News

There will be suspension of electricity to the Data Center (Computer Room) of the Computing Services Center (CSC), around the Lunar New Year's holiday period next year. It is a statutory requirement by the HKSAR to have all fixed electrical installations to be inspected and tested in a five-year ...

Mass communication in the University is mostly done electronically via the Electronic Broadcast Service (EBS), news posted on the Staff homepage and the Student homepage, news posted in the University e-Portal, and Staff Forum in the University e-Portal. Let us take a look at them in turn: The EBS ...

It is the first time in years the local universities are able to lease dark fibers from a local carrier for setting up the Optical HARNET, an experimental optical network linking up all the HARNET member institutions for collaborative research and academic activities which require high network ...

At times, most departments may have genuine needs of sending email to a large number of external recipients, and yet quite a number of such email was either bounced as undelivered email or returned with undeliverable notifications by the recipients' email servers due to the following reasons ...

According to statistics, our students printed more than 12 million pages (black & white) in year 2005-06 inside the Computing Services Centre (CSC). This is a new record! In fact, the demand for laser printing has been increasing steadily in recent years due to increased e-Learning activities ...

In response to the University's teaching requirements for more large-sized classrooms for conducting computer tutorials and practicals, the Computing Services Centre (CSC) has started the renovation of Room H by changing it from an open access terminal room to a dual purpose Classroom/Teaching ...

Currently, there are about 150 teaching classrooms and lecture theatres (LTs) on campus, all of which are equipped with computers and audio-visual equipment. For most users, the desktop computers in these rooms are already sufficient for their teaching purposes. However, users may prefer bringing ...

With the advancement of broadband internet services, high quality video on the web becomes possible. Watching movie trailers over the net is now a common activity among movie lovers and many webmasters have begun to enrich their web sites by incorporating video presentations. To support the e ...

AIMS ( Administrative Information Management System) was first launched in 1998/99. At that time, there were functions available only to students. As time goes on, more and more AIMS functions have been developed. Up to now, there are hundreds of them with application systems varying from student ...

We have used Microsoft's Software Update Services (SUS) for desktop patch management since 2003. According to statistics, the number of desktop computers with missing patches has been under control, making our campus network more secure. However, SUS mainly supports Microsoft's operating systems ...