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Comment on Attempting to remove U3 with Linux by Andy Merrall

Andy Merrall — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 14:59:33 +0000

Ok. Your idea worked. I can no longer see it. I have had trouble with this U3 stuff. I’ve tried forcing sr# to mount using. mount -w /dev/sr# /mnt/laptop.
ignore the name of the mount point. It’s just one I use for mounting logical volumes on an old laptop hard drive. That failed.
Now it doesn’t show up. I still can’t see it in gparted though. I’ll have to see if I can use one of the windows computers at work to remove it fully.

Comment on Attempting to remove U3 with Linux by Tristan Lear

Tristan Lear — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 16:11:46 +0000

Has anyone tried using the windows u3 uninstall utility under VirtualBox? if you download the full version from their website, i believe they’ve had direct USB forwarding since version 2.0 … so like … it’s as good has having a usb thing plugged directly into windows. I tried it once with my magicJack and it worked.

Comment on Attempting to remove U3 with Linux by daviedev

daviedev — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:07:19 +0000

The libusb version of U3-tool is only for compatibility with old linux kernels < ~2.6.20. U3-tool now uses SCSI generic as default subsystems, which work out of the box on Ubuntu 8.04+. Although finding out the right device to use might be somewhat hard for the less experienced Linux user(the highest /dev/sgX is probably a good bet)

Comment on Attempting to remove U3 with Linux by jimcooncat

jimcooncat — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 11:16:52 +0000

@dangerjim: Thanks very much! I’ll give it a shot when I get back to work.

Comment on Attempting to remove U3 with Linux by dangerjim

dangerjim — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 07:38:54 +0000

You might try this tool: http://sourceforge.net/projects/u3-tool/

My friend who was infected with the U3 virus was able to build and run it on Linux.
He said that libusb didn’t work, but libsgutils did.

Comment on Attempting to remove U3 with Linux by Neil Greenwood

Neil Greenwood — Wed, 27 May 2009 20:04:57 +0000

I did the write to /sys/class/block/sr0/device/delete, then followed it with a write to /sys/class/block/sdc/device/delete (where sdc was the other device showing up in fdisk -l).

This seems to have done the trick, and I now only have one partition on my USB stick.

Admittedly, it wasn’t a U3 device, but the extra partition was a ’secure’ one.

HTH.

Comment on Attempting to remove U3 with Linux by jimcooncat

jimcooncat — Fri, 15 May 2009 12:43:54 +0000

I’m guessing that this method only removes the cdrom device from the Linux kernel, doesn’t actually modify the flash drive itself. A promising project is youthree, very much in its infancy. I hope Zinx, the author, is able to progress on this, or at least open up his blog for comments.

http://zenthought.org/content/project/youthree

Comment on Attempting to remove U3 with Linux by jimcooncat

jimcooncat — Thu, 14 May 2009 19:19:50 +0000

@will_in_wi, it’s tougher than it looks. U3 is embedded in the firmware; that is, it has an emulated CD-ROM embedded, as well as a regular flash drive. The flash drive is simple to overwrite, it’s this CD-ROM that causes me fits — errors in Linux, auto-running in Windows. Since it’s Read Only, it can’t be overwritten by dd.

The post above gave me some hope, but I’m sure I did something a little wrong, or there was a step missing at the end (perhaps obvious to the original author).

Comment on Attempting to remove U3 with Linux by will_in_wi

will_in_wi — Thu, 14 May 2009 17:24:31 +0000

I have not dealt with U3 yet, but from looking at the tutorial perhaps repartitioning the drive would work. If you use fdisk or gparted to wipe the partition table and recreate it, that might eliminate U3.

Comment on Bulk deleting Gmail contacts by jimcooncat

jimcooncat — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 23:15:30 +0000

Not sure, Robert. I don’t see the need for limiting the namespace more than http://mail.google.com/a/. Make sure you’re looking at the html version, not the Ajax version. Enable the greasemonkey script, and reload the page. The first 400 checkboxes should be checked.

It’s a very generic script, and should work on any html page with checkboxes.

Comment on Bulk deleting Gmail contacts by Robert Ralph

Robert Ralph — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 20:15:27 +0000

Same situation here. I downloaded grease monkey and have tried to duplicate your script. I changed the namespace to http://mail.google.com/a/ombexpress.com/h/itde22p5nbvz/?v=cl&pnl=a and also tried http://mail.google.com/a/ombexpress.com/h/ but it doesn’t seem to work. Any ideas?

Comment on Bulk deleting Gmail contacts by jimcooncat

jimcooncat — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 17:47:41 +0000

We were using a hosted Zimbra, so there’s no trust issue in my eyes. I’m afraid I haven’t the time to host myself, as I used to do years ago with my first Gentoo server. If I went back to running a mail server, I would probably use Zimbra.

I’m finding that Gmail’s spam filters are better than either the ones I set up before or my Zimbra host’s. There are probably better filters nowadays: I used razor, pyzor, and rules-du-jour. My Zimbra host is very expensive, and their smtp servers are slow.

Comment on Bulk deleting Gmail contacts by brousch

brousch — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 16:52:37 +0000

If you don’t mind my asking, why are you moving from Zimbra to Gmail? I recently looked at both of them, and decided to stay with Zimbra (in-house, not hosted) because I did not like giving all of our data to Google.

Comment on Bulk deleting Gmail contacts by jimcooncat

jimcooncat — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 10:41:47 +0000

Seems to be intermittent. I still have Full Text RSS specified. I’ve contacted wordpress.com support for help. Thanks for letting me know.

Comment on Bulk deleting Gmail contacts by Tiago Faria

Tiago Faria — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 23:06:18 +0000

Your feed is not displaying full text, which is something required for the Planet Ubuntu Users. Please get in contact if you want something done on my side.

Thank you.

Comment on Bulk deleting Gmail contacts by jimcooncat

jimcooncat — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 22:26:10 +0000

Jeremy, that only works if you have 500 or less. I think my method works better than manual if you have 600 or more. Download and setup being worth 100 clicks…

Comment on Bulk deleting Gmail contacts by Jeremy Pyne

Jeremy Pyne — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 18:34:56 +0000

… Or jsut click teh word all, one single click to select all 500 …

Comment on Agonizing’s over, accept success when you can by John Comeau

John Comeau — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 14:45:23 +0000

Looks as though we’ve been through some similar shitpiles recently. Glad you came out smelling like a rose!

Comment on Unique Identifiers – Part 1, Identifying the Generator by Mattyuy

Mattyuy — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 19:17:06 +0000

thats for sure, brother