News

by Joe Chow

The Notebook Ownership Programme (NOP) has been run for many years and had always been one of the most well received programmes for students since the programme addressed their learning needs with notebooks at high discounted prices. This year’s NOP roadshows were held during 6-10 December 2010 and ...

by Annie Yu

The Staff Computer Courses offered by the Computing Services Centre (CSC) has provided leading-edge training to strengthen the IT skills of faculty and staff since 1992. A variety of courses are offered throughout the year at different technical levels (introduction and advanced) and conducted in ...

by Joe Lee

In the last Semester Break (20 Dec 2010 - 8 Jan 2011), the Computing Services Centre (CSC) replaced the five years old HP dx6120 computers with new HP 8100 Elite computers. Below shows the major configurations of the new Elite computers: Processor Intel Core i5-750 (2.66 GHz, 4 MB cache) Chipset ...

by Joe Lee

The CityU has recently subscribed the SAS Education Analytical Suite (EAS). Apart from the fundamental products bundled in the EAS foundation offer, some optional SAS products which are currently used by departments for teaching and research are also included in the contract. Under the Terms and ...

by C Y Kwok

ctnet
Introduction The University’s data network (CTNET – City University Campus Network) has undergone several major upgrades since its creation in 1985. Each major upgrade represents the adoption of the latest state-of-the-art networking technologies and standards. The network has evolved from circuit ...

by Joe Lee

Hitting new record high sometimes is good but it is certainly not the case in student printing as more trees are destroyed and substantial energy is consumed to produce tons of paper, distribute them and print them. The following chart depicts the usage trend of quota-controlled free student ...

by Henry Wong

spam
As a protection for all University email users, the Committee on Information Services and Technology (CIST) endorsed in its meeting in August 2010 to enable email spam filtering as a default for all CityU email users, and it was implemented on staff, student and alumni email systems on 21 December ...

by W K Yu

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The seven nominated programmes piloting the 4-year degree curriculum in 2010/11 are on board; so is DegreeWorks, also for these programmes. After eight months of preparation and hard work from The Academic Regulations and Records Office ( ARRO ) , the Enterprise Solutions Office (ESU) and the ...

by C Y Kwok

optical HARNET
The Hong Kong Academic and Research Network (HARNET) is the wide-area network that links the campus networks of the eight tertiary institutions in Hong Kong and connects them to the Internet, the TEIN2 and other research and academic networks. The HARNET is managed by the Joint Universities Computer ...

by Henry Wong

University Email
The Committee on Information Services and Technology (CIST) has approved to adopt the Microsoft Exchange Server (Exchange) as the standard University email server for staff, and will phase out the current Sun Java System Messaging Server (JSMS) which is an old technology and must be replaced ...