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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 blooming of the internet in the 1990’s not only
made it become an invaluable spring of educational support, but
also an unrestricted and uncontrolled source of less desirable
materials. In order to conserve and make best use of the IT resources
(e.g. network bandwidth, PCs, etc.) which were scarce and very
expensive in those days, the web filtering policy on public shared
PCs in 1998 was implemented to bar access to certain web sites
which were considered indecent, unsafe, or unrelated to learning.
Nevertheless, information explosion and rapid advancement in IT
technologies in the past decade not only made network bandwidth
and computers more affordable, but also induced societal changes
towards a free and open society for information exchange, and
any form of information blockage, especially in a university environment,
seemed a notion against the world trend. In view of this, the
16th meeting of the Committee on Information Services and Technology
held on 18 May 2009 carefully deliberated on this issue and approved
to rescind the practice of blocking access to websites with immediate
effect. The University hoped that the decision will enable CityU
staff and students to enjoy a barrier-free internet for their
studies and research. Users are, however, reminded to minimize
the chance of being infected by malicious software by rebooting
the publicly shared PC before using it, and to comply with the
law of HKSAR and the University
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