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To assist in reducing laptop theft UCPD participates in part of a nationwide security tracing program. The STOP system is applicable to computer laptops, digital projectors, and other portable devices. For $20 UCPD will affix a permanent tag which ‘tattoos’ t...

Many in the UCLA community are aware of the BOL VPN, Virtual Private Network, for on-campus wireless and off-campus wired connectivity. Some departments have discretionally implemented specific department VPN profiles as well. Department will policies vary. ...

ProblemPictures added to PowerPoint are added in a non-optimized form. Consequently, large images added to PowerPoint result in a large file size.SolutionIn Microsoft Office XP/2002/2003, use the “compress pictures” feature. Mac Office does NOT have this fea...

Firefox’s major asset is its wide variety of user community created and supported extensions.The ability the save all open windows and active tabs was a “cannot live without” feature brought forth, in part by Tab Mix Plus. Firefox 2 now incorporates similar f...

UCLA students, faculty and staff with a valid UCLA Logon ID and password can borrow a laptop from CLICC for limited daily use.Those who are not able to use these services, or for those requiring a longer loan period, they can contact their department for addi...

In UCLA’s Sakai Pilot, it’s not enough to install the Wiki tool and assume that those with Maintain privileges will be able to edit pages.To give those privileges, a Sakai Administrator needs to do the following: in Sakai, go to the appropriate site click on W...

Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) for Windows XP+ only has been released in November 2006. Some have said the “Quick Tabs” is reason alone to use IE7.Firefox already has had such a feature through add-ons:Tab Catalog — https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1937/ Has an ...

Below is the beginning of (hopefully) an ongoing collection of design-related CSS issues concerning different browsers. For this initial posting, I focus on Firefox, IE6, and IE7.The good news regarding IE7 is that a lot of bugs were fixed. See the following...

You can do it yourself by going to At Your Service Online website https://atyourserviceonline.ucop.edu/ayso/ Under “Income and Taxes” section you can click on “Employment Verification” link. That will generate a letter with UCLA logo and all the information pe...

You’ve heard the buzz about Second Life MMORPG and its instructional potential, but don’t know how to dress and name your character? Try this random name generator. It will generate random names that sound Greek, Elvish, monster-like or heroic, depending on y...

Ever wonder about web browser standards support for particular products? The following links attempt to summarize standards support, features, and technical detail comparison between browsers for web developers.Wikipedia Comparison of Web BrowsersWebDevout Br...

If you have multiple Plone instances and you would like the search feature to search across the instances instead of only the one you are performing the search in, there is an add-on called PloneRSSSearch and it is available from the following site:http://inge...

Private ComputersFor residents of of the City of Los Angeles and the County of Los Angeles a privately owned, non-university computer, UCLA and the City of Los Angeles have an eWaste program at UCLA for “Residential Special Materials and Electronic Waste”.LA C...

This technical cheat sheet roundup by smashing magazine. has cheat sheets for Ajax, Apache, ASCII, C#, C++, CSS, Firefox, Gimp, Google, Java, Javascript, LaTeX, Microformats, MySQL, Oracle, Perl, Photoshop, PHP, Python, Regular Expressions, Ruby, Subversion, ...

wiki are a tool for collaborative editing that is growing in recognition and popularity. Here are some (hopefully) relevant resources for those of us at UCLA who are interested in using wikis. https://kb.ucla.edu/link/125 Wikimania 2006 Web siteWiki tools htt...

LADWP offers free shade trees to City Residents—visit the website at http://www.ladwp.com/ladwp/cms/ladwp000744.jsp for more details. This was copied from the website:FREE Residential Shade TreesLADWP has made it simple for Los Angeles City residents to rece...

“If you have ever had your MacBook or MacBook Pro inexplicably wake while the lid is closed, there is a good probability that Bluetooth may be the culprit. If you have Bluetooth enabled, there is a default setting ‘Allow Bluetooth devices to wake this computer...

Try this: Click Start → Run Type “CMD”, then click OK Type “net stop spooler” and press enter to turn off the service Wait a couple of seconds and check the print queue from the system tray, hopefully the stuck print job has disappeared Type “net start spooler...