News

December 2001

by Joe Lee

The University's Video-on-Demand facility has been in service for a long time, enabling users to watch archived videos on campus. Now the facility has been extended to your home and you can view the videos via the CityLink Plus dial-up facility. Currently, there are more than 170 videos, and the ...

by Rita Lam

For continuous improvement of service quality, the Computing Services Centre (CSC) is regularly reviewing the dial-up facility and searching for the best service providers in the market. After a vigorous selection, the CSC is pleased to announce that the New T&T Hong Kong Limited has been chosen as ...

September 2001

by Joe Chow

Videoconferencing breaks the barrier between two partiesat separate andremotelocationsto communicate face to face with each other. It is particularly useful for organising seminars across local/overseas institutions and distant learning courses or facilitating collaboration among students ...

March 2001

by Noel Laam

This is not the head of the Post Office. When you send/receive your e-mail, lots of work has been done behind the scene. The e-mail is scanned for virus, returned with error message if the recipient address is invalid, and answered with auto-reply if the recipient is on leave etc. Do you know who is ...

by Henry Wong, Annie Yu

Long before the emergence of e-mail, the telephone and campus mail have been the major form of internal communication on campus. When accessing e-mail has proved to be just as easy, it quickly became a popular method of communication between individual computer users and is now used frequently by ...

by Noel Laam

Have you ever experienced this? Either no e-mail can reach you within a rather long period of time, or the same one keeps bombarding your e-mail account several times a day? One of the causes for such phenomena is that the e-mail network was jammed with e-mail of large file size, and thus traffic ...