The MIME department is offering those students in MIM701-702 the use of space on a large disk array, housed in the College of Engineering Unix cluster. The use is to support the course efforts. Students can store any work for this course there. Group members will have permission to store and retrieve files from any PC that has a network connection. Work in support of your other courses will be tolerated to the extent that storage space is not compromised, else that extra work will be deleted. With this facility you can finish work late in the evening and store the file[s] for your group members to retrieve in the morning.

While you can always leave your work on the hard disk of the PC's in the studio, we do not recommend this. The machine may crash and your work is lost. Another group may 'find' your work and un-ethically borrow parts of it. Sigh. Quota's are not automatically enforced but we do police the space. Do not store your personal files or movies or music files. Be responsible in your work.

Student groups request this space by sending an email to the Information Systems Coordinator, LeBaron Briggs <lebaron@coe.neu.edu>. The request should name the group (the group's design project) and list the names and COE usernames (if known). Getting a COE account is worthwhile and painless. Visit the COE web site for details: www.coe.neu.edu.

Users access the space by File Transfer Protocol, FTP'ing to the COE FTP server. Users can use and FTP client, text or GUI of their choice. NU offers WS-FTP as a menu choice. Connection is made to the COE server at: ftp.coe.neu.edu using your coe username and password.

A link is made in the users Unix, home directory under a sub-directory Courses, that takes the respective users to this storage disk. The COE cluster is backed up daily, so any lost or broken files can be restored.