February 22nd, 2001 by Dana Roode
Users of NACS’s E4E e-mail service now have another way of managing their electronic mail.
You can access your e-mail on E4E from any computer with Netscape or Internet Explorer. NACS’s WebMail service provides secure and global access to e-mail through today’s most popular web browsers. To take advantage of this service, your browser must support frames, cookies, JavaScript and SSL (used by most “secure servers”.) If you would like to take a look at Webmail, visit http://webmail.uci.edu and login with your UCInetID and password.
February 22nd, 2001 by Dana Roode
Update: i-drive service was discontinued in December 2001. NACS now offers WebFiles as a web disk space service.
i-drive is a commercial outfit that offers free web-accessible storage space to UCI students, faculty and staff. Using your UCInetID and password, you can store and retrieve up to 50 megabytes of files all through a Web browser.
Network & Academic Computing Services (NACS) is sponsoring a campus assessment of the capabilities of this service, its ease of use, and its value to the campus community through the 2000/1 academic year.
The i-drive user interface provides download and upload capabilities, file sharing, and web publishing. These are some of the primary features we are interested in testing and comparing with other companies that are emerging.
Other California universities running similar projects include UC Berkeley, UC Davis, and Stanford.
UCI’s i-drive site [was] located at http://idrive.uci.edu. Please share your experience and assessment with us at nacs@uci.edu.
February 22nd, 2001 by Dana Roode
NACS sponsors regular bimonthly meetings of Computer Lab Coordinators (CLCs), UCI staff who manage academic computing labs, to help them address mutual problems, to establish campus standards, and to improve services.
A recent CLC meeting included computing support staff from several nearby campuses, including Irvine Valley College, Saddleback College, Chapman University, Cal State Long Beach, and UCI.
Representative(s) from each school described the computing situation at their respective campuses. Topics discussed included number of faculty, staff, and students supported, operating systems and software supported, classroom use of computing, printing, replacement cycles, user authentication, and other pertinent issues.
Chapman University is starting a notebook computer program in which all incoming freshmen will receive a notebook computer next year. Cal State Long Beach gives all their students an ‘all-in-one’ card, which acts as both a student ID card and a debit card. The campus tracks student usage and provides increased security by requiring students to swipe their cards when entering and leaving any computer lab on campus.
Learn more about the computing situation at the other campuses by viewing the meeting minutes athttp://www.nacs.uci.edu/support/clc/meetings/2000.11.29.notes.html