<p>Does anyone know if college campuses have a problem or restriction with students using flash drives on campus computer lab or library computers? Do people use them all the time?</p>
<p>None such restrictions exist at Northwestern, but I don't know about other colleges but it seems like a completely ludicrous restriction to me. They even gave out free pen drives during a New Student Week picnic.</p>
<p>Chances are, you will have access to a computer's usb port on campus. </p>
<p>I was at a kiosk of free pc workstations in a downtown San Jose building where the use of personal storage devices (floppies, flash drives, etc.) were forbidden. You could print something from the internet or create a new document and print it, but could not save a new document or open an existing personal doc from a personal storage device.</p>
<p>Some colleges will have free access workstations in classroom building hallways, the student union, etc. where you only have access to a display and keyboard, but usually, in the library and full-service computer labs, you will be able to have full access to pc and/or mac workstations.</p>
<p>Extremely annoying sometimes !!! </p>
<p>Flash drives are definitely the way to keep one's data files, and some have limited capabilities to actually run applications now.</p>
<p>My school has all the ports on every computer locked, but you can burn CDs or use floppy disks.</p>
<p>Cool, thanks for the info guys.</p>
<p>This is somewhat unrelated, but I was also able to link my laptop and a lab desktop via firewire and have the desktop boot off of my laptop. I had access to all of my files and programs with the speed of a Dual 2.3 GHz G5 PowerMac. So, that's always another option :)</p>
<p>My school has disbarred the use of floppies and actually WANTS you to use flash drives</p>
<p>I'm confused- why on earth would a school ever prohibit use of flash drives?</p>
<p>They wouldn't prohibit the use of flash drives, they would prohibit you from using them in computer lab (or otherwise school owned) computers. They would do this to limit the exposure of these computers to viruses.</p>
<p>Do any of you have a problem with flash drives crapping out after like 8 months? I've had three flash drives and they last for about a year then all of a sudden i put them in a computer and they aren't recognized. Just me?</p>
<p>floppy disks?</p>
<p>my computer hasn't had a floppy disk drive since 7th grade o_O</p>
<p>Yeah, same here. I haven't touched a floppy disk in a very long time.</p>
<p>wow, my school gave us all 128MB flash drives at orientation</p>
<p>I've never used them before, and I get sick of having to sort through floppy disks for my files and my computer doesn't have a floppy drive, so I continually have to plug in my floppy drive which has a cord the length of a mouse tail. </p>
<p>I'm really technologically late, but I'm just now discovering the wonders of the flash drive, and I would like to continue to use it so I don't have to carry big disk cases around campus. I just didn't know how colleges felt about the issue because I had never explored it.</p>
<p>Anyway, thanks again for the info. It's much appreciated!</p>
<p>Any place that would allow you to use a floppy should allow you to use a flash drive.</p>
<p>no restrictions here. in fact, they encourage yout o use them, but to jus tmake sure not to lose them cuz they aren't responsible.</p>
<p>a ftp is a much better option compared to a usb thumb drive,.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, an FTP requires that the computer is connected to the net, and the file is small enough to be uploaded in a reasonable amount of time.</p>
<p>I know some of the cad/cam labs at UCSD suggest you bring a 256+mb drive to use as a pagefile if you want faster performance.</p>