======Part 1====== =====Entries===== ====Entry 1: January Day 31, 2012==== Virtual Machine install. As an aid, feel free to use the following questions to help you generate content for your entries: * I Learned the concept of what a virtual machine is. * I proceeded to install a virtual machine and gain an understanding of how a virtual machine works on the basic level * I dealt with a concept of virtual reality.... actually jsut logging in to the VM server remotely * It was difficult in that I kept getting an errorand had no idea why. Turns out punctuation is very important when installing packages. ====Entry 2: January Day, 2012==== This is a sample format for a dated entry. Please substitute the actual date for "Month Day, Year", and duplicate the level 4 heading to make additional entries. As an aid, feel free to use the following questions to help you generate content for your entries: * What action or concept of significance, as related to the course, did you experience on this date? * Why was this significant? * What concepts are you dealing with that may not make perfect sense? * What challenges are you facing with respect to the course? Remember that 4 is just the minimum number of entries. Feel free to have more. ====Entry 3: January Day, 2012==== This is a sample format for a dated entry. Please substitute the actual date for "Month Day, Year", and duplicate the level 4 heading to make additional entries. As an aid, feel free to use the following questions to help you generate content for your entries: * What action or concept of significance, as related to the course, did you experience on this date? * Why was this significant? * What concepts are you dealing with that may not make perfect sense? * What challenges are you facing with respect to the course? Remember that 4 is just the minimum number of entries. Feel free to have more. ====Entry 4: January Day, 2012==== This is a sample format for a dated entry. Please substitute the actual date for "Month Day, Year", and duplicate the level 4 heading to make additional entries. As an aid, feel free to use the following questions to help you generate content for your entries: * What action or concept of significance, as related to the course, did you experience on this date? * Why was this significant? * What concepts are you dealing with that may not make perfect sense? * What challenges are you facing with respect to the course? Remember that 4 is just the minimum number of entries. Feel free to have more. =====Keywords===== {{page>hpc0part1&nofooter}} {{page>hpc2part1&nofooter}} =====Experiments===== ====Experiment 1: ALienware LEDs==== ===Question=== Is the cause of my laptops lights not working software or hardware related? ===Resources=== Collect information and resources (such as URLs of web resources), and comment on knowledge obtained that you think will provide useful background information to aid in performing the experiment. ===Hypothesis=== It will be software related. The lights are still physically turning on but the color of the LEDs are stuck on white. The software provided from DELL does not have any effect on the color, just repeated errors. ===Experiment=== I'm going to reinstall the software from DELL that directly controls the color the LEDs. If that doesnt work I will completely reinstall the entire OS returning the laptop to it's factory state. Also there is a 'soft' reset I read where you take the battery out and hold in the power button. If that doesn't work then the only option left is that it is hardware related and I will have to call DELL. FML ===Data=== I went online to the DELL website and downloaded the software specifically for my machine that controls the LEDs. Then I uninstalled the previous software (just to be safe) and reinstalled with the DELL download.. still no luck. Took the battery out and held in the power button for a soft reset and still no luck. Now I try the factory reset which wipes the hdd and does a complete reinstall of the OS and all the pre-installed software. Guess what?! Totally worked. Didn't have to call DELL and deal with their foreign call center. ===Analysis=== Based on the data collected: * Was your hypothesis correct? Duh! * Is there more going on than you originally thought? Yes! If the original reinstall of the DELL software didn't work but the full software reinstall worked that means there was something wrong in the software but it wasn't related to the controlling software. Possibly a registry key? * What shortcomings might there be in your experiment?None 1'm the g00d3st * What shortcomings might there be in your data? r34d 4b0v ===Conclusions=== There was definitely something software related with the laptop. It was no hardware related. The factory reset resets all the software on the system and does nothing tot he hardware so it was certainly software related. ====Karl's Laptop==== ===Question=== Why won't Karl's laptop stop overheating and crashing ===Resources=== Karl and his laptop. ===Hypothesis=== It is overheating and crashing because.. bad heat sink? ===Experiment=== Karl and I tear apart his laptop and see what we can find. ===Data=== It did not take long before we noticed a wad of hair sticking out of the fan. So we plugged it in and looked at it.. the fan was not moving what so ever. So either bad fun or it is plugged solid. Upon further tear down of the laptop even bigger wads of dust and hair were found inside the fan that we quickly and swiftly removoved. And there you have it ===Analysis=== Based on the data collected: * Was your hypothesis correct?NO * Was your hypothesis not applicable?NO * Is there more going on than you originally thought? (shortcomings in hypothesis) Yes, there was hair in the fan * What shortcomings might there be in your experiment? Maybe we didn't explaore far enough and there was something else contributing * What shortcomings might there be in your data? Maybe there was more data or in this case cat hair to find. ===Conclusions=== What can you ascertain based on the experiment performed and data collected? Karl had one dirty laptop ====Experiment 3==== ===Question=== Was Chris Houlihan really in a Nintendo Power ad that won him a secret room in a Link to the Past ===Resources=== I used many forums but they led me in every direction such as it being Nintendo Power, some random translation guy a hoax etc.. ===Hypothesis=== I believe it really was Nintendo Power because of how many online resources point to it. However, with my passion of ALTTP I must discover for ===Experiment=== I will go through every Nintendo Power till I find some proof. ===Data=== {{:opus:spring2012:jhammo13:012.jpg?direct&200|}} ===Analysis=== Beyond a reasonable doubt the above image shows it without mentioning his name. ===Conclusions=== It's safe to assume that this is the real deal. I spent many hours in forums and trying to decipher all of the jibberish of the interwebs. So finally (with my passion for the game) decided to go through Nintendo Power and look for ads. (With a tip in a forum that it would probably be in this issue, but that was after 10 posts about other issues)