This is the boilerplate message for requesting class accounts for
Weber 205/206.  If you have not read it previously, please do so. 
In any case, please make sure you understand everything in it and
mail me if you do not.

[Updated Jan 7, 2006 -- note about when accounts are turned off]

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If you need a class account for Weber 205/206, please mail me with
the following info:

class name (e.g. st204 or m161)
how many sections there are (if you are requesting an account for only a 
  specific section, please tell me which section) 
whether or not you need a class directory to put things in

[If I previously created an account for the class and it had a class 
directory, it will again have a class directory.  Any files put in the
class directory from previous semesters will still be there.

A class directory is for professors to drop files into so that students
can access them.  Professors will normally be able to do anything
to the files in the class directory but students can only read them.]

Rules:

*) Class accounts are disabled on the Friday of Finals Week at 4:45pm.  
   If your class account needs to be active past this date, please mail me 
   sometime *far* in advance so that I do not turn it off.  The EOL for
   any extension is the Tuesday after Finals Week at noon (when grades
   are due).
*) accounts will be turned off immediately in the case of hacking, 
   a security problem or the like.  To date, I have not had to do this to 
   any class account for these reasons.

reoccuring Notes, please review.

0) I will distribute the passwords to you in person.

1) The best way to distribute the password to your students is to
write it on the board, wait a short time and then erase it.  Do not leave
passwords on the board nor distribute passwords via email.  In all cases,
the domain must be MATHSTAT2 for class accounts to work.

2) Please test the passwords before you give them out to your students.

3) Please tell your students:

a) to log off when they are done using the computers 

b) to not to give the class password to anyone and to not be careless
with it.  If I find a password written down somewhere in public (on a 
whiteboard, on a piece of paper I find in the hall, etc.), I'll have no
choice but to change the password.  I do this roughly five times a semester
and is a grand bother for all involved.

c) that the lab closes promptly at 4:45pm or so on Fridays (mod a small bit 
of overrun time for any Friday 4pm class).  It also closes at 4:45pm during 
the first week and finals week.

4) Some people either like to work on every computer in the lab or they
were silly enough to give out their MATH2 or STAT2 username and password
to their class or to someone else.  Please don't give out your password
to anyone.  If you did this in the past, change your password and don't 
give it out again.

5) If you decide to put things in the class directory for your students
to use, please *copy* the files.  Do not *move* the files or your students
will probably be unable to access them.

6) If you are placing files in your class directory (g:\somedir), you
should tell your students to copy whatever they need from g:\somedir to the 
local c:\temp directory first, rather than working on the files directly.  

Finally, the FAQ for the lab is here:

http://www.cs.colostate.edu/~dzubera/lab.html

Let me know if you have any questions.

Zube