Re: [STAZ SITE] Bad Links
Posted by: mcrm <mcrm@...>
> What happens if you change schools, change majors, get run over by
> a truck?
If I change schools, I have all of the code e-mailed to me. If it's on a Syquest, that'd be
one big e-mail message. As for changing schools, no problem. Purdue gives EVERY student an
"Expert Unix" account, which is handed out by the university, independant of your school.
Every school then hands out another account for your use - I have an expert e-mail account
(mcgann@expert.cc.purdue.edu), a computer science e-mail account (mcrm@cs.purdue.edu) and a
Picket account (which is for local campus mail only) (mcgann@picket). I am talking about hosting
the code on the expert account, which means even if I change from CS to agriculuture to
Aviation Technology, my account & web address stay the same. I could host it on the CS account
but since I have a smaller limit (25 MB) and it is often slower because it's a slower computer
I don't see a need to. As for reliability, the University holds its web addresses (http://www.purdue.edu),
http://www.purduesports.com, etc.) on the same system so I imagine it's reliable. I won't gurantee anything
though. If you're willing I am too. I don't have access to a Syquest drive (Zip, CD or floppy) so ftp would be the
way to go.
I was only offering this as a temporary place anyway - the address would be good for only
the 4 year's I'm here (of course this is an eternity in web addresses). A corporate site would
be good but in the mean time I think I can offer this as a good interim solution.
Ryan