Computing and you - Advancing yourself and avoiding the pitfalls
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How can computing help you? What is the hardware and software selection process? What are the security, network and backup considerations? How NBN Internet get installed? Where can I get more resources to answer these questions.
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Computing and you - Advancing yourself and avoiding the pitfalls
- 1. Computing andYou ADVANCING YOURSELF WHILE AVOIDING THE PITFALLS BY MATTHEW BULAT M.ENG.TECH MACS CP NQ ACS CHAIRMAN CQU ICT LECTURER
- 2. Computing andYou • Software • Apps • Computing Devices • Computing Device Selection • Operating Systems • Security • NBN Internet
- 3. Why Compute? • Join 3.8 Billion Internet Users • Connect with 85% of Australia via the Internet • Buy and sell products and services globally • Access global entertainment options • Quickly source information and news • Allow new ways of doing business • Provide new ways of gaining education
- 4. What do you want to do with computing? • Email • Calendar • Word Processing • Spreadsheets • Databases • Presentations • Business diagrams • Business applications • Cloud applications • Project Management • Social Media • Instant messaging • Music • Videos • Games • StreamingTV • eBooks • Photography • News • Video conferencing • Video Editing • Audio editing • 3D design • Programming • Virtual Reality • Mobile apps • Web Design • Virtual machines • Artificial Intelligence • Business Intelligence
- 5. What do you want to do with smartphones & tablets? Smartphone's Tablets Phone calls Music Internet Browser Games Text messaging (SMS) Email Photography Social media Calendar Internet Browser Video camera YouTube Instant messaging Flashlight Email Music Social media Podcasts / Radio shows eBooks / eMagazines Video conferencing Photography Voice recorder StreamTV / movies Document reading Map navigation Calculator Digital News eLearning
- 6. Computing Devices Laptop Chromebook Tablet Smartphones Google Home –Voice controlled Amazon Show –Voice controlled
- 7. Processor (s) = Computing brains 1 2 4 4-8 12+ Smart appliances Chromebook Cheap laptop Cheap smartphone Laptop Smartphone Desktop Chromebook Desktop Server Data centre server How many processes do you need to operate at the same time?
- 8. Permanent Storage 8GB 16-64 GB 128-256 GB 500 GB – 1TB 1TB – 8TB 8TB + Cheap Smartphone Smartphone Chromebook Tablet Storage can be expanded Tablet Laptop 2 in 1 Solid state storage Laptop Desktop Media server Desktop Server Network Attached Storage Storage Area Network For Data Centre 1TB = 1024 GB , 1 GB = 1024 MB , 1 MB = 1024 kB , 1 kB = 1024 bytes, 1 byte == 1 character storage. How much storage do you need for applications, audio, video, documents
- 9. Memory – Temporary Storage 1 GB 2 GB 4 GB 8-16 GB 16+ GB Cheap smartphone Cheap tablet Smartphone Chromebook Cheap laptop Tablet Smartphone Chromebook Laptop Tablet Laptop Desktop Server Server Virtual machine server 1 GB = 1024 MB , 1 MB = 1024 kB , 1 kB = 1024 bytes, 1 byte == 1 character storage. How much space does your applications need while running?
- 10. Backups • Local Storage Backup • USB Flash drive 1-64 GB • External USB Hard drive 1-2TB • Network Attached Storage 1-16TB • Storage Area Network 10-512TB • Cloud Storage Backup • Dropbox (2 GB free) $ for more • Apple iStorage (50 GB paid) • Google Drive (15 GB free) $ for more • Microsoft One Drive (1TB paid) • MicrosoftAzure Storage - 2.4 cents / GB / month (SE Asia) • AmazonWeb Services S3 (Australia) - 2.5 cents / GB / month How safe is your information in case of disaster? Hardware failure, theft, fire, cyclone, lightning etc
- 11. Operating Systems / Software Android iOS Windows Mac Chrome Smartphones Tablets iPhone iPad / mini / pro Laptop Desktop Server Laptop All in One Monitor 5k Mac Mini Chromebook Chromebox Chromebit Google apps Google Play apps Over 1 million apps iTunes apps Over 1 million apps Microsoft Store apps Office 365 Web apps Mac App Store Web apps iOS development Chrome Browser Google apps Web apps Free cloud storage Free photo cloud storage Google Cloud compute Paid cloud iStorage Paid One Drive cloud storage Azure cloud platform iCloud Drive for Mac and iOS (5 GB free) Paid storage to 2TB Free cloud storage Google Apps for work Google Apps for Education No antivirus No antivirus Antivirus needed Antivirus needed No antivirus
- 12. Security
- 13. NBN Connection • Audit your phone line usage and Internet usage Alarms, EFTPOS, Phone handset count etc How many computer / tablet / smartphone users Do you want to streamTV / Movies / Shows Will you want advanced NBN speed uses? Video conferencing, remote work, cloud computing etc • Contact your phone or Internet provider Provide details from above Get an estimate of NBN install date for your suburb Ask if you need a new router or modem Pick a NBN speed based on your usage • Review if you want any changes to home networking • Project plan over NBN installation period Do Nothing Option • Phone lines eventually stop working • ADSL Internet eventually stop working Townsville has the most NBN fibre in Australia – 18 suburbs
- 14. Resources suggested by Matthew Bulat • https://www.slideshare.net/matthewbulat 10 presentations including NBN, networking, storage and coding • http://www.matthewb.id.au/index.html 200+ resources including categories on NBN, websites, cloud computing, skills, Internet ofThings and computing efficiency • https://mva.microsoft.com/ MicrosoftVirtual Academy 250+ courses free • https://code.org/learn Hour of Code - 20 x 1 hour modules • https://www.acs.org.au/content/dam/acs/acs- publications/Australia's%20Digital%20Pulse%202017.pdf Australian Computer Society - Australia’s Digital Pulse 88 page PDF • https://www.youtube.com/user/acsno ACSYouTube channel
Editor's Notes
- I have over 20 years of ICT industry experience including hardware and software selection for the Commonwealth Government. Locally for over 10 years I have had the role of Australia Computer Society, North Queensland Chapter Chairman. This year I have been a ICT lecturer at CQU with 4 ICT subjects. My own website with over 200 pages reaches over 30,000 people every month in over 170 countries.
- What do your need to achieve with computing? What hardware can complete these computing tasks? Do you have backups, antivirus and networking covered?
- Interact with the world using computing. Perform business better with more information. Access new global digital services.
- Do you need consumer, business or advanced computing?
- What is your mix of smartphone, tablet and computing use? Which applications and devices suit you?
- Which device types suit you? Also consider smart televisions as a networked media display device. Chromecast can allow a smartphone to operate as a remote for Internet content to the TV. Also consider Linux computers for laptop, desktop, server and Raspberry Pi.
- Things to consider: How many applications do you have open at a time. What is the processor generation. Newer generations are faster. What is the processor clock speed.
- Android smartphones and tablets can have storage expanded with micro SD cards. Solid state drives are faster the mechanical drives. Hard drives can run in parallel for speed or backup.
- More memory can be a cheap computer speed upgrade. Memory manufacturer, speed and version should be the same. Picture 1 = SODIMM laptop memory Picture 2 = DIMM desktop memory Picture 3 = Server memory can allow many virtual computers operate from a single physical server
- Do you have a local backup? Do you have a remote backup? What is the value of your data?
- Which platform suit your needs? Do you have cloud application needs? Do you have specific business application needs?
- Are your devices up to date in terms of operating system and applications. Do you have anti virus definitions up to date. E.g. less that a week old. Unique passwords for accounts protects you if one company is hacked. E.g. Yahoo. Be careful of application choices and privacy. Be careful of links from emails. Internet Browsers with antivirus can block access to dangerous websites.
- Which type of NBN is in or due in your suburb? Fibre, Fibre to node, wireless, satellite. Consider your premises before and after NBN. What are the new possibilities? Google 74 uses for the NBN. How can faster Internet help you at home and in business?
- Computer, laptop, Chromebook selection guides. http://www.matthewb.id.au/computer/index.html 74 uses for the NBN - http://www.matthewb.id.au/nbn/index.html Website development - http://www.matthewb.id.au/website/index.html Cloud computing - http://www.matthewb.id.au/cloud/index.html