Issue 41 Oct 17, 2003.
Our E-mail system had recorded that an email scam was sent to several thousand CWEM accounts recently. The scam invited our staff and students to sign up at a website to receive advertisements after which users would supposedly earn money for each advertisement they received. We highly recommend you NOT follow any instruction as stated in this kind of promotional e-mail. They probably are e-mail scams just like the scam you may have seen on TV's "Police Magazine". Please refer to http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/itsc/network/app/email/scam.html.
Adopting campus-wide software standards is beneficial to the overall IT development of the University as standardization helps to facilitate intra-campus collaboration and electronic document exchange, shortens software adoption time, and reduces software training and support costs. The latest University Software Standards as of September 2003 are the same as the standards of March 2003 except for the following: a. For LAN Client Service, the recommended software is Novell Client 3.4 (Win98). b. For Web Browsers, Netscape 4.7x is no longer recommended as it is a very old browser and cannot display some web pages properly. Furthermore, because of its low popularity, Netscape 7.x is also not accepted as a standard browser. Please refer to http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/mcas/swstandard for details.
Staff members can now learn MS XP and MS Office anytime anywhere through an Internet connection with new self-paced e-Learning programmes. This learning mode is an alternative to studying the self-learning programmes in the ITSC learning laboratory. Without paying a visit to the Pi Chiu Building, you can still study the programmes at your own pace. These web-based self-paced learning programmes come with clear narration and interactive examples which greatly assist you in learning. The programmes also provide you with a bookmark function that marks learning progress - whether you have completed or not yet started the listed topics. The current available courses are: - Windows XP - Office XP New Features - Word 2000 - Excel 2000 - Access 2000 - PowerPoint 2000 - Outlook 2000 For details and registration, please visit http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/itsc/training
The ITSC is now organizing a "Macromedia Contribute 2 and Breeze" seminar with Macromedia Hong Kong Limited to assist our staff members in constructing web sites. This seminar is specially targeted for those who do not have any design and programming knowledge but need to maintain web pages or setup an e-Learning environment as easily as using Microsoft Office. Please find the course details and registration information at http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/itsc/training, course code MED0100001. If you like to learn new information technology, make lots of friends, and gain work experience, you can consider joining our Student Computer Assistant Team. The Team is now looking for enthusiastic students to help in high performance computing service. The working hours are limited to 18 hours per week. Interested students should fill in the application form at http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/itsc/announce/sca-recruit.html by October 25 (Saturday). Applicants who do not receive any notification by early November may consider that their application not successful. |
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