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Did somehow your “Out of office” assistant get disabled?When you click on Tools>Out of Office Assistant do you get an error message:“The command is not available. See the program documentation…blah blah blah”There is a registry fix that you can do, but it d...

When running ‘Disk Cleanup’ on a Windows 2000 or XP workstations, you may have notice that it pauses for a long time when checking for files to be compressed. One of things you can to do to save time is to edit the registry file to automatically bypass this s...

When switching from Windows to Apple (OS/X) there are some hints and tips that can make it easier and more fun. Mac 101 A Guide to OS X Software for Switchers Top 10 Things all Switchers Should Know How Does Open Source Software Stack Up on the Mac? Tips and T...

New Area Code 424On Wednesday, July 26th, 2006, a new area code, 424, will become effective in the Los Angeles area. Campus callers dialing to the 424 area code should use 8+1+424-xxx-xxxx. No changes to on- or off-campus dialing will occur.The UCLA telephon...

Windows will assign USB drives the first available drive letter when they are detected. If you have more that one device, this could cause problems, because drive letters will be different for them if they are not plugged in the same order every time. A work...

GIMP is an open source alternative to image editors like Photoshop and Fireworks. GIMP began originally as a Linux photo editor, but due to its powerful abilities and relative ease of use, it was quickly ported to more popular platforms like Windows and MacOS...

SurveyMonkey seems like a nice fit for recommending to a prof for his project and I was wondering if anyone had any experience with it.Positive and negative comments would be appreciated. http://www.surveymonkey.com Technique for customizing URLs to track indi...

If you’ve ever wondered what to do to clean old marks off a dry erase board, here is a detailed how-to. It even covers accidental use of permanent markers. I saw the first tip used successfully in a class last week. http://www.wikihow.com/Erase-Old-Marks-off-...

For better or for worse, everyone developing web sites at UCLA abides by different rules. For those of us who build for public consumption, what are the best practices — considerate of time and maintenance limitations — to get a little closer to building bette...

The Autonomy Search Engine used by the Vignette Portal Project spiders all campus websites starting with ucla.edu, uclaextension.edu, uclabruins.com, uclastore.com, uclaalumni.net, juei.org, and uclaconferencecenter.com.This search process is currently being u...

Windows gives you two different ways to manage users on a machine. For either of these methods to work, you must be logged on as an administrator.The simple wayIf you go into the User Accounts section of the Control Panel, you’ll see a list of users. You can c...

Sometimes you may want certain Plone portlets to only show up on certain pages. This guide will walk you through doing exactly that.If the portlets already appear on your site, you’ll need to remove the portlet calls from the site properties page. In the Zope ...

You want Ruby on Rails, and you want it now. The trouble is, you don’t have Apache or MySQL on your home computer. You could install and configure those huge programs, but you’re not trying to turn your desktop into a full web server. You could put Ruby on Rai...

Google offers tips and guidelines for webmasters and web developers in their Webmaster Help Center. Sitemaps, robots.txt, improving ranking, adding or removing sites from the index, etc.

Assuming that you don’t have a built-in function that does this in one shot…Here is a trick for quickly (i.e. using minimal typing effort) counting the number of times a string occurs in a larger string:Below is some pseudocode for searching for a string calle...

If a user forgets their password in Mac OS X, you can use the install disc to reset ANY of the user account passwords.Boot from the install disc (or any install disc with a version higher than the installed OS X version) by having the disc in the drive and hol...

Disaster has struck and your hard disk is in its final death throes. No problem, you made a backup last night, right? Of course you did… but a pipe burst and you lost your backup tapes?Assuming that you’re trying to backup a UNIX or Linux system:(if it’s Windo...

Is your Apache configuration secure? This is a helpful article to help you find out.http://www.howtoforge.org/apache_security_testing_with_nikto