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Posted: 06 Jul 2009 07:22 PM PDT

On Wed, 08 Jul 2009 15:41:16 -0400, RFR <con> wrote:
 

Btw, looks like your clock is set wrong.

Regards, Dave Hodgins

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USB installation - MD5s for RHEL 5.3 Fail

Posted: 04 Jul 2009 08:06 PM PDT

On Wednesday 08 July 2009 03:55, someone identifying as *Sidney Lambe*
wrote in /comp.os.linux.setup:/
 

First of all I would like to say that I have not been following the
entire debate into detail because of health issues, and although the
word "troll" has come up a few times in this part of the thread, I have
now chosen to - even if only for a short while - put in my two cents
worth, with respect to both parties, as I see valid points in both of
them.

Sidney, I can feel your frustration over the "Windowsization" of
GNU/Linux, and to a large degree, I even share it. However, I think
you are being so frustrated about it that you are generalizing and
polarizing your views to extents beyond reality. Allow me to
explain...

There is indeed a tendency to make GNU/Linux more Windows-like, but I do
not believe that this tendency is as fierce as you yourself are
describing it, and what bothers me the most in this is that this
tendency has arisen from the demands of GNU/Linux newbies who of course
all come from the Windows world.

I myself have once been a newbie too, albeit that I was never that
Windows-conditioned as I already knew of other operating systems long
before I had a computer of my own. I only used MS-DOS 5.0 and Windows
3.x for about five or six months on my own first computer as it came
with those pre-installed and I was awaiting the commercial and stable
release of OS/2 2.x, which I have subsequently used for over five
years. On my next machine, I have used Windows NT 4.0 Workstation for
two years, but back then I was not all that seriously into computers
yet as I have become since I installed GNU/Linux for the first time,
late 1999. I have never used anything other than GNU/Linux since, and
wouldn't want to if my life depended on it. (In fact, I think I'd
rather have my life depend on GNU/Linux than on any other operating
system. ;-))

Now, I was a newbie too back then, albeit with some minor UNIX knowledge
and free from the Windows-isms like "folders" and /sea-drives./ I have
always found the UNIX methodology far more logical and transparent.
But as a newbie, KDE - back then still at version 1.1.1 - was a very
welcome environment as it facilitated getting acquainted with all
aspects of the operating system. I did however check out many of
the /man/ and /info/ pages from the start, read the /HowTos/ and of
course, prior to even installing the operating system, the printed
manual - it was a shrinkwrapped retail version of Linux Mandrake 6.0
Powerpack, which was back then basically a copy of RedHat with KDE
added, because RedHat refused to supply KDE due to the fact that KDE
1.x was built using non-freely licensed Qt libraries. Another
difference was that Mandrake 6.0 came with kernel 2.2.9, whereas RedHat
still carried 2.2.5.

I am a big fan of KDE, and more specifically KDE 3.x. I find KDE 4.x to
be promising, yet at the same time daunting because it's obviously
still very experimental and so far I haven't heard of any distro that
has managed to iron out the problems KDE 4.x poses. KDE 3.5.10 on the
other hand, although no longer maintained by the KDE developers
themselves, is stable and fully functional.

I also don't make it look like Windows - and I hate that distro vendors
do that - because I don't find the Windows GUI all that intuitive. On
my system, it looks a bit like the GUI of a MacIntosh, but not with the
intent of duplicating it. I have not set it up to look like anything
that exists, but rather like something that I can use and that feels
good for myself, not for everyone else. But even in its default look &
feel, I don't consider KDE 3.x to be a Windows clone, especially not if
you consider LXDE (which *does* look like Windows XP) or the Vista-look
of KDE 4.x - if I ever do switch to using KDE 4.x, then that will be
the first thing I change - or even the perversions of whatever UNIX
desktop environment is used by Linspire and the likes and have been
completely converted to the look & feel of Windows, desktop wallpaper
included.

So I do use KDE, and I like it. But don't let that statement fool you,
because I keep a terminal window open at all time and launch additional
terminal emulators when needed, and I do most of the stuff from the
commandline. It's just that when handling graphical objects a lot, it
is easier if you get to see a preview, and graphical manipulation of
photos et al does require running X11 anyway, and these days, diskspace
and RAM are cheap, so there's no reason for me to run a CLI-only system
- not for a workstation anyway. But I copy, move, delete, create and
otherwise manipulate files from the commandline. My filemanager only
serves so as to get a clear overview of the thumbnails. Being autistic
however, I really do like the aesthetics of (my customized version of)
KDE 3.x.

However, there is another angle to the Windows-ism story, in which you
are partly right, i.e. commercial distributions need an income, and
that income comes from selling a distribution of GNU/Linux in a
computer market segment that is for most part occupied by Windows. And
Microsoft has gone to great lengths at hiding what a computer really is
and what it does from its users, presenting them with their own
"Microsoft logic", in which thinking for yourself is strongly
discouraged. As such, the new batch of IT professionals gets trained
on using Microsoft stuff only, and as such, a new generation of idiots
is produced.

So now there are the computer illiterates who only know Windows - and
have never even heard of anything other than Windows because of
Microsoft's monopolizing tactics of pushing a license of Windows with
every new consumergrade computer from a big name brand - and you've got
the Windiots who call themselves IT specialists but only know how to
set up Microsoft software for use by the illiterates. Treat your
customers like idiots and idiots are the customers you'll attract - the
old adage still stands. And that is why distromakers tend to cater to
their Windiot clients.
 

On this I do not agree. I don't think that the technocrats would want
users to be dependent of them at all. In fact, it is my experience -
at least on Usenet, and I tend to follow this tendency myself when
giving advice - that the more technically experienced among us are
trying to teach the newbie how to think for themselves and "RTFM",
instead of thinking that GNU/Linux must behave like Windows.

By the same token, I always advice everyone to ditch the entire HAL
stuff with the automounting features and stick to a traditional and
static */etc/fstab* with manual mounting. Not that I'm conservative,
but I don't like things ing around with system data that should be
kept static and that is known to work, while the automounting stuff
often doesn't.
 

On *that* I agree.
 

The use of pseudonyms is not such a bad idea, provided that one stays
consistent and uses the same pseudonym continuously, or at the very
least, when adopting another one, make an announcement to that regard.

Shifting pseudonyms is rather a habit of trolls or spammers. I use a
pseudonym but I have used this one for many years already. I used to
have another one long before this one, but those who know me know that
this other "person" was me, and why I have chosen a different name -
among other things, I was being stalked by people who knew my pseudonym
and what newsgroup groups I was posting in.
 

I disagree on that. KDE was an effort to build a contemporary graphical
desktop environment for all kinds of UNIX systems - not just GNU/Linux
- and its name is a parody on CDE, the Common Desktop Environment that
shipped with most commercial UNIX implementations. KDE contains
elements of CDE, NeXtSTeP, pre-OS-X MacIntoshes, OS/2 and Windows. The
first iterations of KDE even looked far more like Motif and CDE than
like Windows.

Most (but not all) of the original KDE developers did work at Trolltech,
which produces the Qt widgetset, and hence they also used Qt to build
KDE upon. Originally Qt was not released under a free license, and
this is why the FSF and certain "politically correct wannabe"
distributions like RedHat refused to support KDE, despite KDE itself
being released under a free license. Meanwhile Trolltech has - with
the advice from RMS himself - licensed Qt under a GPL-compatible
license, and so that problem has been eliminated.

I will however agree with you that KDE 4.x does look a lot like Vista in
its default trim with the black panel, and that this is probably done
so as to make life easier for the Windows-to-GNU/Linux crossover
newbie. And I will also agree with you that this was absolutely
unnecessary. Yet that does not mean that I will agree that UNIX must
be a CLI-only operating system. But then again, it should also not be
seen as a CLI-only operating system of course, as the operating system
itself is CLI-only and everything else runs on top of that.

For the record, my system is normally up 24/7, but it boots to runlevel
3 anyway, not to a GUI login screen. I consider X11/KDE an extension
to the system, not an essential component to it. By the same token, I
maintain our not-for-profit organization's servers via /ssh/ - my
colleague is a Windows user and prefers /webmin/ - so I do not need any
GUI tools. It's just that having those tools available (for local
administration) might come in handy sometimes. ;-)
 

That is unfortunately a trend we get to see with lots of commercial
distributions. But there still are non-commercial distributions,
albeit only a small amount. Gentoo for instance, or Debian.
 

I don't understand why you are dissing on KDE so much. As far as my own
experience goes, I find KDE to be far more customizable than Gnome, and
far better integrated with its applications than any of the smaller,
standalone desktop environments or window managers.
 

This is mainly the influence of the distromakers themselves, because
they needlessly complicate things for the sake of branding them with
their own logos. For instance, Mandriva - formerly known as
MandrakeSoft - really goes out of its way in providing customized
versions of - among many others - all kinds of KDE-related things
(including /kdm/) and the fact that their customizations are left
largely undoented seems more like a deliberate decision than a
manifestation of Occam's Razor.
 

There really is a distinct difference between realizing that the
Windows-insanity is trying to take over the GNU/Linux world out of
their inability to understand anything other than the pre-chewed
Microsoft junk, and radically opposing and hating anything GUI-related.
I can make that distinction, but I'm afraid you yourself cannot.

The tens of thousands of CLI-only users you are referring to are mainly
server admins, and for server administration you do indeed not need a
GUI, nor is it desirable to even install anything GUI-related on a
server. However, persisting at running a CLI-only system also causes
you to bypass *almost* everything multimedia-related, such as the
manipulation of graphics via The Gimp - which is one of my favorite
applications and which, despite the condescending remarks from
Photoshop addicts, is quite professional software.

I repeat...: I do our server maintenance via /ssh./ I do most of the
stuff on my own workstation computer using terminal emulators. But I
do use KDE and I do use KDE-specific applications. And I also do use a
browser - whichever works - to surf to websites that contain graphical
content.

There's nothing wrong with using a GUI, and one should not have to hate
GUIs or refuse to use them just because there is such a thing as
Microsoft Windows. I hate Windows too. Not because I've had any
problems with it - because I haven't used it for long enough nor
intensely enough to actually have had any significant problems with it
- but because of what it is, i.e. a perversion of what a computer is
and what it's supposed to do, and what it's supposed to allow the user
to do with it (as opposed to what Microsoft allows the user to do with
it). And I hate Microsoft as a company because of all their dirty
tactics and their attempts at disrupting the GNU/Linux community
through publicized FUD and Usenet shills/trolls, and because they are
clearly attempting to further dumb down the enduser so as to beat more
money out of their pockets or simply lead them into dependency.
 

And on today's hard disks with hundreds of GB of diskspace, in today's
computers with several GB of RAM, this matters how exactly?
 

I enjoy learning new stuff about GNU/Linux (or UNIX in general) as well,
but I am not spending my entire days trying to learn something new
about it unless it is something of particular interest to me - e.g.
virtualization with Xen (and no, not with Windows as guests). I have
many fields of interest that I do research about, but I am not going to
go out of my way to become a real guru and/or run a system without a
GUI.

I will however agree that it is better to teach the newbie that
GNU/Linux (or any UNIX for that matter) is an entirely different
operating system from Windows and that they should abandon all they
know about Windows or all they were used to on Windows before
endeavoring into GNU/Linux.

It *is* a different operating system, but I do not buy into the "steep
learning curve" excuse. Someone who's never seen a computer in his
life and who gets to be confronted with Windows for the first time will
have an equally steep learning curve to overcome. The steepness of the
GNU/Linux learning curve is only an imaginary construct used as an
excuse by Windows addicts to adhere to their dumbed-down Windows-isms
and insist that GNU/Linux become "more userfriendly".

GNU/Linux is not user-unfriendly at all; it simply expects the user to
be a little more computerfriendly instead. It is far more logical and
transparent than any other non-UNIX operating system I've seen so far.
Hell, it even makes far more sense than DOS, and that was a
commandline-only system as well.
 

You only get to get technical support if you're using a commercial
distribution, even if the operating system is provided free of charge
by its vendors - e.g. the various Ubuntu-spinoffs. I used to buy
commercial distributions because I wanted to do something back to the
community, but I think I've already helped far more users here on
Usenet than that my money to the distromakers has helped the community.

At present I am still running an old Mandrake 10.0 on this machine -
purchased directly from MandrakeSoft (now Mandriva) itself through
their online store, albeit that this did not quite go as smoothly as
they were pretending - but for my other machine I am looking at Gentoo,
and since this machine here is becoming unstable hardwarewise and will
require a replacement, I will probably be installing Slackware on that
one. I don't know yet. I'll see.

One of the reasons why I won't get involved with RedHat/CentOS/Fedora is
that they refuse to let you install the system on anything other
than /ext3/ filesystems - and by now, probably /ext4/ as well - while I
have always preferred /XFS/ for large systems and /reiserfs/ on smaller
ones. Reiser's conviction for the murder of his estranged wife a while
ago has of course lessened my sympathy for his filesystem, but
technically /reiserfs/ has not given me any problems yet. /XFS/ does
have a far more elaborate toolset, however.
 

This is definitely recommended reading, and so are many of the other
links you've provided, but I don't see the logic in listing all of
those links in every post you make.

However, if I may make a suggestion, take that list of links and post it
on a website somewhere, and then include a link to that website in your
Usenet signature. Saves on bandwidth and diminishes the spam content
score of your posts. ;-)

<snip>

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

I am facing cat /proc/interrupts problems....in linux RHEL-4 ( 2.6Kernel )

Posted: 03 Jul 2009 11:49 PM PDT

mahi wrote: 

My guess is that you're seeing spurious interrupts? That is, the kernel
is disabling the IRQ because essentially the kernel is seeing interrupts
for apparently no reason (?). If so, 9 out of 10 times, this points to a
hardware problem. Problem is likely a card on the PCI/PCIe bus... could
be a problem with the motherboard. Occasionally it's due to a kernel
bug, but last time I tracked one of these down, sure enough, it was traced
to a bad peripheral card (fibre HBA in my case).

RHEL4 is sort of old.... but I wouldn't think there would be any major
issue with that kernel. Are you running the latest version of 4?

How do I set up an end date of TBD in Project Microsoft Project

How do I set up an end date of TBD in Project Microsoft Project

How do I set up an end date of TBD in Project

Posted: 01 Feb 2006 08:18 AM PST

Thanks!

"John" wrote:
 

Embedded project linked into Excel

Posted: 01 Feb 2006 06:19 AM PST

In article <com>,
SarahB <microsoft.com> wrote:
 

SarahB,
I guess my question would be, why are you embedding the whole Project
plan in Excel? There is often good reason to export some of Project's
data to Excel (e.g. for more flexibility with data manipulation or for
customized reports) but it is very rare to truly have a need for the
whole Project plan in another application. Perhaps if you enlighten us
more, we can suggest a more appropriate solution.

John
Project MVP

project should let me export tasks - not summary tasks

Posted: 01 Feb 2006 05:21 AM PST

Thanks for this - just what I was looking for. I hadn't noticed those
options before.

"Jan De Messemaeker" wrote:
 

Project 2000 Tutorial

Posted: 01 Feb 2006 01:49 AM PST

Hi Julia,

Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup :)

You might like to have a look at my series on Microsoft Project in the
TechTrax ezine at this site: http://tinyurl.com/2xbhc or this:
http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/Pub0009/LPMFrame.asp?CMD=ArticleSearch&AUTH=23
(Perhaps you'd care to rate the articles before leaving the site, :)
Thanks.)

FAQs, companion products and other useful Project information can be seen at
this web address: <http://www.mvps.org/project/>

Hope this helps - please let us know how you get on :)

Mike Glen
MS Project MVP

Julia wrote: 

Unique ID settings

Posted: 31 Jan 2006 01:47 PM PST

Good catch, Rod, I never thought of that!

Mike Glen
Project MVP



Rod Gill wrote: 

Object Not Set error for Blank Tasks

Posted: 31 Jan 2006 01:37 PM PST

Hi,

ANY for each should be followed by
If not thistask is nothing then
HTH

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http://users.online.be/prom-ade/
+32-495-300 620
"roadkill" <microsoft.com> schreef in bericht
news:com... 
through 
macro 
schedule 
error? 

conditional formatting help..

Posted: 31 Jan 2006 01:10 PM PST

Hi Francis,

Who mentions task id?
activeselection.tasks(1) refers to the first (or the only) task in the
selection.
HTH

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"Francis" <com> schreef in bericht
news:googlegroups.com... 

Which version of Project is correct for us?

Posted: 31 Jan 2006 12:36 PM PST

Hi,

AFAIK no version of Project allows simultaneous updates by more than one
user.
In that area Server has no added value.
HTH

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Microsoft Project Most Valuable Professional
http://users.online.be/prom-ade/
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"BFisher" <microsoft.com> schreef in bericht
news:com... 
standalone 
What 

Draw in a Network Diagram

Posted: 31 Jan 2006 12:02 PM PST

You're welcome, Charlie :-)


Have a look through companion products at this web address:
http://project.mvps.org/faqs.htm

Hope this helps - please let us know how you get on :)

Mike Glen
MS Project MVP



Charlie wrote: 

many number of task that can be enter

Posted: 31 Jan 2006 09:03 AM PST

Hi Oscar,

Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup :)

1 million tasks per project - I wouldn't worry about that as you'll most
likely run out of memory before then :)

FAQs, companion products and other useful Project information can be seen at
this web address: http://project.mvps.org/faqs.htm

Hope this helps - please let us know how you get on :)

Mike Glen
MS Project MVP

Oscar Castano wrote: 

Is Microsoft Project the correct software for me????? Please Help

Posted: 31 Jan 2006 07:00 AM PST

Sal,

Please describe the kinds of data that you want to share. The solution
could be SharePoint but I can't tell from from post.

dn

"City College of New York" wrote:
 

How to display employees hours sumed to a Manager

Posted: 31 Jan 2006 06:58 AM PST

Jzis-

It should be possible to use the resource grouping field in the resource
dictionary to simulate a one-level resource hierarchy.

In your example, you would have three resources (Tom, Mary, and Lou) and all
of them would be in the group "Joe".
You would then create a report that groups hours by this resource group.

I'm not sure HOW you would create that report in Microsoft Project, but I
know it can be done in my company's add-on reporting software for Microsoft
Project ("DecisionReports for Microsoft Project").
(I would be happy to work with you directly to get the report you need -
just send an email.)

Regards,
John Garay
com
http://www.decisionedge.com


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

Project server and Office XP

Posted: 31 Jan 2006 04:57 AM PST

Thanks,

"Jan De Messemaeker" wrote:
 

Filter in resource usage for different rates

Posted: 31 Jan 2006 03:59 AM PST

????? If there is a grouping within the task for Cost rate table A, that
subgroup has a "group summary line" hasn't it? And the values in that line
are only fo A???

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"emmapso" <microsoft.com> schreef in bericht
news:com... 
reports 
up 
A 
to 
and 
the 

How to display all tasks happening in a day on the calender view?

Posted: 31 Jan 2006 03:22 AM PST

Hi Dominik,

Try Format/Layout/and check: Attempt to fit as many tasks as possible.


FAQs, companion products and other useful Project information can be seen at
this web address: http://project.mvps.org/faqs.htm

Hope this helps - please let us know how you get on :)

Mike Glen
MS Project MVP

Dominik wrote: 

The MS Project "VIEW" as a metaphore???

Posted: 30 Jan 2006 08:59 PM PST

Jan,

Thank you very much. I expect this will do just what I need and The Boss
will be happy.

John Hansen


"Jan De Messemaeker" <jandemes at prom hyphen ade dot be> wrote in message
news:phx.gbl... 

Task Split

Posted: 30 Jan 2006 01:29 PM PST

I sent you one of my scheduler last year with great syccess. This one is in
the mail.

"Jan De Messemaeker" wrote:
 

Looking for some advise - Microsoft Exchange

Looking for some advise - Microsoft Exchange

Looking for some advise

Posted: 17 Jun 2008 09:20 AM PDT

Both sites have some 25 users which are currently using outlook 2003. The
mailboxes for some users do go in to a couple of hundred meg but that's just
few at each site. Outlook currently running in cached mode. 1 site has 8mg
ADSL whilst the other has I believe 8mg sdsl.

thanks

Glenn

"Michael Dragone" <no.e-mail=less_spam> wrote in message
news:phx.gbl... 

Exchange 2003 slow for users ("Retriving information.." popup in Outlook)

Posted: 16 Jun 2008 07:53 PM PDT

Use cached mode.

You mention "Usually it's only 20-30 seconds, but 

The behavior is caused when there is not enough db cache to cache the 11
default views for a folder, and the views are generated on the fly. As the
number of items items you have in default folders increases, the time and IO
required to generate the 11 views also increases. That's why there is a
recommended limit of 5000 items per folder.

In Exchange 2003, the amount of cache available is generally less than 900MB
for a server. Moving to Exchange 2007 helps because you have more db cache.
Moving to cached mode clients helps because it shifts the IO from the server
to the client.

John

"Mike O" <can> wrote in message
news:phx.gbl... 

Exchange admin task after migration.

Posted: 16 Jun 2008 02:47 AM PDT

Thank you for the link.
but as you say, It should works and it seems to work. nevertheless, a
testing procedure is more than welcome to make sure everything is
working fine.


On Jun 16, 12:52pm, "Martin Blackstone" <com>
wrote: 

Critical - All Current Email Deleted Outlook 2007

Posted: 14 Jun 2008 09:38 PM PDT

On your BES server, verify that it has the same SP and hotfixes as your
Exchange servers.
Verify the version properties of the CDO.DLL file against the Exchange
server.
They should be exactly the same versions.



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

Create a Mailbox

Posted: 14 Jun 2008 04:35 PM PDT

Thanks very much.

"Martin Blackstone" <com> wrote in message
news:com... 
server. 

No mail in OWA

Posted: 13 Jun 2008 02:49 PM PDT

I looked in Active Directory for Users and Computers, Security tab, I see
"Account Unknown {S1.......}". Will this cause no mail in OWA? Thanks.

"Ben M. Schorr - MVP (OneNote)" <mvp> wrote in message
news:phx.gbl... 

Problem Transferring Microsoft Office 2007 Word Files to MicrosoftExchange Server File is Renamed

Posted: 13 Jun 2008 02:43 PM PDT

On Jun 14, 10:10am, "Ben M. Schorr - MVP (OneNote)"
<mvp> wrote: 

I used the Send to Public Folders command in the Quick Access toolbar
in Word 2007.

Undeliverable e-mail Alerts

Posted: 13 Jun 2008 01:56 PM PDT

All you can do to eliminate or reduce the problem would be to block the
NDRs. If I want to send out e-mail as "com" there's
nothing you (or Trend) can do to stop me from doing. If I blast out a
million spam messages with that address and some of them hit invalid
addresses (as they will) then the NDRs generated from those servers are
going to go to the ostensible sender...you.

Up to the point where you receive the NDR this process hasn't touched
your systems at all, so there's nothing you (or Trend) can do to stop
it.

Sorry! I hate it too. I have clients who have to deal with that issue
periodically. Spammers . ESPECIALLY the ones too cowardly to post
with their own real addresses (which is pretty much all of them).

--
-Ben-
Ben M. Schorr, MVP
Roland Schorr & Tower
http://www.rolandschorr.com
http://www.officeforlawyers.com



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

Email Send to Wrong Address

Posted: 13 Jun 2008 08:12 AM PDT

Apparently a previous employee had Outlook 2003 installed on the Exchange
server. I found a NK2 file on the sefrver under the administrators profile.
Dumping that file even though I uninstalled Outllok off the server long ago,
seems to have corrected the issue!!!

"Andy David {MVP}" wrote:
 

connection dropped by remote host

Posted: 12 Jun 2008 03:45 PM PDT

Thanks whuber,
After hours of testing over the weekend I can clarify.
To update the issue, it appears that only messages with attachments of a
certain size or larger are failing. Mail is delivered to the recipients when
there is no attachment or an attachment of about 250 KB. This eliminates
blacklisting, MX records etc. If I try to send a message to anyone with an
attachment larger than about 500 KB then the following occurs.
1) The message is placed in the Exchange queue with a "ready" status.
2) The queue status changes to "active" & the message leaves the queue.
The message trcking log shows that the message was transferred, by SMTP to
mail.myISP.net.au
3) After about 2 or 3 minutes the message returns to the queue & the ststus
changes to "retry"
4) The process repeats itself until an NDR is generated stating that the
message could not be delivered within the timout period.

Interestingly I can send a message to the same recipient (with no
attachment) whilst the one with the attachment is failing.
The exent log only shows that the connection was dropped by the remote host
with no other information.
I have speed tested the link & a 100KB file is uploaded in 8 sec so the 1 MB
file should be uploading in 80 sec.
Any clues?

"whuber" wrote:
 

Corrupt Mail Store Exchange 03

Posted: 12 Jun 2008 12:31 PM PDT

The mail store has the following error:

“it was a 474
source: ESE
with -1081 in the text”

"Andy David {MVP}" wrote:
 

Recovering Exchange 2003 to a different server

Posted: 12 Jun 2008 08:53 AM PDT

And Exchange 2000/2003

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa997176(EXCHG.65).aspx

Oliver

Exchange 2007 - attachment in body ?

Posted: 12 Jun 2008 12:44 AM PDT

Thanks for comments ! Rollup 2 solved problem ! :)

Send As with another account

Posted: 11 Jun 2008 04:31 PM PDT

Leif,

Thats what I did.

I am not getting the result I expected.

Tnt

"Leif Pedersen [ MVP]" wrote:
 

exchange 2007 w/ outlook 2003 and public folders HELP

Posted: 11 Jun 2008 12:37 PM PDT

I changed the default location and it worked like a charm. Slight oversight
on my part. Thanks a bunch!!!

"Rabidity" wrote:
 

NTBACKUP - Exchange 2007 Logs not deleted

Posted: 06 Jun 2008 01:58 AM PDT

> What type of backup are you doing? 

The backup is full. The stores are correct (there are only one :D )

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Agures

Microsoft Word - Can't open multiple Word documents

Microsoft Word - Can't open multiple Word documents

Can't open multiple Word documents

Posted: 21 Jan 2015 03:08 PM PST

I have a user who occasionally can't open a Word document if he already has one open:

- If he has a Word document open and tries to open another existing document, he will get a second Word window, but it will be blank. Not a blank document, but just a blank instance of Word. 

- This is very inconsistent. It doesn't happen all the time, and doesn't even happen consistently with the same documents. Sometimes a document will open fine if something else is open, sometimes it won't. 

- It's also inconsistent in terms of where the documents come from. He's had it happen while opening documents from the shared drive, from an email, or even from the internet. 

- If this happens to him (and again, this happens only occasionally and inconsistently), he can close out of Word completely and try again and it almost always works the next time. 

As you can see, it's a tough one because it can't be replicated and it's somewhat vague. If anyone has any troubleshooting tips, please pass them along. 

Thank you, 

Leah

Default paragraph marker

Posted: 21 Jan 2015 02:23 PM PST

Why does the first line/hanging indent marker shift to a decimal place where I have a marked tab position, and not stay in its default position on the ruler?

Multiple Bibliographies in a single word document

Posted: 21 Jan 2015 02:16 PM PST

I am trying to add in an reference list at the end of each chapter in a document that I am writing. I have added in appropriate section breaks but the reference list in the second chapter continues to pull in all the references that were used in the first chapter as well as the ones used in the second chapter. Any help or suggestions would be appreciated. 

MS WORD 2013 Pro-Windows 7 Pro - Cannot edit document says it is locked and will not let me unlock.

Posted: 21 Jan 2015 01:40 PM PST

I created a document a few months ago to use as a sort of template . I have used it several times with out a hitch.  I went back in today and it shows the document locked.  I have tried to unlock it, but even though it shows unlocked every option to edit document is greyed out.  I have saved under a different name, same thing.  I have looked for any 1KB ~$ files and there are none.  I am usually the one that answers MS Office questions at my work and I am completely stumped on this one.  Any ideas?

Create New Theme Colors

Posted: 21 Jan 2015 11:42 AM PST

Office 2013

Windows 7 Professional 64-bit SP1

I am having trouble understanding the relationship between the Create New Theme Colors and the Samples.

 

Bring up the Create New Theme Colors dialog.

Design tab | Document Formatting | Colors | Customize Colors | Create New Theme Colors dialog | Theme Colors group

Text/Background - Dark 1
Text/Background - Light 1
Text/Background - Dark 2
Text/Background - Light 2
Accent 1
Accent 2
Accent 3
Accent 4
Accent 5
Accent 6
Hyperlink
Followed Hyperlink

 

Does "Text/Background - Dark 1" effect Text 1 or the Background 1?

Why the ambiguous wording?

Either it effects Text or Background, but not both.

 

If you change "Text/Background - Dark 1", it changes the Text color of the second sample.

This seems illogical. Why not change the Text of the first sample?

 

Bring up the Create New Theme Colors dialog.

Home | Font | Font Color

 

The Themes Colors are

Background 1

Text 1

Background 1

Text 1

Accent 1
Accent 2
Accent 3
Accent 4
Accent 5
Accent 6

These make logical sense unlike the Create New Theme Colors dialog.

 

Thanks in advance.

Unable to edit a Word 2010 document in Word 2013

Posted: 21 Jan 2015 09:06 AM PST

I have Word 2013 on my computer and I need to edit a template that was created in an earlier version of Word, but I am not able to. The document I need to edit is a semi-protected document that only allows certain sections to be edited. When I open the document on my computer it says "compatibility mode" at the top. When I click a section to start typing I am not able to, and at the bottom of the window it says "This modification is not allowed because the document is opened for viewing only". I tried saving the document on another computer as a .docx, .doc, and tried opening them on my computer, but no luck. Others in my office still have Word 2010 and they have no trouble opening the same document and editing. Not sure what to do?

Thank you!

Word 2010 - wrong font size shown on ribbon

Posted: 21 Jan 2015 09:00 AM PST

I am having a problem with the font size shown in the indicator on the ribbon in Word 2010. For example, when I highlight some text and go to the ribbon and change the font size to 18, the indicator on the ribbon says 18. Then when I click on or highlight some other text that is a different font size (say 12 for example) the indicator on the ribbon still says 18. That number doesn't change, no matter what size of font I highlight. It always shows the last font size that I changed. So, I can't use it to tell what font size any of my text is unless I change the size. 

Anyone else having this problem? Any ideas on how to correct it? I am not seeing it on other computers with Word 2010.

Can I generate cross-references from styles based on H1, H2 etc.?

Posted: 21 Jan 2015 08:41 AM PST

I have a Word 2013 document where I defined my own heading styles (such as 'My H1' based on 'H1', etc.).

When I try to insert a cross-reference from a heading, the selection pane is empty.

The odd thing is that the Navigation pane to the left of the screen populates just fine, as does the Table of Contents.

What's the easiest way of being able to add cross-references without changing the global heading styles (H1, H2, etc.).

Having problems with colouring activex option/radio button

Posted: 21 Jan 2015 08:05 AM PST

I prepared a form using Microsoft Word 2013 and after adding option/radio buttons i cant seem to change the color of the buttons to match the color of my text. The color shown on the screen is significantly different from that which appears on the printed form than that on the screen. I'd really appreciate if anyone can help out.

Appendix Page Numbering Word 2013

Posted: 21 Jan 2015 07:29 AM PST

I am trying to edit a document in Word 2013. It has several sections, including Appendixes. I believe the original document was created in Word 2010, which could be contributing to the problem.

The problem is:

when I try to insert the page number, including chapter number, in the heading for the Appendix A, it appears as 7-1 instead of A-1. 

Page 2 of Appendix A reads 7-2. Page 1 of Appendix B also reads 7-2, despite it being on a new page after 7-2.

I am using section breaks, I've tried both section break next page and section break even page.

How do I get it to recognize the Appendixes as separate from the last section and the chapter number to appear as A/B in the page number?

I created the sections using Heading 1, subsections with Heading 2 and Sub-subsections with Heading 3. The Appendixes headings came from the existing heading style "Annex" and the Appendix subheadings came from the existing heading style "Annex2"

In the navigation panel it shows up correctly, the heading auto numbers the second appendix as B. It's the page numbers and subsequently their indexing in the TOC that doesn't show up correctly.

I've tried using http://shaunakelly.com/word/numbering/numberingappendixes.html, but it doesn't include 2013 and following her advice for assigning Heading Styles 6-9 doesn't work because those are allotted for subsections #.1.1.1.1.1 - #.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1. Modifying them leaves the Appendix as a subsection of section 7.

I appreciate any help with this.

Microsoft Word crashing when closing after installing Endnote

Posted: 21 Jan 2015 07:29 AM PST

I have recently installed EndnoteX7 onto my laptop and every time I close a word document I am working in, the word document crashes and then reloads word asking if I would like to reload the last recovered session. Does anyone have any ideas? This is with Microsoft Word 2013. 

Word will not start after loading Office Home and Student 2013 software?

Posted: 21 Jan 2015 07:15 AM PST

I just loaded a new version of Office Home & Student 2013 on my PC running Windows 7.  I previously had an older version of MS Word 2000 running on this same PC.  After the installation Excel and Power point seem to run fine.  

When I launch Word 2013 the application starts but then as soon as I try to open an existing document or click on blank document to start a new document I get an immediate error that says Microsoft Word has stopped working. 

Then a second error comes up that says a problem caused the program to stop working correctly.  Windows will close the program and notify you if a solution is available. 

At that point I cannot go any further or do anything without closing Word.  I cannot open old files and I cannot create new ones.

I've fully uninstalled Office 2013 and re installed it but the problem still exists.

Table of Contents bolds Level 3 - Word 2010

Posted: 21 Jan 2015 07:07 AM PST

We use Word 2010 on a Windows 7 operating system.   Every time we create a Table of Contents, regardless of the settings we choose, Level 3, the numbers of it, are always bold.  and it's the type of fix that we can only change by highlighting the actual number itself (each and every one singly) and changing the format of the font. 

It's not something that we can fix by any other means and it changes them back to bold every single time we update the TOC.  There has GOT to be a way to fix this.  Anyone?

Thanks -

Footer problems, Microsoft Word 2010

Posted: 21 Jan 2015 05:00 AM PST

Hello

I have created a document and inserted a footer, which I can see on print preview very well. However, it prints only on selected pages (2-3 and 11-13) and is partially cut out from the other pages. I do not see any section breaks at the places where the footer is cut out, and the margins are identical throughout the document. Please let me know how to resolve this issue. Thank you

Mail Merge in Word 2013

Posted: 21 Jan 2015 04:08 AM PST

I want to be able to send Word 2013 mail merged e-mails from a secondary POP/SMTP account in Outlook 2013. Outlook defaults to an IMAP/SMTP account and I have been unable to change this behaviour. i.e. changing Outlook default account.

I applied the Registry change:

Registry key to force account selection every time:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\15.0\outlook\options
Value Name: ForceAccountSelection
Value type: REG_DWORD: 1 for force, 0 to disable

to force an Outlook Account Choice, however, with this Registry entry in place, at the end of the Word Mail Merge a Warning Dialog Box appears saying

'You must select an Outlook Account'. On opening Outlook the mail merged e-mails, all 450 of them, are sitting in the Outbox of the IMAP/SMTP Account

i.e. the wrong account.

Is there any way to change this behaviour and, preferably, select the Outlook Account to use for the send from the Word Mail Merge?

jcc285

Insert picture into a text box in Word 2010

Posted: 21 Jan 2015 03:46 AM PST

I am trying to insert a picture into a textbox in Word 2010 but every time I paste it from a Powerpoint slide into the textbox it just shows as a clear white box within the textbox that I can select and change in size but not actually see. I've tried Insert>Picture>From File to see if that works. I've also checked File>Options>Advanced>Show document content>Show drawings and text boxes on screen and I've unchecked Show picture placeholders. I've also checked File>Options>Display>Printing Options> Print drawings created in Word and still no luck.

Has anybody else got any ideas on how to fix this? I've been stuck on it for a couple of days now and really can't seem to work it out!

Tool to compare all the files in a directory

Posted: 21 Jan 2015 02:03 AM PST

HI,

I have thopusands of .doc files which have been migrated to .docx files.

I need to compare all the filed in the source (.doc) with the destination (.docx) folder.

Is there any tool available to perform this task in a single step.

Thanks.

MicroSoft Office 2010 profesional plus

Posted: 21 Jan 2015 02:00 AM PST

Hi,

I have installed the MicroSoft Office 2010 profesional plus and the instalation passed perfectlly.

While working with it I have found that the font color isn't working properly.

I can select any kind of color but can't see it in my computer.

If I set a color, even though I can't see it in my computer, it can be seen in any other compurer (by sending it to any other).

Please help me to solve this issue.

Thanks

Amos

Why can't I save modified Word07 templates?

Posted: 21 Jan 2015 12:40 AM PST

If I modify a Word07 template it will not save.  Error message says file is read-only.

I can't find a way to make it writeable.

How do I do that?

Thanks

Is it possible in Word 2013 (Office 365) to lock Header and Footer from being edited, whilst keeping Track Changes functionality?

Posted: 21 Jan 2015 12:23 AM PST

Hi there,

I am trying to lock down our header and footers for our company templates ( i have used the continuous break, protect document method) but as these are company documents we require track changes to be enabled so multiple users can edit a document efficiently.

I have read that Word disables the Track Changes button (and all other means of turning it on) as soon as you start the protection - which I need to do to lock the header and footer.

I have been experiencing that when headers and footers are locked - track changes wont work.

HELP:

A - is this true? Does word disable track changes like in my statement above - Because i think this is what i am experiencing

B - is there another way to achieve what I want to do?

Please note Macros are not feasible for our work site as they are local to PC's and i want a global fix.

HELP

Incorrect Icons for Files Associated with Word 2013

Posted: 21 Jan 2015 12:19 AM PST

Something strange has happened that I've just noticed. File types associated with Word 2013 have the wrong icon. Instead of the square W icon, I'm getting a page with the top right folded over and three lines in the middle. Extensions associated with other applications and other versions of Word are fine. As far as I can tell, this has happened today, but I can't be certain.

I've tried using Default Programs to sort it out, but Word 2013 isn't even in the list of available applications to assign to a file extension. I knew how to select a specific icon from an exe in earlier versions of Windows, but not in 8.

Not sure if it's relevant, but today I had several messages pop up telling me my C: drive was full and I should make some space. When I checked, there was 42 GB free, which I wouldn't call full.

Can anyone assist with this?

Thanks

Gordon

Unable to activate Office

Posted: 20 Jan 2015 08:10 PM PST

Original title: Microsoft Office issues

My microsoft office is asking for my product activation code again, which I cant find and it wont allow me to sign in with my user ID. An error sign pops up. Is there any other way around this?

Equation editor proble in index

Posted: 20 Jan 2015 07:34 PM PST

Hi ,

I am facing a problem regarding equation editor. while writing my report I have used it to write report.Everything works fine.But When I try to put all equations in index showing list of equation all equation changes format form professional to linear automatically and even if I change it in index it remains same.

Please solve it as ap.

Thanks,

Ramesh

More page header trouble

Posted: 20 Jan 2015 07:08 PM PST

   This is not quite the same as other similar questions. When I switch between Header/Footer mode and Text mode (not their official names), things change drastically. Extra pages may appear or disappear, the cursor jumps to some arbitrary-seeming place, and when I put a header in and go to Text mode, the header changes to a previously used one. These behaviors make it difficult - in fact almost impossible - to get the headers right. Altogether, Headers are probably the worst thing about Word (and that's saying a lot). If I could, I would not use the Header/Footer mode at all, but manually put headers (and page numbers) in as part of the regular text. Even worse, the problem appears only in parts of the docx.


  I could put the whole book up for inspection but it's about 1200 pages (6-7 MB).


   I've been working on it for seven years and thought I was almost done. I'm desperate. Can anyone give me some guidance?

Steve

something strange happened with proofing tools

Posted: 20 Jan 2015 03:46 PM PST

Hi,

I was typing in a word document this morning and a window popped up as I was closing it. It said something about Windows proofing tools and, to my surprise, it contained apiece of text that I had typed in a different word document several days ago. The window said that we could "help improve proofing tools" by sending this text to Windows, and it also said that we could delete some parts of the text that we don't want to be sent. I just clicked X and exited at once.

 

But I've been worried… I've been using Word for years and I've never seen this before. Does it affect my privacy?  And is that something that's supposed to happen to everyone from time to time, or was  that thing a virus/ fake message?

By the way, in case you need to know... I use Windows 7 and Microsoft Office 2010.

And another thing is that my computer had broken down a few weeks ago and a family member had helped me fix it, but apparently the windows activation key hadn't been done yet. (I was prompted to enter the activation at startup.) I entered it just today and got the message that this copy of Windows is  verified to be genuine. But I just thought I'd bring this up because I was wondering if that weird message about proofing tools  might have had anything to do with this.

Sorry, but I'm hardly computer savvy and I'd be so grateful if someone could help resolve my worries.
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