Removal
of English and Chinese Windows 98 in CSC Teaching Studios
By Joe Lee
According
to usage statistics, the majority of our students have already
moved from Windows 98 (Win98/CWin98) to the Windows XP (WinXP)
environment. In order to concentrate our support effort on
WinXP and leave room for the development of this environment,
we will remove the Win98/CWin98 application environment in
the CSC Student Terminal Area after the Summer Term.
A full
list of software applications installed under Student LAN
WinXP and Win98/CWin98 can be found at the following URL:
http://www.cityu.edu.hk/csc/stafflan/software.htm
If there
is any application that you use for teaching or workshops
has not been installed under WinXP, please let us know through
an on-line CSC Work Request and provide us with the original
software media (CD or diskettes) for installation under WinXP.
For applications that are not compatible with WinXP, you may
have to acquire an XP version for installation. To be in line
with the new teaching environment, please update your teaching
materials accordingly for WinXP.
For further
assistance, please contact our staff, Simpson Wong, at 3442
6455.
Phasing
Out of Old Staff Email server and Old Webmail (Mailspinner)
By Henry Wong
As you
may already know, the former OpenVMS Alpha Cluster staff email
server (oldmail.cityu.edu.hk) has been replaced by the more
powerful Sun ONE Messaging server for more than 8 months since
last October.
In view
of the fact that most, if not all, staff users have already
switched all their email activities to the new mail server
and thus no longer need to access the old mail server and
the old Webmail (Mailspinner) interface, the Computing Services
Centre (CSC) is going to phase out the latter two at the end
of October 2003.
Such move
has NO effect on POP3 users - the majority of staff users,
because all email messages that were stored in their mailboxes
on the old mail server have already been transferred to the
local mailboxes on their computers either before or during
the server replacement in last October. Thus POP3 users no
longer need to access the old mail server since then.
For IMAP
users, however, some of their old mail might still reside
in their mailboxes located on the old mail server and has
not yet been transferred to their local mailboxes. Since the
old mail server will no longer be accessible after October
this year, they are recommended to check their email on the
old mail server using the old Webmail (Mailspinner) or their
preferred email tools, and transfer all the essential messages
to the local mailboxes on their computers as soon as possible.
Please
refer to the Web page "Retrieving Email on the Old Mail
Server After the Switch-over" (http://email.cityu.edu.hk/newserver/getoldmail.htm)
for detail information and remember to use the OLD email account
password when accessing email accounts on the old staff mail
server.
Removal
of Email Service on Academic UNIX Server
By Henry Wong
Owing
to the fact that almost all users are currently using the
Sun ONE Messaging server as the backend email server, the
Computing Services Centre (CSC) had removed the email service
provided on the Academic UNIX server (node Moscow) at the
end of last Semester (end of June) as previously planned.
After
the removal, users will no longer be able to receive email
messages via the Academic UNIX server, and any email sent
to the address username@uxmail.cityu.edu.hk will become
unreachable. In addition, users will not be able to receive
and send email with any email client software (e.g. Eudora,
MS Outlook Express, etc.) via the UNIX mail server since the
POP3 server uxpop.cityu.edu.hk and SMTP server uxsmtp.cityu.edu.hk
will cease to exist.
However,
users can still access their old email messages that are currently
stored on their UNIX accounts with the help of UNIX host-based
email tools such as mailx, elm or pine. These tools allow
them to send email but not to receive.
It is
strongly advised that CityU members should use the services
provided by the Central Email Servers to handle their email
activities. If you are one of the few who is still using your
UNIX email account, you should start switching all your email
activities to the central email servers as soon as possible
in order to avoid any unnecessary interruption and inconvenience
triggered by the removal of email service on the Academic
UNIX server.
For detail
information regarding this removal, please visit the following
Web page:
http://email.cityu.edu.hk/faq/uxmail/.