News

All the PCs in the lecture theatres and classrooms have been upgraded from Windows 98 to Windows XP. Among the advantages of Windows XP over Windows 98, better system stability and security are the most important. In the new Windows XP environment, users can select one of the two options below when ...

Those computers on the campus network with invalid network connection registration information on MAC/IP addresses, users' names, user locations, etc or with no registration at all are like illegal residents in the University cyber-community. Some are using unauthorized or other users' IP addresses ...

If you have been following the issues on how we have been doing to improve the Storage Management for Central Servers, we have mentioned the implementations of the SAN and EDM Backup solutions, and how they can help to improve our storage management. In this issue, we continue our discussion by ...

WebMail is a convenient tool for users to send and receive e-mail from any workstation that is connected to the Internet. Using any standard Web browser and the same e-mail account, staff and student can access their e-mails that are kept in the central e-mail server from any place within or outside ...

The Computing Services Centre (CSC) is going to replace the very old Staff E-mail servers on the Compaq OpenVMS platform with the newer and faster Sun Solaris machines using the Sun ONE Messaging server. The existing mail server has been used for over ten years. The replacement will definitely boost ...

The Computing Services Centre (CSC) so far has received over 456 server registrations from 50 departments. The largest groups of servers are from MEEM, IS, and DCO having 111, 63 and 34 servers respectively. Apparently many of these servers in the academic departments are accessed by staff and ...

As a step towards a paperless campus, the Computing Services Centre (CSC) has successfully developed an on-line system for the submission of CSC Work Requests. Starting from 15 May 2002, all CSC Work Requests have to be submitted on-line. The new Web-based system is easy to use and accessible from ...

If there is a word to describe the Student Terminal Area (STA) of the Computing Services Centre (CSC), `bustle' is probably the right one: you always find lots of students in the STA, whether using the computers, printing their course work, scanning images, plotting graphs, attending lectures ...

Student Work Programme is designed by the Computing Services Centre (CSC) to offer students opportunities to gain IT experiences through practical work in the CSC. Students have the precious chance not only to learn the state-of-the-art technology but also to contribute their skills to serve the ...

The Computing Services Centre is pleased to inform you that the CityU Video-on-Demand (VoD) service is now available for you at home, and you may use the CityLink Plus dial-up facility or any broadband service to connect to it. To watch the rich VoD collection at home, you may first visit the CityU ...