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There is some confusion regarding the interplay between forum settings on Moodle. In one place you can set up a forum using group mode (which can be used to send messages to separate groups), but another setting “Forces all members to subscribe.”The question i...

For Plone 2.x, 3.xQuestion:I notice that for a piece of content, both the Owner and the Manager can edit it. Naturally, I assumed that there a permission that allows the role Manager to be able to edit any content it does not own.However, after I assign ALL th...

The Moodle course management system has a feature called “Resource Name Auto-Linking” which as its name indicates, allows Moodle to automatically recognize and create links between site resources. That is, if a user creates a web page titled “Moodle Feature Se...

Section 5 of RFC 1738 – Uniform Resource Locators specifies the format of an HTTP URL:httpurl = "http://" hostport [ "/" hpath [ "?" search ]][definition of hostport omitted]hpath = hsegment *[ "/" hsegment ]hsegment = *[ uchar | ";" | ":...

Problem: If you save a multiple-line text file on Unix (e.g. Linux) and open it on Windows, the text editor ignores the link breaks and shows the content in one giant line.Cause: Different operating systems use different characters to mark the end of line (a.k...

Color-ItThis article is part of a series on choropleth mapping, to see other solutions, please visit the introduction here.Color-It is a choropleth mapping application produced by Zonum Solutions. It essentially is a large SQL database of coordinates for vari...

MapeteriaThis article is part of a series on choropleth mapping, to see other solutions, please visit the introduction here.Mapeteria operates on the opposite model as Color-It, which is to store coordinates on the generated file itself. Ducky Sherwood, the a...

Google Earth ProJanuary 2015:Google Earth Pro is now free to all.http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2015/01/google-earth-pro-is-now-free.htmlhttp://www.google.com/earth/download/gep/agree.htmlKey: GEPFREEend updateThis article is part of a series on choropleth...

Yahoo Pipes MashupThis article is part of a series on choropleth mapping, to see other solutions, please visit the introduction here.Yahoo Pipes is an exciting tool because of its ability to create web mashups. After working with Mapeteria and Color-It, I cam...

Roxio Creator is a common preinstalled application on many OEM systems. You may wish to remove it to reduce system overhead or in favor of your preferred CD burning program, such as Nero, Imgburn, CDRWin, etc.Uninstallation via Add/Remove Programs in Windows n...

To properly remove a damaged Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional installation (e.g. you’ve installed Adobe Creative Suite 3 Web Premium on a system that already has Acrobat 8 Pro installed, and you want to reclaim the 1GB of space from the other Acrobat 8 installatio...

To convert image files to a word or text format using OMNIPAGE Pro.If you haven’t already scanned your document, you can scan it and save the file.(You can scan it using the built-in OCR reader which may save you lots of time, but the reader sometimes isn’t as...

BackgroundLucene is a open-source search library written in Java.GCJ is a Java to native-executable compilter. As shown in a LinuxJournal article, using gcj is similar to using gcc.Versions UsedAs of 1/26/08, the latest version of Lucene is 2.3.0. It needs Jav...

Problem: While doing a svn update, you get the following message: “svn: Working copy ‘[filename]’ is missing or not locked”Cause: The directory that the file [filename] is in needs executable (i.e. list) permission on for the user that issues the command.Solut...

The recommended method is via Windows Update, per Windows Vista integrated help or the online help here:http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/Help/35a1b021-d96c-49a5-8d8f-5e9d64ab5ecc1033.mspxPlease scroll down for Vista Service Pack 1 MUI’s.-———————C...

The original ArcGIS 9.2 distribution— including the one at UCLA Software Central— is not properly compatible with Windows Vista.Per ESRI:http://support.esri.com/index.cfm?fa=knowledgebase.techarticles.articleShow&d=34020You will need to follow the instruct...

Good news: Windows Vista natively supports all components in the typical Dell Optiplex GX620.Bad news: except for audio.Worse: Dell lists no Vista drivers of any sort as of this writing on their support site for the GX620.Dell USA does not list any audio drive...

We were in search of a good survey tool, and after some research came upon LimeSurvey (www.limesurvey.org). We found it extremely easy to set up and use and allowed for professional surveys with features commonly found in commercial products.The following lis...