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You can search for large lecture halls as well as smaller discussion size classrooms’ AVS availability by checking out this site here:http://www.oid.ucla.edu/units/avs/buildings/Please read the Office of Instructional Development’s AVS policies for more inform...

There are a lot of services on campus to help you enhance your classes, such as video, interactive media, research collections, etc. These resources are available on campus and are constantly changing as new technology are introduced. Each group has specia...

This link below leads to a few simple systems described in a paper titled “Simple Formula for Strong Passwords: Dramatically Increase Information Security with Minimal Training, and Without Costly Infrastructure Changes.” (It’s a 42 page PDF.) http://www.sans....

Mac OS XCourtesy of Indiana University’s Knowledgebase, here are instructions for typing foreign language characters in Mac OS X. This includes various kinds of accents, the tilde and upside down question mark. http://kb.iu.edu/data/anhf.html http://french.abo...

Forgot your username?You have two options (using the internet): Go to https://accounts.iam.ucla.edu/lookup Click ‘Look up my username’ and fill in the required fields. You will be asked your last name, UCLA ID number and your birthdate.Your second option (visi...

These are the basic ways that you can do this:The Easiest Way (on most applications)1)Go to File → Print and Select the Adobe PDF printer. 2)Select a place to save to drive(C:\, A:\, D:\, etc.)Another Easy Way 1)Open some program (Word, Powerpoint, etc.) and c...

Launch Thunderbird Click on TOOLS → ADDRESS BOOK Click on FILE MENU → Select NEW Click on LDAP DIRECTORY Enter the following: Name: UCLA Directory Hostname: ldap.ucla.edu Base DN: ou=person,dc=ldap,dc=ucla,dc=edu Port Number: 389

Although phpMyAdmin is an excellent tool for administering MySQL databases, you don’t want to expose your MySQL usernames and passwords to sniffing over the wire by sending them “in the clear.”The solution, if you are running https, is to simple edit the confi...

Technology is constantly changing, and with that change comes new and innovative ways for instructors to present their course materials. On campus, there are many labs with a wide variety of multimedia tools available for instructors to tie into their regular...

Phone Forwarding Instructions for campus number:1. Dial *42, wait for tone2. Dial the extension of the number to be forwarded to (example: x55555)3. Wait for tone, then hang upPhone Forwarding Instructions for off-campus number1. Dial *42, wait for tone2. Dial...

For Engineering classes, please read the following:The flash tutorial, Requesting SEASnet resources, will visually show you how to request additional SEASnet Resources for your class.If you do not have flash installed, the following are the instructions to req...

If you’ve found yourself wanting to run a Debian stable system but you have a burning need to use a particular testing package, then this is for you. (This might be the case if you want to run PHP5 or PostgreSQL 8.1 on Debian Sarge.)Some notes: Don’t try this ...

The authoritative source of IP range information at UCLA is the Network Operations Center. Refer to their site or send an email to confirm details: noc.ucla.edu Other UC campuses may have similar resources, such as these examples from Berkeley and Irvine. Ber...

Cached mode is available in Outlook 2003 or later. It allows offline usage and usually improves Outlook mailbox performance.Optimizing Outlook 2007 Cache Mode PerformanceFor very large mailboxes (greater than 2 GB), Outlook may slow down due to the size of the...

What is PGP?PGP (“Pretty Good Privacy”) is a powerful, free crypto package. PGP lets people exchange files in a private, encrypted format, and also provides message authentication (to an extent).If you have an encryption key for sending and receiving email, yo...

On the WinXP Box:Add the TCP/IP print server serviceLog in with Administrative privileges.Click Start → Settings → Control Panel.Double-click Add-remove Programs.Click the Add-Remove Windows Components side button.Open the Other Network File and Printer Servic...

http://www.noc.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/contactsAll you need to know to find IP address owners @ UCLA ;-)

Need something small, easy to use, and pretty robust? Use Irfanview! I used to suggest this to many students who needed a quick and easy yet robust image editing program. Sure Microsoft Image Viewer can do things, but… I like variety!It even supports RAW file...