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Connecting to AirNet Using Ubuntu Linux

Friday, November 14th, 2008

One of our student technicians in Client Support documented a simple guide for connecting to AirNet using Ubuntu Linux and posted it as a comment to our Understanding Campus Wireless entry. He says these concepts work for other distributions, but the commands may be different.

Our boss was impressed with these instructions (and the fact that our student used his MySBfiles to document this). We decided to pull his comment out of the obscurity of the 50+ remarks we received and made it a blog post unto itself in the hopes that it might reach a wider audience and someone might find it useful.

Way to go, Addisen!

http://mysbfiles.stonybrook.edu/~aosterho/airnet_on_linux.htm

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MySBfiles

Monday, October 1st, 2007

MySBfiles is 500 MB of file storage offered to each Stony Brook student and employee. It makes working in different locations easier.

Students can work on a paper in their dorm room late at night, save it to their MySBfiles, then go to a SINC Site the next day before class and print out the paper from their MySBfiles. Instructors who teach in classrooms or lecture halls which are equipped with computers and Internet access can pull their PowerPoint presentations or class notes up from their MySBfiles instead of taking a laptop or a USB key with them to class.

Benefits to using MySBfiles:

  • Files are accessible on any machine with a web browser from on or off campus.
  • Files are protected by anti-virus software.
  • Files are stored on university servers, so they are not affected if your machine crashes or is stolen. Files are backed up at regular intervals and can be easily recovered.
  • Personal Web pages can be hosted in MySBfiles.

For those of you who haven’t taken advantage of this perk yet, more information can be found at the MySBfiles information page.

For those of you who do use MySBfiles regularly, let us know what you think by leaving a comment.

 

 

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