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According to Wikipedia, "Sitemaps can improve search engine optimization of a site by making sure that all the pages can be found. This is especially important if a site uses Macromedia Flash or JavaScript menus that do not include HTML links.“Google introduce...

If Windows Updates download but fail to install, Microsoft knowledgebase 943144 provides a fix:http://support.microsoft.com/kb/943144Cleanest option is to re-register wups2.dll in Windows per KB943144.To register the Wups2.dll file in Windows, follow these ste...

“Well-documented and readable source code is essential for every collaborative project. Logically structured, well organized and nicely formatted, the code can speed up the bug hunting and help to keep the code clean, minimal and still functional. These aspect...

If your machine has more than 1 CPU, the “CPU states” shown by the top(1) command shows the states of all CPUs combined. Suppose your machine has 8 CPUs. A program is saturating 1 CPU and there is no other activity (besides top(1), which uses negligible CPU ti...

To get the SRS number for a course: Go to https://sa.ucla.edu/ro/Public/SOC (You can get there from www.registrar.ucla.edu and clicking on Schedule of Classes). Find the course for which you want the SRS#. Click on the section or info icon to view the class de...

Message from Mike Franks (14 Apr 2007):This site claims to do conversion of document, image, music and video formats, for free. I haven’t tried it but someone on another (non-UCLA) list, said he had used it for months converting docs between .doc and .pdf and...

I am looking to develop an application and would like to have access to data such as class roster information, student info, etc. How can I obtain this data and who do I need to contact to get access to this data?Campus Authentication using ISIS and Shibboleth...

Updated as of June 25th, 2010UCLA Shibboleth 2.1+ Guides:Installation guideConfiguration guideFollow up with installation of WebServerAuth: http://plone.org/products/webserverauthDoes “(null)” show up instead of the login name in Plone when all is said and don...

Download and install the Windows binary. Download and install svnservice. Because we will run Subversion as a service, C:\Program Files\Subversion\bin must be part of the PATH environment variable. The installation should have done this but double-check this....

According to UCLA Policy 455:“University Records management policies do not distinguish among media with regard to the definition of University Records. As such, Electronic Mail Records are subject to these policies.”http://www.adminvc.ucla.edu/appm/public/455...

How can I create a multi-page TIFF file?On OS/X it looks like tiffutil can do that. http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man1/tiffutil.1.htmlOn Windows, TiffCombine costs $50 but has Trial version. http://www.topshareware.com/Tiff...

Using this website, you can easily calculate the number of days between two dates:http://www.timeanddate.com/date/duration.htmlYou can also use a UNIX script to do this. It can be found here:http://www.unix.com/showthread.php?t=4870

If you have Adobe Professional, you can create non-printable pdfs by: Open your PDF document. Click on Document menu at the top of the page and select Security, then select “Show Security Settings for this Document.” A dialog box should open up, click on the S...

This page Difference Between VIM and vi goes over some of the advantages of vim over vi. (Note: the page disappeared, so now we’re pointing at the Internet Archive’s March 2011 cached version.)To list some useful features:Multi-level History Undo – n u (n is ...

In conventional password authentication, you prove you are who you claim to be by proving that you know the correct password. The only way to prove you know the password is to tell the server what you think the password is. This means that if the server has be...

Do gradebook grades propagate from meta course sites back to their respective child course sites?When a student takes a quiz in the metasite, it appears that grades are reported to the gradebook of the meta-site but not reported to the children sites.Backgroun...

Martin Dougiamas, founder of Moodle, explains how blogs work in Moodle:“Firstly, I want blogs to be well-integrated in the Moodle experience. I do not want to just bolt on Simpblog or WordPress. Most standalone blogs have comments because there is no other way...

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