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% complete vs. % work complete? Microsoft Project

% complete vs. % work complete? Microsoft Project

% complete vs. % work complete?

Posted: 16 Jan 2006 09:23 PM PST

Adding a bit to Mike's explanation - Looking beyond the immediate question
and trying to get to what you boss is actually looking for, comparing
percent complete at some point to what your schedule if followed to the
letter says you'd be at that point doesn't really tell you whether you're
on-schedule or on-budget or not because in itself it's an incomplete
picture. If the goal is to monitor progress, to see if you're on-target or
falling behind, you should look a little deeper into something called Earned
Value which monitors work actually achieved and dollars actually spent by a
selected status date versus what you originally had scheduled to occur by
that date and it gives you some tools to extrapolate those values to come up
with a predicted actual completion date and predicted actual cost. There's
a good discussion under Earned Value in the Project help files to get you
started in the right direction.
--
Steve House [MVP]
MS Project Trainer & Consultant
Visit http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm for the FAQs



"AlisonH" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:com... 

How do I save a Project file with only schedule data?

Posted: 16 Jan 2006 03:52 PM PST

Thanks, you answered my question though I was hoping for something more
transparent and built in by MS. I will check out the Scrub VBA in detail. The
Scrub description looks like it is a little different than what I want but
could be modified for my needs.

However, I have run into a problem sometimes when deleting resource
assignments in that it changes my schedule by the formula. It looks like it
only happens to tasks that were already in progress. So I have to figure out
how to set up tasks so that their schedule is not affected by deleting the
assigned resources.

I'm just a little surprised this isn't built in to MS Project because it
seems like something any company that works with layers of subcontractors
would want so all the subcontractors can provide Project files that get
integrated into a prime contractor's master schedule. Without each
subcontractor divulging their individual pay rates, resource assignments,
etc...

Thx
Ed

"John" wrote:
 

Resource Usage View Precision

Posted: 16 Jan 2006 12:41 PM PST

In article <com>,
"MikeR" <microsoft.com> wrote:
 

Mike,
Just a followup to Catfish's reply. You might want to take a look at the
"yze timescale data in Excel" utility/add-in found on the "ysis"
toolbar. You will get slightly different results (i.e. format) by
exporting from either the Resource or Task Usage views. Of course with a
custom VBA macro, Project data can be exported and formatted in
virtually any form needed.

John
Project MVP

How can I disable "Work Contour" automatic updates in MS Project?

Posted: 16 Jan 2006 06:56 AM PST

I suggest you change the task type to "Fixed Units" and have 4 columns:
Start, Actual Start, Finish & Actual Finish. I give the task an actual start
then I can either change the duration to project a finish or type in a
projected "Finish" date. Good Luck

"Carine" wrote:
 

Formulas-customize fields

Posted: 16 Jan 2006 04:51 AM PST

Thank you for your answer.

I have two follow up questions for you.

Can you describe what you mean with: "prone to corruption...." It this
method unstable or is it other problem you have experienced.

And the next question: The solution using VBA code. Is it difficult to make?
I have done some VBA-coded macros in Excel before where I teached myself
using record functions and learned the code from these automatic functions.
Can you give me some advice or list some functions I will need. Eg. how to
get access to alter Projects basic fields..... and how to automaticly run
macros when changing values in certain fields.






John skrev:
 

Assigning costs to various resources and material to one task

Posted: 15 Jan 2006 08:48 PM PST

In article <com>,
"Freeman" <microsoft.com> wrote:
 

Freeman,
You're welcome.
John 

Non-Effort-Driven schedules

Posted: 15 Jan 2006 05:00 PM PST

You're welcome, MJ and thanks for the feedback. :-)

Mike Glen
MS Project MVP


mjkahn wrote: 

Correct Formula

Posted: 15 Jan 2006 03:34 PM PST

David, Thanks so much for your help with this. You have been a life saver.
It6 really would be nice if Microsoft added these features to the Program.
It would be so useful as a presentation tool for my clients that aren't
versed in the program and have only a basic knowledge of a schedule.

Regards,

Charles

"DavidC" wrote:
 

Problem with Gantt View

Posted: 14 Jan 2006 10:16 AM PST

Hi TDK,

Glad you got it sorted. :) SR2 is the Service Release 2 (SR1 corrected an
indenting bug).

Mike Glen
Project MVP



TKD wrote: 

Resource Usage Chart (how to NOT display zero hours worked)

Posted: 13 Jan 2006 08:20 AM PST

I fully understood what you wanted, Kellie, but a sound project file has
nothing at all in the cells unless you put it there. All mine are blank
which leads me to believe there's something wrong with your file. Try a new
project and see if you get zeros all over the place.

Mike

Kellie F. wrote: 

Microsoft Word - Picture Rotation in Word 2010 using a pre-existing sizing macro

Microsoft Word - Picture Rotation in Word 2010 using a pre-existing sizing macro

Picture Rotation in Word 2010 using a pre-existing sizing macro

Posted: 15 Jan 2015 02:17 PM PST

I'm trying to modify a macro to include a 90 degree rotation as part of it being re-sized. 

Sub Asize()
Dim targetHeight As Single
Dim targetWidth As Single
Dim oShp As Shape
Dim oILShp As InlineShape
targetHeight = 5.6
targetWidth = 12
If Not Selection.ShapeRange Is Nothing Then
  For Each oShp In Selection.ShapeRange
    With oShp
       .LockAspectRatio = msoFalse
       .Width = CentimetersToPoints(targetWidth)
       .Height = CentimetersToPoints(targetHeight)
    End With
  Next
End If
For Each oILShp In Selection.InlineShapes
  With oILShp
    .LockAspectRatio = msoFalse
    .Width = CentimetersToPoints(targetWidth)
    .Height = CentimetersToPoints(targetHeight)
  End With
Next
End Sub

I've tried converting the inline shapes to shapes to rotate them but i'm not really sure where i'm going wrong. My end goal is to have a macro which re-sizes the image to the set size, and rotates it 90/270 degrees on the page.

Thanks in advance.

MS Word 2013 Expandable and Collapsible features

Posted: 15 Jan 2015 02:17 PM PST

Hi, I am trying to create an interactive document in which a document can have all sections collapsed and available to expand with a click in the heading for each section. Is the reader restricted to only those who have the updated MS word 2013 version? Can a collapsible/expandable file be password protected?

Word 2010 Building Blocks/Quick Parts no longer populating text using short name

Posted: 15 Jan 2015 01:53 PM PST

Hi.  I have a colleague who prepares a lot of Quick Parts/Autotext as she is a keyboard person, not a mouse person.  She usually uses the short name to invoke the Quickpart/Autotext.  It is no longer working.  She can drill down through the quickparts and insert it by using the mouse, but it is apparently slowing her work productivity.  Any idea what I should look at?

Using character map with MS Office 2003

Posted: 15 Jan 2015 01:18 PM PST

I am having a problem inserting private characters in programs/componemts of Office 2003.  They come into the document but appear as some form of Asian alphabet instead of the character I created in Private Character Editor.

The strange thing is that it works fine with wordpad and notepad, but not with Word, Excel or Powerpoint.

I am running windows 7 home on a laptop platform and MS Office 2003.

Not sure what I might be doing wrong.  I open Character Map, select the private character (which appears just the way I created it), then click the "copy" button.  I then go back to my document and paste.  I've tried pasting from the pull down menus and using the keyboard shortcut.  I know it shouldn't make any difference, but I tried both ways just in case.  Either way I get the same result--some sort of Chinese or Korean character appears instead of the character I created.

I then open wordpad and press control-V.  Viola!  My character appears perfectly!  BTW, I assigned the character to all fonts when I created it and have tried it with several different fonts.  Same results each time.  I also tried selecting the character and changing fonts after it had been pasted-That didn't help either!

Somebody please give me a pearl of wisdom on this.  I really want to make it work.

Oh, BTW--upgrading to the latest version of MS Office or a newer version of Windows is NOT an option (cost prohibitive) so you don't even need to mention that.  There HAS to be a way to make this work according to design!!!

Thanks for any help you can provide.

Clyde

The name of the corrector is changes into "Author" (WORD 2013)

Posted: 15 Jan 2015 01:17 PM PST

Hi,

I sent a WORD2013 document for review by colleagues and they made corrections. 

The corrections (an comments) were "marked" with their names when viewed on their computer (example: "John deleted" or "John - comment".

However, when I received the document (sent by e-mail), all names ("John" and the like) were replaced by "Author".  So, even though I could see the corrections (and the comments), I could not see who did them. 

To check for a problem due to the sending the document by e-mail, I made my-self come corrections and then sent the document to me by e-mail.   In the file I received, my corrections were marked correctly (by my name). 

Did my colleague make something wrong or this a problem of WORD 2013 configuration ?  How wan this be corrected ?

Regards,

name of corrector is chnaged to "author"

Posted: 15 Jan 2015 01:12 PM PST

Hi,

I sent a WORD2013 document for review by colleagues and they made corrections. 

The corrections (an comments) were "marked" with their names when viewed on their computer (example: "John deleted" or "John - comment".

However, when I received the document (sent by e-mail), all names ("John" and the like) were replaced by "Author".  So, even though I could see the corrections (and the comments), I could not see who did them. 

To check for a problem due to the sending the document by e-mail, I made my-self come corrections and then sent the document to me by e-mail.   In the file I received, my corrections were marked correctly (by my name). 

Did my colleague make something wrong or this a problem of WORD 2013 configuration ?  How wan this be corrected ?

Regards,

 

Template document lost

Posted: 15 Jan 2015 12:41 PM PST

I created a resume cover letter using the free templates.  The system saved it but I cannot find it.  Where did it go?

Picture disappears when setting Text Wrapping to "Behind Text"

Posted: 15 Jan 2015 12:20 PM PST

Split from this thread.

I have text in  a text box and want to add a picture (e.g. signature_) to come over or behind the text.

I do Insert > Picture.,  select the picture (jpg or gif) resize it with the handles, set wrap to Behind Text, and at that point the picture just disappears!!!  Print preview shows no picture...

(Using Word 2013 on Win 8/1 64 )

Cannot resize table columns in word 2013

Posted: 15 Jan 2015 11:51 AM PST

I have just recently started using MS Office 2013. In the past, it was EASY to create a table and then highlight a column and hover over the vertical line between columns, the mouse pointer would change to the nifty little arrow line arrow pointer, and then you could drag the column and change its width. it was easy, intuitive, simple, -- a total no-brainer.

Now in Word 2013, that no longer works. I cannot drag the column widths, and I cannot change the width at all for the columns in my table.

I have looked for settings in many places, but I cannot seem to get the table to allow me to drag and resize the columns in any way.

It is very annoying that such simple intuitive functionality from past versions does not work anymore in Office 2013, Word 2013.

Word 2003, last page of any document flickers. affects printing too.

Posted: 15 Jan 2015 11:34 AM PST

Hello. I am using Word 2003, win 7 64 bit home. I recently updated something for word 2003 (http://download.microsoft.com/download/7/7/8/778493c2-ace3-44c5-8bc3-d102da80e0f6/Office2003SP3-KB923618-FullFile-ENU.exe)Office 2003 sp3 KB923618-FullFile-ENU-exe. Apparently this didn't do anything as I got some error/reply to the effect of 'desired program not found'.

I tried printing a resume yesterday and the second page was all misprinted ie many lines were jammed together, some lines halfway legible others very faint. So,I did a check with the printer hardware and the printer checks out fine.

Today I copied and pasted a 10 page document to word and when I went to add another 10 page section to that I noticed when scrolling down to the last page, that that page was all jumping and flickering erratically. I was not able to add to that document and had to open a new page for each section.

Why is this happening? I am sure it has something to do with the failed update but I do not know how to 'undo' an update and an apparently failed one at that.

If I uninstall word and reinstall it should this fix the situation and will I lose all documents?

Can I remove the damage done by the failed update?

I do still have my original disc for office/word 2003.

Thank you

All office files corrupted

Posted: 15 Jan 2015 11:28 AM PST

all my office documents have been infected with some malware/virus that has also added the extension (fEstasAzulCorrupta) to everyone of my document and i cannot open any one of them. i used nod 32 to try fish it out as what i was using before had expired, and some malicious stuff was found and removed but the files remained the same. How do i get my files back. running windows 8 and office 2010

Fonts/styles not displaying on some computers

Posted: 15 Jan 2015 09:38 AM PST

I created a Word template in Word 2007 that others use to create documents. When some of these computers (who also have Word 2007) view these documents, the Arial font  for certain styles displays as Times New Roman. And when we inspect the style, we see that it's set to TNR. Arial is available as an option in the available fonts, but it's not connected to those styles. However, when I open the document on my computer, it displays as Arial and the style is set to Arial.

A couple of the computers fixed themselves over time, and they now display correctly. Another person was working on a completely unrelated document that used Cordia font. Now, every time she opens a document created from my Word template, selected styles are set to Cordia. And when I opened the file after she had worked on it, the font was also set to Cordia on my copy.

We have tried changing the default printer and setting the default font. Please advise.

How Do I Start Using Word in Office 365?

Posted: 15 Jan 2015 09:27 AM PST

<moved from Windows 7 Files, Folders, and Online Storage>

I just bought my HP laptop last night.  I need to type a paper pronto for school.  The laptop I have came with a 1yr subscription to Office 365 personal.  I believe I have activated everything properly.  However when I try to find where the word software is I cannot find it!!  Is it that I can only access this software online?  what if I need to work on my paper where there is no internet available?  Please in plain simple instructions, How can I work on my paper the fastest APA style?  I greatly appreciate any help available and thank you very much in advance.

Creating two A5 pages per sheet of A4 in Word 2007

Posted: 15 Jan 2015 09:00 AM PST

I have been asked to make up an A5 leaflet, with two leaflets per page for printing.  I tried various ways which all worked to a certain extent, but then found this article by Microsoft MVP, Suzanne S Barnhill: http://wordfaqs.mvps.org/2PagesPerSheet.htm which seemed like a really simple way of doing it so I thought I would give it a go.  I've set it up exactly as advised and, in terms of typing in data etc., it seems to work ok, but when I print it out I just get one copy on a sheet of landscape as opposed to two.

I have another problem in the left/right margins were quite big so I tried to change them, but they don't seem to change within the document.

Has anyone else tried using Suzanne's method and could perhaps help me resolve this?

Word 2007 file names each document by default

Posted: 15 Jan 2015 08:59 AM PST

Is there a way Office 2007 Word will automatically include name  of file in footer of each and every document created by  default in footer ? I do have Windows 7 and Office 2007.

My need arises when I have  created and  printed a file for shareing or my own use and then at later time trying to find file with hard copy in hand !

Label Mail Merge Issue

Posted: 15 Jan 2015 08:25 AM PST

MS Office 2010 - I followed the Step by Step Mail Merge Wizard.  My labels looked fine on the screen.  I selected Print.  Just prior to printing, all of the labels on my screen converted to identical labels - all 30 now look like #1 - and they printed out in the newly converted format.

Why does the mail merge keep changing my labels immediately prior to print - how do I get the mail merge to print out my unique labels?

How to autofill with Microsoft Word 2010

Posted: 15 Jan 2015 08:06 AM PST

Using Microsoft Word 2010, how can I use "auto fill" to complete documents that reuse the information once it is typed. For example.

[Date] 

Re: [Customer Name]'s car

Dear [Customer Name]

Today is [DATE]. Yesterday I say your car in the parking lot. Jane asked me whose car it was. I said it belonged to [Customer Name]. She said she loved your car on [DATE].

How can I get the document to fill all the [DATE] fields with the same information when it it typed once?

CS115 Question

Posted: 15 Jan 2015 07:13 AM PST

How do I copy and paste?

mail merge for labels printing duplicates

Posted: 15 Jan 2015 06:41 AM PST

When attempting to print labels from a mail merge (excel source), each page of labels begins with the following name - e.g "john Smith" appears on label one of first page followed by "bob jones" (label #2), then the rest of the names to fill the remaining labels on sheet, 2nd sheet labels begins with "bob jones" followed by "jane doe" then rest of the names, 3rd sheet labels begin with "jane doe", then rest of names, etc.

What must we do to ensure that one and the same document is displayed the same way regardless of the Office version in which it edited, saved or viewed?

Posted: 15 Jan 2015 06:28 AM PST

In our technical department we have 4 persons (2 use Office 2013 and 2 use Office 2010).

However when one Office 2010 user opens an Word document previously edited in Office 2013 the layout is completely distorted (even when saved as for Office 2010) and the other way around. (by distorted we mean that the layout changes significantly)

Our computer guy says that the only option is to downgrade everything to Office 2010 or upgrading all computers to Office 2013.

This is not an acceptable solution to us as it probably also means that we will have to change all the layouts of all the Word documents when we change to office 2015 or 2017...

Secondly we even notice that we have the same problem in lesser form between the two Office 2010 users.

What must we do to ensure that one and the same document is displayed the same way regardless of the Office version in which it edited, saved or viewed?

Kind regards,

Thomas

Clipart in Office 2013

Posted: 15 Jan 2015 04:45 AM PST

Hi.  I am using Office 2013 and trying to insert clipart into a Word document.  However, the option for clipart seems to have vanished recently. 

When I click INSERT > ONLINE PICTURES the only option that appears is Bing Image Search.  Any ideas how I can get Office.com Clipart to reappear?

Lowered font is treated differently in Word 2013

Posted: 15 Jan 2015 01:13 AM PST

I just switched from Office 2010 to Office 365 Business Premium. In my documents I have the headings in 'frames' i.e. the background of the whole line has a different colour. Since I do not want the characters stick to the top of these frames, I changed the position of the font (Modify Style/Font/Advanced) to 'Lowered'.

In Word 2010 this worked nicely, in Word 2013 however this has no visual effect when the same document has been opened. I have to increase the number of points from 6 (Word 2010) to 18 (Word 2013) in order to get the same effect.

  20103 (Lowered 6pt)                 2010 (Lowered 6pt)

Is this intended behaviour or how could this change be explained?

Proofing Tools office 2013 arabic & windows 8.3 32bit

Posted: 14 Jan 2015 11:38 PM PST

Microsoft Office Proofing Tools office 2013 arabic language is not compatible with windows 8.3 32bit
any help please

Word 2013 Question

Posted: 14 Jan 2015 08:23 PM PST

I'm not sure what I did, but I now have a dotted line outlining my paragraph mark.  This goes from margin to margin.  Each time I hit Return, this box forms around the paragraph mark, so if I hit Return 5 times, each one has a separate box around.  Does anyone know how to get rid of this?

Does Revision causes Word to Increase in File Size?

Posted: 14 Jan 2015 07:56 PM PST

Hi! I would like to as if every time you made changes to a document & save it, the file size increases? Does Revision No. & file size go hand-in hand? I just noticed in my word document that whenever Revision No. goes up the file size also increases. Need help on this. Thanks!

By the way, I am using Word 2013

Microsoft Word Issues

Posted: 14 Jan 2015 06:08 PM PST

I have Windows 7.  I am trying to edit or copy my resume in Word and it will not allow me to.  My subscription has expired and I do not wish to reactivate just to make changes to this one document.  I can I go about retrieving my document.

Moved from Windows 7 Programs Forum.

display of hyperlinks in Word 2010

Posted: 14 Jan 2015 05:45 PM PST

I've created a number of documents with inserted hyperlinks, with no trouble for years.

All of a sudden, the old links and all new ones  now show fancy brackets with the beginning word "HYPERLINK"

e.g.,      www.google.com   has become   { HYPERLINK http://www.google.com }

Can't find a way to change formatting back.  Help!

HP Business Inkjet 2800 ignores multiple copy request in Word 2013, Windows 8.1

Posted: 14 Jan 2015 01:38 PM PST

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

How to automatically control the paragraph spacing for each headline?

Posted: 14 Jan 2015 12:42 PM PST

as you can see here:

under chapter 1.2.1

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

but automaticly for the entire text

how can i do this?

first image:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/38094905/Screenshot%202015-01-14%2022.38.47.png

second image:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/38094905/Screenshot%202015-01-14%2022.41.00.png

CVS server installation - Forums Linux

CVS server installation - Forums Linux

CVS server installation

Posted: 07 Apr 2009 02:19 PM PDT

I demand that John Hasler may or may not have written...
 
 

Mercurial has less of a learning curve, particularly if you're already
reasonably familiar with cvs or svn.

--
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| RISC OS, Linux | youmustbejoking,demon,co,uk | Northumberland | Army
| + Burn less waste. Use less packaging. Waste less. USE FEWER RESOURCES.

Memory is a thing with which we forget.

Linux from scratch 5.5.1: Installation of GMP and MPFR

Posted: 04 Apr 2009 08:15 PM PDT

Mark Hobley <donottypethisbit.com> wrote: 

I forgot to say that the switches may differ from the LFS manual ...

cd gcc-build
../gcc-4.4.0/configure --build=$BLD --target=$TGT --prefix=/tools \
--disable-nls --disable-shared --disable-multilib \
--disable-decimal-float --disable-threads \
--disable-libmudflap --disable-libssp \
--disable-libgomp --enable-languages=c

Regards,

Mark.

--
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Linux User: #370818 http://markhobley.yi.org/

Intel Chipsets and Fedora Core 2 (FC2 - X86-64)

Posted: 31 Mar 2009 12:04 PM PDT

On Sat, 4 Apr 2009 11:45:55 UTC in comp.os.linux.hardware, karthikbalaguru
<com> wrote:
 

That message is information about resource assignments. It's moved on from there
and the last thing you listed is

Linux Plug and Play support V0.97(c) Adam Belay

This is issued by the ISA plug and play driver so at a guess your problem
resides in some ISA device attached to your system. You might try BIOS upgrades,
disabling legacy devices in the BIOS or removing ISA cards from the system.

On my system, following on from that message I get

Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
pnp: PnP ACPI init
ACPI: bus type pnp registered
pnp: PnP ACPI: found 14 devices
ACPI: ACPI bus type pnp unregistered

--
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Trevor dot Hemsley at ntlworld dot com

vsftpd chroot to a place other than home directory

Posted: 26 Mar 2009 06:05 AM PDT

On Mar 26, 9:05am, Jistan Idiot <com> wrote: 

Think carefully about what you're doing. FTP is an old problem, for
firewall configuration reasons and the fact that it transmits
passwords in the clear. I strongly, strongly prever WebDAV over HTTPS
because it works well with LFTP and curl in the Linux scripting world,
it works well with Windows using 'Network Neightborhood', and it uses
HTTPS for safety. Apache supports it well, and it's seriously
configurable to provide a shared repostitory, any kind of password
handling you want, and chroot cages.
 

For what I described, I'd set up a shared WebDAV repository for a
group, and allow standard password access to ~/public_html for WebDAV
uploads. Does that work for you?

Assigning virtual Interfaces to Debian 5

Posted: 24 Mar 2009 07:38 AM PDT

In article <motzarella.org>,
wisdomkiller & pain <com> wrote: 



Will try.
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Ici ab.ca God, Queen and country! Beware Anti-Christ rising!
Never Satan President Republic!
Point to http://tv.cityonahillproductions.com/

Custom kernel refuses to mount any disk

Posted: 23 Mar 2009 04:01 PM PDT

On 2009-03-25, Ryan McCoskrie <com> wrote: 

I give up -- no idea.



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Torvalds' goal for Linux is very simple: World Domination
Stallman's goal for GNU is even simpler: Freedom

Routing Debian 5

Posted: 22 Mar 2009 05:38 AM PDT

"The Doctor" <nl2k.ab.ca> wrote 

You are correct that this should have been set correctly at installation - I
was merely hoping to establish the nature of the problem.

To fix it permanently, you need to edit /etc/network/interfaces. You need to
find the stanza which defines eth0 and add the line

gateway 204.209.81.2

- this should result in the default route being set up when eth0 is
activated.

If the gateway line is already present in /etc/network/interfaces then the
problem is more serious.

CC

Which architecture for dual core celeron processor? Debian lenny.

Posted: 22 Mar 2009 03:18 AM PDT

On Wednesday 25 March 2009 12:31, someone identifying as *The Natural
Philosopher* wrote in /comp.os.linux.setup:/
 

Excuse me? :p
 

Then this is a flaw in the distribution you are using. AMD64 distributions
for desktop use normally come with 32-bit compatibility libraries for lots
of stuff, and some 32-bit browser plugins can be made to work
using /nspluginwrapper./ For most of them however, 64-bit versions are
already available by now.

--
*Aragorn*
(registered GNU/Linux user #223157)

assign more RAM to apps in Wine

Posted: 03 Mar 2009 02:01 PM PST

Lionel B wrote: 


Not my thread
not did I see any answer there

limit upload/download file size in SFTP

Posted: 28 Feb 2009 09:30 AM PST

On Mar 1, 4:00am, Bill Mar <net> wrote: 

Thanks for the answer.
There are many users on that system . So , I want that some users
will not be able to upload/download files beyond 500M and some users
beyond 2G.
Is it possible to set quota of different size for different user
groups.

@Zaman

GeForce 8400 (the results)

Posted: 27 Feb 2009 02:18 PM PST


"Moog" <com> wrote in message
news:individual.net... 


Problem is it's not that simple...
a new kernel needs to be compiled...
one I had the kernel development library installed...it was simple enough to
to in Fedora...
but for various reasons I ran into a number of snags in Debian...
I installed Debian on another 4 gig drive...so may fooe with it more later
 

Though I am an old timer who started out taking a Fortran IV class
back in 1968 ...with punch cards...
but 1982 I got out of computers entirely
(ironic, as that's the year thr PC came out)

However in July 1999 my girlfriend gave me her old P1 and I got hooked.
Within six months of learning my way around win9x and dos...I decided to
give Linux a try.
It took me a long time to catch on...
but I learned more with the RedHat 5.2 cd than I did in 4 years of
college!!!!
 


Yep...that's what I said in 2001:


I have finally entered the 20th century

of course it was then the 21st ! 

Booting into a read-only drive

Posted: 24 Feb 2009 06:18 PM PST

On 25 Feb, 03:58, galapogos <com> wrote: 

Besides being stuck with LILO instead of grub?

fedora 10 GRUB and continuous beeping on boot

Posted: 23 Feb 2009 08:18 PM PST

 

Ill have a look when I get back home to be sure which one worked.
However in the 20 minutes before I left the house I was able to try
(via rescue and the shell) to change the 5 kernels and try each with
the same results. I dont think its a kernel issue but rather a grub
issue.

I suppose I could try re-writing the grub...I seem to remember seeing
an article on trying that for another problem. I dont think its my
disk starting to go, but I wouldnt rule that out at this point either.

64 v 32

Posted: 22 Feb 2009 06:11 PM PST

On Thursday 26 March 2009 10:42, someone identifying as *Matt Giwer* wrote
in /comp.os.linux.setup:/
 

I apologize if my reply came across to you as berating or condescending. I
can assure you it was certainly not intended that way. Instead, I was just
being very technical and explanatory. ;-)

I am aware of the fact that people sometimes take offense (in whatever way)
to my writing style, but I must admit that I usually don't pay any
attention to any unintended negative connotations people might construe
from my scribbles. If it clarifies anything, I am an adult autistic
person, and I know I do tend to sound a bit "mechanical" or cold
sometimes. ;-)
 

As the matter of fact, I had already registered earlier on and so I had a
lower number, but I had forgotten my password to log into the Linux Counter
and so I chose to re-register. Hence the higher number. ;-)

Also, FYI, the Linux Counter drops your registration if you do not check in
once a year. This used to be two years, but they have shortened the
interval now. They do however send you an invitation to log in now, with a
link through which you can log in without even having to use your password.

I suppose that if they had kept all the old entries, the registered amount
of GNU/Linux users would by now be far higher, but of course, there is no
telling what people will do. I for one know several people who were
dualbooting between Windows and GNU/Linux and who had registered there,
only to kick GNU/Linux off of their hard disks again a while later and
stick with Windoze.

Or, people would simply buy a new PC with Windoze and no longer install
GNU/Linux as they weren't using it much in the first place. In this
consumerist society, PCs aren't designed to last very long, and people are
also far more inclined to ditch a perfectly good machine for "the latest
and greatest", which - as we all know - usually comes with Micro$oft stuff
pre-installed for the consumergrade market. ;-)

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GeForce 8400gs support

Posted: 21 Feb 2009 12:28 PM PST


<n262.z110> wrote in message
news:n262.z110.linuxnet.ftn... 


Follow-up

just downloaded and installed Debian

it runs very well...

very responsive...reminds me of Slackware

Though I was not able to get the desired 1440 x 900 resolution

I was able to keep the same aspect ration and go with 1680 x 1050 which is
just fine

Where is Grub

Posted: 19 Feb 2009 12:43 PM PST

Bryce wrote:
 


!!!!!! Danger Will Robinson!!!!!!!! -> dangerous command follows:

Use at your own risk :)

zero MBR but leave the partition table alone:

# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/<drive> bs=446 count=1

zero MBR and the partition table:

# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/<drive> bs=512 count=1

Change <drive> to the hard drive of choice hda or sda etc.

Running LILO on a secondary drive

Posted: 17 Feb 2009 07:58 PM PST

Bit Twister <com> writes:
 
 
 
 

Of course you have to know that manu.lst is what you have to edit.

And then you have to figure out the totally arcane stuff to figure out what
you have to do at that point.

 

 
 

Why should I "spend a little time"? It is simply supposed to boot up my
operating system. It is not some marriage I have committed to.


 

And I have never spent more than 1 min changing lilo to the way I want it.

 
 

 

What the hell do I want colour for? A boot loader is a boot loader. It is
not an art class exercise. That is the problem. Grub is a whole computer
language, with arcane rules and infinite choice. All I want is my operating
system to boot. I do NOT want to spend my life figuring out how to get it
to do so. Remember KISS? Keep It Simple Stupid.
Just yesterday I had to help someone whos system refuesed to boot ( postfix
was taking an infinite timeout because the network did not work). Trying to
figure out how in the world to tell grub to boot into runlevel 1 rather
than runlevel 5 was an exercise in frustration. Now I know lilo, so knowing
:Hit tab type linux 1: was ingrained. But of course tab did not work in
grub. Hit F2 Then hit e Then figure out how in the world to edit the boot
line. Then ..... Sheesh. It is a program written by programmers that has
completely lost its way.

library.os.n problem: "cannot open shared object file: Error 40"

Posted: 16 Feb 2009 08:55 AM PST

I demand that Alan Mackenzie may or may not have written...
 
 

Yes. Somebody wants to read strerror(3) and/or perror(3).

[snip] 
 

More likely something up with that particular package.
 

"libedit.so.0" will be in the file. (You probably want to read up on sonames
and their uses.)

[snip]
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System Administration with explanation of the concepts behind (devicemapper, e.g.)

Posted: 15 Feb 2009 04:28 AM PST

On Sun, 15 Feb 2009 04:28:38 -0800, Harry wrote:
 
Caveat: I am not using LUKS.

Note, it is possible to use cryptsetup in a native mode, also.

man cryptsetup

Some of the basic device mapper concepts are explained in this article:
http://linuxgazette.net/114/kapil.html

The typical way that I use cryptsetup without LUKS is by using this sort
of syntax:

# cat key | cryptsetup -h $HASH -c $CIPHER -s $KL create sdb1 /dev/sdb1

This creates a device mapper object, /dev/mapper/sdb1 based on the
real device /dev/sdb1. The encryption will be setup using the key and
other parameters (i.e. the variables as predefined by HASH, CIPHER, KL.).
Note also that some big improvements have been made to the HASH and CIPHER
modes recently.

The LUKS project works at a higher level, designed to hide some of the
"nasty" details. Personally, I don't mind working with the base level, but
some extra caution is in order. Be careful not to expose your keys. I
usually setup and work with these parameters using a ramdisk, and I work
with a fully encrypted system when necessary, etc.

I can also achieve the functionality similar to LUKS (AIUI) to allow
multi-user access to containers is to use GPG directly to encrypt the key
and other encryption parameters as a message addressed to the authorized
users. To me, this follows the unix philosophy of "one tool -> one
function" better than "handing off" responsibilty to LUKS. YMMV.

--
Douglas Mayne

How to change password on multiple hosts (can use ssh)

Posted: 09 Feb 2009 01:01 PM PST

Nico Kadel-Garcia <com> wrote: 

Which is why I recommended both.
 

Which is why I mentioned a method that uses Makefiles.

If the accounts in question are human users, NIS continues
to be the better choice by far.

Intel 82915G graphics chip not working on Dell Optiplex Gx520 withnVidia RIVA TNT2 64 & FC6

Posted: 06 Feb 2009 06:33 AM PST

powah wrote: 

Probably none of them, 'intel' driver is orders of magnitude better than
the 'i810' driver. Try to find a package of the 'intel' driver for your
version of Fedora, even if you borrow it from FC10.

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org


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booting Linux directly from NTFS?

Posted: 05 Feb 2009 05:21 AM PST

On Thursday 05 February 2009 21:34, someone identifying as
*com* wrote in /comp.os.linux.setup:/
 

Your question is ambiguous. Either you mean "Can the kernel be loaded from
an NTFS filesystem by a bootloader?", or you mean "Can a GNU/Linux system
be brought to running off an NTFS filesystem natively?"

In case of the former, you can use /fuse/ with /ntfs-3g/ to mount the NTFS
partition on */boot* with write support, copy the /vmlinuz/ (and if so
required the /initrd/) file(s) to it, and then use LILO as your bootloader,
because LILO hardcodes logical block addresses in the master boot record,
unlike GRUB, which needs and uses a realmode filesystem driver to access
the files. The LILO bootloader must then also be installed in the master
boot record or in the root partition for the GNU/Linux system, because if
you install it in the NTFS partition it will overwrite the Windows
bootloader.

But still, then there is the second interpretation of your question, which
is that GNU/Linux requires a filesystem that supports UNIX file ownerships
and permissions, and that even with the Linux kernel image living on NTFS
would require that the entire Linux-specific UNIX file hierarchy (with the
exception of */boot,* for which you would be using the NTFS partition in
this case) be on one or multiple other partitions than the NTFS volume.

The only operating system I know of which can be made to run from a
filesystem that does not have any kind of security implementations is
Windows, which can be made to run off of a /msdos/ or /vfat./ UNIX does
not support this, and for good reason, as it's perverse. ;-)

There used to be /umsdos/ support in the Linux kernel - but this has been
removed in the meantime - which allowed a GNU/Linux system to be installed
on an /msdos/ (FAT12/16) filesystem, but this was an unstable construct
which saved the UNIX file ownerships, permissions and case-sensitive long
filenames inside files which in DOS would appear as hidden files. So in a
sense, it was like the loopback thing, but with the difference being that
it was only the case-sensitive long filenames, the file ownerships and the
permissions which were inside image files, while the files themselves were
on the actual /msdos/ filesystem itself.

This too was a perverse construct, but still not as perverse yet as Windows
is. ;-)

--
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(registered GNU/Linux user #223157)

Best binary newsgroup/usenet reader and downloader?

Posted: 04 Feb 2009 12:46 PM PST

On 2/11/2009 1:17 PM PT, John Hasler typed:
 

I am a nzb newbie and just installed and ran into a weird glitch (bug?):

$ su
Password:
# apt-get install nzb
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
libqt4-core libqt4-test
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libqt4-core libqt4-test nzb
0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 200kB of archives.
After this operation, 475kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? \
Abort.
ANTian:/home/ant# apt-get install nz
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Couldn't find package nz
ANTian:/home/ant# apt-get install nzb
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
libqt4-core libqt4-test
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libqt4-core libqt4-test nzb
0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 200kB of archives.
After this operation, 475kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
Get:1 http://ftp.debian.org testing/main libqt4-test 4.4.3-1 [59.8kB]
Get:2 http://ftp.debian.org testing/main libqt4-core 4.4.3-1 [30.3kB]
Get:3 http://ftp.debian.org testing/main nzb 0.1.7-1 [110kB]
Fetched 200kB in 3s (50.8kB/s)
Reading package fields... Done
Reading package status... Done
Retrieving bug reports... Done
Parsing Found/Fixed information... Done
Selecting previously deselected package libqt4-test.
(Reading database ... 157630 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking libqt4-test (from .../libqt4-test_4.4.3-1_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package libqt4-core.
Unpacking libqt4-core (from .../libqt4-core_4.4.3-1_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package nzb.
Unpacking nzb (from .../archives/nzb_0.1.7-1_i386.deb) ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up libqt4-test (4.4.3-1) ...
Setting up libqt4-core (4.4.3-1) ...
Setting up nzb (0.1.7-1) ...


I run nzb for the first time, configure (Tools -> Options), but saving
and closing the options doesn't work. I have to close nzb program to
exit. I relaunched it and see my settings were saved.

Does anyone have this problem too? I am using KDE v3.5.10 in Debian.

Thank you in advance. :)

 

This one doesn't seem to have nzb support.

 

Python scripts, seems to use a lot of stuff, and seems outdated (last
updated in 3/26/2007).

 

This was a good program that I used for a while, but recently
uninstalled because it crashes every time I try to go to open a file
(haven't even told it to use a specific file) to get a nzb even as a new
profile (deleted old configurations). The developer was stomped and had
no idea what was going on. It started late last year too. The project
also seems dead too.

Don't forget Tin for text based newsreader. It doesn't do nzb though. I
like nzbget a lot. I am old school and love text based UIs.
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Is auditd needed to run?

Posted: 03 Feb 2009 08:07 AM PST

On Feb 4, 12:47am, Allen Kistler <moc> wrote: 

The reason I ask is don't know why auditd is disabled in CentOS4, but
now enabled by default in CentOS5. Surely we don't use SELINUX. Also
in CentOS4, we don't have
problem by setting it off - so wonder why it is on in CentOS5 if no
program need it...

Compliling kernel on Fedora 10: No rule to make target `missing-syscalls'

Posted: 02 Feb 2009 09:50 PM PST

Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
 

Nope. The kernel devel package.

Any way I downloaded more recent code off of www.kernel.org
and that compiles fine.

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