Re: [Trisquel-users] Installing Trisquel: Boot and wXP and w7
No. I only ever use Windows if it's on someone else's computer, to freeze Python code. What's with the picture?
Re: [Trisquel-users] Evolution + GPG = me going nuts!
I think I finally fixed it. Thank you very much guys
Re: [Trisquel-users] 3G modems coming integrated with Next Gen Intel Atom (for real this time)
Let's get the discussion back on track. There's another way of achieving high speed 'puters, and that's by harnessing them together, as in the twenty-mule-team CPU. That would spread out the heat load, and the array could simply piggyback on the socket of an obsolete motherboard. A long time ago, my company had an electron microscope whose maker was gone forever. Our repair guy simply had piggyback boards made with modern components that could do whatever it was that the no-longer-available chips and modules could no longer do. I learned to replace burnt-out tantatalum capacitors with cheap electrolytics found in the local electronics store ... that machine had relatively few integrated circuits. In the meantime, consider trying to re-learn games that aren't so computer-intensive. What does it take to type a report, even one with lots of figures ? We're being forced to shoehorn GNU/linux into perpetually pre-obsolete computers and forgetting how to upgrade the older ones. One supplier of a spreadsheet-based graphing app has been supplying essentially the same app for some twenty-five years that works exactly the same way today as it did when running on a DOS 6.22 PC-AT computer, and it could do fourier transforms on huge data arrays then in just a few minutes. What's the hurry ?
Re: [Trisquel-users] Evolution + GPG = me going nuts!
Em 09.03.2015 12:17, go...@openmailbox.org escreveu: I think I finally fixed it. Thank you very much guys
Re: [Trisquel-users] Installing Trisquel: Boot and wXP and w7
Question:
[Trisquel-users] Synclient option and lxde.
I posted this yesterday, and for some reason it got deleted, or maybe I didn't post it correctly. I'm using Trisquel 7.0 mini which uses LXDE. I want to be able to scroll with the vertical edge motion. The option on synclient is vertedgescroll which should be set to 1 instead of 0. It works fine when i enter it manually from a terminal. I set it up in .bashrc to be set automatically, and that doesn't work. But the weird thing is, as soon as I launch a terminal it does get set without my entering anything in the terminal. Does anyone know why this would happen?
Re: [Trisquel-users] Synclient option and lxde.
Use export instead of set in bashrc On 9 March 2015 8:34:49 pm IST, ewlabo...@gmail.com wrote: I posted this yesterday, and for some reason it got deleted, or maybe I didn't post it correctly. I'm using Trisquel 7.0 mini which uses LXDE. I want to be able to scroll with the vertical edge motion. The option on synclient is vertedgescroll which should be set to 1 instead of 0. It works fine when i enter it manually from a terminal. I set it up in .bashrc to be set automatically, and that doesn't work. But the weird thing is, as soon as I launch a terminal it does get set without my entering anything in the terminal. Does anyone know why this would happen?
Re: [Trisquel-users] Synclient option and lxde.
Might it be that Bash simply doesn't start in the sessiom (and thus doesn't autostart anything in .bash) until the terminal does? Try another autostarting method (i.e. putting the command in /etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE/autostart as an additional line)
Re: [Trisquel-users] Synclient option and lxde.
Neither of those suggestions worked. In /etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE/autostart all the lines seem to begin with @. Should the extra line be @synclient vertedgescroll=1?
Re: [Trisquel-users] Alternatives to Wikipedia
Is there something wrong with Wikipedia?
[Trisquel-users] IceCat and Duckduckgo country version
I can't see the result if I search something with IceCat by the Duckduckgo's web page with country version on, for example gnu (https://duckduckgo.com/?q=gnu) while I can see a list of link if I use the Search bar: (https://duckduckgo.com/html?q=gnut=trisquel) but without country searching.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Can't boot NetInstall
I just have given it another try with disabled UEFI. Initially I was happy to see it acted different but I had no luck. Just an underline on a black screen appeared and continued to blink. I had a USB to Network adapter plugged in and the Internet works when running Tisquel...
Re: [Trisquel-users] Can't boot NetInstall
One more question: should it be possible to create a bootable USB with the system integrated USB creator or not? Because I can make one with the belenos .iso file but not with the Trisquel NetInstall one.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Synclient option and lxde.
I discovered what was wrong, and it was my fault. I had disabled vertedgescroll in a .desktop file in ~/.config/autostart when using a previous distro. I had forgotten about that. Everything works find now. Sorry to waste your time and thanks for the responses.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Installing Trisquel: Boot and wXP and w7
don't you find it funny - like super real funny?
Re: [Trisquel-users] Installing Trisquel: Boot and wXP and w7
Not really, I don't get it. It looks like the guy in the picture is angry about something or about to shoot someone for some other reason, but why would you be angry about other people running proprietary programs on their computers?
Re: [Trisquel-users] IceCat and Duckduckgo country version
Greetings mister Gnu. I think Icecat uses the non-javascript version of Duckduckgo and that the settings are handled in a different way. But don' worry my friend, Duckduckgo is more powerful than it seems: the search engine support the same and more operators than the search engines whose name have a G at the beginning. to activate the region search without javascript you can use the operator r for example: emacs r:uk this will search for emacs in the United Kingdom. You can replace uk with es for Spain, de for Germany and so on. For more information about this syntax, look here: https://duck.co/help/results/syntax There are more advance operators available than the ones listed there so I invite you to try the ones from the search engine with the G in its name. Tell us how it works or if I answered the question you where asking. Thank you and have a nice day.
[Trisquel-users] Re : Can't boot NetInstall
The purpose of this utility is to create a live USB! Netinstall is a bare default system. It does not have any graphical utility.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Alternatives to Wikipedia
its good to have alternatives to Wikipedia in-case Wikipedia did turn into a bad website but what is wrong with wikipedia?
Re: [Trisquel-users] sudo make you system less secure
Hi friend. hi my friend What do you mean by moofed and issuing authority? sudo make all users to be a root
Re: [Trisquel-users] Alternatives to Wikipedia
If Wikipedia started having problems, the wiki could be mirrored somewhere else. This has happened with TV Tropes (forked to allthetropes.orain.org), though in that case TV Tropes started violating contributors' copyleft by changing its license to CC BY-NC-SA without their permission, which prevents the fork from copying over any changes made more recently than that. Given the massive number of contributors to Wikipedia, and the prevalence of Wikipedia, I don't think such a scheme would work there, though. (Side note: if you have contributed substantially to TV Tropes before July 2012 and have not given them permission to distribute those contributions under CC BY-NC-SA, I'd highly recommend you complain about their unauthorized distribution of your work and demand that they fix the licensing or remove your contributions. Unauthorized copying is not unethical, but imposing restrictions on commercial usage is an injustice, and in this case some action can be taken against it.)
Re: [Trisquel-users] Migrate from Ubuntu to Trisquel
if you want a tutorial of compiling unetbootin from source(works with both versions i listed) i made a video here: http://92.19.232.58:82/files/Compiling_unetbootin_from_source.ogv
Re: [Trisquel-users] Qrgui - a GUI-based QR code generator
I'm not experienced with making Debian packages, but perhaps I could do it in the future.
Re: [Trisquel-users] sudo make you system less secure
That's not true. Sudo is an alternative to logging in as root directly which can be configured to give each user any number of privileges. In that sense, it can be much more secure; you can give each user only permission to do exactly what they need to be able to do, and nothing more. Whereas with logging in as root, you need to give someone all the root permissions, or none. On typical user systems, like Trisquel's default settings, there is only a distinction between admins and non-admins: admins can do everything with sudo, and non-admins can do nothing with sudo. But that's not the most that sudo can do.
[Trisquel-users] sudo make you system less secure
Sorry I thought this thing with the moofed root accounts was bad, but I just saw a reference to [sudo su -] WHAT! That has to be the worst command in the scope of security You not only have a root accounted moofed so that the user has to rely on the security of the sudo command without being able to verify the authentication of the issuing authority other than the configuration of the command and that is sudo.. but now it is added as a layer of switch user (su) which is completely against the UNIX security model of never add any layers to account access. Logic: every layer provides one more place for a security failure.. When I first tested the sudo command by compiling the source in 2006 and found it to violate the UNIX standard security model I would have never believed that not only would it become something people use.. When you look at commercial organizations which use secure systems you will find that sudo is NEVER a command on those systems and there is a reason. the keyword here is security. UNIX and gnu/Linux can be secure, but it can also be unsecure.. all it takes is poor configuration, programming and bad commands to make it so. If people do not want to learn how to keep and use secure systems, use windows.. or even some device where the root authority is embedded in a chip like a smart phone, so the ISP can get into the system. The security designs are there because they have been working properly for over 40 years, either adhere to proper security or plan on having a security failure. I do understand that they are trying to make UNIX/Linux administration more user friendly so to attract more users. And from that point I am all for making systems more friendly. BUT!, Do not make systems friendly by making them less secure. http://www.sudo.ws/sudo/history.html
Re: [Trisquel-users] Installing Trisquel: Boot and wXP and w7
i dont
Re: [Trisquel-users] sudo make you system less secure
https://lxnay.wordpress.com/2011/09/14/quick-and-dirty-why-sudo-is-bad-for-security/
Re: [Trisquel-users] sudo make you system less secure
Hi friend. What do you mean by moofed and issuing authority?. Bear in mind that sudo doesn't uses certificates like SSL/TLS, so there is no issuing authority to speak of, at least as far as I know. I don't think that sudo su - is intrinsically bad for security. This is one possible use case for sudo. It makes sense in an environment where there is a set of users all of whom are all trusted system administrators, and they need to run tasks as root. The downside is that using this command, sudo doesn't by default logs every command that the administrator executes, but provided they are all trusted (all administrators are honest and responsible) then there should be no problem. Bear in mind that using sudo su - is no worser than using su - directly. Other than the above, I can't comment, because I don't really understand what point you are trying to make. Regards.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Qrgui - a GUI-based QR code generator
i tried it very easy to use the only thing that could rely make it better is a .deb file to install it
[Trisquel-users] Re : sudo make you system less secure
Sure, without a password, 'sudo' is insecure. And so is 'su'! I would actually say that 'sudo' is more secure than 'su' because: with 'sudo', the privileges are automatically lost after some time (15 minutes by default), whereas it is dangerous to forget about an opened root terminal (obtained with 'su') when trying to access a SSH server (typically) the attacker has to guess both the password and the user name, whereas the latter always is root when such a superuser is present by default. And, of course, 'sudo' is far more flexible. Different permissions for different users, not necessarily nothing or everything and, true, the possibility to not ask for a password for some privileges. I consider those arguments much better than it is not the UNIX philosophy (whatever that means; I bet ou have the same argument against systemd!) and commercial organizations use su (do they?). Not to mention the problem with the issuing authority. Neither 'su' nor 'sudo' rely on an issuing authority. That said, I see no point in using 'sudo' to run 'su'. 'sudo' alone is enough: $ sudo -i If people do not want to learn how to keep and use secure systems, use windows. Trisquel is secure by default. If I remember well, the installer does not even accept a weak password for the user who can gain administrative privileges. I invite anybody who values his/her freedoms to join us. Even if he/she does not want to learn anything about security!
Re: [Trisquel-users] Installing Trisquel: Boot and wXP and w7
yay
