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The page is meant to document some of the more useful, but obscure commands in vi. For commands exclusive to vim see Reasons To Use Vim Over Vi. Please feel free to add commands you would like to see on this page. % move to matching (, {, or [ n G goto...

I needed to extract a list of integers from a binary string. I was curious to know if PHP’s unpack function is fast compared to a custom function, so I wrote a test for it.<?php$filename = '<some large file>';$unpack_time = 0.0;$unpack_time2 = 0.0;$un...

Listed below is a compilation of sites dedicated to providing electronic copies of books. Book Spot Books2Read.com Bookstore Books On-Line: Archives BookWire Brave new e-books The eBook Directory eBooknet.com Electronic Theses and Dissertations in the Humaniti...

In Unix, if you need to clear up a set of subdirectories to see what permissions or ownership of everything under a given directory, these commands work for me on Solaris. There are differences because you don’t want to give execute permissions to files. And t...

Released by Aaron Swartz in 2007, Jottit.com is a website that allows anyone to quickly and simply create their own web page. Upon entering text into the text box on the main page, Jottit.com automatically generates a page for the user. By manipulating the “...

A cool trick that I stumbled on with Mail is sending an entire web page. It formats perfectly and looks amazing.While in Safari, do Apple-I (Mail contents of this page)It automatically sends the page to Mail, ready to send.This is normally Get Info as you kno...

If you are a Mac user and you are having difficulties playing the videos posted on this site, please do the following steps: Make sure you a version of Real Player installed (you might want to look to install Version 10.0.0 or higher). Open up a Safari web bro...

With the introduction of Windows Vista, mapping network drive to the Novell server without using the Novell Vista Client is still possible. In order to accomplish this, you have to make some changes with the way Vista authenticate. Open Control Panel Administ...

UCLA faculty and staff cannot change their information in the Campus Directory by themselves. They have to go through their department person. To find the correct person in your dept. there is a link off the Campus Directory website http://www.directory.ucla.e...

This article may be very old. Please reach out to local support staff if you have questions.This article is directed at Moodle support staff.Moodle users need to authenticate using UCLA’s Shibboleth service. If there is a problem in the authentication chain, u...

As of August 2007, Apple made a real effort to hide X11 on Tiger install disks for MacBook Pros. It doesn’t get installed by default, and it’s not available through the installer. To get it, insert disk 1, open Terminal and run:open /Volumes/Mac\ OS\ X\ Instal...

In Unix the strings -a command will output all the text strings in a binary file.Solaris man page for strings says: “The strings utility looks for ASCII strings in a binary file. A string is any sequence of 4 or more printing characters ending with a newl...

Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 and Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 provide a new option named the Read all standard mail in plain text option. This option lets you view all e-mail messages in plain text format. If you are concerned that a virus or some other type...

Introduction to Choropleth MappingThis article is intended to serve as a starting point for anyone trying to create choropleth maps. It outlines the numerous free methods for creating a dynamic map from a given dataset.Choropleth mapping, or “heat mapping” is...

To reset your keychain in Mac OS X 10.4, or Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, or later:1. Open Keychain Access, which is in the Utilities folder within the Applications folder.2. From the Keychain Access menu, choose Preferences.3. Click Reset My Keychain, which is under...

When do students get access to the CCLE class sites?The moment the students are officially enrolled in the class, they will have access to the CCLE class sites. However, there might be a slight delay in syncing the roster to the class sites. If this happens, p...

Python isn’t especially known for its support of soap functionality, but that’s usually not a problem as most folks needing that sort of functionality are using REST or XML-RPC. However, in case where you need SOAP functionality, such as using UCLA’s ISIS ser...

According to N.Y. Times – Tip of the Week: Viewing Gmail From Anywhere By J. D. BIERSDORFER – November 8, 2007 apparently, now you can access your Google Mail with IMAP Mail clients. This means that you could use Apple Mail, Microsoft Outlook, Thunderbird, or ...