Re: [Trisquel-users] Download Parted magic
On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 10:16 AM, mikko.viinam...@students.turkuamk.fi wrote: I agree. Just wish they'd provide more payment options. FYI, On hist website, the developer says[1]: If you still really really hate Paypal, but would still like to donate, send a check, cash, money order, or hardware to: [You'll find the address on the website] It seems a good deal of options to me. ;-) -- Stefano [1] http://partedmagic.com/doku.php?id=donations
Re: [Trisquel-users] Seeking for a backup tool
On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 4:10 PM, myself...@gmail.com wrote: The source would be the first full backup. What I basically want is to eliminate the need for making complete data backups, when I do make a backup, say, once in a month. Since the majority of data will stay the same, it makes no sense to wait hours, just to have a difference of few megabytes (mainly documents, and scripts) saved. It does not need to have a GUI, an aptitude like UI is sufficient, but I really don't want to play with Terminal commands, since I have very bad experience with this. Since I am busy working on other projects (mainly with moving to cloud), and because I require a tool that I can rely and depend upon, working on a new GUI for some command-line tools is not an option for me. I've heard good things about rdiff-backup[1]. Citing from their website: rdiff-backup backs up one directory to another, possibly over a network. The target directory ends up a copy of the source directory, but extra reverse diffs are stored in a special subdirectory of that target directory, so you can still recover files lost some time ago. The idea is to combine the best features of a mirror and an incremental backup. rdiff-backup also preserves subdirectories, hard links, dev files, permissions, uid/gid ownership, modification times, extended attributes, acls, and resource forks. Also, rdiff-backup can operate in a bandwidth efficient manner over a pipe, like rsync. Thus you can use rdiff-backup and ssh to securely back a hard drive up to a remote location, and only the differences will be transmitted. Finally, rdiff-backup is easy to use and settings have sensical defaults. I usually use rsync, but I wanted to git rdiff-backup a go. Haven't done it yet because of lack of time. -- Stefano [1] http://www.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup/
Re: [Trisquel-users] VirtualBox Being Removed From Trisquel
On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 9:44 AM, you wrote: You are not. I'm having the same problem. Qemu seems to be a bit complicated to use, which is why I'd prefer to use VirtualBox if possible. Have you checked one of these? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel-based_Virtual_Machine#Graphical_management_tools They may help. Best, -- Stefano
Re: [Trisquel-users] VirtualBox Being Removed From Trisquel
On Fri, 30 Aug 2013 21:16:23 +0200 (CEST), you wrote: That's the basics. You should keep in mind that some CPUs have special vitalization functions, that are used for QEMU. If you don't have them, then QEMU will complain the it could not access KVM kernel module. It will still run, but it will be suboptimal. This is the case with my computer. QEMU runs very slow on my computer, but runs good on other computers. I used to have that problem too, but then I realized that I could enable virtualization from the BIOS. -- Stefano Fortune of the day: Your business will go through a period of considerable expansion. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [Trisquel-users] Trouble with sound
On Tue, 27 Aug 2013 20:17:40 +0200 (CEST), you wrote: A few days ago I was watching a YouTube video and adjusted the volume with the hardware switch on my laptop. Abruptly the video's sound was replaced with a high-pitched throbbing squeal. I determined that this wasn't a problem with the video, because it occurred with other YouTube videos and a video I had saved. Restarting the computer fixed the problem; however, I'd like to know what might have caused it so I can prevent it from happening again. You could check what pulseaudio is telling you. Pulse Audio Volume Control (pavucontrol) should have all the information you need. Also, you could try to restart just pulseaudio rather than the whole computer, from terminal, do the following: pulseaudio --kill pulseaudio --start See pulseaudio --help and 'man pulseaudio' for more information. Best, -- Stefano Fortune of the day: Try to relax and enjoy the crisis. -- Ashleigh Brilliant signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [Trisquel-users] I am waiting the day when Hurd kernel will be default kernel in Trisquel
On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 11:29 AM, franpa...@openmailbox.org wrote: Coul you elaborat on that please? Sorry for the quick reply, but look here: http://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/ -- Stefano
Re: [Trisquel-users] XMPP or SIP Account
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 2:35 PM, you wrote: Any suggestions on a good company to register an XMPP account with? Take a look here: https://trisquel.info/en/forum/id-make-xmpp-account-where-should-i-do-it Best, -- Stefano
Re: [Trisquel-users] XMPP or SIP Account
On Tue, 20 Aug 2013 18:24:48 +0200 (CEST), you wrote: Thanks for the link. I followed one suggestion to look into duck duck go's XMPP accounts. My question is although they talk a lot about privacy being an American company isn't there some uncertainty as to how much they would be required to hand over their XMPP logs? Some of the suggestions here are quite reasonable in advising to go with a company outside the US. If you're worried about the US government spying on you, you should definitely not use a service based in the US as they must comply with the US law. If the government issued a court order to DDG they have to hand over their data or fight for it (see what happened with Lavabit). You can still use encryption to protect your conversations from being read, but they will keep the logs until they have time and resources to decrypt them anyway. Unfortunately, there's little protection against that because you'd have to avoid completely to send you Internet traffic through the US. That said, a EU-based service plus encryption is possibly the best option to protect your privacy. Best, -- Stefano Fortune of the day: Today is the first day of the rest of your life. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [Trisquel-users] Ebook reader
On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 11:15 PM, gamebo...@lavabit.com wrote: I've done that with my Nook Simple Touch, but I still don't think it's running fully free software, not even counting the drivers. Ideally, one could install Replicant + free/libre apps on the NST making it fully free. After a cursory look at the hardware of the NST, it seems that Replicant will work on it. -- Stefano
Re: [Trisquel-users] Ebook reader
On Sun, 18 Aug 2013 20:34:25 +0200 (CEST), you wrote: Do you know if there is a free/libre alternative to the Kindle? Many thanks Not ideal, but you can get a Nook Simple Touch for a very low price, root it and install only free software on it. You can find more information on the xda developers forum; they have a whole section about the Nook. Also be aware that there are different rooting tools depending on the firmware version. On the bright side it's hard to brick the device because you can restore it to the factory defaults. Best, -- Stefano Fortune of the day: You will be successful in love. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [Trisquel-users] Antwort: Virtualbox-ose isn't cutting it (likely due to unrecognized hardware). I want to try VMware player.
On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 9:24 AM, cyberh...@lavabit.com wrote: If you have performance and resolution issues, it means you need to install the VBox Guest Additions AFAIK, the licensing of the guest additions is unclear. Check here: https://trisquel.info/en/forum/virtualbox-guest-additions-license and here: https://trisquel.info/en/issues/4456 Best, -- Stefano
Re: [Trisquel-users] Virtualbox-ose isn't cutting it (likely due to unrecognized hardware). I want to try VMware player.
On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 11:18 AM, migatheot...@gmail.com wrote: VMware Player is non-free software. See below. https://www.vmware.com/download/eula/player40.html For those who don't want to read the whole thing, here's an interesting bit of the license: 3.1 Restrictions.You acknowledge that the Software and the structure, organization and source code of the Software constitute valuable trade secrets of VMware. Accordingly, except as expressly permitted in Section 2 or as otherwise authorized by VMware in writing, You will not and will not permit any third party to: (a) sell, lease, license, distribute, sublicense or otherwise transfer in whole or in part the Software or Documentation to any third party; (b) decompile, disassemble, reverse engineer, or otherwise attempt to derive source code from the Software, in whole or in part; (c) copy the Software, except for archival purposes, as set out in Section 2.3; (d) create, develop, license, install, use, or deploy any software or services to circumvent, enable, modify or provide access, permissions or rights which violate the technical restrictions of the Software as described in this EULA; (e) translate, modify or create derivative works based upon the Software; (f) permit any use of or access to the Software by any third party; (g) remove any product identification, proprietary, copyright or other notices contained in the Software; or (h) operate the Software on behalf of or for the benefit of any third party, including the operation of any service that is accessed by a third party, except that, for the purposes of this Section 3.1 (h), You may use the Software to deliver hosted services to Your Affiliates. Definitely non-free. -- Stefano
Re: [Trisquel-users] Flight of the amazon queen - no source code?
On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 1:34 PM, shiret...@web.de wrote: flight of the amazon queen If you haven't found it yet, here is the copyright file (after a wikipedia search) http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs/pool/universe/f/flight-of-the-amazon-queen/flight-of-the-amazon-queen_1.0.0-6/flight-of-the-amazon-queen.copyright It's a weird custom license and I don't think it can be considered free/libre software by the fsf guidelines. Best, -- Stefano
Re: [Trisquel-users] Freedom issues with PPAs
On Wed, 24 Jul 2013 01:19:16 +0200 (CEST), you wrote: As I understand it, the warning stems from the possibility that the PPA could have both Free Software and proprietary software. Once added, it is possible to accidentally install the proprietary software as well. That is also true, but as someone else pointed out, it's a matter of trusting the people who manage the PPA. By adding it to your system you install their own unverified binaries that may contain e.g. a rootkit or a backdoor (note that when you install a package you use root). Now, if the PPA is managed by a random guy who has compiled some source into binaries and packaged it, you may not know what it's actually been delivered to your computer (for example, see the cloned jay-z app news[1]). Best, -- Stefano Fortune of the day: There will be big changes for you but you will be happy. [1] http://it.slashdot.org/story/13/07/04/168207/anti-government-hackers-hit-jay-zs-android-app signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [Trisquel-users] Searching amazon with duckduckgo and abrowser sends relevant information to amazon
On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 5:25 AM, mikko.viinam...@students.turkuamk.fi wrote: So, now the amazon guys know that I have searched that page using DDG *and* I am a Trisquel user. Great. File a bug. Seems to be a feature of the search plugins. [1] Sort of, I don't think there's much that trisquel can do this is something that happens server-side. The DDG searches from trisquel always have the 'trisquel' string in their queries, e.g. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=free+software+foundationt=trisquel This is, I think, due to an agreement between DDG and trisquel. If you use Ubuntu instead, you'll see a string saying canonical. In this case they also get the HTTP referer header [2], as always when you click a hyperlink. That is if you haven't blocked it. A way around this is to not click a link but right click, copy link and then paste it to a new tab. (blacklist) There are also addons to muck with the referer. I know about the referer. But the query is not generated when you click the link, it's already in it. In any case, I just wanted to let the other users know about this. Best, -- Stefano
[Trisquel-users] Searching amazon with duckduckgo and abrowser sends relevant information to amazon
So, I was searching something about amazon.com using the duckduckgo searchbar in abrowser, I clicked on the link and then I realized that DDG had added the following query to the URL: tag=duckduckgo-trisquel-20 So, now the amazon guys know that I have searched that page using DDG *and* I am a Trisquel user. Great. If instead you go to DDG and make the same search the query will be tag=duckduckgo-d-20 Best, -- Stefano Fortune of the day: Afternoon very favorable for romance. Try a single person for a change. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [Trisquel-users] Searching amazon with duckduckgo and abrowser sends relevant information to amazon
On Sun, 21 Jul 2013 18:54:27 +0200 (CEST), you wrote: Just use Startpage instead: https://www.startpage.com since it uses POST by default (instead of GET) and since it uses Google's engine, the results are better than DuckDuckGo which has Bing as the backend. I use both, I just happened to use DGG this time. -- Stefano Fortune of the day: You will be surprised by a loud noise. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [Trisquel-users] I'd like to make an xmpp account -- where should I do it?
On Sat, 20 Jul 2013 18:00:27 +0200 (CEST), you wrote: So ... I just read this: Ejabberd currently stores passwords in plain text in its database. This means that anyone who compromises the server would be able to get the password for your account. https://jabber.at/en/passwords-0 That is a XMPP design choice and there isn't much we can do about it. The server administrators can do nothing about it. Any other service using ejabberd or jabberd2 is going to store the passwords in plain text. As it's already been suggested, use a unique password for that account so that if things go wrong an intruder won't be able to access other accounts tied to you. If you are using pidgin, please be aware that the application stores your passwords in plain text as well. You can find them in your home directory under .purple/accounts.xml You can read more about it on the pidgin developer wiki[1]. I don't know about telepathy or other software. Best, -- Stefano Fortune of the day: You will not be elected to public office this year. [1] https://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/PlainTextPasswords signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel group on identi.ca is no more
On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 1:33 AM, mtl...@member.fsf.org wrote: With identi.ca migrating from StatusNet to pump.io, all identi.ca have disappeared, including the Trisquel group whose activity you could see on the lower right corner of the trisquel.info website. Is there a plan to recreate this group on another StatusNet instance? Possibly, this is just a temporary blackout due to the migration to pump.io More info on the status.net blog: http://status.net/2012/12/18/upcoming-changes-in-the-status-net-service http://status.net/2013/01/09/preview-of-changes-to-identi-ca http://status.net/2013/03/26/no-more-new-registrations-on-identi-ca -- Stefano
Re: [Trisquel-users] I'd like to make an xmpp account -- where should I do it?
On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 4:58 PM, adel.af...@gmail.com wrote: Most peoples' first choice seems to be jabber.org. I guess that's because they were the first. But their registration site is down at the moment. Can you recommend a place to make an account? I may want to use xmpp for audio/video calls later, so a site that supports that feature would be great. I also care about privacy, so it would be nice if the site respects privacy as well. Jabber.org is based on the US and must comply with the US jurisdiction. Also, you traffic will likely go through the US. I'd advise to use a European-based server to mitigate the privacy issue. jabber.at seems a good one, but there are many others[1]. If you feel brave enough, you could set up your own jabber server[2]. I have done so using jabberd14 (even though ejabberd seems more popular) and plan to add a wiki page here sooner or later. Best, -- Stefano [1] http://xmpp.org/xmpp-software/servers [2] http://xmpp.net/
Re: [Trisquel-users] A few worries about Tor
On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 4:36 PM, shiret...@web.de wrote: Maybe it's completely absurd, but I wondered whether I can get in trouble for using tor, since traffic is directed to my pc and maybe this traffic contains illegal material. So are there any justifiable worries about using tor? Did anyone get sued / is it technically possibel? I would like to use tor-browser-bundle. A rapid search gave me https://blog.torproject.org/category/tags/tor-legal-support-directory and https://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-doc-relay.html.en (see step 4). Hope it helps. -- Stefano
Re: [Trisquel-users] As close as possible
On Wed, 10 Jul 2013 00:59:32 +0200 (CEST), you wrote: Do you have a NOOK Simple Touch? Yeah. I have a recent model and as soon as I register it, it gets upgraded to version 1.2.1. I don't really need to register it, but I read that it's necessary for rooting (I may be wrong though). I finally succeeded in restoring the factory settings. My idea was to try to root it with the tools available and then try to install Cyanogen and eventually Replicant. Thanks, -- Stefano Fortune of the day: Your aims are high, and you are capable of much. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [Trisquel-users] As close as possible
On Wed, 10 Jul 2013 17:57:11 +0200 (CEST), you wrote: I looked in the supported devices list for Cyanogenmod and couldn't find the NOOK Simple Touch. I know we're going off topic. Anyway, there is a way to root the nook and disable the BN stuff. I am not posting direct links, but you can look for the xda-developers forums, they have a section about the nook touch and you can download a rooting tool that works (of course, with no warranty) on the Nook Simple Touch with the latest firmware (1.2.x). My understanding is that it's not a fully free solution, but one can fork project on github. I have briefly browsed it and it's a mix of the original BN code, cyanogen mod and other stuff. Not ideal, but better than what comes by default. My aim is to root the device with the tool and once I've understood the process I want to try and use replicant. I will keep you posted in case I get replicant to work on the Nook, but don't expect anything in the immediate future. Best, -- Stefano Fortune of the day: You prefer the company of the opposite sex, but are well liked by your own. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [Trisquel-users] As close as possible
On Tue, 9 Jul 2013 20:23:38 +0200 (CEST), you wrote: I was able to root my NOOK with only Trisquel, using ImageWriter to write the rooting utility onto a MicroSD card. The rooted NOOK still seems to have nonfree components, as all the stock applications such as the ebook reader application were still included. When I was rooting it, I saw an option to remove stock programs; maybe I should try that. Hi, what instructions did you follow to root the nook? I have found some on nookdevs but it seems it didn't work. It was taking forever to boot and I am now trying to reset the nook to factory (it's still taking forever to boot though). Thanks, -- Stefano Fortune of the day: Stay the curse. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [Trisquel-users] Slashdot news: Oracle Quietly Switches BerkeleyDB To AGPL - but is it for a noble reason?
On Sat, 6 Jul 2013 02:29:57 +0200 (CEST), you wrote: Free software is free software. I couldn't care less if some proprietary software developers are inconvenienced or some corporation gets more money. I agree. But the interesting thing in the news is that a big corporation is trying to kill free software bu making it more free. With the current business model, the change in license is likely to mean the end of Berkeley DB. Proprietary companies that use it will possibly switch to Oracle's proprietary DB and BerkeleyDB will receive less and less contributions risking to die. I know nothing about BerkelyDB, but this is an example of how the copyright holder can determine the fate of free software. Another example is Linus Torvalds who allows binary blobs in his Linux kernel. Best, -- Stefano Fortune of the day: Bridge ahead. Pay troll. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
[Trisquel-users] Slashdot news: Oracle Quietly Switches BerkeleyDB To AGPL - but is it for a noble reason?
Quoting Slashdot: http://developers.slashdot.org/story/13/07/05/1647215/oracle-quietly-switches-berkeleydb-to-agpl WebMink writes A discussion in the Debian community reveals that last month Oracle quietly disclosed a change for the embedded BerkeleyDB database from the quirky Sleepycat License to the Affero General Public License (AGPL) in future versions. AGPL is only compatible with GPLv3 and treats web deployment as a trigger to license compliance, so developers using BerkeleyDB will need to check their code is still legally licensed. Even if they had made the switch in the interests of advancing software freedom it would be questionable to force so many developers into a new license compatibility crisis. But it seems likely their only motivation is to scare more people into buying proprietary licenses. Oracle are well within their rights, but developers are likely to treat this as a betrayal. As a poster in the Debian thread says, Oracle move just sent the Berkeley DB to oblivion because there are some great alternatives, like OpenLDAP's LMDB. -- Stefano Fortune of the day: You will be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize... posthumously. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [Trisquel-users] Substitute fonts
This thread looks very interesting. Could you font gurus create a page on the Wiki with a list (and links) to the free/libre fonts mentioned here? That would be a great thing to do. Thanks, -- Stefano
Re: [Trisquel-users] Kernels
In a nutshell, this is what happens when the kernel needs a non-free blob to make some piece of hardware work: * Linux-libre kernel: I'm sorry, this piece of hardware requires non-free software and will not work with a 100% free/libre kernel. * Debian kernel: Hey! This piece of hardware requires non-free software, you can install it from INFORMATION Best, Stefano
Re: [Trisquel-users] Antwort: Compromising the Services
Thanks for the info. Remember that the Raspberry Pi has freedom issues though. I look forward to reading your howto.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Compromising the Services
On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 4:59 PM, shiret...@web.de wrote: I heard of the flaws in the rp after buying it; I can affirm that you're able to run debian on the raspberry without non-free parts, but I can only verify this for text-only. Probably, non-free stuff would be necessary for launching the x server. Also[1]: * The Raspberry Pi requires nonfree software to start up. It can't reach the point of executing free software unless this nonfree program is part of the installed system software. ** The startup program is, in fact, the same program that runs the GPU and the video decoding hardware. Thus, the GPU and the video decoding hardware are unusable in the free world, but these jobs can be done with free software on the CPU. ** That program appears to implement intentional restrictions, such as blocking the video decoding hardware for MPEG-2 and VC-1 in the absence of a key that is specific to the machine in hand. Best, -- Stefano [1]http://libreplanet.org/wiki/Single_Board_Computers
Re: [Trisquel-users] Printer Brother MFC-7420
On Tue, 2 Jul 2013 21:34:25 +0200 (CEST), you wrote: Sorry, I didn't mean to send it yet... At any rate, I tried installing by chosing the option Search for Printer Driver to Download, but that didn't do anything (I don't think this worked at all, it didn't give me any serarch results etc.). The 3rd option it gives me is to provide a ppd file. Should I be looking for an installation CD that supposedly might have it? Or is there a simpler way to do make the printer work? Thanks! Hi, be aware of the official drivers as they are likely proprietary ones. You can always open the pdd file with a text editor and verify that its license is free. I have a Samsung printer that works perfectly with the drivers provided by Trisquel, I had to find the right one with some trial and error. I would suggest to use a driver with version less or equal than your printer's. Usually, foomatic drivers work well. The recommended driver might not be necessarily the one that will work for you. As last resort, you can try to install the metapackage 'printer-driver-all': open a terminal window and do: sudo apt-get install printer-driver-all You can install it from a graphical frontend as synaptic, but honestly I've never used it. Hope it helps, -- Stefano Fortune of the day: You're ugly and your mother dresses you funny. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [Trisquel-users] Substitute fonts
Hi, maybe you can help me here, because I am not sure that I understand why fonts are software. I used to see proprietary fonts more like a patent-encumbered format: I don't want to meddle with mp3, so I use ogg... I don't want to meddle with Times New Roman, so I use FreeSerif. So, if you want to use them you may need to pay a fee to the copyright holder, but that's not exactly the same as software. How is a font controlling a user? What is the difference from a proprietary font and, say, the mp3 format? Can you help me understand better? Thanks.
Re: [Trisquel-users] vPro Intel engineers should be burned alive. All haswell mobile cpus have it. No way to disable. Dump it in the sea, kill the en
On Mon, 24 Jun 2013 20:30:22 +0200 (CEST), you wrote: There is no excuse for such statements like killing people is good for any reason. Agreed. The violent tone of this post is even possibly against any conceivable code of conduct. I urge the OP to open a new thread expressing his concerns in a more reasonable way (not saying that people should be burnt alive is a good start) and the forum moderators to delete this thread. Many thanks, -- Stefano Fortune of the day: You will stop at nothing to reach your objective, but only because your brakes are defective. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [Trisquel-users] Problem installing KDE
On Fri, 21 Jun 2013 07:27:44 +0200 (CEST), you wrote: I just wanted to install the base packages, but I guess I could try the triskel metapackage. I thought the package triskel would be similar to Ubuntu's kubuntu package which would swap out GDM for KDM and replace a bunch of stuff and basically change the whole distro. I didn't necessarily want to swap out the login manager/default wallpapers, etc. I'm normally a fluxbox user who just wanted to try out KDE. I'm interested in it's notifications and activities. If you say it's safe to do so, I'll try triskel. I never tried it myself, but usually the metapackage is the safest option. Another option would be the kde-plasma-desktop metapackage. Best, -- Stefano Fortune of the day: Another good night not to sleep in a eucalyptus tree. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [Trisquel-users] Re : Adding YaCy to the repositories?
On Fri, 21 Jun 2013 03:57:58 +0200 (CEST), you wrote: Execute those three commands in a sequence: $ echo 'deb http://debian.yacy.net ./' | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list $ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install yacy I would personally add the repo in its own list file in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ because it's easier to manage. $ echo 'deb http://debian.yacy.net ./' /etc/apt/sources.list.d/yacy.list $ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install yacy -- Stefano Fortune of the day: A visit to a strange place will bring fresh work. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [Trisquel-users] Getting Things Done (GTD) task manager in Trisquel?
On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 7:07 PM, Michael Mehrazar kopole...@riseup.net wrote: I've heard of todo.txt, but didn't try it out, since I wanted to try and keep to the repos if possible. At the very least I'd like a .deb file. But thank you for the suggestion. Do you use it personally? Thoughts? I often use only the text terminal and don't start X at all, so todo.txt was a good option for me, I don't know of any graphic frontends to it. You can specify a context and or a project and then list only the tasks relative to those, they even have a bash completion feature now. I don't use the software very often, but that's just me. Regarding todo.txt not being in the repos, I think it's not a big deal since it's just a GPL'd bash script (but it would be nice to have it anyway). Best, -- Stefano
Re: [Trisquel-users] Problem installing KDE
On Fri, 21 Jun 2013 07:09:18 +0200 (CEST), you wrote: I am trying to install KDE on Trisquel 6. It has the eternal broken package dependency hell scenario. Our repo has kdepim version 4:4.8.5, but requires 4:4.8.2 ! Hmmm. When I tried to force install kdepim from the repo, I got another package error as kdepim's dependencies could not be satisfied and that one had an unmet dependency also, etc, etc, ad nauseum. The following packages have unmet dependencies: kde-full : Depends: kdepim (= 4:4.8.2) but it is not going to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. Any ideas would be appreciated. What package are you trying to install? The 'triskel' package . spelled with a 'k', should solve all the dependency problembs. If that doesn't work you should probably file a bug. Best, -- Stefano Fortune of the day: Just because the message may never be received does not mean it is not worth sending. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [Trisquel-users] Getting Things Done (GTD) task manager in Trisquel?
Have you tried todo.txt[1]? It's licensed with GPLv3[2] [1]http://ginatrapani.github.io/todo.txt-cli/ [2]https://github.com/ginatrapani/todo.txt-cli/blob/master/LICENSE
Re: [Trisquel-users] Graphics driver problem in Trisquel mini
Hi, are you running 32bit games on a 64bit environment? If so, you are probably missing 32bit libraries. I think that you will need to enable multiarch support (it's disabled in Trisquel 6 Toutatis AFAIK) and then install the 32bit packages. That's all the help I can give for now, sorry. Hopefully other users will expand on this. Best, S.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Are most of you free software extremists?
On Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:07:22 +0200 (CEST), you wrote: The recent post by Magic Banana post about him complaining about the term open source over free software for software licensed under the same freedom sharing license like the GPL really made me think about this recent article: http://www.linuxadvocates.com/2013/06/linux-extremism-puts-hurt-on-linux-and.html Sorry, but your post is tot really relevant to the user forum. You should have posted to the troll hole[1] (I don't like that name btw). Best, -- Stefano Fortune of the day: Generosity and perfection are your everlasting goals. [1]https://trisquel.info/en/forum/troll-hole signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [Trisquel-users] Lost Bios
On Sat, 15 Jun 2013 11:09:12 +0200 (CEST), you wrote: Could not start My computer this morning, I think BIOS has died, is there a way to recover it? Is it a laptop? Maybe your battery is dead and you need to replace it. -- Stefano Fortune of the day: You can create your own opportunities this week. Blackmail a senior executive. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [Trisquel-users] rm -r
On Sun, 9 Jun 2013 11:21:07 +0200 (CEST), you wrote: Whenever I run rm -r from the command line it is always verbose. The directories I am trying to delete have thousands of subdirectories and files. I figure this is because of an alias somewhere, if I had my guess it would be somewhere is /usr. But I can not find it to comment it out. Anybody know how I can disable the verbose in rm -r? I understand why it is there, but in this case it is annoying to say the least. What do you mean by 'verbose'? Is it asking you whether you want to remove each single file? Maybe your 'rm' is aliased to 'rm -i', you can verify that by checking the output of 'alias rm'. If that's the case you can change it temporarily with 'unalias rm'. If you want a permanent change you should probably comment out the line that says alias rm='rm -i' in your .bashrc (or .bash_aliases, or .profile). Best, -- Stefano Fortune of the day: Beware of Bigfoot! signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [Trisquel-users] rm -r
On Sun, 9 Jun 2013 11:45:47 +0200 (CEST), you wrote: Thank you stefano. I am aliased to rm -i. But I don't see it in any of the files you had listed. I had already checked them. I was so frustrated I didnt even think about unalias rm. So I did that and all files are deleted. Thanks again. That is odd, there's no other user's configuration file that come to my mind where the alias would be set. Maybe it's a system file. Bets, -- Stefano Fortune of the day: Live in a world of your own, but always welcome visitors. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [Trisquel-users] Re : Is there any interest in privacy free software friendly services?
On Sat, 8 Jun 2013 19:30:01 +0200 (CEST), you wrote: I am surprised, nobody has referenced the two recent articles from The Guardian and the Washington Post. Actually, I have linked the article from the Guardian in one of my posts. :-P -- Stefano Fortune of the day: You will pioneer the first Martian colony. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [Trisquel-users] Is there any interest in privacy free software friendly services?
On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 11:21 AM, Stefano pietran...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 3:36 AM, ch...@thinkpenguin.com wrote: I'm curious if people would pay for a set of services that had: 1. clearly defined privacy policies 2. based on free software 3. developed and maintained by a trusted party (and possibly endorsed by respectable individuals and/or projects like the EFF, FSF, RMS, etc) I would be interested. Replying to myself... I am not sure that I'd subscribe such service if it were based in the US[1] though. -- Stefano [1] http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/06/nsa-phone-records-verizon-court-order
Re: [Trisquel-users] Is there any interest in privacy free software friendly services?
On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 3:36 AM, ch...@thinkpenguin.com wrote: I'm curious if people would pay for a set of services that had: 1. clearly defined privacy policies 2. based on free software 3. developed and maintained by a trusted party (and possibly endorsed by respectable individuals and/or projects like the EFF, FSF, RMS, etc) I would be interested.
Re: [Trisquel-users] OS X screenshots in wiki?
On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 3:50 PM, gamebo...@lavabit.com wrote: 2 of the shots are 1024x768 (fullscreen), and the rest are cropped to individual windows. You should probably use a lower resolution, see for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:OS_X_Mountain_Lion_Screenshot.jpg#Summary Best, -- Stefano
Re: [Trisquel-users] OS X screenshots in wiki?
On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 4:12 PM, gamebo...@lavabit.com wrote: What does it say? The page doesn't load for me. Here it is: Media data and Non-free use rationale Description: OS X Mountain Lion desktop screenshot Author or copyright owner: Apple Source Original publication: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/70/OS_X_Mountain_Lion_Screenshot.jpg Immediate http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/70/OS_X_Mountain_Lion_Screenshot.jpg Use in article (WP:NFCC#7) OS X Mountain Lion Purpose of use in article (WP:NFCC#8) To Show Mac OS X Not replaceable with free media because (WP:NFCC#1) It is a screenshot of the software Minimal use (WP:NFCC#3) It will only be used to show what OS X looks like Respect for commercial opportunities (WP:NFCC#2) No, it will only show people what the software looks like -- Stefano
Re: [Trisquel-users] OS X screenshots in wiki?
On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 1:28 AM, gamebo...@lavabit.com wrote: I would like to put some screenshots of Mac OS X to accompany my text at the bottom of this wiki page [0]. Would this violate copyright of the Aqua (Mac OS X GUI) UI? If not, would I have to put a copyright notice near the screenshots? [0] https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/burn-trisquel-cd-images You can check what Wikipedia does with Mac OS X screenshots. I think that you will be OK if the resolution is low enough (say 800x600). -- Stefano
Re: [Trisquel-users] Abrowser weird activity.
On Sat, 1 Jun 2013 22:16:12 +0200 (CEST), you wrote: Hello there. Anyway, I've noticed the following. For every site that I was visiting, there was a cross-site request for nongnu.org (see attachement). I haven't installed anything else on Trisquel. Have you got any idea why might cause this? Do you have Linterna Magica installed? I think that's the one responsible for the requests to nongnu.org, it's where it looks for requests Unfortunately you cannot see the greasemonkey script with Abrowser due to a bug with the orion editor[1]. But you can still check the code by opening the javascript file with a normal text editor. You can find Linterna Magica in the abrowser configuration directory. It looks something like: ~/.mozilla/abrowser/YOUR_PROFILE/gm_scripts/Linterna_Mágica_0.0.13-2 Where the ~ indicates your home directory (e.g. /home/user) and YOUR_PROFILE is a directory whose name is something like 'ahrjsk4p.default'. Best, -- Stefano Fortune of the day: You're not my type. For that matter, you're not even my species!!! signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [Trisquel-users] Penguin GNU / Linux Laptop /w 1920x1080 Matte Screen Now Shipping
I might have missed something here... to which of the Penguins[1] are you referring to? [1]https://www.thinkpenguin.com/catalog/notebook-computers-gnulinux
Re: [Trisquel-users] Prolems with the TOR Browser
Are you running the tor browser bundle, or the tor package that comes with Trisquel? If you have the tor package from Trisquel, you should remove it and download the browser bundle from the tor-project website. Generally, it is advised to use the bundle from the tor-project website rather than what comes from the Linux distors. Best, Stefano
Re: [Trisquel-users] Prolems with the TOR Browser
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 4:16 PM, onpon4 wrote: I posted the wrong link at first, I mean this: https://www.torproject.org/download/download-easy.html.en You ended up using the wrong instructions. So remove tor and download the browser bundle as already suggested. To revert you changes: # open a terminal # run: sudo apt-get purge tor (this will remove tor and all its configuration files) # download the tor browser bundle at https://www.torproject.org/download/download-easy.html.en remember to download the version matching your system architecture (32bit vs 64bit). You can check the system architecture from terminal by running 'uname -p' if the result is x86_64 you have 64bit. # extract the file somewhere (using e.g. tar xvzf tor-browser-gnu-linux-BLAHBLAH.tar.gz or with a graphical application) and run the start-tor-browser.sh script that you will find in the directory that has been created. # more information here: https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html.en -- Stefano
Re: [Trisquel-users] Virtual Machine
On Thu, 30 May 2013 20:42:45 +0200 (CEST), you wrote: So I used to use vmware... What's the Free Software alternative ? virtualbox is probably the easiest one to use, you can also try the qemu-kvm package that uses the kernel's virtualization module. The 'aqemu' package is a Qt4 frontend to qemu-kvm that should make your life easier with it. Best, -- Stefano Fortune of the day: Do something unusual today. Pay a bill. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [Trisquel-users] Electrisheep w/Toutatis
On Wed, 29 May 2013 22:38:03 +0200 (CEST), you wrote: Has somebody be able to install and setup, the electricsheep screeensaver. I've read that you need to use it with xscreensaver, but once installed xscreensaver i don't know how to link electricsheep to it, and run it. Any help is very appreciated. Hi, I don't know much about this, but there's some documentation online: http://electricsheep.org/node/51 you can run it from the command line just by typing electricsheep. You can also use electricsheep-preferences to configure it. Regarding xscreensaver, you must have the 'xscreensaver' daemon running and you can configure it with the 'xscreensaver-demo' command (there should be a menu entry too). From there, you can select the available screensavers. See also here: http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/faq.html Check also this one: http://www.webupd8.org/2011/11/how-to-get-electric-sheep-to-work-with.html Hope it helps, -- Stefano Fortune of the day: You'll never see all the places, or read all the books, but fortunately, they're not all recommended. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [Trisquel-users] no manpages
On Mon, 27 May 2013 21:07:19 +0200 (CEST), you wrote: I just installed trisquel using the netinstall on a server box with no GUI. For some reason I have no manpages. When I type man (whatever) it says command not found. I have tried installing a package called manpages from the repository, but that didn't help. Anybody know what went wrong and how to fix it. Thank you. Try to install man-db Best, -- Stefano Fortune of the day: Be different: conform. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [Trisquel-users] Free Software compatible laptop?
On Sat, 25 May 2013 20:42:54 +0200 (CEST), you wrote: I doesn't knew Coreboot isn't fully-free (e.g. contain binary-blobs). Wikipedia states that it's released under under the GNU GPL and doesn't specify additional licenses. It's a shame, that Coreboot went the same way like Linux did. For those interested, you can read the coreboot mailing list thread about the topic (found on DDG): http://www.coreboot.org/pipermail/coreboot/2012-April/069564.html -- Stefano Fortune of the day: Tonight's the night: Sleep in a eucalyptus tree. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
[Trisquel-users] Scratch pad/Orion editor disabled in Abrowser 21.0
Hi all, Firefox web developer tools include the scratch pad, which works with the Orion editor[1]. The Stylish addon uses Orion by default[2] too. In Abrowser 21.0, when I open the scratch pad (SHIFT+F4 or menu-web developer -scratch pad) or I try to create or edit a Stylish user style, the window opens up but there is no editor where I can type in. Note that, at least in Stylish, if I set the extensions.stylish.editor to 1 (i.e. use a simple text editor instead of Orion), everything works (without syntax highlighting). Has anybody else experienced that or should I file a bug? Thanks, -- Stefano Fortune of the day: Stay the curse. [1] http://planetorion.org/news/2011/11/orion-editor-ships-in-firefox-8/ [2] http://userstyles.org/help/stylish_firefox signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [Trisquel-users] Scratch pad/Orion editor disabled in Abrowser 21.0
On Thu, 23 May 2013 13:40:00 +0200 (CEST), you wrote: I already filed a bug report and I'm looking for the cause: https://trisquel.info/en/issues/8194 OK thanks for the info, I'll add my comment there. BTW, the about:config bit that defines the orion editor is devtools.editor.component (set to orion). I tried to set it to 'textarea'[1] but nothing changed. -- Stefano Fortune of the day: Domestic happiness and faithful friends. [1] http://antennasoft.net/robcee/2011/08/18/orion-is-now-on-by-default-in-nightlies/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [Trisquel-users] Wiping Windows 7 hard drive without Windows password
Hi, you can actually boot with Trisquel live CD and instruct it to format the whole drive upon installation. Best, -- Stefano Fortune of the day: You teach best what you most need to learn. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [Trisquel-users] DuckDuckGo and RuNet(russian segment of the Internet)
On Sun, 12 May 2013 20:27:47 +0200 (CEST), you wrote: DuckDuckGo not suitable for RuNet. It gives overmuch irrelevant results. DuckDuckGo interestiong to me only because of the lack of effect filter bubble. It looks like DuckDuckGo is the only search engine without effect of filter bubble. What should I do? Any ideas? Have you tried startpage? -- Stefano Fortune of the day: Afternoon very favorable for romance. Try a single person for a change. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [Trisquel-users] Lost control over my computer; can't delete things as root
You can see what process is active on a file or folder by using lsof (sudo apt-get install lsof if you don't have it). Then run lsof /path/to/folder to see what's using it. Check man lsof for more information. Also, before blacklisting, check whether the modules are present in /etc/mouled (it's a text file). If it's the case, remove them and they won't be loaded at boot.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Nvidia Drivers
On Fri, 3 May 2013 19:37:34 +0200 (CEST), you wrote: Was that to ADFENO? Because he didn't indicate using nonfree software anywhere, and that was the thread you replied to. That's for the OP. I reply using the mailing list and I didn't have the OP's first message. I had to go to the forum to understand why you posted that! :/ [This forum-mailing list connection doesn't work too well] -- Stefano Fortune of the day: It's all in the mind, ya know. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [Trisquel-users] Nvidia Drivers
The Trisquel community guidelines are here: https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/trisquel-community-guidelines You can read that: We will not distribute, recommend, or otherwise support non-free software. Inevitably, non-free software might slip through into the system. Upon discovering non-free software we will undertake its removal. Best, S.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Can not open pdf document
Have you tried Scribus[1,2] or InkScape[3,4] to edit PDF files? Both are available in the Trisquel repositories. -- Stefano [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scribus [2] http://scribus.net/canvas/Scribus [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inkscape [4] http://inkscape.org/
Re: [Trisquel-users] Upgrade to 6.0 without losing GPG
On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 10:13 AM, t...@tius.it wrote: What should I do to reinstall from scratch a new version (6.0) without losing the configuration and GPG keys? Thanks If you are going to tear down your home directory, then back up the .gnupg directory in your home (e.g. ~/.gnupg in a terminal or enable the show hidden files/dirs in your favorite file manager) and then put it back when you're done, if you're keeping the home directory, you shouldn't lose anything. Best, -- Stefano
Re: [Trisquel-users] Bash says some executables exist, but don't exist at the same time.
You probably need to run ldconfig. -- Stefano
Re: [Trisquel-users] Bash says some executables exist, but don't exist at the same time.
On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 1:45 PM, onp...@gmail.com wrote: Could you post the output of: $ ldd ~/ryzom/ryzom_client Just one line: not a dynamic executable I'd say that ~/ryzom/ryzom_client is a script (you can verify it by opening it in your favorite editor). The syntax error that you reported might be due to the fact that the script points to /bin/sh (check the first line of the file) and is being executed by dash, the default shell for Ubuntu[1]. You can either change your default shell to bash. Quoting the page I've linked: - If you are unlucky enough to have been negatively affected by this change, and only one or two shell scripts are affected, then the quickest way to fix this is to edit these scripts and change the first line to use the correct interpreter. The first line should look something like this (perhaps with some additional options): #! /bin/sh Change that to the following (you can preserve any options you see): #! /bin/bash In Makefiles, you can set the following variable at the top: SHELL = /bin/bash If the problems are more widespread and you want to change the default system shell back, then you can instruct the package management system to stop installing dash as /bin/sh: sudo dpkg-reconfigure dash Beware that this is a more invasive change, will undo boot speed benefits, and there is even an outside chance that there are a few scripts that now depend on some feature of dash that bash does not provide! (We expect the last problem to be rare, as the feature set of dash is largely a subset of that offered by bash, but we mention it for completeness.) - [1]https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DashAsBinSh -- Stefano
Re: [Trisquel-users] Unlock Photos ?
Both the answers given in the previous posts should work, just beware of the correct syntax. What do you mean by locked? If that means that you cannot modify them, use chmod u+w /path/to/photos/* this will actually make writable ALL files in the directory. If instead you're NOT the owner, use chown -R john:john /path/to/photos this assumes that your username is john - you can find out with the whoami command. No need to quote the user name and no space after the colon. If you're not the owner of the directory, you might need to do sudo chown -R john:john /path/to/photos You might also need to apply the chmod command afterwards. A very useful resource is the *nix manual 'man' that will give you more information about the various commands and their options, e.g. man chown man chmod ...and even man man Best, -- Stefano Fortune of the day: You will stop at nothing to reach your objective, but only because your brakes are defective. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [Trisquel-users] The Adapteva Parallella - is it genuinely free software compatible?
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 8:26 AM, gnufre...@hushmail.com wrote: UPDATE: The developer of the Adapteva Parallella has licensed his sdk and libs under GPLv3+. This is great news. By request, I had previously sent him my opinions of the various licenses and what goals they ultimately serve. I also added some patent trolling concerns. I advocated GPLv3, with the ability to relicense to later versions. I don't know to what degree (if any) my comments might've nudged his thinking in our direction, but I'm happy to see that he chose the most user-centric license. I can't wait to play around with mine when it gets here. Great news! Here's the link to the announcement: http://www.parallella.org/2013/02/22/esdk-source-tree-published-today/ -- Stefano
Re: [Trisquel-users] Ghostery or Do not track on Abrowser
On Fri, 15 Feb 2013 23:01:39 +0100 (CET), you wrote: Well, that collision extension gets my a tracking data. Hi, collusion DOES NOT get your tracking data, it only DISPLAYS the cookies that have been saved on your machine in a graph that shows what sites you actually visited and what other sites have saved cookies during that visit. For example, you may NEVER go on Facebook, but when you visit the CNN site, you'll get Facebook cookies on your computer (unless you block them somehow). Beef Taco is a collection of don't track cookies: it will keep those cookies on your computer so that the tracking websites will know that you DON'T WANT to be tracked and won't save any other cookies in your browser. Best, -- Stefano Fortune of the day: Blow it out your ear. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [Trisquel-users] Ghostery or Do not track on Abrowser
On Fri, 15 Feb 2013 20:36:33 +0100 (CET), you wrote: but they won't block all the trackers Ghostery blocks. On what are you basing this? Is there any benchmark around? Thanks, -- Stefano Fortune of the day: Don't get to bragging. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
[Trisquel-users] [OFF-TOPIC] Any advice about e-readers?
So, I am looking for a nice e-reader[1] that is as free software compatible as possible. The Kindle is of course not an option, and I was looking at the Sony Reader. Any advice? Thanks, -- Stefano [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-reader
Re: [Trisquel-users] Delete Folder in Root File System
On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 11:30 AM, you wrote: How do I delete an unwanted folder from the root file system ? You'd have to use use sudo, but be very careful when removing that kind of stuff, you might have unwanted problems. That said: 1) open a Terminal window; 2) type sudo rm -rf /path/to/your/folder ***BEWARE: this is going to delete EVERYTHING in that folder, it's going to be very to recover that data, so be careful about what you type in!*** 3) hit enter 4) type your standard password -- Stefano
Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel 6.0 and e 17 enlightenment
Hi, what version of e17 are you using? E17 stable has been recently released. You may want to upgrade your installation. I know that a PPA with deb packages exists, but I can't remember the link right now, sorry. Also, can you try and execute Synaptic in a terminal and post the ouput? Thanks.
Re: [Trisquel-users] rms on ubuntu spyware
On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 11:03 AM, you wrote: Can we remove this search reporting feature by removing some packages? A bit of www search returns: sudo apt-get remove unity-lens-shopping -- Stefano
[Trisquel-users] Secure Boot bootloader for GNU/Linux distributions
Shim[1] is a piece of software intended for distributions that want to support secure boot but don't want to deal with Microsoft. It has been now made available by former Red Hat employee Matthew Garrett yesterday[2] and you can download it freely[4] and is distributed under a two-clause BSD license. You can also read about it on /.[3] [4]http://www.codon.org.uk/~mjg59/shim-signed/ [3]http://linux.slashdot.org/story/12/12/01/0245224/matthew-garrett-makes-available-secure-bootloader-for-linux-distros [2]http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/20303.html [1]http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/17542.html -- Stefano Fortune of the day: Your boyfriend takes chocolate from strangers.
Re: [Trisquel-users] How to boot in terminal only
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 2:13 PM, you wrote: Hi, If one were to do this, then decide to use an application like abrowser, could she just type startx in that session, and have a gui untill next boot? -Dave Basically, yes. startx will start your default desktop environment (DE). Also, you won't probably be able to shut down the computer from the DE, so you should logout from it and then, once you're back to your text terminal, run sudo shutdown -h now (-h option powers off, -r option reboots) see man shutdown for more information. Best, -- Stefano
Re: [Trisquel-users] Printer (no tracking dots) and scanner for Trisquel?
On Sun, 18 Nov 2012 14:21:34 +0100 (CET), you wrote: Hello, is there any printer (without tracking dots) and scanner that works with Trisquel? Scanner is more important than printer just so you know though. For a list of tracking printers, you can try here: https://www.eff.org/pages/list-printers-which-do-or-do-not-display-tracking-dots Best, -- Stefano Fortune of the day: Tomorrow will be cancelled due to lack of interest. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
[Trisquel-users] Free XMPP client for
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[Trisquel-users] Free XMPP client for
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Re: [Trisquel-users] What would you do ?
On Sun, 11 Nov 2012 08:08:04 +0100 (CET), you wrote: Thanks for your inputs. @stefano I can't believe I haven't remembered the method form the second link you posted. No worries! I remember it because I contributed to it... and in fact I go back to that page every time I need a refresh on encryption stuff. ;-) -- Stefano Fortune of the day: Today is National Existential Ennui Awareness Day. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [Trisquel-users] What would you do ?
On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 7:50 PM, teodores...@lavabit.com wrote: I'm having a dilemma regarding what os to use on a laptop that doesn't connect to the internet and full disk encryption is imperative. My piece of junk laptop fails to connect to the wired network in both Trisquel and Ubuntu live so a netinstall is impossible as far as I know; and my only option was to downgrade my freedom on the laptop to Ubuntu 12.10 because of the installer option to use full disk encryption. I don't use proprietary software anyway (not even mono), nor the Trisquel desktop, so my biggest issue I assume it would be the Ubuntu kernel blobs. Other than installing linux-libre and removing possibly installed proprietary software as described in the Migrate from Ubuntu to Trisquel without reinstalling guide; what other options do I have ? Have you tried this: https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/full-disk-encryption-install or this: https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/full-disk-encryption-terminal ? Hope it helps. -- Stefano
Re: [Trisquel-users] How Do I enable ?
Hi, could you please be a bit more descriptive in the *title* of your posts? Thanks! -- Stefano
Re: [Trisquel-users] How to use Tor with Trisquel
On Sat, 3 Nov 2012 12:12:38 +0100 (CET) f3rn4nd0.n3...@gmail.com wrote: What I said is that it's a network know not to be safe - as it is explained in the last link I left. Unlike a lot of people working for the US government, I'm not a computer security expert. So, even if I try, I can never totally comprehend how secure this network is or is not. Please, can we leave this thread as a purely technical one, that - by the way - has been solved? Feel free to start a new thread if you are concerned about the use of the Tor network. Also, I think this has been already discussed in the forums. Thank you, -- Stefano Fortune of the day: Cheer Up! Things are getting worse at a slower rate. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [Trisquel-users] How to use Tor with Trisquel
On Sat, 3 Nov 2012 13:35:38 +0100 (CET) You wrote: But, could you please not publish my e-mail here in the comments? (And delete also that part of your post?) In the edit options, it says that the e-mail address is not made public. Sorry, I reply to the forum posts via the mailing list. There used to be an automatic mechanism that masked the email addresses on the web forum, but it seems it did not work in this case. I've manually edited this reply, but I'll try and find an automated solution. Best, -- Stefano Fortune of the day: There is a 20% chance of tomorrow. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [Trisquel-users] Add sticky post to forums explaining RULES. Please please please please!!!!
On Sat, 3 Nov 2012 13:38:56 +0100 (CET) you wrote: @ Chris, First of all I have been notified that you have applied for an account, You should have received an email requesting you confirm your email address ect , please state if this is the case , if not I will check the settings. Mailing list, as I understand it this is how it works :- I click on the Mailing lists link, this takes Me to http://listas.trisquel.info/mailman/listinfo/ , then I click on Trisquel-users, this takes me to http://listas.trisquel.info/mailman/listinfo/trisquel-users. I then sign up and I'm linked to THIS forum, so if My forum was officially adopted (which seems highly unlikely given the developers interest in the forum) the developer would simply change the link to point to My forum. The easiest solution ( if this site is a Drupal site) would be for the developer to allow somebody to change this forum to an 'an advanced ' Drupal forum. My forum/hosting package is payed for until late next year and I'm willing to pay for it for another 3years if it helps. thumbs up for your forum. I'd love to have it linked to the official trisquel website. You can try to contact Ruben (via PM or IRC) and see if this is OK with him. However, he might be very busy right now on the next Trisquel release and I doubt he will respond any time soon. Also some sort of poll would probably help (as it's already been suggested). -- Stefano Fortune of the day: Are you ever going to do the dishes? Or will you change your major to biology? signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [Trisquel-users] Add sticky post to forums explaining RULES. Please please please please!!!!
On Sat, 3 Nov 2012 19:30:10 +0100 (CET), you wrote: Contacted Ruben more than a week ago, no reply as yet. Not surprised at all... let's wait and hope. Maybe you can poke him in a week or so. ;-) As far as I can see is for people to register on My site and do the poll ! I see... personally, I'd rather not register to yet another site though. Best, -- Stefano Fortune of the day: Executive ability is prominent in your make-up. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [Trisquel-users] How to use Tor with Trisquel
On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 6:01 PM, lddi...@yahoo.com wrote: Wow, this worked like magic, thank you very much! I wish the Tor site had this instruction in their directions for GNU/Linux installations so I wouldn't have to bother you. Thanks again! Tor is a very sensitive package and AFAIK it's not updated very often in the package repositories of any GNU/Linux distribution. The tor browser bundle works very well provided that you want to use tor only for web browsing. If you want to route other programs through tor (e.g. wget, curl, pidgin) you may need to hack a bit. The tor browser bundle is updated fairly frequently and it will tell you whenever a new update is available. However, they don't ship with the latest version of their rebranded Firefox so you may still be vulnerable to Firefox bugs (same thing for Trisquel's abrowser). Also, I'd advise you to purge the previous installation of tor with sudo apt-get purge tor One last thing, it seems that you have some unused packages (see the output of your apt-get). You can run apt-get autoremove to get rid of them. Best, -- Stefano
Re: [Trisquel-users] How to use Tor with Trisquel
On Fri, 2 Nov 2012 19:31:35 +0100 (CET) lddi...@yahoo.com wrote: Thank you Stefano! I run both commands. For the 2nd however, I got this: apt-get autoremove E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (13: Permission denied) E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), are you root? Hi, you should run the command with 'sudo' that allows you to execute the command as another user, in this case, root. Sorry, I was not clear in my previous email). So, the correct command would be sudo apt-get autoremove as magicbanana already said. Best, -- Stefano Fortune of the day: Alimony and bribes will engage a large share of your wealth. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [Trisquel-users] Add sticky post to forums explaining RULES. Please please please please!!!!
Bump. Sticky post... please! -- Stefano Fortune of the day: You feel a whole lot more like you do now than you did when you used to. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [Trisquel-users] initramfs to chroot jail
On Thu, 1 Nov 2012 18:59:02 +0100 (CET) talaran...@gmail.com wrote: I am trying to boot Trisquel into a jail with the help of unionfs-fuse. I have been tampering with initramfs scripts and I think it finally combine the two filesystems (/root and /media/tomahawk - this second is the one I mount RW) into /mnt but when I try to exec run-init /mnt /sbin/init ... I get mountall: event failed. and the boot process hangs. My script is as follow: this is a fragment just before the end of /usr/share/initramfs-tools/init http://pastebin.com/x3UiDEQD I need your help to continue. Hi, I am not 100% sure, but it is often useful to bind or mount also /sys and /proc can you do something like the following in your script? chroot /mnt/root mount /proc chroot /mnt/root mount /sys chroot /mnt/root Hope it helps. -- Stefano Fortune of the day: You will give someone a piece of your mind, which you can ill afford. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [Trisquel-users] convert NTFS to XFS without loosing data
On Tue, 30 Oct 2012 20:44:37 +0100 (CET) sile...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everybody, I am pretty new to gnu/linux trisquel but I love it. The question is in the title. So thank you in advance for your answers. Hi, You cannot convert NTFS to XFS on the fly. You must back up your data somewhere (e.g. an external hard disk) and repartition your device. You can check the characteristics of various file systems on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_systems XFS can perform well for both large and small files depending on the block size you choose. I disagree with aliasbody about the file size, as far as I know XFS is used mostly for very large files. I am not a techie in this though. Wikipedia says: XFS provides a 64-bit sparse address space for each file, which allows both for very large file sizes, and for holes within files for which no disk space is allocated. Best, -- Stefano Fortune of the day: You can create your own opportunities this week. Blackmail a senior executive. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [Trisquel-users] Can't send E-mails from Gmail using E-mail clients on our network
On Sat, 27 Oct 2012 17:23:51 +0200 (CEST) onp...@gmail.com wrote: Hi there, So, I've got a weird problem with Gmail. For some reason, I can receive E-mails just fine using E-mail clients (namely, I've tried Evolution and Claws Mail), but I can't send E-mails (via SMTP) using this account. This only occurs on our local network (both WiFi and Ethernet); I'm able to send E-mails at my university's network with the same settings with Claws Mail. This is what Google says about getting E-mail clients to work with Gmail (I added in dashes to maintain the indentation they use): If you're using a client that's not listed above, you can also use the following information to configure your IMAP. If you have problems, contact your mail client's customer support department for further instructions. Incoming Mail (IMAP) Server-Requires SSL imap.gmail.com Port: 993 Requires SSL:Yes Outgoing Mail (SMTP) Server - Requires TLS smtp.gmail.com Port: 465 or 587 Requires SSL: Yes Requires authentication: Yes Use same settings as incoming mail server Full Name or Display Name: [your name] Account Name or User Name: your full Gmail address (usern...@gmail.com). Google Apps users, please enter username@your_domain.com Email address: your full Gmail address (usern...@gmail.com) Google Apps users, please enter username@your_domain.com Password: your Gmail password If your client does not support SMTP authentication, you won't be able to send mail through your client using your Gmail address. Also, if you're having trouble sending mail but you've confirmed that encryption is active for SMTP in your mail client, try to configure your SMTP server on a different port: 465 or 587. For both Evolution and Claws Mail, I have tried the default port (25) and both of the ports Google suggests. On Evolution, I've tried using SSL instead of TLS and Login authentication instead of PLAIN. The odd thing is I also have a Lavabit account, and this one works just fine in both Evolution and Claws. It is set on Evolution to use port 587, TLS encryption, and PLAIN authentication, and on Claws it is set to use the default port (25), TLS encryption, and Automatic authentication (I suppose that means it figures out what to use automatically). Has anyone else had similar problems with Gmail? Or is there maybe something I don't know about using E-mail clients that I'm neglecting? Hi, it would be helpful if you posted your configuration (username and password excluded, of course!). I use regularly claws mail with Gmail with no problems whatsoever. Best, -- Stefano Fortune of the day: All the troubles you have will pass away very quickly. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [Trisquel-users] Are These 'Free' Software ?
On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 11:35 AM, john.wilkin...@btinternet.com wrote: I'm using the following software, out of interest do they follow the 'free' software philosophy ? Midori Ubuntu Tweak Remastersys Hi, sorry for the quick and short reply. As long as they are in the Trisquel repositories (Midori definitely is), they're free software. You can always double check by downloading the sources and looking for the license. Best, -- Stefano
Re: [Trisquel-users] Adobe Flash required by math professor; how to confront him?
On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 4:59 PM, onp...@gmail.com wrote: I really don't think dropping the class would help. Like I said, it's too late to get the tuition refunded, so all that would look like to them me giving up. In other words, lots of harm to me, no message delivered to the school. However, I do intend (once my professor has answered who is responsible for choosing WebAssign) to threaten to leave this university after this term (or year, if that proves to be impossible) for another one, and if I see no indication of change, I will carry out that threat gladly. I understand your point. You should try to build some sort of critical mass to make yourself heard. Maybe your in your university there are students rights' associations or other offices of that sort that may help you. Good luck, -- Stefano
Re: [Trisquel-users] Forum Layout
On Sat, 6 Oct 2012 13:32:40 +0200 (CEST) john.wilkin...@btinternet.com wrote: Some time ago I suggested that we may get more members if we had a more 'conventional' forum layout. I was challenged to submit My ideas - well, Have a look here www.trisquel-users.com Then post your comments/suggestions. +1 The questions are: 1) can that be implemented with Drupal in the official Trisquel website? 2) will people who use the mailing list linked to the forum (like myself) be able to continue to do that? -- Stefano Fortune of the day: Today is what happened to yesterday. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [Trisquel-users] Adobe Flash required by math professor; how to confront him?
On Wed, 3 Oct 2012 19:09:57 +0200 (CEST) onp...@gmail.com wrote: That's not possible. If the site knows that you don't have Flash, it just refuses to let you see the homework and (IIRC) redirects you to the Flash download page. Yeah, that's my point. The more connections get redirected (and they should not that from their logs), the more pressure they will get. I might as well send an E-mail to WebAssign, but I don't think pressure from students will ever convince them to do anything differently. Maybe it's worth trying anyway, at least they will know it. They charge students ridiculous fees, but their real customers are the teachers. Wow, students have to pay to have their homework graded? That's outrageous! Good luck with that, -- Stefano Fortune of the day: Tomorrow, this will be part of the unchangeable past but fortunately, it can still be changed today. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
[Trisquel-users] The Fourth Free Software/Opensource Movie from the Blender Foundation is out!
Quoting from Slashdot[1] On September 26th the Blender Foundation[2] released their fourth open source short movie called Tears of Steel. This time around, Blender, the fantastic open source 3d modeling/animation/shading/rendering package, was used to mix 3D digital content with live action[3] (PDF). The short was produced using only open source software and the team did an outstanding job. [1]http://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/12/09/29/2033253/blender-debuts-fourth-open-source-movie-tears-of-steel [2] http://mango.blender.org/ [3] http://download.blender.org/mango/ToS-premiere-pressrelease.pdf Enjoy! -- Stefano Fortune of the day: You will be married within a year, and divorced within two. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [Trisquel-users] How to find out your laptop's name with bash
On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 11:47 AM, mattij.la...@kolumbus.fi wrote: Found this: /sys/class/dmi/id/product_name Got correct result (Vostro 3300) with cat /sys/class/dmi/id/product_name Does this command work with any laptop? Is it always reliable? That's where dmidecode pull the information from. On my Desktop workstation (not a laptop), the file is empty: no name whatsoever. I'll try later on my laptop and let you know. -- Stefano
