Author Archive: Eric Vlach
Eric Vlach
October 5, 2020
AWS
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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Eric Vlach
February 26, 2018
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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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Eric Vlach
February 16, 2018
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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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Eric Vlach
October 11, 2017
Software
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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Eric Vlach
April 3, 2017
Servercunix, linux, Server, website
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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Eric Vlach
March 20, 2017
Softwaredevice password, email, gmail, imap, lionmail
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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Eric Vlach
November 7, 2016
Hardwareclone, copying, disk, drives, reflect, ssd
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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Eric Vlach
October 26, 2016
Softwaredelete, dell, fixit, microsoft, office, remove, uninstall, word
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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Eric Vlach
September 21, 2016
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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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Eric Vlach
October 25, 2013
Software
These instructions are for creating a new dropbox account and then installing it on your windows machine. For help installing on a Mac, please contact me directly. Dropbox is a free program, and gives you 2GB of free cloud storage….
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