Steve Garcia - Computer Science
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California State University - Bakersfield

Department of Computer Science
Operating System Analyst
Steve Garcia
Office Hours:  Math/Computer Science (SCI III) 332
Phone:  654-6748 Note: Send an email if you need a response
Email:  steve@cs.csubak.edu

Note that we are not using the Peoplesoft waiting list. I do have a waiting list, but you must send me an email to get on it.
SCI 353 Winter 2012 Computers And Society
SCI 353 Fall 2011 Computers And Society
SCI 353 Spring 2011 Computers And Society
SCI 353 Winter 2011 Computers And Society
SCI 353 Fall 2010 Computers And Society
CMPS 216 Spring 2008 Unix System Administration

Useful Links:
Password Generator If you need help selecting a secure password that you might actually remember!
ADA Compliance Run a check on your website to make sure it's accessible by the disabled.
MSDNAA MSDN Academic Alliance download site. Check with me about an account. This is for Computer Science students only.
VMware Academic Program VMware Academic Alliance download site. Check with me about an account. This is for Computer Science students only.
HTML Tidy An online service to clean up your HTML
BIND 9 Administration Documents
Encode your email on your web page to prevent Spam email harvesters
Setup Solaris for lab workstations
McAfee's Stinger lightweight virus scanner for emergency use
Trustworthy Anti-Spyware Products A page which lists trustworthy anti-spyware products (free and pay) but in addition lists "Rogue/Suspect Anti-Spyware Products & Web Sites". A good resource. Look at this page before you download a spyware checker.
Spyware Blaster Spyware Blaster claims to "innoculate" Windows against many threats. Those unfortunate enough to be stuck on Windows tell me it has helped them a lot.
Ad-Aware malware checker from Lavasoft.
SpyBot Search and Destroy malware checker - you should use both Ad-Aware and SpyBot.
Hijack This malware checker from Merijn.org.
Clamwin Free Antivirus Anti Virus - ClamAV is a free antivirus solution. It is "Free" in every sense -- it is licensed under the GPL. It features a scanning scheduler and automatic updates, but it does not do real-time scanning in the background.
AVG Free Edition Anti Virus - This is a link to the download page of the free edition of AVG Antivirus. It is free to home users, but you must register with them so they can send you a key to unlock it. All basic features work, including automatic updates, etc. For advanced features you must buy the full version.
Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer if ya gotta run Microsoft, run this.
Theora Codecs Enables you to view content encoded in the Ogg Vorbis and Theora formats.
The Open Disc The Open Disc project has gathered a collection of Free and Open Source software for Windows.
Interesting links:
Why Nerds are Unpopular An interesting discussion
Will there be a "Singularity"? Vernor Vinge on the coming Singularity of human knowlege.
Our Moodle site Testing a new courseware portal.
Intellectual Property I Some thoughts on Copyright, etc...
Interview of David Crosby Some insight on the real reason the record industry is dying.
Videos of DARPA Challenge ...As posted on Tom's Hardware
Very impressive video of robots dancing, from Sony.
A Comparison of apples and oranges.
Don't Download This Song Weird Al
DRM Digital Restrictions Management
Linux is Not Windows A good discussion for people contemplating Linux for the first time.
Calibre How to convert non-Kindle files so Kindle can read them.