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SSC Novell Client Installation for Windows Vista

UCLA Tech Resources Social Sciences Center for Education, R...

Updated Instructions for Installing the Novell Client Version 1.0 on Windows Vista (SSC) Choose Custom Installation Do not install ANY additional services (uncheck NMAS, etc) Go to Novell Properties Advanced Login Clear Connections > Turn to On Forgotte...

Novell
Novell Client
Windows Vista

How to make a Favicon.ico

Programming and Web Development

You may have noticed in your web browser that some web sites have a little icon in the address bar to the left of the URL. Favicon – Wikipedia Tutorial on what it is and how to make one Tutorial for creating Favicon Free Photoshop plug-in to save as .ico In...

favicon

Description and guidelines on creating system service agent accounts on Mac OS X (Tiger)

MacOS, Windows, and Linux

For any system service agent that you want to create in Mac OS X, you would do the following:sudo dscl localhost -create /NetInfo/root/Groups/system_groupnamesudo dscl localhost -create /NetInfo/root/Groups/system_groupname gid group_idsudo dscl localhost -cre...

dscl
Mac OS X
system accounts
Unix

What are the differences between addslashes(), mysql_escape_string() and mysql_real_escape_string()

Programming and Web Development PHP

addslashes() escapes single quote (’), double quote ("), backslash (\) and NUL (\x00).mysql_escape_string() and mysql_real_escape_string() escapes the characters above plus: CR (\r), LF (\n) and EOF (\x1a). Apparently (according to the manual), MySQL wants the...

escape
MySQL
PHP

Passing command-line arguments into PHP

Programming and Web Development PHP

Say you have a PHP script and you want to pass command-line arguments into the script, e.g. calling the script like this:php script.php datafile.txt 10 100PHP stores all command-line arguments in an array:$argv 0 => “script.php”$argv 1 => “datafile.txt”$...

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command line
parameter
PHP

Passing command-line argument into a DOS (including Windows) batch file

Programming and Web Development

You can use these variables in a batch file:%0 – the batch file’s name%1 – the 1st argument%2 – the 2nd argument%3 – the 3rd argument…%9 – the 9th argumente.g. Support the content of test.bat is as follows:@echo offecho param0: %0echo param1: %1echo param2: %2...

How to merge data from Microsoft Excel into Microsoft Word

Applications/Software Microsoft Office

“In addition to the features and functions of Excel that make your database useful, you can also use the database to merge information into Word for large mailings. This means that you will not have to duplicate information you already have in your Excel datab...

Excel

How do I get started with designing new/existing layouts in Plone?

Programming and Web Development Plone

Taken from various posts on the Plone mailing list (http://www.nabble.com/Plone-f6741.html)Stan McFarland wrote:“The short answer is that you can make Plone look any way you want with a combination of template customization and CSS. You just need to learn h...

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Switching between Operating Systems in Mac

MacOS, Windows, and Linux

Choose OS while starting upYou can select which operating system to use during startup by holding down the Option key. This displays icons for all available startup disks, and lets you override the default setting for the startup disk in Startup Disk preferenc...

boot camp
Mac OS X
Windows

How do I login as a user in Moodle (for troubleshooting purposes)?

CCLE and Moodle

If you’re an administrator to a Moodle class site, you can actually login in as a user to duplicate the error the user is experiencing. You won’t need Moodle wide admin access, just admin access to the course (note, only admins can do this function, not cours...

Moodle
administration
troubleshooting
user

Modifying Roles in Moodle

CCLE and Moodle

Sometimes roles set at the site-level may not properly work because they are over-riden by a system-level setting. For example, see the following exchange on the Moodle forums:Q: “I’m using Moodle 1.8. I went to Users → Permissions → Define roles and for both ...

Moodle

OpenSSH "permission denied" error

Internet and Web Browsers

If your private key file (e.g. ~/.ssh/id_rsa) has too much permission, OpenSSH will complain “permission denied” and not work. By default, the permission might be something like 644 or 700. You need to set it to 600. (Got the solution from this article)

Google Sitemap Generator

Programming and Web Development

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...

sitemap

Windows Updates don't work

MacOS, Windows, and Linux

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...

Microsoft
Windows Update
broken
Microsoft update
service pack 2
service pack 3
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sp3
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Windows
XP

Code Beautifiers And Formatters

Programming and Web Development

“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...

code

Checking CPU load on multi-processor machines

MacOS, Windows, and Linux

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...

Finding the correct SRS # for class website creation requests:

CCLE and Moodle

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...

Zamzar for file conversion

Applications/Software

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...

web-based software