Re: money/quicken/?
On Sun, 2003-08-24 at 01:11, D. Clarke wrote: > Hi, > > are there any decent (free or not free) money/quicken clones out there > that'll do basically everything those big-bad windows programs will do? > > preferably something with debian packages, naturally. > > let me know if you know of any, thanks! > > ~ Darryl > > Avoid gnucash. It uses the most irritating form of data entry known to man. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Permissions on a vfat partition
On Fri, 2003-08-22 at 19:20, Johann Koenig wrote: > On Fri, 22 Aug 2003 21:08:06 -0400 > Rich B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > All, > > > > I've got a dual boot laptop with Sarge & Win2k. > > My problem is that when I mount the fat32 partition only root can > > access it. Any other user account gets "Permission denied" when > > trying to access anything on the partition. I can't even do an "ls" as > > a normal user. > > > > My fstab entry currently looks something like this: > > /dev/hda4 /fat vfat defaults 1 0 > > > > I've tried every combination mount options I could think of, but still > > > > only root can use the partition. > > > > What am I doing wrong? Help! > > 'man mount' > > Search for 'umask' > > Or search the archives, this has been covered *many* times. If it's coevered *many* times, it's obviously an issue that merits discussion. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: money/quicken/?
On Sun, 2003-08-24 at 08:20, Paul Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 08:17:43AM -0600, Brian Gonzales wrote: > > Avoid gnucash. It uses the most irritating form of data entry known to > > man. > > It uses double-entry accounting. This isn't abnormal for people to > use in checkbooks. Ah, checkbooks... those archaic paper thingies people used in the 90s. Quicken and CD-ROM writing is my sole reason for using windows. And no, I never used double-entry in my checkbooking either. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Permissions on a vfat partition
On Sun, 2003-08-24 at 09:08, Johann Koenig wrote: > On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 08:23:29 -0600 > Brian Gonzales <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Fri, 2003-08-22 at 19:20, Johann Koenig wrote: > > > > > > Or search the archives, this has been covered *many* times. > > > > If it's coevered *many* times, it's obviously an issue that merits > > discussion. > > It gets covered *many* times because no-one is willing to get over to > dejanews.com or the debian-user archives and do a quick search. It does > not merit any discussion. A quick read of the man pages and/or usenet is > quite sufficient. Why then do lists like this survive? If *everything's* been discussed once, then lists like this would die. It's called dialog. Oh, and man pages are practically useless. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: money/quicken/?
On Sun, 2003-08-24 at 11:49, Alex Malinovich wrote: ... > You do, of course, realize that Quicken uses a double-entry system as > well right? It's just not quite as obvious. You know how you assign all > of those categories to expenses in Quicken? THAT's double-entry! Every > debit in one account is a credit in another. So when you debit $20 from > your checking account, you also credit $20 to your Expenses:Auto:Gas > account. Simple. :) Ah ha! That's what double-entry is, it makes *so* much sense now. Good thing Quicken does it transparently, or people would never balance their books. Thank for the explanation. Signed, Grateful. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re:
On Mon, 2003-08-25 at 18:48, Owner wrote: > i want to delete www.stop sign .com I'd like to delete anything named Clinton. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: re wet blue
On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 10:28, Lukasz Hejnak wrote: > arghh.. sorry just couldn't help this one... > wet blue farm animals? what will they think of next? > and what kind of english is that? > "we have wet blue cow"? > the only thing that comes to my mind is: > "all your base are belong too us" > It couldn't be spam, it only registered 2.2 according to my filtering. :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Kernel Upgrade
While updating my kernel, the installer advises to add initrd=/initrd.img to the image=/vmlinuz portion of lilo.conf. After which, I run lilo and get the following error: debian:/etc# lilo Fatal: open /initrd.img: No such file or directory I don't have SCSI, but my drives are ATA100 (recognized as hde & hdf). Thanks -- Brian Gonzales <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [~OT] tax program for linux
Anal retentive? No, just getting *my* money back from the government. It's called owning a house and getting deductions that are due. Buy one, you might like it. On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 01:03, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 10:25:11PM -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > > equivalent linux program that anyone here knows about / uses? or do i > > have to suck it up and do them by hand? > > Unless you're anal retentive about getting deductions or what not, I'd > look into seeing if you can use the 1040-EZ form. Takes 5 minutes and > a calculator and you're done. -- Brian Gonzales <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: First Ever Debian Install: my notes
hing despite one of Debian's features being the > stability of the present Woody release, so I edited > /etc/apt/sources.list to look like this: > > deb http://mirror.csit.fsu.edu/debian/ unstable main > non-free contrib > deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US > unstable/non-US main contrib non-free > deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main > contrib non-free > > What this did is told debian WHERE to go to get files. > See where it says "unstable"? well you can also > duplicate the first two lines, and duplicate them > twice (so there are 6 total) and change two of them to > "testing" and the other two to "stable" if you want > more options. You can read about debian's > stable/testing/unstable releases on the Debian main > site. Next, I had to make an /etc/apt/preferences file > that looked like this: > > Package: * > Pin: release a=unstable > Pin-Priority: 600 > > once again, you can have a testing and stable version > of these 3 lines also. And you can read about the PIN > priority also, it's a pretty robust system of being > able to upgrade, downgrade, etc with various stability > levels of the programs. I just want the cutting edge > stuff, and realize it may not all work great, so I > just put in the unstable line. There are some links > that talk about pinning at > http://jaqque.sbih.org/kplug/apt-pinning.html and > http://www.argon.org/~roderick/apt-pinning.html > > Next, sometimes when I would run "apt-get update" it > would crash if there were too many package names it > grabs to tell you whats available, so I made a file > called /etc/apt/apt.conf (don't be confused by the > already existing directory apt.conf.d) and in this new > file I put the line: > > APT::Cache-Limit 25165824; > > and don't forget the semi-colon. Then I ran "apt-get > update" and it fetched all the available packages I > could install. I started with two bases, I wanted to > get X Windows and KDE running, and I did with: > > apt-get install x-window-system > apt-get install kde-base > > they installed great - but some standard X/KDE > problems happened. First, my USB/Optical Logitech > Wheel Mouse was acting downright weird. Occaisionally > it would experience pointer jumping. I solved this by > doing an "apt-get install gpm" and changing the device > to /dev/gpmdata in my XF86Config file. Also, sound > seemed to be having a problem, and I went into a > program (i think it was modconf or something?) and > made sure that the following drivers were out there, > kernel supported, etc, etc, and i also added the > following into /etc/modules : emu10k1, op13, sound, > soundcore, ac97_codec -- and after doing that sound > worked through the artsd program. You may have to > restart artsd or even reboot to get the modules > working unless you want to do a "modprobe > " on them all. Great, KDE, Mouse and Sound > working. One final problem, although sound was > working, my favorite player xmms wasn't playing > anything. I needed to get a program "apt-get install > xmmsarts" which is the xmms arts output plugin. After > installing that, I went into xmms, preferences, and > changed the output driver to artsd (before that it was > at the default OSS) > > Then I grabbed some other programs too, like mozilla, > xchat, gaim, etc > > Someone told me at this point that i might want to do > an "apt-get dist-upgrade" and that was a good idea. > Basically i still had some old packages from the > original netinst CD, because I never bothered to > update them. They were still in the "stable" version > even though everything else I was using was from > "unstable". I had trouble installing "apt-get install > kuickshow" for example, until after i had done the > dist-upgrade. > > Those were the problems I had trying to install Debian > for the first time. As always, installing a new OS can > be a bit tricky, but I really like Debian's feature of > being able to start off with a clean, bare-bones OS > and then being able to add things package by package. > I also found the following commands useful: > > apt-get remove for when i messed up and > wanted a package gone > dpkg -i somefile.deb for when i found a .deb that was > not part of the debian sources that i had > dpkg -l gave me a list of packages on my > system, > similar to "rpm -qa" on redhat > dpkg -L told me what files, and where, > apt-get put things from recently installed packages > > Hope these notes are helpful to someone. Please > remember that if you ask a question on the > internet/mail lists and you find out how to fix > something, it's always nice to post one final message > and say how you got it working. I always find posts > where people say "i figured it out" but don't tell how > extremely annonying. > > > __ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Tax Center - File online, calculators, forms, and more > http://tax.yahoo.com -- Brian Gonzales <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Password discrepancies
I seem to have different root passwords: 1. If I 'su' at a command line, my root password works fine. 2. If I'm using KDE, I click on a Command Center icon, it prompts for a root password, it works fine. 3. If I'm in Gnome, I do the same and I get a 'bad password' dialog box. I don't recall changing a Gnome password (didn't I *had* one.). tia -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Gnome 2 vs. KDE
Damn, I thought this was going to be a Gnome v. KDE religous war thread. :) On Tuesday 03 June 2003 07:07 am, Bret Comstock Waldow wrote: > I am running Woody, and loading some packages I want from backports I've > found on the web. > > It seems that installing the Gnome 2 backport removes my KDE desktop. > I've even found a KDE 3.1 site, but the Gnome 2 install threatens to > remove KDE without replacement. > > Does anyone know what the issue is here? I'd like Gnome 2 primarily so > I can run a working version of GnomeMeeting, and I'd just as soon keep > KDE as my desktop. > > Thanks in advance, > Bret -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Ximian dropping Debian ?
There was something on /. about this. One of Ximian's teenexecutives stated that stable was too old and something to the effect that sid was too new. Go check it out. I liked Redhat soley because of Ximian's RedCarpet support. Debian still beats it hands down with apt-get...imo. On Sat, 2003-06-07 at 13:52, James D. Freels wrote: > Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2003 15:52:44 -0400 > User-Agent: KMail/1.5.9 > Cc: Victor Cain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Disposition: inline > Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="us-ascii" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Status: RO > X-Status: Q > X-KMail-EncryptionState: > X-KMail-SignatureState: > X-KMail-MDN-Sent: > > I was talking with an Ximian sales person about how to purchase Ximian > Connector 1.4. I need this product at my work place in order to interface > with the corporate e-mail/calendar server M$ Outlook Exchange. I also had > need Evolution 1.4 in order to use the companion Connector product. Both of > these products are available for download from Ximian, but not in Debian > packages. > > This sales person stated something to the effect that starting with v1.4, > Ximian would no longer support Debian. Further, their products would "no > longer run on Debian systems" no matter how I hacked them with alien, etc. > He also tried to explain this new policy as something to do with "corporate > America", etc. > > Can anyone confirm this ? This makes no sense to me. First, why would Ximian > cut off Debian ? Debian is a strong supporter of gnome which Ximian depends > on. Second, how could the product not work anyway provided all the > supporting Linux libraries were also loaded ? Do they have some type of > check to see if I am running RedHat before Connector will run ? > > Confused... > > -- > James D. Freels, Ph.D. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] > mplayer -cache 100 http://wdvx.microcerv.net/wdvx > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Password discrepancies
Perhaps you should reread my post. > Gnome is doing the right thing. Don't log in as root. Especially > don't log in as root in X, KDE or Gnome. Open a terminal emulator and > use su -m to get root in X. This is safer. > > - -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: KDE problem on startup
On Sat, 2003-06-21 at 06:38, Curtis Vaughan wrote: > When KDE is starting, it goes through like 5 stages represented by > icons. Unfortunately, I can't remember them all but on the second one, > where it's starting system something or other it hangs for a long time, > then the startup screen disappears leaving just a light blue background > and nonething else. Curious, did you get a fix for this? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
/. debate
Ok, how many of you participated in the /. debates over the weekend? :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Accidently uninstalled KDE
Used apt-get to install a couple of packages the other day, and somehow uninstalled KDE (should've known when the installer asked if I wanted to stop the KDE daemon :). If I apt-get install kde or kde-core or kdebase, it eventually states I need kdelibs, kdelibs-data kdelibs4, all of which I've tried to install. In short, I'm kinda in a dependancy hell. Can I just shitcan all of KDE and start with a fresh install? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Accidently uninstalled KDE
> > Can I just shitcan all of KDE and start with a fresh install? > > Yeah, that can work. > Well, my question didn't come out as I expected. Is there a command to completely remove *only* KDE, then, do a fresh KDE install. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PDF viewing and such
> There are several packages available to view PDF documents, among them > xpdf, gs, kghostview and Adobe's Acrobat Reader. The last one is not > available as an official package, but there is a package available from > marillat.free.fr. Add > > deb http://marillat.free.fr stable main > What's the package's name? Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PDF viewing and such
> What's the package's name? > > Thanks. > Duh, sorry... acroread. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
