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Re: Aquaris E4.5 Ubuntu Edition

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Post by teekert »

abc_lisper wrote: post #251
teekert wrote: post #250

I just set up an Ubuntu 14.04 server on Digital Ocean. One "apt-get install mail-stack-delivery", and one edited line in /etc/postfix/master.cf later (just to get 587 submission working) and I have my own mail server including STARTTLS on smtp and imap. Made me wonder, will we see sync options on Ubuntu Phone to sync mail/calendar/own-cloud with one (SSH) account? Seems to me the possibilities are endless and very ex…

Very interesting. Can I encrypt the disk?

Certainly you can encrypt the email part, But I'm not sure how NSA proof it will be when the whole server is in the RAM of one that you don't control though.

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Post by minusSeven »

AlphaGeekZulu wrote: post #116

I have this phone since around 20th of March and like it really very much. The Terminal app is hilarious. I was pleased to find much more stuff in the Ubuntu store than expected. Telephony is perfect. The one thing I do not like is the runtime of the battery. 44 hours was the absolute maximum I had this phone running before it went black (just turning it on, entering the SIM-PIN, having Bluetooth, GPS and WiFi turned…

I use blackberry q5 which gives 16 hours battery. My android counter part gives 20. Battery life is overated and it all depends on the usage. This one only just started.

Re: Aquaris E4.5 Ubuntu Edition

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Post by bildung »

malkia wrote: post #227
bildung wrote: post #211

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>Being burned by two FirefoxOS phones (mostly burned by not being to upgrade to anything latest and stuck to some version). Which ones? I had the same experience with the ZTE Open C but found great community updates for this and other phones. Open C updates are this way: http://builds.firefoxos.mozfr.org/doc/en/devices/zte-open-c

I can't thank you enough! I haven't looked deeply into other sources, and used the phone as a normal user (I've borrowed it to a friend of ours, when they went to Italy for vacation (we are US based)), and then I used them again when travelling to Bulgaria. Why FirefoxOS phones there? Because they don't draw much attention, they are cheap, and reliable for basic phone needs - calling, texting, even some browsing. Als…

You're welcome! They are quite hard to find. I accidently stumbled over the mozfr community builds while figuring out how to compile a current version myself :)

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Post by IgorPartola »

TazeTSchnitzel wrote: post #256
IgorPartola wrote: post #198

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Let me walk you through it: $ openssl genrsa -out $server.key 2048 $ openssl req -new -sha256 -key $server.key -out $server.csr Get the CSR to a CA and get the cert in your email inbox. Compose the cert into a chain (the most painful part of the process). Put the cert and the key in /etc/ssl/certs/example.com.crt and respectively /etc/ssl/private/example.com.key; In your nginx config add the following: server { liste…

Sure, it's easy if you know the steps. But it's still additional effort. All web servers just do HTTP by default.

Setting up passwords is additional effort. Just leave them blank. To me that doesn't seem like an excuse to subject your users to what HTTP entails, and to subject yourself to the liability it implies.

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Post by TazeTSchnitzel »

IgorPartola wrote: post #264
TazeTSchnitzel wrote: post #256

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Sure, it's easy if you know the steps. But it's still additional effort. All web servers just do HTTP by default.

Setting up passwords is additional effort. Just leave them blank. To me that doesn't seem like an excuse to subject your users to what HTTP entails, and to subject yourself to the liability it implies.

It's not an excuse, but it is the reason why.

That, and shared hosts.

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Post by abrowne »

sp332 wrote: post #16
dalek2point3 wrote: post #8

what are the standard apps to replace the google apps?

Google has 88 apps in the Android app store. Which ones are you looking to replace? Edit: Here's a list of the "core apps". https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Touch/CoreApps Notably missing are email and SMS apps, so I'm not sure what they're using for those. Also, you won't spend as much time in siloed app experiences on this OS. It's all about Scopes: http://www.ubuntu.com/phone/features

The "Core Apps" have a bad name. They are community-developed apps, that may be included in the stock image. What you're really looking for are the "System Apps": https://launchpad.net/ubuntu-system-apps

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Post by touristtam »

fstephany wrote: post #229

I couldn't find a way to introduce my VAT number. If I'm a business with a valid VAT number outside Spain, I shouldn't pay the VAT, right?

As far as I know, you need to reclaim VAT; you pay it and claim it back. At least that was the case last time I have checked.

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Post by touristtam »

akulbe wrote: post #55
popey wrote: post #9

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GSM yes, 3G no.

went to the specs page, and this is what it said: Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n Bluetooth® 4.0, Bluetooth® 4.0 hardware compatibility (software not currently integrated). 2G GSM (850/900/1800/1900) 3G HSPA+ (900/2100) GPS and A-GPS

list of HSPA+ networks for ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HSPA%2B_networks

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Post by da02 »

Kurtz79 wrote: post #142
leaveyou wrote: post #133

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I bought mine on amazon in France (sold by some other company but shipped by amazon).

Thanks for the lead. It appears also on Amazon Spain at just 160€. Are you happy with it ?

I agree w/ @leaveyou. It feels fast and fluid. I love the 2GB of RAM. I'm in the US and use it on T-mobile's "4G". It's compatible and I love it.

Re: Aquaris E4.5 Ubuntu Edition

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Post by talideon »

davexunit wrote: post #244
talideon wrote: post #233

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The protocol is published, and the client is open source, but the protocol has a whole bunch of design issues, and that's the real problem with Telegram.

But the server isn't free software, so it's untrustable, even if the protocol didn't have known design issues.

If the protocol was properly designed, the proprietary nature of the server wouldn't be an issue as we could write a server implementing the protocol too. For instance, I don't have to worry about all of tarsnap being open source, because I know from the way the client is implemented that the server can't do a damned thing to sniff my data.

However, due to how much of an awful botch job the protocol is, even if the server was FLOSS, it would still be untrustable.

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