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Comment on About Me by Roman Muñoz

Roman Muñoz — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 20:18:27 +0000

Hi, I have seen your posts about linux and ad. I have been working on this for about 6 years now. I used samba-winbind with no problems on debian and ubuntu but lastly I have been plagued with ubuntu-upstart-network manager issues. I will try your upstart arrangemet next tuesday. Many thanks for your post.

Your resume is very similar to mine. I will be glad to contact you privately.

Comment on Mail Merge in Libreoffice by admin

admin — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 17:48:21 +0000

Cool. I think the most frustrating issue is that in some screens you can select an xls file for your source but in others only database files. Wish I had time to hack on Libreoffice code.

Comment on Mail Merge in Libreoffice by Carl Taylor

Carl Taylor — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 14:33:07 +0000

David – I contacted the people at LibreOffice and they politely suggested that due to lack of funding if I wanted to re-write the help page myself I could. So I did. It should be changed in the near future to reflect your brilliant (simple) solution. Thank you so much again. I can understand LibreOffice’s problem as those help pages go back 15 years and there are an awful lot of them …

Comment on Mail Merge in Libreoffice by Carl Taylor

Carl Taylor — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 07:24:49 +0000

Hi again – I’ve just tried using your method and it works! Briliant – I very nearly went back to using MS Office yesterday. I’ve emailed the team that develop LibreOffice to see what they have to say.

Comment on Mail Merge in Libreoffice by Carl Taylor

Carl Taylor — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 07:05:07 +0000

Star Office, Open Office and now LibreOffice. Great programs – absolutely crap mail merge. It’s been just as bad for at least 10 years and I don’t know why they don’t fix it. There’s never any decent information available – apart from yours – and the “salutations” block is a sad joke. I’ve worked in many offices and mail merge is a routine job – if this isn’t sorted this freeware will never be able to compete which is a great shame as it’s the only feature holding it back.

Comment on Django admin: Export ForeignKey subfields to XLS by Don

Don — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 10:06:23 +0000

Ok, done all.
Now the issue is that when I choose ‘Export to XLS’, I see the overlay opening for a moment, then the page completely changes and goes to where I choose columns.
I checked the code: it seems like after sending data via Ajax, the page doesn’t wait for its return and submits the form as well…

Comment on Django admin: Export ForeignKey subfields to XLS by admin

admin — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 02:05:25 +0000

Don,
1. Yes I hate doing this but it’s the only way I found that lets you extend grappelli templates. The only other way is to use the full path to the grappelli template which seems worse!
3. I’m using jquery, did you include jquery?

Also check out http://code.google.com/p/django-admin-export/ if you haven’t already.

Comment on Django admin: Export ForeignKey subfields to XLS by Don

Don — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 22:09:44 +0000

Hi, I’m trying your applications following your simple instructions, but I had some problems (using Django 1.3 + grappelli):
1. I created an admin/change_list.html from your snippet but I got a TemplateNotFoundError: grappelli/templates/admin/change_list.html; so, I copied all grappeli template into my change_list and put your code into.
2. Then, static/js/jquery.tools.min.js wan’t found; so, I downloaded it;
3. When I select the ‘export action’, a javascript error occurs: $ is not defined;

maybe i’m missing something…

Comment on Linux and Active Directory round 2 by david

david — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 17:30:05 +0000

Syncing has worked for me as long as it’s just one user since it doesn’t do any conflict resolution (new time always wins).

$USER should work fine for you since your domain user should be the same. If you have multiple domains where you need something like $DOMAIN/$USER that might make it more complicated. I use pam_mount to put the user’s networked home folder in ~/.home which is a hidden file the user never sees. Then I sync ~/whatever to ~/.home/whatever I’m sure this is just one of many ways to do it but by using pam_mount you can trust the mount will just be there without having to think about authentication.

Comment on Linux and Active Directory round 2 by Hugo

Hugo — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 00:21:22 +0000

Hi again David,

Never thought about syncing folders but its a nice aproach since mounting the all home folder seems not be an option for now.

I saw your scrit and it works just fine.

I was thinking on trying to put it on logon or loggoff so it sync some folders. Do you think that is possible to let the cript recognize the domain user name so it could run on logon or logoff?

Thanks once again!