Lab Hints
New to Computing or Ever Lost Your Work?
Try out these tips to make sure you never lose your work again...
- Save the file often, every 5 minutes or so.
- Save the file to your Home Directory. The H: drive under My Computer is automatically mapped to your Unix home directory. This space can be accessed through SFTP from anywhere with Internet access - home or in the labs.
- Save the file on a USB drive or burn to cd.
- Make a hard copy. Print out the most updated version before closing the file.
- E-mail the latest version to your e-mail account, make sure that it went through and that it opens before closing the file.
home directory
Storage space that can be accessed on campus or at home
printing
Guidelines for printing in the ITS labs
passwords
E-mail, Unix, Lab, and Kerberos Access
personal webspace
Instructions for setting up and publishing your Personal Website