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Graduate Computer Lab Guidelines for Use

September 5, 1997


This list of rules is meant to make the operation of the graduate computer lab efficient and safe. This list will be modiied as needed. Please use common sense in using the computers and the Lab.

1. Please ensure that the door to the Lab remains closed and locked at all times. This is for your safety and the safekeeping of the equipment. Do not prop open the door. Do not answer the door if someone knocks on it.

2. Do not let anyone who is not an AREC graduate student, AREC staff member, or AREC faculty member into the Lab. This means your spouse, significant other, and children are not permitted in the lab.

3. No food may be brought into or consumed in the Lab. If you are hungry please feel free to move to the Grad Lounge to eat.

4. While drinks are allowed in the Lab please be very careful not to spill fluid on the computers, keyboards, or monitors.

5. Do not use more than one computer if all the computers are being used.

6. The Computer Lab is a Quiet Area. Only talk relating to computer work should take place. If you do talk please keep your voice down. Please do not carry on conversations in the Lab. Your talking will disturb others who are trying to work. If you need to have a conversation please go to the lounge.

7. The phone in the lab will only make on-campus calls. If there is an emergency you can call 911 for the Fire Department or the Police Department. The phone is not for personal conversations, or long conversations.

8. The thermostat will be set by the Lab Manager. Please do not change the thermostat setting.

9. The back window opens. Please do not open the window during the summer or winter because that will cause the AC to run more in the summer and the heat to run more in the Winter.

10. Please pick up after yourself. Do not leave papers, floppy disks, empty cans, books, or other items lying around in the Lab. The Lab Manager will clean the PCs and monitors but will not clean the desks or floors. Items left behind will be placed in a box near the printer.

11. Please do not log into a machine and then walk away. If you need to leave a SAS or mainframe session running to complete a program leave a "Program Running" sign, which includes your name and the time you left, on the computer. Logoff from the machine when you are done. Other login sessions that are left idle will be removed via a reboot of the machine.

12. Feel free to leave the PCs and monitors on after you have logged out unless it is near the end of the day. The last student(s) to use the Lab should turn off any monitors that are still running. The CPU units can stay on overnight.

13. Do not copy any AREC software from the server or the C: drive. Campus does provide some software at low prices or for free. A list of such software can be found on http://www.inform.umd.edu.

14. Do not install your own software on the C: drive or H: drive. If you have some specialty software that you own or need for your work please let the Computer Support personnel know.

15. Please use the older, slower machines for word processing, email, and web surfing. The faster machines (the Pentium and Pentium Pro computers) should be used for CPU-intensive programs such as SAS, GAUSS, and LIMDEP.

16. Do not disturb the network hubs or the UPS power supplies. These boxes should not be unplugged or turned off for any reason.

17. All of the PCs in the Lab will be named and labeled. The names will be in the form LAB001, LAB002, etc. If you have any computer problems you can send email to support@arec.umd.edu and let us know the name of the computer that is having the problem.

18. To ensure that the Lab remains quiet, we ask that professors refrain from meeting with graduate students in the Lab.

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Last updated: 03/10/2009