Re: [Trisquel-users] Non-fiction reading recommendations
Thank you guys! You seem to have good taste in books judging by the subjects. These should keep me warm in the evenings. I won't be posting more thank you notices but I'll be grateful for more suggestions. So little time, so much to read, wonderful!
[Trisquel-users] Re : Help me restart Trisquel
I personally have difficulty understanding your writings. Could you be clearer? Maybe a screenshot.
[Trisquel-users] e4rat under trisquel
Hello TrisquelGNU fans, I just wanted to install e4rat on my system. I removed ureadahead and trisquel-minimal so the installation of e4rat was possible. But it did not work the right way. If I try to boot the system after e4rat-collect, I think the problem is, that the package trisquel-minimal is missing. Has one of You ever tried to install e4rat to make the boot time of trisquel faster? If yes, please give a documentaion about how to do it. Thank You!
[Trisquel-users] Re : e4rat under trisquel
What do you mean by it did not work the right way. trisquel-minimal by itself is not the problem because it does not do anything (but depends on many other packages). Did you install the DEB package linked in this page? Did you boot once after appending init=/sbin/e4rat-collect to GRUB's linux line? Did you then spend two minutes running your usual applications? Did you reinit in single mode and run 'e4rat-realloc /var/lib/e4rat/startup.log'? Did you add init=/sbin/e4rat-preload to the variable GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX (in /etc/default/grub) and run 'update-grub'? You see: if you want help, you need to give more details!
Re: [Trisquel-users] [OT] Licensing with my own software
A program is non-free if you, the user, don't have the four freedoms. So that's a simple question: of course deleting the source code would make it non-free. But I suppose the more interesting question is: is it *unethical*? That one's a little more interesting because what's unethical about non-free software is that a developer controls a user through that software. If the developer and the user are the same person, and that one person discards the source code, this person's freedom hasn't been violated by someone else; rather, this person has decided to abandon the option to modify this program they wrote. So my conclusion is it isn't unethical. Another related question: would distribution of a non-free program whose source code is no longer available to its developers to people who aren't developers be unethical? Well, it's still perfectly possible for there to be a backdoor or spyware in the program that the developers can take advantage of, so it's impossible to tell for an individual program. If such malicious features exist and the developers can take advantage of them, it's unethical; otherwise, I think it isn't. But if the possibility of such malicious features being there exists (i.e. the program runs on a computer with a connection to the Internet), it has to be treated as something that the developers could have some control over, since there's no way to find out if they do or don't.
Re: [Trisquel-users] [OT] Licensing with my own software
Keep in mind that I could easily recreate the source code.
[Trisquel-users] Antwort: e4rat under trisquel
The problem is solved. It worked the right way. I waqs just confused about a message on the boot screen, which dissapeared after a short while. The only thing thats confusing me right now, is the fact, that my boot-up-speed is not faster as before e4rat. The screen stays a very long time black and then the boot messages appear. I did everything the right way as you mentioned and how it is explained here: http://www.howtogeek.com/69753/how-to-cut-your-linux-pcs-boot-time-in-half-with-e4rat/ Can you help me with this? Thanks! (Sorry for my bad english, I'm from germany :)
[Trisquel-users] WikiLeaks Releases the Secret Draft Text of the TPP IP Rights Chapter
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/11/13/1517250/wikileaks-releases-the-secret-draft-text-of-the-tpp-ip-rights-chapter One could see the TPP as a Christmas wish-list for major corporations, and the copyright parts of the text support such a view, Dr. Matthew Rimmer, an expert in intellectual property law [sic]*, said. * https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#IntellectualProperty
Re: [Trisquel-users] WikiLeaks Releases the Secret Draft Text of the TPP IP Rights Chapter
Honestly, it is not surpirsing. The TTP was made in secrecy and no one really knew what it was about. It is anti-democratic, to say the right word.
Re: [Trisquel-users] WikiLeaks Releases the Secret Draft Text of the TPP IP Rights Chapter
What does TTP stand for?
Re: [Trisquel-users] MediaGoblin Opinions
I have an account at Gobblin.se (which, of course, uses MediaGobblin), but I use it mainly to upload temporary images. In the case of sharing private contents, a Diaspora account or an e-mail account would be two of your options. You can also use Web Offer One File (WOOF) which is a script written in Python. Before using it, you may need to open a port for WOOF in your modem/router, and allow incoming traffic for it in your computer's firewall. After this, launch WOOF with the desired file and options, and share your WAN IP address together with the port number prepared for WOOF, like this: http://[WAN IP]:[Port number]/ The clients, which in this case are your contacts, don't need any special software to download the file, as it'll be served as a normal file through their Internet browsers, as long as your network stays online and WOOF is kept running. If you want to try WOOF, and if you plan to use Python 2.7, and because it's a script, I recommend you to get the latest version from it's official site: http://www.home.unix-ag.org/simon/woof.html Other than Diaspora, e-mails, and WOOF, you also have RetroShare, it requires you and your contacts to have an OpenPGP ley (it can of course create one for use with it) and RetroShare itself. I couldn't find RetroShare in the repositories, so I decided to download a DEB file from it's Launchpad repository. If you're going to download RetroShare in the same way as I did, and if you want to evade future problems with dependencies, and if you use GNU+Linux Trisquel 6.0 (Toutatis), just be sure to download the DEB file compiled for GNU+Linux Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise Pangolin). Due to the fact that I don't have a contact which uses RetroShare, and that my computer is under a firewall, I can't tell you if you need to allow incoming traffic through some port. Best regards, ADFENO. Have a nice day.
Re: [Trisquel-users] [OT] Licensing with my own software
I would have said that unless you distribute it, it is custom code (as most software is) and none of our business. Not having the source to custom code is fairly common through software life cycle management failures. Foolishness in short. If it's easy enough to recreate then it's a only few Kb on whatever is your archive medium. I suggest you archive it there and look at it in a years time so you can reflect on how much more you've learnt about that programming language since. It's always an instructive exercise. Leny
Re: [Trisquel-users] How to prevent users from editing my wiki pages
I would like to appologize first for my absence from the forums (I needed to deal with some real life stuff), but now I am here to finally solve this unpleasant situation. Firstly, my disability means I don't always have good control over the tone of my writing. Despite several edits I can't get the stridency out of this. This is the best I can do. Please understand it's intended in good faith. I does not noticed anything insulting in the content of your writing, so no problem with me. And yes, sometimes is hard to describe things in a way one would like to, especially in cases of long comments. I am fully aware of the activities involved in constructing a web site. I have had a long involvement with hypertext systems and was one of the [presumably many] small fry involved in hypertext research who corresponded with CERN at the time Berners-Lee was doing his work on HTML. Good to know :) Obviously that doesn't mean I'm fluent in every web technology, much less every wiki markup dialect. Like everything with Trisquel, the forum markup is buggy, and very limited in functions, so one of the first tasks was to learn how to use them efficiently, in order to design the pages in a way to match the default website layout, while keeping the HTML code short and simple. So in your case you might decide that just the software pages need to be fleshed out with the software you know of literally today and the rest can take the form of a stepped outline for others to contribute to if they want. In order to consider the pages finished (or at least in a good shape to allow others to contribute), they must be complete in a sense, that anyone should be able to use them to compile, install, setup, and use the applications without any issue, on a bare Trisquel system. It was not intended to present my work in this way, but s*** happened, if you know what I mean. If you have sections or chapters, then publishing a fuller release plan at the same time as 0.1 that says 0.2 - Section BBB complete with... would focus contributions constructively and give you a todo list to work to and measure your own progress by. The to-do list forms as the pages are created, and besides what I already wrote about, there is nothing important to mention (in the case of the affected pages). I simply would not like to create pages filled with a lot of TODO notes, but I want to contribute informations as the time being, making them usable during the development process. Therefore the fact that you are now asking Trisquel to host work when you are waivering in your commitment guarantees that the admins will not provide special resources. This line does not make any sense. You have to demonstrate its importance to the Trisquel project not merely assert your own assessment. The pages you linked while an interesting beginning to what could be a worthwhile guide to free software games IMO do not yet demonstrate significant additional value to the Trisquel project. It's just my personal recommendation and stuff, and it's rather user focused, than to the distribution. See the main page for better understanding. However, there might be other things you have written or intend that would have that property. I really am planning to make it a part of something bigger, but it's yet questionable if I will reach that goal, since I need to finish the major part of the documentation first. I just hate to make announcements before I have something usable in my hand. that's the benefit of getting to 0.1 first, it should be self evident from the work There are strong reasons why I chosen that path for the development process, and I does not intend to change it. I will comment on the other part of your answer later, it's just too much to do it all in one reply. In the meantime, I would like to kindly ask of you, not to ask more questions unrelated to the topic (i.e. about page contents). If you'd like to discuss more about the contents of my wiki, you can contact me through my profile contact form. Thank you for your understanding. For the time being, I decided to hold on the development, and focus on switching to some third-party web-hosting server, where I can permanently move the documentation* (I would like to use a MediaWiki instance, or such). The possible choices I know about are 000webhost.com, or wordpress.com. If you, or anybody else reading this know about a free (as in beer) web-hosting service that will fit my needs (few megabytes for the contents is sufficient), don't hesitate to share it here. * linking breakage should be expected on threads where the pages are referred to
Re: [Trisquel-users] How to prevent users from editing my wiki pages
You can quote who ever you want in order to prove your point; I don't swallow something because this and that organisation has this and that definitions. Again, it's not sensible to judge devices by their technical properties alone. If you think this way, you somehow forget the initial goales of the free software movement.
Re: [Trisquel-users] How to prevent users from editing my wiki pages
Since all my points were predicated on you putting your pages on trisquel.info I think our discussion is at a close.
Re: [Trisquel-users] How to prevent users from editing my wiki pages
By a quick search, I was able to find this list of free MediaWiki providers: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Hosting_services
Re: [Trisquel-users] How to prevent users from editing my wiki pages
Which were 'to be able to get along without any software that is not free.' (RMS, The GNU Manifesto) You're quite right that the SNES is no worse than a DVD player, or the digital radio playing here in the room I'm in now. But that doesn't stop the software in it violating our software freedoms (for a start off I'd fix the bug where it forgets all its settings every blue moon). So please don't pretend it is a solution, non-free software is never a solution.
Re: [Trisquel-users] How to prevent users from editing my wiki pages
I'm forced to remove it because of the unfriendliness, and uncooperativeness of some people on this site. Most people here have different opinions about what can be considered free, and what cannot (I'm trying to comply with the FSF's definition of free software), so rather than spending my time, arguing with them, it's better to move it onto some better-suited website.
Re: [Trisquel-users] [OT] Licensing with my own software
Speaking about the title of this thread, Licensing with my own software, you don't need to license the software to yourself, as you already own the rights to it.
[Trisquel-users] Panopticon documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DU8hg4FTm0g This is good. Non-US. Freedom appears to be gone in so many settings. Tracking and privacy invasions contrary to UN rules, constitutions, whatever. It's great trying to have control over my software and computer, but what about the rest of the my life? Pretty sad out there. More than an uphill battle.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Panopticon documentary
Sorry wrong link, but that was a good (bad) one too! Here is the correct link. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqWXWNhfZQg
[Trisquel-users] Trisquel 6.0 LTS aMule Mirror
Hello All, I've mirrored the Trisquel installer onto aMule, if anyone is interested it uses the classic KAD and ed2k network. It's an old P2P protocol but still a goodie. To use just: sudo apt-get install amule (or eMule for Windows users) Update server list/bootstrap KAD and download either of these - AMD64 ISO: ed2k://|file|trisquel_6.0_amd64.[contentdb.emule-project.net].iso|729808896|933C6DCC4F7DC53B34A3572B0C60B936|p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|h=J7N3R5J4UVDGTN6F6AFMXKYTEB7HHSNX|/ x86 iso: ed2k://|file|trisquel_6.0_i686.[contentdb.emule-project.net].iso|729808896|788E0E6944C11EDFAB22CE3414DC78D9|p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
Re: [Trisquel-users] MediaGoblin Opinions
Private albums is coming in the future with federation. I'm working towards a static html5 multimedia gallery. I expect to do this as it is related to my non-existent biz but we'll see when I have actually made yee galley. Currently I working on personal camera video processing script and video encoding to free formats scripts. http://software.aross.me Not that I don't like media goblin. It needs some more features for me I and need to proto type what this non-existent vid biz looks like and my current hosting gifted by a friend has tons space and bandwidth but not good enough for mediagoblin :(. I love MediaGoblin and when I have money hope to support it with finance.
[Trisquel-users] Re : How to prevent users from editing my wiki pages
I do not think it has much to do with the definition of free. Trisquel's documentation aims to be written in community. The community as a whole rules the documentation and, by the current rules, nobody can prevent anyone to contribute to a documentation page. Those rules may change in the future in the same way that the Wikipedia community decided at some point to settle edit wars by granting some users more rights (including that of locking pages). You certainly are welcome to publish your documentation in static pages served by a computer you control. If you publish it under a license such as the CC BY-SA, I believe anyone would agree it is free documentation. In particular, anyone would be free to copy (for instance to Trisquel's documentation) and improve (or not) your work. And yes, the BY clause would force them to give you credit (while the optional SA clause would forbid any proprietary derivative).
Re: [Trisquel-users] Non-fiction reading recommendations
George Orwell: 1984; Animal Farm Hans-Hermann Hoppe: Democracy, The God That Failed; Myth of National Defense, The Essays on the Theory and History of Security Production; A Theory of Socialism and Capitalism Stephan Kinsella: Against Intellectual Property Boldrin Levine: Against Intellectual Monopoly United States Pirate Party: No Safe Harbor
Re: [Trisquel-users] Panopticon documentary
Hmmm. Talking of tracking and privacy invasions while being on YouTube is ironic.
[Trisquel-users] Identifying binary blobs in a driver.
I found a driver for a device which I have been planning to purchase, this driver is licensed under GNU GPLv2 but it is not included in any popular distros either. I want to check if the driver loads any binary blobs, how can I check that?
