Account Space and Drives

Each user is assigned his/her own disk space on the drive z:/. Users should save their own work on the z:/ drive ONLY.
NO USER should exceed more than 2.5 GB of the account space.
A 15-day notice will be sent via e-mail to those who violate the rule. If no action is taken to reduce the occupied disk space, the user account will be purged.

ALL USERS SHOULD BACK UP THEIR FILES ON THEIR OWN ZIP
DISKS.

The Y:/ drive is a public drive for file sharing purposes among students, GIS employees, and faculty. Each teaching faculty can build folders on this public drive to load files that need to be used by the students.
"Read only" or other file access rights can be set (recommended). GIS lab employees will be cleaning and purging unidentified files or folders that are randomly created by students.

NO ONE SHOULD SAVE ANY WORK ON Y:/ , UNLESS YOU ARE SHARING FILES WITH OTHERS IN PROPERLY NAMED FOLDERS.

In addition, most of the public access geo-spatial data is in the Y:/data directory. Local drives c:/ and h:/ are NOT for public use. Any files saved on local drives will have no security and will be purged.

All other drives are GIS Lab internal drives for software applications and database. A user shouldn't have to visit these drives.

Users' Responsibilities and Rights

A user is solely responsible for all files created by himself/herself and should back up its work on a zip disk. The GIS lab is not responsible for any lost data caused by natural disaster, and /or hacking activities.

A USER CANNOT GIVE HIS USERNAME AND PASSWORD TO ANOTHER PERSON OR LOCK ANYONE ON IN HIS/HER NAME.

Lab employees will unlock workstation locked for more than half an hour and any unsaved work will be lost.

A user cannot engage himself/herself in the following activities:

1. use of GIS Lab resources for profit-making demeanors
(Note: Lawsuits may follow as a result of using educational licenses for profit-making or other types of commercial activities.)

2. watching pornographic content, playing computer games, downloading music, participating in chat rooms or any other activity not related to studying.

3. hacking computer networks.

4. All FIU and Library Computer Use Rules apply also to the GISRSAL.

Violations of any of the above include:
IMMEDIATE LOSS OF THE USER ACCOUNT, $200 FINE
and possibly a LAWSUIT, which can lead to jail and/or further financial penalty.

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