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Issue
56 - June 2008 |
Features
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Strategy for the CityU’s Central Infrastructure Servers
The
Computer Room in the Computing Services Centre (CSC) is the core
location where most of the critical IT equipments are resided. The
room, built and designed over 20 years ago together with the whole
campus, its space was believed to be more than enough when it was
first enacted. However...
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Internet Access – Eduroam and WiFi Hotspots
"Eduroam"
(Education Roaming) is a global wireless network using WPA(IEEE802.1X)
security technology to enable staff and students of a member institution
to use the wireless network of another Eduroam member with the use
of the credentials (user name and password) provided by their home
institution. CityU staff and students can now enjoy free Wi-Fi ...
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What's Up?
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Staff
Desktop Computer Replacement for Administrative and Support Offices
While some offices
have managed to replace their staff PCs from time to time using
their own resources, yet around 1,100 units of desktop PCs that
are at least 3 years old are still being used by various administrative
and support offices....
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The
Progress of the Network Upgrade
As mentioned
in the previous article on Campus Network Upgrade (Ref: Network
Computing Issue 54 - December 2007), the University’s campus
network is currently undergoing a major upgrade, from CTNET III
to CTNET IV. The network upgrade ...
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Farewell to Hard Copy Services
After serving
the CityU community diligently for 14 years, the Hard Copy Services
(HCS) will retire on June 30, 2008. The HCS came
into service in 1994. You see and walk by its productions everyday,
for example, the big banners hanging above the red doors entrance
to the ... |
Termination of the High Performance Computer Service
The Computing
Services Centre (CSC) launched its first in-house high performance
computer service (through the node named Thomas) to facilitate academic
research in 2001 in order to provide supporting services to ...
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