Technology solutions for Economics, Political Science, and ISERP at Columbia University School of Arts & Sciences.
In my AWS accounts, when I’m first setting up an EC2 instance, I will chose an on-demand instance while I set things up – I frequently have changes in requirements as I install or find out about my user’s requirements,…
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February 26, 2018 Uncategorized
This post is for Economics PhD students, with instructions on how to find and book carrel space 11th floor and the workstations on the 10th floor. We are using the A&S-wide calendar room booking system. However, only Economics PhD students…
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February 16, 2018 Uncategorized
This post is for PhD Economics Carrel owners, with instructions on how to mark their space as “occupied.” If not proactively marked as occupied, the space is available by default. By leaving your space open and available, you are giving…
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If you own multiple addresses that you check from your Gmail/Lionmail, you can send from that address as well. Once it is setup, your gmail compose window will have all the available options to choose from: To add a…
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The 2nd iteration of the High Performance Cluster, codename “Yeti”, will be retired on November 1st. The Social Sciences Computing Committee has purchased a number of nodes on the new cluster for its affiliates, which includes Economics, ISERP, and CPRC….
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While server redirects are frequently the best way to forward one URL/domain to another, sometimes you don’t have access to the website’s host or the host does not allow you to create 301/302 redirects. If this is the case, you…
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To enable IMAP on LionMail/Gmail as requested by me, or for connecting to an external email program such as ThunderBird, Outlook, or Apple Mail, there are three steps to follow: Enable IMAP. Log into LionMail at http://lionmail.columbia.edu Click the gear icon…
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Frequently, I will get a new computer from Dell, and purchase a solid state drive from amazon separately, as they tend to be a lot cheaper than the built-in SSDs provided by Dell. (Note that doing this will void the…
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Frequently on new computers, particularly the standard builds from Dell, windows comes with a Microsoft Office 2013 or 2016 trial pre-installed. This is either a fully installed 30-day trial, or an installer that comes in three languages – English, Spanish,…
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September 21, 2016 Uncategorized
Faculty and Graduate students in the economics department are able to edit their own page. Go to http://econ.columbia.edu/user and login with your UNI and password. Navigate to your user page, you can find a link to your page by going to “people >…
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