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What other universities have knowledge bases and what can we learn from them?
Arizona State University – https://techbase.asu.edu/wiki/index.php/Main_Page (wiki based) Eastern Connecticut State University – http://kb.easternct.edu/ Indiana http://kb.iu.edu/ – Educause Award winning, 12 fulltime editors, $1.2 million budget? About the...
Finding things in this Knowledge Base
Search See the BookStack User Documentation information on advanced searching: https://www.bookstackapp.com/docs/user/searching/ Browsing The home page shows the most recently updated pages. Clicking on Books will show all the topics there are pag...
Knowledge Base Contributor First Steps
As a contributor to the UCLA Knowledgebase, first you need to login. Then go to https://kb.ucla.edu/link/240 and edit it to add yourself. Or if you are shy, add just your sources in the top half of the page. Search your department and make sure those articles...
UCLA Facilities Outage Notification System
If you aren’t one of the lucky ones who receives email notifications of Facilities outages, you can find them here. It includes traffic closures and planned electrical outages. I’m told that emergency and monthly test outages aren’t listed here.http://outages....
What is CAPTCHA?
CAPTCHA stands for *C*ompletely *A*utomated *P*ublic *T*uring test to tell *C*omputers and *H*umans *A*part. Basically it means those pictures with wavy letters that you have to type in before being allowed to sign up for a mailing list or other service. They ...
Why emails are so easily misunderstood?
This is a fascinating article from the Christian Science Monitor on why email communication is in some ways less efficient than phone. But it’s not hopeless. “But the pitfalls of e-mail interaction were easily overcome by a single phone call.” It’s worth readi...
How To Backup Your Mac Intelligently
Here’s a detailed approach to backing up your Mac. Please feel free to add other solutions or approaches. http://www.sitening.com/blog/2006/05/23/how-to-backup-your-mac-intelligently/Apple’s next version of the OSX operating system will include a backup syste...
Learning about CSS
CSS, or Cascading Style Sheets, have taken over the design end of websites, it seems. I’m not that good with them yet, so I’m starting to collect useful CSS Links. http://css.maxdesign.com.au/ – Great site to learn CSS. Straightforward to find available topic...
How can I search for classes by keyword?
Sometimes a student or adviser might want to search the Schedule of Classes for a key word such as “Central Asia” or “economics” to catchthe offerings that span a wide range of potential departmentsranging from the sciences to the humanities.For a limited time...
Anti-plagiarism Strategies
In addition to Turnitin.com (which UCLA has licensed) there are other strategies for addressing student plagiarism: Prof Brown, of Leeds Metropolitan University… – BBC, 18 June 2006She outlines four basic strategies for tackling plagiarism: try to deter a...
New area code 424
New Area Code 424On Wednesday, July 26th, 2006, a new area code, 424, will become effective in the Los Angeles area. Campus callers dialing to the 424 area code should use 8+1+424-xxx-xxxx. No changes to on- or off-campus dialing will occur.The UCLA telephon...
Has anyone used SurveyMonkey?
SurveyMonkey seems like a nice fit for recommending to a prof for his project and I was wondering if anyone had any experience with it.Positive and negative comments would be appreciated. http://www.surveymonkey.com Technique for customizing URLs to track indi...
How to erase old marks off a dry erase board
If you’ve ever wondered what to do to clean old marks off a dry erase board, here is a detailed how-to. It even covers accidental use of permanent markers. I saw the first tip used successfully in a class last week. http://www.wikihow.com/Erase-Old-Marks-off-...
Including sites in main UCLA search engine
The Autonomy Search Engine used by the Vignette Portal Project spiders all campus websites starting with ucla.edu, uclaextension.edu, uclabruins.com, uclastore.com, uclaalumni.net, juei.org, and uclaconferencecenter.com.This search process is currently being u...
Apple OS/X Hex Editor
If you need a hex editor in OS/X to see exactly what is in a file, download this free one. http://ridiculousfish.com/hexfiend/Two other Unix commands for working with binary data are dd and od. You can read about them from their man pages: man dd man odTaken f...
How to not set a file/application association in OS/X?
In OS/X does anyone know how to not set a file/application association? I have both FileMaker and Final Cut Pro. If I export as XML from FileMaker, the OS sees it as a Final Cut Pro document and automatically opens Final Cut Pro and read the doc in Final Cut P...
Why URLs shouldn't change
When websites get redesigned, updated or moved, the biggest mistake, in my opinion, is changing the URLs.Here’s an essay from 1999 by Tim Berners-Lee explaining why URLs shouldn’t change. Cool URIs don’t changeSome of his other web style articles, can be found...
Is Gartner Research available at UCLA?
UCLA has an enterprise-wide Gartner membership that is co-funded by AGSM, AIS, CTS, the Library, and OIT. Among the benefits of this membership is the right for UCLA faculty, staff and students to access Gartner research documents.We are pleased to announce t...