... Very general questions

Hi Everyone,
I am a novice/intermediate web designer with experience in
Dreamweaver, but none in Contribute. I have been given an
assignment to build a website for a company, but they would like
control over editing its main content.
How do I define the area where they can edit? How do I give
them the authority to do so? And what do they need to possess to
edit? (they don't actually need to have contribute too, do they?)
Thanks for all your help.
Tara

as a default contribute has 3 user roles for you to use:
1.administrator
2.Publisher
3.Writer
the administrator will be the one setting up the user roles
and permissions
like which page they can edit or who can edit thisparticular
page for security purposes of the site= )
when you download a trial it comes with a manual i suggest
that you read thru deploying contribute or go thru the help
files,that will get you running in no time=)

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Sorry - very general question

I have been playing with flash for a while on a Mac but I
have been dissatisfied. It is a pre-intel version and 1) it is very
slow, 2) it does not support Soundforge, which I hear is quite
popular and easy to use. Anyway, I'd like to get a PC but I'm not
sure whether I need a standard computer or a suped up version with
lots of memory, graphics capability, etc. Basically the sites I've
seen have divided computers into those suitable for standard office
tasks and net surfing and those suited for "hard core gaming." I am
basically planning to use the computer just for flash animation and
sound clips. Is a standard PC (that exceeds Flash's minimum
requirements) going to do it for me? Sorry for the general
question. Thanks.

First of all, no need for the apology, there are no stupid
(or general) questions.
Second of all: sorry to all Mac fans, but PCs are the way to
go. After all, you get to choose what company makes your computer.
So you can get either the high-end model from HP or Gateway, or get
something a little more affordable from eMachines or Compaq. With
the Mac, you can only choose, well, a Mac.
While computer shopping, look for the following features:
(This is the BARE minimum of what your expectations should
be)
Windows XP Home Edition
AMD Athlon+ 2.1 GHz Processor
800x600x16-bit or better screen
32 MB Video RAM (For the occasional game here and there)
512+ MB System RAM
Sound Card, Speakers
If you get a computer with Windows Vista (which you probably
will), turn off the Vista visual styles, use Windows Standard.
(Flash has a BIG problem concerning Windows Vista visual styles,
which is the problem I'm having now...see first page of "Flash
General Discussions" for my post, please help! Thank you.)

RAID - a very general question concerning stability

Hi everyone,
I've read quite a bit about RAID and the various types of arrays one may set up. Most posts give the following info:
••• RAID 0, while fast, is risky because if one drive dies, everything is lost; good backup routines is essential in this scenario (unless it is only used for scratch disk purposes).
••• RAID 1, and other types of mirrored arrays, are safer because of the built-in duplication of the data on one or more disks.
••• Mirrored arrays, as a general rule, should not be used for backup purposes because, while they duplicate data, they don't replace good backup routines and are therefore susceptible to human error, fires, floods, theft, and general calamity.
But there is one question which I cannot seem to find an answer to:
As I understand it, the stability of any particular array depends on the stability of the disks used. I have used quite a lot of harddrives in my years but have never had a drive fail on me. Perhaps I've been lucky. Then again, I've never hooked drives up using RAID.
My question is therefore:
Using harddrives in any type of RAID setup, will that make them more prone to failure?
Is it a matter of statistical risk? In other words, each drive has a certain, theoretical Mean Time Between Failure and the more drives you have the greater the theoretical MTBF.
Or has it do to with the error handling of the hard-/software controller? I guess it is could be relevant whether you use Enterprise grade drives or not because those, as I understand it, skip errors more easily than non-Enterprise drives and leave the rebuilding of the broken bit up to the controller (of course this is not a RAID 0 scenario).
Basically, do drives become more susceptible to errors because they've been hooked up in a RAID array?
Any thoughts would be very much appreciated.
/pullman

pullman,
No, drives do not become more susceptible to failure as a result of being included in an array.
I'm not sure I totally agree about mirrored arrays not being good for backup purposes. In this regard, one must make the distinction between using a RAID array to make a backup, versus using the array to store a backup. In the first case, the data is stored on the array and the built-in redundancy stands in place of a de facto backup strategy. In the second, the backup strategy includes the use of a RAIDed volume to further safeguard the already-redundant backup (which is made by other means).
In other words, using an external mirrored RAID array to store ones backups seems to me to be an excellent solution. Plus, one can add additional drives to the array, to further increase the redundancy in the system. In a mirrored array, the risk of drive failure is removed from the equation.
However, the risk of a software, or logical failure still remains. By this, I mean potential disk errors. I have suffered far more disk errors than I have actual drive failures. A mirrored RAID array only contains one logical volume, and this volume is just as susceptible to directory failure as any other. However, backup storage on a single mirrored RAID array is no different in this regard as storing it on a single, dedicated drive.
So, we get back to the age-old question: Is a single backup enough? Well, it really comes down to the critical nature of the data being backed up.
Scott

VERY general question

This is probably a DNS101 question for most of you, but my problem is this:
I have a computer on my (work) network, that has IP address name resolution working, but I can't seem to find a corresponding A (or ptr record) for it in any of my 3 DNS servers. If I ping the computername, it comes back with a (resolved) IP address,
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locally and resolve addresses, but I'm pretty sure that's not the answer, because there are no entries on my hosts file on my client. Thanks in advance.

AHA Robert!
Sorry to all the ninjas who saw my question and thought "well, doy". I came to all this late to the game, after the common usage of WINS and NetBIOS resolution. This computer is in an industrial environment that uses NWlink over
NetBIOS, so I'm pretty sure that was the answer. This has been a good learning experience, thanks all for your kind help.

Signature printing (very general question)

Okay not really an InDesign question, but I know a lot of you know more about printing than I do. I'm strictly on the design end of things:
I always hear about 8-page and 16-page signatures, yet I know as long as my documents are in multiples of 4 I have no trouble getting them printed. What does the printer do when I send him a 76-page magazine? Is it more difficult to print than an 80-page one? I don't know that much about the actual printing though I'm planning to tour a printing plant next week. :-)
Just curious.
Thanks, Phyllis

It's best to talk to the printer because it depends upon the press or presses he is using. It is the size of the press that determines the size of the signatures.
The printer could print four 16 page signatures on one press and three 4 page signatures on another. He could print 80 pages and throw out the waste. He could move the job to a smaller press. His decisions will be based on time and cost. And that will depend upon the size of the press run, the stock, at any number of things. So back to the top, talk to the printer. (And bear in mind that not all printers are created equal. Some are set up for doing odd jobs, and short runs, some aren't.)

Report Builder Question - OA AR Aging - and a general question

I'm sure this is the wrong forum for this question, but I thought there might be someone here who might be using Oracle Applications and Report Builder who'd be kind enough to help me out.
We've recently implemented Oracle Applications 11.5.10 and I have to use report builder to change the Accounts Receiveable Aging (7 bucket) to a 5 bucket report. I've already made some changes to the seeded "ARXAGMW.rdf" report, but I'm not a big Oracle Reports guy. I've stumbled through making some changes in various other reports. But this one is just plain nasty! :)
I was thinking that I could simply add buckets 6 & 7 to bucket 5, then just hide or delete the 6 & 7 buckets. But I'm not sure where to even start. Any help with this would GUARANTEE a Christmas or other holiday card this year! :)
I really want to keep this simple as possible, so any help would be very....helpful. :)
Oh, my general question is: Are there any resouces/books for Oracle Reports (Report Builder)? I feel so lost trying to modify existing reports, let alone creating new ones.
Thanks again!
Steve

Hi Steve,
I am working on the 7-bucket aging report and i want to add a new field in data model.
As the query is build dynamically, i have modified the function BUILD_CUSTOMER_SELECT to meet my requirements.
But the problem is that in the data model, the field is not present in my Grouping. and if I try to add the field in the Data Model query (Q_ Customer) section,
i get the following error: ORA-01789: query block has incorrect number of result columns.
The query is as shown below:
select rpad('a',50,'-') short_cust_name,
0 cust_id,
rpad('a',30,'-') cust_no,
rpad('a',500,'-') sort_field1,
rpad('a',40,'-') sort_field2,
0 payment_sched_id,
rpad('a',32,'-') class,
sysdate due_date,
0 amt_due_remaining,
0 days_past_due ,
0 amount_adjusted,
0 amount_applied,
0 amount_credited,
sysdate gl_date,
'x' data_converted,
0 ps_exchange_rate,
0 b0,
0 b1,
0 b2,
0 b3,
0 b4,
0 b5,
0 b6,
rpad('a',25,'-') bal_segment_value,
rpad('a',500,'-') inv_tid,
rpad('a',32,'-') invoice_type
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from dual
where 1=2
UNION ALL
&common_query_cus
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Camileo charging problem (solved) and a general question!

Hi all!
First of all, I was going to ask for help as to why the Camileo S10 was not charging (the orange light wasn't flashing), and I'd seen a few people with similar problems.
The solution?
Give the contacts on the battery a clean.
The insulation sticker that comes on it must leave some kind of residue on it, and it's enough to prevent charging. Now it's flashing away happily :]
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Rather than constantly draining and charging the battery during long shoots, I'd prefer to just leave it plugged in!
Thanks very much in advance!
Paul

Hi
I think the battery handling is always the same no matter what product it is
From time to time the battery should be recalibrated.
This means that the battery should be discharged fully and after then you should charge it again until the battery would reach 100%
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Update on Bioinformatics WIKI, scripting challenges, and a general question

I am waiting for my site to go on-line at Oak Ridge National Labs (USA, Tennessee). Should be another week or so, maybe less.
When that happens, you will see a veritable explosion of scripting challenges in my wiki (Emerging Technologies->Bioinformatics.)
One general question in preparation for these challenges.
There are a number of standard bioinformatic programs that can be run interactively via the web at various sites, e.g. "BLAST" and "STRIDE".
Although these can also be run locally, this requires that you download large databases and keep them updated.
So here's my question to the scripting experts:
Are scripting languages powerful enough to submit queries to web pages and then use regex's to parse the html that is returned?
Bill Mann has used PERL to do some of the required regex parsing, but there is a lot left to do, and, his stuff only works when a perl program is invoking a bioinformatic program locally, not interactively.
If so, we all can do some beautiful stuff together , if anyone is interested ...

...my wiki on...
There is by it's very nature no such thing as MY WIKI, except you run your own wiki project in an exclusive mode. Which were...well ... unusual.
Are scripting languages powerful enough to submit queries to web pages and then use regex's to parse the html that is returned?
Yes.
anton

General Question re logical workflow (Multiple Products/Sales Teams)

Currently we are upgrading from a highly customized CRM environment developed in CRM 4.0. We are hoping to move to an out of the box solution with 2015.
But I have a general question. We are a service company with different sales groups for each of our products.
Currently we have customization for each service so a Sales person is assigned to a specific product for the customer.
So my question is, how is this handled out of the box. I am sure there are many many many companies in the same situation.
So say 10 products with sales group for each product.
Then a customer with multiple departments. Each sales group needs to contact the specific department.
So a customer could potentially have 10 different sales people contacting different people in the customers organization.
How do you know when someone has already made contact?
If we just look at the activities it is not very clear that contact has been made for a specific product.
Even with our customizations, there have been many situations where 2 sales people contact the same person at a clients office and we end up looking very unorganized.
Any thoughts or comments are appreciated.
If this is not the right place to post this type if discussion, please redirect me.
Thanks

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Did you render fully before you exported? That helps. But this is also a GOP format, and it takes longer to do pretty much everything, as it is a processor intensive format.
1) How much more memory would help this work flow go faster, and approx. how much faster??
None. RAM doesn't come into play here. PROCESSOR speed is all that matters. What will make it go faster is enabling QMaster to have Compressor access all cores of the processor. Or getting hardware to help with the compression, like the Compress HD from Matrox. But that only boosts encoding to H.264.
2) Has anyone else done this type of work-flow, and been able to do it more quickly? Is RAM the issue? Any suggestions for a more efficient work-flow?
RAM isn't the issue. Faster Processors, hardware boosting...converting the footage to ProRes before you begin editing...all help.
RAM isn't what is hindering you here.
Shane

Business Objects Training -General Questions

Hi,
I am just Going through the Business Objects...had some few general questions.
1)What is the current Version on BO
2)Where does Crystal reports & Xcelsius fit in Business Objects
3)Does Power Center & Informatica are also included in Business Objects
Thanks

The latest version of Business Objects Enterprise is XI Release 3.1 Service Pack 2. There have been several fixpacks delivered on top of this as well.
Crystal Reports and XCelsius are tools to build Reports and Dashboards respectively. While XCelsius is suited for creating sleek dashboards with very aggregated data - usually less than 2000 rows per report, Crystal Reports can be used for reporting off data warehouses requiring reporting off large data sets.
Informatica Powercenter is a tool proivded by an independant vendor and is not a Business Objects Product. Business Objects Provides Data Integrator, which is pretty much as rugged as Informatica and provides all the functionalities of ETL(Extraction Transformation and Loading).

A very very tricky question

Hi All,
Please help me in this question. There is a table with 4 columns in a table
col1,
col2
col3
col4
A user should be able to see the first 3 columns and be able to refer the col4 although he does not have access privilege on the col4.
Is this possible in Oracle ? If yes, please le me know how to.
I think it is not possible by views.. may be some new features of 9i or 10g like vpd.
Please let me know
Thanks in advance
VS

This appears to be a duplicate of a question you posted in another forum
Re: A very tricky question
Since it is the same folks in the Database - General forum and in the SQL & PL/SQL forums, please try not to cross-post. Having multiple discussions on exactly the same topic in different forums is going to be confusing for posters and often leads to folks duplicating a lot of effort.
Justin

Validation General Questions

I have a couple of general questions on validation.
1) I have a text field defined as a "Required" field (it is using the form_required template). Must I also create a NOT NULL validation on this field as well? It seems that I should not have to do this. However, if I do not create this NOT NULL validation, then clicking on a Submit button while this field is empty is not generating any error message. But when I include a NOT NULL validation, then I do get an error message.
2) This question is related to the first. I tried creating a regular expression validation on my field in which I use the pattern
[[:alnum:]]{1,}[|$#&_?]+
The field should allow the user to type-in a string consisting of 1 or more alphanumeric characters (it could be a foreign language characters as well)
and 1 or more special characters like $ or #.
I thought this would also generate an error message if the user clicks the Submit button while leaving the field empty. But, again, I get no error message. Why?
Thank you in advance for any insight on this.

Thanks very much, Justin.
When I saw the regexp_like() function in your reply, I am wondering if, perhaps, you might also have some insight into how I can ckeck if a field contains non-English type characters (i.e., mult-byte characters). I already posted a question about this an hour ago but have not gotton any replies as yet. In my post I asked about using the regular expression pattern [[:alnum:]] since the docs state that this will check for mult-byte characters. And so, I thought if perhaps there is some function I might use to return a boolean TRUE if a field contains non-English characters versus a FALSE if it contains only English characters.
Any insight in this would be most appreciated.
Thanks again for your help.

Posting general questions

As a new user to apple forum discussions I find it a very user unfriendly system. Een finging how to view discussions took me over half an hour, and to post a question even longer! Now I cannot find where I should go to post a general question not related to any of the lists on the forums homepage. Very frustrating! Can anyone advise me how I open an account online since I cannot get the system to accept my details since my country, South Africa is not in the international list. Surely one can use a credit card without having to fill in a physical address!? I wish to get Quicktime Pro and cannot as it is not on the shelves and I can't get past this address problem!
Thanks,
Kendrew.

Joe Dew wrote:
You figured out how to post a question. I haven't figured that out yet. What's the trick?
Joe ~ Welcome to the discussions. See here:
http://discussions.apple.com/help.jspa#postquestion

Asking general questions about 'computing' matters.

Hello
I'm new to the Mac world - I posted my first question on the forums today!
I have reviewed the discussions site - everything seems very specific to apple products. Where, if anywhere, could I post a general question - like this one:-
I have a notion that when one connects to a server directly (Usenet newsgroups for example) one makes a deliberate 'hole' in one's firewall, be it software or simply because one is using a NAT router. Sending messages to and receiving posts from Usenet is far quicker than using email, so I'm fairly confident that this is so.
I am well aware that any URL one visits can instantly determine much information about the connecting machine. (see http://www.browserreport.com/ as an example).
Anti-malware programs can only detect known viruses and spyware - I see no reason at all why, once one has granted a direct connection facility, between a group on a private server to
one's own machine, malware could not relatively simply be injected onto one's computer.
If the malware was currently unknown, how would one ever know?
Thanks in anticipation of a helpful response
David B

HunterBD wrote:
I'm new to the Mac world - I posted my first question on the forums today!
Excellent!
I have reviewed the discussions site - everything seems very specific to apple products. Where, if anywhere, could I post a general question - like this one:-
Unfortunately, not in this forum. This forum is specifically about the discussion forum itself. It is kind of like a meta-forum. Hopefully, the moderators will just move your post somewhere more appropriate. (As indeed they just did!)
I have a notion that when one connects to a server directly (Usenet newsgroups for example) one makes a deliberate 'hole' in one's firewall, be it software or simply because one is using a NAT router.
Kind of and kind of not. Firewalls are greatly misunderstood. But essentially, yes, any internet connection you establish has some risk involved. However, the risk of making an outgoing connection is infinitesimally smaller than setting up a server to let hackers bang on 24x7.
Sending messages to and receiving posts from Usenet is far quicker than using email, so I'm fairly confident that this is so.
Really? I don't think so.
I am well aware that any URL one visits can instantly determine much information about the connecting machine. (see http://www.browserreport.com/ as an example).
Not really. It depends on what you are doing. You always give away your IP address, unless you are behind a proxy. In that case, you give away the proxy's IP address. But the proxy still knows who you really are.
If the protocol in question supports such information, then it can be determined. A web browser does send some information about you, but you can easily change it and masquerade as some other browser. With other protocols, it isn't so easy to tell what kind of OS or software is being used.
Anti-malware programs can only detect known viruses and spyware - I see no reason at all why, once one has granted a direct connection facility, between a group on a private server to
one's own machine, malware could not relatively simply be injected onto one's computer.
If the malware was currently unknown, how would one ever know?
You wouldn't
Don't grant anyone direct connection to your machine.

32bit vs 64bit - General Question

Hello:
I have read a number of articles about Snow-Leopard being boot up in 32bit vs 64bit.
It's a big topic, so I would like to ask and receive (a response) in very general terms that will overlook many finer points.
My impression is (for now and the near future), I should leave my MacPro 2009 (16GB RAM) in 32bit when using FCS3.
Question: will I be missing out on any "must have" advantages.
(Computer and Software info listed below)
Thank-you, MLR

No you won't miss anything by staying in 32bit. FCS3 is still 32bit.
No advantage will be gained for you by setting OSX to 64bit mode and you may cause some other problems.
x

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