So, I've decided to attempt another escape from the evil empire (tm) and so far it's going pretty good. So far Ubuntu 6.06 hasn't given me the problems that I experienced with 5.10. I am preferring Gnome over KDE though in the past with other linux distros it's been the other way around. I've managed to get Ktorrent working without a problem. Likewise with VLC and Opera. I've got Wine installed but haven't had much luck with it so far--it installed a couple of games fine but then wouldn't load the damn things. I signed up with Cedega for 3 months but have only had limited success with that so far--only tried some smaller games, and since it's designed for top-end games we'll see how it goes.
It's a real burden being right so often.
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evil jimi - Sep 15, 2006 6:39:33 am PDT #8949 of 10003
Lurching from one disaster to the next.
Dana - Sep 15, 2006 8:29:52 am PDT #8950 of 10003
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I have a new iPod, la la la la la LA LA LA LA LA LA LA.
tommyrot - Sep 15, 2006 8:47:34 am PDT #8951 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Anyone know stuff about mail merge in Word?
Do you need to "open the data source" every time you open the merge document in Word? (For what I'm working on, the data source will always be the same.)
I have a new iPod, la la la la la LA LA LA LA LA LA LA.
Yay!
Sophia Brooks - Sep 15, 2006 9:00:00 am PDT #8952 of 10003
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
In my experience, you do IF the datasource has changed any and you want to include the new items. If anyone knows an easier way, I would love it!
tommyrot - Sep 15, 2006 9:01:23 am PDT #8953 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I suppose you could do it with VBA, assuming there's a method for that.
Maybe I'll look that up later.
tommyrot - Sep 15, 2006 9:09:16 am PDT #8954 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Crap on a crap burger!
I inserted a buch of merge fields of the If... Then... Else variety. (i.e conditional, based on data in the data document.) Now they're gone. The other merge fields are still there.
I am looking at the document now with Word XP, but I created it in Word 2000. Maybe the different version of Word screwed it up?
Anyone ever use the If... Then... Else merge functionality?
tommyrot - Sep 15, 2006 9:48:47 am PDT #8955 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
We just installed software DAID on a Win2K server. To test it, my boss pulled one of the three RAID drives and then booted. There was no warning of anything at all, except for a warning in the system log. Is there any other way to detect a drive failure besides periodically checking the system log?
Sophia Brooks - Sep 15, 2006 11:08:15 am PDT #8956 of 10003
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
tommy- I have tried to use the if, then, etc, but I think Word mail merge is the devil. I have more luck hand checking the people I want to send to.
tommyrot - Sep 15, 2006 11:10:33 am PDT #8957 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
tommy- I have tried to use the if, then, etc, but I think Word mail merge is the devil.
What problems have you had?
Gudanov - Sep 15, 2006 5:15:18 pm PDT #8958 of 10003
Coding and Sleeping
So, I've decided to attempt another escape from the evil empire (tm) and so far it's going pretty good. So far Ubuntu 6.06 hasn't given me the problems that I experienced with 5.10. I am preferring Gnome over KDE though in the past with other linux distros it's been the other way around.
Hey, I use Ubuntu 6.06 too. (Used to use Suse 10.0). For bittorrent, I like Azureus for a GUI client and it's available in the Ubuntu archives. I have kinda switched to command line bittornado though. Ubuntu has worked great for me and I'm rather looking forward to Edgy Eft 6.10. If you have any questions, I'll be happy to try to help. I don't really use wine though. At the moment I'm not using games very much as I'm enjoying playing around with GTK programming.