November to December, 1999 No. 82

To promote wider use of the electronic means of information dissemination at the University, the Computer News is now published by Computer Centre in our website. Only the Table of Contents, the Operations Schedule and the Training News of the Computer News are distributed in printed form to users. To read the Computer News articles, please visit Computer Centre home page at location http://www.its.hku.hk/ and select the hot-link Computer News using any web browser.

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Hotlines
Operations Schedule

General News
Achieving Year 2000 (Y2K) Compliance
UFIA - A User-friendly Flexi-IT Approach for Education
Enhancing Web-based Courses with a Simulated Debate Capability
Video Conferencing Facility in Computer Centre
An Online Procedure for Renewing Departmental Accounts
From The Help Desk - About Quotas and Budgets

Campus Network and Internet Service News
More Wireless LAN Access Points Installed
Networking the Kadoorie Biological Sciences Building
Retirement of the HKUDIAL (28592595) Modem Pool

UNIX / Host Computer News
Powerful SUN Enterprise 10000 Server for Upgrading the HKUSUA and HKUSUB Systems
System Security of Unix Servers Enhanced by Real-time Intrusion Detection Software

Supercomputer News
Large Scratch Disk Available to Programs during execution on the HKUSP2 System
New Software installed on the HKUSP2 System

PC News
More Disk Space for Centrally Managed LAN Servers for Departments
LAN PC Servers for Administrative Offices Upgraded to Netware 5

Staff News

Training News

 
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Hotlines, Dialup
 
 
 

General Enquiries	2859 2495
Fax	2559 7904
Computer Operations (Network and Operational problems)	2859 2496
Help Desk (Software and general problems)	2859 2480
Equipment Maintenance	2859 2774


 

HKU Computer Centre Dial-up Services
60-minute lines		30-minute lines
56Kbps PPP Lines (v.90 modem standard) (24-hour service and support modems of all speeds) Please click here to see how to configure the settings to use the lines.
408 lines for all users	29757000	144 lines for all users	29647000
		96 lines for all users	21057100
72lines for staff only	28595100	48 lines for staff only	29642300
48 lines for HKU Graduate Account users (no connection time limitation)	22497100

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Operations Schedule

Computer Room Opening Hours

    24 hours

 
Opening Hours for Microcomputer / Workstation Rooms
 

Location:	Opening hours:
Run Run Shaw Building  (Room 101, and 103, Room 113 (ACEnet))	24 hours  Monday (00:00 a.m.) - Sunday (12:00 p.m.)
Run Run Shaw Building (Room 201)	Monday - Friday  (8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.)  Saturday (8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.)  Sunday - Closed
Run Run Shaw Building (Room 210 (Workstation))  Knowles Building (Room 218),  K.K. Leung Building (Room LG-108 (ACEnet))	Monday - Friday  (8:30 a.m. - 10:00 p.m.)  Saturday (8:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.)  Sunday - Closed
Old Library Building (Room 134)	Monday - Friday (9:00 a.m. - 10:00 p.m.)  Saturday (9:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.) Sunday - Closed
Old Library Building (Room 135)  Old Library Building (Room 136)	Monday - Friday (9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.)  Saturday (9:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.)  Sunday - Closed

(Except RR103, RR104, RR113(ACEnet), all other microcomputer/workstation/ACEnet laboratories are closed on Sundays, University Holidays and Public Holidays)
 

 
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Holiday Schedule for Computer Laboratories from December 1999 to February 2000

(Other than Rooms RR101, RR103 and RR113(ACEnet) which are open all the time, all other microcomputer/workstation/ACEnet laboratories will be closed on Sundays, University Holidays and Public Holidays)