When we talk about the cost of a PC on campus, it is common that only the price of the PC is considered. In fact, this amount alone is far less than the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of the PC as other types of costs associated such as installation, software, networking, communications, applications ...

Although Linux has not been taken up as a work desk environment in the desktop world like the Windows operating systems from Microsoft, Linux machines have already been widely deployed for various academic activities over the years. However, with the increasing number of these machines, security ...

The Hard Copy Centre was founded in February 1994 to mainly provide colour output services to staff and students of the university. It was then combined with the Design and Production team of MPU to form the Media Production Service (MPS) in September 1998. According to the recent management re ...

From time to time, the Computing Services Centre (CSC) reviews the size of the modem pool as well as the number of lines provided in each group based on the utilisation statistics collected and the budget available. To ensure effective use of the University resources, starting from Semester B 2003 ...

As more and more files are being shared across the Internet, it is important that their file sizes can be compressed providing shorter downloading / transferring time. Furthermore, files often get corrupted when they are transferred "loose" over Internet lines and therefore a certain kind of ...

City University's third annual WebCourse Fair 2003 kicked off on 14 January with a virtual exhibition showcasing the use of the Internet for teaching and learning. Around 30 teaching staff members shared online how they make use of audio-visual learning packages, online quizzes, self-assessment tools and 3D animations to stimulate students' interest.

The Virtual Private Network (VPN) has risen fast to become a major networking technology in just a few years. With a VPN, you can send data, via a shared or public network in a manner that emulates a point-to-point private link, between two networks (routers), between two servers, or between a ...

CityU is now connected to Internet2 through a 45 Mbps HARNET connection to Abilene via the STAR TAP (Science, Technology And Research Transit Access Point) interconnection exchange. What is Internet2? Internet2 is a collaborative effort of over 200 U.S. university members working in partnership with ...

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 ...

The Computing Services Centre (CSC) is very happy to report that we have successfully replaced the aged OpenVMS Alpha Cluster staff email server with a more powerful Sun ONE Messaging server on 8 October 2002. It is a major change of staff email server system in our University. The new email server ...