ARW 5/24 Response

I do not know why but on this day, I felt like we are having a class in H-159, although Rab officially told us that we have Friday classes in macs room more than a month ago. I finally arrived at macs room. I later realized there is no way we could have Funky Fridays in a room without any computers. I often make this kind of strange mistakes.

Anyway, more things to learn regarding computers! The first topic was internet security. We are usually not aware of our computers being tracked. But if we do not violate certain laws, such as illegal downloading or hacking, we can be easily tracked and arrested. Even emails we send back and forth everyday can be supervised. These are due to IP address. This is why we should be careful sending an email from computers in ICU since "emails are like postcards", according to Rab. Additionally, I learned about VPN for the first time. This allows me to pretend that I am accessing from certain regions so I can use websites that limit the locations of access. When I used to live in U.S., I often used a video website called Youku, which only allows an access from U.S. and China but now I cannot watch anything on this website. If I wish, I can watch anything I like for 1000 yen per month. I am not going to do that, but it is a powerful tool.

In order to make presentation slides, PowerPoint was the only option for me before Rab introduced a new tool: Keynote. I have seen this desk-looking icon every time I used macs, but I have not expected its high performance. It has much more useful and exciting tools, 3D graphs or Alpha for example, than PowerPoint. I asked Rab if this only works on macs, and his answer was "Of course!" Yeah, I should probably admit that Macs are better than Windows. So every time I need to use Keynote, I should come to ILC. I might have to stick with PowerPoint but I would like to use this if I have a chance in the future.