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43 - March 2005 |
Features
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| Identity
Management: behind the scenes
The
community of City University is expanding not just in the increasing
number of student, alumni and staff, but also diverse relationships
with the University such as prospective students/staff, visiting
scholars, exchange students, retired staff, etc. Moreover it is
common to have multiple roles and changing roles. Identity Management
is definitely the direction for...
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University Services Enquiry
The University
offers its students a range of facilities and services to provide
a better learning environment and to support whole person development.
The provisions
of such facilities and services vary according to the student categories... |
Computer Account Management is at Your Service
The Computing
Services Centre (CSC) offers a variety of IT services to the students
and helps manage a lot other services jointly supported by the cooperative
efforts of administrative and/or academic departments... |
New and Improved
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| Deployment
of Windows XP Service Pack 2
As publicized
in the article "Delayed Deployment of Windows XP Service Pack
2 (WinXP SP2)" (Network Computing, Issue 41 - September
2004), WinXP SP2 is more than just a series of bug fixes but
significant changes to the security protection mechanism... |
Upgrade
of Teaching Studio L Completed
Due to
continuous increase in student numbers and demand for Teaching Studios
with larger capacity, the CSC has doubled the number of PC workstations
in Room L making it possible to support 60 students doing computer
practical exercises simultaneously... |
X-Win32 Replaces SunRay Thin Clients
X-Win32 (X-Server
for PC) is a Microsoft Windows program that will turn a PC into an
X Window System server. It will allow X client programs located on
other computers (usually UNIX) to display the output at your PC using
the MIT X11 protocol... |
User Education
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The
Importance of Protecting Your Password
In the
light of the surging hacking attacks, security protection has become
the top priority in all data centres worldwide. With our repeated
plea for help and cooperation, some of our users apparently still
cannot understand the importance of a good password practice... |
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