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The problem is that when I run script x and redirect it to a file, all of the error messages come to the screen when I want them to also go to that file.With bash shell, use:program > outputfile 2>&1My colleague found this for me in the book Unix Pow...

Collection of Free Mac Apps for Students

Has anyone tried CouchDB? It’s a document database. 10 Reasons why CouchDB is better than MysqlDiscovered via http://reddit.comPlease add your experiences or comments or alternatives here. Thanks

Apple iOS Development Apple Developer Tutorials Materials for a Stanford course on developing iOS apps are available for free online.

Share Docs And Collaborate Free With LiveMinutes Top 10 Web Collaboration Tools – By Kevin Purdy on October 4, 2009 at 3:00 AM Collaboration software short summary and links – taken from UCSC Mailing List by Harry Mangalam, UCI – “I requested and received a l...

While we hope that everyone who adds a new article to the UCLA Knowledgebase will search first to avoid duplicating anything, occasionally it happens. Since the Knowledgebase is an experiment in community sharing, anything you can do to help solve the problem ...

The UCLA Login system assumes that your IP address doesn’t change during your session, but some departments on campus (Med Center for one) run Network Address Translation (NAT) on their internal networks and this changes the IP address. The solution for the us...

Articles and Other Resources 3 Challenges to Wiki Use in Instruction – Ruth Reynard 02/11/09 Wiki as a Teaching Tool – Parker & Chao, Interdisciplinary Journal of Knowledge and Learning Objects – Volume 3, 2007 Teaching, Learning, and other uses for Wikis ...

Second Life (SL) is a 3D virtual world developed by the Linden Labs. Basic accounts are free and provide you with an avatar. Once you have an avatar, you need to download SL software and go through orientation. See system requirements: secondlife.com/All objec...

In order to give a feel for what people at UCLA are doing with Second Life, this article has been created. Please add anything you think appropriate. And please mention it to any instructors, grad students, or staff that use Second Life in their teaching or re...

The Ten Minute Guide to diff and patch Using diff and patch

Are there good enough tools for annotating documents and sharing those annotations that are easy enough to use that students might actually read things online for classes?I don’t know, but here are some possibilities: http://a.nnotate.com (web-based free and ...

When pasting text into a vi editing screen, sometimes you’ll get each line increasingly indented like this.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb ccccccccccccccccccUse this command to change the “paste” setting. Then change it back when you’re done.:set paste:...

Evening Escorts If you are on campus by yourself between dusk and 1 a.m., please note this free program sponsored by the UC Police Department. If you call (310) 794-WALK about 15 minutes before you leave, a Community Service Officer will come to your location...

This was contributed by a colleague from UCI, Harry Mangalam.Having spent 3 days debugging this, I thought I might make it easier for others who might run into it.SAS 9.2 uses Java for at least some of its plotting routines (minimally the ‘ods graphics’).The 6...

Here are some of UCLA Knowledgebase Use Cases, with examples. Please add others as they occur to you. Any info that took you a long time to find: https://kb.ucla.edu/link/680 Case Studies of particular challenging debugging: https://kb.ucla.edu/lin...

Amanda backup is a solid FOSS backup solution that’s been around for ages. If you aren’t already using it, I highly recommend it.It’s gotten easier to deploy for Macs with each new version of OS X, so that now it’s a standard install for any UNIX admin.I’ve u...

This thread start and summary from UCSC Mailing List might prove useful to others.On Friday 20 November 2009 Harry Mangalam wrote:Is there a good, free, OSS, or commercial file synchronizer for theMac? Or a verified web app that does the same?A (surprisingly)...