Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel v gNewSense
The dream distro for me would be 100% kosher Slackware. Dragora probably gets closest http://www.dragora.org/en/index.html
Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel v gNewSense
Oh. my. goodness. Squeals in delight. Thankyou.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Unsafe ISO-file signatures
There is detached GnuPG signature for the sums file: http://cdimage.trisquel.info/trisquel-images/md5sum.txt.gpg
Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel v gNewSense
The thing that confused me was that Wheezy works perfectly on the same machine. As far as I know, gnewsense 3.0 is based on squeeze and not on wheezy; This might be the explanation.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Intel processor microcode security update for Trisquel
There's a difference between recommending non-free software and providing the possibility to install it, and perhaps this could solve the whole problem. Imagine a user who doesn't know much about the problems with proprietary software. He installs Debian, but on his pc is a wireless card which needs non-free firmware. If the installer clearly points out the problems with non-free software and possible solutions (floss friendly wireless card from tp etc.) but provides the possibility to install it anyway, the new user makes a positive experience with his new almost free system. Don't push him away when he doesn't quite understand the reasons. Very likely he will think about the problems the installer told him about and really replace his wireless card some months ago. Result: a person uses his pc in freedom, a new member for the free software community. The other possibility is not to provide the firmware because it's unethical. Result: new users won't understand, become frustrated and go back to windows. The OS developers stayed pure and holy, they remain ethical. The only way of getting the ideas of free software in people's minds is the first one. And we *need* more support, like chris pointed out, if we want to build a pure computer one day for an acceptable price. The only thing I can blame debian for is the lack of information they give to the users; they really should teach them when proprietary software might be installed everytime and teach them about the problems; they should not recommend it, but the possibility to do so should remain.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Unsafe ISO-file signatures
It more and more appears to me like security is not og high priority in the distribution. I see a lot of bugreports regarding privacy and security.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Unsafe ISO-file signatures
It more and more appears to me like security is not og high priority in the distribution. I see a lot of bugreports regarding privacy and security. Privacy and security are a priority for Trisquel. However, lack of development resources can make this difficult. Some package helpers (e.g. Abrowser) need updating when new packages are released. I plan on working on the Abrowser package helper in two weeks time when I get a week off. Yes, you can hold that against me if I don't end up doing it. ;-) I think the increase of privacy/security bug reports might also relate to the recent NSA disclosures a little bit. Extra developer resources wouldn't go astray. If you can help at all, please do. PS. I'm not a Trisquel developer, or represent Trisquel in any way. Andrew.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Which media players can play 10-bit H264 videos and Bluray rips smoothly?
Thanks.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Which media players can play 10-bit H264 videos and Bluray rips smoothly?
I was referring to software, such as VLC media player or Totem. But if you have suggestions about hardware, I would like to know about them too.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel v gNewSense
It would appear, after having tried every distro on the FSF list, other than BLAG, which is all but dead as a project, that Trisquel is the best looking and easiest to configure. With Cinnamon running instead of Gnome3 it's positively delightful.
[Trisquel-users] A phone without GPS
Hi, I use an old SAGEM which has no GPS. So, I ask myself a question, is that the cell phone can it be traced? Can anyone tell me if this is possible? Thanks. -- Libere, Pascal Diogo Antunes. On dit qu'il y a trois millions de personnes qui veulent du travail. C'est pas vrai, de l'argent leur suffirait.- Coluche. pgpz2YR2Ik2Tz.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [Trisquel-users] A phone without GPS
As far as I know, a cellphone can be tracked without GPS. I don't have many details, but the basic principle is that two different towers of the mobile phone company receive your normal signal from different directions. With this, you can easily get your position by constructing a triangle.
Re: [Trisquel-users] A phone without GPS
With this, you can easily get your position by constructing a triangle. It's called Triangulation.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Fundraising campaign: Privacy Friendly Mail (TLS/OpenGPG/etc) Software
A healthy dose of skepticism is good, but when taken to the extreme I believe it's counterproductive. Also, I think a lot of this speculation takes on a very simplistic view of the world. Things are a lot more messy and chaotic than that, in my opinion. Regarding Wikileaks, I cannot possibly see how this saga can have played in the favor of the USG. Quite on the contrary, from what I see. Wikileaks, and now Snowden have weakened the strategical dominance of Empire. It should be quite obvious based exclusively on how the USG has behaved in relation to them. Panicked stupid authoritarianism; the result of weakening hegemonic dominance. In my opinion. On the bright side, if you are right Fernando, and all of these things are really conspiracies, it seems we don't need to do much to fight the struggle; just let them keep on doing the good work of self-implosion. I don't think so though, and I think that credit should be given where credit is deserved. I do respect Wikileaks. I prefer to look at world events in terms of power dynamics and a lot of what seem to be conspiracies are rather alignments of interests and misalignment of interests within powerful players and not necessarily plots executed to precision from the meeting rooms of secret societies. Powerful people and organizations surely must try to conspire, but there are too many power struggles and too many variables to look at it from a simplistic puppet/puppeteer perspective. Also, believing everything is the result of conspiracies gives too much credit to the conspirators. The fact that people conspire does not translate to the fact that they are successful in their conspiracies. Particularly, reaching conclusions based on logos or secret symbols is a bit much, in my opinion, especially in the 21st century. As someone else has already mentioned, why go through the trouble of making Freedom Box to trick people? And if so, why use logos that would reveal the true wicked intentions? It is a bit like thinking that spies should look like spies. The whole point of it would seem to fall apart if that were the case. Don't you think? It seems a bit out there to think a group of people are smart and capable enough to control the world, and then careless enough to leave us bread crumbs to follow their trail.
Re: [Trisquel-users] A phone without GPS
The best phones are satellite phones, depending on the region/hemisphere you live they are hard to triangulate. depending on the foot print of the satellite coverage and region. but they are a bit expensive, Lately their prices have drop a lot. SAT PHONES COULD TALK VIA ENCRYPTION POINT TO POINT, iF YOU HAVE THE MONEY TO PAY FOR THAT KIND OF SOFTWARE. REMENBER there is nothing that big brother has not cypher. For example: Thuraya phones, they come in various models, some models could use them with dual Sim cards. including an adaptor to use your famous IPHONE. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite_phone http://www.thuraya.com/ http://www.iridium.com/default.aspx Considering that you are buying a sat phone, do your home work diligently always check the foot print of the satellite network. IRIDIUM phones are usable world wide, but Thuraya is not. If you purchase a sat phone buy one outside the USA. I bought my thuraya in dubai UAE. I found out, some of the features on that specific model are not available in the USA model bacause governement regulations. For example: Able to disable the GPS IN COMMAND and P2P conversations, unlimited text messages. Later on time I bought one IRIDIUM, SEA FARER phone in Kuwait, was the best investment, gorgeous, robust, water proof phone, included p2p PHONE FOR FREE via encryption, as long the other party was in the same network. Good luck
[Trisquel-users] Re : Error with apt - Installing Packages
I would try that in a terminal: $ wget http://archive.trisquel.info/trisquel/trisquel-archive-signkey.gpg $ sudo apt-key add trisquel-archive-signkey.gpg $ sudo apt-get update
Re: [Trisquel-users] RMS Talk From LibrePlanet
Excellent video. Wish I would have seen this earlier. On the other hand, what a confirmation of what I was thinking anyway on creating a 100% free hardware computer. Wow. Thanks for posting it. Made my day.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel v gNewSense
When you say Trisquel doesn't include non-free software although only runs on architectures where there is some non-free microcode is the non-free microcode referring to the BIOS?
Re: [Trisquel-users] A phone without GPS
Not just triangulation. Isn't doppler effect also valid in signals!
