News

December 2008

by Noel Laam

In the world of computers, data loss can happen in many unpredictable ways, such as sudden physical failure of the storage media, unknown virus attacks even with anti-virus software installed, application software bugs and performance problems, human errors and many more. While there might be ...

September 2008

by Raymond Poon

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 ...

June 2008

by Joe Chow

While some offices have managed to replace their staff PCs from time to time using their own resources, yet around 1,100 units of desktop PCs that are at least 3 years old are still being used by various administrative and support offices. Such old models are incapable of handling the Microsoft’s ...