[Ubuntu-SG] ubuntu.sg contains spam posts

[Maung Myat Thu @ Billy Aung Myint]

On Sat, 2008-05-24 at 22:46 +0800, Rui Boon wrote:
> Maung Myat Thu @ Billy Aung Myint wrote:
> > Hi Hanzahar ,
> >
> > Could you post us your /var/log/messages ? just do
> > "cat /var/log/messages > ~/messages.txt" and attach the messages.txt
> > file? And your question of anyone here joined LUGS , I am a member of
> > LUGS for sometimes now , about 5 years+ I think.
> >
> > Actually , after 30 boots , ubuntu will fsck your harddrive by
> > default ... ext3 hardly fragment so don't worry about disk fragmentation
> > problems like fat32 or ntfs. Anyway log will tell us the problem :P
> >
> > To Rui Boon , my apology for not maintaining the site properly , I been
> > having exams so havn't been active online for a while. The spams have
> > been deleted and thanks for the feedback. my apologies..
> >
> > regards
> > billy
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Fri, 2008-05-23 at 20:27 +0800, hanzahar wrote:
> >   
> >> thanks a lot Rui Boon for the help...
> >>
> >> do you guys join LUGS?
> >>
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> >>           1. Re:  ubuntu keep freezing (Rui Boon)
> >>         
> >>         
> >>         ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> >>         From: Rui Boon <ruiboon at gmail.com>
> >>         To: ubuntu-sg at lists.ubuntu.com
> >>         Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 20:42:46 +0800
> >>         Subject: Re: [Ubuntu-SG] ubuntu keep freezing
> >>         hanzahar wrote:
> >>                 hi guys,
> >>                 
> >>                 newbie to ubuntu just installed it few days ago
> >>                 
> >>                 but i got a problem...
> >>                 
> >>                 ubuntu keeps freezing with the num cap and scrol lock
> >>                 lights blinking...
> >>                 
> >>                 not sure why...
> >>                 
> >>                 any idea?
> >>                 
> >>                 anyway does ubuntu got something like scan disk...like
> >>                 on windows?
> >>                 
> >>                 btw i'm non-technical just normal pc user
> >>                 
> >>                 thanks
> >>                 
> >>                 -- 
> >>                 http://hanzahar.net 
> >>         Hi hanzahar
> >>         
> >>         What you have described seems to be a sign of a kernel panic.
> >>         
> >>         It would be better if you could ask your question in the
> >>         forums (http://ubuntuforums.org/) or IRC at #ubuntu.
> >>         (Response is much faster over there). You would be asked to
> >>         describe the message (if there is) when the num cap and scroll
> >>         lock light blinks
> >>         
> >>         Ubuntu has something like scan disk. It is called fsck. You
> >>         will have to use the terminal though. You may want to refer to
> >>         this
> >>         (http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=699590&postcount=2)
> >>         for some information on running fsck
> >>         
> >>         
> >>         Cheers
> >>         
> >>         Rui Boon
> >>         
> >>         
> >>         
> >>         
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> >> -- 
> >> http://hanzahar.net
> >>     
> >
> >
> >   
> 
> Hi Billy
> 
> Thanks for scrubbing the website. I can understand the exam stress as i 
> am a student too (will be having my mid years after the june holiday). :)
> 
> There are still some spam that is hidden with noscript lying around. 
> Those spam bots are quite clever as they interweave their content around 
> the real content. You might want to view the site with javascript turned 
> off and they will start to appear.
> 
> 
> Also this loco seems to be started in Oct 2006 and has not been approved 
> yet. Does anyone has any suggestion on how to push this team to a 
> greater height? Any suggestions/ideas are welcome and the good thing is 
> that you dont need to be the one to implement the idea. (though it would 
> be a plus :))
> 
> 
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Rui Boon

Hi Rui Boon , 

              the spam links are only in the last post and I cleaned
them out .. thanks for the info. As for the ubuntu singapore being
approved , or for that matter any distro team being approved in
Singapore is pretty slim.

LUGS itself has no more than 600 members and less than 50 active
members , it has not been growing for last 3 years or so and we have yet
to see new faces for a while. If LUGS can't get new members easily , we
sure can't. We will have to be bigger than LUGS and more active than
LUGS to be approved. 

Why? Simple , firstly windows is "free" for a lot of people. You either
download for free or you get it for free from work or school. There is
no reason to learn something new. Second , most people here are quite
computer-savy but not IT savy , meaning they know enough to buy
computers from dell online but doesn't know enough to install an OS or
even know what is an OS. So they will still buy everything from dell/hp
etc etc ...

Third and most importantly , time is short and expensive. Tell anyone
they need time to learn something new and exciting and nobody will
friend with you :P 

regards
billy