Re: [Trisquel-users] free save formats -- list
You still need to put the page in a category, so it can be found without knowing the URL before hand. It's a bit weird how to get it there... hit edit on the page and select a "book". If you wish to select a subcategory (which is strongly suggested to not pollute the highest level), you need to select the parent cat and then hit that change book button. Then a new drop down appears to select a parent item. See I warned you it would be crazy! :) You might want to repeat this song and dance for all the wiki pages you've done as needed.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Yet another wifi issue
>yes, 3.5 is older than 3.11, what was I thinking Not a too crazy mistake to make, so not too much shame! :) Glad it works.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Keyboard broken + HDMI
I don't know such combo but try this. First install xdotool and then run xdotool key XF86Display (Letter case is meaningful, like usually.) You might need to do that a few times perhaps. You can find more funny stuff at http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/proto/x11proto/tree/XF86keysym.h
Re: [Trisquel-users] DRM, CDM, EME and Mozilla
Signed it!
[Trisquel-users] Re : DRM, CDM, EME and Mozilla
An online petition: https://www.change.org/petitions/mozilla-remove-drm-from-firefox
Re: [Trisquel-users] "Get Add-ons" in Abrowser doesn't show any addon
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/another-problem-abroswer-update
Re: [Trisquel-users] "Get Add-ons" in Abrowser doesn't show any addon
It works for me. Maybe create a new profile?
Re: [Trisquel-users] "Get Add-ons" in Abrowser doesn't show any addon
cool, thanks a lot. hope it will get fixed...
Re: [Trisquel-users] DRM, CDM, EME and Mozilla
I think was reading it wrong the first time. Thought you were saying it was a for-profit corporation with a non-profit subsidiary.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Free-as-in-freedom alternatives to iwlwifi-3945-2/1.ucode Wi-Fi drivers
What your implying is extremely ignorant, offensive, and just plain wrong. Trisquel doesn't raise enough funds to cover trips for its lead developer to LibrePlanet let alone pay the lead developer. To say its somehow egregiously taking advantage of its users is wrong. The only people who would make such a claim don't understand what free software is or the reasons it exists. The reason for replacing hardware is purely down to non-free software issues created by companies which think that they are gaining an advantage by keeping code secret. It's not just drivers and firmware that are removed from Trisquel. It's everything that is under a non-free license and any bits of code which link to or point out non-free software. Trisquel follows the free software's distribution recommendation guidelines and avoids promoting non-free software in any way, shape, or form. The project gets no money from the Free Software Foundation either. None of these decisions have had anything to do with fund raising. If Trisquel were purely about financial interests it would not be excluding non-free software. The exact opposite would probably be true. The leading distribution is hardly a 'free software' project, but it is significantly better off with sufficient finances to pay several full time developers. I'm the CEO for ThinkPenguin and I can tell you whats been raised (approximately, it's public already). It's been a mere few thousand US dollars at best, from Trisquel/ThinkPenguin relationships, but to make a point, most of the money Trisquel's raised has been through direct donations and its associate membership program. The real value here is for the users as it reduces the amount of non-free software one is dependent on.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Free-as-in-freedom alternatives to iwlwifi-3945-2/1.ucode Wi-Fi drivers
No. There are very few reverse engineered drivers. It appears you have an Intel wifi chipset and there are no free solutions for these chipsets. Such a feat requires significant energies and the results are generally poor. Unfortunately many manufacturers today are also implementing digital restrictions that make moving to GNU/Linux near impossible. From digital restrictions on the mini PCIe card slot to technologies like secure boot. The best thing to do is be conscious of what your buying before you buy it. HP, Toshiba, Sony, Apple, Lenovo/IBM, and Dell are particularly gregarious in use of digital restrictions and/or proprietary designs. While there are still lots of potential issues with other manufacturers most of the others are not intentionally preventing users from installing third party parts. They are still doing things hostile to users though. For example they are forcing proprietary software licenses on users. In most instances you can get around some of these issues with free software friendly USB dongles or by replacing the mini PCIe wifi card (if it's not one of the above companies). If you purchase a replacement component from ThinkPenguin 25% of the profits go to the Trisquel project. Just visit via http://libre.thinkpenguin.com/
Re: [Trisquel-users] "Get Add-ons" in Abrowser doesn't show any addon
Huh, you're right, I didn't notice that. Well, one thing you can do in the meantime is go directly to the page: https://trisquel.info/en/browser/addons
Re: [Trisquel-users] Free-as-in-freedom alternatives to iwlwifi-3945-2/1.ucode Wi-Fi drivers
Your QUESTION ARE LEGIT, but my past experience TAUGHT ME, That you EITHER QUIT USING CRAZY TRISQUEL OR YOU would end buying or replacing the WIFI Card. I opt to replace the WIFI card on my old laptop, I don't regret it! but my own personal opinion is irrelevant to others. I still stand that any WIFI transmitting radio waves, the device is not secure. It does not matter, Either you are using proprietary binary code or such as the "Libre-binary code, when it comes to WIFI transmissions AND HANDSHAKE methods. In my opinion. is Just a strategic cliche to raise revenues used by the libre society in their advantage to raise revenues MAKING TRISQUEL COMPATIBLE only WITH CERTAIN BRANDS OF WIFI CARDS only. That does not justify their reason's in not allowing other WIFI CARD MANUFACTURES TO BE COMPATIBLE. This is just my opinion.
[Trisquel-users] Free-as-in-freedom alternatives to iwlwifi-3945-2/1.ucode Wi-Fi drivers
Currently, I am bound on using non-free Wi-Fi drivers on my laptop, which are iwlwifi-3945-2.ucode and iwlwifi-3945-1.ucode, what prevents me from installing Trisquel GNU/Linux on my machine. Are there reverse-engineered free-as-in-freedom alternatives for these drivers?
[Trisquel-users] "Get Add-ons" in Abrowser doesn't show any addon
Hi, I'm trying to look for a new addon in the "Get Add-ons" section and it doesn't load any addon (Abrowser}. In the address bar it appears "about:addons". Does anybody have same problem or knows how to fix it? (Abrowser updated - v.29.0) Best
Re: [Trisquel-users] Court rules that API's are copyrightable
THIS IS GOING TO SHUTDOWN A LOT OF BUSINESS! why? ALL INVOLVES REVENUES. The American court system is going to be overwhelm and hands tie down with law suits and counter court lawsuits because of copyrightable API's issues.before they will declared a final veredict. This matter, the way I look at it, is going to redraw the copyrights laws to favor the powerful corporate. I think this is going to be Google's, Samsung. and many telecom companies "Achilles tendon" injury. As for small telecom business is going to be a calamity.. That is happening, when everyone has set of standards different from each other. Just like bill Gates deliberately copy the MS-DOS on its primitive stages from Xerox. Bill Gates was never summon in court because on those days there was no software copyrights, everything was a lab testing. Corporate espionage at its best.
[Trisquel-users] Antwort: Any of you use Docker?
Oh yes, one thing I forgot to mention: Similar to other "enterprise" solutions Docker does not seem to make sense to me if you use it on the small scale. For setting up VMs / containers on your local PC there are simpler solutions with a less steep learing curve and less demanding infrastructure (e.g. local "registry"). One can easily set up a VM / container with a SSH-key that allows remote login without passwort. If you set up the VM with a static IP in the first place, you can easily spawm multiple copies of the VM, start the VM, update the VM, assign another IP, etc. The same applies to containers (OpenVZ, LXC) of course. Automating system setup is not really complicate and can be done with simple scripts (Bash, Python, Perl, etc).
[Trisquel-users] Antwort: Any of you use Docker?
I haven't spent any time playing around with Docker but experimented with Vagrant plus Virtual Box. You need to understand that Docker is NOT any container-solution similar to OpenVZ, LXC, Jails, etc. It's more like a layer between some container virtualisation or something like Vagrant plus VBox and the outer world. It enables you to use the virtualisation technology below to encapsulate your server / application. Then you can upload your server / application to some "repository" and spawn it everywhere (physical remote server, local host, clound). Have a closer look here: http://docs.docker.io/introduction/technology/#introduction You can also use LXC for Docker as far as I understood from the few presentations I have watched on youtube.
Re: [Trisquel-users] free save formats -- list
Thanks MB and Legimet. I added your ideas to this page, under "free implementation of a proprietary specification" https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/specification-freedom I hope that I understood correctly -- please let me know if I got it wrong And MB, you're right; I'll focus on free formats where there some kind of consensus/quality stamp
Re: [Trisquel-users] DRM, CDM, EME and Mozilla
Sounds like you're describing exactly what Bradley described, so I'm not sure what you're trying to point out...
Re: [Trisquel-users] Court rules that API's are copyrightable
"...most pundits are going to look at this in an overly contrasted way: NDCA said API's aren't copyrightable, and the Appeals Court said they are. That's not what happened here, and if you look at the situation that way, you're making the same kinds of oversimplications that the Appeals Court seems to have erroneously made." Best go actually read the court decision and these things before before opining: http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2014/05/10/oracle-google.html http://faif.us/cast/2014/may/13/0x44/
[Trisquel-users] Re : free save formats -- list
Well, the format LibreOffice understands from MS Office files is free. It is slightly different from the way MS Office itself understands it though.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Yet another wifi issue
Shame on me ! I installed an older kernel. (yes, 3.5 is older than 3.11, what was I thinking). Hopefully, after compiling the last linux-libre kernel 3.14 disabling powersave in wireless devices, it works like a charm ! (Made other things work as well) Thank you everyone !
Re: [Trisquel-users] Court rules that API's are copyrightable
Not to mention it's nonsense. If you can copyright an API, then you can copyright a method. Because that's what an API is: a method. It's a subject of patents, not copyright. I really hope Google doesn't accept this bullshit copyright claim. It could be a massive legal headache for us, and there's no telling when a sensible court will shoot down this bizarre idea that methods are copyrightable if it doesn't happen now.
Re: [Trisquel-users] DRM, CDM, EME and Mozilla
Netflix using EME is not a significant problem. They were already using digital restriction mechanisms before, and it's no surprise that they continue to do so. The big problem is this digital restriction mechanism being standardized, and the only major free/libre browser going on and accepting it, because that makes the problem of digital restriction mechanisms worse. It's like Flash Player all over again, only this time it could be much worse and much more difficult to recover from.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Mozilla to adopt support for digital restrictions: help with the protest!
It's a recurring pattern. A business gets big and successful by giving users what they want, then it starts telling them what they should have and looks for ways to make more money. Then it enters a long slow decline as it alienates more and more users who are motivated to look for alternatives.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Court rules that API's are copyrightable
http://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/fourthamendmentpic.jpg
Re: [Trisquel-users] free save formats -- list
An exception is when the free application reverse engineered the format, like how LibreOffice supports MS Office formats. Those are definitely not free formats.
Re: [Trisquel-users] free save formats -- list
Of course, those are the default formats used by LibreOffice. (I can't edit my post)
[Trisquel-users] Court rules that API's are copyrightable
Read here: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/05/oracles-java-api-code-protected-by-copyright-appeals-court-rules/ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/05/dangerous-ruling-oracle-v-google-federal-circuit-reverses-sensible-lower-court This is going to be dangerous for free software, especially.
Re: [Trisquel-users] DRM, CDM, EME and Mozilla
It's not in the standard yet. But even if W3C rejects it, companies like Netflix have already started to use it :(
[Trisquel-users] Re : DRM, CDM, EME and Mozilla
EME being in the standard does not make it good. Preventing somebody from using the video as she wishes (e.g., forcing her to watch ads, preventing her from saving the downloaded file, imposing a limit on the number of times the video is watched, etc.) clearly goes against freedom 0, the freedom to run the program, for any purpose. DRMs are incompatible with free software. There is no such a thing as a free DRM. And, indeed, Firefox will download blobs to impose usage restrictions.
[Trisquel-users] Re : free save formats -- list
The format used by a free application necessarily is free. Anybody can study how it is implemented given the access to the source code. As a consequence, your questions become "what are the formats used by the free applications for...". That said, and as andrew points out, your question may be about "free standards" (with some kind of quality stamp). For instance the mm file format (based on XML) of FreeMind and derivatives (the most famous mind mappers) is free but I doubt it is a standard.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Keyboard broken + HDMI
On my laptop's keyboard has a combination fn + f8. But don't is there the key "fn" at my usb keyboard. Is there a combination? For exemple ctrl + alt + del? When i plug the cable on TV shows the same image of laptop. The TV is mirrored at notebook on resolution 1024 x 768. I wish only see the tv-monitor.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Mozilla to adopt support for digital restrictions: help with the protest!
I've emailed Mozilla and it has gone onto deaf ears with no reply. Mozilla is very set in their ways and extremely self righteous. I've read responses from employees (like to Kuhn's recent post) and they give an arrogant response telling the users that they are making the right choices for you and the user is simply wrong if they disagree with the for profit interests of the Mozilla Corporation.
Re: [Trisquel-users] DRM, CDM, EME and Mozilla
Firefox is more restrictive than Chromium because you have to rename it and rip out all the artwork since the Mozilla Corporation won't allow you to use the Firefox name. With Chromium, you can modify it all you want (like turning off or disabling the Google features) and still use the name Chromium with the same artwork. As for EME, isn't it an accepted web standard now by the W3C? I understand the concept of software without restrictions, but does it really matter with video? It is meant to consumed and not modified as it is copyrighted material. They are just making sure the transfer of copyrighted material stays in the control of the creator.
