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Provisioning and Managing Windows Clients

For those looking for ways to deploy and efficiently manage the full life cycle of Windows client...

KMS Activation for non-domain clients

I found that Windows clients that were not part of our AD domain were not activating despite of p...

Do shortened URLs like the ones created on ucla.in still work if the source URL changes?

For ucla.in, if the source URL changes, the ucla.in link will still point to the original link th...

How to merge pdf files

I’ve only tried the first one, but for those who don’t have a Mac, I added some other links. How ...

Get quick info from a remote Windows machine with WMI and Powershell 2.0

This post is meant to offer some quick and easy ways to use Powershell and WMI for System Adminis...

Vista or Win7 client can't connect to file shares on older Win boxes or NAS devices

Microsoft has enhanced their security standards, in particular their aging Samba (SMB) Windows Fi...

Does Moodle let us store local data about students and classes?

Please answer this if you can, and then retag it. ThanksTo clarify the question, does Moodle have...

How is Twitter useful?

Getting the most out of Twitter – N.Y. Times By CLAIRE CAIN MILLER March 3, 2010 – “The truth i...

iTunes for Windows compatibility error

On computers that have been upgraded from Windows Vista to Windows 7, iTunes always launches with...

How can I access campus administrative data?

UCLA’s administrative campus Data Warehouse is called the QDB (Query DataBase). For information ...

Common Moodle programming mistakes

Feel free to add to this list.Error handling of get_records() and its variants (e.g. get_records_...

Revision Control Systems Compared

Comparison chartsThere is an in-depth Version Control Systems Comparison available that covers ma...

Collecting Obsolete Media Readers

As part of our preservation work at the Social Science Data Archive we sometimes have to pull dat...

UCLA Library Research Guides

UCLA librarians create research guides for classes and other purposes. I created a guide for TAs ...

UCLA Library-Licensed Databases – Getting Free Off-Campus Access and Free Articles

The UCLA Library subscribes to hundreds of databases for fees of varying amounts, in order to lic...

UCLA Library-Licensed Databases: Getting to and Selecting Databases to Search