News

December 2002

by Joe Chow

In the 33rd issue of the Network Computing, we have reported the installation of new Windows XP operating system on PCs of the Lecture Theatres (LT) and classrooms. Now, let's talk about the problems that have been reported since its installation. User Login In order to increase the network security ...

by Joe Chow

Since September 2002, in addition to the normal support work, the Computing Services Centre (CSC) has been busy carrying out the campus-wide PC operating system upgrade to English Windows XP with mutli-language pack. This again is a large-scale upgrade exercise covering around 1,600 Staff LAN PCs ...

by Peter Mok

It has become common practice for Web content providers to put up Acrobat documents as reference since it allows better page layouts and formats, especially for long documents with chapters, sections or graphics. However, Acrobat documents are version dependent. We have been alerted by the Help Desk ...

September 2002

by Raymond Poon

Microsoft will soon cease its support on Windows 98 (Win98) and a lot of hardware and software, especially the new ones, will be better supported under Windows XP (WinXP). More importantly, the Banner 5, which is scheduled to go live in September 2002, will not run under Win98. As a result, the ...

by Joe Chow

All the PCs in the lecture theatres and classrooms have been upgraded from Windows 98 to Windows XP. Among the advantages of Windows XP over Windows 98, better system stability and security are the most important. In the new Windows XP environment, users can select one of the two options below when ...

June 2002

by Noel Laam

If there is a word to describe the Student Terminal Area (STA) of the Computing Services Centre (CSC), `bustle' is probably the right one: you always find lots of students in the STA, whether using the computers, printing their course work, scanning images, plotting graphs, attending lectures ...

March 2002

by Manfred Chan

The Windows 2000 pilot run started in October 2001. Currently about 26 departments have participated in the pilot run. It is estimated that over 400 colleagues have already tested the new Windows 2000 Intranet environment. To join the Windows 2000 Professional pilot run, the departmental Network ...