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hello

im getting lots of spam on my network.. I run exchange and dont want to fork out for an additional exchagne license to add an edge-transport role. what are the open source alternatives?

spamassasin seems to come up quite a bit

@stueng hi

Are you using Ubuntu?

yip

well.. I use ubuntu, generally, as my open source OS of choice

you can check osalt.com/search?q=spam+filter

sorry, I have little experience with spam filter. I use web mail

I need something to act as a SMTP gateway, the mail to pass through it before it reaches my exchange servers

I also need to do address re-writing on the way out

11:18 AM

Though I did not use it. you can try spamassasin.

Or, sauce, qtsmtpd.

yeah im gonna try spamassasin just not sure how it all fits together

do I need postfix, if so, which configuration etc

thought I might someone here who knew it :)

@stueng You can better ask a question on the site. Thank you

11:34 AM

Hello again.

heya @ObsessiveFOSS

If you come down to Multiverse, you can see the way I make hardware/software packages in very crude ways.

Ultraverse

Way-out there version of the General Room

i be there

Ah.

Ignorance.

It shows my coding ignorance, misuse of languages, and weird choices for projects.

So sad. maas has been broken on Q for almost a week.

11:43 AM

@jrg My condolences. Automated response

I left the Q a while ago.

I don't care about maas, I don't have enough machines to do it.

And I'm too lazy to spend hours hacking it in VMs.

gnome-tweak-tool has been broken because of python3 migration?

no clue.

11:58 AM

@jrg: black-screen dupe please: askubuntu.com/questions/163943/boot-screen-bugged

and this: askubuntu.com/questions/163283/…

k done

Q: Linux Mint 64-bit Kernel Panic

thx

Git yer Minty Fresh close votes in!

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I'm trying to install Maya on the new Macbook Pro with Retina Display using a Bootcamp partition. The trouble is that I get a kernel panic similar to this one on live cd boot or usb boot. I did manage to get Maya to boot using "recovery mode". I even managed to install Maya however when I tried ...

Is there such a thing as a Reversal badge?

@msPeachy askubuntu.com/badges/55/reversal

Lord of Time

~~BOOM~~ sup

12:09 PM

someone commented that my answer deserves a Reversal badge...I was curious what it was for, I thought is was a bad thing.

@ObsessiveFOSS thanks @ObsessiveFOSS

@jrg - this one (askubuntu.com/questions/163967/…) a dupe of this one (askubuntu.com/questions/149821/…)?

@fossfreedom: yes, they're indistinguishable (4th part on HPs is FAT, but I digress ;)

12:26 PM

@fossfreedom Yes.

merge - or just close?

Merge, it's got a decent answer.

annnnd done

... beat me to it

@jrg and @fossfreedom thanks for cleaning up and merging the posts...great job

I just crashed lightdm. I never thought that was possible. sarcasm

@msPeachy thanks

12:35 PM

@msPeachy thanks.

that flag got me the 888th helpful flag.

@jokerdino must stop jokerdino from being so helpful ... must start declining flags

3

@fossfreedom heh I am working towards beating your mark =)

@jokerdino i don't think you understand the situation.

948 :O

@jrg situation??

foss handles like every 3rd flag or something crazy like that.

2

12:38 PM

He is a crazy buggy flag handling machine. o.O

hungry ... eats flags for breakfast, lunch and supper

4

I thought I fixed foss last week

@fossfreedom haha, i can imagine that happening.

I think unity in 12.04 has a memory leak or something, my laptop is really sluggish.

@jrg Those statements may be mutually exclusive ;)

12:44 PM

Unlikely, this is a new thing.

The Queen thinks about going down to India just to give @AmithKK a good rap on the knuckles

... probably will just set the corgies on him!

@izx nope

12:59 PM

@foss ROFL!

@jokerdino: the etymology of tijybba is finally revealed: mobile.twitter.com/tijybba

@izx oh wow

:P

how would you like a onidrekoj?

how does a post get this protection?

auto protection by community

1:02 PM

@msPeachy That happens if there's a lot of activity so it isn't spammed with people adding Me too! s and comments as answers.

if a post has 4 non answers deleted, it gets auto protected.

in addition, 10K+ users and mods can protect a question

@jokerdino oh okay, thank you

i just happened to know it =)

@ObsessiveFOSS thank you sir

I've consumed over five cups of tea within the last two hours. Also, are people looking at my old username? How do they assume I'm male?

1:07 PM

because ..

@jokerdino ????????????????

@jokerdino lol

@izx hey ... you need a nice new avatar ... deputy dawg or similar!

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@ObsessiveFOSS @msPeachy because you are obsessed with FOSS.

@ObsessiveFOSS can't see you old username

@jokerdino because individuals obsessed with FOSS are mostly male :P

1:10 PM

BBL

@msPeachy yes that.

like stallman?

:P

eww that guy

that guy? lol

remove that. ooh no

1:13 PM

^^ that guy is just scary

and creepy

lol

he does all sorts of weird stuff that you don't want to mention

we wouldn't have grub if not for him...

see alvar already jumped the train

1:15 PM

lol

oh no need to be scared, i'll protect you...

o.O

@jokerdino I've always wondered what this (that) means?

O.o

@jokerdino yeah that

(@_@)

(D.O)

Here, have a cookie: (>'_')>O

1:19 PM

i'll check @aking1012's post in meta I saw something in chat I didn't understand...:P

O_o, o.O, and similar - Oh, really?

@jokerdino yes really

no, i meant it as "wait what??"

O_o

@jokerdino who coined these expressions anyway?

it just evolved along with the internet.

i bet on usenet or 4chan actually

for those of you needing some references on emoticons: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_emoticons

if you need help on abbreviations, try urbandictionary.

thank you, i prefer not to use these expressions even in sms, i always write in complete and correctly spelled statements

@msPeachy I do the same.

Obsessively.

1:29 PM

@ObsessiveFOSS I'm obsessed with punctuations and capitalization too...

@msPeachy i only use the ones that are relatively common, both abbrevs and emoticons

yeah you've often respond to me with this O_o or o.O and I always respond with a :P

yep :P

btw, is it possible for Ubuntu be installed on a NTFS partition?

don't think so.

or may be it is. i was never insane enough to try that

1:33 PM

rofl

@msPeachy ... yes via wubi.

@msPeachy ^^ yes

but normally you can't

I was insane enough to try that once

@fossfreedom that's inside Windows...how about on a separate partition, an NTFS partition?

@AnwarShah lol, what happened then?

@msPeachy You can't. The mount point can't be changed to /

@msPeachy ... in terms of dual booting then no is the answer.

1:34 PM

it is fixed to /windows may be

The Interrupter

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@fossfreedom okay, will take your word for it.

@TheInterrupter I thought that was closed

@AnwarShah Did you try mounting the filesystem with full support for native NTFS permissions? That might give powerful enough ownership and permissions to retain and retrieve proper "UNIX permissions" information.

I have tried it once, in installation phase.

Just noted, Your's and Mitch rep are same in the last 3 digit.

1:42 PM

hello

i deleted all windows 7 which weighted 350 gb with all the files

i installed gparted

i want to add unallocated space to ubuntu

from /dev/sda2/ to /dev/sda5

@hey have you deleted all the partitions from /dev/sda2 to /dev/sda5 ?

@hey You can expand Ubuntu's partition(s) in GParted. You can't do this from the installed Ubuntu system itself, because they cannot be unmounted (plus it's not very safe to edit any of a drive's partitions from an OS running from the drive). So boot from an Ubuntu live CD/DVD or live USB flash drive and run GParted there. If you have just an ext4 partition for / and a linux-swap partition for your swap space, you'll want to expand /.

@hey If you have documents or other valuable data in your Ubuntu system, it's advisable to ensure your backups are current before doing this, as there is always some small (but significant) risk of data loss when dynamically resizing partitions, especially when doing it manually (due to possible user error).

so i need to install this: ubuntu.com/download/desktop/… and run it from usb and there will be already gparted ?

@hey The Ubuntu ISO, burned to a CD or DVD or written to a USB flash drive, already has GParted installed on it, yes. You should be able to use the same CD/DVD or USB flash drive that you used to install Ubuntu.

thank you, i'll try, hope it works

1:47 PM

@hey FYI. You don't need to install again

just run from live session

I have xubuntu, ubuntu and edubuntu installed. But grub showing all as "ubuntu". Is there any nice way to fix grub to show correctly, xubuntu, edubuntu and ubuntu?

wow, it's slow downloading...

so, it will be straightforward in that gparted?

what will i need to click?

resize?

Q: Resize partition with GParted

yes

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I wanted to create more space for Ubuntu on my hard disk in favor of my Windows partition. I booted the livecd and resized the NTFS partition to 100 GB. Then I wanted to resize my Ubuntu (ext4) partition to fill up the created unallocated space. A screenshot of my current disk. (With the livecd ...

partitioning live-cd ext4 gparted

ok thanks

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Q: Fixed search toolbar

Wouldn't it be cool that this toolbar could be fixed for easier access for activities and votes?

feature-request design

i am so scared... :D

1:51 PM

can you upload a screenshot to gparted window here

by pressing Alt+prtscr

yes, one second

hey, how's things going?

he he..

what do they mean by resizing left, right side/

Resizing left mean, the space in the left side of partition will be added

1:53 PM

@EliahKagan: "to the left."

i dont get it

where's left side

@hey. I recommend not to do left

It will take more time.

what's the difference?

@hey You'll usually only be able to expand on one side or the other. You can only expand into unpartitioned ("unallocated") space.

@hey The difference is, In left, gparted will allocate space in the left and also move all the data

hence, it requires more time.

but if you have power backup, you can do that

strangely my usb is not recognized

1:57 PM

are you booting from usb or cd?

i want to mount .iso

Are you on Live Session?

i am on "simple" session

i havent done anything yet

maybe my usb is messed up, idk

owie

@hey You need to not be booted into the installed system, when you run GParted to expand the partition. So you need to boot from a system that is not installed on your hard disk. This system can be on an external drive, or a CD/DVD. So you have to burn the ISO to a CD/DVD, or write it to an external drive. Just as you did so you could install Ubuntu originally. (Though you may have done that in Windows, and if you don't still have your media, you'll have to do it again in Ubuntu.)