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mount: /dev/cdrom is not a valid block device

Posted: 10 May 2004 03:19 AM PDT

sepp wrote: 

Is the drive jumpered (master, slave) correctly?

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startx is not found in /usr/X11R6/bin

Posted: 09 May 2004 07:26 PM PDT

SmallCat <com> wrote: 

RH 6.x is many years old. There is not the slightest chance of it
having an X driver for a modern video card.
 

You configured it as a server? Good. It wouldn't have been any use to
you as a desktop without a graphics driver.
 

??
 

Sure.
 

So go back to the install software and select some more software to
install. Problem?
 

Nothing is missing.
 

Sure. Of course. All the packages are on there.
 

I don't understand. Just click on your package manager thigmie, point
it at the install medium of your choice (which sounds like it is a cd)
and click away.
 

There is no problem.
 

It's a silly question. Like asking how to dot THIS i. The same way you
dot any i. Install the "missing" software the same way you install any
software. Run your installer/package manager, and that's that.

You have a whole manual that comes with RH 6 that tells you how to do
that! But it's there on your admin screen anyway. RH 6 was bad that
way.

Peter

Please help on simple network connectivity

Posted: 09 May 2004 04:45 AM PDT

It's a cat5e cross-over cable. It works when I connect two windows based PC.

mjt <ru> wrote in message
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./sndconfig - Mandrake 10

Posted: 09 May 2004 04:18 AM PDT

"Jean-Baptiste Hétier" <org> wrote in message news:<195.8.3>... 

I imagine "alsaconfig" would probably be your best bet. Don't forget
"alsamixer" to make sure you have the volume turned up!

Debian ISOs on Bittorrent

Posted: 08 May 2004 04:19 PM PDT

In article <de>, illecebra wrote: 
Not sure about debian but why would you want to use Bittorent?
From what I saw it has potentional to be a backdoor into your system.
Especially if you are running it as root (really a dumb idea but
sometimes.... you do the dumb things, we all do.)
I go straight to the Distro's home page or mirrors, mirrors
are preferred, and grab the .iso directly. Its faster that way and your
system's security is not compromised.
Ditto with the other peer to peer software including
gtk-gnutella and mutella (console based p2p client)
BTW. did you know you can get Linux ditros using Gtk-gnutella
and Mutella just as easy as using BitTorrent? I have done it a few
times myself. Ditto with txt/ps/pdf files as well as .mp3/.ogg files
IMHO, I like Mutella in console better as it works good on a
low resource box.

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PLEASE HELP ME WITH SAMBA ??? PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE ????

Posted: 08 May 2004 11:42 AM PDT

People I know the answer now!!!!


It was stupid of me of course!!!
In de windowsXP(Professional)-PC I am sharing a whole disk!!
I only want to mount(on linux) the map named Pictures(from the
WIndowsXP-PC).
This disk has the label name "Over(G):\" in windowsXP
so the path to the map I want, is seen from the network as
Over\Pictures
So the real answer was always there:

mount -t smbfs //192.168.99.100/Over/Pictures /mnt/share/

It then asked me for a password and I gave an enter (no password).
And it mounted!!

THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH!!!!

I really appreciated all your effort
for trying to help me!!

This is what the world is all about!!


THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!


BBB




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How to fix a bung X screen setting?

Posted: 06 May 2004 10:41 PM PDT

Ron House wrote: 

I would say that you can but I don't use grub so I'll let someone
else answer that one.

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CUPS on localhost:631 - root/root pw doesn't work

Posted: 06 May 2004 10:13 PM PDT

<posted & mailed>

Mattias Honrendgard wrote:
 

If CUPS wants the root password why doesn't it ask for it?
At the very least there should be a note that this is the default.

Also I didn't see any mention in the voluminous documentation
that this was what was wanted.

May I suggest that the CUPS team should take account of
difficulties like this, and adjust the documentation accordingly.

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Fedora: internet connection

Posted: 06 May 2004 08:19 PM PDT

Frank writes: 

You edit the appropriate configuration file, somewhere under /etc. I use
Chrony instead of Ntp so I don't know the details. There may be some Red
Hat config tool for doing this.
 

See above.
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How to wget download all PDF files larger than 100 Kbytes

Posted: 06 May 2004 12:34 PM PDT

In <comp.infosystems.www.servers.misc> Orak Listalavostok <com> wrote: 

Looks right. :-) You can do this one-by-one,

lynx -dump http://www.abc.com/ > x
vi x # step b
while read i; do
size=`lynx -head $i | awk '
BEGIN { IGNORECASE=1 }
/^Content-Length:/ {print $2}' `
[[ $size -gt 100000 ]] && wget $i
done < x

or all at once,

lynx -dump http://www.abc.com/ > x
vi x # step b
while read i; do
lynx -head $i > `basename $i`
done
grep '^Content-Length:' *.pdf > y
rm *.pdf
while IFS=: read i header size; do
[[ $size -gt 100000 ]] && wget $i
done < y

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"lpr" won't print simple plain text files

Posted: 05 May 2004 08:41 PM PDT

com.Oscar (Mike Knudsen) writes:

]I just got my trusty old printer working, using RH 7.0's Printer Tool to set
]things up. It all works, but lpr seems to be pretty stupid (or cautious) about
]rpinting plain text files with no extension.

]For example, I can say
]lpr stuff.c
]lpr stuff.h

]and lpr knows these are text files, and they print OK (but in big type; would
]be nice to get them formatted better via some filter).

]BUT, something like
]ls -l | lpr
] or
]ls -l >junk; lpr junk

]prints out a wasted page with the line
]No way to print this type of input file: fsav (linux) virus (30839-100)

]OK, so lpr is too stupid to figure out a file's type wihtout an extent (just
]like Windows, but NOT like real UNIX). But whose sense of humor gave us this
]"virus" message? Is lpr still being maintained by college kids?

No. Linux uses a "magic" file which tries to guess the type of the file
fromt eh first few lines or bytes in the file. It has guessed that your
file is an "fsav (linux) virux (30839-100)" file. (no idea where your
magic file is /usr/share/magic? ) Ie it has not identified it as a text
file. Look in junk to see what it looks like.




]Maybe I need to put a .txt or some such extent on every little file. But I
]sure miss the good old days of UNIX "ls -lt *.c | lpr" when you wanted a quick
]listing.

works for me.

/etc/fstab problem with 'Dazzle' sdcard reader

Posted: 05 May 2004 12:14 PM PDT

On Sat, 08 May 2004 15:40:12 GMT, P.T. Breuer <it.uc3m.es> wrote:
| Maurice Batey <co.uk> wrote:
|> /dev/sda4 /media/zip auto ro,noauto,user 0 0
|>
|> which handles my Zip drive perfectly.
|
| Fine.

<snip>

|> BUT, if I start again, but this time with an additional entry in
|> /etc/fstab:
|> /dev/sda1 /media/sdcard auto ro,noauto,user 0 0
|
| That's fine too.
|
|> then an 'sdcard' icon does appear and corectly handles the sdcard reader,
|
| What do you mean? Have you got some kind of system which "detects"
| things connected to your machine? If so, what is it?
|
| Well, whatever it is, make sure that you kick it.
|
| Put BOTH your entries in fstab (modulo a slight correction). They are
| both more or less correct correct. But they need to be NOAUTO (i.e.
| "noauto"), not "auto". Where did you get the weird idea of making them
| "auto" from?
|
| Cease, desist. They are not "auto". They are not even THERE half the
| time, so you hardly want them to be "automatically" mounted at boot
| time.


I think you have the field count wrong. Both the fstab lines he uses do have
'noauto' in the options line to stop auto-mounting at boot time. They do have
'auto' in the filesystem-type field so that the mount command will try and
auto-detect the filesystem type (vfat, iso9660,udf,etc) at mount time.


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Linux for the "computer-challenged"

Posted: 05 May 2004 08:07 AM PDT

Daniel Haude <uni-hamburg.de> wrote in
news:physnet.uni-hamburg.de:
 

You could set up Knoppix for your parents. It meets 90% plus of your spec,
and as you're a Linux (Debian) buff no doubt you could easily produce for
them a tailor-made version.

http://www.cclug.org/wiki/Main/KnoppixTricks

How to get Block File mode on USB port devices?

Posted: 04 May 2004 08:54 PM PDT

Replying to my own posting...
 

Based on some other postings, I tried "modprobe usb-storage". I took several
minutes, but finally did start the SCSI emulation and even figured out that my
camera was a Fuji (correctly).

However, it complained (in /var/log/messages) that it couldn't do resets,
couldn't get the storage size, and couldn't find a partition table. Maybe none
of that matters.

It was listed as "sda", not sdb as in another posting (since I don't have any
other SCSI devices, I guess).

BUT I still can't get "mount" to recognize /dev/sda0 as a "valid block device."
 

Actually, I probably shouldn't have usb-storage loaded or probed for in bootup,
since it takes so long. Just put it in a shell script for rare occasions when
I want to experiment with USB devices.

 

As I found above, loading usb-storage driver starts the SCSI emulation.
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2.6.4 setup

Posted: 04 May 2004 03:43 AM PDT


"Timothy Murphy" <maths.tcd.ie> wrote in message
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easy: 
things 

Yes, that sounds like a very good idea. I'm sort of 'old school' Un*x, and
also don't entirely trust automatic updates, but I agree, that would have
made things easier when first setting up a system. I've ended up with a
RH9/Fedora/compile from src hybrid, but that's OK, it works. Overall though
I think 2.6x is so different that there were bound to be unexpected things.

The rpm issue really was my fault; it's mentioned briefly in the
post-halloween doc and I missed it.



 

Apache/PHP and file write permissions

Posted: 04 May 2004 01:40 AM PDT

Ah duh ... it's a PHP feature ... it's called safe_mode_gid ... sorry for
the static!

Rudolf

In comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix Rudolf Potucek <acs.ucalgary.ca> wrote:
: Hi All!

: I am trying to have access restrictions in a unix filesystem but to also
: write a file from Apache/PHP. The problem is that apache tells me
: permission denied and I don;t understand why:

: I have a file:

: -rw-r--r-- www-priv.www-data myfile

: and a directory:

: drwxr-xr-x www-priv.www-data mydir


: My apache is running a User=www-priv and Group=www-priv. So, in my
: understanding of filesystem permissions, it should be able to either
: write to file myfile or create a file myfile in mydir. It won't. I
: actually have to set the OTHER permissions to writeable, which is exactly
: what I want to avoid ... anyone have a clue why this is happening and
: what to do about it?

: Thanks,

: RUdolf





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Windows to Linux, hardware compatibility

Posted: 03 May 2004 07:52 PM PDT

In article <uk> uk
(john) writes:
 

Keep in mind that when a vendor says they "don't support Linux",
it usually means simply that they haven't tried it - not that
it won't work. I have two laptops running Linux (Slack 7 on
an AcerNote 370 and Slack 9.1 on a Toshiba Satellite 4100).
I loaded Linux onto them and they just worked. I don't have
any wireless adapters, but I slid a Linksys PCMCIA network card
into each laptop and they simply recognized them and started
using them. No problems. I've had good luck with Linksys
products under both Linux and Windows. This doesn't guarantee
that your wireless adapter will work, of course, but I'd say
that your odds are pretty good.

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Can't get audio CD to play in Fedora

Posted: 03 May 2004 11:50 AM PDT

On Mon, 03 May 2004 19:48:08 +0000, Larry I Smith wrote:
 

Not exactly true. I have both a DVD reader and CD-RW on my Red Hat 9
system, neither of which has an audio cable connection to the onboard
sound. I can play audio CDs in the DVD reader but not in the CD-RW except
via its headphone jack.

(Perhaps there's a difference between onboard sound and a separate sound
card in this regard.)

Detection of root

Posted: 03 May 2004 01:50 AM PDT

 

Thank you. I did a dirty hack in super.c to try booting with another device,
if the first doesn't work. It works, because I know that my embedded
machines can boot from hda1 or hdc1 only and no one will change this.


Thomas

Only blank screen after installling RH 9

Posted: 02 May 2004 02:56 PM PDT

In article <google.com>, Eric Wood
<com> writes
 

Probably just too high refresh rate for your monitor.

From memory, ctl-alt keypad-minus will select an alternate resolution /
refresh rate on some systems.


Cheers, J/.
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linux forgot my password??

Posted: 02 May 2004 09:09 AM PDT

I didn't think to mention that I had selected the boot from floppy
option during the Debian install since I am using XOSL to dual boot
Windows and Debian. So I didn't have a Lilo or Grub prompt.

The console login didn't work either. I was able to use a Knoppix CD
to mount my Linux partitions (OS and swap), then use bash in Knoppix
to use chroot and then passwd root as Bit Twister suggested.

This Linux stuff is humbling. I'm a newbie all over again.

Thanks Bit Twister and Bill Unruh!


physics.ubc.ca (Bill Unruh) wrote in message news:<c73bpm$nuq$physics.ubc.ca>... 
 

Modem setup problem

Posted: 02 May 2004 08:48 AM PDT

On Sun, 02 May 2004 10:37:32 -0600, Douglas Mayne wrote:
 
Oops, I forgot to mention, that your BIOS should be set to "non-plug and
play OS." Some versions of Windows are plug-and-play, while AFAIK linux
is not. This mismatch could be part of the problem.

Previously, I have recommended reading this:
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Plug-and-Play-HOWTO.html

One key piece of information that this document provides is to advise
users to use "Plug and Play" mode for ISA cards when available. Then,
when setting the BIOS for OS type, select non-plug-and-play for Linux.
This simply means that the motherboard initialization routines will
try to properly allocate resources (before OS boot begins).

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boot linux from cd and copy files to hd

Posted: 02 May 2004 04:38 AM PDT

On Wed, 05 May 2004 01:37:40 -0700, frank wrote:
 

<snip>

 
The "Linux Bootdisk Howto" is an excellent resource- it covers a lot of
ground. It explains everything you need to know and to build a system
yourself. But skipping to the end: Appendix A covers "A.1 Pre-made
Bootdisks." and "A.2 Rescue Packages." Using someone else's loader,
kernel,and root file system could give you a boost to solving your
problem. There is a relatively quick test to see if a pre-built rescue
environment is sufficient to solving your problem. (BTW, it might also
show this environment is overkill and not required at all.) Just try
booting a rescue CD, then "simulating" your script's commands which would
automatically be executed by typing them in yourself. Watch for any
problems when operating under this environment (missing or broken
commands, missing and necessary features, etc.) If your script works as
planned, then save it as rc.local (or another appropriate
startup script.)

You could try Tom's Root/Boot as a very small system:
http://www.toms.net/rb/download.html

Fedora's rescue CD has more features:
ftp://ftp.linux.ncsu.edu/pub/fedora/linux/core/test/1.92/i386/os/images/rescuecd.iso

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Removing LILO or Grub

Posted: 01 May 2004 04:06 PM PDT

"@(none)" <""knoppix\"@(none)"> writes:

]I have a dual boot machine that I've tried to load Mandrake and Debian
]on, but am not satisfied with the results. I'd like to can the LILO
]startup so it just boots to XP ( I know, I'm still using some Windows
]apps.) It used to be just go to a dos prompt and "fdisk /mbr" and it
]would be cleaned up. Windoze XP doesn't let that happen. What's the
]secret?


Alternatively you could just put in XP as the default bootup in lilo.

switching from windows to linux

Posted: 01 May 2004 12:58 PM PDT

P.T. Breuer wrote: 
If the O.P. _replaces_ W-XP with Linux, all his W-XP files will be gone.

I assume the O.P. is like everyone I know and never makes backups. I hope
I am mistaken in this assumption.

I infer Peter thinks the O.P. will keep XP and make a dual boot system
with Linux as one of the options. I am not sure how well Linux does at
reading and writing XP's file system (I have not tried it). Probably
depends on the version of Linux he gets.

But even if the files can be read, it is difficult to manage some Windows
files if you do not have programs that can read their ever-changing
undocumented file formats. Some Linux office suites have input filters
that can read some versions of Microsoft Office files (e.g., Word, Excel),
but there are no end of problems trying to manage Access for example.

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Contoured Level of Effort Microsoft Project

Contoured Level of Effort Microsoft Project

Contoured Level of Effort

Posted: 27 May 2004 12:18 PM PDT

Don,
I guess I should have been a little more specific. I
have 20 Level of Effort tasks. The other 980 or so are
regular tasks. The 980 will be set up without
constraints (as much as possible) and Project is going to
run through it normal calculations for leveling. It is
the 20 LOE tasks that are concerning me. Basically these
tasks pertain to Leads. Their basic function is to be
support for their people to guide, answer questions, and
the like. The initial phases of the Project they will
have to spend more time. Then as the project begins to
wind down (the last 6 months) is when their level of
support begins to decline.
These LOE tasks themselves are not linked to any
tasks other than the program start. They do not even
effect the program end date. They are basically there
for cost purposes.
I did run a little experiment as you suggested. I
had entered the data for 2 of my LOEs in the manner I
described in my first message and then leveled the
project and they stayed where I put them. Your statement
about the resource being available to me for other tasks
after Dec. '05 and planning to reduce their commitment to
the task is closer to what is happening on these 20 LOE
tasks. Being Leads after Dec. '05 they will probably
start picking up new Projects to work on or may even be
assigned tasks their subordinates were doing in order to
meet the dead line.
So after much rambling on here, it is looking like I
will just have to keep an eye on these 20 tasks to make
sure they don't start moving on me when I level.

Thanks,

Shaun 
approach may not survive leveling and/or replanning. 
mimic reality and let project do its calculations, rather
than to hard-code data. The calculated, levelled plan is
a "model" of the expected project reality; you enter the
constraints and current conditions and let the modelling
engine do its thing. Like weather forecasting. If you try
to hard-code that it will rain next wednesday, then when
the circumstances change either your hardcoding will be
changed and your forecast will be wrong when you make it
rain anyway, or if you manage to force your forecast to
persdist, you' better know how to make it rain on demand!
If you KNOW it's going to rain, put in the paramters that
will make the modelling engine come to the same
conclusion. Pardon my philosophizing, can't help myself :) 
to produce the desired results, rather than hardcoding
the results, you have a better chance of making the
results persist through multiple updates. 
after dec 05 then you could adjust the resources'
availability in the resource calendar. Then project will
limit the resource to half-days in all its calculations
for that timephase. If the resource is available to you
for other tasks and you're just planning to reduce
his/her commitment to task a, that's a little trickier. I
don't think project has a specific parameter to trigger
that in the future. If you're not using a resource pool
and don't mind some slightly kludgy reports, you could
create a second version of the resource (bob is assigned
at 100% til dec 05; halfbob is assigned at 50% after dec
05, and can spend the other half on other tasks). You'll
still have to make halfbob not available prior to dec,
and bob not available after. 

Excel functions

Posted: 27 May 2004 10:51 AM PDT

I don't know an easy way to accomplish that. I'm not a vba guru so
someone else may know the answer.

The best I can suggest is to customize one of the toolbars by adding a
button and linking that button to the macro. That still requires, of
course, the user to click on the button.

Can anybody else offer a workable solution?

On Thu, 27 May 2004 14:41:05 -0700, Johnell
<microsoft.com> wrote:
 



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Status Reporting via % Complete

Posted: 27 May 2004 05:45 AM PDT

If you are updating the project using your new actual %complete before running the status report, then your new planned finish date compared to the baseline finish shows the variance at this moment in time from your baseline. So if Joey is only half done on a 40-hr task which is supposed to be 3/4 done, then his finish has slipped 10 hrs, and the finish variance gives you the slippage. If you wanted to actually show variance in the % complete, you'd have to do the math (10/40=.25) but the calendar slippage is a valid status parameter. This will not work if the task runs into conflicts where Joey gets pulled off to a higher priority task leaving this one dangling, but you would probably want to deal with that issue before running a status report anyway...

Over-Allocated Units

Posted: 26 May 2004 11:21 PM PDT

Thanks

Sorry, I shouldn't waste your time with these simple questions. Sometimes the quest for a solution blurs your mind. You end up looking for difficult solutions and you forget the standard procedures

Andre

Print Plus / Minus sign

Posted: 26 May 2004 09:30 PM PDT


Hazza,
As I said, it is possible but I'm a little confused. You asked if
someone could write the macro but your latest post says not to worry
about it. Do you want a macro or not? If not, I won't spend time on it.

John

Risks and Issues in WSS

Posted: 26 May 2004 08:12 PM PDT

They probably know better in Project Server land but all that I have heard
is the WSS is the same in the various implementations, it's just what you
get with it that is different. (Not 100% guaranteed but nobody has ever said
anything particularly different to that)

So provided those web parts don't rely on anything in Project Server 2003
(see above :)) they should work with the normal WSS..

Why don't you just try them and see ?

[P.S. You did say "any issues and thoughts come to mind" - hence my
'licensing']

But as always, I'm quite prepared to be proved wrong (by a Project Server
specialist probably - and I wonder where you find them <running and
ducking>)

Mike Walsh, Helsinki, Finland

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2003 
Project 
Project 

Simultaneous access/update to MS Project plan

Posted: 26 May 2004 12:13 PM PDT

"(large worldwide company that wants a common toolset used across the organization)

So what concurrent-access enterprise project management tool is the large worldwide company providing to the department? (Pardon my sarcasm

I second R Schneiders reply

Import datas from MS Access/Excel

Posted: 26 May 2004 08:18 AM PDT

Thanks for your answers.

I was about to conclude the same way you did. At least now I know !

See you around

Nico

Rebaselining specific tasks

Posted: 26 May 2004 03:26 AM PDT

Good Lord, Verossa, I'm glad you re-attached your brain, otherwise you would have had one heck of a tedious exercise on your hand

I presume that you just changed the project start-date and re-saved the whole project with a new baseline

James :-)

Setting up activities start/end time

Posted: 26 May 2004 12:29 AM PDT

Hi Jan,

it worked! Now, I would like to display the date and time
by the activity on the Gantt diagram. I have managed to
display the date but not the time. Would you be able to
help?

Bye

Luisa 
time of day 
anyhow) 
bericht 

Maximum amount of allocated hours

Posted: 25 May 2004 11:31 PM PDT

Jan

But why doesn't the program levels by stretching the job with no restrains or with a "a soon as possible" restrain. It is free to split, move or stretch this item?

Leave days or sick days for individuals in project

Posted: 25 May 2004 09:26 PM PDT

Great to hear Glenn and you are most welcome.

Julie 
each 
schedule 
resource 
and 
in the 
other 
personnel 
calendar 
are 

Overbudget on lowered Max Units

Posted: 25 May 2004 07:26 PM PDT

Thanks for the response, Gerard. You gave me something to ponder on

I wanted to add this interesting side effect resulting from setting resources at 75% Max Units. For our project templates, we plan for worse case scenario. In this case, our template tasks are set to 75% Max Units. This way, if a 75% resource is assigned to the task, then we meet our deadline. If a 100% resource is assigned to the task, then we get slack. Great!, right
Meanwhile, our backlog charts include these new projects without assigned resources. So we fill our capacity with 75% tasks. When it comes time to assign the tasks to resources, some of them will be at 100%. Now, we are overbooked! Why?

We booked for 30 hour week tasks (75%) while some resources (100%) are putting in 40 hours of work on their tasks. Arrrgggghhh

--Conrad Santiag


----- Gérard Ducouret wrote: ----

Hello Conrad

If the resources are working 8h/day in the company, I would set them with
Max Unit of 100%. If generally they work only at 75% of their time on
task, due to the leads duties, I would assign them at 75% on these tasks
So you will be able to enter 8hrs/day of Actual Work on a day by day basi
if necessary
<<in the early going on a lengthy task, it is difficult to gauge>> : So yo
know why you must manage short tasks. Some companies use standard for that
For ex some companies have as a standard not to plan tasks longuer than
days

Hope this helps

Gérard Ducoure


"Conrad Santiago" <microsoft.com> a écrit dans l
message de news:com.. 
Max Units. We do this because they are project leads and they have dutie
that arise on projects that are not easily scheduled. While they ar
scheduled to work on one project, they may be called away to do a QC revie
or confirm info on another project. For an 8 hour day, set at 75%, they ar
free to spend two hours a day on such lead duties 
they end up spending 8 hours on a task in one day. Meanwhile, the gant
chart still shows them on a 6-hour day rate to complete the task. Ou
managers do update these tasks daily asking "How much more time do you nee
on this task?". When there is only one or two days left on a task, it i
easy for the resource to gauge how might more time is needed. However, i
the early going on a lengthy task, it is difficult to gauge, resulting i
more hours be spent on a task. As the end of the task approaches, th
resource is either cut short on allotted time or goes over budget 

Exporting / converting report information to MS Excell

Posted: 25 May 2004 06:30 PM PDT

Sorry, but you can't export from a Project "report" into the Excel
format you seek. You can export data (as a workbook or a pivot table)
using File/Save as and then use Mapping to define that export. You can
also use the Export Timebased data to Excel wizard. Reports are
intended to go to paper, or to electronic versions of paper, e.g. PDF,
TIFF, or whatever.

Hope this is useful to you. Let us know.

rms




com.au wrote: 

Pulling in tasks based on early completion (100%)

Posted: 25 May 2004 03:42 PM PDT

Hi Phil,
What you ask for is normal behaviour of Project UNLESS you gave in start
dates for tasks manually
HTH
Jan

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linking tasks to master schedule in MS project 98

Posted: 25 May 2004 01:35 PM PDT

Sorry, but maybe I'm old fashioned remembering how Object Linking and
Embedding didn't work in the old days. I'm not convinced it works even
now. I don't use it and can never make it work. I don't think this a
very reliable way of linking projects.

I'd suggest you use the "Insert/Project" to bring in the entire project
as a link, then use filters or hide parts of the hierarchy to display
the limited info.

Hope this is useful to you. Let us know.

rms




microsoft.com wrote: 

Work Calculations

Posted: 25 May 2004 01:23 PM PDT

I had it set to manual because it was several large projects linking together and was taking a very long time to load. I heard a tip that setting the calc. to manual would help - I did press <F9> to update them.

Project 2003 Std to Professional

Posted: 25 May 2004 12:41 PM PDT

AFAIK, it's not the MPP file that matters with Project Server. It's the
tool you use to connect with Project Server. Project Pro can connect to
Project Server, whereas Project Standard cannot. So yes, it should work ok.

Hope this is useful to you. Let us know.

rms




Larry M wrote: 

Reduce unit after task start

Posted: 25 May 2004 11:19 AM PDT

You're welcome, Shaun.

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Hiding Detail

Posted: 25 May 2004 09:45 AM PDT

If you can open the file you can see everything that is in the file.

On Tue, 25 May 2004 09:45:06 -0700, jlb
<microsoft.com> wrote:
 



--

tracking problem on project plan update

Posted: 24 May 2004 11:51 PM PDT

Hi

If you are inputting Actual Work prior to the task's end-date, then it's far easier to have the task as a Fixed Duration task type. This way, the original task duration is retained, regardless of how many hours you actually worked on the previous days. Any under-booking of hours will automatically be re-scheduled across the remaining duration of the task

James.

How did a split occurred?

Posted: 24 May 2004 06:56 PM PDT

Hello Deluth, hello John,

Another way to do these splits is that one used by a lot of my students who
validate any entry with a savage right click of the mouse anywhere. Anywhere
is often on the Gantt Chart pane. And most of the time, they drift a little
....
Try it : it works well !

Gérard Ducouret

"John Beamish" <JLBeamishAThotmailDOTcom> a écrit dans le message de
news:phx.gbl... 
the 
found 
(the 

Task filter when project opens

Posted: 24 May 2004 03:16 PM PDT

It may have been a sledgehammer ... but that turned out to be the right tool
for some "percussive maintenance" <grin>.

<microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:11c5801c44201$c20d5270$gbl... 

Displaying Tasks for a Single Resource for Many Projects

Posted: 24 May 2004 01:42 PM PDT


Megan,
Maybe I don't fully understand what you want but how about the following:
1. Create a master file as John outlined
2. Open the Resource Usage view
3. Insert these two columns
a. Project
b. Finish
4. Sort by Project, then by Finish

If you don't need the timescale data, just pull it to the right and
print the tabular data. It will show each resource's assignments by
project with the Finish date in ascending order.

Hope this helps.
John

Colour Co-ordination

Posted: 24 May 2004 04:41 AM PDT

Hi Simon,
Glad to know things are looking up ;-).
The rest of the steps for creating the formula for the
Flag field(s) are in the link I sent earlier. (I've
copied it below again to help.)

http://www.woodyswatch.com/project/archtemplate.asp?2-10

It's quite a few steps (too many to list here) but I
think if you follow the steps in the webpage, it will
guide you through.
You may wish to print out the webpage to have all the
steps in front of you.
Let us know how you get along and reply to this thread if
you have any further questions.

Hope this helps.

Julie 
completed everything you said and yes I can get to there
via tools etc.... 

Microsoft Word - New document in Word 2013 opens in compatibility mode

Microsoft Word - New document in Word 2013 opens in compatibility mode

New document in Word 2013 opens in compatibility mode

Posted: 03 Mar 2013 10:27 AM PST

New install of Office 365 Trial, full version of Office 2010 still on machine, running Windows 8.

Every time I create a new document in Word 2013, it opens in Compatibility mode. Document Save type is set as Word Document (docx). (Doesn't do it with Excel).

Am I right in saying I need to deleted normal.dotx and allow Word 2013 to create it's own?

I cannot get the first two pages of my manuscript to NOT print a page number.

Posted: 03 Mar 2013 06:54 AM PST

I want the first two pages in my manuscript to not have a page number. The next section to start at start at number i until the next section which starts at number 1 and continues from there.

 

 I cannot get the first two pages to NOT print a page number.  Section 2 and section 3 are numbering just fine,

Word Address "book" from Access Address file

Posted: 03 Mar 2013 12:26 AM PST

I have an Access 'Name and Address' database, from which I yearly create a group of mailing labels for Christmas cards, via a 'Query'.  The database is kept current as changes of address are received. 

 

I don't keep US postoffice mailing addresses in Outlook, only email addresses.  I don't want two sets of postoffice addresses that may or may not be the same.  However, if I can export them from Access to Outlook, I might consider it.

 

Now I want to use that same Access database to create individual labels for birthday or anniversary cards using Word.  I want to use Word to be able to select a specified single label on the sheet to put on the provided birthday/anniversary card envelope.

 

How do I 'import' part of the Access database into Word for an 'address book'?  I've been told that the various parts of Office are 'inter-connected!

 

How do I put names and addresses in 2 columns?

Posted: 02 Mar 2013 06:04 PM PST

I am trying to make a directory of names.  Some have 3 lines, some have 5 lines.  When I get to the bottom of the page and go to the top for the second column how can I keep going without having everything in the first column get out of position if I have to delete or when I enter.  In other words how do I make a division so what I'm doing in the second column doesn't affect the 1st column.

Searching in Word 2007 - Navigation Pane

Posted: 02 Mar 2013 12:40 PM PST

Hello -

 

I think I already know this answer but I want to give this a spin.

 

One of our people says that in Word, he executes a "Find" and a panel pops up on the left side of the frame with several found results showing for the find request.  I can't do that in Word 2007.  the Nav Pane option does not appear in the ribbon > View > Show.  Although he doesn't know it, I think he probably has Word 2010 and I think this "left side" pane is indeed what's called the Navigation Pane.  The Nav Pane is not a part of Word 2007 - right?  It cannot be turned on, optioned on, or installed through Add/Remove - right?

 

HoibO

Where would I find Word Starter 2010?

Posted: 02 Mar 2013 12:33 PM PST

A website I have often used now blocks access to downloading files. A dialog box tells me "Word Starter 2010 cannot be opened. Try again or repair the product in Control Panel". I can't find that program or any reference to it in Control Panel. What should I do?

Word 2007 hyperlinked indexes

Posted: 02 Mar 2013 12:33 PM PST

OK, it's been a while since someone asked this.  I know I might get get a head-slap here but I'm willing to "take the hit".

 

I also know that Susan and some of the other experts have already pointed out that Word can't do this; create an index but also hyperlink back to the content.  But, again, some time ago.

 

Has no one found an "easy" way to create an INDEX (not a TOC) in Word 2007?  And, do so where the page no is hyperlinked?

If not, pardon me, please.

 

How about Word 2010 or Word 2013?  I can't seem to find that these two progs do either.

 

I am reading where experts point out the Word was designed with print media in mind.  Is there another strategy to follow for having a doc index that will "plop" you on to the desired content?  Are we talking some sort of HTML based web technology?

 

Just curious and looking for some clues....

 

Thanks and I apologize again if I've opened up new wounds!

 

HoibO

Mail Merge from Excel to Word 2010 Dates Appear as Numbers

Posted: 02 Mar 2013 09:31 AM PST

As an example of my problem, I have a two dates in Excel that appear as September 20, 2012 and March 15, 2013. In the Word document after the merge (watching via Preview Results in Word 2010), these appear as 41172 and 41348 respectively.

 

I have searched the web for hours for a solution. They all say the same thing, to use the \@ "MMMM d, yyyy" flag after the mergefield in the merge braces. I assume must work for some people, but it's had zero effect for me.

 

I tried pressing Alt-F9 and then adding within the {} the \@ "MMMM d, yyyy" (so the final value appears as: { MERGEFIELD Effective_Date \@ "MMMM d, yyyy"}), but it has absolutely no effect. It still appears as a number.

There must be a setting in Word or some other problem that is preventing the formatting codes from working.

 

Note that the other 2 commonly described solutions, using DDE or forcing the column in Excel to be text, do work for me, but I don't view these as acceptible solutions, because I want to control the formatting in Word, not whatever a given cell happens to look like in Excel. For now, I'm using the DDE solution as a workaround, but I desparately hope someone here can help solve the core problem.

 

Thanks,

Colin

How limit autocorrect entries to Word only?

Posted: 01 Mar 2013 11:20 PM PST

I've set up a couple of autocorrect entries that are very helpful for documents I'm editing with Word.  This is the only context in which they are helpful, but it seems that the autocorrect entries I make in Word are applied in Outlook (for email) and Powerpoint, too. Is there a way for me to limit the scope of application of autocorrect entries to Word? 

An obvious workaround would be to change the abbreviations I use to trigger the autocorrect behavior and to use those abbreviations only in Word, but the abbreviations I use are standard in my field, and to train myself to use something else only in Word would be awkward, at best.  On the documents I'm working on, the abbreviations need to be expanded out to what they stand for, but in email and in PPT presentations, use of the abbreviations is preferable. Hence my desire to limit the autocorrect expansion of these abbreviations to Word only.

The icons for Word and Picture manager in Office 2007 are no longer displayed.

Posted: 01 Mar 2013 02:55 PM PST

I tried to run the setup disk and use the repair feature, but the setup returns the error:  Setup stopped working.

I ran the program on my laptop and it works fine.  Just the desktop unit gives the error.  I am running Windows 7  64.

The icons are not visible for Word and Picture Manager.

can I create temporary header

Posted: 28 Feb 2013 08:55 AM PST

Using Word 2007 on PC - Windows XP (sp3).

I have a document that is formatted to print on pre-printed letterhead paper. If I send a copy of the file by email, there is no letterhead on it.
I need to be able to send a document by snail mail, with pre-printed letterhead paper, but also by email. Presently, the email version does not show any header/letterhead, just the spacing required for  the printed page version.  Is there a simple way to create a header that can be switched on/off as necessary depending on the desired format (print/electronic).  I want to avoid having to type or copy the document twice; or, to have to create or delete a header each time.
FYI - I usually send the email version as PDF except when I expect the recipient needs to edit it, then it is sent in one of Word's native formats (.doc, .docx, docm, etc).

Is there another approach to this problem?
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