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grub CD hangs on configfile

Posted: 22 Aug 2006 09:14 AM PDT

On Tue, 22 Aug 2006 16:37:11 -0700, com wrote:
 
Thanks for running the test.

Is it any different if you issue a "root" command only? Perhaps, booting
my CD:

Test 1:
grub> root (cd)
grub> configfile (hd0,6)/boot/grub/menu.lst

Test 2:
Or if grub is installed at the MBR of the hard disk:

grub> rootnoverify (hd0)
grub> chainloader +1
grub> boot

The above command would be quite useful for loading the menu from any disk
where grub is installed.

I haven't experimented with the configfile directive, but I did some
other tests with grub. See this post for some tests I did with grub:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.linux.setup/msg/86f68934908589ba

In those tests, I couldn't boot partitions which were formatted with the
reiserfs and where the grub bootloader was installed at the partition
only (at least, not with v.0.97).

Check the section of the post for more info, as titled:
2. Tests with chainloader. (And a big word of caution.)

Maybe, there will be a grub v.0.98.

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New to Linux...Help

Posted: 21 Aug 2006 03:06 PM PDT

John Rodgers wrote: 

OK, putting my 2 cents worth in...

I do the same, because when I first got this machine, Linux didn't
support SATA drives (or, at least, I couldn't find any SATA drivers).
So, I installed a second hard drive (IDE), disabled the SATA, and
installed Linux as if the IDE were the only drive present. I tried
using the boot menu feature in the BIOS, but it won't let me specify the
IDE as the default boot drive, so I mostly leave the SATA disabled.

I suppose I could install dual boot now, but I only boot Windows on an
infrequent basis -- too seldom for entering the BIOS to be much of a
nuisance -- and I've had enough problems with dual boot systems
clobbering MBRs to be wary of them.

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Blank text in Flash

Posted: 19 Aug 2006 05:00 PM PDT

In comp.os.linux.setup, John Thompson
<os2.dhs.org>
wrote
on Sun, 20 Aug 2006 19:05:49 GMT
<os2.dhs.org>: 

An interesting thought, but nope...still nothing.

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Posted: 19 Aug 2006 12:02 PM PDT

Mark wrote:
 

Yes, sounds like the same problem.
 

Thanks I will try.

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which linux is the easiest to install?

Posted: 18 Aug 2006 02:21 PM PDT

Zenon Panoussis wrote: 

As Zenon said, these problems indicate that there is something slightly
ununsual (not necessarily wrong or broken) with your hardware. If you
know your hardware well (ie, you know the chipset of your IDE
controller etc.), try starting Debian in expert mode (type 'expert' at
the boot prompt) and choose only the modules which drive your hardware.
Or at the very least choose NOT to install all the modules for which
you know you don't have the hardware. The reason for the hang is that
it tries a very wide range of hardware driver modules, and one of them
obviously has a conflict with your actual hardware. So cutting down the
number of modules tried may get you past the hang.

(Do you by any chance have a CD drive on a SATA interface? That's a
well-known problem with Debian stable, so try using a more recent
installer image - try here:
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/)
 

That whole reply (including the stuff I've snipped) was excellent. I
used RedHat for several years (from 3.0.3 to 7.3) until they got too
commercial (spamming me to subscribe to their paid distro), at which
point I switched to Debian. Debian is slow, compared with other distros
(as in slow to update, slow to support new technologies, not slow to
run) but very reliable, very well supported and with a very pure
approach to 'free' (the whole gratis/libre distinction). It all depends
on what you want. I suspect you will find a small proportion of twits
in whichever forum you post, but equally I expect most distros have a
helpful base of respondents.

One distro you might also consider (sorry to make the choice more
complicated) is SuSE, which fulfils both Zenon's criteria: masses of
software and good docs. I've not used it myself, but it is supposed to
be more user-friendly than Debian (which can assume a little too much
technical know-how), while being less commercial than RedHat (though
I'm not really sure if that's true any more).

Best of luck,

CC

rpm build cannot open file?

Posted: 18 Aug 2006 12:24 PM PDT


Thufir wrote:
 

The file does not exist. You are probably tabbing in the wrong place.
Look (space added for clarity):
 

The file is pine-4.64-1.src.rpm and you are trying to build
pine-4.64-1.i386.src.rpm .

Z

Dual boot installation Q

Posted: 18 Aug 2006 08:31 AM PDT

Thanks super, SaGS. I tried the "another way" in that link, but all
that happens is "GRUB" appears on the screen with a flashing cursor.
Any ideas how to debug? Thanks!

SaGS wrote: 

How to ignore packages/programs with apt-get?

Posted: 17 Aug 2006 06:00 PM PDT

> > Does apt-get have a way to ignore packages/programs that I don't want to 
 
 
 

I tried that and got:
# aptitude hold pan
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Writing extended state information... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done
Building tag database... Done
The following packages are unused and will be REMOVED:
aalib1 akode artsbuilder aspell bug-buddy cvs dia-libs edict esound file-roller gcalctool
gconf-editor
gnome-cups-manager gnome-games-data gnome-nettool gnome-system-tools gnome-themes gnome-themes-extras
gnome-utils
gnupg-agent gnupg2 gpdf gpgsm gstreamer0.8-misc gstreamer0.8-plugin-apps gstreamer0.8-tools
gtk2-engines-pixbuf
gtk2-engines-spherecrystal gtkhtml3.2 gucharmap imlib-base imlib11 kanjidic kaudiocreator kcoloredit
kdeaddons-kfile-plugins kdeartwork-misc kdeartwork-style kdeartwork-theme-icon
kdeartwork-theme-window
kdegraphics-kfile-plugins kdemultimedia-kappfinder-data kdemultimedia-kfile-plugins
kdepim-kio-plugins kdvi
kfilereplace kgamma kicker-applets kiconedit kimagemapeditor klettres-data klinkstatus kmid kmix
kmoon kmrml
knewsticker-scripts kolourpaint kommander konq-plugins korn kpdf kpovmodeler krec kruler kscd
kscreensaver
kscreensaver-xsavers ksig ksnapshot ksvg ktnef ktux kuickshow kview kviewshell kxsldbg
libboost-python1.32.0
libconvert-binhex-perl libfinance-quote-perl libgal2.2-1 libgal2.2-common libgda2-3 libgda2-common
libgle3
libgstreamer-gconf0.8-0 libgstreamer-plugins0.8-0 libgstreamer0.8-0 libgtkhtml3.2-11
libgtksourceview-common
libhtml-tableextract-perl libio-stringy-perl libksba8 libmime-perl libnetpbm10
libnews-nntpclient-perl libpth2
libsamplerate0 libtiff-tools netpbm noatun noatun-plugins openoffice.org pinentry-qt synaptic
vim-common vino
xscreensaver-gl zenity
The following packages have been kept back:
pan python python-glade2 python-minimal python-uno transcode
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 109 to remove and 6 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 250MB will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] n
Abort.


# apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
pan python python-glade2 python-minimal python-uno transcode
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 6 not upgraded.

I can't upgrade the othber packages at the moment, but that's OK. I do want to ignore Pan.

 

How would I revert the request then if I change my mind?

 

Ah, I always used apt-get. Sometimes dpkg.

 

Yeah, but I didn't see anything about ignoring packages unless I searched badly. ;)
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Testing Patches for Linux Kernel 2.6.15

Posted: 16 Aug 2006 11:31 PM PDT


ne... wrote: 

I could be wrong, but doesn't kernel 2.6.15 currently come with User
Mode Linux (UML) as a subsystem? That is something I heard you could
do. You can recompile the kernel with the UML as a target. Can someone
clarify if this is true and how can it be done?

 

Auto-config of audio card?

Posted: 16 Aug 2006 04:57 PM PDT

com wrote in
news:googlegroups.com:
 

Try looking at the alsa HOW-TO at http://tldp.org - it shows *exactly*
how do set up alsa. Although I think very little of it as then none of
the OSS apps for X will work and have to be reconfigured to say nothing
of the volume "bug".

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how to get hold of RedHat 6.0 CDs ?

Posted: 16 Aug 2006 05:48 AM PDT

Hopefully http://www.linuxiso.org/ will be soon back up...

"Bernard" <fr> wrote in message
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cannot beep

Posted: 16 Aug 2006 01:41 AM PDT

Ulrich Lauther wrote: 

Try 'modprobe pcspkr'

Jeff Long

how to pass passcode to a command?

Posted: 15 Aug 2006 05:40 PM PDT


Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: 


Thanks indeed for your help.

linux on a old laptop

Posted: 15 Aug 2006 08:58 AM PDT

On Sun, 20 Aug 2006, Michael Black wrote:
 

Vector has the base system in a single file. You can't choose to install
only part of this file. It comes to just about 1 Gb when installed.

Perhaps you could choose to install only part of the base system, but the
installation doesn't provide for this.

There are additional packages you can choose to install or not, but
there's no option to omit part of the base system.

I have a similar problem: I'm trying to find a Linux distribution that
will work on a laptop with 96 Mb of RAM and 2 Gb of disk space and that
comes with support for a wireless network. I considered Knoppix, Puppy,
Damn Small Linux and Vector; Vector seems to be the best choice. Puppy was
promising, but I had problems with the installation program.

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Wireless router question.

Posted: 15 Aug 2006 08:22 AM PDT

Captain Dondo wrote:
 

close, forum.openwrt.org .

poly-p man

Parted

Posted: 14 Aug 2006 03:31 AM PDT

Thorsten Kiefer wrote:
 

My non-authority guess: resize needs to know both ends of the new
partition because some of the filesystems parted handles allow
moving either boundary (e.g., fat32).

Me fella use gparted instead: less thinking needed!

Roby

Debian Install problems (Win xp User)

Posted: 13 Aug 2006 12:39 AM PDT

Simon wrote: 

Well done. I have D2 running under WINE so shout if you have problems -
it should work fine, apart from the inevitable DirectSound errors
flying past in the console.

Cheers,

CC

off subject, format 2nd harddrive???

Posted: 12 Aug 2006 04:20 PM PDT

lorentsonci wrote:
 

Sure

Just run mkfs.ext3 on the partitions.

Your hard drive will most likely be /dev/hdb, /dev/hdc or /dev/hdd depending
upon which IDE controller / master or slave.

for example: mkfs.ext3 /dev/hdb1

for more inforamtion type man mkfs at the command prompt.

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sendmail and multiple smart relay servers

Posted: 12 Aug 2006 07:15 AM PDT

The Natural Philosopher wrote:
 

Amen. Sendmail configuration has improved vastly over the past 5 years, but
it's still under a huge burden of legacy workarounds and operational models
that have broken down over the last 20 years. I'd go straight to postfix for
any remotely unusual or interesting server setup these days.


Trouble with Suse 10.1 and sound

Posted: 12 Aug 2006 05:49 AM PDT

co.uk wrote:
 

Thanks for the pointer to alsa page. I already thought of taking the old
Aztech card from my old PC to try it. That worked perfectly under Redhat
with alsa.

Will give it a try if no succeed in fix.

Regards,

Noko

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Linux no threat to Microsoft

Posted: 11 Aug 2006 08:43 PM PDT


"Matt Giwer" <REMover.rr.com> wrote in message
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soc.history.ancient 
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Earlier works attributed to Matt Giwer

How we can kill
---------------

We have already seen why we must liquidate all forms of government, now
we shall turn our attention to how we can do so without violating
Libertarian philosophy. To this we can look to the Internet for
examples.

We ask two questions

1. How can we translate the freedom afforded by the Internet to ordinary
life?

2. How can we keep the government from banning encryption, digital cash,
and other systems that will improve our freedom?

A few months ago, I had a truly and quite literally "revolutionary"
idea, and I jokingly called it "Assassination Politics": I speculated on
the question of whether an organization could be set up to _legally_
announce either that it would be awarding a cash prize to somebody who
correctedly "predicted" the death of one of a list of violators of
rights, usually either government employees, officeholders, or
appointees. It could ask for anonymous contributions from the public,
and individuals would be able send those contributions using digital
cash.

I also speculated that using modern methods of public-key encryption and
anonymous "digital cash," it would be possible to make such awards in
such a way so that nobody knows who is getting awarded the money, only
that the award is being given. Even the organization itself would have
no information that could help the authorities find the person
responsible for the prediction, let alone the one who caused the death.

It was not my intention to provide such a "tough nut to crack" by
arguing the general case, claiming that a person who hires a hitman is
not guilty of murder under libertarian principles. Obviously, the
problem with the general case is that the victim may be totally innocent
under libertarian principles, which would make the killing a crime,
leading to the question of whether the person offering the money was
himself guilty.

On the contrary; my speculation assumed that the "victim" is a
government employee, presumably one who is not merely taking a paycheck
of stolen tax dollars, but also is guilty of extra violations of rights
beyond this. (Government agents responsible for the Ruby Ridge incident
and Waco come to mind.) In receiving such money and in his various
acts, he violates the "Non-agression Principle" (NAP) and thus,
presumably, any acts against him are not the initiation of force under
libertarian principles.

The organization set up to manage such a system could, presumably, make
up a list of people who had seriously violated the NAP, but who would
not see justice in our courts due to the fact that their actions were
done at the behest of the government. Associated with each name would
be a dollar figure, the total amount of money the organization has
received as a contribution, which is the amount they would give for
correctly "predicting" the person's death, presumably naming the exact
date. "Guessers" would formulate their "guess" into a file, encrypt it
with the organization's public key, then transmit it to the organiztion,
possibly using methods as untraceable as putting a floppy disk in an
envelope and tossing it into a mailbox, but more likely either a cascade
of encrypted anonymous remailers, or possibly public-access Internet
locations, such as terminals at a local library, etc.

In order to prevent such a system from becoming simply a random unpaid
lottery, in which people can randomly guess a name and date (hoping that
lightning would strike, as it occasionally does), it would be necessary
to deter such random guessing by requiring the "guessers" to include
with their "guess" encrypted and untraceable "digital cash," in an
amount sufficiently high to make random guessing impractical.

For example, if the target was, say, 50 years old and had a life
expectancy of of 30 years, or about 10,000 days, the amount of money
required to register a guess must be at least 1/10,000th of the amount
of the award. In practice, the amount required should be far higher,
perhaps as much as 1/1000 of the amount, since you can assume that
anybody making a guess would feel sufficiently confident of that guess
to risk 1/1000th of his potential reward.

The digital cash would be placed inside the outer "encryption envelope,"
and could be decrypted using the organization's public key. The
prediction itself (including name and date) would be itself in another
encryption envelope inside the first one, but it would be encrypted
using a key that is only known to the predictor himself. In this way,
the organization could decrypt the outer envelope and find the digital
cash, but they would have no idea what is being predicted in the
innermost envelope, either the name or the date.

If, later, the "prediction" came true, the predictor would presumably
send yet another encrypted "envelope" to the organization, containing
the decryption key for the previous "prediction" envelope, plus a public
key (despite its name, to be used only once!) to be used for encryption
of digital cash used as payment for the award. The organization would
apply the decryption key to the prediction envelope, discover that it
works, then notice that the prediction included was fulfilled on the
date stated. The predictor would be, therefore, entitled to the award.
Nevertheless, even then nobody would actually know WHO he is!

It doesn't even know if the predictor had anything to do with the
outcome of the prediction. If it received these files in the mail, in
physical envelopes which had no return address, it would have burned the
envelopes before it studied their contents. The result is that even the
active cooperation of the organization could not possibly help anyone,
including the police, to locate the predictor.)

Also included within this "prediction-fulfilled" encryption envelope
would be unsigned (not-yet-valid) "digital cash," which would then be
blindly signed by the organization's bank and subsequently encrypted
using the public key included. (The public key could also be publicized,
to allow members of the public to securely send their comments and,
possibly, further grateful remuneration to the predictor, securely.)
The resulting encrypted file could be published openly on the Internet,
and it could then be decrypted by only one entity: The person who had
made that original, accurate prediction. The result is that the
recipient would be absolutely untraceable.

The digital cash is then processed by the recipient by "unblinding" it,
a principle which is explained in far greater detail by an article in
the August 1992 issue of Scientific American. The resulting digital
cash is absolutely untraceable to its source.

This overall system achieves a number of goals. First, it totally hides
the identity of the predictor to the organzation, which makes it
unnecessary for any potential predictor to "trust" them to not reveal
his name or location. Secondly, it allows the predictor to make his
prediction without revealing the actual contents of that prediction
until later, when he chooses to, assuring him that his "target" cannot
possibly get early warning of his intent. (and "failed" predictions
need never be revealed). In fact, he needs never reveal his prediction
unless he wants the award. Third, it allows the predictor to anonymously
grant his award to anyone else he chooses, since he may give this
digital cash to anyone without fear that it will be traced.

For the organization, this system also provides a number of advantages.
By hiding the identity of the predictor from even it, the organization
cannot be forced to reveal it, in either civil or criminal court. This
should also shield the organization from liability, since it will not
know the contents of any "prediction" until after it came true. (Even
so, the organization would be deliberately kept "poor" so that it would
be judgment-proof.) Since presumably most of the laws the organization
might be accused of violating would require that the violator have
specific or prior knowledge, keeping itself ignorant of as many facts as
possible, for as long as possible, would presumably make it very
difficult to prosecute.

"At the Village Pizza shop, as they were sitting down to consume a
pepperoni, Dorothy asked Jim, 'So what other inventions are you working
on?" Jim replied, 'I've got a new idea, but it's really revolutionary.
Literally REVOLUTIONARY.' 'Okay, Jim, which government are you
planning to overthrow?,' she asked, playing along.
'All of them,' answered Jim."

Political Implications
Imagine for a moment that as ordinary citizens were watching the
evening news, they see an act by a government employee or officeholder
that they feel violates their rights, abuses the public's trust, or
misuses the powers that they feel should be limited. A person whose
actions are so abusive or improper that the citizenry shouldn't have to
tolerate it.

What if they could go to their computers, type in the miscreant's name,
and select a dollar amount: The amount they, themselves, would be
willing to pay to anyone who "predicts" that officeholder's death. That
donation would be sent, encrypted and anonymously, to a central
registry organization, and be totalled, with the total amount available
within seconds to any interested individual. If only 0.1% of the
population, or one person in a thousand, was willing to pay $1 to see
some government slimeball dead, that would be, in effect, a $250,000
bounty on his head.

Further, imagine that anyone considering collecting that bounty could do
so with the mathematical certainty that he can't possibly be identified,
and could collect the reward without meeting, or even talking to,
anybody who could later identify him. Perfect anonymity, perfect
secrecy, and perfect security. And that, combined with the ease and
security with which these contributions could be collected, would make
being an abusive government employee an extremely risky proposition.
Chances are good that nobody above the level of county commissioner
would even risk staying in office.

Just how would this change politics in America? It would take far less
time to answer, "What would remain the same?" No longer would we be
electing people who will turn around and tax us to death, regulate us
to death, or for that matter sent hired thugs to kill us when we oppose
their wishes.

No military?

One of the attractive potential implications of such a system would be
that we might not even need a military to protect the country. Any
threatening or abusive foreign leader would be subject to the same
contribution/assassination/reward system, and it would operate just as
effectively over borders as it does domestically.

This country has learned, in numerous examples subsequent to many wars,
that once the political disputes between leaders has ceased, we
(ordinary citizens) are able to get along pretty well with the citizens
of other countries. Classic examples are post-WWII Germany, Japan, and
Italy, and post-Soviet Russia, the Eastern bloc, Albania, and many
others.

Contrary examples are those in which the political dispute remains, such
as North Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Cuba, Red China, and a few others. In
all of these examples, the opposing leadership was NOT defeated, either
in war or in an internal power struggle. Clearly, it is not the PEOPLE
who maintain the dispute, but the leadership.

Consider how history might have changed if we'd been able to "bump off"
Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini, Tojo, Kim Il Sung, Ho Chi Minh,
Ayatollah Khomeini, Saddam Hussein, Moammar Khadafi, and various others,
along with all of their replacements if necessary, all for a measly few
million dollars, rather than the billions of dollars and millions of
lives that subsequent wars cost.

But that raises an interesting question, with an even more interesting
answer. "If all this is so easy, why hasn't this been done before?" I
mean, wars are destructive, costly, and dangerous, so why hasn't some
smart politician figured out that instead of fighting the entire
country, we could just 'zero' the few bad guys on the top?

The answer is quite revealing, and strikingly "logical": If we can kill
THEIR leaders, they can kill OUR leaders too. That would avoid the
war, but the leadership on both sides would be dead, and guess who is
making the decisions about what to do? That's right, the LEADERS!

And the leaders (both theirs and ours!) would rather see 30,000,000
ordinary people die in WWII than lose their own lives, if they can get
away with it. Same in Korea, Vietnam, Gulf War, and numerous other
disputes around the globe. You can see that as long as we continue to
allow leaders, both "ours" and "theirs," to decide who should die, they
will ALWAYS choose the ordinary people of each country.

One reason the leaders have been able to avoid this solution is simple:
While it's comparatively easy to "get away with murder," it's a lot
harder to reward the person who does it, and that person is definitely
taking a serious risk. (Most murders are solved based on some prior
relationship between the murder and victim, or observations of witnesses
who know either the murderer or the victim.)

Historically, it has been essentially impossible to adequately motivate
a assassin, ensuring his safety and anonymity as well, if only because
it has been impossible to PAY him in a form that nobody can trace, and
to ensure the silence of all potential witnesses. Even if a person was
willing to die in the act, he would want to know that the people he
chooses would get the reward, but if they themselves were identified
they'd be targets of revenge.

All that's changed with the advent of public-key encryption and digital
cash. Now, it should be possible to announce a standing offer to all
comers that a large sum of digital cash will be sent to him in an
untraceable fashion should he meet certain "conditions," conditions
which don't even have to include proving (or, for that matter, even
claiming) that he was somehow responsible for a death.


I believe that such a system has tremendous implications for the future
of freedom. Libertarians in particular (and I'm a libertarian) should
pay particular attention to the fact that this system "encourages" if
not an anarchist outcome, at least a minarchist (minimal government)
system, because no large governmental structure could even survive in
its current form.

In fact, I would argue that this system would solve a potential
problem, occasionally postulated, with the adoption of libertarianism in
one country, surrounded by non-libertarian states. It could have
reasonably been suspected that in a gradual shift to a libertarian
political and economic system, remnants of a non-libertarian system such
as a military would have to survive, to protect society against the
threats represented by foreign states. While certainly plausible, it
would have been hard for an average naive person to imagine how the
country would maintain a $250 billion military budget, based on
voluntary contributions.

The easy answer, of course, is that military budgets of that size would
simply not happen in a libertarian society. More problematic is the
question of how a country would defend itself, if it had to raise it
defenses by voluntary contribution. An equally simplistic answer is
that this country could probably be defended just fine on a budget 1/2
to 1/3 of the current budget. True, but that misses the point.

The real answer is even simpler. Large armies are only necessary to
fight the other large armies organized by the leadership of other,
non-libertarian states, presumably against the will of their citizenry.
Once the problem posed by _their_ leadership is solved (as well as ours;
either by their own citizenry by similar anonymous contributions, or by
ours), there will be no large armies to oppose.

From Libertynet - Death to statist pigs!


cron.deny and cron.allow

Posted: 11 Aug 2006 01:09 PM PDT

Unruh wrote: 

I like setting the modes to 644 for files like that (since I don't mind if
users read it!), and putting under RCS source control so that any editing I
do of it gets tracked. 


suse 10

Posted: 11 Aug 2006 05:40 AM PDT

com wrote: 

Read the manual pages on "mount.smb" or "mount.cifs", whichever SuSE is
using. I also believe that the YaST tool supports mounting and unmounting
CIFS directories from a Windows server.

Now, getting a working MP3 player onto SuSE 10 is left as an adventure for
the user.


reiserfs permissions

Posted: 10 Aug 2006 08:14 AM PDT

Bill Marcum wrote:
 
That fixed it. The hair I pulled out will grow back eventually ...
Thank you!
Roby

mirroring drives

Posted: 10 Aug 2006 08:05 AM PDT

HASM wrote: 

Me too.

 

Pick Lists Microsoft Project

Pick Lists Microsoft Project


Pick Lists

Posted: 01 Aug 2005 02:03 AM PDT

Hi Dave,

Not as such.
You could create a VBA form to allow selection through a Macro but a true
Value list, No.
HTH

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Administrative Projects -

Posted: 31 Jul 2005 11:07 AM PDT

PG --

You can find the Project Server 2003 database schema at the following link:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=ac5cc775-1367-4b66-870d-f280c054efe2&DisplayLang=en

Hope this helps.

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Calendar Colors

Posted: 30 Jul 2005 05:05 AM PDT

Ok, thanks.


"Rod Gill" wrote:
 

Adding a predecessor does not change date?

Posted: 29 Jul 2005 10:22 PM PDT

You have indeed mentioned the sort of situations an SNET is designed for.
I'd prefer to use "semi-hard" constraints rather than say the dates are set
in stone. You can't begin a task until the required tools arrive so that
part is certain, BUT you could begin later if other circumstances conspire
to make it impossible to start as soon as the tools show up. A hard
constraint, Must Start On, says the task *WILL* start on that date, no if's,
and's or but's and there is absolutely nothing in the universe, no
eventuality known to man or action of anyone working on the project would
make it start otherwise. Short of acts of nature that just doesn't happen
very often.


--
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MS Project Trainer & Consultant
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Estimated work vs actual

Posted: 29 Jul 2005 04:57 PM PDT

Remember to set the baseline first as well. That will calculate your 10h
variance after you enter actual work.

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Hiding tasks within Project 2003

Posted: 29 Jul 2005 10:59 AM PDT

I've just put up an article about hiding SOME project information (mostly
stuff which project does not use to calculate schedules) on my website:
http://zo-d.com/blog/archives/programming.html

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http://masamiki.com/project
or http://zo-d.com/blog/index.html
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task note indicator

Posted: 29 Jul 2005 08:04 AM PDT

Thank you Sarah, I tend to think too much out of box.

"Sarah" wrote:
 

Can I import my team's schedules from Outlook into Project?

Posted: 29 Jul 2005 07:12 AM PDT

Thank you for your assistance!
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"Gérard Ducouret" wrote:
 

Customised reporting

Posted: 29 Jul 2005 06:57 AM PDT

Hi John,
I got someone to knock up the macro below and it has succeeded in enabling
me to add the custom columns in resource usage view. However, when I run it,
it only seems to populate the info on the very first line (against the
resource.) All the tasks are listed below but the rest of the fields
associated with them are empty. The tasks are also strangely listed under the
resource name column. Nearly there, so a bit frustrating! Any suggestions
appreciated.

....
Dim t As Task
Dim r As Resource

On Error Resume Next
For Each t In ActiveProject.Tasks
For Each r In t.Resources
r.Text1 = t.Text1
r.Text2 = t.Text2
r.Text3 = t.Text3
r.Text4 = t.Text4
r.Text5 = t.Text5
r.Text6 = t.Text6
r.Text7 = t.Text7
Next r
Next t
--------------

How can I track a duration with an Actual Duration?

Posted: 29 Jul 2005 05:53 AM PDT

You're welcome, Gabrielle.

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how do i set reminder in project 2003?

Posted: 28 Jul 2005 09:16 PM PDT

These notifications will be send via email.

Gérard Ducouret

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how to activate active directory in MS Project 2003

Posted: 28 Jul 2005 07:31 PM PDT

Grace wrote:
 

If you are talking about the Insert | Resource from... | Active Directory
menu item then verify that you are in a resource view (like the Resource
Sheet view) and then try it. It is always greyed out when in a Task based
view.

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Copy Picture to Office Wizard

Posted: 28 Jul 2005 04:31 PM PDT

Thanks David. This partly addresses what I am trying to accomplish but not
entirely. I'd like to be able to remove the Microsoft Project logo in the
bottom left hand corner of the template, and none of the designs seems to be
able to do this.
--
Phil Goodge


"Redneck David" wrote:
 

I change some fonts and other fonts change that are not selected.

Posted: 28 Jul 2005 03:41 PM PDT

gandude wrote:
 

How is he making changes to the formats? What mouse\menu clicks is he
making to make the changes?

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Resource < 100%

Posted: 28 Jul 2005 03:37 PM PDT

Hi Thomas,

One can't be everything to all people...
As you say, the 100% approach works for scheduling, and it makes optimum use
of resource leveling.
I heard the remark about reporting before... a partial solution is to only
show for time registratiuon the tasks planned to start say within next
fortnight.

A customer of mine had an other solution... All "permanent" tasks were
entered with percentages
(f.i. 5% administration, 7% meeting) but then ALL other tasks (the
productive taks) were entered with an 88% load (never 25 or 6 or 49) - that
makes a lot of sense!

Greetings,

--
Jan De Messemaeker
Microsoft Project Most Valuable Professional
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Setting unchangeable start & end project and task dates

Posted: 28 Jul 2005 02:35 PM PDT

You could remove all predecessor/successor links, set all task start dates
manually, set all tasks to Fixed Duration, and then edit the durations to
achieve the Finish Dates you want.

Voila! You have just disabled the key functionality of Project.

It might be easier just to use Excel, Visio, or PowerPoint to create such
static plans. The puspose of Project is to help you make and manage rational
project plans. If you already know that everything is going to happen
exactly according to the original plan, then you do not need a dynamic
scheduling tool such as Project.
--
Reid McTaggart
EPM Architect
Microsoft


"Dave" wrote:
 

How do I delete some of the default fields in workgroup messages?

Posted: 28 Jul 2005 06:52 AM PDT

ajsamuels1 wrote:
 

If I remember right there is no way to changes these messages. Sorry

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Microsoft Word - Word 2013

Microsoft Word - Word 2013


Word 2013

Posted: 08 Jul 2014 03:23 PM PDT

Hello,

All of my document margins are gone and when I try to fix them nothing happens.  

I also created a new document to see if it would happen to that one as well, I saved it but when I went out of the document then back in the same thing happened with the margins.

Hoping someone can help fix this problem

G. Fulton

Print a range within one section of a document that has multiple section breaks

Posted: 08 Jul 2014 02:42 PM PDT

Hi,

I have a document that has 5 section breaks.  When I print a page range, it does either two things (1) prints the page range of each section or (2) prints the entire document.

I've also tried using the p#s# format and it didn't print.  I"ve change printers and nothing happened.  For example I want to print page 27-37 of section 1, so I input the following [p27s1-p37s1].  NOthing came out.

I have Windows 2010 with operating system of Window 7 Enterprise.

Appreciate any help.

Thx

Granola

Cannot create subfolders

Posted: 08 Jul 2014 01:50 PM PDT

I had a starter Office on my computer which did not allow me to add subfolders after the first month.  I bought the new one so I could have subfolders and NOT use the cloud or have them accessing my files.  Not being able to form subfolders on the hard drive or a thumb drive is just so ridiculous - and it sounds like there is no fix!!  What a waste of time.  Having all the recipes on the main list is so distracting.  BAckup is going to be miserable as well.

This computer has windows 7 so Windows 8 is not the problem.

Linked information malfunction

Posted: 08 Jul 2014 01:09 PM PDT

I have a MS Word 10 document that is "linked" to a Visio 07 image as a source document, and another Word document linked to tables in a source Word document.  When I load the Word doc it is supposed to automatically update the information from the chart or table, but seems to link to an old version of the Visio doc or word source documents.  What is wrong?

Inserting PDFs into Word 2013 annihilates image quality

Posted: 08 Jul 2014 12:39 PM PDT

When inserting a pdf with text into a Word file, the image blurs to the point that the text becomes totally unreadable. What now?

Losing template on network using Office 365

Posted: 08 Jul 2014 12:36 PM PDT

In my office, several people are working on a Word document using Office 365. The document template is offline. Today, one of the writers came to me when the heading numbering (1. ,1.1, 1.1.1.) had disappeared from the headings. I was able to quickly restore the numbering by reattaching the heading list style from the template, because she has access to the template.

She then recommended that the others refresh their documents. In the one case I am aware of, the refresh caused a different set of headings to appear in the styles list and document, with a different indent, a bullet in place of the 1 in Level 1, and other symbols in lower levels. In this person's style list, there appears an additional level one heading style with the characteristics that appear to be affecting the rest. From this person's computer, I cannot navigate to the template; I restrict template access for obvious reasons.

So, she, and perhaps the others, are getting at least some styles from somewhere else, and that's the mystery to me. The spurious heading may well have been pasted in by one of the writers from another document, and perhaps that threw off the whole list, though that seems strange. In any case, I would like to know if there is a way to keep the documents on the network attached to the template, without giving the writers access to it, other than, if necessary, to update styles.

Is there a way to do this? Is some other known action or bug at work here? I'd like to understand the problem better.

"Do you want to save changes you made" But No Changes Were Made

Posted: 08 Jul 2014 11:18 AM PDT

How do I find out what is causing Word 2010 to ask me "Do you want to save changes you made ..." when I made no changes at all. I simply open my document, look at it, do nothing else, and when I close the document Word asks "Do you want to save changes you made".

My document contains no (none at all):

  • fields of any kind
  • macros
  • calculations
  • page numbers
  • hyperlinks, bookmarks, cross-references

I did not receive this document from anyone else or any other place. I created the document myself on the same computer I use to open it.

The document consists of a title and a two-column table. The first column contains whole numbers without a decimal point and the second column contains whole numbers with a decimal point. There are no mathematical symbols at all.

How do I find out what is causing Word to do this?

people cannot open my resume on word document. it says “server error” message, as follows: 404 - File or directory not found.

Posted: 08 Jul 2014 09:44 AM PDT

people cannot open my resume on word document. it says "server error" message, as follows: 404 - File or directory not found.

I don't understand why this is happening.

I am losing job opportunities.  

I need to fix this quickly, please!

How to hide and unhide different tables in Microsoft Word 2013?

Posted: 08 Jul 2014 08:30 AM PDT

Hello Team,

I have a MS Word 2013 document that should be used by teams "A" and "B"
In the first section of the document we have a couple of questions with dropdown options where the users will choose which team they belong to.
If Team "A" is selected then we would show one specific table to be completed
If Team B then another table appears.
So, how can I make it?
How to hide and unhide those two different tables?

Language settings

Posted: 08 Jul 2014 07:45 AM PDT

Hey guys,


I have Word 2013, Windows 8.1, and my language settings on both Word and my laptop are set to UK English.

However when typing in word, it will still underline words like apologise and organise, trying to change them to their American counterparts.

Any idea why this is happening?

Thank you

transfer of word documents

Posted: 08 Jul 2014 07:32 AM PDT

I have transferred my documents from an external backup drive, to my user account on PC, and they all installed as 'Word' documents and open etc. in Microsoft word. However, transferring other documents to another user account they installed in 'Notepad' format which are unreadable. I have even transferred the same documents to my user account, of which they show and open as 'word' documents, and then copied them to the other user account but the same problem happens. Any ideas please?

word2013 windows 8i

Posted: 08 Jul 2014 06:42 AM PDT

I have been working on editing a 400 page document.

 without warning it  turned into a one page continuous  document  I have tried to alter but it wont.

In desperation I tried to put in my own page end and beginning but ctri+return did not work so now I am stuck.

Arabic fonts; XB Shiraz/XB Sols; dots and other signs half disappearing.

Posted: 08 Jul 2014 06:09 AM PDT

Recently I've been typing some Arabic texts and I've been faced with some issues.

  • When using the XB Shiraz font, some dots disappear. I've tried augmenting spacing between lines but they won't reappear.

  • I've encountered a similar problem with kasrah while using XB Sols. In the image you can see Shiraz up and below its equivalent in Sols, with the almost completely concealed kasrahs.

Do you have any suggestion on how can I fix this? It isn't an issue only with these two fonts, it also occurs with any font which reaches a little to low below a normal Latin script line.

Microsoft Word Font for Commercial Use - Stationery Design Business

Posted: 08 Jul 2014 02:20 AM PDT

Hi,

I own an event styling business and am wanting to incorporate stationery design into my service range. I have created several design samples using various Microsoft Word fonts. The samples are printed and therefore do not allow the font to be extracted. I am also hoping to eventually sell packs of invitations/cards using similar designs and fonts. Before I launch the service however, I wanted to clarify whether it is permissible to use Microsoft Word font for this purpose? 

The articles/forums I have found on this subject do not provide a clear answer. I have also read that you can use all of the fonts included in Microsoft Home and Business on a commercial basis. I just wanted to confirm whether this was correct though before I purchased the software. I am currently using Word 2010.

if someone could get back to me ASAP to provide an answer, it would be greatly appreciated.

Kind Regards,

Tessa

Upgrade from Microsoft 2007 to 2010

Posted: 08 Jul 2014 02:12 AM PDT

I was one of the lucky people who when purchasing my Office 2007 & Outlook 2007 was within a time period where I could upgrade to 2010.

I purchased a new computer and as I had licences on Office 2007 simply used the CD to install onto my new computer. I have now realised that whilst I have a newer computer, I am now on version 2007.

Is there anything that I can do in order to go back to 2010 without purchasing it.

Thanks,

Wrap Text change makes pictures go wonky

Posted: 07 Jul 2014 10:56 PM PDT

Wrapping text with using Word 2013 and Windows 8 - I insert a picture into text using the default format - say "in line with text" and the picture is fine.   I can copy that picture within the text and it is fine - but If I try, within the document, to alter the wrap style of a picture I have inserted using the default - so I right click the picture and use the side box to choose another wrap style the picture goes wonky - like an interference pattern - particularly noticeable if there are parallel lines such as building weatherboards.   Please help anyone who has any ideas.  Many Thanks 


Saving an attachment

Posted: 07 Jul 2014 09:40 PM PDT

I uploaded a Word attachment, edited it, and then pressed the "save" function (disk on the top left corner) to save it.  After I closed the document and then clicked it to upload it, none of the "saves" were saved.  Is there a way to recover the edited document?  I found a picture of just one page on the "clipboard" but it is in a "picture" format and is only one page.

Word 2013

Posted: 07 Jul 2014 09:00 PM PDT

Word documents will not print on Epson XP-410. Word instruction pages print. Printer working fine. I have tried saving document and ten printing- blank only. Just downloaded word program.

would someone explain in plain english what is a dump file?

Posted: 07 Jul 2014 08:07 PM PDT

I have 300 mgb of "dump files" do I need to delete these?  In plain English please, I am not that fluent...I have Windows 7.

OFFICE 2010

Posted: 07 Jul 2014 07:37 PM PDT

I purchased either Microsoft windows 2010 or 2013 for my last computer, I can't recall which. When I bought a new computer I wanted to reinstall it with my new computer. If I give you my email address would you be able to install it for me or could I give you my Product Key #? I already paid for it and I don't want to pay for it again.

Thanks!

MS Office applications (word, excel, ppt) stopped working after installation of Windows 8.1 and recent updates.

Posted: 07 Jul 2014 07:04 PM PDT

MS Office applications (word, excel, ppt) stopped working after installation of Windows 8.1 and recent updates.   Tried doing MSConfig reboot as well as changing the name of OSF.DLL file but no luck :(( 

Any help !!!!!!

Blank page

Posted: 07 Jul 2014 05:18 PM PDT

When I open a blank page, it appears to be a large fishers' net on the page.  I can copy and paste the text without the fishers' net transferring over to paste destination.

disable table resize

Posted: 07 Jul 2014 04:50 PM PDT

i do not want to see the resize option "" when i hover over the table in word 2010

Loosing macros when copying Macro Enabled Document via swap drive from one PC to another PC

Posted: 07 Jul 2014 04:25 PM PDT

Hello,

I have a locked Word Form that contains a series of macros.  I have saved the file as a Macro Enabled Template.

I created a new document based upon the template.  I saved the document I created as a Macro Enabled Document. 

I copied the Macro Enabled Document onto a swap drive and then copied the Macro Enabled Document from the swap drive onto a laptop computer. 

When I open the document on the laptop, all the macros are gone.

The macro security settings on both computers are set to "Disable all macros with notification."  When I opened the file on the Laptop, I did not see the usual security warning asking we If I want to "Enable Content".

Any ideas on trouble shooting this issue will be appreciated.

Thank you

Mark

Word VBA for drop down field - enter first letter to see a selection that begins with that letter

Posted: 07 Jul 2014 04:11 PM PDT

Hello ,

I have a Drop Down form field with a list of cities.

Is it possible with VBA code to automate the drop down field so that when a user Tabs into the field, if they type the first letter of the city they desire, the list will display the city that begins with that letter?  (Then ideally, with the desired city chosen, the user can Tab out of the field to select the displayed city.)

Thank you

Mark

opening a Word 2010 template in Word 2013 shows jumbled text

Posted: 07 Jul 2014 03:49 PM PDT

Hi.

We have an office Letterhead, as a Word template, works fine in Word 2010.

However, when we tried to create a new document, using the same template, in Word 2013, we just see square block text.

Any thoughts on this?

How to fill in a preprinted form

Posted: 07 Jul 2014 11:25 AM PDT

hw do I put a form on word and get a fill in request. This is a three part form, some information goes to all three parts, some goes to two parts.  Also I will be using preprinted forms and only want to print the fill in Information.

[Original title: Richard]