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Re: ubuntu-au Digest, Vol 46, Issue 12

b...@weisfilms.com (Bob Weis) — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:34:24 UT

Why not use the medium? Do an agreed content mailout to everybodies
address books with encouragement to recipients to do the same. Viral
marketing
Sent from my iPhone
Bob Weis

Re: mail server

p...@libertysys.com.au (Paul Gear) — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 21:28:09 UT

IKT wrote:
If you want something that's reliable and performs well but might need a
little more integration work to set up, try the combination of postfix,
amavisd-new, spamassassin, courier-imap, and roundcube. This is what i
run on my server and i'm very happy with how reliable it has been. All
of these packages are available in Debian & Ubuntu, but roundcube tends

mail server

noname...@gmail.com (IKT) — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:25:57 UT

Heya,
Just after suggests for mail server software, easy to setup and maintain and
preferably has an admin gui + webmail.
Have been running axigen but after some other suggestions.
Cheers
- Ikt

Re: Team roadmaps - UDS Dallas

gande...@gmail.com (AndrewG) — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 07:23:13 UT

Yes Scott, we need to start at the grass roots level, given the
resources available to Ubuntu-au.
I subscribe to the ubuntu-marketing email list
[link]
and they talk about this stuff all of the time.
The Danish loco team recently had a stall in a shopping centre, giving

Re: Ubuntu-based malware

p3nndra...@gmail.com (James Takac) — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 03:10:59 UT

Hi Paul
Luckily my screen saver is simply turning off the screen when not in use
James
Try Linux. Learn something Gnu everyday

Re: Team roadmaps - UDS Dallas

sc...@vk7hse.hobby-site.org (Scott Evans) — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 23:35:03 UT

I'm wondering if the idea is being taken the wrong way...
Is it so important to have them using ubuntu? or is it better that they
know of ubuntu? because in a perfect world we would have both! but in
the real world I think its only going to be achievable to have one at
this stage. Whilst Microsoft spends millions on advertising/vendor

Re: Team roadmaps - UDS Dallas

gande...@gmail.com (AndrewG) — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 22:49:16 UT

Fund Raising - Linux Australia and/or Lugs with Fund-raising ability.
'Officially Sanctioned' - from Ubuntu if we want to use their logo.
How about targeting other 'Computer' Clubs in your local town?
Introduce them to 'Ubuntu'.

Re: Error 18

andreman...@gmail.com (Andre Mangan) — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 20:56:39 UT

The reasons for the error 18 seem to be multiple:
1. An old BIOS - remedied via a BIOS update.
2. Hard drive too large and not recognised by the BIOS - I don't know what
can be done about that.
3. Hard drive recognition - remedied via BIOS setting to "automatic".
4. A corrupted GRUB - remedied via a GRUB reinstall.

Re: Ubuntu-based malware

ishwor.gur...@gmail.com (Ishwor Gurung) — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 14:52:28 UT

Heh.
2009/12/15 db <db.pub.m...@gmail.com>:
I think Chris was referring more to malwares that tries to do sneaky
things via pre-post install scripts. Ofcourse to check the binary,
one would have to do other trickery that aren't trivial.
[...]

Re: Ubuntu-based malware

db.pub.m...@gmail.com (db) — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 14:22:07 UT

You cannot just read the pre and post install instructions. If there
is a compiled binary how are you going to know what it does ?
It isn't that simple. If it was simple to know if a piece of software
was dangerous antivirus companies would have a hard time :P
2009/12/14 Morgan Storey <m...@morganstorey.com>:

Re: Ubuntu-based malware

m...@morganstorey.com (Morgan Storey) — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 10:41:45 UT

to be honest though you can do the same with most windows install
files, MSI's .exe's are usually just a zip of all the dll's, cab's and
exe's, even somtimes a few batch files and vbscripts. The average user
won't look inside their installers, and may not know what they are
looking at if they did. Even advanced users won't do open them all the

Re: Ubuntu-based malware

christopher_l...@iprimus.com.au (Christopher Lees) — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 10:20:55 UT

Actually, the openness of Linux is also useful in detecting threats from
Debian packages. You can open Debian packages in File Roller / other
archive manager. Then you can see the preinst, postinst and prerm
scripts and you can have a look at where the package will put files.
Then if it's all okay, you can install the package.

Re: Error 18

andreman...@gmail.com (Andre Mangan) — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 07:08:26 UT

From what I can gather, this occurs when GRUB2 in Ubuntu 9.10 has to read
across 2 drives. GRUB2 seems to be rather buggy.
I have found that GRUB2 is intolerably slow when reading across 2 hard
drives.
You may find a solution if you do a clean install of 9.10 - although I
cannot promise that.
I have abandoned 9.10 (except in VirtualBox and in the Netbook Remix for the

Re: Error 18

p...@libertysys.com.au (Paul Gear) — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 04:34:02 UT

My knowledge on this is not comprehensive, but would expect a clean
install to have no effect. Perhaps a grub reinstall might help, but i
doubt that even.
Most likely it is something to do with your hardware or BIOS settings.
Did you change your SATA settings? Some BIOSes allow selection of EHCI
or ATA emulation, and one might work better than the other for you.

Re: Error 18

chris.j.tay...@optusnet.com.au (Chris Taylor) — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 04:21:26 UT

Thanks for your input Paul
This only started to happen after doing a online upgrade to 9.10 from
9.04.
Was thinking of doing clean install with 9.10 any thoughts?