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Issue
57 - September 2008 |
Feature
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Long Term Notebook Computer Loan Scheme
A
pilot scheme, the Long Term Notebook Computer Loan Scheme (LLS)
for students, was considered by the Committee on Information Services
and Technology (CIST) at its meeting on 7 April 2008. The LLS was
later approved by the Senate on May 20 2008. It is a mobile support
scheme in which the University will purchase a lot of notebook computers
and then loan them to selected groups of students for piloting a
new mode of teaching and learning using mobile devices. All UGC-funded
full-time Undergraduate and Associate Degree students except those
who are in their final year are eligible for the LLS..
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What's Up?
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Beware
of Phishing/Fraudulent/Fake Email
You may have experience
in receiving email that looks like being sent from the "support",
"service", "network/email/web administrator"...
etc. of the University, and you were asked to provide your account
password by either replying to the email... |
IPv4
to IPv6 Transition
Internet
Protocol version 4 (IPv4) is the first and dominant standard network
layer protocol in use by computers and electronic devices to exchange
data over the Internet. IPv4 uses 32-bit addresses (e.g. 144.214.32.4
in dot-decimal notation), which limits the number of unique addresses
to 4.3 billion. That address space is... |
Non-stop Internet Service and Network Connectivity
This
article addresses the measures that the Computing Services Centre
(CSC) plans to take to enhance the network infrastructure such that
the Internet will remain accessible to users when all the IT services
provided from inside the Main Computer Room (MCR) in the Main Campus
become unavailable under such condition as a major disaster....
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