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Communications and Networking II

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Fall (September-December) 2006

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Office Hours - Fall 2006

I teach lecture sections (010) on Mondays and Tuesdays. The Lab section (011) is on Wednesday.  See my Prof Timetable schedule to make an office appointment to see me.

Important Dates for CST8165 Students

  • 2006-08-28 - Monday - Week 1 - classes start
  • 2006-09-04 - Monday - Week 2 - Labour Day (no lecture)
  • 2006-09-11 - Monday - Week 3 - early withdrawal
  • 2006-10-02 - Monday - Week 6 - Midterm Test #1 (*NEW DATE*)
  • 2006-10-09 - Monday - Week 7 - Thanksgiving (no lecture)
  • 2006-11-06 - Monday - Week 11 - Midterm Test #2
  • 2006-11-10 - Friday - Week 11 - final withdrawal
  • 2006-12-06 - Wednesday - Week 15 - final class/lab
  • 2006-12-09 to 2006-12-16 - Week 16 - Exam Week
  • 2006-12-09 - Saturday 09h00 (9am) - T230 - Final exam

Forward your Algonquin EMail

You must have a working Algonquin EMail address for this course. You must read your EMail regularly (daily) during the school term.

From on-campus at Algonquin, you can forward your Algonquin EMail to any other address you wish.  If you do this, please ensure that your replies originate from your Algonquin EMail address or else my spam blocker may throw away your unknown mail address as junk. Your "From:" address must be your Algonquin EMail address, not a Hotmail, Carleton, or other off-campus address.

You are responsible for keeping your own forwarding address accurate during the term.  During the term, I will only send your marks to your (possibly forwarded) Algonquin EMail address.

You may wish to set your "alternate" EMail using Algonquin ACSIS while on campus.  I may use your alternate EMail to inform you that your main Algonquin EMail account has a forwarding error; no personal data will ever be sent to the alternate EMail address.

Plagiarism and Academic Fraud

No unauthorized copying!  Restricted group work!  Restricted working together!

Working together is not permitted except in assignments specifically labelled by the instructor as group assignments. 

Even where using another person's material is permitted (from other students, books, the Internet, or even from the blackboard or posted course notes), copying material from other sources and submitting it without proper credit to the author is an academic offence called plagiarism.  You must credit the source of material that you did not write yourself, no matter from where it comes!

Students working together without authorization or submitting work containing plagiarized material in the programme will be charged with academic fraud under Algonquin Academic Regulations.  Read the plagiarism document for details.

See also: Algonquin College Academic Policies and Algonquin College Directives and Algonquin College Directive E43 - Plagiarism

Alternate Web Notes

Web notes for this course are not kept at Algonquin College.  I pay for them to be stored on a commercial Linux-based web hosting service, with backup copies located in other locations.

Write down the locations of the web notes and their backup copies from the list below. (You won't be able to get to this page if the main web site is down!)

  1. http://teaching.idallen.com/cst8165/06f/    (main .com site)
    The main dot .com site is located in a large data centre in Denver, Colorado, USA.
  2. http://teaching.idallen.org/cst8165/06f/    (note the dot .org domain suffix!)
    The .org site is located in a large data centre in New York city.
  3. http://acadunix.algonquincollege.com/~alleni/teaching/cst8165/06f/     (on campus)
    The ACADUNIX site is accessible from inside Algonquin College even when the College Internet is broken. Unfortunately, the web server on ACADUNIX is broken and will not serve up the directory index files correctly. You can read the Class Notes by appending /notes/ to the above URL.
  4. http://elearning.algonquincollege.com/coursemat/alleni/idallen/cst8165/06f/     (on campus)
    The ELEARNING site is accessible from inside Algonquin College even when the College Internet is broken. Unfortunately, the web server on ELEARNING is broken and will not serve up the directory index files correctly. You can read the Class Notes by appending /notes/ to the above URL.
  5. http://teaching.idallen.ca/     (Note the dot .ca domain suffix!)
    The dot .ca sites are located at my home in downtown Ottawa (limited bandwidth). Don't use them unless all the other sites are down.

In the T127 Linux Lab, all the notes are available directly in the file system under my directory /home/alleni/public_html/teaching/cst8165/06f/notes/. (They are also partially visible via the Web; however, the web browser does not run any of my CGI scripts and so all the indexing is broken, as it is on ACADUNIX.)


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