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Posted: 27 Aug 2006 09:44 PM PDT

Leo wrote: 

Considering the group he is posting in, I would assume he is running
some variety of *nix. Plus, he said he tried two operating systems.

Mounting remote samba share with differing uid's

Posted: 27 Aug 2006 10:48 AM PDT

Grant <com> writes:
 

That would be possible, but it shouldn't be necessary. I expect it
would require changing both of our uid's; in addition the uid's are
different between her Mac and our Mac notebook and I'm not clear how to
choose uid's on OS X.



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why does linux suck

Posted: 26 Aug 2006 12:29 PM PDT

Suicyco wrote:
 
Didn't Einstein say that 'insanity' was repeating the same action while
expecting different results.
If the first couple of disks failed to burn then you have a problem,
somewhere, which is not solved by continuing to burn disks.

You should indulge some fault finding procedures, maybe test burns of known
installables on re writable media - cheaper that way.

I've been guilty of screaming at the computer too, but the bastard never
responds. It is better to go for a walk and a think

--
regards faeychild
(Registered GNU/Linux user #374302)

linux sucks

Posted: 26 Aug 2006 12:28 PM PDT

On Sun, 27 Aug 2006 09:31:09 +0000, Matt Giwer wrote:
 

Matt, and anyone else reading this:

Thanks for participating in this thread and though my computing goes back
26 years this past May I'll defer to your greater experience with on-line
activities.

Still, I feel the very best response to all these postings is absolutely
no response. None. Not from anyone. Not to refute. Not to correct. Not
to inform.

I'll invoke the psychological principle that behaviors go to extinction if
they aren't reinforced. Obviously, this is poor policy in many situations
- yes a charging rhino will eventually get bored and go away, but sadly
you'll not be able to enjoy satisfaction of your exercise of restraint!

However, in this case, and in those of all other newsgroups I haunt, I
have never seen any response to a purely provocative posting accomplish
anything but encouraging and usually inflaming the original poster as well
as the all-too-easily engaged partisans on either side of the issue.

I'm sure you have something specific in mind by your referring to
"aggressive responses" but what those might be in the case of a posting
with the subject "Linux sucks" I can only imagine:
 

I don't even want to speculate on what self-image is implied by the handle
"Suicyco" but the only logical response to this message given a
willingness to overlook its ignorance and trollsomeness is simply "You
don't" but why bother.

Frank

X crashes, black screen (video signal still there), and have to shutdown and power up.

Posted: 25 Aug 2006 09:49 PM PDT

In comp.os.linux.hardware Unruh <ubc.ca> wrote: 
 
 
 

# /etc/inittab: init(8) configuration.
# $Id: inittab,v 1.91 2002/01/25 13:35:21 miquels Exp $

# The default runlevel.
id:2:initdefault:

# Boot-time system configuration/initialization script.
# This is run first except when booting in emergency (-b) mode.
si::sysinit:/etc/init.d/rcS

# What to do in single-user mode.
~~:S:wait:/sbin/sulogin

# /etc/init.d executes the S and K scripts upon change
# of runlevel.
#
# Runlevel 0 is halt.
# Runlevel 1 is single-user.
# Runlevels 2-5 are multi-user.
# Runlevel 6 is reboot.


Are you saying id:2:initdefault: should be id:3:initdefault:? It's at 2. Isn't that low enough?

 

Oh well. I am still researching it. It might be a software problem, but that shouldn't even
take the whole X server down hard and requiring a power off.
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linuxrc, initrd and shared libraries

Posted: 25 Aug 2006 02:19 PM PDT

On Fri, 25 Aug 2006 23:19:26 +0200, Jiri Skiskibowski wrote:
 
The initrd must be complete enough to act as a root filesystem. Any
commands which will be issued, need to be available and have no broken
library links. One simple way to test an initrd is to chroot to it. If
there are no errors and you can issue commands, then you can try booting
using it. But if that fails, you will need to fix broken links,
probably by adding libraries. Another quick way of building a more
complete initrd is by compiling and using busybox.

This example corrects one common mistake, bad library dependancies.

Assume you have an initrd mounted on loopback at /mnt/initrd-test

# ldconfig -r /mnt/initrd-test
# cd /mnt/initrd-test
# chroot .
:
:
:
# exit

--
Douglas Mayne

change from lilo to grub results in kernel panic

Posted: 25 Aug 2006 03:16 AM PDT

Jürgen Schöpf wrote:
 

When I struggled with grub, I always thought "Well,
if I were German, all of this would be obvious".

Now I know better!

Roby

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Posted: 24 Aug 2006 11:06 PM PDT

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something, build a new model that makes the old model obsolete.
- R. Buckminster Fuller

MS Windows Linux Distribution?

Posted: 24 Aug 2006 05:22 AM PDT

Michael James wrote: 

Try Xandros. I installed it on my wife's computer recently. Everything
worked, almost right off the bat - wireless (but only after I noticed it
was listening on the wrong channel), fonts, scanner, HP printer, movies,
annoying virus scanner popups so you feel right at home, flawless
installation of MS Office, disk sharing, remote logons, openoffice,
thunderbird (almost flawless pickup of old windows data - it missed the
password file), reads and writes to ntfs windows partitions, and doesn't
have that annoying top task bar that you get with ubuntu. On making a
new user, it asked whether their home directory should be encrypted.
Also it uses kde by default, which was a pleasant surprise. The only
hiccup in getting up and running: the latest firefox won't read
amazon.com book previews properly, and I had to scout out another
browser on the xandros site just for viewing amazon.

The premium version comes with crossover office, which worked perfectly.
I set up a bit of networking so I am now able to edit word docs on my
debian machine via a shared partition running Office remotely on my
wife's xandros machine under crossover office and feeding back to my X
server while she does other things without interruption. And it was
close to trivial to set up, but that did need a smattering of tech
knowledge. My biggest beef is that, being slightly techie, I like to
edit fstab, and that file on xandros has a warning that it is
computer-generated and will be overwritten. I think all such files
should have begin and end markers for the overwriteable part.

From being a 100% windows user, my wife hasn't had to boot windows once
since I installed xandros for her. But she has found some settings,
mostly in openoffice, that are not what she expected, and wasted some
time in the first few days.

But it is not perfect; it has two serious bugs: the CD drive spins
whenever a disk is in (so take it out when through) and the
xandros-branded reworking of the package manager is very
counterintuitive, lacks options, and I am not convinced it is
error-free. The xandros people need to look closely at these issues, but
nevertheless I am very impressed with the amount of work that has been
put in to integrate things well - and I like that it is debian-based.

--
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Ethics website: http://www.sci.usq.edu.au/staff/house/goodness

rsync

Posted: 23 Aug 2006 04:09 PM PDT


amit wrote: 

Use the 'z' option for compression. See 'man rsync'.
 

Use the 'log-format' option. See 'man rsync' and man 'rsyncd.conf' (for
format options).

Boot floppy with Networking and ntfs compatiblity

Posted: 23 Aug 2006 08:34 AM PDT

On Wed, 23 Aug 2006 10:19:34 -0700, mydejamail wrote:
<snip> 
rawrite will work, too. The file is a standard 1.44M boot floppy image
(when expanded).

rawrite instructions are found a lot of places, including here (for
reference):
http://www.slackware.com/install/bootdisk.php

Kernel Panic Dell Inspirion 670

Posted: 23 Aug 2006 03:59 AM PDT


com wrote: 

Is there any other error message?

Usually it says something about not being able to mount a drive or find
a partition, etc.. If it was running fine and then failed on a reboot
my guess is either hardware or a corrupt partition/file system,
assuming you didn't do a kernel rebuild and leave something out.

Strange sndstat - please help

Posted: 23 Aug 2006 12:10 AM PDT

Feranija wrote: 

And cat /dev/sndstat still say "No such device". If somebody is
interested, this is Debian 3.1 and kernels 2.4.xx (2.4.18 and
2.4.27). Crazy.

grub CD hangs on configfile

Posted: 22 Aug 2006 09:14 AM PDT

On Thu, 24 Aug 2006 06:49:37 -0700, com wrote:
<snip> 
Thanks for the update and for running the test!

--
Douglas Mayne

New to Linux...Help

Posted: 21 Aug 2006 03:06 PM PDT

On Thu, 24 Aug 2006 02:09:27 GMT, Matt Giwer wrote:
 

Thanks for all your help I'll sot through you suggestions and get Linux
installed.

John

Blank text in Flash

Posted: 19 Aug 2006 05:00 PM PDT

In comp.os.linux.setup, The Ghost In The Machine
<tg00suus7038.net>
wrote
on Sun, 20 Aug 2006 21:00:02 GMT
<tg00suus7038.net>: 

Well...good news. I think the new nvidia drivers fixed my
font problem. Either that, or a series of fonts installed
during an abortive attempt at trying to get xorg 7.1
running with the new nvidia drivers.

Sigh. One down, one to go; thanks for the help, all. :-)

--
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Windows Vista. Because it's time to refresh your hardware. Trust us.

Fonts in FC5

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

> ... I tried the "another way" in that link, but all 

I tested the "another way" yesterday, and it worked fine.

Here's what I did:

(A) Started with
- 1st hd (IDE Primary Master):
- 8G NTFS partition with WinXP up and running
- 8G unpartitioned space (I intended to test-install a 2nd
Linux version here, but did not for lack of time)
- 2nd hd (IDE Primary Slave):
- 8G, unpartitioned.

(B) Goal: install Fedora Core 5 on 2nd hd, and use the WinXP
bootloader to switch OSes.

(C) Booted form FC5 Install CD #1 and started the installation.
(C.1) At "Select the drive(s) to use for this installation" I
unchecked "[ ] hda" and let only "[x] hdb" checked,
because I didn't want to touch the WinXP disk.
(C.2) Let it create default partitions. Here is what it did:
v LVM Volume Groups
v VolGroup00
LogVol01 swap
LogVol02 / ext3
v Hard drives
v /dev/hda
/dev/hda1 ntfs 8G
Free free space 8G
v /dev/hdb
/dev/hdb1 /boot ext3 102M
/dev/hdb2 VolGroup00 LVM DV 8G
(C.3) Selected "(o) The GRUB boot loader will be installed on
"/dev/hda" and "[x] Customize ..." (or something similar)
at the bottom. The list with OSes to boot has 2 lines, one
for Fedora on "/dev/hdb1" and one "Other" on "/dev/hda1".
(C.4) On the next screen (GRUB customisation), I chose to put GRUB
in the boot sector on /dev/hdb1, not wanting to touch the
WinXP disk and to use the WinXP bootloader.
Proceed with the install. At the end there's a button to reboot.
Don't reboot yet.

(D) Problem #1: At this point, you need to reboot but the bootloader
that will be in control (the WinXP one) does not know yet about
Fedora.
(D.1) Insert the Fedora Install CD #1 in the CD drive;
(D.2) Now reboot, from this CD;
(D.3) Enter rescue mode (there are instrutions on the very 1st
screen, basically type "linux rescue")

(E) Now you have booted Fedora in rescue mode.
(E.1) Use "dd" to save the boot sector containing GRUB, namely
the one on "/dev/hdb1", to a floppy.
(E.2) Reboot from hd, into WinXP (no other choices for the moment)
(E.3) Copy the saved bootsector from the floppy to a file on C:\,
and modify C:\boot.ini. You can right-click on
"My COmputer"/ "Properties"/ "Advanced" tab/ "Setting under
"Startup and recovery"; from there you can "Edit" boot.ini,
and choose the default OS and the timeout.
This is the "another way" method described at
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.linux.setup/msg/3f34b508e14e3d13

(F) Reboot (from hd). Now you have a fully functional WinXP boot menu
with choices for Windows and Fedora.
Note: First time you boot into Fedora, it will finish the
installation (display the licence agreement, etc).

That's all.

Hope this helps, even if I am far from being a Linux expert.
sags

P.S.: In a previous post, you said you managed to boot into Fedora,
but GRUB did not show Windows. So:

Problem #2: At boot time, the GRUB screen shows only the default OS,
not the whole list, and starts a countdown. To see the list, press
[Enter] before the timeout expires. This is different from the WinXP
bootloader, which displays all OSes on the countdown screen.

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
news:44e31420$0$30364$free.fr... 

cannot beep

Posted: 16 Aug 2006 01:41 AM PDT

Ulrich Lauther wrote: 

Try 'modprobe pcspkr'

Jeff Long

how can you create a dependency on a future task? Microsoft Project

how can you create a dependency on a future task? Microsoft Project

how can you create a dependency on a future task?

Posted: 11 Aug 2005 07:19 AM PDT

i tried doing that but got a message about a circular task relationship - i
will play around a bit more - this is my first real experience with project
and i am learning as i go - thanks for your help
--
darci


"Sarah" wrote:
 

how to set Title same as Project name

Posted: 11 Aug 2005 05:16 AM PDT

See me previous post. You need to change the name in File>Properties.

Circular reference problem!

Posted: 11 Aug 2005 01:01 AM PDT


You're welcome, Herbgarden :-)

Mike Glen
MS Project MVP


Herbgarden wrote: 

Can a task be identified as non-critical?

Posted: 10 Aug 2005 12:58 PM PDT

How is it possible for any task ever to extend beyond the project end date?
The project end is when all of the work in the project has been completed.
If any work is left to do, the project is not done yet. If a task is in the
project, it represents work that is part of the project. A project is never
considered ended until all of the work on all of the tasks is completed.
Ergo, it is impossible for a task to ever extend beyond the project finish
date since such a delay pushes back the finish date accordingly. It is true
that tasks might take place after a project's required finish deadline but
that's something else entirely - that's a project that is finishing late.
But the project end date and the project's finish deadline date are two
different things.
--
Steve House [MVP]
MS Project Trainer & Consultant
Visit http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm for the FAQs


"Kevin F." <Kevin microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:com... 

Conditonally formatting tasks

Posted: 10 Aug 2005 10:51 AM PDT

Basically, I don't understand the syntax of VB. My department column
is Outline1, though I guess I can switch that to Text1 if that makes
things any easier. I know that I want to do this much:

Case "Accounting"
SelectRow Row:=tskT.ID, RowRelative:=False
Font Color:=pjMaroon
Case "Customer Service"
SelectRow Row:=tskT.ID, RowRelative:=False
Font Color:=pjNavy
Case "Manufacturing"
SelectRow Row:=tskT.ID, RowRelative:=False
Font Color:=pjPurple
Case "Shipping"
SelectRow Row:=tskT.ID, RowRelative:=False
Font Color:=pjOlive
Case "Recievng"
SelectRow Row:=tskT.ID, RowRelative:=False
Font Color:=pjTeal

The problem is I don't understand how to use the beginning stuff (e.g.
"For Each tskT In ActiveProject.Tasks") to make the script run without
returning errors.

Thanks again for the feedback.

How do i calculate the difference between start and end dates?

Posted: 10 Aug 2005 10:33 AM PDT

In article <com>,
Dennis Meyer <microsoft.com> wrote:
 


Dennis,
You're welcome.
John

Can I print out a Gantt chart only? (excluding the Gantt table)

Posted: 10 Aug 2005 07:20 AM PDT

Thanks Jan- I'd tried everything but that!

"Jan De Messemaeker" wrote:
 

how I can not show duration, start and finish in task

Posted: 10 Aug 2005 06:51 AM PDT

You can't leave them blank but that doesn't mean you have to pay any
attention to them. You shouldn't be entering dates in the start and finish
columns anyway so that shouldn't be an issue - those fields are intended to
be calculated for you except in certain relatively rare situations. The
leaves the duration field - just leave it at the default "1?" entry, the
question mark indicating that no duration estimate has been entered. After
you have completed the list of tasks and perhaps even after setting up the
dependency links between them, you can come back and enter the durations.
--
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MS Project Trainer & Consultant
Visit http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm for the FAQs

"Mayoli R." <Mayoli microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:com... 

How calculate Percentage of Work Scheduled

Posted: 10 Aug 2005 05:56 AM PDT

In article <phx.gbl>,
"Steve House [Project MVP]" <send.hotmail.com>
wrote:
 


Steve,
Where in the world are you able to find a plumber at $20/hr (at least
one who knows his bonnet from his escutcheon)?

John

Resource allocations based on availability

Posted: 10 Aug 2005 02:15 AM PDT

Your statement "available for specific hours within a specific time frame"
is a clue how to proceed. The maximum availability percent is NOT a measure
of the number of hours during the day the resource is available. IF a
resource's maximum availability is 50% is does NOT mean he's available 4
hours per day. It means that when he's assigned to a task for 1 day, he's
going to be doing other thangs as well and so only gets accomplished what
COULD have been done in 4 hours if he wasn't distracted. But from the
project schedule perspective, he's working on that task for 8 hours, not 4.
In order to show he can only work on the project 4 hours a day, you need to
modify his calendar so it shows 4 hours per day as thye work hours, not 8,
using those specific hours he can work on your project. You have him in the
morning and he's doing something else non-project related during the
afternoon for example.

Here's the difference in how such scenarios are handled. You have a task
starting Monday at 8 am and you have estimated it will take 1 day. You
assign Joe Resource to it at 50% because that's his maximum. You'll find
the task starts Mon 8am, ends Mon 5pm, and generates 4 man-hours of work
output. OTOH, you assign Bill Resource to it. Bill's calendar shows his
hours of work are 8-12 only. You assign him to the task 100%. The task now
starts Mon 8am, end Tue 12noon, and generates 8 man-hours of work output.
If you look at the usage view for each assignment with a time frame expanded
out to show hour-level detail, with Joe's assignment you'll see he's
scheduled to be working 1/2 hour out of each hour through the full work day.
If you look at Bill's, he's scheduled to work 1 hour for each morning hour
but nothing during the afternoons. So you need to decide, which model is
the most accurate description of your particular scenario?


--
Steve House [MVP]
MS Project Trainer & Consultant
Visit http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm for the FAQs



"Resource" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
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where is the physical .mpp file stored on saving offine in MS Proj

Posted: 10 Aug 2005 01:51 AM PDT

planetreddy --

Please ask this question in the microsoft.public.project.server newsgroup,
as your question is specifically a Server question. Hope this helps.

--
Dale A. Howard [MVP]
Enterprise Project Trainer/Consultant
http://www.msprojectexperts.com
http://www.projectserverexperts.com
"We wrote the book on Project Server"


"planetreddy" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
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OT - Google Group support

Posted: 09 Aug 2005 07:18 AM PDT


JackD wrote: 

Thanks, Jack! Didn't occur to me until after I'd posted that there
might be something wrong on Google's end. I always think I must have
done or be doing something wrong! But it makes sense. My groups came
back later in the day.

Row height will not change.

Posted: 09 Aug 2005 04:16 AM PDT

I just managed to fix it. I ran the Gant Wizard and this seems to have fixed
the problem, however I have lost the changes I made to the colour of the bars
- more work!
--
Kind Regards
John.


"davegb" wrote:
 

Report Estimated times - versus made real Hours

Posted: 09 Aug 2005 03:44 AM PDT

Thanks Rod

"Rod Gill" <rod AT project-systems DOT co DOT nz> escribió en el mensaje
news:phx.gbl... 

Update as Scheduled button inserts an incorrect 100%

Posted: 09 Aug 2005 01:46 AM PDT

I was only giving an example and the length of the task doesn't affect
it. Are you sure you hit the "update as scheduled" and not one of the
other specific percentage complete buttons by accident?

How about the time scale of the Gantt timeline - what was it set to?
The only time I've seen anything like what you describe is it does
round up to show progress through the end of whatever unit includes
the current date. So if today was Wednesday and the timeline was set
to show "weeks" as its granularity, the "update as scheduled" would
should progress through the end of the current week, jumping the gun
by a couple of days. Could that account for what you're seeing?

Steve House [MVP]
MS Project Trainer & Consultant
Visit http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm for the FAQs

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On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 00:30:03 -0700, Jim Trickett
<microsoft.com> wrote:
 

project tracking

Posted: 08 Aug 2005 07:09 PM PDT


cameron wrote: 
Don't know of any way to do that in Project. You might try doing it in
Excel.
 

Multiple tasks for multiple units?

Posted: 08 Aug 2005 02:27 PM PDT

Thanks for your help. I'm a Project newbie and just wasn't quite sure how I
was going to lay out this very large schedule.

--sf

"davegb" wrote:
 

Resource Pool Links

Posted: 08 Aug 2005 01:23 PM PDT

Thanks Brian. I will give this a shot.

"Brian K - Project MVP" wrote:
 

Tasks rolled up under summary tasks.

Posted: 08 Aug 2005 01:21 PM PDT

Right click on the column header.
Choose "Customize fields"
In the dialog box that shows up check the settings for "Calculation for task
and group summary rows". If it is not set to "use formula" then that is your
problem.

--
-Jack ... For Microsoft Project information and macro examples visit
http://masamiki.com/project
or http://zo-d.com/blog/index.html
..
"schemr" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
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the 
task and 
that if 
3 or 
light, 
you. 

adding resources without Windows accounts

Posted: 08 Aug 2005 12:00 PM PDT

Dale,
That was excellent. I tried it and it worked perfectly. Thanks very much. I
was trying to add to PS before adding to the enterprise resource pool.

"Dale Howard [MVP]" wrote:
 

Actual dates change when calendar changes or status date changes.

Posted: 08 Aug 2005 07:52 AM PDT

You are most welcome Scott. Glad to know you found the solution!

Julie
"Scott27" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
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fixing parameters

Posted: 08 Aug 2005 04:09 AM PDT

Hi,

By fixing the task type you can define how Project will react to changes in
Work, Duration, or Assignment Units (which one of the three is modified when
any of the three is changed by the user).
HTH

--
Jan De Messemaeker
Microsoft Project Most Valuable Professional
http://users.online.be/prom-ade/
+32-495-300 620
"sekweles" <microsoft.com> schreef in bericht
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Can a Project Standard file be imported into Project Professional

Posted: 07 Aug 2005 10:39 AM PDT

Ira --

Yes, Project Server 2003 needs SQL Server installed as all of the enter
project and enterprise resource data is stored in a SQL Server database. In
the future, if you have questions specifically related to Project Server,
you might consider asking them in the microsoft.public.project.server
newsgroup which is totally devoted to Project Server 2002 and 2003
questions. Hope this helps.

--
Dale A. Howard [MVP]
Enterprise Project Trainer/Consultant
http://www.msprojectexperts.com
http://www.projectserverexperts.com
"We wrote the book on Project Server"


"Ira Smith" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Alternatives to MS project

Posted: 06 Aug 2005 06:25 PM PDT

Your post did help as it gave me things to think about. Being a new user to
Project, at this time I do not think I'll attempt to utilize the potential
Access data store feature. While I understand it might be nice, it would
also limit me in some ways for which I do not want to be limited yet.

Just knowing that large files are a problem helps me inmy world. That gives
me the knowledge ahead of time to just keep my files relatively small and not
attempt a whopper of a project plan that is supposed to cover the full life
span of a specific product from inception and all of its lifetime changes.
I'll just keep the files small and focused on specific phases and in doing so
should avoid the bigger issues of extremely large file sizes, etc.

Thanks,
Ira


"davegb" wrote: 

Import MS Project tasks to Outlook task list

Posted: 06 Aug 2005 02:30 AM PDT

 

You could convince the PM to try the 3rdparty app tasklynx (99$s). it
synchronizes
project & outlook tasks. i cant speak to its robustness, features or
mis-features because i havent tried it but it seems to be the way to do
what you want without project server and without trying to roll your
own macros. .

Microsoft CRM - Hardware requirements for Medium deployment

Microsoft CRM - Hardware requirements for Medium deployment

Hardware requirements for Medium deployment

Posted: 04 Mar 2005 06:59 AM PST

Thanks Matt

we'll go with 3 and if the question comes up in the exam I'll just flip a
coin <g>

Simon

"Simon Thomas" wrote:
 

CRM server login

Posted: 04 Mar 2005 06:18 AM PST

Ok, so that fixed the problem and I could now go to http://mycrmserver
and use crm without having to log in, but know I cannot go to the IP,
it asks me for user credentials. not sure what is going on

creating snapshot during development

Posted: 04 Mar 2005 02:53 AM PST

Depends on whether you are also making changes to Users, Roles and/or BU's.
Since all of those also impact AD, a restore could result in AD beign out of
sync with the database.

Matt Parks
MVP - Microsoft CRM

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On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 02:53:02 -0800, "HT" <microsoft.com> wrote:

Because of the annoying feature that I cannot remove unwanted fields, I want
to take 'snapshots' during development to create multiple undo's -- is it
enough just to backup database _metabase & _crm & simply restore them to undo
changes ?

HELP - UNINSTALL CRM SERVER

Posted: 04 Mar 2005 01:01 AM PST

What is your desired goal here? If you are removing CRM, than why would you
want to keep the router installed? If you re-install CRM later, you will still
need to re-install the router afterwards. And, depending on how complete your
unsinstall is, the SFO clients may need to be reinstalled as well.

Matt Parks
MVP - Microsoft CRM

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On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 01:03:02 -0800, "help" <microsoft.com>
wrote:

if i uninstall Microsoft CRM server, Will i must to uninstall Sales For
Outlook, or Exchange Email Router?

If i uninstall Microsoft CRM server only, Will i have some problems?

Thanks to reply

Mobile 1.2 Registration error

Posted: 03 Mar 2005 02:43 PM PST

1. active directory + exchange + sql on 1 box running sbs
crm on a win2k3 web edition

2. nslookup works fine

3. yup all started, rebooted server too

4. yes self ssl cert generated using selfssl.exe

5. just 1 ip

6. -

7. no host headers

"Shawn Dieken" wrote:
 

Deleting Custom Fields created in SQL Schema

Posted: 03 Mar 2005 01:57 PM PST

Hi Matt,

That is great news. Thanks everyone who got back to me, including you.
Shauna

"Matt Parks" wrote:
 

Workflow Hard Copy

Posted: 03 Mar 2005 11:19 AM PST

I like to export the rule and look at it with visual studio.net or
another XML editing tool, it makes it a little easier to follow and you
can get the steps out by clilck ing through elements instead of
scrolling through text.

Does CRM have a Microsoft Project like add-on?

Posted: 03 Mar 2005 11:11 AM PST

Bill,

We utilize SharePoint as a PM tool. It does not have all the wonderful
features of Project, but we found Project too cumbersome to jockey with
for managing projects ( though more complex and long term projects are
suited for Project 2003 in my opinion). We have integrated the PM tool
with MS CRM. The SharePoint tools utilizes some great web parts for
project and project task roll-up views ( ie - My Projects, My Project
Tasks, etc) as well as others for an overall nice UI.
We are looking to finish productizing this over the next month or two
and will be adding it to our Effective CRM Suite for MS CRM -
www.customereffective.com which includes two free downloads for the MS
CRM community.

Virtual Directory

Posted: 03 Mar 2005 09:21 AM PST

Have you published the port for the alternate website through your firewall?

Matt Parks
MVP - Microsoft CRM

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On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 09:25:04 -0800, "Hugo" <microsoft.com>
wrote:

Hi
I installed CRM not on default website, because I'm using like default
Sharepoint Portal. So I made one virtual directory to my CRM folder.
Internally in my company if I make http://crmweb, CRM works fine.
By internet using http://domain/crmweb it doesn't work, it says application
server error. My default website I access well with http://domain, and if I
make http:/domain/crm/teste.html, it works too.

Can somebody help me on this?

Thanks in advance,

Hugo

removing user license

Posted: 03 Mar 2005 08:37 AM PST

Dave,

You can do this directly in SQL if you want, but you need to be careful.

First, make a backup copy of hte SystemUserLicense table. Then, look at the
SystemUserBase table to get theSystemUserId for the affected users. You can
then delete the corresponding records for those SystemUserIds from
SystemUserLicense. not pretty, but it works.

Matt Parks
MVP - Microsoft CRM

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On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 08:37:03 -0800, "dave" <microsoft.com>
wrote:

I deleted the users object in active directory, yet their username and
license still shows up in CRM. Need to be able to reassign the license to
another user. When I try to remove it get "the selected object cannot be
found. Verify that the object exists in both the database and active
directory"

decreasing performance when SQL in mixed mode

Posted: 03 Mar 2005 08:23 AM PST

Changing between Windows Only & Mixed Mode shouldn't have any impact on your
performance. Have you been able to verify that it really is this setting that
is causing the problems, or was it just coincidence?

Matt Parks
MVP - Microsoft CRM

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On 3 Mar 2005 08:23:38 -0800, "Sanne" <com> wrote:

The installation guide of MS says that you should use as authentication
method Windows Only or Mixed Mode for SQL server. Only Windows only
would be safer.
Because of different reasons (a mailmerge Add_on and the server is
hosted at an ASP), we would like to set the authentication mode of the
SQL server to Mixed Mode.
The performance of the CRM server is going down dramatically when you
do that.

Anyone any idea how to solve this problem?

We have MS Crm 1.2, Small Business Server 2003, A dual Xeon with 2
Megabytes of Ram and I think 100 accounts in the database.

Adding a field on a new tab

Posted: 03 Mar 2005 05:55 AM PST

Hi Mattias,
I'm not sure why this isn't appearing in your advanced search, I can see all
my custom fields in advanced search. I have come across a problem where
custom fields were not appearing in Workflow manager but restarting the MS
CRM Workflow service resolved this.
Perhaps you need to run a full Publish and IISRESET or restart services?
Hope this helps,
Richie

"Kyhlan" wrote:
 

HELP ME!!!! - Run the Adventure Works Cycle Sample Data Import Wiz

Posted: 03 Mar 2005 05:27 AM PST

Make sure that the organization name is "Adventure Works Cycle" with
the correct spelling, also it is Case Sensitive, so take a look at your
org name, and make sure that it is not in all caps.

Hope it helps

Parameter report again

Posted: 03 Mar 2005 05:11 AM PST

Thanks, I got it to work now. There where some issue with the report so I
recreated it. Then I used the following code:

<%@ LANGUAGE="JScript"%>
<%
if(Request.QueryString("oType")=="1")
Response.Redirect("/reports/viewer/html/viewer.aspx?id=1425&promptex-Account="+Request.QueryString("oId"))
}
%>

Paal

"Sean Fullerton" wrote:
 

Domain Controller and Crm

Posted: 03 Mar 2005 05:05 AM PST

Becuase it is not supported. It works fine particullary when run on SBS 2003
Premium.

We have done it in our dev environments and have had no issues.

Sean
"Dheiny Alvarez" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
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CRM Teams

Posted: 03 Mar 2005 04:09 AM PST

Thanks Lutz, did this work and if it did what did you do?

"Lutz" wrote:
 

URGENT - Problem Resolving Cases

Posted: 03 Mar 2005 02:03 AM PST

Thanks Sean, that generated a lot more information. I still have no idea
what's causing the problem but here are the debug details:

Microsoft CRM Platform Error Report:
Error Description:
A parse error was encountered in the XML

Error Details:
A SAX error occurred : 'Required white space was missing. ' at line 1,
column 59

Error Number:
0xC00CE509

Source File:
D:\CRM\Core\src\platform\include\OMCommon\CrmPrope rtyBagUtil.inl

Line Number:
352

Date: 03-03-2005 Time: 17:45:27 Type: Platform Error (2)

Server: crm
Query String:
/CS/cases/edit.aspxid={765A8003-57E5-4DE8-9541-F6243F96FB25}

Microsoft CRM Unhandled Error Details:
<description>A parse error was encountered in the
XML</description><details>A SAX error occurred : 'Required white space was
missing. ' at line 1, column
59</details><file>D:\CRM\Core\src\platform\include\OMC ommon\CrmPropertyBagUtil.inl</file><line>352</line>
Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the
current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about
the error and where it originated in the code.

Exception Details: System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException:
<description>A parse error was encountered in the XML</description><details>A
SAX error occurred : 'Required white space was missing. ' at line 1, column
59</details><file>D:\CRM\Core\src\platform\include\OMC ommon\CrmPropertyBagUtil.inl</file><line>352</line>

Source Error:

An unhandled exception was generated during the execution of the current web
request. Information regarding the origin and location of the exception can
be identified using the exception stack trace below.

Stack Trace:


[COMException (0xc00ce509): <description>A parse error was encountered in
the XML</description><details>A SAX error occurred : 'Required white space
was missing.
' at line 1, column
59</details><file>D:\CRM\Core\src\platform\include\OMC ommon\CrmPropertyBagUtil.inl</file><line>352</line>]
Microsoft.Crm.Platform.ComProxy.CRMIncidentClass.C lose(CUserAuth& Caller,
String ActivityXml, String PartiesXml, Int32 Status) +0
Microsoft.Crm.Application.Platform.Incident.Close( String activityXml,
String partyXml, Int32 status)
Microsoft.Crm.Web.CS.CaseDetailPage.Close(Object sender, DataEventArgs e)
+478
Microsoft.Crm.Application.Forms.DataEventProcessor .Raise(FormEventId
eventId, FormState state, User user, String objectId, String& data, Entity
entity) +188
Microsoft.Crm.Application.Forms.AppForm.RaiseDataE vent(FormEventId
eventId) +103
Microsoft.Crm.Application.Forms.EndUserForm.Execut e(Entity entity) +60
Microsoft.Crm.Application.Forms.CustomizableForm.E xecute(Entity entity) +24
Microsoft.Crm.Web.CS.CaseDetailPage.ConfigureForm( ) +271
Microsoft.Crm.Application.Controls.AppPage.OnLoad( EventArgs e) +130
System.Web.UI.Control.LoadRecursive() +35
System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequestMain() +731

Any ideas anyone?
Thanks,
Richie

"Sean Fullerton" wrote:
 

How to receive all incoming Mails in CRM

Posted: 03 Mar 2005 01:11 AM PST

In implementation guide there is a note:

Note: E-mail sent between users on the same Exchange 2000 or Exchange 2003
system (intranet e-mail) will be processed by the Router only if it is sent
from a Microsoft CRM client.

I guess such behavior was caused by mechanism used when saving message in
Exchange store. I suppose it differs for internal and external messages. Of
course you can use separate mail server or develop your own exchange store
sink to accomplish routing for internal messages sent to particular mailbox.

In general i think that "support for routing of internal messages" would be
"nice to have" feature for the next version of CRM.

Have a nice day.

Renatas,
Tietoenator Consulting, UAB.

"Stefan Ossowski" wrote:
 

Lost folder(s) in Sales for Outlook

Posted: 02 Mar 2005 12:31 PM PST

Michael,
Thank you very much for your help. I will give this a try, as I really
hated to have to uninstall and reinstall SFO.

"Michael Erl" wrote:
 

Unexpected error in CRM when sending e-mail

Posted: 02 Mar 2005 08:39 AM PST

Thanks for the help Renatas, but the e-mail
address is the one the client sent his e-mail with
so I don't see that being the issue here.

I just noticed something else that was weird.
The user created a phone call activity on this same client
and after saving the phone call the reipient account had a red
question mark preceeding it. And when we click on the account
name link in the field -- it does not open the account.
We tested another account with a phone call activity and it worked
fine without the red question mark.

WHAT UP??????

"Renatas" wrote:
 

case "customerid" field

Posted: 02 Mar 2005 08:11 AM PST

On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 16:11:13 -0000, "Alistair Fay"
<com> wrote:
 

In the schema the accountid is set to the customerid if the case is
associated to an account and the contactid is set if the case is
associated with a contact. You cannot have both at the same time it is
either/or 

No you cannot add the accountid and contactid fields to the forms.
There is also another field responsiblecontactid which you cannot use
either. 

The Case and especially Contract functionality as it comes out of the
box is relatively useless except for simple scenarios and we have had
to use the SDK to build additional relationships and other features.

The easiest way to do what you want is to link cases to contacts
rather than accounts and a) use the SDK (see
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/crmsdk1_2/htm/v1d2microsoftcrmversion12sdk.asp)
to create a simple ASPX page to "rollup" cases to account and b)
amend the report to do the same simply joining account->contact->case


Julian Sharp
Vigence for MS CRM in the UK

Can nost close Opportunities

Posted: 02 Mar 2005 08:07 AM PST

Mistake #2...
I should not have posted this message here. I thought I made a mistake on
this posting. I though it was another entry I made earlier.
I've been sick and very slow in the head lately...
Maybe the admin to this site could delete these 2 entries?

-Eric

"Eric Rist" wrote:
 

Why doesn't SFO Mail Merge allow Custom Fields?

Posted: 02 Mar 2005 07:44 AM PST

On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 07:44:47 -0800, "Darryl"
<microsoft.com> wrote:
 

That is the way it was built. If you ask MS the typical answer you
will get is that it is "by design" which means they aren't going to do
anything about it

There are a lot of WHY has this been done/not done when you get into
MSCRM. I think it is a great product in many ways but deeply
frustrating in a few areas.

Julian Sharp
Vigence for MS CRM in the UK

Automatic Rules and Slugs

Posted: 02 Mar 2005 03:04 AM PST

On 2 Mar 2005 03:04:56 -0800, "Bouffont" <com> wrote:
 

Workflow rules can be initiated automatically. When you create a rule
you can specify if it fires on Creation of the record, Assignment of
the record, Change of Status of the record, or you can create a manual
rule.

Manual rules have two real purposes; the first is for the user to run
through Actions->Apply, and the other is as a sub-rule called from
another rule.
 

It is trial and error I am afraid. Also slugs are unsupported and may
not be available in the future. 

Julian Sharp
Vigence for MS CRM in the UK

HELP ME - TOOLBAR CRM

Posted: 02 Mar 2005 02:55 AM PST

Thanks you, i solved the problem

"Dave McGuire" wrote:
 
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