Transitioning Your Services

This section provides details on transitioning from services that will expire upon graduation. If you still have questions after reading this section, contact Computing Services Help Center within 90 days of graduation.

Archiving Email Messages

You can archive some or all of your email messages to a text file using Pine, Outlook (Windows) or Entourage (Mac). Instructions are provided within the documents noted below:

• Using Pine on Unix
• Outlook 2003
• Entourage
• Using Non-Supported Email Clients: Storing Mail Locally

Transferring Files from Andrew

If you've stored personal information, source code, or other information on your Andrew file space, you should save this information in a form in which you can take it to your next computing location. Retrieve any important files and store them elsewhere as soon as possible but within 90 days of your graduation. Follow these steps:

1. Delete any files that you don't want to keep. This will save time and make the process easier. If you have a large number of mail messages that you want to transfer, you'll probably want to save them into one large file rather than many small ones.
2. From a networked computer, use a file transfer program (FTP) to move any files directly to your computer's hard drive, removable media or to another storage location.

www.andrew.cmu.edu

If you've published any personal web pages, you'll need to remove them. Follow these steps:

1. Use a secure file transfer program to access your files on unix.andrew.cmu.edu.
2. If you want to, copy the files to another location on your local computer's hard drive or to removable media or another storage location.
3. Using a secure shell or telnet program, open a connection to unix.andrew.cmu.edu and login.
4. At the command prompt, type the following:
   touch www/.unpublish
5. Launch a web browser and visit http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/server/publish.html.
6. Select the Personal radio button for the type of web pages, enter your Andrew userID and click Publish.
7. To remove access from your directory on the server, use a secure shell or telnet program and connect to unix.andrew.cmu.edu.
8. At the command prompt enter:
   find www -type d -exec fs sa {} system:anyuser lookup \;

Finding a New Online Home

After mid-August, you will not be able to dial in to the university's modem pool. Also, you will not be able to register a computer on the campus network. If you've become dependent on these services over the years, you'll need to find a new online home.

Depending on where you live, high-speed DSL or cable modem services may be available to you. To get you started with investigating services in the Pittsburgh area, contact one of the following broadband providers: Nauticom, Telerama, Verizon or Comcast. For more providers, search through the “Internet” listing in the telephone yellow pages.

If broadband services are not available in your area or not cost effective, you may decide to use a third party dialup ISP such as MSN or Earthlink. Whether you use a third party broadband or dialup ISP, connection configuration instructions will be provided by that ISP.

Software Licensing

Carnegie Mellon negotiates volume licenses for many software packages. You may be running some of these on your own PC, Mac, or UNIX workstation (including Andrew Linux). These licenses grant you the right to use the software while you are affiliated with the university. When your association ends, so does your right to use the software and to have it installed on a computer that you own. These rules do not apply to shrink-wrapped software, or to any software that was bundled with your PC, Macintosh, or UNIX workstation when you bought it; these types of software applications are subject to the terms of the license that came with them.

You'll find a list of software for which there are site or volume licenses on the Software web pages.

Software You Can Take With You and Use in Perpetuity

If you acquired any of the following Microsoft software under the Microsoft Campus Agreement, you can retain a copy of each package on a single computer that you own:

• a Windows upgrade to the latest available version as of May 2003
• Office Standard or Professional for Windows up to Office XP
• Office for MacOS up to Office vX

You are not eligible to purchase upgrades for this software or to receive technical support, but you can use these versions in perpetuity. Refer to the Microsoft Campus Agreement Subscription Student Users Acceptance Form that you signed at the CMU Computer Store when you purchased MSCA software. Request a Student License Confirmation form in email.

Software You Cannot Use After Your Affiliation with Carnegie Mellon Ends

Software on the list below has been made available to the Carnegie Mellon community from:

• a Computing Services software distribution
• a departmental server
• an Andrew directory
• disk or CD distributed from Computer Sales of the University Store

Once your affiliation with Carnegie Mellon ends, you cannot use this software legally and you are obliged to delete it from your computer systems. This is true even if you have paid a fee for the right to use this software or have paid a media fee for it.

Note: There may be other packages in this category that were licensed by your college specifically and about which Computing Services has no knowledge.

Last Updated: 09/11/06