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Issue
28 - June 2001
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Features
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Personnel
Information at Your Fingertips
On
19 April 2001, the new Banner Human Resources (HR) System was
launched. It replaced the old Personnel Record System that had
been in use since 1991. The new system has many advantages over
the old one...
Booking of University Venues
on the Web
Is it possible to book University
venues on the Web? The answer is yes and it can be achieved through
the “Venue and Classroom Booking System” under the “Facilities
Booking” menu on the CityU Intranet. Through a common Web
interface, all CityU staff and student societies can access this
system both on- and off-campus easily and quickly...
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What's
New?
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The In-house
High-Perfomance Computer
Inside the
Enterprise Competency Centre (ECC), there stands the high-performance
computer,Sun Enterprise
10000 system, with 40 (400MHz, 8MB
cache) CPUs, 14GB memory and 216 GB disk space, providing over
17Gflops of processing power. It is particularly useful for research
projects that require intensive CPU power, large amount of memory
and massive disk storaget...
Improved Storage Management
for Central Servers
Today,
servers across the LANs/WANs need
to provide fast, reliable, ubiquitous access to data as required
by various applications. In particular, mission-critical applications
require data storage that can be operational all year round as
well as can be expanded easily without interrupting any application
currently running. At present, all server data is stored in the
direct attached storage...
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Tender
for Network Upgrade Approved
Recently, tenders have
been invited for a total network upgrade solution which includes
a comprehensive network upgrade plan, plus the supply, installation,
testing and commissioning of all the networking hardware and software
required for the upgrade...
Security Uplift for the
Express Terminals
The 38 Express Terminals located all over the campus have been a
very handy means for the CityU community to access the campus network
and the Internet ever since their set-up by the Computing Services
Centre (CSC)...
The Intellectual Property (Miscellaneous
Amendments) Ordinance 2000
As of 1 April 2001,
the captioned ordinance
has taken effect and one of the aims of the amended laws is to combat
corporate copyright piracy activities...
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User
Education
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Compatibility
Between Different Versions of MS Word
Many CityU colleagues use the Microsoft Word (MS Word)
to type their papers, memos, documents, etc. However, there are a
number of different versions of MS Word, such as Word 6.0, Word 95,
Word 97 and Word 2000 which are divided into the Chinese and English
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