Re: [Trisquel-users] Apt-Get upgrade finds the US repository unready
I've filed a bug on this behavior here https://trisquel.info/en/issues/5876
Re: [Trisquel-users] libreboot t400 is now available for purchase on minifree (gluglug)
It'll take them some time to get it certified. I'm sure the FSF have been informed of the release.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Apt-Get upgrade finds the US repository unready
Try another one. mirror.fsf.org is usually pretty reliable (if somewhat slow).
Re: [Trisquel-users] Is there a shut down log, and where can I find it ?
Look in /var/log. Things like syslog and kern.log and dmesg and etc.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Nautilus will add native support for Google Drive and require an opt-out. Thoughts?
You wrote: i have no choice in the matter with this - i use youtube a lot and i need google accouint for youtube You could choose to use the Internet Archive at https://archive.org/ for your gratis hosting. archive.org's hosting is more flexible than youtube has ever been and doesn't have the horrible history of censorship Google has where some videos aren't available in some regions, or losing access (even accidentally) ostensibly for copyright reasons. archive.org will let you host more than just videos, and you can link to anything you upload in an ordinary HTML5 elements (video, audio, etc.) if you desire since the files are individually accessible. archive.org will also transcode certain filetypes for you if you wish. archive.org's download URLs will redirect users to the file you uploaded. You can also purchase inexpensive hosting from places like Dreamhost.com which offers generous bandwidth and storage arrangements. Combining the two (archive.org and some other hoster) means you can easily host the multimedia files on archive.org and the rest somewhere else pointing to archive.org data as needed. There are better choices out there. You should seek them out instead of resigning yourself to "having no choice in the matter".
Re: [Trisquel-users] Nautilus will add native support for Google Drive and require an opt-out. Thoughts?
Sounds like a great feature to me-- it'll make Trisquel more approachable to new users.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Nautilus will add native support for Google Drive and require an opt-out. Thoughts?
i upploaded and comment on the videos... it is needed -@SuperTramp83
Re: [Trisquel-users] thinkpenguin question- graphic
i may ended up buying an system76 workhorse cause this going to pack an punch for my editing
Re: [Trisquel-users] libreboot t400 is now available for purchase on minifree (gluglug)
i wonder why it hasn’t got a "Respects Your Freedom hardware product certification" from the FSF yet?
Re: [Trisquel-users] thinkpenguin question- graphic
"both up to 8 cores per Socket." and if you get a certain type of the board you can have 16 cores per socket!
Re: [Trisquel-users] Nautilus will add native support for Google Drive and require an opt-out. Thoughts?
i use YouTube but what i do is have a link in the descriptions of all the videos to the same video but on my web-server which can be used without any non-free Javascript so you could do the same thing with your YouTube channel an offer an alternative method of viewing the videos on say goblinrefuge or your own server that requires no non-free software
Re: [Trisquel-users] thinkpenguin question- graphic
What software are you going to use? Nuevo isn´t Cuda nor opencl compatible... I don´t know why how, low end gpu´s drop frames, if any. For editing, I would take, if you need so much cpu power, ASUS KFSN4-DRE server/workstation board. It has 2 cpu-sockets both up to 8 cores per Socket. It is also Libreboot compatible (http://www.libreboot.org/docs/hcl/kfsn4-dre.html). Maybe some Computer shop in your near or eventually thinkpenguin, would build a computer with this main-board.
Re: [Trisquel-users] What WiFi speeds can I expect?
The machines are sitting next to each other. Or do you mean switch the network cards of the computers? I don't think that's going to work...
Re: [Trisquel-users] What WiFi speeds can I expect?
What happens if u switch the pcs places? atheros to the mac and vice versa?
Re: [Trisquel-users] Nautilus will add native support for Google Drive and require an opt-out. Thoughts?
no you don't. you don't **need** a goog account. you **want* to have a goog account. Commenting or uploading videos to youtube is not a *need*.
Re: [Trisquel-users] thinkpenguin question- graphic
you can software render avi and mp4 on any computer with a decent cpu without the need of any video acceleration whatsoever..
Re: [Trisquel-users] Nautilus will add native support for Google Drive and require an opt-out. Thoughts?
i have no choice in the matter with this - i use youtube a lot and i need google accouint for youtube
Re: [Trisquel-users] Nautilus will add native support for Google Drive and require an opt-out. Thoughts?
i have no choice in the matter with this - i use youtube a lot and i need google accouint for youtube
[Trisquel-users] Re : Internet connexion sharing
My problem is that my access to Internet is from PC1 (by Wi-Fi). I want to share this access to Internet with PC2. I may want to connect another PC to my network one day. So, I want to use my router to share the access to Internet. But I may try to connect PC1 and PC2 directly, avoiding the router from the problem, even if it's not what I initially wanted. Someone told me it should be easier to configure. PC1 is my "normal" PC. PC2 is used for MythTV (it needs access to Internet for upgrading purpose, mainly; and I need to connect to it from my home network in order to use MythTV remotely). Does my reply answer your questions?
Re: [Trisquel-users] Nautilus will add native support for Google Drive and require an opt-out. Thoughts?
Proprietary software is required to create an account in the first place. That's the biggest reason why I don't have a Google account, and I'd wager to guess that's the case for a lot of others here.
Re: [Trisquel-users] What WiFi speeds can I expect?
OK, I did the test with urandom described above. My MacBook is stable at 16 megabyte/s. My X200 is fluctuating wildly but seems to average around 500 kilobyte/s. The Bit Rate from iwconfig says 65 Mb/s but the card is capable of 150 Mb/s (to my understanding). Nobody else here running a libreboot X200 with an atheros card? Does the transfer speeds not get any better that this?
Re: [Trisquel-users] Do DRM free games matter even if the game is non-free?
It's not the same scripts, and there's one difference in outcome: Debian just removes the proprietary firmware, leaving in error messages telling you the names of the firmware files, while Linux-libre replaces those names with some slightly stylized version of "DEBLOBBED" (I want to say either "*DEBLOBBED*" or "/* DEBLOBBED */", but I'm not sure). There's also an unfortunate side-effect of the way Linux-libre does it where it becomes impossible to install these firmware blobs without modifying the source code and recompiling.
Re: [Trisquel-users] thinkpenguin question- graphic
the graphic card is for the frames that it renders - the lower ebd cards drop aboout 5 frames and that bothers me a lot - i going to be rendering a lot so i figure the titian be a good choice - i use to be surround by macs that been fitted with very high end cards at college and at high school so i know i would need them.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Is there a shut down log, and where can I find it ?
More data ... What alarmed me about the very brief text is that I thought I picked up something about an apache server ... which I am not knowingly using. The extra text doesn't always appear ... and the brevity varies.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Nautilus will add native support for Google Drive and require an opt-out. Thoughts?
tomlukeyw...@fastmail.co.uk wrote: now that i think about it i guess there is nothing bad about using Googles online storage if you encrypt all your files. The data describing one's uploads (when were transfers made, how large were the transfers, what IP addresses were involved in the transfer, etc.) could be quite revealing in the way that the distinction between "metadata" and "data" can be a bogus distinction with regard to someone's privacy. With regard to software freedom: Is it possible to use the functionality of these third-party storage systems without running non-free software? I imagine that the organizations involved (Google, Microsoft, Box, etc.) each have a considerable interest in getting their useds[1] to run non-free code. The non-free code implements the spying. Hence I imagine it's not hard to get people who aren't accustomed to thinking about software freedom or privacy to lose both by setting up the service so valuable functionality is unavailable to the public service API. One could use the service to a limited degree with exclusively free software but the parts that make the service truly worth using require giving up far more than these organizations will fully admit to (and the terms can change with each update of this non-free code). For instance, uploading and downloading files works via the API, but editing permissions, or getting a URI to point anyone to a file/directory one intends to share requires using the website which means running the non-free Javascript, or requires running an application. If non-free code is required to use any part of the service, any integration with the service can be reasonably seen as a come-on for users to run the non-free code to fully use the service. [1] This term "useds" used in the same way Stallman puts it in his most recent talks to speak of users who have been used by a service proprietor.
[Trisquel-users] Apt-Get upgrade finds the US repository unready
Two days in a row, when I ran sudo apt-get update and then sudo apt-get upgrade, the console said that there are upgrades ready to be downloaded, but when I ask for them, it turns out that the files aren't there yet. This applies to the US repository. Not sure about any others. Details: > Need to get 321 kB of archives. > After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used. > Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y > Err http://us.archive.trisquel.info/trisquel/ belenos-security/main libspice-server1 amd64 0.12.4-0nocelt2ubuntu1.1 404 Not Found [IP: 208.118.235.52 80] > Err http://us.archive.trisquel.info/trisquel/ belenos-updates/main libspice-server1 amd64 0.12.4-0nocelt2ubuntu1.1 404 Not Found [IP: 208.118.235.52 80] > E: Failed to fetch http://us.archive.trisquel.info/trisquel/pool/main/s/spice/libspice-server1_0.12.4-0nocelt2ubuntu1.1_amd64.deb 404 Not Found [IP: 208.118.235.52 80] > E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing? What was there at the time: > libspice-server1_0.12.4-0nocelt2ubuntu1_amd64.deb 08-May-2015 21:18 320750 What was not there: > libspice-server1_0.12.4-0nocelt2ubuntu1.1_amd64.deb What showed up a little later: > libspice-server1_0.12.4-0nocelt2ubuntu1.1_amd64.deb 08-Sep-2015 14:04 321176 Same thing happened again today ... admittedly the delay was only a few minutes, but it's disconcerting to hit the server at the wrong moment two days in a row. Shouldn't the files actually be present on the server before letting the server respond positively to an upgrade request ?
Re: [Trisquel-users] Do DRM free games matter even if the game is non-free?
> Debian's kernel by default ships without the potentially non-free kernel bits Does Debian actually use the Linux-libre scripts to deblob their kernel? Or do they have their own in-house solution? Also, is Debian's de-blobbed kernel (after Squeeze) effectively the same as Linux-libre?
Re: [Trisquel-users] What WiFi speeds can I expect?
> 11 megabytes/second You lucky people- I consider 300kb/s fast. 500 tops. Usually around 120.
Re: [Trisquel-users] thinkpenguin question- graphic
"Games, AND NOTHING ELSE (excuse all-caps) come close to actually, technically requiring discrete cards as far as I know." well if you were doing video editing or making highly detailed animations professionally then you would most likely want a good GPU just to improve your productivity and stuff would render quicker but apart from that and games you don’t rely need a good GPU
[Trisquel-users] Accessing the Troll Hole
Is the Troll Hole at all linked to a mailing list in the same way as the users board? Thing is, I'd like to post on/read the Troll Hole, but can't be bothered to actually log in to do it- I would rather post via mail, as I do in trisquel-users. Is there a mailing list for the Troll Hole? Will there be a mailing list for the Troll Hole? Can there be a mailing list for the Troll Hole?
Re: [Trisquel-users] thinkpenguin question- graphic
"Games, AND NOTHING ELSE (excuse all-caps) come close to actually, technically requiring discrete cards as far as I know." well if you were doing video editing or making highly detailed animations professionally then you would most likely want a good GPU just to improve your productivity and stuff would render quicker but apart from that and games you don’t rely need a good GPU
Re: [Trisquel-users] Is there a shut down log, and where can I find it ?
> It very well could be the shutdown dialog I doubt it. He seems to be describing a message occuring after X has already been killed- like the shutdown message in text mode. Why this happens is beyond me- Plymouth should kick in for the shutdown procedure (at least if he's using Trisquel or Triskel). For me, the DE terminates, the screen goes black for a second, then the Plymouth wallpaper appears for a few seconds, and then the computer switches off. Strange.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Is there a shut down log, and where can I find it ?
Anyway, I think that the white message on a black background you see is actually a brief glimpse into text mode- the desktop environment has already shut down, and the system is closing everything. The dialogue reads something like this: "The system is going for shutdown NOW" and a bunch of things being killed, or something to that effect. > I have installed ksystemlog Are you using KDE? That might have something to do with it. Or are you running the standard Trisquel DE? About your normal shutdown procedure- does Plymouth appear briefly on shutdown as well as boot? What do you normally see when you shut down?
Re: [Trisquel-users] Do DRM free games matter even if the game is non-free?
Yeah, they cannot completely open up the old Source engine due to the middleware. Would be interesting if Source 2 is all in-house.
Re: [Trisquel-users] thinkpenguin question- graphic
Games, AND NOTHING ELSE (excuse all-caps) come close to actually, technically requiring discrete cards as far as I know. For best graphics performance without discrete cards though, just get a Broadwell (not skylake, not Haswell), or ix-5xxxC processor and then go without a discrete card. And if I recall correctly video-editing is more CPU intensice than graphics intensive - maybe a Haswell i7 would serve you better than a Broadwell i5 despite the latter's better graphics. Long story short, you don't need a gaming card to do video editing. If I were you and didn't care about free software and didn't want to game but wanted to do video editing, I'd honestly consider by-passing a discrete card (and if needed, but probably not, get a Broadwell ix-5xxxC card). It simply isn't needed. And rendering .avi and .mp4 don't depend on graphic cards.
Re: [Trisquel-users] thinkpenguin question- graphic
Huh? You need a Nvidia card to render certain file formats? You can render avi and mp4 files on pretty much any fair GPU (Including ones that work better than Nouveau) or CPU. If you get a Penguin machine, you'll be able to render avi and mp4 files, period- this I guarantee you.
[Trisquel-users] Re : Do DRM free games matter even if the game is non-free?
Source has third-party proprietary dependencies, like Havok.
Re: [Trisquel-users] The Boinc problem
Thank you very much for your efforts, Larissa. What actually happened to your LibreBOINC project? Is the source code still available somewhere?
Re: [Trisquel-users] thinkpenguin question- graphic
"for it can render avi files and mp4." my pc uses integrated intel graphics and can render high quality mpeg-4 and avi (ogg, webm, mpeg-2 etc etc) video very well so i don’t think you rely need an external GPU for this purpose.
Re: [Trisquel-users] What WiFi speeds can I expect?
I was downloading the same file from my NAS on both computers. Both computers approx 3 meters from the router. The file was traveling from my NAS, cat6 cable, Asus RT-AC68U, WiFi, to laptop, in both cases. Transfer was over SMB. I'm at work now, but when I get home I do a better test for the actual speeds. My thinking is that I can set up my home server like this: $ cat /dev/urandom | nc -l 1234 and then on my laptop $ nc server.ip 1234 > /dev/null That should be a better indicator for actual max speeds. I'll try to get that done tonight. Is anybody else using an X200 with Atheros AR9285? What kind of speeds are you getting?
