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How do I see someone else's screen on Windows XP so I can help them?

MacOS, Windows, and Linux Windows XP

If both machines are running Windows XP, you can use Remote Assistance (instead of Remote Desktop) to see and control their machine, with their permission. Here is a writeup describing how to use remote assistance in Windows XPThere is another solution using...

Windows XP
remote access

Windows Server

MacOS, Windows, and Linux

VPNs

Internet and Web Browsers

What is a VPN and why do I care?

Internet and Web Browsers VPNs

VPN stands for Virtual Private Network and it is invaluable when you want to use UCLA licensed resources from off-campus machines.Specifically, the UCLA Library and the California Digital Library have licensed many different bibliographic and research database...

Duo
MFA
VPN access

Firefox

Internet and Web Browsers

Chrome

Internet and Web Browsers

How can I create an account for computer access at SSC?

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

Social Science Computing labs are available to faculty, undergraduate students taking a Social Sciences course and both graduate and undergraduate students in a Social Science Major.Social Sciences Computing has six labs available for instructional purposes du...

labs
SSC

Internet Explorer

Internet and Web Browsers

What is the purpose of this knowledgebase?

About This Knowledge Base Original Knowledgebase

The purpose of this knowledgebase is to share questions and answers among the dozens of Help Desks we have at UCLA. Some of our technology questions are specific to our departments, but our guess is that there are a large number of common questions. We believe...

Knowledge Base

Safari

Internet and Web Browsers

Who can post to this Knowledge Base?

About This Knowledge Base

Anyone employed by UCLA, full- or part-time, can post answers to this Knowledge Base and edit other people’s answers. All contributors' names will show up in the page history and all previous versions of answers will be saved. If you find mistakes in the Know...

Knowledge Base

UCLA Campus Networks

Internet and Web Browsers

What should be posted in this Knowledge Base?

About This Knowledge Base

You should post anything that you think might be helpful in the future. This could include: links to UCLA resources links to resources of use to people at UCLA links to your own or other tutorials links to hard-to-find writeups links to useful resources...

Knowledge Base

Outlook

Email

Original Knowledgebase

About This Knowledge Base

Pages about the original Knowledgebase project.

I am trying to develop an application using AJAX. Where do I find out more information?

Programming and Web Development

You can find a quick AJAX primer at:http://mi6.ais.ucla.edu/devbriefs/ajax-primer

AJAX
JavaScript
web programming

At UCLA, how can I filter spam?

UCLA Tech Resources

The methods you have available to filter unwanted email will depend on your campus email provider.The following is a hopefully growing list of campus email providers and how to use their spam filters.Bruin OnlineFor users with @ucla.edu email addresses, refer...

email spam filtering

In Unix, what do I do when a file I want to edit in vi says "Line too long"?

MacOS, Windows, and Linux Linux and Unix

In Unix, when the vi editor says “line too long” it’s usually because it was copied up from a Mac where the end of line marker is different.This command works for me on Solaris:tr '\015' '\012' < in_file > out_fileSource: http://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/help...

Unix