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Issue 39, August 28 2003.

Protect Your Computer Using An Anti-Virus Programme

Web-based Teaching News

IT Training Programmes for University Staff Members

The New Face of the User Area at Pi Chiu Building

Suspension of the Campus-wide E-Mail system (CWEM) between 6am and 7am on Aug 30 (Sat) and Aug 31 (Sun) 6. System and Network Services Maintenance on September 1

System and Network Services Maintenance on Sep 1


Protect Your Computer Using An Anti-Virus Programme

You may know that the worm SOBIG.F and MSBLAST.A are now spreading worldwide (http://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/). To prevent your computer from these worms (or their variants) infection, you should not open/execute any files that received from e-mail or newsgroups without scanning them with an anti-virus scanner. Besides, you should always keep updating the virus pattern file frequently.

The updated version of virus scanner PC-cillin 2003 is now available for all CUHK staff and students to download. This version combines advanced virus detection and cleaning with an integrated firewall to safeguard your system from hackers and malicious code threats in email, instant messaging, and webpage surfing. In installing this version, you must remove your current version (PC-cillin 98 or 2000 or 2002). In general, the setup program can detect a previously installed version and perform the un-installation process automatically.

- Free download of PC-cillin 2003*
http://avserver.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/

- Pattern file update:
http://www.trendmicro.com/download/

- Virus and security alert:
http://www.hkcert.org/

*The free download must be done via a CUHK network connection. If you are using a public ISP network, please setup a VPN connection over your ISP network before you download PC-cillin . Details can be read at http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/itsc/network/vpn

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Web-based Teaching News

Teachers can now apply for 2003-04 WebCT courses at https://webctce.cuhk.edu.hk/webctapply/webctapply.cgi . As a reminder, 2002-03 WebCT courses will be retired on September 30 2003. If you would like to continue using 2002-03 WebCT courses, please remember to apply for new 2003-04 WebCT courses for your 2002-03 WebCT courses migration.

In addition, we have revamped the WebCT homepage to simplify your information searches. The new homepage consists of four areas,

  1. Apply: Teachers can apply online for WebCT 2003-2004 courses now. As usual, we will notify you about the application result in three working days.

  2. Login: You can login to WebCT 2002-2003 and WebCT 2003-2004 through this area.
  3. FAQ: You can access lists of FAQs about WebCT login, course migration, course management and content design.
  4. Resources: You can get the user guides, new version features, and information about seminars, trainings and webct courses demonstrations.

To get more information about this update, please visit the WebCT homepage at http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/wbt/webctce.

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IT Training Programmes for University Staff Members

In September, we will continue offering courses about the use of MS Office, web-authoring tools and web-based teaching tools to University staff members. These include

  1. Instructor-led courses:
    - Adobe Acrobat 5
    - Windows XP and Office XP New Features Highlight
    - Office Skill Expert - Word, Excel
    - Office Skill Essentials - Word, Excel, Powerpoint
  2. On-line courses:
    - Learn WebCT CE 3.8 Online (Elementary)
    - Learn WebCT CE 3.8 Online (Advanced)
    - Build Your WebCT course: A Great Start

Visit http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/itsc/training for the details. If you fail to register for any courses due to time conflicts or full reservations, please fill in our online Feedback Form
(https://helpdesk.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/group/itsc-training) so that we can know more about your needs.

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The New Face of the User Area at Pi Chiu Building

The User Area at Pi Chiu Building was renovated this summer. It will be open on Sep 1 1pm for your use. During this renovation, we
  • enlarged Training Room III (Room 127 Pi Chiu Building), which is now equipped with 36 PCs. It is an ideal teaching venue for computer classes.
  • established two discussion rooms for facilitating group discussion. Each room is also equipped with computers and ClassNet connections. They are suitable for holding six-person group discussions or presentations.

Please visit http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/itsc/compenv/userarea for the arrangement details.

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Suspension of the Campus-wide E-Mail system (CWEM) between 6am and 7am on Aug 30 (Sat) and Aug 31 (Sun)

In order to conduct urgent system works, the Campus-wide E-Mail (CWEM) system will not be available between 6am and 7am on Aug 30 and Aug 31, respectively. During the suspension periods, you will not be able to receive and send e-mails through the system.

We are sorry for any inconvenience caused. For any enquiries, please contact ITSC Electronic Helpdesk at Helpdesk at https://helpdesk.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/group/postmaster.

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System and Network Services Maintenance on Sep 1

Most of the centrally managed computer systems need to be shut down regularly for maintenance work, which includes user file back ups, system testing, software/hardware upgrades, and hardware preventive maintenance. Therefore, we suggest you avoid scheduling important computing activities during the maintenance periods.

The next maintenance day has been scheduled on Sep 1. The affected services include the following:

  1. Computing Resources

  2. 9am-1pm

    ITSC PC LAN System (including Datalocker -
    datalocker.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk)
    7am-1pm CUHK Community Homepage Server (iHome)
    7am-1pm General-purpose UNIX Server (Logic)

  3. Web-based Teaching Tools
    7am-1pm CU Forum
    7am-1pm WebCT
  4. High-performance Computing Platform
    9am-1pm Data-intensive Computing Server (Orient)
    9am-1pm Numeric-intensive Computing Server (Origin)
    9am-1pm High-performance Computing Cluster (Orbit)
    9am-1pm Memory-intensive Computing Server (Orpin)
  5. Network Services
    9am-1pm Dial-up Modem Pools
    7am-1pm Campus-wide E-mail System (CWEM)
  6. Other System -
    7am-1pm ITSC Electronic Helpdesk

The User Area (1/F of Pi Ch'iu Building and Room 103 of Wong Foo Yuan Building) will also be closed between 9am and 1pm on Sep 1.

You can check other maintenance schedules at http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/itsc/sys_ava/sys_ava.html.

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