Your network or H: drive (a.k.a. home directory) is a mapped drive on SLC3, which is one of the College's servers. It behaves like a hard drive, allowing you to save files to it. On campus, the address for a person's network drive is:
Topic(s):faculty, fix, h drive, learn, network storage, staff, student
Topic(s):faculty, h drive, learn, network storage, staff, student
Topic(s):faculty, h drive, learn, network storage, staff, student
Your data is not secure if it only exists in one place. Hard drives, CDs, DVDs, flash drives, etc., will all fail eventually. To ensure the safety of your data, you must back up.
Backing up is simple: make a copy of the file(s) on another medium. If you store documents on your computer hard drive, copy them to a USB flash drive or burn a CD or DVD on a regular basis. Important school documents should be copied to your network drive.
If you back up monthly, you will never lose more than one month's work. Critical work should be backed up at least daily!
Topic(s):faculty, h drive, learn, network storage, recommendations, staff, student
Brain CandyGoogle will once again be offering Summer of Code. Students receive a stipend to work on open source software development. Better than a lot of summer jobs we can think of!
Many colleges and universities are posting recorded lectures. We particularly like Apple's iTunes U product. Both Berkeley and Stanford offer entire courses free online!