Week 1:

Task: Researching VMS/ISOs

Description: Spending lots of time looking through articles and blog posts on the best type of operating systems to implement and activate within the server.

Lessons Learned: Plenty of Linux operating systems to download and implement the week after.

Time: 4 ½ Hours

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Task: Researching more VMS

Description: More time researching and looking up Linux OS patch notes, forums and top 10 distro ranks

Lessons Learned: More Linux OS to download and research

Time: 4 Hours

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Week 2:

Task: Downloading VMS

Description:Spent hours downloading Linux operating systems for the server. Operating systems such as: Mandrivia, LinuxMint, ReactOS, CENTOS, Ubuntu, ArchLinux and many more.

Lessons Learned: Took a long time but enjoyed reading about each OS on websites.

Stop Time:9 Hours

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Task: Transferring VMS

Description:Transferred 15-20 operating systems to Marcus so he can eventually transfer it to the server.

Lessons Learned:Simple transfer to the system server. Just took a while.

Stop Time:4 Hours

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Week 3:

Task: Downloading more VMS

Description:Spent a few more hours downloading other unique Linux operating systems. Read patch notes and reviews for each of the new 11 operating systems.

Lessons Learned:Feels like I’ve exhausted enough time on VMS, but great to know there are so many more.

Stop Time:4 Hours

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Task: Transferring new VMS

Description:Transferred 11 more operating systems to Marcus so we then transferred it to the server.

Lessons Learned:Simple transfer to the server, not much downtime.

Stop Time:4 Hours

Assisted By:Marcus Brathwaite

Week 4:

Task: Figure out what is wrong with the network connectivity

Description:Brought in a networking student and we all tried to figure out what is the issue with our server and interfaces, and why it would not connect.

Lessons Learned:One router seemed to not give connectivity, so we removed it and hardwired into Ethernet, it worked then.

Stop Time:6 Hours

Assisted By:Marcus Brathwaite, John Factura, Maxwell Clarke

Task: Continuation of solving the network connectivity

Description:Went through more unfortunate and frustrating trial and error with the network.

Lessons Learned:We figured we should take out the Cisco router.

Stop Time:3 Hours

Assisted By:Marcus Brathwaite, John Factura

Week 5:

Task: Researching MariaDB

Description:The database system we will be using for our implementation

Lessons Learned:Great to know that it is very connected with MYSQL and they both do super updates together so they are both interconnected and relative to each other.

Stop Time:4 1/2 Hours

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Task: Watching MariaDB tutorials

Description:More time researching and looking up tutorials with Maria DB to prepare for implementation

Lessons Learned:Lots of information to learn but the syntax is similar to MYSQL

Stop Time:6-7 Hours

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Week 8:

Task: Researched a bit more on the technical documentation

Description:Since our capstone will be completed in a few weeks, I’m looking at completely handling the technical documentation for our capstone so I did some research on what it should look like.

Lessons Learned: Just read through the documentation provided on the SAIT D2L, and other examples posted online.

Stop Time:5 1/2 Hours

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Week 9:

Task: Helped John with PHP

Description:Helped john and writing and researching stored procedures

Lessons Learned: We just had to remove 1 line……ONE.LINE…and then it worked...

Stop Time: Too long for anyone (10 hours)

Assisted By: John Factura

Week 10:

Task: Started research into PayPal sandbox mode.

Description:Looking into and testing the mock paypal system available on sandbox.paypal.com

Lessons Learned: Made a few accounts and started to test them at home before we begin to implement the payment system within our capstone project. Very neat and never knew the great stuff we could do with it.

Stop Time: 8 hours

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