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Technical Training and Development

UCLA Tech Resources

UCLA offers many technical training resources intended for both technical and non-technical personnel. The list below is intended as a good starting point for the most popular of these. A great starting place is http://learnit.ucla.edu, the UCLA gateway to on...

Gartner
development
learnIT
Lynda.com
management
Safari ProQuest
software training

How do I reset a malfuctioning Motorola Pager (American Messaging)

Printers, Monitors, and Other Hardware

Take out AA battery Put in the battery in reverse direction Wait 10 seconds Put battery back in the normal direction This will reset the pager

Motorola
pagers

iPad/iPhone/iPod Touch remote desktop apps

Mobile Devices

A colleague who wishes to remain anonymous asked me to post this. free Mocha rdp – old, relase date 8/20/2008, good resolution 1280×1014, multiple hosts configurations allowed, NO right-click. Only the paid version $5.99 allows right-click. free Wyse Pocketclo...

iPad
Windows

Windows 7 Backup and Restore

MacOS, Windows, and Linux Windows 7

Windows 7 BackupDraft v0.1 — 6 April 2011Brian J. Won brian@ssc.ucla.eduUCLA Social Sciences ComputingGuide to basic setup and restore using Windows 7’s built-in backup.Setup:Start → Control Panel → System and Security → Backup and RestoreBackup → Set up back...

Amazon S3
backup
carbonite
crashplan
mozy
restore
S3
smartware
system restore
Windows 7

Edit Mispelled Words in Firefox

Internet and Web Browsers Firefox

Firefox keeps a per profile dictionary of custom words. To correct words which inadvertently enter it: Go to “%APPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles” On Mac OS X, go to “~/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles” Enter the profile folder, usually like “.defa...

Firefox
Personal
custom dictionary

UCLA Time Synchronization

UCLA Tech Resources

CTS offers network time services to UCLA. These services allow your Macintosh, Windows, or Unix workstation to obtain and maintain accurate time:. http://www.cts.ucla.edu/noc/timesync.htm

ntp
tick
time synchronization

Notes on restoring deleted Moodle Forum

CCLE and Moodle

Someone deleted a Moodle Discussion Forum with 137 posts, and it was urgent to recover it because in that course, these were part of the grade.This is not a guaranteed solution, just a record of what we did. We only attempted it because of the urgency of the s...

Moodle 1.9
sysadmin

Ideas Worth Spreading

Useful Links

Riveting talks by remarkable people, free to the worldTED is a nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design. Since then its scope has become e...

conversations
design
education
technology
TED

PHP Client can break `less`

MacOS, Windows, and Linux Linux and Unix

When you do php through command line (i.e. `php somescript.php`) and you pipe it to less (i.e. `php somescript.php | less`), this has the possibility of breaking the functionality of /usr/bin/less. To exit you need to type ‘q’ then hit enter.

Linux
PHP

Can an iPad Replace a Laptop?

Mobile Devices

Can an iPad replace a laptop? What capabilities do other tablets have? Do any tablets have USB ports? How do I get connectivity and how much does that cost? Can I get connectivity abroad?Can an iPad Replace a Laptop? A Hands-on ReviewProbably not, but it may ...

iPad 2
laptops

MedNet

UCLA Tech Resources

MedNet is a colloquial term used to refer to the UCLA Health System and UCLA School of Medicine network. Certain applications can only be accessed when on “MedNet” (on an IP address in that range), or using VPN.

mccs
mits

Digital Literacy Curriculum

UCLA Tech Resources

Note: A major component of the IT2020 vision is for every faculty, staff and student to be a good Digital Citizen — which includes attaining a basic level of digital literacy. As such, these FREE classes from Microsoft are strongly encouraged for the entire ca...

cbt
education
Microsoft digital literacy curriculum
training

How to synchronize files and directories from one location to another on Unix

MacOS, Windows, and Linux Linux and Unix

Although tar can be used to synchronize/copy files/directories from one location to another (i.e. “tar -cf – -C srcdir . | tar -xpf – -C destdir”), it is really an archive tool and does not do the job as well as rsync. rsync does not have to go through the ar...

filesystem
rsync
tar

Squeeze More Life Out of Your Battery

Printers, Monitors, and Other Hardware

YouTube Video – Maximize Battery Life VideoBefore You Buy Check the specs for battery life but also read actual user reviews for a reality check. Specs often read something like “up to X – X hours.” The “up to” covers a lot of ground. “Up to” is standard ad...

battery
enhance
improve
laptops
performance
power

Installing the Online Resource Center RAPID system

UCLA Tech Resources

The Online Resource Center’s RAPID Smart Closeout Tool is available for download here. The ZIP file includes installation instructions.

ORC
Online Resource Center
RAPID
Smart Closeout Tool

How do I delete a page from the KB?

About This Knowledge Base

If you are logged in, you should be able to delete any pages you have written. For other pages, please do not change the title or the content, but add TO BE DELETED as a tag and to the top of the page, with an explanation if necessary. That way it’s easy to se...

Knowledge Base

Why Do Microsoft Products Create Those Temp Files? Everything You Wanted to Know . . .

MacOS, Windows, and Linux

See KB Article ID: 211632This article explains when, where, and how Microsoft Word for Windows creates temporary files. See also KB Article ID: 316951 about *.asd and AutoRecover files. Definition of a temporary file A temporary file is a file that is create...

Microsoft temp files backup

Enterprise Messaging Exchange settings

Email

Server address: em1.ad.ucla.edu, em2.ad.ucla.edu If you dont know which mail server the account is on use em1.ad.ucla.edu and it will resolve to the correct server.Use Cached Exchange Mode.Domain is ad. When prompted for username enter ad\yourusernameFull li...

EM
Enterprise Messaging
Exchange