Re: [Trisquel-users] CDE -- Common Desktop Environment
Is this screenshot XFCE?
Re: [Trisquel-users] forced to Cisco proprietary
You are misrepresenting my advice to the OP. My advice was to avoid absolutist thinking and cognitive dissonance--i.e. 'forced to', 'cisco or flipping burgers' and so on. Nowhere did I say, or even imply, that starvation was an option. Nobody, not even rms, thinks a person should die before they should develop nonfree software (steal yes, die no). But I wasn't suggesting that the OP steal either. I was simply questioning what sounded to me like it may be cognitive dissonance. The OP is not the first person to put things in these terms: Watch between 1:16:15 and 1:21:10 of the following video, it is the very first question of the Q: https://audio-video.gnu.org/video/2015-05-27--rms--chania--greece.webm That view is expressed very well and it is a view that I share. Now, for all I know a Cisco certification does not equate to nonfree software development. The OP indicated that he thought it was a problem and my comments were directed toward the OP's views.
Re: [Trisquel-users] forced to Cisco proprietary
Ok i had my beer(actually 2).
I've thinked about it.
You don't know the circumstances ("have to").
Yes is painful to do crummy jobs.
Gonna have a glass of Wine for now.
Re: [Trisquel-users] $14 fantastic wifi adaptor - TP-LINK TL-WN722N
Do you happen to know if **all** TP-LINK TL-WN722N have the same chipset (AR9271)? I found a store in Italy where you can buy one for 8.20 euros. Too bad it's rather far from my place but I am considering oredring one as both the internal adapters I recently tried work like sh.t on my old lappy, they work with free software but both loose signal when I am more than 2 meters away from my router.
Re: [Trisquel-users] forced to Cisco proprietary
pragmatist: idealism is good. I myself am a big one, but, starving is not an option. You don't know where the OP lives, you don't know how bad the economy is in their country. I live in Italy and I assure you unemployment is incredibly high and very common here. Starving is not an option. I remember Stallman once said something like: "And if you are offered the choice between having to write proprietary code or starving, then refuse to write that code and steal the food somewhere." As much as I like Stallman, I don't think jail is an option either. Do what you feel, OP. If you can find a better option then do, if not, don't starve, get the certificate.
Re: [Trisquel-users] New ReTux Release and a Level Making Competition
I've decided to make a trailer of sorts for ReTux splicing together some clips that show what ReTux is about, probably with the Salsa Con Carne music. So I've recorded a video of most of the game with the music off. Now I just need to select some clips to splice together... Out of curiosity, does anyone who either has played the game or seen the existing videos know of things in particular that ought to be shown in the trailer? Things that, if you saw them, would get your attention and make you want to try the game out? I'm sure I can find enough clips on my own, but some feedback on what to focus on would help me produce a better trailer.
[Trisquel-users] $14 fantastic wifi adaptor - TP-LINK TL-WN722N
I bought one of these USB wifi adaptors about 1 1/2 years ago, and I see they are still readily available on Amazon. I'm just amazed at how it's immediately recognized and ready for use whether I'm on Trisquel or Parabola (Arch) without dealing with any of the firmware blobs or any settings whatsoever. And it works like a champ - never seems to fade out like the old embedded wifi chips in the laptops used to. Nice clear, strong signal. And for those who need/want a much smaller device size, the $25 TPE-N150USB on thinkpenguin.com is also well worth the price. Also immediately recognized and ready for use without diving into any settings from my experience. Just thought I'd mention it - I still run into users with the same old nasty wifi firmware problems on their newer laptops. These pair of USB wifi adaptors are a pure joy to work with, and will get you online in no time. I believe both are using the Atheros AR9271 chipset which has a non-proprietary firmware module packed right onto the Linux-libre kernel.
Re: [Trisquel-users] forced to Cisco proprietary
I think this may lead to a petty argument. It is all very well us saying "get another job" because we do not know the circumstances, but more generally it is true that there are other options. So I would say get the certification if you really need it but keep in mind that it is just a certification. If you are a clever person then this is defeinitely not the last chance, so to speak. I would say consider all avenues and courses of action, and naturally the one that favours libre software (I am assuming this is a computer science or administration job based on the fact it needs a certification from the Cisco corporation). If you are a student, then get involved with computer science clubs. See if there are any talent scouts from employers (Some are probably better than others; Red Hat and ironically Google are quite good for this, although I would personally feel like I was working in some creepy born-again cult, and Silicon Valley ideals are pretty vile, like a lot of sickly-sweet stuff there). You might find a path in research and teaching is more compatable with this, or even journalism and running your own business.
Re: [Trisquel-users] forced to Cisco proprietary
I like this advice as it is very concrete. +1
Re: [Trisquel-users] Help me burning encryped DVD with Luks
The TrueCrypt project was shut down supposedly because of security problems that could not be fixed, IIRC. Considering that, I see no reason to think that VeraCrypt is secure.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Help me burning encryped DVD with Luks
I've been on Wikipedia to check it out without seeing that there was this link : https://veracrypt.codeplex.com/license Apache License 2.0 (Apache)... So it is totally free software.
Re: [Trisquel-users] forced to Cisco proprietary
Just an addon... if you ever have the chance to take another job that is within your expectations (something that you enjoy and pays enough for your living) I think that you should consider a change. But only when those requirements are met. Until then do the best you can.
Re: [Trisquel-users] forced to Cisco proprietary
Hey man! I feel your pain. To a certain extent most of us are actually forced to use proprietary software in our work place, just some people don't admit it. Yes, if on has to use a computer which has Windows installed, or watch videos of something using Flash, you are using proprietary software! Don't be a prick and say that the guy is the only one doing it just because he is in a position that is more directly involved with technology. And to say to someone (unemployed or not) that you should just get another job, that is just disgusting and arrogant. So, to answer your question, honestly I don't know much about it, but I would say that maybe using the wine option is the least bad one? Think about long-term however, will that be sustainable for the whole project? Or are you going to go through pain to get it working this way now only to have a different and situation tomorrow that will get you a step back? Think about the best long term option, which might or might not be wine. Hope you the best man.
Re: [Trisquel-users] forced to Cisco proprietary
"Why you didn't answer on the options listed?" It is important to clarify the first part of what you said. "I'm unemployed and i have two option: Do this course or back to flip burgers." How it could it possibly just be those two possibilities? If you have the general intelligence and ability to get this certification, you have alternatives other than flipping burgers!
Re: [Trisquel-users] forced to Cisco proprietary
What would you do if you were in my boat? Hoist the jib Hoist the mainsail trim the jib trim the mainsail set a course have a beer relax think about it Pragmastist : If this is not something you want to do, do something else that was the wind whispering to you Follow the wind or you heart sometimes you do have to crummy jobs but starve is no fun either... and if you young well be patient and give yourself the opportunity to achieve your goals(and you may need cash for that) OK 404?
Re: [Trisquel-users] Help me burning encryped DVD with Luks
pierrefa...@laposte.net, Xov 26 Mai 2016 22:45:07 CEST: VeraCrypt's got the Apache License 2.0 but with portions subject to TrueCrypt License version 3.0 which are non-free This license is nonfree for several reasons. Ouch. Ouch. I love it when freedom and security go hand by hand, which happens most of the time. I hate it when I have to choose between one and the other. Ignacio Agulló · agu...@ati.es This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.
Re: [Trisquel-users] forced to Cisco proprietary
I'm unemployed and i have two option: Do this course or back to flip burgers. Why you didn't answer on the options listed?
Re: [Trisquel-users] forced to Cisco proprietary
"I feel forced to this Proprietary world.But i need food to live,so i have to." If you want to do this, that is your choice. To say you are 'forced' to does not make sense. Nobody has a gun to your head. There are other types of jobs in the world that will give you enough money so you will not starve. If this is not something you want to do, do something else.
[Trisquel-users] forced to Cisco proprietary
Ok, i admit.Have to study for a Cisco certification. I feel forced to this Proprietary world.But i need food to live,so i have to. Here's few option: Run Packet Tracer on Wine Run GNS3 an then use Cisco firmwares Do labs with online services($$$) Use Real Cisco equipment($$$) What would you do if you were in my boat?
Re: [Trisquel-users] Help me burning encryped DVD with Luks
VeraCrypt's got the Apache License 2.0 but with portions subject to TrueCrypt License version 3.0 which are non-free This license is nonfree for several reasons. It says that if you don't understand the license you may not use the program. It puts conditions on allowing others to run your copy. It puts conditions on separate programs that “depend on” Truecrypt. The trademark condition applies to “associated materials”. There are other points in the license which seem perhaps unacceptable, and in our uncertainty about them we delayed in posting our evaluation. We have posted it now to explain why we do not mourn the demise of Truecrypt. There are free programs that do the same job. https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.en.html
Re: [Trisquel-users] Help me burning encryped DVD with Luks
Somehow my most recent post offers no "edit" link. So i use the "reply" link: mkisofs option -r alters ownership and access permissions of the file copies in the ISO. Although this is beneficial for publishing or data transport, it is not really what a good backup needs. So i advise to omit option -r. mkisofs and genisoimage produce Rock Ridge only if option -R is given. xorriso -as mkisofs produces it by default but also accepts an explicit option -R.
Re: [Trisquel-users] how i will install kernel 3.0.2
root_vegetable is right. Asus USB-N10 is listed as not working with free software on h-node.org. You could look for adapters on h-node that does work, but it's risky because manufacturers sometimes change internal hardware between model revisions. ThinkPenguin is the safest option.
Re: [Trisquel-users] VGA display program?
Maybe you'd like to try installing arandr?
[Trisquel-users] Re : Help me burning encryped DVD with Luks
With VeraCrypt (fork of TrueCrypt) you can create an encrypted partition in file. So you can create an file partition of 4.7 GB . (I think we can do the same thing with an ext4 encryted partition with LUKS) And of course after bunrn it on cd/dvd
Re: [Trisquel-users] Old Fashioned Tiled Wallpaper
I've created an abomination. It is like a nightmare I had: I was shrunk to the size of a mouse and lots of screaming children were after me with sharpened Lego bricks of different colours.
Re: [Trisquel-users] how i will install kernel 3.0.2
So why do you think kernel 3.0.2 will help? If it is not working, it will be due to requiring a proprietary firmware blob, that Trisquel won't include. Sorry, you will just have to purchase a new wireless adaptor that is known to work, for which we recommend ThinkPenguin: https://www.thinkpenguin.com/
Re: [Trisquel-users] Help me burning encryped DVD with Luks
Hi, i updated my previous replies by "code" tags. Hopefully my proposals for changing the encryption script are more readable now. (I wonder how to avoid the double spacing between lines.) > Maybe the begining of an answer ? You are nearly there. Combine your two failed experiments: xorriso -as mkisofs -r backup | aespipe -e aes256 > backup.iso (I tested this with "cat" rather than "aespipe ...".) Reasoning: xorriso interprets commands. One of them is "-as". The first argument after "-as" chooses the emulation mode. Either mode "mkisofs" or mode "cdrecord". The further arguments up to the first "--" are then interpreted as options of the emulated programs. There is no xorriso command "-r". So without preceeding "-as" "mkisofs", this yields the error message about "Not a known command". Further, xorriso does not accept lonely words as input paths (unless command -add_plainly enabled this). Such paths are rather submitted as arguments of commands like -map or -add. So your path "backup" gets the same complaint "Not a known command". If you run xorriso for backup purposes, consider to enable some extras by -as mkisofs option --for_backup: MD5 checksums for superblock, directory tree, overall ISO, and each data file in the ISO, recording of ACL and xattr. xorriso -as mkisofs --for_backup -r backup | aespipe -e aes256 > backup.iso The checksums can be verified on the decrypted ISO (i guess aespipe -d -e aes256 backup_clear.iso ) by xorriso runs like: xorriso -for_backup -indev backup_clear.iso -check_media -- (Note that the "-for_backup" used here is a xorriso command, not an -as mkisofs option. To have an effect it must be executed before the -indev command which loads the ISO tree and extra info.) If verification errors or read errors are reported but the directory tree is still ok, one can search for damaged data files by xorriso -for_backup -indev backup_clear.iso -check_md5_r SORRY / -- This can also be done if the ISO is on optical medium or on USB stick xorriso -for_backup -indev /dev/sr0 -check_media -- xorriso -for_backup -indev stdio:/dev/sdd -check_media -- The prefix "stdio:" is necessary because xorriso normaly refuses on drive addresses under /dev/ if they do not lead to a SCSI/MMC device. By the prefix you confirm that you want to use the /dev/ file like a normal data file. Recorded ACL and xattr can be listed by xorriso in the input format of programs setfacl(1) and setfattr(1). The can be restored together with the file data by xorriso if enabled by command -osirrox "on". Have a nice day :) Thomas
Re: [Trisquel-users] how i will install kernel 3.0.2
hi ASUS USB N10 USB Adapter , Wirless N150
Re: [Trisquel-users] CDE -- Common Desktop Environment
I tried to install CDE on Trisquel. No cigar. It would fail at early stages because of a programming library (libjpeg62-turbo-dev). I installed turbo and turbo-dev but again no gain: make World "no rule to make target 'World'. Here is a page with old CDE screenshots. http://xwinman.org/cde.php
Re: [Trisquel-users] Help me burning encryped DVD with Luks
@scdbackup > Sorry, i did not yet find out how to mark code with indentation in this forum. Just simply use the tags between your commands (drop the space I have done in the tag to be displayed on the page). Thank you all for your answers. Of course HKR, There is still the possibility of using GPG very easily to encrypt files and do a back up on a cd or dvd. But when you have a whole folder filled with plenty of other folders or files, all you want to do is simply enter once a password and easily find the file you're looking for, or even open it from the software, just as you can do on a USB key or external HD encrypted with Luks. GPG is ok for single files. But a folder needs to be zip compressed then encrypted with GPG. That means you'll have to copy the zip file somewhere on you hard drive or wherever and decompress it . You can't use it for a whole DVD-R or even a CD-R because it's just too long. @MangyDog Yes, I already knew Tomb. But I'm surprised that Tomb is not in our repository. It sould be. After reading the man pdf of Tomb wibsite, the « engrave » command makes an image, but an image of the key that can be printed on paper and phisically stored as backup I'm not sure Tomb could really read a optical disc written from an .iso file where a .tomb This could be tested I have tried to open the gencryptdvd script as described by Magic, but it doesn't want to open. I've placed the .sh in /home and used the Root Terminal to check if nothing was wrong : The ls command dispayed gencryptodvd-0.2.sh in green when I allowed the file in the propetities to be used as a program. I haven't any « awk » warning, I only have a « command not found » adding a ./ before gencryptodvd makes an unexisting file warning. I precise sudo package is already installed on my laptop. I don't know if any of you succeed to make the script run. There can be an alternative with this http://ubuntuportal.blogspot.fr/2007/03/howto-encrypt-cddvds-in-ubuntu.html there is an alternate version http://www.upubuntu.com/2012/11/how-to-create-encrypted-cddvd-image.html 2 problems : if you can find aespipe, you won't find loop-aes-utils, and mkisofs sould be remplaced by xorriso. I tried this step : As recommanded by scdbackup I did a xorriso -as mkisofs but only got this answer : xorriso 1.3.2 : RockRidge filesystem manipulator, libburnia project. I started a $ xorriso -r backup | aespipe -e aes256 > backup.iso an got : xorriso 1.3.2 : RockRidge filesystem manipulator, libburnia project. xorriso : FAILURE : Not a known command: '-r' xorriso : FAILURE : Not a known command: 'backup' xorriso : aborting : -abort_on 'FAILURE' encountered 'FAILURE' Password: Maybe the begining of an answer ?
Re: [Trisquel-users] Old Fashioned Tiled Wallpaper
Here's a screenshot. And one more (Sun) tile for the road.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Wacom tablets
Krita is probably the best free tool to "draw from scratch". I normally use GIMP with Gimp Paint Studio add-on, because that's what I've used for years and feel comfortable with, but I'm planing on switching to Krita, as GIMP is more oriented to photo editing. Mypaint is great for fast sketches and newbies because of its simplicity, but lacks regular tools like "select region"+cut+paste (last time I checked, at least). Last but not least, Inkscape for vector drawing. Now it's your job to find which one suits you best. As always, no one es better than the other. @jodiendo, Krita should work fine with any wacom that is supported by Linux.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel install error
Aye, stuff goes wrong inevitably with such a vast collection of programs. For reference, https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/download-trisquel, this tells you how to verify the signatures and checksums, so you know if it is the real thing (not an impostor's file) and that it downloaded correctly without corruption.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel install error
Nvm my problem was solved by rebooting the computer and making sure it was set to boot trisquel.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel install error
Did you validate the checksums and signatures when you downloaded the image? If not try that and burn the ISO to a USB stick or CD again.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel install error
Do you mind explaining how I check that?
Re: [Trisquel-users] how i will install kernel 3.0.2
What is the N150? Is it a wireless router, or a wireless USB device? You are not being clear at all, how are we supposed to know? I doubt you will get some difference with kernel 3.0.2. Where did you read about this? It is probably not supported anymore for security updates. If anything you probably need to install a newer kernel. If in doubt, always consult the manual: https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/update-linux-libre-kernel
Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel install error
Oops forgot to attach image, here it is:http://imgur.com/TfQ82x0
[Trisquel-users] Trisquel install error
I have been getting this same message for a long time now and I have no idea what has happened, it started when I finished with the installation wizard and then it went to this screen. Eventually it asked me for my encryption key and I entered it in, and it said "Bad password or option?" Then asked me to input the password again and I did then it said "Bad password or option?" "Done." And ever since I've been getting the message "Mdadm: CREATE group disk not found" with the other message about my mouse. Any help is highly appreciated
Re: [Trisquel-users] Old Fashioned Tiled Wallpaper
That's the Microsoft Windows HE (Hypnotic Edition) Logo... :-p
[Trisquel-users] how i will install kernel 3.0.2
hi , my wireless N150 not working and i must install kernel 3.0.2 , i have 3.18.0-39 , psl not send me instal for ubuntu or other i need trisquel i need not update i need instal smaller version 3.0.2 , is somebody here ?? Rudolf
Re: [Trisquel-users] Old Fashioned Tiled Wallpaper
I made this tile but it makes me feel sick. The dots in the middle of the squares feel like they are constantly shooting small darts at my eye.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Wacom tablets
Jabjabs I was wondering If I could use Krita oN older wacom tablets
Re: [Trisquel-users] Wacom tablets
GIMPY
Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel and unity
lodier: excellent :)
Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel and unity
I like the UNTITLED rainbow bucket. Very Unity.
Re: [Trisquel-users] How can I installed bitmask of the file tar.gz?
That's right. You extract it (first check the signature) and you run the executable. You can also add their key and repo, the client will be more integrated and faster.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Wacom tablets
Looks like there is also something called mypaint in the repos that's supposedly specifically for wacoms according to the package description.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Wacom tablets
Krita, it is perfect for these tablets.
