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Posted: 20 May 2008 12:26 PM PDT

Hey Jerry, Glad to help... Thanks for posting back, it is appreciated.

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"Jerry" <home> wrote in message
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Dual installation - Office 2003 and 2007

Posted: 20 May 2008 04:00 AM PDT

Hi Bob,

Thnx for your help. Now I'll check for is beeter: clean installation or dual
installation.


"Bob Buckland ?:-)" <75214.226(At Beautiful Downtown)compuserve.com> wrote
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why when i enter my product key is it saying error?

Posted: 19 May 2008 10:40 AM PDT

Because the product key afixed to the PC is for windows, not office.
If you have a trial version of Office installed you have to purchase the
key, or better still & cheaper order the retail version from eg amazon.com,
not forgetting to uninstall your trial prior to installing your retail
version.
If however you purchased Office with your PC, the key will be amongst the
paperwork.


"lisa" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
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reinstalling office enterprise 2007

Posted: 18 May 2008 06:53 PM PDT

If I choose "repair" from the disc it says:
Cannot find office.en-us\osetupui.dll

If I choose "remove" from the disc or try to uninstall through control panel
it says:
Error 1324. Folder path 'MS Office Enterprise' contains an invalid character.

If I try to install from the disc it says:
Path E:\MS Office Enterprise is not available for installing. Try another
path.


"JoAnn Paules" wrote:
 

Is there a way I can restore Office without my installation CD?

Posted: 18 May 2008 03:34 PM PDT


"penelope0511" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
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No CD, No key, No running software.

Either follow Carey's post or go to http://www.openoffice.org/ and download
their free Open Office program suite that will read and write and perform
many of the same tasks that Office will perform.

new computer--problems with installing Office 2007 Home & Student

Posted: 17 May 2008 09:27 PM PDT

I actually figured it out last night--we didn't have to uninstall at all.
Administrator went through the process to activate, but since the user
accounts hadn't opened any Office Doents, it still splashed the screen. I
just went through the motions of "activating" and it jumped right away and
said it was all set.

"DL" wrote:
 

Licenses - Purchasing New Ones?

Posted: 17 May 2008 11:04 AM PDT

Volume Licensing Overview
http://www.microsoft.com/licensing/resources/default.mspx
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Office Enterprise 2007 - Error 2203 - internal error 2147287035

Posted: 16 May 2008 01:24 AM PDT

Sorry - I missed that part about it being on the same machine.

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Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact.

After furious head scratching, mwelizeb asked:

| Id did buy it through the Hoem use program and are also using it om
| the same machine. I still have the information under the
| Windows.old.000 folder. The reason that I need to re-install it is as
| explained in my note. I had to reload Vista because of a hardware
| failure and because the operating systen has been reloaded all other
| software needs to be reloaded. It is not that I am using it on a
| different machine, it is still the same PC.
| I fail to see why I need to buy a new copy if I am loading it onto
| the same notebook.
|
| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
|
|| If you purchased this through your Employer (Home Use Program) it is
|| a single installation much the same way that OEM is tied to the
|| machine on which it is installed. Your copy cannot be used on
|| another machine. Apply to your employer to see if they will sell
|| you a new copy for your new computer.
||
|| --
|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||
|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
|| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
|| reading.
||
|| After furious head scratching, mwelizeb asked:
||
||| I have bought Office Enterprise 2007 and has loaded it on my
||| notebook. I am running Vista Premium and had experience problems
||| with a result that I had to reload the operating system again. After
||| re-installation I need to load all other software again incl. MS
||| Office Enterprise 2007as all linksto the software on the notebook is
||| now gone and the programs are not working anymore. I have tried to
||| reload Office Enterprise 2007 again but is receiving an error 2203 -
||| :\windows\installer\6d86fe5.ipi -2147287035. Because this product
||| was previously loaded, I get the error of access denied.I do not
||| have the same problem with other software. I am not very technical
||| and therefore d not know where to look/fix to overcome this problem.
|||
||| Error in re-installing Office 2007
|||
||| Error 2203 c:windows\installer\6d86fe3.ipi - 2147287035 contact
||| microsoft product support service (PSS) for assistance for
||| information how to contact PSS see
||| c:\users\elize\appdata\local\temp\setup00001780\ps s10r.chm.
||| error 2203 and internal error has occured
||| c:\windows\installer\6d86fe5.ipi -2147287035 contact PSS for
||| assistance
|||
||| I have searched for the file
||| c:\users\elize\appdata\local\temp\setup00001780\ps s10r.chm but
||| cannot find it.
|||
||| Please help as I urgently need to re-load the software again on my
||| notebook. Thanks
||| Elize

Update '{0FE78361-E9DC-43AF-BFF9-26249486B6E5}' could not be insta

Posted: 15 May 2008 07:29 AM PDT

Hi Bob,

Thanks for the reply. This is an upgrade from Office 2003 Professional.
We're using SMS to send it out and used the OCT to customize the install.
Here are the msp files in the updates folder:

10/14/2007 07:43 PM 12,743,168 ClientSharedMUIsp1-en-us.msp
12/19/2006 09:59 AM 1,240 eula.txt
01/28/2008 02:09 PM 11,896,320 excel.msp
10/14/2007 07:43 PM 21,981,184 MAINMUIsp1-en-us.msp
10/14/2007 07:43 PM 229,852,160 MAINWWsp1.msp
04/16/2008 03:02 PM 11,524,096 Ofc2007.MSp
10/14/2007 07:43 PM 6,956,544 Office64WWsp1.msp
02/25/2008 11:08 AM 5,050,368 outlfltr.msp
01/28/2008 02:10 PM 14,201,344 outlook.msp
10/14/2007 07:43 PM 5,749,760 Proofsp1-en-us.msp
10/14/2007 07:43 PM 324,608 Proofsp1-es-es.msp
10/14/2007 07:43 PM 324,608 Proofsp1-fr-fr.msp
10/27/2006 10:18 PM 75 README.TXT
12/19/2006 09:59 AM 1,240 SupplementalEula_OfficeClient_ar-sa.txt
02/15/2008 04:54 AM 9,736,192 targetdir.msp
02/15/2008 04:55 AM 15,180,288 visio.msp
02/25/2008 11:07 AM 11,772,416 xlconv.msp

The Ofc2007.MSp is the one created with the OCT. We're running setup with
no additional switches, everything is taken care of with the OCT
customizations. No user interaction is required.

We've seen 30 errors out of 225 attempts and this particular error has
occured 15 times so far. Of course we never saw this in our testing and
pilot phases.



Todd Lorenc
NYS Dept of Taxation & Finance

"Bob Buckland ?:-)" wrote:
 

MS office acounting 2008 / server setup

Posted: 15 May 2008 05:23 AM PDT

Ooops. TY

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"Bob Buckland ?:-)" <75214.226(At Beautiful Downtown)compuserve.com> wrote in message news:phx.gbl... 

MS Office Accounting 2008 (FREE Version) on Vista

Posted: 14 May 2008 08:16 PM PDT

Thanks Bob. I'll do.



"Bob Buckland ?:-)" wrote:
 

Microsoft Word - Word 2002 access on Windows XP

Microsoft Word - Word 2002 access on Windows XP

Word 2002 access on Windows XP

Posted: 11 Jan 2015 11:49 AM PST

When I bought my Dell desktop in 2003, it came with factory-installed Word 2002.  Something went wrong with the program a year later and I had to re-install it from the disk that came with the computer.  I recall that a screen popped up saying that I have only a limited number of access to the program (I think it was 50).  I did not question why that was so at the time because I was not planning to use it much.  I haven't been keeping track of how many times I have accessed the program so far.  Is there a way to find out how many accesses I have left for the program before it "disappears"?  Will I get any warning so that I can save my documents elsewhere?  I would really appreciate some help with this.

Subscription expired????

Posted: 11 Jan 2015 11:36 AM PST

I have a office home 2007 account that I loaded, not purchased on line. I am now locked out via a subscription expiration. I have entered my product code but it is not taking. It will say it is not a 2010 or 2013 code. What can I do to unlock my program?

Cannot insert some clip art images using Word 2010 - Error code 0x800C0006

Posted: 11 Jan 2015 11:26 AM PST

Hi

When I try to insert some (but not all) clip art images into a .docx file I'm getting the following error message when I double-click on the image:

The image does not insert.

I haven't been able to find anything useful to help with that particular error code.

Thanks.

Word 2010

Windows 7 x64 Ultimate

Locating Graphical Inserts for a Graph in Word 2010

Posted: 11 Jan 2015 11:17 AM PST

I am entering graphs into a Word document from JPEG files.  I would like to make annotations within the graphs, as I have done in Word 2000, such as the use of pointers, text boxes, ellipses, etc.  I don't see these options on the ribbon, but I know that they exist!  Perhaps someone can tell me where to find them.

Thanks in advance.

Gordon

Houston, Texas

Want to use a filtered range for a Merge doc

Posted: 11 Jan 2015 09:02 AM PST

I have a Excel range that I use in a mail merge. When I filter it to eliminate certain names and then try to merge I get all of the names in the unfiltered list .

Is there any way I can use the filtered list?

Word 2013 Printing envelopes problem

Posted: 11 Jan 2015 08:50 AM PST

I have Office 2013 and each time I try to print envelopes in Word I go to the Mailings box, then click on envelopes and it just hangs with the whirring circle going round and round until Word stops responding.  I have an HP Photosmart 5520 and Windows 7 Home Premium.  The same appears to happen on the Labels tab too. 

Grouping Word

Posted: 11 Jan 2015 08:37 AM PST

I'm trying to group 2 squares and 4 lines, but however I click them the last shape chosen doesn't want to group. Any ideas? 

PDF FILES

Posted: 11 Jan 2015 07:36 AM PST

i HAVE ADOBE  READER 10,1,13 I CAN TRANSFER TO PDF WHAT WINDOW ,OFFICE, EXCELL, OR WORD DO I NEED TO TRANSFER A DOCUMENT SO I CAN MAKE CHANGES TO IT?  I HAVE PDF ON MY PRINTER

I HAVE WINDOWS 7 AND  WINDOWS  INTEWRNET EXPLORER

Inserting both Bibliography and Works cited?

Posted: 11 Jan 2015 01:32 AM PST

I know the procedure to add bibliography and references by going to the references tab and clicking the bibliography button as works cited or bibliography. But when I add both "works cited" and "Bibliography" I get the exact same references list. I need to use different set of references for "works cited" and different set of references for "Bibliography". When I go to manage sources, there is no any option to select whether the references should appear on works cited or bibliography separately.  How do I do this ?  Your help is greatly appreciated. Thank you.

word 2010 Put borders around numbers with a dash between each number

Posted: 10 Jan 2015 05:07 PM PST

Hello from Steved

Put borders around numbers with a dash between each number

from the below to

1,2,23,24,7,9

to

1-2-23-24-7-9 and with borders please

At this time I am stepping each number(F8) what is required to make this function. thank you

Sub InputNumbers()
    Selection.Find.ClearFormatting
    Selection.Font.Size = 21
    With Selection.Find
        .Text = "[0-9]{1,}"
        .Replacement.Text = ""
        .Forward = True
        .Wrap = wdFindStop
        .Format = True
        .MatchCase = True
        .MatchWholeWord = False
        .MatchWildcards = True
        .MatchSoundsLike = False
        .MatchAllWordForms = False
    End With
    Selection.Find.Execute
    Selection.Font.Name = "Arial"
    Selection.Font.Size = 24
    Selection.Font.Bold = wdToggle
    Selection.Font.Color = wdColorRed
    Selection.Range.HighlightColorIndex = wdBrightGreen
    With Selection.Font
        With .Borders(1)
            .LineStyle = wdLineStyleDouble
            .LineWidth = wdLineWidth050pt
            .Color = wdColorAutomatic
    End With
    Selection.Font.Size = 21
    With Selection.Find
        .Text = ","
        .Replacement.Text = "-"
        .Forward = True
        .Wrap = wdFindStop
        .Format = True
        .MatchCase = True
        .MatchWholeWord = True
        .MatchWildcards = False
        .MatchSoundsLike = False
        .MatchAllWordForms = False
    End With
    Selection.Find.Execute
    With Selection
        If .Find.Forward = True Then
            .Collapse Direction:=wdCollapseStart
        Else
            .Collapse Direction:=wdCollapseEnd
        End If
        .Find.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceOne
    End With
    Selection.MoveRight Unit:=wdCharacter, Count:=1
    End With
End Sub

MS Word Form Field dependent on selection of 1 of 3 check boxes

Posted: 10 Jan 2015 05:05 PM PST

I am making a form in MS Word. I have 3 check boxes that each represent something different. I would like for a field's value to be determined by which of the check boxes are selected.  I have written a code for it but I am very new at this so I'm not sure this is the best way to do it. At this point the code basically says (paraphrasing) If Checkbox1 = True and Checkboxe2 & 3 then Field1 =; ElseIF Checkbox1 & 3 = False and Checkbox2 = True then.....so on and so forth. I have it set to run on entry of the dependent field. This works when you check a box then enter the Field but then it jumps me back to the very beginning of the form which I would prefer it to take me to the next form field. Also, if you go back and uncheck that box and check a different one it won't change the Field value because it won't allow me to enter the field again.

Any help or suggestions are greatly appreciated!

how do i use a merge field as the name of the document?

Posted: 10 Jan 2015 04:01 PM PST

i dont know if its possable to be done but i would like to have a macro automaicly save a PDF verson of the invoice in a folder with the name as part of the table which is a merge field how will this be done?

Outline and Multilist Numbering Troubleshooting

Posted: 10 Jan 2015 03:16 PM PST

I am, working w/ Word 2013 and have a 200+ page document that I have outlined and built w/ a multilevel list w/ a number of numbered/bulleted lists embedded within the outline.

One just 1 line, I'm losing my multilevel list numbers when I try to promote/demote the outline level.  All other lines within the document seem to be OK.  Any ideas how to fix this? 

How to Shrink a Database - Microsoft Exchange

How to Shrink a Database - Microsoft Exchange

How to Shrink a Database

Posted: 20 May 2008 08:46 AM PDT

Nicolas Macarez <fr> wrote: 

1221 for sure.

Exchange - Outlook Unread Message Report

Posted: 19 May 2008 03:54 PM PDT


"Andy David {MVP}" <com> wrote in message
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I told you, the water was really cold!

Database Maximum Size

Posted: 19 May 2008 01:49 PM PDT

The physical size of the database is the sum of the sizes of the edb and stm
files. The logical size of the database is the size of the edb minus the
whitespace reported in event id 1221. It's the logical size that counts
toward the size limit as of SP2.


"Nicolas Macarez" <fr> wrote in message
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exchange stats

Posted: 19 May 2008 06:18 AM PDT

Thx Henry

"Henry" wrote:
 

Exchange 2003 Disaster Recovery

Posted: 16 May 2008 07:55 AM PDT


"Andy David {MVP}" <com> a écrit dans le
message de news: com... 

NICOLAS: I did that. Everything works fine: I can mount the database; I can
see the mailboxes with the red cross. However I was unable to reconnect any
mailbox, either on a new user created in the AD, or on a user with same name
that I created from scratch in the AD (there is a "conflict"). I am not that
good at playing with the Exchange attributes and ADSI Edit or LDIF, so I
didn't go further. ExMerge doesn't work either; it just creates a tiny PST
file.
So, am I missing something? Is it worth to work on this some more time?

 

NICOLAS: Yes. Ontrack PowerControls 5.0 looks fine (at least with trial
version). I may go in this direction if the licensing is affordable. I am
responsible for the maintenance and support of five Exchange Servers
(Exchange Server 2003 SP2 or Exchange Server 2007 SP1 running on these
servers).
 

Exchange 2003 on HP380 G5 with 4GB RAM

Posted: 16 May 2008 03:10 AM PDT

We have tried to use the latest version of EXBPA for scan the exchange server
with / without PAE. However, it haven't show any "Critical issues" or "All
issues". It just show that PAE is a NON-Default setting.

Best Rgds.,
ckcandy

"Leif Pedersen [ MVP]" wrote:
 

Tracking and monitoring Exchange transcations

Posted: 15 May 2008 01:04 PM PDT

If you would like a real solution forget that pull webmail solution.
Why admin 2 systems or worry about purging messages.
Take a look at Voltage Security. They have a couple of solutions that
will help you out.
Including a enterprise hosted solution that still uses push technology
with mutli branding.



On May 16, 12:22 pm, "Andrew" <com> wrote: 

POP3 email transfers to Exchange

Posted: 14 May 2008 03:14 AM PDT

Why so long? We're moving very quickly + we're small and we currently don't
have a new static IP address where we're going.
Tell me more about POPBeamer.
So, no sync'g? Bummer? No utilities for synch'g emails back and forth then?
Other ideas?
TIA

"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]" wrote:
 

Deleted emails reappear

Posted: 12 May 2008 11:33 AM PDT

Thanks for the suggestion, but unfortunately, on checking, the user does not
have cached mode enabled and there is no OST file to delete

"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]" wrote:
 

Disaster Recovery Unable to Reconnect Mailboxes

Posted: 11 May 2008 03:44 AM PDT

Thanks Ismail,
I couldn't make it through, unfortunately.
I just can't find some revelant and useful info on this subject.
Regards
Nicolas

"ismail" <microsoft.com> a écrit dans le message de news:
com... 

Exchange 2003 Server Setup for Iphone

Posted: 07 May 2008 11:36 AM PDT


"Mike Fishweicher" <microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:com... 

Hypothetically I would say yes, it should be the same setup.
You say there is a sim for this? I would use that and test the setup.

error downloading OAB

Posted: 06 May 2008 04:54 AM PDT

Sorry about the late reply, but I have had some holliday.

Not sure if I ted the Offline A.B.

-AA-

"Test email" fails in attempt to setup MS Outlook 2003 - Microsoft Office forums

"Test email" fails in attempt to setup MS Outlook 2003 - Microsoft Office forums

"Test email" fails in attempt to setup MS Outlook 2003

Posted: 12 May 2008 04:37 PM PDT

Hi Milly,

Do you think you will be able to help me now that I've given the additional
information you requested?

"Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
 

missing product id

Posted: 12 May 2008 04:15 AM PDT

If you have lost the key you may try using all 1s then all 2s then all 3s
until it successfully takes the key. Make sure the second section of 3
characters is OEM however. It works for some of MSs earlier versions of
office (even Publisher 98) Since it doesn't have to be activated to update
to SP2b there is no issue.


"Wayne" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
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need help with my licsence on office 2007

Posted: 11 May 2008 07:53 PM PDT

You recover your licence for Office from wherever you obtained it before

"DaxFX" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Use Office 2003 and 2007 concurrently

Posted: 11 May 2008 01:02 PM PDT

DL,

I don't use Outlook so that's not a problem. I use WLM.

But, since I want 2003 to be the default, should I install 2007 first,
update it, and then install 2003 as the last installation?

Actually, I was ok with the learning curve on 2007, I just prefer the
simplicity of 2003.

Thanks,

Tom


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Replacemnt Cd

Posted: 11 May 2008 08:30 AM PDT

How to replace Microsoft software or hardware, order service packs and product
upgrades, or replace product manuals
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb%3B%5Bln%5D%3B326246

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"lundybaker" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
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start-up icons

Posted: 10 May 2008 08:54 AM PDT

Office 2002

"DL" wrote:
 

Lost Windows XP Product (CD) Key for Retail Versions

Posted: 10 May 2008 05:36 AM PDT

I've reported him.

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Tech Editor for "Microsoft Publisher 2007 For Dummies"



"LVTravel" <com> wrote in message
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installing Ultimate over "home and student"?

Posted: 09 May 2008 10:08 AM PDT

"JoAnn Paules" <com> wrote in message
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Thanks

Office tries to repair/reinstall

Posted: 08 May 2008 08:04 AM PDT

Hi,

Of course I already tried to set the file association, I tried it in every
possible way. (Open with, from file options etc). Nothing works.

Now more and more users are getting the problem that Office reinstalls, or
sometimes that office doesn't work correctly. If I give them back their admin
rights (as they had during office installation, we have no sms/system center)
the problem goes away and Office works again. Why is this? Giving admin
rights to everyone is not a good way to solve it. Office should not be
dependant on admin rights.

PLease advice.

Regards,
Anne




""Emily Lin"" wrote:
 

25 character product key for MICROSOFT OFFICE HOME AND STUDENT 20.

Posted: 07 May 2008 01:09 PM PDT

You should have received the serial number by email when you registered
to download the product. If you supplied a bogus email (many people
do!) then tough luck. You will need to register again to get a working
serial number.

hth


manish wrote:
 

linux installation in a logical partition ? - Forums Linux

linux installation in a logical partition ? - Forums Linux

linux installation in a logical partition ?

Posted: 03 Dec 2008 02:33 AM PST

com wrote:
 

Oh no! I may have to delete some distros.
 

I haven't noticed any but since it's said that Linux should always be
installed on primary partitions - - -
 

This goes to question number 1. Since we're stuck with primary
partitions only - it doesn't really matter if there is such a thing as a
logical partition.

TomT (who couldn't resist feeding it)

tcpdump filters for data collection

Posted: 02 Dec 2008 05:36 PM PST

Neil Jones wrote:
 

You could possibly export netflow from your Cisco. This wouldn't include the
content of the packets, just the data about the network flows [ie sockets].
Not sure if that would include HSRP. In what way do you want to map your
network?
 

If you specify what protocols you're interested in and don't capture
everything going across the interface, that will greatly reduce the size of
the capture file, eg:

# tcpdump -i ethN vrrp

will capture only VRRP packets [it may capture HSRP as they're similar but
incompatible]. Or possibly even 'not ip' would suffice. 'man tcpdump' will
explain more. HSRP is not a routing protocol by the way.
 

I would have thought it would be a matter of trial and error; Start off at
say, 100 bytes, review the dump in Wireshark and keep increasing the
capture size until it says it's not truncating packets any more [the ones
you're interested in, anyway].

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Email with a background .gif attached

Posted: 02 Dec 2008 10:08 AM PST

On Tue, 02 Dec 2008 20:36:11 +0000, I wrote:
 

Furthermore, perhaps I should add that I have absolutely no
interest in having fancy background to emails - other than sheer
curiousity as to which environments provide for it. 8-)

But I now understand what those apparently superfluous .gif
attachments are in emails...
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Mailing lists and online advertising

Posted: 01 Dec 2008 02:04 AM PST

Neil Jones wrote: 

I use thunderbird. The sig you see at the bottom is added because of an
add-on but as far back as mozilla it simply pointed to a sig file. Make your
ad the sig file.

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invisible mouse

Posted: 30 Nov 2008 11:57 AM PST

On Mon, 01 Dec 2008 12:17:43 -0500, togo48 <net> wrote:
 

Mistake on my part. The cursor theme is not the same as the icon theme.
In kcontrol, select Peripherals, Mouse, and then on the "Cursor Theme" tab
select an installed cursor theme.

Regards, Dave Hodgins

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pxe boot and automatic installation

Posted: 30 Nov 2008 11:20 AM PST

On Dec 1, 3:05pm, "Magnate" <here> wrote: 

thanks for your help, so I'll try to modify the initrd to include the
necessary driver module for my NIC, I should gather more info to do
that.thanks

Fedora 10 upgrade scrolls GRUB over and over during boot

Posted: 28 Nov 2008 06:57 PM PST

Jeff wrote: 
 

My only possible relevant experience is hanging on grub. I powered down and
rebooted. And then got a cup of coffee and eventually grub did its thing.
After that it worked as expected. By cup of coffee I mean five minutes on the
third reboot. I excuse my problem with running it 24/7 and when power drops at
night it cools off and has to warm up again for the hardware to work properly.
I would love grub to tell me what it is doing while it not executing so maybe
I could fix it.

As long as yours booted with windows as expected I presume there is no
relation between my experience and your problem.

If you come up with any other symptoms or fix the problem please post.

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Seems to me the second worst way is to become a POW.
I do not see what that has to do with being president.
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Installing new linux distribution from an already running linux

Posted: 26 Nov 2008 09:33 PM PST

> Explain what you really want to do, and you may get a better answer.

I hope I am not posting something off the topic here.

As mentioned in my original post I was just trying to find why the
installer programs are not made standalone, and made pretty difficult
to access from CD directly. It is quite difficult if the distribution
is new to the user.
 

There is nothing wrong. In many cases installation fail, but will
be easy to fix if the installers were ran from an already running
linux. Also easier if one wants to let the installation go in the
background while the machine is being used.

Thanks.

enforce blowfish encryption for RHEL5

Posted: 26 Nov 2008 01:13 PM PST

1PW wrote: 

The current patch level of RHEL5 supports SHA-256 (sha256 keyword) and
SHA-512 (sha512 keyword) as arguments of pam_unix.so. MD5 in the shadow
file itself is supported for passwords that haven't been changed since
the new keywords went into effect. I've never made any manual changes
to the arguments of pam_unix.so, and the current setting in my
system-auth file is sha512.

MD5 is acceptable as a cryptographic hash only if it's well-implemented,
which UNIX passwords are. Acceptability really just means people
shouldn't panic if their current technology involves properly
implemented MD5. You should really migrate to one of the SHA variants
as soon as possible. (Improperly implemented cryptography is never
recommended, no matter how strong the improperly implemented algorithms
are.)

minimizing disk WRITES - if OS is on CompactFlash

Posted: 26 Nov 2008 02:49 AM PST

Cork Soaker <invalid> wrote in news:chd306-
dyndns.org:
 

it incorporates some algorithms that are aleady in nowadays flash cards or
SSDs... for instance the wear leveling

whats more it has limitations that are unrealistic today like:
number of files: >260.000
max file size: 12MB
max filesystem size: 8GB

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1920x1200 res on an FC6 machine w/ Intel 915

Posted: 24 Nov 2008 12:19 PM PST

Richard Vaughn wrote: 

You probably need to find a copy of 915resolution, install it, and
configure it. Personally, I'd snag the latest source RPM from the F8
release updates and build from that. I had a laptop with a 945 or 965
with a 1280x800 (or something like that - I don't have it any more). I
had to do the same thing. It worked fine. If you're not into building
RPMs, you might be able to find something precompiled in the usual places.

Basically the graphics controller doesn't have a BIOS that supports
1920x1200, so X.org doesn't think it's possible. 915resolution runs
from an init script and patches (sort of) the BIOS so that X.org can
find whatever mode you want it to find.

Beginning with F9, the capabilities of 915resolution are built-in to the
version of X.org that comes with the release, so 915resolution become
unnecessary. Only F7 and F8 ever had it.

Setting system time with UTC hardware clock

Posted: 22 Nov 2008 07:14 AM PST

Bill Mar wrote:
 

This is an Arch linux system and TIMEZONE is correct for that distro.

I am thinking to set TZ = TIMEZONE though.
 

The cron starts from /etc/rc.conf which reads a srcipt at /etc/rc.d/crond.

This system uses BSD init instead of System IV.

Building a Linux appliance with Windows security tools

Posted: 22 Nov 2008 05:27 AM PST

In comp.os.linux.setup Neil Jones <yahoo.com> wrote: 

Have you thought about clamav running on Linux? It will detect
Microsoft Windows based virus on the network, and the virus database
updates several times a day.
 

I have seen systems with more than one virus scanner running. It is a
bit silly though.
 

If you use clamav, you will not need this.
 

You won't need these on the appliance. The clamav package will handle
the virus detection.

You may want a "scan on access" antivirus tool on the Microsoft Windows
client machines. I recommend Grisoft AVG at this time, because clamwin
does not yet support "scan on access".
 

Debian will do fine, but you can almost any distribution you like really.

Mark.

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Safe to remove old /usr/src/kernels/... directories.

Posted: 18 Nov 2008 01:16 PM PST

On Wed, 19 Nov 2008 08:59:33 -0500, dboltz <com> wrote:
 

Any directories there that do not have a corresponding kernel module in
/boot are safe to delete.

A quick way to figure out what's safe to delete would be to run
tree /lib/modules|less. Any directory there that only has a few files
in it are left over from uninstalled kernels, and are safe to delete.

The directories would not have been deleted during the kernel uninstall
if any files that were not provided by the package exist, such as third
party kernel modules.

Regards, Dave Hodgins

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disk spin down with lots of log files

Posted: 17 Nov 2008 10:57 PM PST

I demand that Jean-David Beyer may or may not have written...

[snip] 

One of mine has been up for over 506 days. I expect to reboot it for a kernel
upgrade or to shut it down due to some hardware failure; however, a
sufficiently long power failure will also cause a shutdown (yes, UPS).
 

Another of mine was last rebooted due to a kernel panic somewhere in the
networking code (2.6.25.* kernel; now running 2.6.27.*). Its uptime is
currently 2½ days.

[snip]
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hi everyone i need some help

Posted: 13 Nov 2008 02:11 PM PST

Bill wrote: 

Excuse me?

How to analyse and cure dependency problems?

Posted: 13 Nov 2008 02:31 AM PST

Andrew Halliwell schrieb:
 

Right. It seems to me as if the .la files are essential for ld, in
addition to the .so files - correct?

Is above error message always related to shared object libraries, or can
it also mean a missing static library? Which files are required for
linking with a static library?

 

A configure script was not required and not supplied in this case
(FreePascal project). AFAIK even for cross-compilation it's sufficient
to give the desired target OS in the make command, the compiler resolves
the platform dependencies internally.

 

I couldn't find the program in a menu. A "which" from the command line
gave "not found". By now I know why: there exist 2 executable files,
named "lazarus-ide" and "lazbuild". That's why a "laz" input could not
be completed, and a "lazarus" could not be found or invoked. After the
first successful invocation I could find a "Lazarus" application in the
history menu. It's somewhat confusing that an according "Lazarus" on the
command line never would succeed, due to a case mismatch :-(

DoDi

How to setup a rss host/feed mechanism?

Posted: 10 Nov 2008 11:38 AM PST

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GCL ???

Posted: 09 Nov 2008 07:10 AM PST

Le Sun, 09 Nov 2008 19:57:53 +0000, Nico Kadel-Garcia a écritÂ:
 

Oups, sorry. I'll try that.

\bye

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/lib, /sbin directories

Posted: 05 Nov 2008 02:56 AM PST

On November 6, 2008 06:56, in comp.os.linux.setup, Florian Diesch
(net) wrote:
 

Actually, /etc contains the inittab file, which is the control file
for /sbin/init. It is in /etc/inittab that all the system startup functions
are defined, including the functions to run the SysV init-scripts, if the
system has them.
 

[snip]

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Not able to boot windows from grub.

Posted: 04 Nov 2008 03:24 AM PST

On 2008-11-04, Magnate <here> wrote: 

Windows does boot from the second from the secondary HD but it has to
put its boot loader on HD1.

-Erik

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weird cdrom problem

Posted: 29 Oct 2008 07:44 AM PDT

> But, it was never needed for reading CDs. The scsi emulation was 

You're right.

I checked lilo.conf. It turns out that the scsi parameter is not set
for windows.

I guess the grub boot loader of the previous linux installation
(Ubuntu 8.04) was corrupted.

Ke

Encrypted partitions - file systems

Posted: 27 Oct 2008 04:23 PM PDT

Baho Utot <invalid> writes:
 


No journaling. That's the way I was taught. Journaling aids in data
recovery - such as someone running forensics on your disk. Of course, if
you don't care about that, then I guess journaling is OK.

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Linked libraries

Posted: 27 Oct 2008 06:55 AM PDT

Kenneth Brun Nielsen <com> wrote: 

[...]
 

Did you link anything or are you trying to get already linked software
to run?

If you replace the shared library that a program expects with a different
shared library, a segmentation fault may well occur.

My advice would be not to "tweak" around with system libraries, particularly
if you do not know much about what is going on.

I guess there was some problem that tempted you to mess with it in the
first place. What was that problem? Maybe it can be addressed in a better
way.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe

Is there only one freeware hd sd card format recovery tool?

Posted: 27 Oct 2008 05:50 AM PDT

On Sun 26 Oct08 03:48, Donna Ohl <net> wrote in
<news:XNRMk.1356$%ffdc.sbc.com>:
 

Donna, you write "I just realized I'm not sure how to" in one of your
typically smooth follow-throughs.

Nice. Keep at it. Expand the topic! Make it more complicated!

Draw more posters in. How many posters can you get involved?
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