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I have some data from my own research. Who can help me archive the data?
The best place to go on campus is the ISSR Data Archive. For more information on data preparation and preservation click on this link: https://www.library.ucla.edu/social-science-data-archive/about-data-archive
I need some data for a class or research project. Who do I talk to?
The ISR Data Archive serves faculty, staff and students who want to use data for classes and research. For more information about our services and collection please click on this link: http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/issr/da
How do I find public opinion polls for a class or research?
The UCLA Data Archive maintains a collection of public opinion poll data, covering many years and countries. Some of these files come from the Roper Center. Some come from Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR). To see what is av...
I need to work with census data and don't know where to start.
There are a number of resources you can use to learn about and use census data. The ISSR Data Archive maintains a collection of census data covering many years and countries. https://www.library.ucla.edu/social-science-data-archive/about-data-archive The Cen...
How do I find out about the ICPSR Summer Program?
The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) holds a summer training program each year. For more information, click: http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/sumprog/
Raster it full size (for your office)
http://homokaasu.org/rasterbator/take any picture and make it “huge”.
Where can I go for hard disk and storage-related performance
I like this site: Storage Review “This paper may be of interest – study done by Google on over 100,000 drives they have/had in service. When they fail, why they fail, what correlates with failure.” https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c...
How do I find out more about broadband?
Go to DSL Reports
What is a daemon?
In UNIX, a Daemon stands for Disk and Execution Monitor. A daemon is a long-running background process that answers requests for services. The term originated with Unix, but most operating systems use daemons in some form or another. In Windows NT, 2000, and X...
What is snail mail?
Snail mail = US Postal Service
How do I create a shortcut in Windows?
In Windows, a shortcut is an icon used to represent a document, folder, or program file. You can open a file or launch an application by clicking the icon. Shortcuts are particularly useful because you can put them on your desktop or in the Start menu without ...
What some RAID levels?
RAID 0: RAID 0 sacrifices fault tolerance for raw speed. It doesn’t store parity information, but with its small stripes, it can work with large files much faster than any other RAID. Because it is not fault tolerant, RAID 0 is inappropriate for the storage o...
How does SSC help its clients reduce SPAM?
SSC uses the Barracuda security appliance to filter out spam, block viruses, and identify phishing attempts. Users with low to moderate amounts of spam can configure the Barracuda’s basic client-side filtering for Eudora and Outlook. Users with high volume of ...
How do you get to Social Sciences Computing?
Check out this map:Locating Social Sciences Computing
How do I find out more about SSC's Support Services?
Please visit SSC Support Desk for more information.
How do I set up a vacation message for my SSC email account?
Instructions for setting up vacation message
How do I subscribe to the Staff Assembly email list?
Join “UCLA Staff Assembly”https://groups.google.com/a/lists.ucla.edu/forum/#!forum/uclasa-l
Does Social Sciences Computing provide 24/7 support?
Mike Franks says:SSC does not have 24/7 support but: our network and servers are monitored and they page different staff members when there are any issues. our Support Desk closes at 5 on weekdays, for general support but for Classweb we have a feedback form t...