22Feb Another reason to use DropBox
Today I had a student call me on my google voice number and tell me that his laptop would not start up with video. Nothing on the screen. He even tried to hook it to a TV and there was nothing coming out. Video card seemed to be toast.
No big deal?
Normally this would be a bummer because you would need a new laptop or at least an expensive repair, but in his case it is 3 days before senior project. I know these students had placed most of their code into github.com and that this student has already delivered much of the code to the client (he logs into the client server regularly while I am assisting him). So yeah pretty big deal just before senior project.
How does Dropbox help?
Any computer with Office 2007, Visual Studio and Remote Desktop Connection would allow this student to keep working and finish anything he needed for his project. He can just log into dropbox.com and manually upload and download the files he needs. Piece of cake.
I sent him the signup code: https://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTgxNTA3OQ. I was notified within minutes that my storage was increased because he has signed up.
Good job Jake. Move everything you want saved into your dropbox folder inside of my documents and just let it do the uploading. 2 gigs for free and when you refer friends you get a bit more: 