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Does anyone know of a punch card reader available on campus (or Southern California)?Jamie Jamisonjamison@g.ucla.eduSocial Science Data Archive http://punchcardreader.com/ – I haven’t used them, but they charge 6.5¢ per card either by mail order, or if you sc...

Quoting, “Test Lab Guides (TLGs) allow you to get valuable hands-on experience with new products and technologies using a pre-defined and tested methodology that results in a working configuration. When you use a TLG to create a test lab, instructions define w...

Using Twitter as a data source: An overview of current social media research tools – Wasim Ahmed – London School of Economics and Political Science

Anyone familiar with desktop emulators for smartphone apps? These are applications to run phone apps on your desktop. I need to preview a smartphone app that our office might adopt that is unfortunately only compatible an Android Phone or the newest iPhone, wh...

How to Locate a Published Congressional Hearing: A Beginner’s Guide – August 17, 2015 by Robert Brammer How to Locate an Unpublished Congressional Hearing: A Beginner’s Guide -September 17, 2015 by Robert Brammer

6 Ways to Tell If a Viral Story Is a Hoax – Sep. 21, 2015 – “Easy ways to educate yourself amid ever-growing sea of digital media”

No, that is not allowed according to UCOP Policy.The whole policy is here for referenceRelevant Text:Page 6PROHIBITION OF SALES TO CERTAIN EMPLOYEES AND THEIR NEAR RELATIVES: 1. No one employed in a department that reports to either the Surplus Administrator o...

For those seeking more information on OS X 10.11 El Capitan, Lynda.com has: Mac OS X El Capitan New Features, http://www.lynda.com/Business-Computer-Skills-Mac-tutorials/Mac-OS-X-El-Capitan-New-Features/417648-2.html 1h 8m; This is the quick intro module Ma...

The 6 Things Everybody Should Do To Secure Their Facebook Account – Forbes – Oct. 19, 2015

After upgrading to El Capitan, iCal was extremely slow, with lots of spinning beach balls and long wait times each time I was trying to edit a calendar entry. Checking in the Apple forums revealed that others were having similar issues, along with the occasio...

Instructors who missed the grade submission deadline are now able to submit late grades electronically through MyUCLA rather than using the paper form. This same feature can also be used to change submitted grades (except lapsed incomplete grades which must st...

Here’s an intro to understanding what’s going on with a Linux server, quickly.http://techblog.netflix.com/2015/11/linux-performance-analysis-in-60s.htmlIf anyone has others, please post them here.

Firefox 43.0.1 introduced a new "visit: suggestion at the top of the list of sites returned in searches entered into the address bar.To disable this (standard behavior prior to 43.0.1): Go to about:config Change browser.urlbar.unifiedcomplete to falseTo enable...

By default Windows 7/8 Bitlocker uses 128-bit encryption. Each version has an option for 256-bit AES encryption. The change to 256-bit requires a Windows policy modification.See also— Bitlocker Step-by-Step Guide, http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=53779...

Introduction to a spreadsheet for when things aren’t certain Guesstimate Website

This is a quick introduction to this powerful idea. https://codeascraft.com/2012/05/22/blameless-postmortems/

Help A Blind Person Identify Everyday Things, Via Smartphone App BeMyEyes.org

Regular Expressions are how you match text and patterns of text in a programming language, and once you learn it, it’s useful in many languages. Regular Expression Cheat Sheet RegExr is an online tool to learn, build, & test Regular Expressions CROSSWORDS ...