Re: [Trisquel-users] 3G modems coming integrated with Next Gen Intel Atom (for real this time)
i sometimes use tor just to help the network be more anonymous but as Samsung and the nsa know just about everything about me as my family’s smart tv is recording everything anyone in my house ses and they have decided that a high resolution tv and netflix is more important than freedom i have kind of excepted that close to everything i do is monitored and i have to wait a few years to move out
Re: [Trisquel-users] Encrypted offsite backup - a question
The problem is that if you locally encrypt a 200GB folder, then modify one text file and newly encrypt that folder the two encrypted files will be completely different, difficulting the synchronization. That's why a way to detect redundant data is requested.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Tablets that can run GNU/Linux
I'm looking for whether there exists a tablet, as of now out of curiousity, that has a battery life, and perhaps weight, that rivals that of those Android tablets. So I'm guessing the X60T won't do, the X200T would have a small chance if Gluglug starts doing it, and Intel Atom tablets.will be perfect if I can get GNU/Linux running nicely on it with lengthy battery life.
[Trisquel-users] Electrum
Hi guys, I just wanted to ask whether Electrum will be updated to the new 2.0 version in the trisquel repos, or should I install manually if I want to upgrade? I know that normally software versions track the upstream Ubuntu, but since Electrum was instroduced specially for Trisquel, I thought the rules might be different. Can someone confirm one way or another? Thanks.
Re: [Trisquel-users] replace xorg
You mene In trisquel repos?
Re: [Trisquel-users] 3G modems coming integrated with Next Gen Intel Atom (for real this time)
The FSF's certification process is about *software freedom* No, RYF is a software and hardware process... http://www.fsf.org/news/endorsement-criteria http://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:Hardware/Certification_criteria You must be able to run free software on every layer, and there must be no spying. In this case, if the 3g modem runs free software, and doesn't spy, then this is truly a feature and not an anti-feature.
Re: [Trisquel-users] 3G modems coming integrated with Next Gen Intel Atom (for real this time)
However, there is an exception for secondary embedded processors. The exception applies to software delivered inside auxiliary and low-level processors and FPGAs, within which software installation is not intended after the user obtains the product. This can include, for instance, microcode inside a processor, firmware built into an I/O device, or the gate pattern of an FPGA. The software in such secondary processors does not count as product software. That should explain everything.
Re: [Trisquel-users] 3G modems coming integrated with Next Gen Intel Atom (for real this time)
tomlukeywood said: i hear that you can easily make a toy prosessor that would run at 100khz Tom If you want a toy processor make sure it barks like a Dog to chase your cat and Has an embedded spell check software for the word prosessor like you wrote.
Re: [Trisquel-users] replace xorg
Yes: http://packages.trisquel.info/search?keywords=waylandsearchon=namessuite=belenossection=all
Re: [Trisquel-users] Test and install Trisquel on any laptops without operating system
Note that ixquick has servers both in Europe and the US@ - if you're in Europe it'll automatically use european ones. Anyway you can set what servers it'll grab from within the settings on the search engine page. Also I am not saying that ixquick is better than duckduckgo privacy wise. Just that I don't want to use a service that makes any kind of business with mierdamazon..But it is also true, as nbd pointed out, that if a server is located outside the States of corporate Union it can NOT be compelled by a court to surrender your data.. cheers
Re: [Trisquel-users] 3G modems coming integrated with Next Gen Intel Atom (for real this time)
tomlukey I like your style! Extreme! Are you a TORrorist? :P
Re: [Trisquel-users] Electrum
Trisquel gets punctually all the essential security updates. So..sure, the browsers must get updates!! I think electrum is not an essential part of Trisquel. you should compile it by yourself. I may be wrong though.. cheers
Re: [Trisquel-users] New Updates: Opensource/Free FPS standalone mod of Xonotic (ChaosEsque) version 42 etc.
Release 51: New weapons: M16 vn, M16 mini (like an m4), 44 Magnum, Browning HiPower 9mm pistol. New buildables: Vineyard (adds to your team's grape resources, also spawns grapes on the ground you can pickup and eat with the eat console command (eat grapes)) Things are picked up via the F button. New farman LOD model (3 levels of detail now) to improve performance. Added droping of casing links for the miniguns (in addition to shell casings) (think of those grey things falling down in the matrix scene where Neo is shooting out of th helicopteriea) Fixes: put the muzzle flashes in the correct spots. (Release 50: New weapons: AKS-74u, Tokarev pistol (TT-33)) Enjoy. Tell me what you think. Download: http://sourceforge.net/projects/chaosesqueanthology/files/latest/download Direct download of version 51: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/chaosesqueanthology/Rel_51/XonoticChaosEsqueAnthologyREL51.iso?r=ts=1425401900use_mirror=iweb
Re: [Trisquel-users] 3G modems coming integrated with Next Gen Intel Atom (for real this time)
sorry to hear that tom. You could wait for your parents to get asleep and then just take the stupid box and put in you car and then you go west until you reach a place like this. Make sure to leave your door slightly (barely) open so when they wake up in the morning they'll blame it on the thieves. ciao Tom!
Re: [Trisquel-users] 3G modems coming integrated with Next Gen Intel Atom (for real this time)
Haha, good joke, but I don't suggest to actually do that.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Electrum
I stand corrected. Never used it. Don't need it - I have some coins from ex-jugoslavia if you are interested.. very cheap and doesn't require pithonius! :P
Re: [Trisquel-users] 3G modems coming integrated with Next Gen Intel Atom (for real this time)
It is discouraging about hardware with free software, or open source. You notice that it cannot be done. You watch other get to know about the importance of free software on hardware, they have to realize it too. If knowledgeable people like thinkpenguin cannot get free software on hardware, then who can? I already have posted about the lowrisc cpu. I did not get much response. My knowledge is, they want to build a board that in performance equals the pi 2. In a video I saw Bradbury say that not all hardware on the board will be open source on software. If assumed that the cpu will be open source on software. Cannot a mainboard be made that is open source on software? Can you double up on arm cpus until you get a performance that equals a duo core cpu, x86.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Electrum
Ok, I'll upgrade manually. Thanks for your help.
Re: [Trisquel-users] unresponsive keyboard
Trisquel has a role, perhaps unintended. Today my *inXP laptop's USB ports ceased functioning ... the USB mouse would not work where I usually plug it in, and nowhere else, for that matter. Then the touchpad stopped working; *inXP would not boot, not even past the black screen ... Then I tried plugging in my Trisquel LiveUSB flashdrive, which booted up without hesitation, revealing that the mouse worked OK, even though plugged into that troublesome USB port. So I shut Trisquel down and tried *inXP again ... whereupon it started right up, mouse and all, as if nothing had happened.
[Trisquel-users] Free Software Alternative to f.lux
Hi all, I've really grown to like f.lux (justgetflux.com) however, it is not free software. Does anyone know of similar software? Thanks, A. Fleckenstein
[Trisquel-users] Antwort: Can't boot NetInstall
I tried it with another drive but it does the same thing. Nothing.
[Trisquel-users] Antwort: Can't boot NetInstall
I took two pictures of the settings and the boot window...
Re: [Trisquel-users] LibreOffice going banannas
Try reinstalling LibreOffice, or removing the libreoffice folder located in /home/username/.config. Or downloading the new version from their website, or use their PPA.
Re: [Trisquel-users] 3G modems coming integrated with Next Gen Intel Atom (for real this time)
Told you so. You pooh poohd me and called me a troll (Trolls write software, make music, 3d architecture, 3d models, gfx, sfx, etc etc right?) This is all to enforce America's feminist police state / empire world wide. To make the world safe for democracy/women. To make sure men cannot marry young girls anywhere on earth and those wishing to will be found out and prosecuted (and ofcourse other useful information will be sucked up) (peon men like us are not allowed privacy, freedom, and certainly CERTAINLY not autonomy). Women are a natural ally of the government and an eternal enemy of men*. Easily placated: aslong as they have it over the man and win in divorce (make the man a slave) they are happy. Men are not so easily placated. They always want more, and power. But a broken man can be controlled well enough. *(Men marry young female children instead when they can: in old europe an unmarried 13 year old would be a spinster forever: men did NOT want _women_ when they had the choice of a young _girl_: girls are nice, women are schemining enemies to all except their own offspring (this is the same with _ALL_ mammals except maybe cats who will adopt other cats offspring)) (Also allowed in the old testament: Deuteronomy 22 28-29 when read in hebrew) With the men as slaves (pay the woman (and the state) much money or go to jail for 6 months at a stretch each time you do not pay) they are controllable. The only hope is if a place like Russia/Royssia decideds to rebel and clones intel chips without the mal-features, like they did in soviet times with western products. Otherwise linux etc is done (systemd is another prong in this forked attack: very insecure and useless change)
Re: [Trisquel-users] Free Software Alternative to f.lux
For active LCD, you can set the brightness manually with “xbacklight -steps
1 -set BRIGHTNESS” I use “light BRIGHTNESS”. I have the following lines
in my .bashrc:
function light () {
if [ $# == 1 ]; then
xbacklight -steps 1 -set $1
elif [ $# == 0 ]; then
xbacklight
fi
}
The scale goes from 0 to 100. Typing “light” in the command line prompt
will give you the current brightness.
I believe this chunk of code is not copyrightable due to triviality, but for
the avoidance of doubt: I hereby place it in the public domain under the
terms of the Creative Commons CC0 public domain dedication. Note: I'm not a
supporter of public domain or permissive licenses for non-trivial works.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Free Software Alternative to f.lux
Try redshift. It's in the Trisquel repository.
Re: [Trisquel-users] 3G modems coming integrated with Next Gen Intel Atom (for real this time)
so what is the thing that stops you making a 1mhz prosessor or 100mhz prosessor? Answer: the fact that IC likes the ones I mentioned have a low level of integration. This means that they are very simple and so you would need too many to make a CPU comparable to modern ones (The Wikipedia article on VLSI leaves a lot to be desired, but it will give you a basic idea. Also search for “very large scale integration” and “transistor count”). The amount of logic gates that you can get by using logic gates like the series I mentioned is very limited; it would get very expensive soon. Bear in mind that transistor counts of 10⁸ are common for modern CPU's. A lot of that is used for cache, however. Also, I think that a lot of transistors are used to support obsolete features in x86. With a slow processor you won't need nearly that much cache, and since you probably won't use x86 (because of patents an the aforesaid burden of obsolete features). Also, the big size of these ICs limits their clock frequency because there is a big capacitance between tracks, pins and the transistor's gates and bodies (meaning that it takes current to charge and discharge them, and that current increases proportionately with frequency). As frequency increases, things behave increasingly as antennas and signals leak into adjacent components. For instance, you can connect an appliance to the domestic 60 Hz electric power supply without having special considerations for these effects, but you can see that special considerations are needed for things like Ethernet, just to name an example: the wires are twisted to reduce the interference and fading due to them acting as antennas, and also to maintain the correct impedance (See All About Circuits chapter Transmission Lines, especially sections 1, 2, 3 for a soft introduction to the topic of transmission lines and their characteristic impedance. For a more technical treatment see Telegrapher's equations in Wikipedia or in a specialized book). Looking at some 4000 series datasheets I see that common logic gates (and, nor, nand) take around 10 transistors because they include some overhead for buffering (inverters at input and output, and they use complementary logic in between). Unbuffered versions would need 4 transistors less than buffered versions, with the same functionality at the digital level but less good electrical characteristics. This gives you an idea of the sophistication you can attain with something like the 4000 series compared to modern CPUs. You seem to be using clock frequency as a measure of performance. For a given CPU, I think that the performance will scale approximately linearly with clock speed but the RAM and bus may increasingly behave as a bottleneck if the their clock speed is fixed and the clock speed of a CPU is increased (but I don't know how significant this effect is). However, in general it's not meaningful to compare different CPU with different microarchitectures (The design of the CPU) based on their clock speed. Believing otherwise is the megahertz or gigahertz myth (See megahertz myth). Also, bear in mind that the maximum switching frequency of the transistors a CPU (considered individually) is lesser than that of the gates, which is lesser than the clock speed. That is because once the input is changed, you have to wait until the change propagates to the output and stabilizes before relying on it or changing the input again. Several slightly sophisticated techniques are used to reduce this delay. For an example of these techniques as found to speed up adders at the expense of using more transistors, search for “carry-lookahead adder” (The Wikipedia article does not gives a good idea). Anyway, that was about building a CPU. Developing toy computers like the ones mentioned above won't help the situation of society. I mentioned this because you asked, but you don't need to design or manufacture a CPU in order to have a system fully compatible with free software;; at most, you'd need to integrate already manufactured integrated circuits into a board. Armory may be fully compatible with free software; I haven't checked, but it's just an example. You could (in principle, I don't suggest that you do this right now) likewise develop and crowd-finance a board fully compatible with free software if there isn't one already, or even use the commercial services provided for prototyping in order to make only a few boards without commercializing them. Free software needs to become mainstream, or at least that mainstream software is compatible with it, so that those who we care about our freedom in our computing can use it and inter-operate with society (a useful condition, but not strictly necessary to live in society), so that it will spread even more. That's why it is important that free software that replaces already existing
Re: [Trisquel-users] How to Arrange Items in Files 3.10.1?
Click the downward-pointing arrow in the top-right. That has your sorting options in it.
Re: [Trisquel-users] 3G modems coming integrated with Next Gen Intel Atom (for real this time)
It is discouraging about hardware with free software, or open source. You notice that it cannot be done. [...] If knowledgeable people like thinkpenguin cannot get free software on hardware, then who can? It can and has been done. Take a look at the Libreboot X200. It's sad to see what the current state of affairs is, but that's not a reason to get discouraged. All on the contrary, it's a remainder that we need to take action for the situation to change. Buy hardware like this when you need hardware, donate to projects that develop free software (including those that replaces proprietary firmware, even donating to ethical commercial ones like Gluglug is a good idea) or contribute work to them. Spread the word about the ethical and practical problem of proprietary software and centralization, and how free software solves them and has other practical benefits (zero cost for licenses and reliability is an attractive practical point, but don't forge to say that those are secondary to the ethical benefits). Remember, when Richard Stallman started the free software movement, free software didn't even exists as such and there wasn't a free operating system. He and other hackers began working to write a replacement for Unix (using Unix initially, and incrementally replacing Unix with what they had already, as far as I know).
Re: [Trisquel-users] 3G modems coming integrated with Next Gen Intel Atom (for real this time)
These professors teach how to build computer hardware using only nand-gates. They also teach how to make operating systems and programs for the nand-gate computer. http://nand2tetris.org/ I don't really know about computers. Could someone provide some insight about this?
[Trisquel-users] LibreOffice going banannas
I'm experiencing a horrifying bug in LibreOffice 4.2.7.2 on Trisquel 7. It has two parts. First, when deleting text using the backspace key, it only deletes slowly, one letter at a time (even when I press the key much more frequently or hold it down). But then, once I've released the backspace key or stopped pressing it, it keeps deleting for a long time afterward, deleting lots of stuff I didn't intend to. When I say a long time, I mean a long time. Like, I'd estimate at the worst 10 seconds or more. This behavior survives restarting LibreOffice and rebooting the system. Nothing I tried stopped it from behaving this way. Then, it progressed to part two of the bug: every key behaves as the backspace key. Arrow keys, letters, doesn't matter. It treats all of them as if they were the backspace key. It goes without saying that it's difficult to get work done this way... Any ideas greatly appreciated. Boaz
Re: [Trisquel-users] Electrum
Actually, that's not technically true. Python code does need to be compiled, but to bytecode (*.pyc) that is interpreted, rather than machine code, and the Python interpreter compiles source automatically so you don't have to think about it.
Re: [Trisquel-users] 3G modems coming integrated with Next Gen Intel Atom (for real this time)
What kind of insight do you expect?. If you have any specific question try searching before asking here, and consider starting a new topic in the forum because this is already off-topic here. I think that all but the first post is on-topic in this thread.
[Trisquel-users] How to Arrange Items in Files 3.10.1?
Hello. I used to use Trisquel 6.0.1, which had Nautilus 3.4.2. In that version of Nautilus, I could right click in a directory, and select Arrange Items, and then any of Manually, By Name, By Size, By Type, or By Modification Date. This was great. Now I use Trisquel 7, which has Files 3.10.1. I like a lot of things about Trisquel 7, but I'm having a problem with Files 3.10.1. Namely, the whole Arrange Items choice is missing. I can still go to preferences and change Arrange items to By Name, By Size, By Type, or By Modification Date, By Access Date, or By Trashed Date. This is not what I'm looking for. I'm not looking for a way to change the sorting scheme globally across all my files. I want to be able to make persistent choices which are different for different directories. I like to have some directories sorted by one parameter, and others sorted by a different parameter. Since I have no way to do this now, I have no choice but to resort to constantly going back to the preferences to change back and forth. All this changing back and forth is cutting down on my productivity. I'm really wishing I could have that right click, Arrange Items option back. Does anyone know a way to find what I seek? Thanks! Boaz
[Trisquel-users] Location bar suggestions in Abrowser
Hi. I'm using Abrowser in Trisquel 7. In the preferences, I've selected When using the location bar, suggest: Bookmarks. And yet, when I use the location bar, it suggests history as well as bookmarks. Why? What can be done?
Re: [Trisquel-users] Tablets that can run GNU/Linux
I'm looking for whether there exists a tablet, out of curiousity for now, that has a battery life, and perhaps weight, that rivals that of those Android tablets. So I'm guessing the X60T won't do, the X200T would barely do if Gluglug starts doing it, and an Intel Atom tablet.will be perfect if I can get GNU/Linux running nicely on it with a lengthy battery life. I do think that the X60T (or, even more than that, the one-I-want-to-avoid-even-more Compaq TC1000) is a tablet. But not quite what I quite want...
Re: [Trisquel-users] Electrum
My guess is no. But then, since Abrowser/Icecat seems to be getting updatesI don't know.
Re: [Trisquel-users] 3G modems coming integrated with Next Gen Intel Atom (for real this time)
Also, no, I haven't checked every circuit and chip of the X60, but somewhere, eventually, you have to trust someone. I trust the FSF's certification process. That's obviously a giant misunderstanding: The FSF's certification process is about *software freedom*, a crucial and neccessary aspect of a pc respecting human rights, not mistreating its users, but it's _not_ the only one. It doesn't protect users from hardware backdoors, for instance. As far as i know, stallman adresses the issue with the term malicious circuits . It's true, we have to trust somebody to some extent. At the moment, we're trusting countless big ass companies which aren't trustworthy in the slightest. Consider a future in which 3d printers are really elaborate, making it actually possible to print our own hardware. It would not be impossible to check if the printer is really printing what you want; You could just do a lot of tests and look at the result; maybe some institutes like university would have to help out.
[Trisquel-users] Antwort: Test and install Trisquel on any laptops without operating system
Maybe this could help, but don't know if this correct ... http://www.weborial.com/search/?q=ixquick.de
Re: [Trisquel-users] 3G modems coming integrated with Next Gen Intel Atom (for real this time)
i hear that you can easily make a toy prosessor that would run at 100khz source: https://trisquel.info/en/forum/3g-modems-coming-integrated-next-gen-intel-atom-real-time#comment-65888 so what is the thing that stops you making a 1mhz prosessor or 100mhz prosessor? what is the thing that suddenly make it so you have to buy a 9 billion dollar cpu factory? i think about 22mhz would be acceptable for modern computer use you would have to make a new operating system for it something like Kolibri OS it would be-able to run a gui and some basic modern program like a spreadsheet or powerpoint application or media player
Re: [Trisquel-users] Electrum
It's python, so it doesn't need to be compiled. :)
Re: [Trisquel-users] Tablets that can run GNU/Linux
when you say tablet what do you mean? why do you think the x60t would not do?
