Under the current University network connection policy, you must
configure a proxy setting in your browser before browsing overseas
webpages. Effective from August 15, 2001, you can remove this proxy
setting to enhance browsing speed. This is made possible through a
transparent proxy newly set up in the ITSC.
With the transparent proxy, you do not have to configure your browser
using a manual proxy setting. Rather, you can keep the browser's
original setting which allows you to access any webpages without passing
through a proxy server. This saves you trouble in configuring your
browser, especially if you use the same computer to access the Internet
through different network connections.
We have minimized the impact of this change for you. If you do not
remove your current proxy configuration after mid-August, you can still
access overseas webpages without any difficulties. However, the surfing
speed through the transparent proxy is relatively faster. Please check
http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/itsc/howto/proxy/index.html for details.
Wireless LAN Extended to Various Colleges
We are pleased to announce that five additional sets of access points
for the wireless LAN have been installed at
- Chung Chi College - Chung Chi Tang
- United College - Tsang Shiu Tim Building
- New Asia College - Staff and Student Center
- Shaw College - Room G10, Kuo Mou Hall
- Main Campus - Fung King Hey Building and John Fulton Centre
The coverage mainly focuses on open areas. Hence, you may not receive a
good signal inside these buildings.
Besides these additions, four more access points will be installed in
the coming months including
- The Sir Philip Haddon-Cave Sports Field
- Lingnam Stadium of Chung Chi College
- Area of tree plantings (area outside of Bethlehem Hall and Adam Schall
Residence)
- Square area outside Chen Mu library of New Asia College
Details of the coverage areas and the connection method can be found at
http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/itsc/network/wlan/index.html
Special Arrangement on ITSC Dialup Lines 29330633 and 29328000
The ITSC dialup lines 29330633 will be used for the e-Course
Registration from 9 a.m. on August 6 to 5 p.m. on August 29 inclusively.
During this registration period, the dialup service for 29330633 will
NOT be available for other purpose. In order to minimize the impact on
you, the charging rate on 29328000 (69 lines) will be reduced over this
period. Please visit
http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/itsc/announce/010801.html
for the charging details.
ResNet Computing User Group
VPN technology is now fully implemented in ResNet. In order to get more
views and opinions from you about the current implementation, we have
organized several seminars and user group meetings between August and
September. Registration and seminar details can be found at
http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/itsc/training. We hope that you can come and
share your opinion with us.
Web-based Teaching News
Teachers can now apply online for 2001-2002 WebCT courses. For your
convenience, we have modified the application form to simplify the
application procedures for WebCT combined courses. As usual, we will
notify you about the application result in three working days. We will
also update the student data of the corresponding WebCT course in late
August. Your students can access your WebCT course when the term
starts, or you can control the access through the functions available in
WebCT.
Moreover, a series of web-based teaching training sessions have been
arranged between August and September for you and your support staff to
get familiar with the use of WebCT and CU Forum. Should there be any
time conflict between these courses and your schedule, you may consider
taking the online courses.
Please visit http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/wbt for details.
ITSC Training News
We organize different IT training courses regularly to meet your
training needs. These courses usually fill up quickly after the first
announcement. Consequently, in recent weeks, the ITSC Electronic
HelpDesk received many requests for course reservation. We are sorry
that we are not able to arrange these reservations due to limited
manpower.
In general, the course schedule of the next month will be available in
the first few days of the current month. You can register for any ITSC
training courses online; you can also enquire about your registered
courses and cancel your registration if necessary.
Below are the training courses provided in August
- Adobe Acrobat 5
- Office Skill Essentials - Word (2000)
- Office Skill Essentials - PowerPoint (2000)
- Office Skill Expert - Excel (2000)
- PowerPoint 2000 New Features Highlight
- Web Authoring Using Dreamweaver
- Create Your First Web Site with HTML
- Elementary HTML
- Advanced HTML
- CU Forum
- WebCT Elementary
- WebCT Advanced
- Learn WebCT 2.2 Online
- Learn WebCT 2.2 Online (Advanced) - Enhance your course using other
software
Please check the details at
http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/itsc/training.
Outage of ITSC PC LAN service
Due to server upgrade, the ITSC PC LAN service will be suspended from
midnight on August 11 until 9:00 am on August 13. The User Area and all
college/hostel laboratory connected to ITSC PC LAN will be closed during
that time.
Details can be found at
http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/itsc/announce/outage.html.
