ITEC2110 Fall 2012 Test 4, Dr. Jim Rowan
1) If you wanted to run a web server on your personal computer at home why would you
NOT want to use DHCP?
2) If you were to enter: http://www.myDomainName.com/stuff1/stuff2/myNewStuff.html
into your browser and hit return, what is the NAME of the page that would be retrieved
from that traditional html-based website?
3) If you were to enter: http://www.myDomainName.com/stuff1/ into your browser and
hit return, what is the NAME of the page that would be retrieved from that traditional
html-based website?
4) Looking at the URL: http://www.myDomainName.com/stuff1/stuff2/mythings.html
what is the domain name that will be used by the DNS to look up the IP address of the
server?
5) Audio, like vision, has its own set of illusions. DESCRIBE (don’t just name it) one of
them that we discussed in class.
6) Refer to the graphs found in the Images folder. What kind of filter would change the
sound seen as original.jpg graph to the graph seen as filter1.jpg?
7) Refer to the graphs found in the Images folder. What kind of filter would change the
sound seen as original.jpg graph to the graph seen as filter2.jpg
8) Refer to the graphs found in the Images folder. What kind of filter would change the
sound seen as original.jpg graph to the graph seen as filter3.jpg
9) What kind of filter removes sound that falls below a specified amplitude (aka gain).
10) What did Ward Cunningham create that we use in this class?
11) Who wrote the first web server?
12) I want to use a small part of a copyrighted book in a lecture as an example. The term
that would apply to this type of limited use of copyrighted material is ____________?
13) Is the copyright symbol required on printed material for that work to be protected by
copyright?
14) You own a small company that rents web server space. Your client,
HummaDaHummaDa Inc, puts up a website that exposes their competitor, AJAXX Inc’s
corporate secrets. What legislation protects you from being sued by AJAXX Inc?
15) OCILLA is one part of what broader legislation?
16) Give one of Alan Kay’s quotes other than “the way to predict the future is to invent
it”.
17) One fairly common form of compression applied to human voice is called
“companding”. What does companding do to make an audio file smaller?
18) Humans are very well tuned to hearing their own names. In fact, they can hear their
names spoken in a conversation across the room when they would not be able to follow
the conversation. What is this ability called?
19) What two factors affect our ability to tell the directionality of a sound.
20) Which type of intellectual property allows use but requires that you acquire written
permission from the author as well as providing a citation.
21) After a copyright expires, the work converts to what form of intellectual property?
22) What did Alan Kay’s group at XEROX PARC invent that changed computing as we
know it?
23) List two of the four specific conditions that are used to determine Fair Use.
24) List the other two of the four specific conditions that are used to determine Fair Use.
25) Who saw Alan Kay’s work at XEROX PARC and used it to change computing as we
know it?