INSTALLING UBUNTU 14.04

Step 1: Installing Ubuntu 14.04 Desktop

1. Download the ISO images using above download links or from Ubuntu website, burn it to a CD or a USB stick with the help of USB Linux Installer.
2. After system boot choose your CD/DVD or USB drive displayed on your system BIOS options.
3. The CD/DVD or USB content is loaded into your RAM memory until it reaches the first stage of Installation process.
4. The next step asks you Install it or just give it a try …choose Install Ubuntu. The Try Ubuntu option will load the system into a Linux Live Mode ( Live CD ) for running in a test mode without any changes applied on your machine.
5. The preparation step verifies HDD space and network connection. Leave it as default ( third-party software and updates will be installed later) and choose Continue.
6. The next step is one of the most important steps and has four options.

1. Erase disk and install Ubuntu is a customized version of disk partition table made by Ubuntu developers and requires no previous knowledge of file systems and partitions what so ever. Also be advised that choosing this options on machines with previous Operating Systems already installed will erase all your data completely – so a previous important data backup is necessary.
2. Encrypt the new Ubuntu installation for security is a option that ensures that all your physical data are encrypted – Laptop users have a benefit in case of a stolen device.
3. Use LVM with Ubuntu is a option for advanced users and requires some knowledge of Linux Logical Volume Management and how space is distributed along many hard-disks or physical partitions – choose this if you really know what you’re doing.
4. Something else option allows a full user control over partition table – so choose this

NETWORK

A network is defined as a group of two or more computer systems linked together. There are many types of computer networks, including the following:

local-area networks (LANs): The computers are geographically close together (that is, in the same building).

wide-area networks (WANs): The computers are farther apart and are connected by telephone lines or radio waves.

campus-area networks (CANs): The computers are within a limited geographic area, such as a campus or military base.

metropolitan-area networks MANs): A data network designed for a town or city

WEB BROWSER

A web browser (commonly referred to as a browser) is a software application for retrieving, 
 presenting and traversing information resources on the World Wide
The following are the example of web browser 
Internet explorer
                                                                            









 









Mozilla Firefox



Home Page
The introductory page of a website, typically serving as a table of contents for the site.
INTERNET ADDRESS(URL)

URL - Universal Resource Locator - is name of file on a remote computer

\•http://www.msu.edu/~urquhar5/tour/active.html

INTERNET SERVICES

The World Wide Web (abbreviated WWW or the Web) is an information space where documents and other web resources are identified by Uniform Resource Locators (URLs), interlinked by hypertext links, and can be accessed via the Internet. English scientist Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web in 1989.
EMAIL
messages distributed by electronic means from one computer user to one or more recipients via a network.
CHART
An interactivity chart shows the relationships of the parts of a problem to each other and to the whole. 
SOCIAL NETWORK

1. a network of social interactions and personal relationships.
2. 
   

   a dedicated website or other application that enables users to communicate with each other by posting information, comments, messages, images, etc.

 
 
 

INTERNET,INTRANET AND EXTRANET

INTERNET

It is the largest network in the world that connects hundreds of thousands of individual networks all over the world.

The popular term for the Internet is the “information highway”.  

INTRANET 

 

Internal company network that uses Internet standards (HTML, HTTP & TCP/IP protocols) & software.

Accessed only by authorized persons, especially members or employees of the organization

Two levels of Security required:

•Internal

  It can be imposed by  Public Key Security & Encryption Key.

•External

  Through Firewall.

EXTRANET

  Extranet is an Intranet for outside authorized users using same internet technology.

Inter-organizational information system.

enable outsiders to work together with company’s employees.

 

 

WEEK 7-8 INTERNET AND WORLD WIDE WEB

BRIEF HISTORY OF INTERNET

Dr. Gerald Urquhart Developed LBS 12 which came first - Internet or WWW?

•Internet is a network of interconnected computers that is now global

•Internet born in 1969 - called ARPANET

•1969 ARPANET was connection of computers at UCLA, Stanford, UCSB, Univ. of Utah 

         •1972 - Telnet developed as a way to connect to remote computer

•1972 – Email introduced–1977 - U. Wisconsin has first “large” Email system - 100 users

•1973 - ARPANET goes international

•1973 - File Transfer Protocol (FTP) established

1991 - Tim Berners-Lee releases World Wide Web!

–TBL is computer programmer at CERN, a physics lab in Europe (new book

 Weaving the Web by TBL)

•1993 - Mosaic (becomes Netscape) designed by graduate students at University of Illinois

–first point-and-click browser

–later developed into Netscape Navigator

•These are the two most significant events in the formation of the WWW

 

 

 

 

 

INSTALLING OFFICE PACKAGE

HOW TO INSTALL OFFICE PACKAGE
Instructions
Insert the Office Enterprise 2007 installation DVD into your computer’s CD/DVD-ROM drive. After a few moments, the setup program will startup and begin loading necessary files for installation. If the setup program does not automatically start, open My Computer and double click on the CD/DVD-ROM drive icon to run the program.

At the beginning of the installation, you will be prompted to enter the product key. The product key printed on a yellow sticker, located on the back of the sleeve that the DVD came in. When you’ve finished, click the “Continue” button.

You will now be presented with the Microsoft Software License Terms. Please take a moment to scroll through and review this End User License Agreement (EULA.) After you are finished reviewing the EULA and if you agree to the terms, click on the “I accept the license terms” checkbox and then click the “Continue” button to continue.

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WEEK 15 INSTALLATION OF BASIC SOFTWARE

INSTALLING WINDOWS OPERATING SYSTEM(WINDOWS 7 IN 2007)
It is important to understand that this guide was specifically designed for a lab
environment. There are a lot of operating system vulnerabilities that are intentionally left
unpatched in these installation steps. This is intentionally done to give you the best
results when completing the labs and tutorials in this book. If you are interested, a great
reference for building a Windows 7 Professional box that is secure enough for a
production environment is Windows 7.
To create a properly configured laptop for the Security Essentials Boot Camp, follow the
detailed steps in this document—from the initial setup screen to the final login. This
guide was designed for use on a system that doesn't already have a Windows platform
installed on it. If your machine does not have a blank hard drive, some of the screens you
see at the beginning of the installation may be different from what you see in this chapter.
If different screens appear, it is important that you always choose the option to replace,
or overwrite. Do not choose to upgrade. The Windows install should also be placed in the
default c:\windows directory.

Creating Boot Disks
If your system does not support the capability to boot off of a CD-ROM, you can use the
Windows 7 boot disk to boot. If you do not have a set of the four disks, you need to use
a machine that already has Windows 7 Professional installed on it. The following steps
show you how to create the four boot disks:
1. Label four blank, formatted, 3.5-inch, 1.44-MB floppy disks as: Setup
Disk One, Setup Disk Two, Setup Disk Three, and Setup Disk Four.
2. Insert Setup Disk One into the floppy disk drive of a Windows or DOS
system.
3. Insert the Windows 7 CD-ROM into the CD-ROM drive.
4. Click Start, and then click Run.
5. In the Open box, type D:\bootdisk\makeboot a: (where D: is the drive
letter assigned to your CD-ROM drive), and then click OK.
6. Follow the screen prompts.
7. After you have completed the screen prompt requests, insert Setup Disk
One into the floppy disk drive of the lab PC and power the PC on.

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WEEK 12-14 SREADSHEET

SPREADSHEET

Is a general-purpose electronic spreadsheet used to organize,

calculate, and analyze data. The task you can complete with Excel ranges from

preparing a simple family budget, preparing a purchase order, create an elaborate 3-D

chart, or managing a complex accounting ledger for a medium size business.

 ROWS AND COLUMNS:

SPREADSHEET BASICS:
You can get help from Excel in learning the parts of the spreadsheet. With the mouse pointer click on the
Help menu, scroll down and click on “What’s This?” The cursor will become a Question Mark and you can
click on any part of the toolbar to learn more about it. Using the Question Mark Cursor, find the Formula
Bar and click on it. Observe the difference between the cell contents and the Formula B
FORMULAR IN SREADSHEET
=SUM (D2:H2)
=COUNTA(B2:E2)
=MAX (F1:F4) 
=MIN(B4:B6)
=AVERAGE(T2:T4)
=RANK(B2,$B$2,:$B$11)
 =IF(D2="OFFICER",25%*E2,10%*E2)
=IF(B3="A",5,IF(B3="B+",4,IF(B3="B",3,IF(B3="C",2,IF(B3="D",1,0))))) 

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WEEK 9-11 WORD PROCESSOR

 WORD PROCESSOR

Is word processing software that allows users to create and edit text documents. Users can start with blank documents or work from pre-configured templates for projects with frequently used formats.Also known as WORD PROCESSOR

THE TABS
The tools of Microsoft Word are organized under the tabs HOME, INSERT, PAGE LAYOUT, REFERENCES, MAILINGS, REVIEW, and VIEW.

HOME

The Home tab includes the most common tools used for creating a document. Often you will find yourself using nothing but this tab.

The INSERT tab is used for plugging tables, pictures, and other goodies into your document

ILLUSTRATIONS is the field where you can find tools to help you find or create a graphic to plug into your document. CLIP ART will allow you to browse from a set of images included in Microsoft Word and PICTURE will let you explore your computer for personal photos.

Insert mail merge fields

When you start your email merge, label merge, or letter merge and connect your document to your mailing list, you can add mail merge fields to personalize the content. The merge fields come from the column headings in your mailing list (also known as your "data source"). Here’s an example of how fields in an Excel mailing list appear in your mail merge document.

 

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WEEK 5-6 BASIC LINUX OPERATION

Multi-user & Multi-process

Many people can use one machine at the same time.

File & Process

Data, directory, process, hard disk etc (almost everything) are expressed as a file.

Process is an running program identified by a unique id (PID).

 

Important Directories

/bin     This contains files that are essential for correct operation of the system. These are available for use by all users.

/home This is where user home directories are stored.

/var  This directory is used to store files which change frequently, and must be available to be written to.

etc    Various system configuration files are stored here. 

Commands

 su  switch user

passwd   change password

useradd  create new user account

 userdel  delete user account

mount  mount file system

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