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Issue 44 Dec 19, 2003.

2004 System and Network Services Maintenance Schedule

Migrate Your E-mail from Eudora to Outlook Express or Outlook

User Areas Opening Hours between Dec 15 2003 and Jan 4 2004

Recruitment for Student Helpers


2004 System and Network Services Maintenance Schedule

Most central computer systems and network equipment need to be shut down regularly for maintenance work so that they are always kept in good condition to serve a large number of users. Details of the maintenance schedule from Jan 2004 to Dec 2004 have been sent to all departments, various college laboratories and student hostels for circulation and posting.

You can also view and download a copy of the maintenance schedule at http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/itsc/sys_ava/maint.html

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Migrate Your E-mail from Eudora to Outlook Express or Outlook

For a better support and an enhanced security for email communication, we highly recommend the current Eudora users to migrate their e-mail to an easy to use e-mail program like Outlook Express or Outlook. Unlike Eudora, Outlook Express or Outlook is good at

  • Supporting Chinese characters and

  • Enhancing security issues on privacy, content integrity and identity integrity by supporting the secure IMAP (sIMAP) and POP (sPOP) protocol

Details can be found at,

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User Areas Opening Hours between Dec 15 2003 and Jan 4 2004

From Dec 15 to Jan 4, the User Area at Pi Chiu Building and Wong Foo Yuan Building will be opened as usual except public holidays and Sundays. Besides, all the training rooms in the Pi-Chiu Building will be closed for system upgrade. The schedule can be found at http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/itsc/about/opening.html.

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Recruitment for Student Helpers

ITSC is now looking for enthusiastic students to assist with computer laboratory management and campus network support. 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 between Dec 23 and Jan 12. Applicants who do not receive any notification by the end of January may consider that their application not successful.

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