Re: Disappointed with Ubuntu Server, could be used by such a wider audience

2008-08-02 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 11:25 PM, Stephan Hermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Serious, for a normal familiy I would advise to by ready made >appliances..they are tested, and are usable (well not everytime, but If a security flaw is found in such an appliance it would be much harder to patch than on

Re: Disappointed with Ubuntu Server, could be used by such a wider audience

2008-08-02 Thread Stephan Hermann
On Sat, Aug 02, 2008 at 03:51:35PM +0800, John McCabe-Dansted wrote: > On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 11:25 PM, Stephan Hermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Serious, for a normal familiy I would advise to by ready made > >appliances..they are tested, and are usable (well not everytime, but > > If a secur

Re: Disappointed with Ubuntu Server, could be used by such a wider audience

2008-08-02 Thread Anthony Watters
Folks, I've decided that I'll be using either the ClarkConnect (http://clarkconnect.com) which is Red Hat RHEL/Cent OS based or SME Server (www.smeserver.org) with PHP fired up. People on www.whirlpool.net.au report good experiences with both of these offerings. Both come preconfigured and hav

Re: Disappointed with Ubuntu Server, could be used by such a wider audience

2008-08-02 Thread (``-_-´´) -- Fernando
Olá Anthony e a todos. On Thursday 31 July 2008 02:14:06 Anthony Watters wrote: > Preconfigure the thing, give it a GUI web admin, make it easy for someone to > set up a Web server/Webmail/File server either in server only mode or server > and gateway mode. All I should need to set up is a coupl

Re: Disappointed with Ubuntu Server, could be used by such a wider audience

2008-08-02 Thread (``-_-´´) -- Fernando
Olá Stephan e a todos. On Friday 01 August 2008 16:25:01 Stephan Hermann wrote: > Fact One: an ISP who allows people running smtp servers should be > punished. Private users should use an SMTP Gateway at their ISP or on > some root server, but shouldn't be able to send via smtp server <-> > smtp s

Re: Disappointed with Ubuntu Server, could be used by such a wider audience

2008-08-02 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Saturday 02 August 2008 12:29, (``-_-´´) -- Fernando wrote: > Olá Anthony e a todos. > > On Thursday 31 July 2008 02:14:06 Anthony Watters wrote: > > Preconfigure the thing, give it a GUI web admin, make it easy for someone > > to set up a Web server/Webmail/File server either in server only mod

Re: usplash and alternate resolutions

2008-08-02 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 01:27:12PM -0400, Bill Filler wrote: > Hello, > Does anyone know if there is work underway in usplash to support > resolutions such as 1024x600 and 1280x800 (without stretching the > image), which are proving to be quite common in the netbook space? If > not, any hints as

ABI error building Intrepid Ibex

2008-08-02 Thread Mike Jarmy
I just installed 8.04 onto my Dell e1405 laptop, and now I'm trying to build the Intrepid Ibex kernel, but I'm running into a problem. I cloned the git repository, updated the config files (which may not have been necessary), and then kicked off the compile: git clone git://kernel.ubuntu.com/ubun

Re: Disappointed with Ubuntu Server, could be used by such a wider audience

2008-08-02 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 6:23 AM, Mackenzie Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Because as he said, if you pre-configure everything to > super-duper-easy-peasy, you've also pre-configured it to > super-duper-easy-peasy-to-crack. I'm personally disappointed by > firewalls that allow outbound by defau