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In order to re-orient itself to be in line with the development of the University, the Computing Services Centre (CSC) has repositioned itself to focus mainly on the support of IT infrastructure and on the technical support to users in various departments, and the previous Administration and ...

Early in the morning of 20 September 2001 when I came into the office and switched on the PC as usual, the screen was appearing funny and small windows kept popping up as if they were saying hello to me. While I was wide at sea about what had happened, a neighbouring colleague came to my rescue and ...

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 ...

In recent months, there is a significant increase in the number of virus attacks and hacking activities targeted at or originated from our campus network. During the trouble-shooting and investigations of these incidents, the Computing Services Centre (CSC) discovered that the network database ...

Easy access to modern information technology is essential to the pursuit and achievement of the mission of CityU for excellence in teaching, research, and service outreach. The readily accessible computing systems as well as internal and external data networks in the classrooms is certainly one step ...

There was some good news for your students who own a notebook computer and a wireless LAN card! From mid-October 2001, just register their wireless LAN cards with the Computing Services Centre (CSC) and these students can easily connect their notebooks to the Campus Wireless LAN (WLAN) whenever and ...

The High Performance Computer, SUN Enterprise 10000 Server, has recently been upgraded with the addition of 24 CPUs and 12 GB memory giving a full swing of 64 CPUs, 26 GB memory and 27 Gflops computation. Normally the entire machine will be configured as a single domain for the sole use of CityU ...

In order to meet the increase in demand of Internet bandwidth of the local universities, the International Internet link (via EQUANT) of HARNET (Hong Kong Academic & Research Network) was upgraded from 48 Mbps to 72 Mbps on 18 July, 2001. The local ATM connections linking up the eight local ...

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 ...

CityU has adopted the EMC E-Infostructure, a centralized and consolidated storage system with a capacity of seven terabytes, to manage its ever-growing information demands on teaching, administration and research. The new system, which will accommodate CityU's 25,000 users, is the largest academic networked information infrastructure in Hong Kong.