional supports (x86 architecture), licensing restrictions prevent it from being deployed on to standard PCs. However, Microsoft has made some exceptions to this rule, allowing XPe alongside a standard OEM install of Windows. Some Dell notebooks contain an embedded XP installation as part of the MediaDirect 2.0 feature, and they were also found on some Acer ones as well as the Samsung Q1.