December 2008 - WLUG - wlug.mailman3.com

Re: [Wlug] This week's meeting

by Eric Stein

We already did a talk about how to save power in linux with powertop etc, I think... it was a good one. See you all Thursday! Eric Andy Stewart wrote: > HI all, > > The website has been corrected...the meeting is Thursday, December 18th. > The home page is correct, the "Meetings" page was incorrect. Thanks > for letting me know. > > Maybe the topic should be about the use of Linux in power failures? > Hummm, maybe not........ > > Later, > > Andy

Dec. 16, 2008

Re: [Wlug] This week's meeting

by Andy Stewart

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 E Johnson wrote: > Andy, > > Sorry it was such a rough go; glad you're back up again now. > > Please clarify. Is the meeting Wednesday, or Thursday?? > > TY > Liz J HI all, The website has been corrected...the meeting is Thursday, December 18th. The home page is correct, the "Meetings" page was incorrect. Thanks for letting me know. Maybe the topic should be about the use of Linux in power failures? Hummm, maybe not........ Later, Andy - -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group (http://www.wlug.org) Chelmsford Linux Meetup Group (http://linux.meetup.com/393) Amateur Radio: KB1OIQ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFJRxNoHl0iXDssISsRAmz+AJ92XC3p/vxZSLxndeuLGP3Xr31bqwCfa0rn K5fMj5wDlPPsIbbzGMuy5Aw= =WWIp -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

Dec. 16, 2008

Re: [Wlug] This week's meeting

by E Johnson

Andy, Sorry it was such a rough go; glad you're back up again now. Please clarify. Is the meeting Wednesday, or Thursday?? TY Liz J On 15/12/2008, Andy Stewart <andystewart(a)comcast.net> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > Clint Moyer wrote: > > Any topic yet? > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wlug mailing list > > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > > > > > HI all, > > I had totally forgotten about the meeting, but indeed, we do have a > meeting on Thursday, December 18th, at 7:00 PM. We do not yet have a > speaker for the meeting. Please note that I have posted the meeting > schedule for the year 2009. > > I've been quite busy lately. My house was without commercial power for > 85 hours due to the ice storm. Commercial power was restored today at > 1:00 PM and got the computers back up around 3:00 PM. I was babysitting > two small generators which needed fueling at 4-6 hour intervals. > Thankfully, I had heat for all but the first 24 hours, and the > refrigerator and a couple of lights were powered. My house was down to > 47 degrees at one point, except for the room with the fireplace, which > was a comfortable 65 degrees. I am now starting to get back to normal. > > The kids watched DVDs on the laptop, LED flashlights are very low power, > and the gas grill was used a lot. Unfortunately, I had no hot water, > but the 80 gallon water tank is well insulated, so I didn't have to take > stone cold showers, just cool ones, military style. > > I lost many, many branches in the trees, which were strewn across the > yard. Thankfully, the house was not damaged. > > See you all on Thursday evening! Ask me over pizza about the lightning > that I saw during the storm...which wasn't lightning. > > Andy > > - -- > Andy Stewart, Founder > Worcester Linux Users' Group (http://www.wlug.org) > Chelmsford Linux Meetup Group (http://linux.meetup.com/393) > Amateur Radio: KB1OIQ > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFJRvneHl0iXDssISsRAv9TAJ0QYX9N4nTy0TQ2Y2C20hYkhL0bxwCeKkSi > zjsYzcLE21BmtzWGwKuCOAo= > =ZHHR > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug >

Dec. 16, 2008

Re: [Wlug] This week's meeting

by Eric Martin

Andy Stewart wrote: > Clint Moyer wrote: > > Any topic yet? > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wlug mailing list > > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > > > HI all, > > I had totally forgotten about the meeting, but indeed, we do have a > meeting on Thursday, December 18th, at 7:00 PM. We do not yet have a > speaker for the meeting. Please note that I have posted the meeting > schedule for the year 2009. > > I've been quite busy lately. My house was without commercial power for > 85 hours due to the ice storm. Commercial power was restored today at > 1:00 PM and got the computers back up around 3:00 PM. I was babysitting > two small generators which needed fueling at 4-6 hour intervals. > Thankfully, I had heat for all but the first 24 hours, and the > refrigerator and a couple of lights were powered. My house was down to > 47 degrees at one point, except for the room with the fireplace, which > was a comfortable 65 degrees. I am now starting to get back to normal. > > The kids watched DVDs on the laptop, LED flashlights are very low power, > and the gas grill was used a lot. Unfortunately, I had no hot water, > but the 80 gallon water tank is well insulated, so I didn't have to take > stone cold showers, just cool ones, military style. > > I lost many, many branches in the trees, which were strewn across the > yard. Thankfully, the house was not damaged. > > See you all on Thursday evening! Ask me over pizza about the lightning > that I saw during the storm...which wasn't lightning. > > Andy > Same boat, except sans generators and hot water. I'm trying to burn a cd for work tonight with our pictures so I'll have to share with you. FYI, the website says Wednesday but I presume that you're over-riding it?

Dec. 16, 2008

Re: [Wlug] This week's meeting

by Andy Stewart

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Clint Moyer wrote: > Any topic yet? > > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > HI all, I had totally forgotten about the meeting, but indeed, we do have a meeting on Thursday, December 18th, at 7:00 PM. We do not yet have a speaker for the meeting. Please note that I have posted the meeting schedule for the year 2009. I've been quite busy lately. My house was without commercial power for 85 hours due to the ice storm. Commercial power was restored today at 1:00 PM and got the computers back up around 3:00 PM. I was babysitting two small generators which needed fueling at 4-6 hour intervals. Thankfully, I had heat for all but the first 24 hours, and the refrigerator and a couple of lights were powered. My house was down to 47 degrees at one point, except for the room with the fireplace, which was a comfortable 65 degrees. I am now starting to get back to normal. The kids watched DVDs on the laptop, LED flashlights are very low power, and the gas grill was used a lot. Unfortunately, I had no hot water, but the 80 gallon water tank is well insulated, so I didn't have to take stone cold showers, just cool ones, military style. I lost many, many branches in the trees, which were strewn across the yard. Thankfully, the house was not damaged. See you all on Thursday evening! Ask me over pizza about the lightning that I saw during the storm...which wasn't lightning. Andy - -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group (http://www.wlug.org) Chelmsford Linux Meetup Group (http://linux.meetup.com/393) Amateur Radio: KB1OIQ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFJRvneHl0iXDssISsRAv9TAJ0QYX9N4nTy0TQ2Y2C20hYkhL0bxwCeKkSi zjsYzcLE21BmtzWGwKuCOAo= =ZHHR -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

Dec. 16, 2008

This week's meeting

by Clint Moyer

Any topic yet?

Dec. 15, 2008

Re: [Wlug] Wlug Digest, Vol 62, Issue 5

by Simon Kigo

Hi I haven't used GnuCash but I hear its a great program. Has anyone used Openbravo. I just installed it on a local Ubuntu server. I would like to move the instance to an EC2 machine. Does anyone have experience with Amazon EC2 installations? I have an Ubuntu EC2 machine running but need further assistance. I Would love to hear about your experiences. --- On Sat, 12/13/08, wlug-request(a)mail.wlug.org <wlug-request(a)mail.wlug.org> wrote: From: wlug-request(a)mail.wlug.org <wlug-request(a)mail.wlug.org> Subject: Wlug Digest, Vol 62, Issue 5 To: wlug(a)mail.wlug.org Date: Saturday, December 13, 2008, 12:00 PM Send Wlug mailing list submissions to wlug(a)mail.wlug.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to wlug-request(a)mail.wlug.org You can reach the person managing the list at wlug-owner(a)mail.wlug.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Wlug digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: Convert Quickbooks to GnuCash (Eric Martin) 2. Re: Convert Quickbooks to GnuCash (Eric Martin) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2008 08:22:16 -0500 From: Eric Martin <freak4uxxx(a)gmail.com> Subject: Re: [Wlug] Convert Quickbooks to GnuCash To: Worcester Linux Users Group <wlug(a)mail.wlug.org> Message-ID: <4943B708.20606(a)gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" John Stoffel wrote: > Has anyone had success in having Gnucash talk directly to the Bank > and/or Credit Card company to pull down information, and (ideally) > push transactions to the bank? > > I'm getting sick in tired of my banks web interface, mostly because > it's such a damn manual process to actually pull down the transactions > in QIF format. > > I'm thinking of moving from BoA to DCU completely, if I can make it > work. Or to another bank (within reason) to make my life simpler. > Another goal is to be able to download my Credit Card statements > automatically each time I fire up GnuCash so I can track those > > I have successfully configured GNUCash to pull down my data from discover card. Additionally, I download my data from my bank in M$ format (OFX) and it imports perfectly. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 260 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature Url : http://mail.wlug.org/pipermail/wlug/attachments/20081213/ea564f38/attachmen… ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2008 08:23:09 -0500 From: Eric Martin <freak4uxxx(a)gmail.com> Subject: Re: [Wlug] Convert Quickbooks to GnuCash To: Worcester Linux Users Group <wlug(a)mail.wlug.org> Message-ID: <4943B73D.5010407(a)gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.wlug.org/pipermail/wlug/attachments/20081213/4631d173/attachmen… -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 260 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature Url : http://mail.wlug.org/pipermail/wlug/attachments/20081213/4631d173/attachmen… ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug End of Wlug Digest, Vol 62, Issue 5 ***********************************

Dec. 14, 2008

Re: [Wlug] Convert Quickbooks to GnuCash

by Michael Long

>>> >> I started looking at the AqBanking wizard for gnucash but get stuck with >> bank code when creating a new PIN/TAN user. I could not find any >> information with google that allowed me to make sense of how the >> interface works with BofA. It looks like it will be a manual process for >> now. >> > What bank do you use? GnuCash has a bunch of resources on their wiki > > I found some useful information on the wiki for configuring BOA along with many others to automatically download the files. It requires setting up OFXDirectConnect as the backend. http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/OFX_Direct_Connect_Bank_Settings I have just installed opensuse 11 and am not able to get gnucash and aqbanking3-ofx to play well together. When I attempt to install aqbanking3-ofx yast tells me that I must uninstall gnucash. Hopefully this will be fixed in the near future. gnucash 2.2.4-27.1 aqbanking3-ofx 3.8.0.pm.1 -mike

Dec. 14, 2008

Re: [Wlug] Convert Quickbooks to GnuCash

by John Stoffel

>>>>> "Eric" == Eric Martin <freak4uxxx(a)gmail.com> writes: Eric> What bank do you use? GnuCash has a bunch of resources on their wiki I use Bank of America. I tried getting GnuCash to work, but they (BoA) wanted $10/mon to turn on the support for this stuff. Needless to say, I'm starting to move all my banking elsewhere to get better support. John

Dec. 14, 2008

Re: [Wlug] Convert Quickbooks to GnuCash

by John Stoffel

>>>>> "Eric" == Eric Martin <freak4uxxx(a)gmail.com> writes: Eric> John Stoffel wrote: >> Has anyone had success in having Gnucash talk directly to the Bank >> and/or Credit Card company to pull down information, and (ideally) >> push transactions to the bank? >> >> I'm getting sick in tired of my banks web interface, mostly because >> it's such a damn manual process to actually pull down the transactions >> in QIF format. >> >> I'm thinking of moving from BoA to DCU completely, if I can make it >> work. Or to another bank (within reason) to make my life simpler. >> Another goal is to be able to download my Credit Card statements >> automatically each time I fire up GnuCash so I can track those Eric> I have successfully configured GNUCash to pull down my data from Eric> discover card. This si good to know. How finiky was it? I'm still dealing with ice storm stuff (power only out for 12 hours thank god) but it's relatively minor. Eric> Additionally, I download my data from my bank in M$ format (OFX) Eric> and it imports perfectly. That's fine, but I don't want to have to: open browser login to bank click to download section pick right stuff to get download close browser open gnucash import data I just want to open GnuCash and have it do the work for me! :]

Dec. 14, 2008