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* 1. Amazon Web Services is set up for companies rather than for students, so the way you get an account is to get an activation key (which we have) and then supply a credit card number as a backup in case you exceed your initial allocation.

We think you'll only use 20% of your allocation for both your lab and your project, so we think no one will get close to exhausting their allocation. (The AWS model is to let you do your work and then charge, rather than to terminate your work in mid flight once the account is empty.)

We're trying to find another solution, but it may be that we need to supply a credit card number.

Please tell us your (anonymous) opinion about using your credit card as backup:

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* 2. Given the new Saturday deadline, when did you get seriously started on the project last week

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* 3. The staff is discussing a switch to a more traditional newsgroup format, leaving the Google Group for announcements only. How would you feel about this change?

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