Botnets: An In-depth Analysis
Tuesday, May 13th, 2008As the topic of my IST 451 term paper, I wrote an analytical paper about Botnets. While there is a lot of technical information in this paper, I tried to keep the information as clear and understandable as possible. Hopefully I accomplished that.
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IST302 Project: Class Alerts
Monday, December 3rd, 2007My final project for IST302 is an SMS alerts system that lets Penn State students receive alerts when their classes are about to start. The system scrapes the Schedule of Courses website for course information and stores it in a mySQL database. A cronjob runs every minute to search for classes starting in 15 minutes. It then queries the user database to see if any users are signed up for alerts for those courses.
Students can sign up for the service with their Penn State Access accounts. There is no registration process. They simply log in with WebAccess, enter their phone number, and start adding courses.
