Written comments from 1998 Survey

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• A friend who works with computers on campus
• all of the above
• Brother currently at State
• CATT Program (Computer and Technologies Theme)
• Computers And Technology Theme (CATT)
• email
• From my roommate
• General Knowledge... All of the above
• Had it last year in the Dorms
• I found it by simply browsing through the NC State web pages
• I've had ResNet service for 3 years now
• Just Did
• news letters from Greek Life
• Roomate last year.
• Roommate
• Stan North Martin
• Stan North Martin at a university housing meeting

• i never installed it

• i never installed
• I purchased a computer from the NCSU bookstore
• it came pre-installed

• i don't know
• I called my computer manufacturers tech suport.
• we had to pay someone else to teach me how to do it

• Access to my unity file space (ftp), remote X clients from the dialup machines, remote access to big computing power (such as alpha.rh.ncsu.edu), remote data-backup, to friends' computers, playing Quake II, etc.
• Access to remote systems for programming purposes
• almost everything
• AOL instant messenger
• Application Development -- Server Transactions
• browsing network resources
• checking the weather
• clothes catalogs
• communicating with family back home and friends at other schools
• Communication via AOL Instant Messenger and ICQ.
• communication with home
• Connecting to an online service (America Online)
• Designing and maintaining non-local web pages (non-commercial) - About once a day
• Downloading Shareware
• Fantasy Sports
• File and printer sharing to allow printing fellow student's papers if they do not have their own printer.
• For making travel plans and keeping in touch with family and friends outside of NCSU
• for my job as a web designer
• getting music from other peoples shared folders
• Getting updated financial information and software updates
• Hack into Pentagon....Area 51 does have alliens
• help familiarize myself with computers and hardware... since its my major
• homework
• homework(MAPLE, WW WAssign, etc., C++)
• I do occasionally browse other people's computers on the Network Neighborhood, and I do have a Utilities download directory which is shared, if that's what you mean by #g
• I have made my printer and disk space available to my girlfriend.
• I like to use it to keep up with my friends through aol instant messenger and icq
• I use ICQ to chat with friends privatly.
• I use Linux to X-host many applications off Eos/Unity and CATT
• ICQ
• ICQ 24/7
• ICQ and other related chat programs...
• ICQ is one of my favoured communication tools
• icq, aol instant messanger
• Instant messages (AOL, ICQ)
• internet phone with my family / listen foreign radios
• It is a part of my everyday life. In school, it is a necessity.
• Keeping in touch with Family and Friends through Instant Messager, etc.
• Learning how the network works =)
• Messaging, web based services
• Netmeeting & ICQ keep me in touch with my girlfriend at ECU and keep our phone bills low!
• on-line homework
• Online message systems (ICQ) to keep up with distant friends.
• On-line software (eg.H-Spice,NEdit)
• personal research
• Physics homework
• Programming internet apps
• Research for my undergrad research position
• support my own DNS and host web pages from my own hard drive
• Taking over the world - less than once a week
• telnet NCSU, check AOL email, check course homepages
• telneting
• to communicate with my family
• to connect to Aol's IM
• video phone
• Web Homework For Physics
• Word processing, etc.
• working on programs
• XTracs in my room to plan schedule, Online Homework, etc
• zephyring friendsstaying in contact with them since we are busy

• 100 base T connections, more t3's to keep lag down during the day
• 100baseT bandwidth, FrontPage server extensions on www4 or another student accessible web server.
• 100-Base-TX Service (Would Be Willing To Pay A Small Amount Extra For)
• A server running Linux and Samba and afs that would enable clients to nfs or samba mount their afs home directory.
• A web server program supported by the university with support available... NO MICROSOFT STUFF
• ability to connect off campus
• Ability to print network documents (eg. Crisp text file) to local printer (HP attatched to local machine)
• Ability To Print To Local Printer In Home Through X Windows Login
• ability to run AutoCAD through eXceed
• Ability to use graphical Unix programs through ResNet connections
• Allowing access to my PC from my unity/eos account!!!!!! (PLEASE, it's not difficult)
• Autocad Engineering software packages
• Be able to print in your room without having to FTP file over.
• Be able to use your printer as a network printer. ie: printing Xtracs to my room instead of Tucker or somewhere else
• BeOS compatible networks
• Better usenet - binary article counts, speed, retension.. are pitiful on news.ncsu.edu Already pay Supernews a good bit for no more usenet than I use, but I'm sure an extra buck or two from ResNet subscribers could be utilized to set up additional news servers/routers to reduce the burdon on nntp-xfer from the some 10 gig daily newsfeed.
• CD rom writers -- would use at an extra charge
• Chat Rooms
• Experimental "crash test dummy" servers on the network: ones that I can log into and experiment on (and crash) without you guys getting all pissed off about it.
• extra disk space
• FAX CAPABILITY!!!!!
• have exact same access as Unity lab computers
• Have Maple through ResNet in your room!
• High-speed (56k, dual ISDN, 1MegModem) ResNet dialups for off-campus housing.
• how about extending the ResNet to students in apartments off campus?
• I already have access to applications found on Unity labs with a unix emulator
• I am already able to use applications available in unity labs
• I think having a direct connection to the unity lab will benefit great for me.
• I would like to be able to print out documents on my personal printer in my room.
• I would like to have access to a cd burner, where I buy a cd and they burn it so I can save room on my hard drive.
• I would love to print X-Tracs from my own personal printer
• In "d", I would really like to use Xtracs from my room, but I haven't been able to yet. A more user-friendly email program, similar to that in the labs, would be nice for my computer. I have to use the ancient zmail program through Telnet. My roommate got Z-mail for his Macintosh, but I was told no such program existed for Windows 95.
• More space for classes... (Pro-Engineer without exhuasted quota)
• pay extra only on the specific printing job(ie would not be willing to pay extra on the overall cost of ResNet, but instead pay as needed) and more reliable servers
• perhaps zephyer or be able to open files from editors on my regular account
• print files from my Unity account (like NeXS or Maple files) on my computer in my room
• printing from unity apps to my personal printer.
• Probably use my home directory if could mount via NFS so I would not have to load AFS on my machine.
• ResNet service same as a unity lab
• short courses on software, creating a web page, maximizing use of ResNet
• Software to connect the Mac Network (AppleTalk) with the PC's
• Would be willing to pay a small amount for the above, but very small amount
• would like to have advanced hardware accesable in computer labs, cd burners or audio/visual equipment
• Would like zephyr or xnol for windows setup so that communicating between ResNet and the labs could be transparent. hate zwgc -ttymode.
• would use if available at no extra charge