The teaching studios in the Computing Services Centre have always been under great demands. For better uses of University resources and for benefits of those staff and students who may still wait for these rooms, as soon as you know that you no longer need the booked CSC teaching studio, please kindly cancel your booking through the CSC Teaching Studio Booking System or through our staff at the Service Counter in the CSC Terminal Areas at least one day in advance.
If you have any enquiries, please contact the Service Counter at 3442 8340.
The entire CityU community is reminded of the University's commitment to the protection of intellectual property and copyrighted material. When it comes to illegal storing or sharing of digital materials - whether music, video, text, or picture - the University imposes its own penalties on anyone who is found to be using CityU facilities or campus network for such purposes.
Moreover, organisations hired by the copyright owners are aggressively searching for copyright violators on the Internet and will take independent legal action against such violators. Peer-to-peer file sharing activity using the campus network is easily subject to their scrutiny as long as they remain as one of the participants. Many past legal actions by these organisations have resulted in successful imposition of substantial monetary penalties on the violators.
Please be aware that the target of these actions is not only the individuals engaged in the violations but also the University if it has not shown its diligence in curbing these violations being carried out on its computers or network. As an Internet service provider, the University has no way to prevent but to be obliged without delay to cooperate fully with any law enforcement agency requesting the names of individuals who use computers to share copyrighted materials illegally.
As such, users who use their accounts on the University facilities for such activity inevitably expose both themselves and potentially the University to legal action. Therefore, to protect yourself and the University, make sure you will not engage in illegal storing or sharing of copyrighted materials.
Removable storage devices (RSDs, e.g. USB drive, external hard disc etc.) are more vulnerable than other types of fixed storages as they are more susceptible to being lost or damaged.
To minimize any mishap from happening, it is highly recommended that you follow the general practice below to protect your data when using RSD:
Encrypt the data inside the RSD if necessary (Please refer to the “Encryption for Information Protection” page for more information).
Avoid keeping only one single copy of data. Always have another backup copy besides the one stored in the RSD.
Always follow the correct procedures as stipulated by the manufacturers of both the RSD and the computer as well as by the operating system under which the RSD will be used when inserting or removing your removable storage devices into or from computers to prevent data corruption.
Remember to remove and to collect your RSDs from public computers after finishing your job there.
Always freshly re-boot public computers or others’ computers and immediately scan for virus prior to inserting your RSD in order to minimize the chance of your data in RSD being infected by virus hidden in these computers’ memory. Never assume these computers are “trustworthy”. If you don’t have the time or chance to pre-scan the computer, you should scan your RSD right before using it on another computer.
Please let us know if you need more assistance on handling RSDs.
