ITSC Digest? What's it about?
We are a new online bi-weekly magazine! Its purpose is to tell you everything you need to know about the upcoming services and events being provided by our Centre.

Learning Technology
Learning Technology (LT) aims at facilitating teaching through the effective uses of technology in instruction, as well as facilitating students in learning. LT ranges from online forums, educational materials, slide processing, to digital video clips and CD ROMs production.

A kick-off seminar on 14 January 1999 addressed "Teaching with Learning Technology: Why? When? How?". In the seminar, we introduced how to integrate Learning Technology into the curriculum. Prof. Tsou Jin Yeu, Dept. of Architecture and Prof. Louis Leung, Dept of Journalism shared with us their experience in this area. Over 120 teaching staff joined this event.

Another series of seminars about Learning Technology will be held between Jan-Feb for our teaching staff. Additionally, there will be four guided tours in late January to the "Learning Technology Laboratory" for you to learn more about our operation. Please refer to for details.

Dial-up Access Quota System Review
Since its first implementation in September last year, the Dial-up Quota System has accommodated more users, made login faster and better utilized the Campus network.

Our system is undergoing regular review and the first adjustment was made in November. The next amendment will be made on February 8 1999, and the Information Technology Services Centre has proposed changes. We thank you for your valuable comments that suggested during the consultation period. The proposal will be revised based on the comments received.

Read the latest news at: ITSC Dialup Homepage.

Campus-wide E-mail System (Mailserv) Upgrade
The Campus-wide E-mail System (Mailserv) was shut down last Christmas for a file service upgrade. We upgraded the File Servers Firmware and its OS to make the server Y2K compliant, installed two faster disks to backup user data, and installed two additional network interface cards on each of the file servers to improve the network performance of the file servers.

A New Surfing Speed from HARNET to the Internet
The bandwidth of HARNET to the US was upgraded to 12M on September 29, 1998. With this upgrade, HARNET users can enjoy a 100% increase in the Internet bandwidth to overseas locations.

University Administration Building Network and Computer Facilities Upgrade
The University Administration Building is undergoing a total network facilities upgrade including the existing coaxial network cabling system, old servers and desktop computers. A structure cabling system using CAT-5 UTP cable and Fast Ethernet switches will be used to connect all computing devices. The computers in the Building will then have a maximum of 100Mbps network transfer rate after the upgrade.

External Wall Coating Work on Pi-Chiu Building
External wall coating work on Pi-Chiu Building (which houses the ITSC) is now being conducted by the Campus Development Office. The sprayed granite finish used on the external wall of the University Science Centre will be adopted for Pi-Chiu Building, and the design will be light and dark gray. The work will last until the first week of March 1999. During the construction period, all the computer services and the laboratories will operate as usual.