Symbian

2007-10-17 Thread Pizza Margherita
Hello,
Have you planned any symbian or mobile version of GnuCash?
Thank you,
Riccardo
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import quicken to gnucash

2007-10-17 Thread Richard Nagy
Hello,

i imported an account from quicken to gnucash. Everything worked, only 
im not able to see any PAYEE slot, while in quicken i was able to create 
PAYEE REPORT and see how much money had a payee spent.

Could you advice me how to handle this situation?
I have already searched a lot for the answer on the internet...

Thank you in advance!

Richard
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Re: Symbian

2007-10-17 Thread Josh Sled
Pizza Margherita [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
 Have you planned any symbian or mobile version of GnuCash?

No one has announced they they have completed (or are even working on) such a 
thing.

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Re: Symbian

2007-10-17 Thread Derek Atkins
Quoting Pizza Margherita [EMAIL PROTECTED]:

 Hello,
 Have you planned any symbian or mobile version of GnuCash?
 Thank you,
 Riccardo

Nope.  And porting GnuCash to Symbian or Windows Mobile would
be a ton of work.  It would effectively imply writing a completely
new application.

-derek

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Re: import quicken to gnucash

2007-10-17 Thread Derek Atkins
Hi,

Quoting Richard Nagy [EMAIL PROTECTED]:

 Hello,

 i imported an account from quicken to gnucash. Everything worked, only
 im not able to see any PAYEE slot, while in quicken i was able to create
 PAYEE REPORT and see how much money had a payee spent.

The Quicken Payee becomes the GnuCash transaction Description.

 Could you advice me how to handle this situation?
 I have already searched a lot for the answer on the internet...

You could run a Transaction report (from the Chart of Accounts view, click
on Reports - Transaction Report).  From there you could set it up to
sort by Description.

But in general this kind of functionality hasn't been highly requested.
People tend to care more about what they spend their money on, not
where they spend their money.  For example, does it really matter whether
you buy groceries at Stop and Shop or Publix?

-derek

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Re: Problems downloading stock quotes [RESOLVED] possible security issue

2007-10-17 Thread Richard Geddes
Derek,

I finally resolved my problem... took a little head scratching.

I forgot I modified my hosts file as specified by:

ad blocker http://everythingisnt.com/hosts.html

this modifies the hosts file so that all known advertising sources are
aliased to 127.0.0.1

I was trying to pinpoint exactly which advertising source
Finance::Quotes modules requires to get the stock quotes, but it seems
like it changes...  seems like the authors of Finance::Quotes are
involved in some advertising scheme...

hope they are not sending other info, in particular, my financial
information to these advertisers.

You're a security guy... what do you make of this?

Richard

Derek Atkins wrote:
 What happens when you try gnc-fq-dump ?
 Maybe your quote source changed their website?

 -derek

 Richard Geddes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

   
 I was using GNUCash 2.0.5 on Ubuntu 7.04 for the last several months.  Set 
 up some stock investments and downloaded stock prices with Tools - Price 
 Editor - Get Quotes.  This worked ok until about 3 weeks ago.  Now I get a 
 message There was an unknown error while retrieving the price quotes. 

 I did install a firewall management program called Firestarter between the 
 time gnucash was working and when it stopped working... I've since  
 uninstalled Firestarter.  I tried getting stock quotes after stopping my 
 firewall using /etc/init.d/iptables stop.  No difference.

 I also upgraded to gnucash 2.2.1.  No dice.

 I uninstalled gnucash altogether and reinstalled it, but still getting the 
 same message.

 I even thought of uninstalling perl as the module gnucash uses to get the 
 quotes is in perl... but, it seems that many apps on my system depend on 
 perl... on my ubuntu system, if I try to uninstall perl, it also includes 
 (to uninstall) pretty much all the apps I've installed.. does that sound 
 correct...?  

 Anyway, my beef isn't really with perl, although it seems that if there was 
 something goes wrong with perl, alot of things depending on it would also go 
 down I just want to get my stock quotes so I can see my current asset 
 values to make decisions without pulling out the calculator.

 Can someone help me troubleshoot this problem?  Thanks.

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Re: Problems downloading stock quotes [RESOLVED] possible security issue

2007-10-17 Thread Phil Longstaff

   What quote source do you use?  I know that F::Q reads the html from your
   quote  source  and  parses  the html to find the quote.  Perhaps it is
   downloading the advertising from that site as well.
   Phil
   Richard Geddes wrote:

Derek,

I finally resolved my problem... took a little head scratching.

I forgot I modified my hosts file as specified by:

ad blocker [1]http://everythingisnt.com/hosts.html

this modifies the hosts file so that all known advertising sources are
aliased to 127.0.0.1

I was trying to pinpoint exactly which advertising source
Finance::Quotes modules requires to get the stock quotes, but it seems
like it changes...  seems like the authors of Finance::Quotes are
involved in some advertising scheme...

hope they are not sending other info, in particular, my financial
information to these advertisers.

You're a security guy... what do you make of this?

Richard

Derek Atkins wrote:


What happens when you try gnc-fq-dump ?
Maybe your quote source changed their website?

-derek

Richard Geddes [2][EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:




I was using GNUCash 2.0.5 on Ubuntu 7.04 for the last several months.  Set up s
ome stock investments and downloaded stock prices with Tools - Price Editor -
 Get Quotes.  This worked ok until about 3 weeks ago.  Now I get a message The
re was an unknown error while retrieving the price quotes.

I did install a firewall management program called Firestarter between the ti
me gnucash was working and when it stopped working... I've since  uninstalled F
irestarter.  I tried getting stock quotes after stopping my firewall using /et
c/init.d/iptables stop.  No difference.

I also upgraded to gnucash 2.2.1.  No dice.

I uninstalled gnucash altogether and reinstalled it, but still getting the same
 message.

I even thought of uninstalling perl as the module gnucash uses to get the quote
s is in perl... but, it seems that many apps on my system depend on perl... on
my ubuntu system, if I try to uninstall perl, it also includes (to uninstall) p
retty much all the apps I've installed.. does that sound correct...?

Anyway, my beef isn't really with perl, although it seems that if there was som
ething goes wrong with perl, alot of things depending on it would also go down.
... I just want to get my stock quotes so I can see my current asset values to
make decisions without pulling out the calculator.

Can someone help me troubleshoot this problem?  Thanks.

Richard


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Re: Warning - new GnuCash Version in Ubuntu

2007-10-17 Thread Tommy Trussell
On 10/12/07, Richard Mancusi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Todays updates for Ubuntu 7.04 has a new version on GnuCash
 if the user has the Backports repository enabled.  This will take
 the user from 2.0.5 r15617 to 2.2.1 r16462.

This is actually related to the GREAT news, which is that Ubuntu 7.10
Gutsy Gibbon will ship with the latest stable release of GnuCash!
The upcoming Ubuntu release is fully sync'ed with the latest source
and docs available in Debian.

I requested the GnuCash Feisty Backport. It wasn't urgent for me, but
I was learning how to get it synced with the UVFe (exception getting
GnuCash into Ubuntu Gutsy after the freeze date). I am glad to have
learned enough about the Backports and UVF process to understand how
these things happen.

If any of the other Ubuntu or Debian folks who did the HARD work are
on this list, thanks to you!

Next hurdle: get GnuCash into the MAIN Ubuntu repository before the
NEXT (8.04) release! (Applications in main would appear to new users
as available to be installed without having to change your software
sources.)
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Re: Problems downloading stock quotes [RESOLVED] possible security issue

2007-10-17 Thread Richard Geddes
Phil,

Do you mean that F::Q works like the browser?  When you ask the browser
to get a quote, you get all the advertising with it, and so when F::Q
gets a a stock quote, F::Q also gets the advertising... and can't
complete the transaction without making a connection to the advertising
website?  

I re-applied the ad blocker, and with my browser, was able to get a
quote for RHAT AMD from the yahoo website successfully.  When I tried 
gnc-fq-dump yahoo RHT AMD from the command line and it failed.  This
leads me to think that F::Q does not work like the browser... it looks
like F::Q needs to have name resolution for a set of advertisers on that
ad block list.  My web browser also responds the ad blocking aliases in
the hosts file.

I used yahoo, usa, nasdaq as sources and got consistent results.

Richard

Phil Longstaff wrote:
What quote source do you use?  I know that F::Q reads the html from your
quote  source  and  parses  the html to find the quote.  Perhaps it is
downloading the advertising from that site as well.
Phil
Richard Geddes wrote:

 Derek,

 I finally resolved my problem... took a little head scratching.

 I forgot I modified my hosts file as specified by:

 ad blocker [1]http://everythingisnt.com/hosts.html

 this modifies the hosts file so that all known advertising sources are
 aliased to 127.0.0.1

 I was trying to pinpoint exactly which advertising source
 Finance::Quotes modules requires to get the stock quotes, but it seems
 like it changes...  seems like the authors of Finance::Quotes are
 involved in some advertising scheme...

 hope they are not sending other info, in particular, my financial
 information to these advertisers.

 You're a security guy... what do you make of this?

 Richard

 Derek Atkins wrote:


 What happens when you try gnc-fq-dump ?
 Maybe your quote source changed their website?

 -derek

 Richard Geddes [2][EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:




 I was using GNUCash 2.0.5 on Ubuntu 7.04 for the last several months.  Set up 
 s
 ome stock investments and downloaded stock prices with Tools - Price Editor 
 -
  Get Quotes.  This worked ok until about 3 weeks ago.  Now I get a message 
 The
 re was an unknown error while retrieving the price quotes.

 I did install a firewall management program called Firestarter between the 
 ti
 me gnucash was working and when it stopped working... I've since  uninstalled 
 F
 irestarter.  I tried getting stock quotes after stopping my firewall using 
 /et
 c/init.d/iptables stop.  No difference.

 I also upgraded to gnucash 2.2.1.  No dice.

 I uninstalled gnucash altogether and reinstalled it, but still getting the 
 same
  message.

 I even thought of uninstalling perl as the module gnucash uses to get the 
 quote
 s is in perl... but, it seems that many apps on my system depend on perl... on
 my ubuntu system, if I try to uninstall perl, it also includes (to uninstall) 
 p
 retty much all the apps I've installed.. does that sound correct...?

 Anyway, my beef isn't really with perl, although it seems that if there was 
 som
 ething goes wrong with perl, alot of things depending on it would also go 
 down.
 ... I just want to get my stock quotes so I can see my current asset values to
 make decisions without pulling out the calculator.

 Can someone help me troubleshoot this problem?  Thanks.

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Re: Problems downloading stock quotes [RESOLVED] possible security issue

2007-10-17 Thread Josh Sled
Richard Geddes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
 I re-applied the ad blocker, and with my browser, was able to get a
 quote for RHAT AMD from the yahoo website successfully.  When I tried 
 gnc-fq-dump yahoo RHT AMD from the command line and it failed.  This
 leads me to think that F::Q does not work like the browser... it looks
 like F::Q needs to have name resolution for a set of advertisers on that
 ad block list.  My web browser also responds the ad blocking aliases in
 the hosts file.

F::Q does do web-page scraping to get some quotes.

My guess is that there's some coincidental overlap in the hosts used to
obtain some quotes as well as serve ads.  Some front-end Yahoo load-balanced
server, most likely.

If you care enough, you could binary-search within that host list to figure
out exactly which host causes the problem.


I've seen a bit of F::Q sources and know how it interacts with gnucash.  The
dataflow is specific and uni-directional.  AFAIK, F::Q isn't provided with
any of your financial data apart from the quote source and symbol itself.
Thus, it can't re-provide that data to any other entity.

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Re: Problems downloading stock quotes [RESOLVED] possible security issue

2007-10-17 Thread Richard Geddes
Josh,

Seems a little odd that F::Q would fail when advertiser domain names are
unresolvable... I would figure, if an F::Q encounters an ad domain while
scraping, it would ignore it and look for the goodies.   I guess I could
tcpdump the F:Q connection to see what's going on at the packet level...
it's been a while since I've tcpdump'ed, so it'll take me some time to
get the output correct. 

I did try to pinpoint a particular advertiser domain... I started
deleting domain names from the top of the list until gnc-fq-dump
worked...  funny thing is that, I retest the suspect ad domain again(add
it back in, then take it out), and gnc-fq-dump stops working... the one
thing that consistently works is, if I remove all the aliases from my
host file, gnc-fq-dump works, and when I add all the aliases to my hosts
file, gnc-fq-dump stops working... if F::Q does depend on an ad domain
to complete it's task, that dependency seems to change.

It's good to know that F::Q isn't leaking any of my data.  F::Q is a
perl module, as I understand it is it's source on my computer?  If
it is, what is it called or where can I find it?  I'd like to look at
the source to get a bearing on this issue.

Richard

Josh Sled wrote:
 Richard Geddes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
   
 I re-applied the ad blocker, and with my browser, was able to get a
 quote for RHAT AMD from the yahoo website successfully.  When I tried 
 gnc-fq-dump yahoo RHT AMD from the command line and it failed.  This
 leads me to think that F::Q does not work like the browser... it looks
 like F::Q needs to have name resolution for a set of advertisers on that
 ad block list.  My web browser also responds the ad blocking aliases in
 the hosts file.
 

 F::Q does do web-page scraping to get some quotes.

 My guess is that there's some coincidental overlap in the hosts used to
 obtain some quotes as well as serve ads.  Some front-end Yahoo load-balanced
 server, most likely.

 If you care enough, you could binary-search within that host list to figure
 out exactly which host causes the problem.


 I've seen a bit of F::Q sources and know how it interacts with gnucash.  The
 dataflow is specific and uni-directional.  AFAIK, F::Q isn't provided with
 any of your financial data apart from the quote source and symbol itself.
 Thus, it can't re-provide that data to any other entity.

   
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locating Finance::Quote

2007-10-17 Thread Dan Widyono
 it is, what is it called or where can I find it?

locate Finance/Quote.pm

Dan W.
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Re: Problems downloading stock quotes [RESOLVED] possible security issue

2007-10-17 Thread Josh Sled
Richard Geddes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
 Seems a little odd that F::Q would fail when advertiser domain names are
 unresolvable... I would figure, if an F::Q encounters an ad domain while
 scraping, it would ignore it and look for the goodies.   I guess I could
 tcpdump the F:Q connection to see what's going on at the packet
 level... it's been a while since I've tcpdump'ed, so it'll take me some
 time to get the output correct. 

You're assuming that your advertiser host list is both precise and
accurate.  It may well be neither.

Also, as per the mechanism used (changing the resolution for ad hosts to
localhost)... when a process encounters a domain, it doesn't know if it's
an ad domain or not, it just tries to make the connection to localhost,
instead, and fails.  For HTTP, this will either be a connection failure, or
perhaps a 404 or 500 failure (if you happen to be running an http server on
your local machine).  It just so happens that for the case of an ad
image/flash/javascript in common web browsers, these failures result in the
desired effect: no advertisement.  Other applications might not fail in the
same way.

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