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[indecisionwins]

Why does ITS suck so much? Apparently, I lost part of this thing I had been working on earlier that's due at 5 PM today, and which I really don't have enough time to do anyway, because I saved it in the default location. It says "mcohen1", but it looks like that's actually mcohen1 on that computer, not my userfolder, which I didn't realize. And since I'm on the same computer I was on before, it looks like they must delete that folder when you log out. Stupid, stupid ITS... And it was already something that was incredibly tedious to do once (recopying lab notes), so it's going to be even more tedious to do twice.

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[reldnahkram.livejournal.com]

Cleaning off computers is good policy, as it prevents them from getting too badly messed up. What would be smart of them is to use floating WinXP profiles, so you have the same desktop and same preferences already set up on any XP machine on campus. My Documents and such could probably be mapped to your userfolder.

[indecisionwins.livejournal.com]

This was on a Mac, not a PC. But yeah, theoretically, it's good policy to clean off the computers, but when they manage to do things as badly as they do, it's not good.

[deathbysnusnu.livejournal.com]

All public machines get wiped daily, thanks to a program called DeepFreeze. A small HD partition called the ThawSpace is the exception. This is good policy because it keeps all of the campus machines, both Macs and PCs, working in a standardized fashion. From a policy standpoint, this is a good idea. Your issue is that Macs and WinPCs have slightly less accessible shared disk space than Linux boxen.