Re: [Trisquel-users] dual boot with two drives
As a new user who tends to mess around with things (I currently have three drives running four operating systems) I've had this problem many, many times. There's an 'Ubuntu Boot Repair' disc/program that has been invaluable to me. It can be found at: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Boot-Repair I recommmend burning a copy AND installing it on your system. (Just in case. It never hurts to have a copy handy.) When it's done it tells you which hard drive to boot from. This program is pretty much idiot-proof. Trust me, I know. :) Note: Boot-Repair is free software, licensed under GNU-GPL.
[Trisquel-users] vector plot software?
what free software there is for vector plotting in 3d, you know for linear algebra, i installed euler which i think works for that but it splash me in the terminal the error: (euler:2004): Gdk-CRITICAL **: IA__gdk_char_width: assertion `font != NULL' failed Violación de segmento
Re: [Trisquel-users] vector plot software?
If it's only for *plotting*, then I think GNUplot is capable of this. I never used this feature so I can't tell how exactly it works, but startpage is your friend.
Re: [Trisquel-users] vector plot software?
GNUplot : ...The source code is copyrighted but freely distributed... what is this... is not there a free software that do the same than gnuplot?
Re: [Trisquel-users] vector plot software?
It is free, [0]. There are other free licenses that forbid making modified sources, but allow distribution of unmodified source and patch or a modified binary. I don't know plotting software, I use them only via Maxima or Octave. [0] https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#gnuplot pgpxdXNWgvUAp.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [Trisquel-users] vector plot software?
can i plot vectors in maxima or octave? i want to visualize vectors
[Trisquel-users] Wireless N USB Adapter for GNU / Linux (TPE-N150USB) dropped packets
hello all, Ever since I've had it the thinkpenguin TPE-N150USB has been dropping between 3%-10% of wireless network packets under Trisquel (using the firmware from jxself). I've done the troubleshooting to make sure that this isn't special to my network (happens on any network) or my router (changed router). I even (temporarily) compiled and ran the Intel wireless which usually sits dormant in my laptop and that indeed drops 0% consistently. I'd rather have freedom than a perfect connection, so I'm living with it. But if I can have freedom _and_ a perfect connection that would be even better! Any help appreciated.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Is OpenDNS safe to use?
OpenDNS is fair, however I have never seen them deny keeping logs. OpenNIC is the best alternative since a majority of their user operated servers on purposely don't log your DNS queries. http://www.opennicproject.org/ Additionally you can still use DNSCrypt which adds considerably strong security against DNS leaking. http://dnscrypt.org/ As others mentioned however, DNS is not a do all. You will need to use other methods to protect all internet traffic.
Re: [Trisquel-users] vector plot software?
Only software in public domain isn't copyrighted. (And stuff in the public domain is non-free if the source is not available.)
Re: [Trisquel-users] Wireless N USB Adapter for GNU / Linux (TPE-N150USB) dropped packets
Which kernel are you on? Latest might be most useful or perhaps the latest backported saucy kernel. One silly idea is to try different USB ports as they might give different amount of power and interference. I found this interesting on zero packet loss, not that I claim to fully understand the issue. http://www.bufferbloat.net/projects/bloat/wiki/Introduction
Re: [Trisquel-users] Wireless N USB Adapter for GNU / Linux (TPE-N150USB) dropped packets
I've tried this on every kernel release so far with the same results. So if it is a kernel issue then I haven't hit on one without the problem. Different USB ports have been tried, as did connecting through the same USB to a different wireless device and seeing 0 packet loss. Buffer-bloat is an interesting topic indeed! But it happens primarily in the router (and I've changed that).
Re: [Trisquel-users] Local mirror of Trisquel 6 repository
With source maybe, with just the debs for main, security and updates is 52-ish GiB.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Wireless N USB Adapter for GNU / Linux (TPE-N150USB) dropped packets
You mean that the connection is periodically dropping, then reconnecting?
Re: [Trisquel-users] vector plot software?
I don't know much about this, but Sage is a very good mathematical software. It is a collection of various free software packages and a python interface. It is all free software, except it has a library called cephes under a questionable license. Luckily, this is only used on FreeBSD, not on GNU/Linux. (But I hope this is replaced in the future)
Re: [Trisquel-users] vector plot software?
The GNUplot license is called free by gnu.org. What else can you want?
[Trisquel-users] Great news! : Updated GNU Framework Tries To Push Free JavaScript
Out this Sunday is a major update to GNU ease.js, which relicenses this JavaScript framework to the GPLv3 and has several other changes. GNU ease.js helps the Free Software Foundation's case for the importance of free JavaScript on the web. Full article here: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_itempx=MTYzMjE
Re: [Trisquel-users] My conceptual problem with my computer.
Yeah great thread. I get as passionate about figuring out stuff as yourselves. Annotation is the key to the world and my life's project. The problem with books and articles is its impossible to incorporate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affective_computing , into the process because we all sit down to learn in a mood and come up with creative questions during our shifting day moods and friends moods etc. A properly built Annotation platform for a community allows all the questions and answers to be more efficiently and fun brain absorbed. There are some industry leaders in Annotation but after researching the game it's not being done right it should be way more mainstream and a few stand out features that I can't believe arn't added as of yet, and that I'm keeping to myself because I'm a broke dad hoping to make at least enough to raise a child in modesty, I do intend to release it FLOSS Style but need all sorts of help so keeping it away from any proprietary viruses out there, preview at www.imaginationforpeople.org/en/project/attempt-the-life-ganghouse. You Can make a living FLOSS needs to be a sticker. Again really impressed with seeing this thread and community behind it Really passionate about Trisquel and Dynebolic. All Best
Re: [Trisquel-users] Wireless N USB Adapter for GNU / Linux (TPE-N150USB) dropped packets
No, the wirelss connection remains throughout. You can tell that there is an issue since I can't stream video without it stuttering, for example from TWiT.tv mplayer -aspect 16:9 http://bglive-a.bitgravity.com/twit/live/high;. And if I run ping -c 100 something.org I'll get proof of this with a 3%-10% packet loss report at the end.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Wireless N USB Adapter for GNU / Linux (TPE-N150USB) dropped packets
Aha. I asked because I own this adapter and it newer worked me quite well to the extent, that it caused kernel panics/system crashes. Sorry, but I cannot help you with this. But what I do recommend is to buy an internal wifi card instead if you can. This solved all my problems that I've got through years of using this wifi adapter.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Great news! : Updated GNU Framework Tries To Push Free JavaScript
From what I read, it is a JavaScript framework under a copyleft license with the intention of forcing other JavaScript to be copyleft. I don't see this gaining traction as the more popular, mature, and stable jQuery and Mootools frameworks are under free software licenses. LibreJS is a failure at this point and proves that there needs to be better ways to detect JS licenses. Since Abrowser/Firefox and Chrome/Chromium support sourcemaps, why not have an extension check minified JS code for the sourcemap and analyze the unminified code for a license block?
Re: [Trisquel-users] Great news! : Updated GNU Framework Tries To Push Free JavaScript
Oh, and besides: The exact method isn't necessarily the problem anyway. The real issue is that most JavaScript is proprietary - read that as having no copyright or license information at all. LibreJS can support many different methods of detection and identification so that's not an issue. Even if sourcemaps were used, the real challenge seems (to me) to get people to free their stuff in the first place.
