In order to cope with the surging increase of student intake in September 2004, the Computing Services Centre (CSC) has adjusted the provision of student services and below is a brief outline of it. The CSC teaching studios and terminal rooms are all made available to the University for central ...

Jargons VPN VPN stands for "Virtual Private Network" and it is a way to provide remote access to an organisation's network via the Internet. VPNs send data over the public Internet through secure "tunnels". Therefore, if you decided to use the services on the CityU network from a remote site e.g ...

A Big Leap in Email Quotas As email now becomes an indispensable tool for communication, and with different forms of multi-media documents regularly being exchanged via email, providing sufficient disk quota to accommodate the email and its associated documents is as important as providing unfailing ...

Some of the technical terms we use in our daily work were mentioned in our last issue. This issue, we shall continue to provide definitions of the ones that were often raised at the CSC Help Desk. SYSNET SYSNET, the Systems and Network Technical Group, was established in December 1999 primarily for ...

Within the CityU community, we often come across some common computer terms in our daily work; sometimes we just don't have a clue what they mean or how important they are in the community. This is very much reflected in the type of calls placed through the CSC Help Desk. Quite often novice users ...

As In a recent routine health and security check of on-campus computers (as some of you might be aware), we found that a large number, over 3,000 at least, of PCs were turned on after office hours and left running overnight. This gives rise to two issues. First, PCs left running unattended overnight ...

Student Work Programme is designed by the Computing Services Centre (CSC) to offer students opportunities to gain IT experiences through practical work in the CSC. Students have the precious chance not only to learn the state-of-the-art technology but also to contribute their skills to serve the ...

The University campus network has become the de facto pedestal upon which all computing services in our University are delivered, and the recent major upgrade has further strengthened its importance as the indispensable facility for our University. The advancement of the campus network urges for ...

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 ...

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 ...