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With the collaboration among the JUCC institutions (CityU, HKU, CUHK, PolyU, HKUST, HKBU, LU and HKIEd), the Computing Services Centre (CSC) is pleased to announce that CityU members (staff members or students alike) from now on can enjoy wifi connections to the Internet while they are visiting any of the above eight JUCC institutions without any prior approval. All you need is an IEEE802.11b/g/n compliant wireless device, no matter whether it is a WiFi phone, PDA or notebook computer. While you are at one of the JUCC member institutions, use your WiFi device to search the WiFi network there for the SSID "Universities WiFi" (which is common to all JUCC institutions and denotes the name of the collaborated WiFi service). After connecting to the said SSID, use your CityU's Network Connection password to login the wireless network there (the same password for logging in the CityU's Wireless LAN network) and then gain WiFi access to the Internet. You can check the locations at each institution where WiFi access is available by visiting http://wifi.jucc.edu.hk/jucc-wifi/. The "Universities WiFi" utilizes the most secure connection
and data encryption (WPA and WPA2) to protect your data privacy.
Please refer to http://www.cityu.edu.hk/csc/ Please be reminded that you can also enjoy the same WiFi connection
to the Internet while visiting any of the EduRoam member institutions
and any local hotspots run by PCCW and Y5Zones. For details, please
refer to the CityU WLAN home page at http://www.cityu.edu.hk/csc/ How to Go Green: Double-sided Printing Double-sided (or 2-sided or duplex) printing should be used whenever possible. Besides the benefits of saving trees, reducing carbon in the atmosphere, and holding a handier set of hardcopies, surprisingly it can save up your print quota. With immediate effect, whenever you use duplex printing to print on a piece of paper through the Quota Controlled Fast Print Queue, your print quota will be deducted by 1.5 instead of 2. This is really a big saver! To use double-sided printing, when you print:
Using double-sided printing is a small change but can have a big impact. As going green is our common goal, act NOW to show your support! |
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The Challenges In recent years, the substantial increase in student number has led to the significant shortage of computer teaching studio not only in its number but also with the right seating capacity. Unless immediate measures are to be taken, the situation will undoubtedly be worsened for the years to come. Without the allocation of additional space, extra teaching studios can only come from the conversion of open-access terminal rooms (which are solely used by students for their course work and self-study), and the increase of seating capacity can merely be achieved by replacing the existing larger computer desks with relatively smaller ones. According to past experience, teaching studios are heavily demanded during term time, and therefore, students practically have little chance to make use of the machines in these studios. Besides, those students who must use software or courseware that can only be accessible from PCs in the Terminal Areas of the Computing Services Centre (CSC) will be most hard hit as there will be less open-access computers available. Moreover, security has always been a major concern in end-user computing today. In order to protect users from attack, software developers have designed complicated security infrastructure and implemented a large number of security features in their products. The resulting systems or applications, especially operating systems (e.g. Windows XP SP2) and antivirus tools (e.g. McAfee), are getting much bigger in size and thus requiring more resources and longer time to start up. The situation may become intolerable for large teaching studios when hands-on tutorials can start only when all machines have been booted up. The Project The CSC tackles the above challenges by
Difficulties are unavoidable for a large scale project involving 16 rooms, several tenders, external contractors, workflow dependence, tight shipping schedules, etc., not mentioning the teaching requirements (day and evening) in the Summer Term, and the deadline for financial settlement before the end of the academic year. Fortunately, the whole project can be completed on time. After renovation, there are now 5 teaching studios with 60+ seats, 3 rooms with 40-50 seats, 5 rooms with 30+ seats, and 1 room with 20 seats. All PCs in the teaching studios now have a standard hardware configuration of P4 3.2GHz CPU, 512MB RAM, and a 15" LCD monitor, having a fast boot up time of around 1.5 minute instead of four to six minutes before the upgrade. Use of LCD also provides students with more working space. The number of seats increased is 180 (80 in CSC and 100 in Library). In addition, a total of 620 notebook computers are ready for students' use through our Mobile Computer Service. Room List:
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