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Computer Services for Students?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the coveted-campus-computing-conveniences dept.

FreeCycles asks: "I'm one of the staffers of an all-volunteer university group that provides free shell, mail, and web accounts to students, faculty, and staff. Thanks to the generous donation of a certain famous server manufacturer, we suddenly now have more processing power and storage than we need to sustain our current offerings, and we are trying to figure out what else we could offer the university community. Since many Slashdot readers are current or former university students, what do you wish your university provided to you?"

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  1. subversion/wiki/project management by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    subversion, wiki's, and project management tools. Things that help groups of students work together. remote storage is really nice too.

  2. Re:Remote folders by ttldkns · · Score: 2, Informative

    oh yeah, tell me about it.

    My university (University of Leicester, wwwl.e.ac.uk) has just starting allowing remote access to files using webDAV. Internet explorer supports it so windows supports it, theres especially good apple support for it and KDE and Gnome have good support too.

    you can check out their support page on it here: http://www.le.ac.uk/cc/cfs/files/webaccess.html

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  3. MIT SIPB by Zackbass · · Score: 3, Informative

    I'd check out what SIPB (Student Information Processing Board) has done for the MIT community. They've been around almost forever and have done a lot of great of things over the years.

    http://www.mit.edu/sipb/sipb.html

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  4. MySQL by IAmAI · · Score: 2, Informative

    I'm provided with PHP, but I would like a MySQL server database for my website.