The entire CityU community is reminded once again of the University's commitment to the protection of intellectual property and copyrighted material. The Computing Services Centre (CSC), as the administrator of the campus network, will take all necessary actions (e.g., blocking the network ...

The Challenges In recent years, the substantial increase in student number has led to the significant shortage of computer teaching studio not only in its number but also with the right seating capacity. Unless immediate measures are to be taken, the situation will undoubtedly be worsened for the ...

The community of City University is expanding not just in the increasing number of student, alumni and staff, but also diverse relationships with the University such as prospective students/staff, visiting scholars, exchange students, retired staff, etc. Moreover it is common to have multiple roles ...

The Computing Services Centre (CSC) offers a variety of IT services to the students and helps manage a lot other services jointly supported by the cooperative efforts of administrative and/or academic departments. Some of these services include the e-Learning service, the e-Portal service, the Email ...

As publicized in the article "Delayed Deployment of Windows XP Service Pack 2 (WinXP SP2)" ( Network Computing, Issue 41 - September 2004), WinXP SP2 is more than just a series of bug fixes but significant changes to the security protection mechanism. These changes can affect both existing ...

Due to continuous increase in student numbers and demand for Teaching Studios with larger capacity, the CSC has doubled the number of PC workstations in Room L making it possible to support 60 students doing computer practical exercises simultaneously. After this renovation, the room has the ...

X-Win32 (X-Server for PC) is a Microsoft Windows program that will turn a PC into an X Window System server. It will allow X client programs located on other computers (usually UNIX) to display the output at your PC using the MIT X11 protocol. The software offers a broad range of features and ...

In the light of the surging hacking attacks, security protection has become the top priority in all data centres worldwide. With our repeated plea for help and cooperation, some of our users apparently still cannot understand the importance of a good password practice. It is believed that the ...

Starting from October 1st the bandwidths of the HARNET's International Internet link and the University's own Internet link have been upgraded from 155 Mbps to 240 Mbps, and from 12 Mbps to15 Mbps respectively. Apart from the bandwidth upgrades, the local HARNET2 connections, which used to be ATM ...

Security incidents such as virus infection or hacking of machines in the Student Residence (SR) have been a recurrent and serious problem faced by the Computing Services Centre (CSC) since the inception of the SR. Causes leading to the current situation are many, some of them are: Lack of security ...