[OT] emails from Peter Williams
Hi all, I am not sure how many of you have received emails from Peter Williams (aka pew) in the last couple of days, but I have received 2, 1 via facebook and the other from Picasa. I really don't appreciate list users using my email address for mass invites for online services. Not only do I think it is poor etiquette, it is really annoying. Peter if you are still on this list, please stop sending me messages asking that I look at pictures of your cat, I'm really not interested. Cheers Dave -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Applications software
I am recommending that a client move his business onto a linux (ubuntu) platform. I need to find business applications that run on Linux. Can someone suggest where I can find suppliers of such apps as: G/L, Inv, POS, Drs, Crs etc Any comments or suggestions would be appreciated. Hamish -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Re: [OT] emails from Peter Williams
On Fri, 2010-02-19 at 21:45 +1100, Dave Hall wrote: Hi all, I am not sure how many of you have received emails from I'd strongly recommend avoiding emails such as this in the future. Please contact mailing list admins instead. In this case, the admin is me. Dave, please contact me off-list to discuss this situation. -- Melissa Draper w: http://meldraweb.com http://geekosophical.net p: +61 4 0472 2736 -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Re: (Business) Applications software
I need to find business applications that run on Linux. Can someone suggest where I can find suppliers of such apps as: G/L, Inv, POS, Drs, Crs etc I am an accountant and have looked in vain for a decent accounting program that runs on linux (I have downloaded and checked about 20 of them). GnuCash is a close as you will get, unless you want to use CRM software. If setting up some sort of CRM client/server system is not going to be too big a project for your client, I would recommend going straight to OpenERP or similar, and not bothering with standalone accounting apps. One of the few areas where linux cannot match windows! -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Re: (Business) Applications software
Concur, Gnucash is at best a double entry version of MSMoney, and not as intuitive Norm McMillan Mildura, Australia. The Wintersun City Brett wrote: I need to find business applications that run on Linux. Can someone suggest where I can find suppliers of such apps as: G/L, Inv, POS, Drs, Crs etc I am an accountant and have looked in vain for a decent accounting program that runs on linux (I have downloaded and checked about 20 of them). GnuCash is a close as you will get, unless you want to use CRM software. If setting up some sort of CRM client/server system is not going to be too big a project for your client, I would recommend going straight to OpenERP or similar, and not bothering with standalone accounting apps. One of the few areas where linux cannot match windows! No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 9.0.733 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2695 - Release Date: 02/18/10 18:34:00 -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Re: (Business) Applications software
Hi Brett, Norm, (and Hamish if you're on this list), and everyone else. Brett..thank you for your follow up email. There is also a good list here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_accounting_software I would list to follow-up on a couple of things. I have used GNUCash in the past, and even compiled it up myself on one occasion. The current version uses 'SQLite' as it's backed. (Think of the MSAccess JET Engine but implemented properly.) It wouldn't be impossible to create another front end to GNUCash which made data entry a lot easier far a particular environment (eg. POS). The topic of Accounting Software for Linux was raised at the recent Linux.Conf.Au conference in Wellington New Zealand. It is certainly an area that could do with some attention. Jethro Carr of Amberdms (http://www.amberdms.com) was pulling together interested parties interested in FOSS solutions to accounting software. Regards, Paul On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 1:42 AM, Brett brettma...@yahoo.com wrote: I need to find business applications that run on Linux. Can someone suggest where I can find suppliers of such apps as: G/L, Inv, POS, Drs, Crs etc I am an accountant and have looked in vain for a decent accounting program that runs on linux (I have downloaded and checked about 20 of them). GnuCash is a close as you will get, unless you want to use CRM software. If setting up some sort of CRM client/server system is not going to be too big a project for your client, I would recommend going straight to OpenERP or similar, and not bothering with standalone accounting apps. One of the few areas where linux cannot match windows! -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Installing X-CD-Roast
Hello all. I have downloaded and installed X-CD-Roast from the Ubuntu software Center. On clicking the icon, I get the following message in a small window: No root configuration file found or not readable! The Superuser must start and configure X-CD-Roast first before other users can use it So I activated a terminal: da...@djb-p4:/usr/bin$ ls -l ./xcdroast -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 702152 2009-04-08 08:18 ./xcdroast Then: da...@djb-p4:/usr/bin$ ./xcdroast And got the same message as above. Then tried the following:- da...@djb-p4:/usr/bin$ sudo ./xcdroast [sudo] password for david: Then got the message below:- ** (xcdroast:6300): WARNING **: Failed to access cdrecord. Please check the permissions and ownership of /usr/bin/cdrecord Checking /usr/bin/cdrecord:- da...@djb-p4:/usr/bin$ ls -l /usr/bin/cdrecord lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 2009-11-06 18:39 /usr/bin/cdrecord - wodim Then checking wodim: da...@djb-p4:/usr/bin$ ls -l ./wodim -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 395784 2009-10-03 08:14 ./wodim I cannot get past this point and cannot see what is wrong with the permissions or ownership. Can anybody help? Thanks David Bowskill -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
