Re: [Trisquel-users] I want to help out my country through Free Software.
Being tracked, that is one thing. Your privacy, that is the second thing. Your personal security, that is the third thing. You can't be helped before you sepparate the three. As you can be tracked, and your privacy might not suffer. Your security can be in grave danger, yet your privacy can be fine. Any other combination you can imagine. Facebook is a no-no for any of the above if you are living in some backward country like Pakistan or Syria. As the Mozilla Manager from your country - you can meet him some place and avoid the electronic stuff. People find it easier to control their real environment than any of this electronic crap.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Searching for Open Wifi
It's all my fault. I am looking for somebody I do not know who MIGHT have a Internet connected router that also has the hardware ability to furnish Wifi radio signal according to the current standards. I want somebody who has that Wifi radio signal in the b/g/n ranges. And I hope for that router to have the Wifi functionality enabled. In order to avoid generating any trouble for the owner I will select only one router which has no password enabled for the Wifi functionality. Although I do not care to have access to the webserver that controls or sets up the whole router device. Open Wifi on my side of the world means what MacDonalds offers. I was left with the impression that in English for what you have been so willingly to provide I have to say at least one extra word: device, card, whatever. If I have written I don't want to walk around with a laptop hanged to my neck, maybe your PCI cards, put in my pocket won't give me much help at the end of a long walk.
Re: [Trisquel-users] SSH/SFTP to access free webhosting?
When I have read your reply I said that was it. I went ahead and found out that they need all my credit card data, just to make sure. Obviously they will not bill me and they are going to delete the data as soon as possible. Only that if the sum is too small nobody would care anyway, not the bank, not the judge. Sorry. They're a scam and I do not trust them. Also this is not my kind of anonymous where I give my banking data. I have also tried your wiki. The data is dated. Some have changed. Some I have no idea how you classified as open software users. A couple do not exist anymore. And the article about holding your own email server is plain crap.
[Trisquel-users] The free-whatever sect
My English is not too good. Yet, in most places it helps. Here, no. I ask for free webhosting and they answer me about webhosting using free software. It would be a lot worse to point out their stupidity that they base their answers on an advert and that they have never audited those systems. And the more I think about it, more stupidity arises. What should I care if the virtual machine uses Trisquel, Debian or Windows when the best I can get is a shell? How about the host OS? How about the controller? How about the BIOS, network cards, switches, hubs and routers? This is the same as I use this detergent because the pope approves, this toilet cleaner because it is kosher or this pig hair brush because it is halal. Open/free software used to have a meaning. But now open wifi means I need to buy a device from a guy that is kosher, halal and sanctified in this church of whatever and not a way to hook up to the Internet without entering a password.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Searching for Open Wifi
I think we need to move away from x86 to get a totally free laptop and even then certain parts would probably be non-free. I forgot to comment on this one. Fist I was hooked up. Quick reading is a bitch. You are right. Only that crap free devices usually don't have enough power to generate well random numbers. Which brings us into the ideal and romantic world of the Flitstones, with no relation with the historic age. Back when the Internet was young and everything was plain text. Meaning no GnuPG, no SSL/TLS, OTR and so on. I use Tor for almost anything. Tor does not work on ARM. Tough luck, but people say there are devices that can read my screen through the wall, so bring yourself to the conclusion. Than I have realised: the above line is crap. You say 1. we have to move from x86. Than you say even with that we might not... why in the world ever bother to move if the whole effort is for nothing? Just to cater to some whim? Just to say damn it! We've tried! Sorry Chris. I have nothing against you. And if it wasn't for the customs tax I might already have had one of your devices. But the whole free software crowd is becoming just another new age group. The dream was nice back in the 80s when Stallman dreamt it. It was getting stronger with the Linux kernel. Today it is blown in a million pieces. A million sects caring to integrate fuzzy dreams.
Re: [Trisquel-users] SSH/SFTP to access free webhosting?
Free as in zero money. Not that I cheap, which I am, but buying something online means plainly identifying yourself to anybody who wants to know.
Re: [Trisquel-users] SSH/SFTP to access free webhosting?
Sorry leny2010, but I move a lot. I can't host it myself. Most of the places where I stay there is no Internet either. What do you mean by the last paragraph about data protection laws?
Re: [Trisquel-users] SSH/SFTP to access free webhosting?
icarologno that is precisely the kind of crap provider I meant. Those sites should not exist. Most probably they are spam houses or whatever. The whole registration and login is done over plan HTTP. The password is shown on screen, over a HTTP plan text page and the fields are well marked. I even get a plain text email to my address to tell me the whole thing, including the plain text password. There is only FTP, plain text FTP and all the credential have already shared in plain text so there's no security concern there. The only good thing I find to this kind of crap provider is the fact that they do not offer SSH, as that might give a false sense of security. icarolongo you have been cheated. That is a den of pirates. «What? Me? No, I was at the other station in this net cafe! And they have stolen my password! I have never seen those DVDs your honor!»
Re: [Trisquel-users] Searching for Open Wifi
Huh? I run on Gluglug X60, which, unlike think penguin, is fully Free. The issue was about NOT running around with the laptop hanged to my neck. But I admire your audacity. Happy selling.
Re: [Trisquel-users] SSH/SFTP to access free webhosting?
Sorry guys, Maybe I wasn't clear enough. I am looking for secure and anonymous web hosting. I'm no pirate to need 10Gb+ of hosting. I'm no script kiddie to need all sort of CGI. Anonymous means I can't host it at work. Anonymous means I can't pay. Yet, I'm not into kiddie porn so I am not looking for an illegal solution. I am asking you all this because the search engines are bombed by sites like www.freewebhostingarea.com and page after page the decent hosters, which I am sure they still exist, are pushed back. Plain text HTML, plain text CSS, both gzippable, maybe a few PNGs and JPEGs. No database, no cross site scripting, no fingerprinting and counting. Sorry, I see people talking about free here all day long. They check the licence label like they are lifting the tail of a cat to make sure if it's a boy or a girl. And than talk about all sort of two bit sites using harmful code and harmful plugins. Again, sorry, but talking about unfree Javascript while having flash installed is plain stupid to me.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Notification area gone on gnome-panel, won't come back.
Alt+Super(Win)+right click. Than add and search from the list.
[Trisquel-users] Searching for Open Wifi
I move a lot. And it's futile to look up outdated directories with free wifi. Those are just junk sites pushing google maps and google ads. So I need to be able to do that myself. And going around with a large backpack and an open laptop will make me look crazier than those looking for gold with two sticks/rods. What do you use? How do you use it? Are there devices for that? As long as it is not expensive, I want to hear about it.
[Trisquel-users] SSH/SFTP to access free webhosting?
I'm making my own sites. Usually they are quite small, a few Megabytes in all. But the free providers I find are just spam generators: everything is unsafe. They email the password in plain, they lack even HTTPS. I am looking for a clean provider that is safe too. Do you know any?
Re: [Trisquel-users] Feels better to be in this forum than on Facebook
That's pretty much like saying «I've quit drinking wine and now I smoke, because people drinking wine are such fakes».
Re: [Trisquel-users] Where do you buy printed books online?
Amazon has no bad influence. It will only try to sell stuff. And if somebody can't refrain from buying a good offer that person is either perfectly human or too childish in reasoning. Either way, that is not a sign Amazon is bad. Amazon can be bad because it has quite a lot of information about somebody. Like Facebook. Or Google. And it can sell that information. A doctor buying a medical book, that is nothing special. Someone interested in self-help books, that is also uninteresting. And it can be gathered from other places too. I thought the idea was to buy from stores that respect a certain common sense. In the way one does vote with own money every day. Buying from a reseller just means to pay for a third party just to hold your religious views. And in this particular case, this borders hypocrisy.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Abrowser secure page problems
This is not a solution at all. But when complaining about the browser, always restart it without extensions if you use any. Back in the days of Netscape Communicator, that was not an issue. Today it is. And browser plus one extension or plugin means another app.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Running Tor as Transparent Proxy
There is no «full installation» of Tor. Tor can be «portable». Or not. Myself I don't need anything more and I'm up to date. For what you describe there, you should take a look at Wonix. And remember: always go for the latest version. Always check the signatures.
Re: [Trisquel-users] On the NSA targeting readers of Linux Journal as extremists
Think of these articles as gossip. People gather and talk about «life and death» somewhere 10.000km away. NSA has a mandate. They can't break certain encryption. And guys who have something to hide are going to use that. Or they are already monitored. Other people use these tools too. And yea, they are suspects. All this stupid talks starting on forums and mailing lists should start the day NSA puts in prison a Tor user. Otherwise this is just a label. Myself I use Tor for anything but banking. And I do GnuPG encrypt every mail when the receiver has enough working braincells to operate GnuPG.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Where do you buy printed books online?
Religion, in any form, is poison. So is the armageddon between the free angels and the closed devils. You want a book. You can ask someone to buy it for you and dump it in the mail. Make a larger pack and ask the friend to send it as «printed matters». It goes late, it goes at half price. Also, beware of your local bookstore. They might just do the order on Amazon for you and this way you support two crap businesses. Or maybe they have one guy in a developed country. The guy uses the free delivery and receives some money for bothering to the postal office. The customs might get a few forms to justify their jobs. And the local store looks respectable. A win-win-win-...-win sittuation. Cheers!
Re: [Trisquel-users] Wonderful news for Gluglug X60 owners
Smart. And gentlemanish too! Thank you.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Abrowser - DuckduckgoSSL
I don't know. Most guys in IT feel they should have done something else in life. Me too when I listen to their stories. On the other job, security is a full time job. You have to read books. You have to care. The admins I know are rather bodyguards for the rack.
Re: [Trisquel-users] X60 wireless issue
On the front of X60, right in the middle, and slightly below you do have a switch. From the finger scan, you go towards you, you reach the margin and go on the other side, the exterior. One centimeter, half an inch to the right you have that tiny switch. Push it to the right and you will see a green painted dot. At that point everything is going to be ok. And when you don't need the Wifi anymore, you push that switch to the left. A wonderful thing to have. Haven't seen that in a long while on the new computers, unless they are fairly expensive.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Running Tor as Transparent Proxy
Don't mind Magic Banana. Most of the time the guy doesn't have the slightest idea. What's better, is that he does not use the apps he is talking about in his replies. Of course, that does not stop him from having lots and lots of oppinions. DO NOT USE THE REPOS. Unless they are from the Tor project. They are OUTDATES. Worse, a lot of bad things have happened lately. I have read they want to upgrade the Debian repositories, but there was nothing about Ubuntu. The way you go with TBB is the right way. What you are trying to do is quite risky, because lots (most?) apps tend to be very verbose. Worse. App developers don't know too much about networking and don't care too much about security. Some time in highschool everybody found out about how nice is to gather data, they call them statistics, about the user. So too much info over an unsecured channel spells inviting trouble. Some years ago there were talks about how an exit node gathered users and passwords even from American embassies. Scarry stuff. About your problem: remember that if you configure the torrc for another port, torbrowser should be configured for that port as well. Otherwise, tor starts, tor browser can't connect, torbrowser fails and closes, tor closes as well. Give me more information about what you want to do and what fails. Or go straight to the [tor-talk] or the Tor helpdesk. The Wiki is mostly outdated, but I can't say this particular page is new or old. Cheers!
[Trisquel-users] Stop the windows from taking focus
Thanks to multitasking, I can do something else where some app tries to load. Than there is this app that tries to ask for a password. And that which wants to tell me everything is Ok. And this that pops to say hello. Glad I have adblock plus, or I'd have more windows popping up to tell me something really important. Not only they are not important, they are distracting too. And a security issue when I'm entering a 96 chars password. How can I disable this annoying ability to steal focus? Sure, child windows should be OVER the main window and not below. But nothing more. They can flash in the taskbar, anything as long as they don't start beeping.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Random number generation on the Gluglug x60
Right. That's the only time a game of Klondyke (Solitaire for Windows) makes sense. Mindlessly moving some pseudo-random distributed cards with the mouse and clicking away does help.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Wonderful news for Gluglug X60 owners
Right. Blacklist dm-crypt. And other smart tips. And tune a libreboot/coreboot laptop from the BIOS.
[Trisquel-users] How to make Network manager run macchanger
I run the latest stable Trisquel. And in Network manager I have the option to change the MAC to whatever string I choose. Also, do I have to connect to that network blindly before having the editable entry? When I connect the GSM phone by tethering I get a new entry in the Network Manager I think every day. So my tweaks are lost every once in a while. That's all about Network Manager for now.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Wonderful news for Gluglug X60 owners
Right! Only coreboot users should use dm-crypt. My bad. I haven't noticed. Lembas, how many Gluglug X60 have you used that they have a proprietary BIOS?
Re: [Trisquel-users] Abrowser - DuckduckgoSSL
No matter how things are with the search engine, you should have HTTPS Everywhere[1]. Than the requests are rewritten, if possible, for HTTPS. A much better solution is to have the site default to HTTPS. And there are a few techniques to do that. But the tech guys don't seem to like the HTTPS idea. [1] https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere
[Trisquel-users] Wonderful news for Gluglug X60 owners
When the delivery guy brought me my very own Gluglug X60 I was very excited. The first completely free computer! And it was mine! It works almost flawless although it's more than a decade old. The downside was heating. Lots of it. And finally the battery was at about 2 hours. With the latest updates in Libreboot (the free BIOS replacement) it has went up to 4 hours for medium workload. And for reading ebooks with a dimmed screen, disabled networking, removed removable media and all other apps closed I get 6 and a half hours. Also, the initial power consumption was caused by the unresponsive backlight and the need to stop the CPU to go into sleep. Both problems are solved. Cheers
Re: [Trisquel-users] Sigil build for Trisquel/Ubuntu?
Thank you. Mobileread should have been the first place to look after the trisquel documentation as it is sigil's home.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Free PDF metadata editor
Nope. It is not about bibliography. I have calibre for that. It is about tagging the old PDFs I have not tagged. And doing it with the command line is a quick fix for a single file. As for Paperwork it says nothing about editing metadata. OCR, labeling, search, that's about it.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Questions making boatable usb with writeprotection and some stuff
1. What do you mean by safe? Safe might mean almost anything. From not getting raped in your own home to not getting bad sectors on your hard drive. 2. What do you mean by trustworthy? Trust, as safe above, can mean almost anything. You can also take a look at SD cards which come with a lock switch by default. Booting them should not be more complicated than booting a regular USB stick. Finally, once things are more clear for you, you can go ahead and contact Moritz Bartl[1] who has done some actual research in this direction. 3. Don't get it. 4. Never heard of encryptedFAT. Is it supported by the Linux kernel? [1] http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.network.tor.user/29632
Re: [Trisquel-users] Free PDF metadata editor
Right. I remember using it a few years back. My only complaint against it lies with the need to install the Java beast as well.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Is it possible tethering in Trisquel?
Sure you can use it. Even some Nokias (those older ones without Windows or Android). It's pointless to look whether Trisquel has it or not. It's up to the Android system. Before 2.2 (I think) you had to install another app or something. You hook up the USB cable provided, and in the phone configuration - wireless - tethering. If the phone is connected it would magically work after a short handshake with Trisquel. Maybe F Droid has some tweaks for the menus, I never used it. But with regular Android there should be no need for another app for the devices made in the last few years. You can do it through Bluetooth as well, but it's more complicated as you need a receiver with a free driver - kernel module - and myself I have never done it. Somebody above points out you can make the phone a Wifi hotspot. That has a lot of drawbacks the main advantage being portability. The battery will drain under your eyes. Also you can't connect at the same time the phone to one of the free Wifi hotspots offered by your phone company.
Re: [Trisquel-users] New kernel in X60
You have two options: + modify the grub configuration and reflash the libreboot. That's too much hassle for a small thing like that. + modify /vmlinuz and /initrd.img soft links to point to your new kernel. To save you some time: you should upgrade to the latest 3.10.x kernel. The kernel from 3.11 on have introduced a bug into the graphical chip driver. So there will be no pretty graphical interface with any of those kernel.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Fully encrypted Live USB stick
To boot encrypted media you need a boot loader that can do the unencryption for the boot partition and a kernel in the boot partition that can also do the unecryption. So, one way or another your boot loader, probably GNU GRUB 2, should be somewhere outside that encrypted media and *should* have support for the type of encryption you are going to use for your new drive. Any of the commercial BIOSes can't help you here.
Re: [Trisquel-users] New kernel in X60
I realise I wasn't clear enough. On Gluglug X60 Mr. Rowe set up two symbolic links in the root partition. The files at which those two links point out are the ones used by the libreboot configuration.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Invisible menus in LibreOffice
Thank you Magic Banana! That was a creative answer. And I've tried it. Sadly it does not help LibreOffice, but it makes the screen uglier. I changed the theme back and changed only the used fonts with the same results. One menu hints of something being placed over. I attach the example.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Storing passwords
KeePass2 should be avoided. It depends on Mono. Which is a huge beast with a huge potential for security holes. KeePass is a better choice as it needs Wine or Windows and no other dependencies. The KeePass format has the advantage of having quite a lot of apps using it. You have apps for Android and J2ME too. For *nix native you have KeePassX which is quite slim. The downside: there is no documentation.
Re: [Trisquel-users] What to do when Trisquel freezes?
I have a small pump for that. But that is always good to have in mind.
Re: [Trisquel-users] What to do when Trisquel freezes?
I have to hook up a second laptop to the serial output of the docking station. But yea, never did that.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Need Help Switching From XP to GNU/Linux
Yea, twice the RAM would help a lot. The more the merrier. But keep in mind that other things might malfunction.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Julian Assange: Debian Is Owned By The NSA
Haven't watched the video yet, so I have no idea what Assange is saying, but the wordpress.com guy is a typical basket case. Conspiracy theory all the way - almost entirely noise.
[Trisquel-users] Invisible menus in LibreOffice
It's the first time I use this laptop with LibreOffice, or any office pack. And to my surprise, parts of the menus are invisible. They do work, but it's a pain to guess. I noticed Trisquel still uses the 3rd generation. So I got to the PPA and upgraded to the latest in the 4th generation. So far so good. Menus are still partly hidden. I attach a picture to get an idea. Any idea how one can fix this? attachment: Screenshot from 2014-04-10 19:14:09.png
Re: [Trisquel-users] Julian Assange: Debian Is Owned By The NSA
Thanks for the link. I never knew Poul-Henning Kamp exists. But he has a clear mind. And an admirable focus power. I mean the questions were asked by complete morons. No wonder OpenSSL is a mess, a painter would be more qualified to do C code than a CS major with ethics and understanding the level of Marvel comics. Sometimes I feel is degrading to have IT guys and theologians qualify for a University degree when they are less qualified than a stone mason.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Julian Assange: Debian Is Owned By The NSA
Couldn't help myself noticing the irony. So we believe in a conspiracy. And everybody is out to get the poor user. And Google is evil. And NSA protects Google or the other way around. So we make a video. We're going to distribute it through a Google service, a service that watermarks the files and in closed formats. With such followers Assange is a dead man living on stolen time.
[Trisquel-users] Sigil build for Trisquel/Ubuntu?
Had someone built Sigil? Ubuntu is not on the list provided by the author. Or anything that can edit the epub metadata as long as it is free.
[Trisquel-users] What to do when Trisquel freezes?
I run the latest Trisquel on a Gluglug X60. And the GUI sometimes froze. The only thing I could link was the more intense activity. I have gone up from the 3.2.x kernel to 3.10.x libre. The problem is still there. Mr. Rowe offered me assistance and I have made a stress test. For over an hour both CPUs were up to 100% activity. The laptop was hot, yet nothing happened. I could even watch a movie and open a lot of apps in the background. The computer still freezes. And I don't have any other means of recovering than power it off and restart. I have read here about Alt+SysRq. Next time I am going to use this trick. Still, what can I do to investigate the source of this rather random stops?
Re: [Trisquel-users] New Trisquel 7 must have Debian Packaging for more security+++
Should that count as an *ad hominem* or as a *straw man*? Sure, I bet you won't know the difference till you ask Wikipedia.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Privacy: Minimizing your browser fingerprint
Installing LibreJS on top of all this will bring your fingerprint down to a rarity of one in 2,764 browsers. That equals disabling JS, as panopticlick does not have the tags to identify their JS as libre.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Privacy: Minimizing your browser fingerprint
Thank you.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Buying a laptop
Battery life is still an issue with free software - hardware. I've had for a short time a Samsung with Atom CPU that went for over 12 hours with WiFi and Bluetooth off and over 7 hours with both on.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Microsoft now fighting UK government over FLOSS
Strategy, not conspiracy. Microsoft is trying its best to achieve some goal. The user is free to do that or not. Sometimes, the game is so twisted the user does not get to see the choice and at that point society should help. Conspiracy is when people believe that Baal, Jehova, Krishna or another imaginary friend set them up to do his or her bidding. I feel that the legal term of conspiracy to do something is misleading as it applies to strategy and planning.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Microsoft now fighting UK government over FLOSS
Only that argument caters to a certain uneducated population that wants to see conspiracies. The second one holds much better.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Pitivi needs YOUR HELP
I can read my links for you. I cannot understand the text for you. It's open source. Far from free software. I even gave people a few free software alternatives in case they want to support such a project. Investing in Pitivi would be just another way to subsidize big corporations the same way the school system buys from Microsoft with tax money.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Are fonts software?
Kewl! Faith based computing.
Re: [Trisquel-users] How's the performance of the gluglug x60?
For me, I can't sense a delay in reaction. So it's fast enough for anything I do. But I don't do gaming apart from a few simple 2D, and video processing is reserved for something more powerful.
Re: [Trisquel-users] SSH Server Enabled By Default!
Of course, but now I'm starting like everybody else: think of the children! Removing trisquel sounds pretty spectacular. Those two metapackages should not have such dependencies. Or at least trisquel-basic.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Microsoft now fighting UK government over FLOSS
That is a far better and more reasonable argument than the one published above[1]. [1] https://trisquel.info/en/forum/microsoft-now-fighting-uk-government-over-floss#comment-49938
Re: [Trisquel-users] gluglug thinkpad x60 w/ coreboot mini review
Hurray! Thank you. It looks great!
Re: [Trisquel-users] Pitivi needs YOUR HELP
Another sign: having no idea which spam was discussed.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Pitivi needs YOUR HELP
I noticed Snowden had an EFF sticker on his laptop at some interview. Does that mean EFF makes laptops or only rebrands them as free laptops?
Re: [Trisquel-users] Are fonts software?
I can't tell if you're saying we shouldn't do this or we don't need to worry about getting sued, so I'll answer both. Actually I was writing about how you should not do that out of decency. I couldn't care less if you get sued or not. It might sound cold, but apart from people who do get a share of whatever you are trying to achieve, nobody would care less or more than me. If you're saying I shouldn't risk violating their copyrights by doing this, you should head over to pretty much every reverse engineering project in existence and let them know that they need to stop. I checked the instruction manual for my Nexus S, and there's a note saying I may not reverse engineer the proprietary components of it. That is completely unenforceable; it's my device and they have no authority over me. I never wrote something about a copy right. I just pointed out somebody is willing you do NOT do that. And that somebody seems to be the author. The rest is just junk argument. If you get a copy of something, it's your copy, and *you should have the freedom to do whatever you want with it*. It's the natural extension of the rights we have with physical goods; copyright is an unfair artificial monopoly. That's plain stupid. I marked the section. The following just justifies you own petty actions.
Re: [Trisquel-users] gluglug thinkpad x60 w/ coreboot mini review
Yes, but how do I guess the number? Shouldn't there be a welcome page that points out to the latest package? With a changelog maybe.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Batch rename -- Auto rename
Probably the lack of a gui to recursively rename files is because is a potentially dangerous task you have to think twice before you do. Hahaha I like your agument. It might convince a lot of people. This way audio chat support in Pidgin was a dangerous idea. Or video. You're cute. Will such an application follow a symlink? If a target filename already exists, will it be replaced? Of course, this is exactly the argument for a GUI. Where one can check every option. Just putting a letter after a minus sign is far from intuitive. It happened to more experienced people than me. Also, getting bored after ten pages of man page and doing a copy and paste from a webpage without checking every parameter has happened. I have no idea of your experience in the field, but I have noticed talibans are low on the experience and high on ideology. You can rename files using 'find' and 'rename' from the command line, or with some lines written in your favorite scripting language. For me it was a very interesting reading how the linux-libre project evolved. Be extremely careful with recursiveness. That is a good advice. But don't forget backups work miracles. May Saint Ignucius guide you!
Re: [Trisquel-users] gluglug thinkpad x60 w/ coreboot mini review
Attention before trying, GustavoCM has no idea.
Re: [Trisquel-users] gluglug thinkpad x60 w/ coreboot mini review
Attention before trying, muhammed has no idea.
Re: [Trisquel-users] gluglug thinkpad x60 w/ coreboot mini review
Yes, the thread is infested with people that have no idea and no such hardware. But that's a problem with any public forum.
Re: [Trisquel-users] SSH Server Enabled By Default!
Interesting, openssh-server, winbind and samba are required both by trisquel and trisquel-base.
Re: [Trisquel-users] SSH Server Enabled By Default!
From a security standpoint, anything that is not used is a potential vulnerability. I am using a browser and my need for it outweights the issues arising from my usage. I don't do FTP, so having a FTP client around might mean something sometime, beyond the wasted space and bandwidth -- the system does not know I don't need FTP so it is going to try to updated it as well. A FTP server, now that is a dangerous thing.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Searching for flights without non-free JavaScript
A very smart thing to do. But I have my doubts it will ever work. The flight industry is worse than the movie makers. And their only policy I know of is obscurity. Now security through obscurity...
Re: [Trisquel-users] Pitivi needs YOUR HELP
It would be nice to mention they are not so free software. They are a weak open source product. Their licence[1] is LGPL[2]. Far better options would be Avidemux[3], Blender[4], Cinelerra[5], Kdenlive[6], Lives[7], Open Shot Video Editor[8]. All available on Linux, most on Windows too. And all having the better GPL licence. In the context, this sounds pretty much as spam. But most people can't see the difference between open source and free software[9]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitivi [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Lesser_General_Public_License [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avidemux [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blender_(software) [5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinelerra [6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kdenlive [7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiVES [8] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenShot_Video_Editor [9] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-for-freedom.html
Re: [Trisquel-users] Batch rename -- Auto rename
I did that some weeks ago. But thanks for trying.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Batch rename -- Auto rename
I find it amazing none has use for such functions. Anyway, tired of wisecracks I went and installed 7zip. It's Windows and does the copy-move and rename very well. With the tree rename, that's hard as those Gnome-GTK apps don't seem to be able to do it recursively. But it's a job done once. Surprised to find out the lack functionality of the Gnome. Issue closed.
Re: [Trisquel-users] gluglug thinkpad x60 w/ coreboot mini review
Is there a place where these updates are posted?
Re: [Trisquel-users] gluglug thinkpad x60 w/ coreboot mini review
Right. For Gluglug X60 it is 00:02.0 It still does not work.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Coreboot to boot USB
Installing libftdi1 was enough to run flashrom. I don't recall removing it, but I did remove quite a few packages.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Are fonts software?
I don't get you. Really. So somebody did some work. And that person does not want you or anybody else to use that particular piece of work. One could have justified some ten years ago by being a poor student in a poor country. And it used to be really hard to argue against. But what is your justification of disrespecting another being's wishes when they don't even interfere with your life?
Re: [Trisquel-users] FOSS gaming
Why would anybody compete with Steam?
Re: [Trisquel-users] FOSS gaming
Thank you for libregameswiki link.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Are fonts software?
they - who?
Re: [Trisquel-users] gluglug thinkpad x60 w/ coreboot mini review
It's impressive what you can do only with the help of Google. Just imagine what progress you could make if they would institutionalize you. With qualified help you can even renounce diapers and be a big banana! Best of luck!
Re: [Trisquel-users] gluglug thinkpad x60 w/ coreboot mini review
And the Hex quantity should be between which two values? 0 to 64, 0 to FF, 1 to 10?
Re: [Trisquel-users] Batch rename -- Auto rename
Anybody? How does one rename (GUI) all the files in a folder and all the subfolders from $Name.!ut to $Name.part How does one move lots of files from one folder to another and IF $Name.$Ext exists THAN rename $Name_$Number.$Ext?
Re: [Trisquel-users] Gluglug X60 and tweaking the battery usage
The key is the boot time parameter idle=halt. The sound seems to be a problem with coreboot and the motherboard. So, if the faint high pitched noise is not a problem, than the usage time improves. From 30-35W consumption at the wallplug, I now get below 20W with the WiFi on and music decoding in the background. For reading a text and everything else stopped I get down to 11-13W. And don't forget the screen backlighting is at full power.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Keeping notes
Sure, that is the best method for 10 files that don't hold too much data. When you get over a megabyte of text things are starting to get complicated. Sure, you can be highly organized. But most of the people aren't.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Keeping notes
Could you expand on this notion of binders?
Re: [Trisquel-users] Are fonts software?
Not based on licence. But you can disable font downloading.
Re: [Trisquel-users] How to wipe the flash drive
Only on a hard drive partition with a filesystem without journaling. Otherwise the advice is crap.
[Trisquel-users] Keeping notes
My desk is filled with papers. Small and large. White, yellow, light green, pink and blue. Written with different pens. On my hard drive is the same. But I cannot find something suitable. It has to be managed by the filesystem. It has to be text, even if adorned with markup. It does not need encryption as EncFS does it far better and more uniform. *What do you use?* OpenOffice / LibreOffice: too big, nothing impressive to index many text files. AbiWord: lighter, but so white! And no index for text. Tomboy? It needs that huge beast Mono. Don't know much about its database. Looks like a single file in a precise location. Basket Notepads? Too complex. The project seems dead. Zim Desktop Wiki? Looks very promising. It crashes all the time on all platforms. Xpad and other postit apps: rather messy with lots of windows and limited export - import capabilities. Xournal: quite interesting. Mimics paper. But less good on indexing plain text files. RedNotebook: cute. Seems to do what it says. But I can't find a way to click away all the other panels. MyTetra: A nice portable app that does all I need, only it can't export and it's slow on development. The guide: windows only. Cherry Tree is my new favorite. But it wants to keep all the notes in one place. Yet it's flexible about it: either xml or sql. Keep Note: seems to be the successor of KeyNote. KeyNote: windows only Gjots2: a clone of Kjots Kjots: no oppinion Lifeograph: no oppinion Vim or another text editor? But how to track all the other notes and index them, do searches and link them together?
Re: [Trisquel-users] Gluglug X60 and tweaking the battery usage
Right. Now I know it. But it sure wasn't obvious. Now I also know what idle=halt means.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Coreboot to boot USB
Most probably it is a stupid thing, but can't it chain somehow? Let the drive do the job. I have no idea how the magic of the proprietary BIOS works.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Coreboot to boot USB
I just tried the SeaBIOS with the Gluglug X60 docked. Serial means not access to a serial port, but a second computer to read the Serial output and give a particular input based on that output?
Re: [Trisquel-users] Coreboot to boot USB
Problem solved thanks to Mr. Rowe. I'll be back with more details.
[Trisquel-users] Batch rename -- Auto rename
I'm moving some backup data to Gluglug X60. I have one torrent with lots of small files. Some, most are already part downloaded by uTorrent. Having Trisquel, I'd use a libre client even if they are big, slow and ugly. But I have to change all '.!ut' appended to '.part'. How do I do that? Also, some of the files in the backup could be different versions. So when I drop different backups into one folder I would like to have FILE. And when there is a second copy, that should be automatic renamed to FILE_01, than FILE_02 and so on. One solution is to install Wine, than put 7 zip, because that file manager can handle this. But is it some function or app that can do the same native?
Re: [Trisquel-users] Batch rename -- Auto rename
For the torrent issue, you can remove the '.!ut'; add the torrent to your torrent client, setting the new path and let him do a filecheck of the torrent. Remove. Cool. Meaning batch rename. Thank you Einstein! Why would you want to put all you're backups in the same directory ? When I am going to open up a class, I'll be glad to send you an invite.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Batch rename -- Auto rename
The smallest, fastest and most beautiful clients are libre. You don't even need a bloated GUI. In literature, yes. Transmission-gtk takes 20M with NO torrent at all. Azureus/Vuze it's an extreme. I don't quite understand what you're doing but you can write a one-liner loop to do that renaming in the terminal or if that's not your forte, there's plenty of GUI renamers to do it for you, e.g. gprename. Than I have to add find to check in the subfolders. Than I miss some quote. I am aware of the shell commands, but the GUI was meant to do this. The same way I can parse lists of files, fingerprint them and do some sort of a sortable database. Or I can use fslint.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Coreboot to boot USB
Thank you. It beats the purpose of a Live system. But it looks workable.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Faint sound with Gluglug X60
The next paragraph in my reply looks interesting too. How about you?
