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by Joe Lee

Acquisition of new printers i. Quota-controlled free printing service Although the existing printers for supporting the quota-controlled free printing service have only been used for about 3 years, they break down quite frequently due to abnormal wear-and-tear resulting from year after year ...

by JUCC ISTF

/* The following article is extracted from the "Information Security Newsletter" published by the JUCC IS Task Force. */ The innovation of cloud computing has changed the way IT operations are deployed in various organisations around the world, including universities. Its benefits in cost saving ...

by JUCC ISTF

/* The following article is extracted from the "Information Security Newsletter" published by the JUCC IS Task Force. */ PaaS is intended to enable developers to build their own applications on top of the platform supported by cloud service providers. As a result, it tends to be more extensible than ...

by Joe Lee

The following is a brief update of the recent changes in the Academic Building 2 (AC2): - New room numbers for AC2 will be adopted in Semester B 2011/12. These new room numbers were used when the ARRO’s class scheduling data was loaded into the CSC Teaching Studio Booking System on 6/7 Dec. The ...

by Joe Chow

What is the Microsoft Student Option (MSO) scheme? To encourage use of IT and use of genuine software, this scheme entitles CityU’s students to use one university subscribed copy of the latest version of Microsoft Office (“the software”) during the licensed period (1 October 2011 to 30 September ...

by Matthew Hung

In the last issue of Network Computing, the upgrading of www6 has been described in view of the application side ( Ref: Upgrading www6: The Application Side). In this article, we shall look at the infrastructure aspects of the upgrade. In July 2011, the www6 system (front-end and back-end components ...

by Francis Chu

The central web hosting service has been set up for many years to provide a consolidated, fully monitored and managed environment for hosting departmental web sites and project web sites. The hardware and the software of the central web service are maintained and supported by the Computing Services ...

by S K Tsui

Introduction Since the CityU Wireless Local Area Network ( WLAN) has rapidly become an essential requirement for the University community, the usability and stability of the WLAN service is therefore very important. In this regard, the Computing Services Centre (CSC) has decided to conduct ...

by JUCC ISTF

/* The following article is extracted from the "Information Security Newsletter" published by the JUCC IS Task Force. */ Cloud computing inherits security vulnerabilities from the Internet and makes them more significant when incorporating resource concentration and multi-tenancy sharing approach ...

by JUCC ISTF

/* The following article is extracted from the "Information Security Newsletter" published by the JUCC IS Task Force. */ The benefits of cloud computing are both a friend and a foe from a security point of view. The massive concentrations of resources and shared usage pattern present a more ...