This is the boilerplate message for requesting class accounts for
Weber 205/206 for summer sessions.  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.

Sections 3c, 3d and 6 are especially important.

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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 instructors to drop files into so that students
can access them.  Instructors will normally be able to do anything
to the files in the class directory but students can only read them.
For best results, get your students to copy files to c:\temp on
the local computer before working with them.]

If you have already requested an account via email, you don't have to 
request it again.

Same rules as always apply:  

*) Class accounts are turned off at the end of each semester 
*) 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 sometime around 1pm each day.  This varies based
on my schedule, which is all over the place in the summer.  It will probably
not close *before* 1pm and it will almost certainly not be open *after*
2pm.  If a small number of students need to use lab computers after 1pm,
I'll open Weber 201 for them or they can trot over to 005 in the basement
of the stat building.  Also, you can *occasionally* schedule the lab
outside of these times, but only if you will be there to proctor the
lab and only occasionally; I need to perform maintenance on all the 
computers in the lab, so there must be times when the lab is unavailable.

d) depending on my schedule, one side of the lab may be closed during times
when the lab is open.  Since all the machines have the same set of software 
(with the exception of SAS which is in 206 only), this should not be
a big problem.  If you will be using SAS in your class, please let me know.

4) 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.

5) 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.  

6) During the summer, new machines are installed into Weber 205/206 and
older machines are removed.  This year, all of the 'J' machines and a few
of the 'K' machines will be removed.  Please make sure that your students 
do not depend on any particular 'J' or 'K' machine being there from one day 
to the next or they may be disappointed.  

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