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Microsoft Word - Ask fields in template won't work

Ask fields in template won't work

Posted: 14 Jan 2015 02:16 PM PST

Ask fields in our frequently used MSWord template won't promt if the template is accessed from within Word.  We have to navigate to the template through our directory for it to work.  Is there a way to have the ask fields work when the template is opened from within the Word program?  Appreciate any guidance!

Word 2007 merge-to-email ... I click "Send email messages"... nothing happens!

Posted: 14 Jan 2015 01:52 PM PST

Hi everyone

I'm trying to run Word 2007's merge-to-email, and when I run the merge (i.e. when I click on the OK button as seen below) nothing seems to happen.

At least, MAYBE an email message is generated, but I don't know where to look for it.

I have Outlook 2007 installed; should it be in my "Outbox"?  Because I can't see it there.

Thanks for your help and have a great day!

Can't Open Word2013 docs directly from desktop, have to open Word first then find the file

Posted: 14 Jan 2015 01:52 PM PST

Hi all, Hoping someone can help. Bought new computer a couple of years ago - Windows 8. Came with Office2010 but trial ran out. Purchased Office2013 from the internet and downloaded it. I have to open Word or Excel and then browse for the file to open it- I can't just double click it and it will open. If I do, it will try and start the install for Office 2010 which of course, won't work. So I uninstalled Office 2010, and now when I try and double click on the document on the desktop it says "this action is only valid for products that are currently installed

I have associated the Word Files and the Excel files to Office 2013. Can anyone help? It would just be easier to be able to open documents straight from folders, rather than having to open Word or Excel and then having to browse for the files. Thanks so much in advance :) Sandie

Ensure that *.docx file opens in draft view

Posted: 14 Jan 2015 01:45 PM PST

Is there any way to ensure that a *.docx file opens in draft view?  I want to send this file to someone and ensure that it opens in draft view.

Word looking for unavailable Excel Spreadsheet - Won't Open

Posted: 14 Jan 2015 01:38 PM PST

I am attempting to open an MS Word 2013 file.  Contained in this file are links that were pasted in as pictures from an excel file that is no longer available.  I want to edit this word file, but at open Word hangs while trying to "contact" the unavailable Excel spreadsheet file.  How do I make Word just open the file without bothering to try and update links that I don't need updated anyway?   I have gone to File, Options, Advanced and the check box for "Update automatic links at open" is unchecked.  Is there an option somewhere else that I need to change?  Thanks!  

HP Business Inkjet 2800 ignoes multiple copy request in Word2013, Windows 8.1

Posted: 14 Jan 2015 01:38 PM PST

Is there an update for word 2013 that will activate the multiple copy feature on the HP Business Inkjet 2800 series?

If I'm editing a DOC, is it possible to just close the DOC & save it but keep WORD open?

Posted: 14 Jan 2015 12:53 PM PST

I've looked all over for a Command that would do this but I've come up empty.

how to automaticly control the paragraph spacing for each headline?

Posted: 14 Jan 2015 12:42 PM PST

as you can see here:

under chapter 1.2.1

i would like that the text will be with tabs like this:

but automaticly for the entire text

how can i do this?

can't delete a file because I "don't have permissioni from unix/user"

Posted: 14 Jan 2015 11:55 AM PST

I stored some files on an external HDD.  They were written with MSWord 2010, and stored there with a different, now dead, computer using Windows 7.

I've tried changing permissions, but i can't, that is also denied.  Both computers )old one and new one), I am the administrator.

Ther was an older blog on this problem which ai looked up and tried what was recdommended, thqt didn't work either.

Any ideas short of rformating the external HDD?

Microsoft Word

Posted: 14 Jan 2015 11:43 AM PST

Hi, I need to ask how to make a picture with a slight blur so that the face of someone which shouldn't be shown would not be seen. Maybe you ask can't you crop it? No, because I need it to be seen not clear, blur like.

I'd love it if someone could tell me the steps and if it is possible. 

Thank you so much in advance!

Problems with converting table to text

Posted: 14 Jan 2015 11:25 AM PST

I currently have a table that is approximately 46 pages long which I want to convert to text.  When I do this, all the data appears for about a second and then MS Word condenses everything to only 5 pages and I lose a large amount of my text throughout the document.  I've done this numerous times in previous versions of MS Word with no problem.  This is the first time I'm doing this in MS Word 2010.  Is there a setting which is preventing me for getting all my data?  I'm at a loss on how to fix this.  I even tried just using a table of 7 pages and then trying to convert to text and again I only got a small portion of my data.  Help please.

Creating fillable forms in Word 2013 - frustrations

Posted: 14 Jan 2015 10:06 AM PST

I'm slowly coming to the conclusion that creating a user friendly fillable form in Word is not as easy nor robust as I had hoped.

I am trying to create an application for enrollment form, and ideally the same form could be printed out and filled in by hand or filled out online and returned via email.

Part of my form uses a table with fields that the user fills in, for example:  First Name, Last Name, etc.

If I use legacy text controls, the user experience is not that great in my opinion.  (The cell width is larger than the content control, so if the user clicks just to the right of the content control, Word jumps focus to the next control...really easy to do and very annoying!).

If I use the text content control, the experience of the cursor jumping is a bit better, (the control is larger so not as easy to click outside the control).  BUT, w/o creating a macro, or messing with normal.dot there doesn't appear to have a way to make the form printer friendly (the helper text prints out), and online friendly.  I don't want my users to get an error about opening a macro enabled form when they try to open a document.

I've spent hours and hours messing with the various fields, formatting, etc.  Should I bag it and start over with Acrobat?

Thanks!

Cindy

Microsoft Word - Show Full Comments

Posted: 14 Jan 2015 09:42 AM PST

Hello Community,

I am a bit frustrated with the new comment format in Word 2013.

I want to disable the drop-down comment. I am a research and my prof often writes paragraph long comments on my journal papers. However, the second I select the page to start writing I can't see his comments anymore.

As you see above, these comments are useless. In Word 2007, they showed you the entire bubble. Similar to what I see what I select a bubble, see picture below:

As you see here, I want all comments to look like this all the time so I can read the comments as I am typing in things into my journal articles.

I have already tried to change the width of the comments but some of the comments are massive and still have the drop-down.

Let me know if you have any suggestions. Thank you.

Can you change the Default Online Image Search?

Posted: 14 Jan 2015 07:34 AM PST

Is there a way to change the search engine that is used by the Insert Online Pictures option in Word 2013?
We use Bing for the classroom as our search in Internet Explorer and have the regular Bing search blocked.  So the insert online pictures option in Word is blocked.  The https://odc.officeapps.live.com/odc/insertmedia page loads fine, but the search results are blocked.

Missing pages in Word 2013 and saving in .doc makes Word bug

Posted: 14 Jan 2015 07:16 AM PST

I have the same problem as this one, except than the proposed solution fails, because when I try to save my .docx in .doc, Word just bugs and shuts down.

The file is a .docx of 29 pages, I can see the right number of pages in right-click > properties > details > content > pages number, but in Word 2013 it only displays 13 pages, and it says there are 14 of them.

When trying to save the file to .doc, Words simply stops working.

Thanks for the help.

Words are all written together when I download a Word document from my computer

Posted: 14 Jan 2015 02:14 AM PST

Hello, 

I have a Microsoft office 2007 on my work computer, and each time I download a word document from my email, computer or any other source, all or some words are written together.  This gets really annoying, since I am often responsible for editing and clearing the final version of large reports, information packages, etc.  Because of this problem, I spend a lot of energy on looking through the entire document over and over again just to make sure that I do not skip two words stuck together.  

Could you please let me know what could be a problem?

Thanks,

Ene 

Text and pictures cut off at the margin

Posted: 14 Jan 2015 01:40 AM PST

Split from this thread.

I have an issue that is similar to this post but this is how my issue goes. I set my page layout to 8.5inches in width but word only gives me 7.5inches workspace. Results, my images or text gets cut off when i print.

My concern again is my paper width is short of 1inch to what i have set in page setup.

Text to Speech voice change problem with Microsoft Word 2013

Posted: 14 Jan 2015 12:29 AM PST

I have been trying to change the text to speech voice in windows 8.1 so that it reflects and reads aloud my text in Word 2013. I can change the voice in Speech Properties to the voice I want, but when I return to Word and click the 'Speak Selected Text' button it always uses the Microsoft Hazel Desktop. I have also tried using the narrator settings dialog to change the voice but same outcome. An MS AnswerTech asked me to use Word online repair which also didnt work.

Any ideas as to why Word cant dictate using the selected voice? Is this a Word or Windows problem?

Translator opens in Internet explorer

Posted: 13 Jan 2015 09:50 PM PST

When i try to translate the whole document word prompts that it will send the document to Microsoft. When i click send it opens the translated documents in Internet explorer. Is there any way by which it opens the translated document in Word itself?

Macros on a network

Posted: 13 Jan 2015 07:34 PM PST

When creating MACROS on a network, the macros will work fine on some computers, but not on others.  Can you explain how to fix this problem?

Mail Merge in Windows Office Home & Student 2013

Posted: 13 Jan 2015 06:18 PM PST

Why is it that when I try to do a simple mail merge from an excel sheet to mailing labels & follow all the steps...it takes me to a step to type your letter. I am not trying to type a letter. I am only wanting to do mailing labels for those that do not have an e-mail address. I select the ones that do not have e-mail addresses but never can complete the mail merge properly. I have never had this problem before.

How to shut off requirement for internet connection in Word?

Posted: 13 Jan 2015 05:58 PM PST

I was recently traveling and wanted to work on a paper for school while on the plane. I only needed word, but for some reason it requires me to have an internet connection to use it so I wasn't able to work on my paper for my 6 hour flight. Is there a way to shut off the requirement for an internet connection in word? I literally only needed something to type in and I wasn't able to do it - so frustrating!

Any assistance is very much appreciated!

If user clicks on the edge of legacy text field, the cursor jumps to the next field

Posted: 13 Jan 2015 05:44 PM PST

I created a simple table in Word 2013 and in many cells I've have placed legacy text form fields.

After creating the form I restricted it by clicking on Developer, Restrict Editing, and restrict editing to Filling in forms.

Save, close, re-open file.

When I go to test the form, I find that when I click in a cell, the focus is jumping to the next cell/field in the table before I've had a chance to enter anything.

I think this is happening because the "grey box" representing the form field doesn't fill up the entire cell, so if the user randomly clicks to the right of it, Word must interpret that as data entered and jumps to the next cell.  It's quite annoying.f

Is there a way to work around this?

Thanks, Cindy

Dual monitor for Intel 82915G & ATI Rage 128 card on FC6, DellOptiplex Gx520 - Forums Linux

Dual monitor for Intel 82915G & ATI Rage 128 card on FC6, DellOptiplex Gx520 - Forums Linux

Dual monitor for Intel 82915G & ATI Rage 128 card on FC6, DellOptiplex Gx520

Posted: 08 Jan 2009 10:46 AM PST

On Jan 8, 5:36pm, Bill Mar <net> wrote: 
I want to use Fedora 10 too but my manager won't allow me.
Our small company like stability & upgrade OS very rarely.
Now I still have to make dual head work on FC6.

Thunderbird - How to list the spelled out groups full name?

Posted: 07 Jan 2009 05:23 PM PST

or:

add to user.js:

user_pref("mail.server.default.abbreviate", false);

Neil Jones 于 01/08/2009 09:23 AM http://embed.mibbit.com/?channel=zhusupe 写é": 

End of /dev/sda at unexpeced point after repartition

Posted: 06 Jan 2009 03:48 PM PST

On 2009-01-09, Allen Kistler <moc> wrote: 

You don't have long lines. The I<X-UserInfo1:> header's value is long,
but since value of I<Path:> is longer I don't think that would be a
problem (BTW, just checked, RFC3977 doesn't impose line length limits).
May be something on the path, hard to figure.

*CUT*

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Partitioning harddisk for Ubuntu

Posted: 06 Jan 2009 12:38 PM PST

Ryan McCoskrie <com> wrote:
 

See <https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SwapFaq> for swap space and
<https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DiskSpace> for partition size in
general.

I would use 2*RAM for swap, 10-15 GByte for the / partition and
for the /home partition as much as you think you need for your user data.

 

If you want to use suspend-to-disk you need at least the size of your
RAM for swap. But then suspending will fail if too much swap is
used. 2*RAM is usually a good choice.


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"Error configuring network device" trying to install FC10

Posted: 06 Jan 2009 06:18 AM PST

On Jan 6, 11:04pm, "David W. Hodgins" <afraid.org>
wrote: 

Yes, I have. It's the way it's displayed on the input screen as

IPv4 [ ] / [ ]

so I put 192.168.0.107 in the first box, and either 24 or
255.255.255.0 in the second. I get an error if I leave the second box
blank.

Dave

Total admin n00b needs to know everything

Posted: 05 Jan 2009 10:10 PM PST

Baron Samedi wrote: 
Clonezilla claims it is great at this (I haven't used it). ting
a linux install by cloning works well. You'll need to do a little
fix-up of the result on each machine: hostname, IP address and MAC
address are unique on each box. udev will helpfully create a one-higher
network device (eth0 succeeded by eth1 ...) if you don't update
/etc/udev/rules.d/xx-persistent-net-rules.

This is a very exciting time to launch a start-up.

Reduce text console from 80x25 to 80x20

Posted: 05 Jan 2009 02:13 PM PST

On Mon, 5 Jan 2009, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.setup, in article
<googlegroups.com>,
com wrote:

NOTE: Posting from groups.google.com (or some web-forums) dramatically
reduces the chance of your post being seen. Find a real news server.
 

Gotta love those new monitors.
 

[compton ~]$ whatis resizecons stty
resizecons (8) - change kernel idea of the console size
stty (1) - change and print terminal line settings
[compton ~]$

In order to deal with (c), resizecons does a `stty rows
ROWS cols COLS' for each active console (in the range
tty0..tty15), and sends a SIGWINCH signal to selection if
it finds the file /tmp/selection.pid.

So look at 'man stty' if you don't have the 'resizecons' man page.
The command probably wants to go into one of the boot scripts in your
unnamed distribution. Can't tell which one.

Old guy

ipv6 connections: how?

Posted: 04 Jan 2009 06:48 PM PST

Allen Kistler <moc> writes:

 

Well, it didn't, that's why I asked again, to clearify, because my
results did not match the expected. However, I found out the reason for
that, so problem one solved. Of the tools I was testing with, curl has
need of some option and can't request []: type addresses
directly. Netcat - no idea what's up with it, probably does not support
IPv6. wget (and now curl) I have working:

curl -v -k -g 'https://[::1]/'
wget --no-check-certificate -6 -S 'https://[::1]/'

 

This is problem #2 and the heart of the matter.
 

This is not a distro, thus I am asking how to do it. Setting routes in
config files sooner or later amounts to some script someone's written
that reads those values in and then executes the proper tools with those
values as arguments. I need to know the tools and the inner workings of
it, so I can write the scripts, or do it by hand when needed.
 

I can see why. This isn't like another version of IP, this is more like
a completely new protocol with little if any similarity to IPv4. No
wonder people are slow picking up on it as it requires relearning almost
all aspects of networking.

If there is no NAT, what do you do in situations, such as mine, where
you have less public IP addresses than you have machines needing to
access the Internet? Assign link-local addresses and let the
Internet-facing machine worry about routing what-where?
 

radvd - is this what makes those router advertisements?

'radvd is the router advertisement daemon for IPv6. It listens to router
solicitations and sends router advertisements as described in "Neighbor
Discovery for IP Version 6 (IPv6)" (RFC 4861).'

I came across it while looking for info on IPv6 and routing. I built &
installed it, but have yet to write a config file for it until I get a
better understanding of how IPv6 works.
 
 

Yes, thank you very much.


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Cleaning up /tmp in Fedora 10

Posted: 01 Jan 2009 05:01 AM PST

Unruh <ubc.ca> wrote:
 

Danger! Danger!

Trying to do this sort of thing in a part of the file system which is
writable by hostile uids (e.g., /tmp) is very nearly impossible. In
particular, the above `solutions' are hopelessly insecure.

The first allows an adversary to create a file, say `/tmp/foo
/lib/ld-linux.so.2'. To achieve the same effect if you use -print0 is a
bit harder: I'd need to make a file /tmp/foo/ld-linux.so.2 and replace
/tmp/foo with a symlink to /lib between find scanning it and rm trying
to delete it. But I only need to win the race once.

(As other targets, I might pick /etc/rc2.d/S38firewall or wherever it
is, to leave a server's filter table in the default accept-everything
state; or delete /etc/hosts.deny; or...)

You could use the GNU find -execdir option: find ... -execdir rm -f {}
+. Since that runs with the working directory set to the directory
actually containing the relevant file, there's no symlink diddling
possible. That's not to say that there isn't some other way of
attacking this that nobody's thought of yet.

Of course, if you're talking about a single-user machine, you can forget
all of this.

-- [mdw]

FC10 as a guest VM does not boot

Posted: 31 Dec 2008 12:14 PM PST

Neil Jones wrote: 

I haven't had any problems running F10 in VMware Workstation 6.0.5.
However, I try to avoid problems by specifying IDE disks for emulation,
not SCSI. VMware SCSI emulated disks have had some challenges in the
past. Maybe it's fixed. Maybe it's not. But there's no harm in using
IDE, either way.

HTH

Debian Installation is asking for (hard disk or motherboard) driver

Posted: 30 Dec 2008 03:32 PM PST

On Wed, 31 Dec 2008 00:02:11 +0000, Bill Mar wrote:

 

Umm, i thought his problem was that the driver wasn't installed.

The Live CD route might be worth a go if you know about virtual terminals
and how to pop one, but lspci will list the hardware your *nix sees/finds. 

setting up Apache for LAN

Posted: 30 Dec 2008 03:58 AM PST

Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: 
 
 

Of course you are correct there. The docs said to do turn it on that way. I
stuck it into rc.local because I read that in some Redhat docs as the place to
put things the user adds. Obviously this is not quite a user thing but it
worked. I switched to doing it with checkconfig -5 as I only use it at
runlevel 5.
 
 
 
 

I overlooked trying this and the other machine is down now. Will let you know
later. I did open it but can't test if it worked.
 
 

I just want to make it work not me work. ;) This is a home thing. Being a
webadmin sounds like real work.
 
 

The files I have put in /var/www/html ...
 

And I do see them with the browser on the server with the Apache icons for
directory and such. That tells me Apache is functioning properly.
 

It records them fine.

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Grub error 17: dual booting on large disk, old BIOS

Posted: 29 Dec 2008 04:11 AM PST

> Ouch. I'm glad you managed to work it out. Do you have access to the 

Haven't tried yet, I'm still afraid of messing up a the first setup
that actually works... I really don't need the extra space anyway.
Andrew

...if you contacted Microsoft....your computers would actually be ofservice...

Posted: 28 Dec 2008 05:57 PM PST

Penang wrote:
 

Linux is free for all

http://www.livecdlist.com - hundreds of free liveCDs that boot directly off
the CD without having to install on a computer.

http://www.distrowatch.com

All the Linux distros come with source code as well so that you
can modify to heart's content.

Crontab

Posted: 23 Dec 2008 05:34 AM PST

Unruh wrote: 

What about "1-59 0 * * *"?
What about "0 1-23 * * *"?
They are also "not 0 0 * * *".
 

Thumb drive with weird partition

Posted: 19 Dec 2008 06:23 AM PST

If you can plug on a Windows system maybe you can run the U3
uninstaller, usually included. I did it that way.

hans

USB sound and Audigy card

Posted: 19 Dec 2008 03:50 AM PST

Doug Laidlaw wrote:
 

The only devices showing in the PulseAudio Volume Control are the ALSA
devices.

I am running ALSA, Pulse and JACK (not counting Arts for KDE.) Do I
really need three audio servers on a desktop with only the Internet
networked? Before, it used to "just work." Now, I am supposed to
wait until the stream is running so that I can get it to the correct
device. That means missing the beginning of anything. It isn't my
concept of progress.

Doug.
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Tread softly, for you tread on my dreams.
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Accounting software for Linux

Posted: 16 Dec 2008 08:11 AM PST

Douglas Mayne wrote:
 
I am using Gnucash. A new version has just been released. The URL is
http://www.gnucash.org. The ledger interface is similar to Quicken. It is
good for serious accounting because the "categories" of Quicken become true
revenue accounts. It supports scheduled transactions, reporting, graphing,
investments, much more. There is no payroll module yet. Its users are
worldwide.

Quicken works better under Crossover Office than under Wine, but even there
it won't run as well as under Windows itself. Virtualization would be the
way to go.

The one closest to Quicken for home users, IMO, is Kmymoney2 which uses
Quicken's "categories." There are several Web-based full accounting
packages. Go to http://freshmeat.net and search there for accounting.

Gnucash will print only one check at a time, but that is more than many of
the others. The limitation doesn't seem to be any problem for its business
users. Templates for Quicken's check stationery are built in. It has a
very active mailing list, discussing accounting "how to" questions as well
as technical ones.

HTH,

Doug.
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Accessing Windows XP Shared Folders (drive letter X: etc...) fromLinux

Posted: 16 Dec 2008 08:09 AM PST

<com> wrote 

It uses SMB ("samba"), and yes you can see those shared folders from a Linux
machine. Please note that Linux does not use drive letters, it uses "mount
points" instead. So, if we call your Windows machine "winhost", and your
Linux machine "linuxclient", you need to do this:

1. Share the folder on winhost as normal - make sure you give the share a
name you will remember (we'll call it "MyShare")

2. On linuxclient, type "smbclient -L winhost" (without quotes) to see the
list of shares. This assumes that smbclient is installed on your system -
how to install this depends on what distro you're using. If you get asked
for username and password, these are your WINDOWS username and password, not
your Linux ones.

3. If you successfully list the shares, you should see MyShare in there. You
then need to create a mount point for this share, e.g. "mkdir /mnt/MyShare".
Then you type "smbmount //winhost/MyShare /mnt/MyShare" (again you may need
your Windows username and password). If that works, you should be able to cd
into /mnt/MyShare and see the contents of the share.

If you want more detailed help, please let us know which flavour of Linux
you're using and what errors you're encountering.

Good luck,

CC

Tweak Page Cache in Ubuntu Linux

Posted: 09 Dec 2008 09:42 PM PST

annalissa <com> wrote:
 

High swapiness can increase the memory available for file caching
which may give significant performance improvement, but may swap out
process's memory that isn't used for some time, causing a delay
when the swapped out memories needs to be accessed, e.g. when you're
switching between applications.

Low swapiness reduces the chance for such delays, but also reduces the
memory available for file caching.




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Cannot configure graphical mode for FC10

Posted: 08 Dec 2008 01:01 AM PST

Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: 

I found this snippet of information on
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/YumUpgradeFaq -

-----------------------------
Fedora Core 6 -> Fedora 7

Fedora 7 replaces the old IDE subsystem with libata. Drive device names
which previously started /dev/hd.. will become /dev/sd.. after the upgrade.
/dev/hda1 will usually become /dev/sda1, although there may not be a direct
relationship between the old and new device names (for example hdd does not
necessarily become sdd). Before you reboot be sure to change all references
to /dev/hd.. in your config, especially /etc/fstab - where it however may be
simpler to refer to filesystems by label (check out the programs blkid,
tune2fs, and mlabel). LVM Volume names are not affected. In
/boot/grub/device.map change /dev/hd.. to /dev/sd.. before running
grub-install - and don't change (hd0). Changing /boot/grub/grub.conf may
also be required.

The libata layer represents all hard disks as SCSI disks, which are limited
to 15 partitions in the kernel. IDE hard disks with more than 15 partitions
are not supported in Fedora 7.

-----------------------------

Hope this is of interest. It does not mean much to me. However, I believe
that this is why I cannot boot my HDD in a machine with a different
motherboard/IDE controller. A couple of people on the Fedora mailing list
are trying to help me, but we have not cracked it yet. It is not actually
that critical in my case, but I want to use it as a learning exercise in
case it happens in the future and there *is* critical data on the HDD.

Frank

Distros and GPL

Posted: 07 Dec 2008 08:33 PM PST

On Dec 8, 5:58pm, Nico Kadel-Garcia <com> wrote:
 
 

I'm not suggesting he create his own license. In fact, he basically
can't. I'm simply suggesting he create his own license *page*. That
should explain what license(s) apply to the individual works and the
compilation as a whole.

He can either disclaim any compilation copyright he might have or
place it under a GPL-compatible license. I'm not sure if he can
legally place a compilation copyright for a collection of GPL'd works
under a non-GPL-compatible license. If you were saying he shouldn't do
that, I definitely agree with you!

DS

USB external drive help, NTFS, FAT32, EXT3

Posted: 06 Dec 2008 07:17 AM PST

On 2008-12-06, Roger N. Clark (change username to rnclark) <net> wrote:
 

If you don't need to use these drives to exchange data with Windows
machines, you'd be better off using a native linux filesystem on them.
FAT has no concept of *nix file attributes and permissions and they
will be lost unless you encapsulate them in e.g. a tarball before
storing them on the FAT filesystem.
 

Not true in my experience. Did you try using linux fdisk to delete the
existing NTFS partition and create a FAT partition in its place, and
"mkfs -t vfat /dev/[whatever]" to format it?
 

NTFS is a proprietary filesystem; the full specification is only
available under licen$e from Microsoft. That said, most modern linux
distributions come with NTFS-3G, which is an open source implementation
of what is known about how NTFS works. Much of this has been
painstakingly reverse-engineered over the years, and in my experience it
is now quite stable and reliable. YMMV of course.
 

Apparently there is for ext2, although I don't recall the name.
Although reading ought to be safe, writing to an ext3 filesystem from
Windows will likely destroy the journal and may have other untoward
consequences.

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John (dhs.org)
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debian only loads text interface

Posted: 05 Dec 2008 06:25 AM PST

On Dec 5, 8:38 pm, Bill Mar <net> wrote: 

Thanks created new user and Gnome works!!! now i think i have more to
learn so i can copy hidden files lol
of course KDE isn't that painful and maybe i'll keep it

Les
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