From UCLA IT Services:
“Phish of the Day” describes phishing that happens at UCLA. It shows the illegitimate and purposeful attempts to engage in malicious social engineering.
Be on the lookout for phishing attempts in your email, examples are posted here: http://www.itsecurity.ucla.edu/phishing.php
All Students, faculty and staff can now protect their personal laptops with FrontDoorSoftware Laptop Loss & Recovery FREE.
Installations include laptop registration, new talk feature, and 4 years of software tracking service.
CCPR can assist in the installation of this tracking software on your machine if needed. During registration be sure to use your university email address (@ucla.edu) in order to obtain the 4 year free license. More information and package downloads for Windows/OSX can be found here:
Looking for a way to take notes and have them sync to all of your devices?! You may want to download and try Evernote. A free and simple utility to help you keep your notes and reminders organized: http://www.evernote.com/
Always wondered where the first message on the Internet was sent from? Well…it was right here at UCLA! The first message on the ARPANET was sent by UCLA student programmer Charley Kline, at 10:30 p.m, on October 29, 1969 from Boelter Hall 3420.
42 years later this site is being designated as an Internet Heritage Site. Grand opening information can be found here: http://internethistory.ucla.edu/p/grand-opening.html
To appease your inner nerd, more information about ARPANET and the beginning of the Internet can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET
CCPR has recently updated their Stata licenses and now has the multiprocessor version of Stata 12 available on Windows Terminal Server 1 (ts1.ccpr.ucla.edu) – for more information about using the TS please contact us at the helpdesk.
Are you a frequent user/collaborator using the Microsoft Office suite of applications? Do you like the flexibility and availability of Google Docs? Well now you can share, backup, and simultaneously edit Office documents using a new Google app, Google Cloud Connect.
http://tools.google.com/dlpage/cloudconnect
(Microsoft Office 2003, Office 2007, or Office 2010)
The California Center for Population Research is currently accepting applications to fill a Programmer/Database & Web Manager position. Apply here:
http://hr.mycareer.ucla.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=57378
Please see the description below:
Programmer and Database/Web Manager
The California Center for Population Research (http://www.ccpr.ucla.edu) is a multidisciplinary research and graduate training center located on the UCLA campus. We are looking for a half-time programmer with excellent data management and web programming skills and some experience with statistical programming and data analysis. The successful candidate will provide consulting on programming problems as well as full programming support, as needed, to faculty on their research projects. He/she will work with faculty and graduate students to develop solutions for their data management needs, and may be asked to offer occasional workshops or other training in programming and data management to CCPR affiliates.
In addition to statistical programming, data management, and data analysis tasks, the candidate will be responsible for administrative programming tasks as requested by CCPR staff such as: managing databases in Access, creating reports and forms in Access using VBA, writing SQL statements to extract, manipulate, and update databases, developing Python programs to manipulate files, web and data scraping, creating xml databases, etc., developing and maintaining websites using Plone, PHP, HTML, MySQL and WordPress, providing technical advice, tutorials, and assistance to faculty, staff, and students and assisting in management of student workers.
Background in programming with graduate coursework in computer science, statistics, econometrics or a related quantitative field; Experience, preferably in a research environment, using modern programming and scripting languages (such as C, Visual Basic, Perl and Python), Experience in data management tools (SQL) and web systems (such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, XML, PHP, MySQL, Plone); Experience in statistical analysis packages (such as Stata, Matlab, SAS and R) is a plus.
Programmer must be self-motivated, eager to learn new things and accept new responsibilities, display genuine interest in projects and be reliable, conscientious, and able to work well both independently and with others. He/she should have the ability to communicate effectively in writing and orally, including having the ability to deliver oral presentation and to write clear reports and documentation of data sets and programs. Strong interpersonal, effective time management and client service skills are essential. Ability to lead and complete projects with limited supervision and to work on multiple concurrent tasks, often with conflicting priorities, is a must. Master Degree or PhD Preferred.
The CCPR Terminal Server has been upgraded to an HP DL360G7 utilizing the 6-core Xeon E5645 processor with 16GB of memory available to users. This increase in amount of cores and memory available will allow users working with larger datasets quicker analysis and easier workloads.
This machine is equipped with the latest versions of the following packages:
You can remote into the CCPR Terminal Server (ts1.ccpr.ucla.edu) using your CCPR Windows Domain account:
From WinXP - http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/mobility/getstarted/remoteintro.mspx#EQG
From Win7 - http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/Connect-to-another-computer-using-Remote-Desktop-Connection
From OSX - MS Client for Mac: http://www.microsoft.com/mac/remote-desktop-client
OR CoRD Open Source Client: http://cord.sourceforge.net/
From the Web!! (IE only at this time): https://ts1.ccpr.ucla.edu/RDWeb (must be from the UCLA network)
CCPR recently upgraded its license of Stat/Transfer to version 10 for Hoffman2 accounts and on the CCPR terminal server (TS1). ST10 includes the following functionality:
…plus many more new features found here: http://www.stattransfer.com/stattransfer/new.html
CCPR has obtained two new Dell Latitude E6410′s 
(Core i5 processors, 4GB of memory) that affiliates may use on loan when necessary. These are in addition to two older Dell D410′s that are also available for loan.
Please contact us at the helpdesk to obtain.
