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Started Preparing a paper for BACIT
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Sun, 14 May 2006
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Starting today, I'm preparing a research paper on newsgroups for
Bulletin of Applied Computing and Information Technology (BACIT).
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Thesis Published
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Fri, 10 Feburary 2006
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My thesis has now been published and currently being
held a copy in Unitec Auckland library.
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Started Publishing Thesis
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Tuesday, August 13, 2005
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Starting today, my thesis was submitted for publishing and will be examined
by both internal and external examiners over next 6 weeks. I hope I get
good grades =D wish me luck!
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Completed Thesis Draft
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Monday, March 14, 2005
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Phew! Finally I have completed the draft of my Thesis. Currently,
my thesis has 265 pages with 47917 words. I think it will be less
when I remove some of the less important parts from Appendices,
based on my supervisors' recommendation.
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Started Data Interpretation and Recommendation
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Tuesday, March 1, 2005
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As I've finished analysing data, I've started interpreting data and making necessary
recommendations and conclusions. After this chapter, I can possibly produce a draft
thesis.
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Started Analyzing Data
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Monday, December 13, 2004
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Now I'm starting to analyse the data using partly automated data analysing tools that
I've created. I will be creating a few more automated tools as needed, as I go on
analysing the data.
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Officially Ended Data Collection
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Saturday, November 13, 2004
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It is now officially ended collecting data. No more data is accepted as I'll be starting
analysing the obtained data.
Currently, I have obtained data from New Zealand ISVs, Newsgroup users and from
automated newsgroup scanning tool. No data have been obtained from International
ISVs.
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Sent survey requests to MORE NZ ISVs
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Monday, October 4, 2004
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Survey questionnaire to MORE New Zealand ISVs has been sent out since
only 2 ISVs of 5 ISVs has been replied back with the survey responses.
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Finished creating some Data Analyzing Assisting Software Tools
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Wednesday, September 15, 2004
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Some automated data analysing and presentation tools were created using
ASP.NET. The finished tools can be found on:
http://www.naymyoaung.name/thesisdataanalysis/
Initially, I created the tools using VBA and Microsoft Access DB, but it did not
provide the necessary framework to create a more sophisticated graph generation and
data analysis tools. That's why I re-created the tools in ASP.NET.
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Finished Collecting the data using Automated Data Collection Software
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Wednesday, August 4, 2004
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I've now collected 7259 message threads with 34556 messages from 12
different newsgroups. This was completed over 3 days (not including
night time) on 2.4 GHz
with 1 GB of memory, on Windows XP. Further improvements on the
data collection software can be made to increase the process.
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Finished Creating Automated Data Collection Software
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Saturday, July 31, 2004
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Finished created the automated data collection tool. However, this tool has been
created using VB.NET instead of VB6 as initially planned. The reason for that is
that, .NET framework provided much richer class libraries for manipulating NNTP
protocol and the Internet.
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Started Prototying Automated Data Collection Software
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Saturday, May 1, 2004
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Started designing the software to automatically scan NNTP newsgroup message
threads and analyse the number of replies they obtained, how fast the replies
were obtained, whether or not the solution has been found and participation
of official and volunteer support personnel.
This software will be created using VB6.
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Started sending out survey requests to NZ ISVs
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Sunday, April 4, 2004
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Survey questionnaire for New Zealand ISVs has been sent out.
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Started sending out survey requests to newsgroups
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Saturday, March 13, 2004
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Survey invitations were sent out by posting a message on each of the
selected newsgroups from International ISVs.
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Web-site created
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Saturday, March 13, 2004
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Created this academic research website and
Web-based survey on
http://hyperdisc.unitec.ac.nz/postgrad/aungn01/
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