[Trisquel-users] Re : Trisquel Enhancement Project reaches version 0.1 alpha milestone

2014-10-05 Thread magicbanana

32-bit.


[Trisquel-users] Re : Trisquel Enhancement Project reaches version 0.1 alpha milestone

2014-10-04 Thread magicbanana
I installed (well, unpacked the tar.xz archive) Popcorn Time Beta 3.3 on  
Trisquel 6. I took it from https://popcorntime.io and it works. No problem  
whatsoever.


[Trisquel-users] Re : Strange grub behaviour - Trisquel 7

2014-09-30 Thread magicbanana
I hope it will not be Trisquel 7's default: it is annoying and does not bring  
any real additional security (except in very specific environment such as  
kiosks).


Here is everything you want to know about GRUB passwords:  
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2/Passwords


[Trisquel-users] Re : How to get the desktop GUI after installing Trisquel Mini?

2014-09-29 Thread magicbanana
trisquel-mini only provides a barebone desktop environment. Add  
trisquel-mini-recommended and you get the fulle Trisquel Mini experience.


[Trisquel-users] Re : How to get the desktop GUI after installing Trisquel Mini?

2014-09-29 Thread magicbanana
As Legimet told you (and unless you have a real problem), you have installed  
the NetInstall edition, not the Trisquel Mini edition. Trisquel Mini has the  
packages trisquel-mini and trisquel-mini-recommended installed by  
default.


[Trisquel-users] Re : finding particular pages within PDFs

2014-09-29 Thread magicbanana
Lucas Westermann made me the honor to write a pedagogical article about  
'pdf-page-grep'. This article was published in the issue 89 (pages 10–11)  
of the Full Circle Magazine: http://dl.fullcirclemagazine.org/issue89_en.pdf


[Trisquel-users] Re : 802.11n usb ar9271 chipset works when connected to computer?

2014-09-26 Thread magicbanana
The meta-package trisquel-base depends on open-ath9k-htc-firmware. So,  
yes, it should already be installed.


[Trisquel-users] Re : Can' get VLC to be my default music player.

2014-09-26 Thread magicbanana
Whenever you have a file that does not open with your preferred application,  
you can:


Close the undesired application;
Right-click on the file you opened;
Click on Properties in the contextual menu;
See the Open with tab of the window that has just opened;
Set the application of your choice as the default for *all* files of this  
type (WebM for instance).




[Trisquel-users] Re : is email a communication protocol?

2014-09-23 Thread magicbanana

They are precisely described in RFCs that anybody can freely read:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_Mail_Transfer_Protocol#Related_Requests_For_Comments
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_Office_Protocol#Related_requests_for_comments_.28RFCs.29
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Message_Access_Protocol#External_links



[Trisquel-users] Re : Best place to get Free Software readings/books from?

2014-09-22 Thread magicbanana

There is http://flossmanuals.net


[Trisquel-users] Re : Learning self-defense

2014-09-22 Thread magicbanana

You should then have linked to http://www.kali.org/official-documentation/


[Trisquel-users] Re : Ubuntu to Trisquel Mini Help Request

2014-09-12 Thread magicbanana

See https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/setup and welcome!


Re: [Trisquel-users] FSF and Debian are joining forces to expand and enhance h-node hardware lists

2014-09-12 Thread magicbanana
He is not rationalizing partially free. He is saying that a same group can  
be named and shames for what it does wrong and receive kudos for what it does  
right. I agree with him. Debian is not free but it does many good things.


[Trisquel-users] Re : Allow switching between kernels in GRUB

2014-09-09 Thread magicbanana
I thought *you* were preparing computers for average folks. Now, if your  
grandma is the one concerned, let her talk to us. I am sure she is not as  
dumb as you depict her.


All reasonably recent Intel processors have a graphical chipset. Anyway, many  
computers have a video card on top of the motherboard for better performances  
(on proprietary systems). This card can be removed and not substituted by  
anything.


If you go for installing a Linux kernel with blobs (I would never recommend  
that) but do not want to mess with the repositories for APT, then that kernel  
would never be updated. On the contrary, the kernel that Trisquel ships  
receives (security) updates.


[Trisquel-users] Re : My computer knows I've plugged my stick but I can't see it in Nautilus.

2014-09-09 Thread magicbanana
Provide more information. Does 'dmesg' sees the stick? Does the stick works  
on another system? Is it brand new?


[Trisquel-users] Re : finding particular pages within PDFs

2014-09-07 Thread magicbanana

I complemented the documentation page a little.


[Trisquel-users] Re : finding particular pages within PDFs

2014-09-07 Thread magicbanana
Here is what was happening: 'pdfunit' expects *several* PDFs to unite. Not  
one.


I corrected the problem (when one single PDF matches, the script uses 'mv'):  
http://dcc.ufmg.br/~lcerf/en/utilities.html#pdf-page-grep


[Trisquel-users] Re : finding particular pages within PDFs

2014-09-07 Thread magicbanana
'mv' really is a basic command to move files (notice that moving to the  
same directory but under a different name actually is renaming). It has  
been present in every UNIX or UNIX-inspired system since the seventies.


The commands provided by the Poppler project (the poppler-utils package in  
Trisquel) are present in Trisquel by default. The reason is that CUPS, the  
printing system, depends on those commands. I therefore assume it uses them  
(probably to convert PDF to PostScript for printers that do not support  
direct PDF printing).


[Trisquel-users] Re : Freeslack (a little off topic)

2014-09-06 Thread magicbanana
In GNU GRUB 2, disks do not have to be identified with UUID:  
https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html#Device-syntax


It is the most reliable way though (device names can be unstable). It is easy  
not to use UUIDs:

$ echo GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID=true | sudo tee -a /etc/default/grub
$ sudo update-grub

Anyway, if you really want local security, encrypt your disk (or at least  
your /home) with a good password. Nothing you can do at GRUB's level would  
prevent someone with a Live USB from booting it and reading/modifying your  
files.


[Trisquel-users] Re : Logitech Trackball M570 not working; cursor flickers often?

2014-09-06 Thread magicbanana
For a full GNOME 3 experience, install the gnome-shell and the  
gnome-session packages (e.g., from the Synaptic package manager), log out  
and change the session for GNOME on the graphical login screen.


[Trisquel-users] Re : finding particular pages within PDFs

2014-09-06 Thread magicbanana
With the newest version, there should be restriction on the number of  
matching pages. Only on the number of matching PDFs. Are you processing  
thousands of PDFs?


[Trisquel-users] Re : finding particular pages within PDFs

2014-09-06 Thread magicbanana
Again: no, the newest version has no restriction on the number of matching  
pages. I switched back to the faster solution with 'pdfjam' (the eponymous  
package must be installed) and that solves as well the problem you were  
facing: http://dcc.ufmg.br/~lcerf/en/utilities.html#pdf-page-grep


Before that latest version, the problem was that, at the end of the script,  
every matching page was in a single 1-page document and 'pdfunite' was  
joining them all. To do so 'pdfunite' was receiving as many files in  
arguments. However the kernel limits the number of files a process (here  
'pdfunite') can open.


Now, in the latest version, the matching pages in a PDF document are  
extracted altogether into one single PDF document, using 'pdfjam'. As a  
consequence, at the end of the script, 'pdfunite' works on as many files as  
there were matching *PDFs* (and *not* matching *pages* because every PDF  
can have many matching pages).


[Trisquel-users] Re : What does this mean: packages cannot be authenticated!

2014-09-06 Thread magicbanana
I think the key to authenticate the package is outdated. Run the following  
command first:

$ sudo apt-get update


[Trisquel-users] Re : Problem with steraming video

2014-09-05 Thread magicbanana

Are those videos really worth bargaining your freedoms?


[Trisquel-users] Re : finding particular pages within PDFs

2014-09-05 Thread magicbanana
The problem was not the size of the PDFs but the number of matching pages  
(29008 in you case). The script was actually creating a 1-page PDF for each  
of them and then pass them all to 'pdfunite'. It appears the kernel limits  
the number of files a process can open and 'pdfunite' cannot do its job.


Given your usage, I was wrong when I wrote that the script mainly is useful  
in needle in the haystack contexts. That is why I went back to using  
'pdfjam'. You should notice a performance gain. Using 'pdfjam' solves the  
problem of the number of files to unite (as long as there are less than  
1022 PDFs with matching pages).


The new script is there:  
http://dcc.ufmg.br/~lcerf/en/utilities.html#pdf-page-grep


[Trisquel-users] Re : Help installing Icedove

2014-09-05 Thread magicbanana

Icedove is not in Trisquel's repository. Thunderbird is.


[Trisquel-users] Re : SystemD (I like old sysv, I hope some tech distros stay sysv (or bsd init)). Grsecurity vs Security Update Treadmill

2014-09-05 Thread magicbanana
systemd is free software. I see no relation whatsoever with Intel VPro. It is  
tens of small binaries working together (UNIX philosophy).


SysV init is not simple (a bunch of interdependent Shell scripts,  
spaghetti-style), nor efficient (parallelization efforts did not lead to much  
improvement; compare to systemd or even Upstart), nor secure (what about  
cgroups?), nor easy to debug (logs are all formatted differently).


However systemd does require to learn a different (and coherent: a nice  
dependence tree) way to administrate the services.


Trisquel already uses GNOME 3 (in the default edition) and will use systemd  
since Debian and Ubuntu will as well. Read this thread:  
https://trisquel.info/fr/forum/systemd


You can switch to FreeSlack: http://freeslack.net/

grsecurity is a 122,701-line long patch that the kernel developers do not  
accept for that reason. You say you want something simple?


There already is a fork of GNOME 2: http://mate-desktop.org/


[Trisquel-users] Re : NSA able to target offline computers using radio-waves for surveillance

2014-09-05 Thread magicbanana

He is back. Let us ignore him. Please.


[Trisquel-users] Re : SystemD (I like old sysv, I hope some tech distros stay sysv (or bsd init)). Grsecurity vs Security Update Treadmill

2014-09-05 Thread magicbanana
Systemd is a hypervisor (...) And [systemd people] force us all to learn your  
upstart garbage.


With that level of expertise, no matter why your only arguments are insults.

Let us ignore him. Please.


[Trisquel-users] Re : SystemD (I like old sysv, I hope some tech distros stay sysv (or bsd init)). Grsecurity vs Security Update Treadmill

2014-09-05 Thread magicbanana

systemd is free software: show us the backdoor.

Trisquel copies from Ubuntu almost all its free software packages. Blobs are  
proprietary software. systemd is free software. Maintaining another init  
system is such a big work that even the Debian community recognizes it cannot  
do in the long run. Canonical even decided to abandon Upstart (the init  
system it used to develop) in favor of systemd. There are many reasons for  
abandoning SysV init: it is messy, slow, insecure, designed for static  
hardware only, etc.


As for the silence, I prefer not to communicate with people who only have FUD  
and insults to serve.


Neither you nor chaosesqueteam seem to know that Trisquel has not been using  
SysV init for years. It uses Upstart.


[Trisquel-users] Re : Problem with steraming video

2014-09-05 Thread magicbanana

No new release since January 2012...


[Trisquel-users] Re : SystemD (I like old sysv, I hope some tech distros stay sysv (or bsd init)). Grsecurity vs Security Update Treadmill

2014-09-05 Thread magicbanana
No doubt:  
https://trisquel.info/fr/forum/nsa-able-target-offline-computers-using-radio-waves-surveillance#comment-56338


[Trisquel-users] Re : SystemD (I like old sysv, I hope some tech distros stay sysv (or bsd init)). Grsecurity vs Security Update Treadmill

2014-09-05 Thread magicbanana

I was referring to chaosesqueteam's insults.

Any link to what Bruce Schneier says in favor of SysV init? I searched  
systemd and init on https://www.schneier.com but no relevant result  
seemed to be listed.


Bruce Schneier does not appear to have invented the acronym FUD:  
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear,_uncertainty_and_doubt#Definition


[Trisquel-users] Re : IceCat donations go where?

2014-09-05 Thread magicbanana
quidam is both Trisquel's lead developer and IceCat's one. I guess you could  
donate to the Trisquel project. How about becoming a member? Here is the  
link: http://trisquel.info/member


[Trisquel-users] Re : SystemD (I like old sysv, I hope some tech distros stay sysv (or bsd init)). Grsecurity vs Security Update Treadmill

2014-09-05 Thread magicbanana
No, I wasn't referring to systemd, those rumors are unconfirmed. I was  
relating the history of agencies, and M$'s crypto subversion to him.


About that: I agree. You could have mentioned NSA's Bullrun program too:  
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullrun_%28decryption_program%29


[Trisquel-users] Re : SystemD (I like old sysv, I hope some tech distros stay sysv (or bsd init)). Grsecurity vs Security Update Treadmill

2014-09-05 Thread magicbanana
One can consider that Miguel de Icaza turned to the dark side. To some  
extent, I agree. Did that make GNOME a bad desktop (for those who dislike  
GNOME 3: Miguel de Icaza left GNOME before the actual development of GNOME  
3)?


One can consider that Lennart Poettering is antipathetic and arrogant. To  
some extent, I agree. Does that make systemd a bad init system?


If you want to read about Lennart Poettering's grand vision of how GNU/Linux  
should technically be, here it is:  
http://0pointer.net/blog/revisiting-how-we-put-together-linux-systems.html


And here is the famous biggest myths about systemd (including systemd is  
not UNIX): http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/the-biggest-myths.html


[Trisquel-users] Re : Allow switching between kernels in GRUB

2014-09-04 Thread magicbanana
As far as I remember, GRUB lists all installed kernels. On Trisquel, the menu  
is hidden by default and the first (and normally most recent) kernel is  
booted. That is unless the system was not properly shutdown.


To always see the menu, you must change, in /etc/default/grub (with, e.g.,  
'gksu gedit /etc/default/grub'), some variables (as far as I understand  
setting GRUB_TIMEOUT to -1 would make GRUB never boot a kernel by itself) and  
run 'sudo update-grub' afterwards.


For full documentation of the options in /etc/default/grub, see:
$ info -f grub -n 'Simple configuration'


[Trisquel-users] Re : Allow switching between kernels in GRUB

2014-09-04 Thread magicbanana
Physically removing the nVidia cards from desktop computers is not hard and  
not putting money into them. I keep on thinking it is the best solution.


You would only want to check first whether 'lspci' indicates that there is a  
VGA compatible controller inside the Intel processor. You probably run this  
command anyway to discover the nVidia card.


Your average folks will not have any trouble with Intel graphics. On the  
contrary, having to boot an most outdated kernel (because it has the evil  
blob) will be troublesome.


[Trisquel-users] Re : Compilation terminates, likely due to missing library

2014-09-04 Thread magicbanana
Have you installed libboost-system1.48.0, libboost-filesystem1.48.0,  
libboost-program-options1.48.0 and libboost-thread1.48.0?


[Trisquel-users] Re : Compilation terminates, likely due to missing library

2014-09-04 Thread magicbanana
For some reasons, it looks like the linker is searching for the versions 1.53  
of those libraries.


[Trisquel-users] Re : Update Manager Not Working

2014-09-04 Thread magicbanana
Do *you* have a problem with Update Manager or do you only want to rant?  
SVTony had a problem but it is not like everybody had. And if you would look  
at the forums of essentially any distribution, you would find some users  
having such problems.


[Trisquel-users] Re : When is proprietary software bad?

2014-09-04 Thread magicbanana
I do not think that using proprietary software (with no interaction with  
other user) is unethical. Developing such software definitely is. It however  
is sad that users of proprietary software do not seem to value their own  
freedoms.


[Trisquel-users] Re : finding particular pages within PDFs

2014-09-03 Thread magicbanana
The script writes the output PDF in the working directory (i.e., the  
directory where you are). Notice that you can have, in argument, PDFs that  
are in different directories. For instance to process all PDFs in the  
sub-directories dir1 and dir2 of the working directory:

$ pdf-page-grep dir1/*.pdf dir2/*.pdf

The names of the PDF can contain spaces.


[Trisquel-users] Re : When is proprietary software bad?

2014-09-03 Thread magicbanana
Many good points were made. However, in my opinion, one important point is  
missing. Skype is a communication software, communication involves at least  
two users, and Skype can only talk to Skype. Forcing the interlocutor to give  
up her freedoms so that she can talk with you is being a bad member of your  
community.


The whole community is harmed: users of Skype reinforce Microsft's monopoly  
and impede the rest of the group from switching to free software. And the  
problem propagates down to the operating system because, as far as I  
understood, Skype for GNU/Linux is technically much worse than Skype for  
Windows (ethically, both versions are equally abject).


[Trisquel-users] Re : install a full Trisquel on a USB flash drive

2014-09-02 Thread magicbanana

Better: F2FS, a filesystem specifically designed for Flash memories.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F2FS


[Trisquel-users] Re : finding particular pages within PDFs

2014-09-02 Thread magicbanana
I do not understand your need to split the output PDF into single pages. As  
far as I understand, you can:


execute 'pdf-page-grep' with the original PDFs in argument and specify the  
elements in the first group as patterns; the output is a PDF whose name is  
written at the end of the execution;
execute 'pdf-page-grep' with that single PDF in argument and specify the  
elements in the second group as patterns; the output is what you want.



As I have already tried to explain, your query needs to be written as a  
conjunction of disjunctions (and this is what you did!):


You were talking about combining AND and OR queries. The current command  
takes care of the OR part... but, to get your AND, you can then process the  
output PDF with the same command. You therefore need to rewrite your query in  
the conjunctive normal form (there is a good chance it already is in this  
form): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conjunctive_normal_form


Anyway, and even if it looks unnecessary in your case, here the answer to  
your question: 'pdfseparate' is the command to split a PDF into single pages.  
'pdf-page-grep' actually uses it (with the options -f and -l to specify an  
interval of pages to extract).


[Trisquel-users] Re : Install TOR Browser

2014-09-02 Thread magicbanana
Even better, use the Main menu utility (you can find it in the System  
settings), create a New item and specify the path to start-tor-browser  
as the Command).


[Trisquel-users] Re : Allow switching between kernels in GRUB

2014-09-02 Thread magicbanana
Going even further: actively working against the possible execution of some  
proprietary software could be considered an attack on freedom 0!


Re: [Trisquel-users] install a full Trisquel on a USB flash drive

2014-09-01 Thread magicbanana
The default install (no custom partitioning) comes with a swap partition.  
If you want to suspend-to-disk (hibernate), it is necessary. If you do not  
want any swap partition (RAM should then always suffice), you can boot the  
live media again, insert your USB key with the installed system and use  
GParted (present on the live media) to remove the swap partition and extend  
an adjacent partition, typically the one mounted on /home. The line in  
/etc/fstab (that of the installed system) with swap in the third column  
should then be removed.


If you want to keep the swap partition but have it disabled by default, you  
must edit that same line of /etc/fstab (with root permissions) and turn the  
fourth column, sw, into sw,noauto. Whenever you need the swap partition,  
you fire 'sudo swapon' followed by the swap partition. For instance, if it is  
/dev/sda5:

$ sudo swapon /dev/sda5
And, to turn the swap off:
$ sudo swapoff /dev/sda5

You can also read about swap files if do not want any swap partition but  
still want to swap on occasion (the file is allocate with 'fallocate' and can  
have any size you want).


[Trisquel-users] Re : Allow switching between kernels in GRUB

2014-09-01 Thread magicbanana
Assuming your processor is from Intel (probably the case), it comes with a  
graphical chipset that Linux-libre can *perfectly* drive. You could somehow  
deactivate the nVidia card (e.g., physically remove it) and you may be  
surprised with the performance of the Intel graphical chipset (e.g., w.r.t.  
video decoding). Besides, you would save energy.


As for the Wifi, adapters that are compatible with Linux-libre are not that  
expensive. Here is one of my recent messages on that recurrent topic:  
https://trisquel.info/fr/forum/request-wlan-card-support#comment-55424


Re: [Trisquel-users] Ask for help: how to hide hard disk?

2014-08-31 Thread magicbanana
In Trisquel 7, that is very easy:  
http://dave.lyonmania.com/2014/08/01/disk-display-settings-in-nautilus/


There is no easy solution in Trisquel 6, but it is doable:  
http://www.worldofnubcraft.com/969/hide-your-disks-or-partitions-from-nautilus/


If you want Trisquel 7, here it is: http://devel.trisquel.info/makeiso/iso/


Re: [Trisquel-users] Munich gives up on GNU/Linux and free/open source software

2014-08-31 Thread magicbanana
Most GNU/Linux users have never heard of GNU. Like Ishamael, they say they  
are Linux users. They praise the features in the operating system, its  
security, etc. And yet, as you write, the free software movement remains  
tiny even after the biggest spying scandal in history. If people still do  
not care about their computer freedoms (such as not being spied on), it is  
because they did not hear enough about freedoms. Not the opposite.


Once a user acknowledges she has fundamental freedoms that deserve to be  
respected, she never goes back. A transition is certainly needed: she starts  
with imperfect solution: free software on Windows, then a distribution with  
blobs because she did not know about firmware issues, etc. Anyway, her  
objective is to reach 100% freedom in her computing life. Not 99%. The FSF is  
the much needed lighthouse guiding towards this objective.


If the user only heard of the practical advantages of some free software (she  
has rather heard about open source software), she may use it. However, she  
sees no problem in using proprietary software in parallel (why would there be  
a problem when Linux includes proprietary firmware, when her distribution  
proposes Adobe Flash during the install, etc.). And she goes back to  
proprietary software whenever it becomes practically better. Insisting on  
practical advantages only has a short term influence. It is pointless  
w.r.t. the goals of freeing computer users.


That is why the free software movement remains tiny even after the biggest  
spying scandal in history.


Re: [Trisquel-users] Munich gives up on GNU/Linux and free/open source software

2014-08-31 Thread magicbanana
I believe that statement is true. Even if sacrifices are to be made, the user  
who understands she deserves freedoms will keep on going front, towards  
software freedom. The user who goes back does not value her freedoms. She is  
the average user you are talking about. She has never heard of GNU or of  
the FSF. She only seeks features, security, convenience, etc.


Re: [Trisquel-users] finding particular pages within PDFs

2014-08-31 Thread magicbanana
There actually was a problem with the input PDFs: if they were not in the  
working directory, the script was crashing. Also, the output pages were not  
in the correct order (the order in which the user gave the PDFs). Finally,  
the script was retuning 0 even if no page matched the patterns (the exit  
status is useful when using the command inside another script).


I made all those fixes and heavily commented the script (for those who want  
to learn Shell scripting):  
http://dcc.ufmg.br/~lcerf/en/utilities.html#pdf-page-grep


Re: [Trisquel-users] finding particular pages within PDFs

2014-08-31 Thread magicbanana

Oops! I added those lines:
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v3
# AUTHOR: Magic Banana
# e-mail: lc...@dcc.ufmg.br


Re: [Trisquel-users] install a full Trisquel on a USB flash drive

2014-08-31 Thread magicbanana

That is what lembas is talking about.


Re: [Trisquel-users] Munich gives up on GNU/Linux and free/open source software

2014-08-31 Thread magicbanana
I do not know what CRDA is but you apparently have the source code and are  
free to modify it. If freedom 3 is available as well, you can distribute  
copies of your modified version to others. By doing this you can give the  
whole community a chance to benefit from your changes.


Freedom has nothing to do with features in the software you receive and  
everything to do with being in control (alone and in community) what requires  
the four freedom. If CRDA's source code was unavailable, you would be  
helpless.


Re: [Trisquel-users] finding particular pages within PDFs

2014-08-31 Thread magicbanana

I simplified the script: http://dcc.ufmg.br/~lcerf/utilities/pdf-page-grep

It now is closer to my original proposal since it extracts the individual  
pages with matches and, in the end, join them all.


Besides basic POSIX commands (such as 'grep' and 'awk'), the script now only  
relies on commands that the poppler-utils package provides. This package is  
installed by default in the GNOME and the Mini editions of Trisquel 6 and 7.  
'pdfjam' is not required anymore.


On the downside, the script actually is slower when many pages per PDF match  
the patterns. However, I guess the script mainly is useful in needle in the  
haystack contexts (otherwise, just use Ctrl+F in the PDF viewer!). In such  
contexts, the difference of performance is insignificant.


[Trisquel-users] Re : Munich gives up on GNU/Linux and free/open source software

2014-08-30 Thread magicbanana
People in the free software movement do not care about the principals Linux  
upholds or about the Linux spirit of superior security? They care about  
the the principals GNU upholds and about the four essential freedoms any  
user deserves.


In this way, your post is a good example of why only convincing new users  
with functionality and features does not advance our battle. We end up with  
GNU users who have never heard of GNU and who would leave free software as  
soon as they find proprietary software that offers more options :  
http://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-users-never-heard-of-gnu.html


We need to focus on our ideals, to talk about freedoms:  
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html


We have so many free software users but so few that understand the  
social/ethical/political problem behind proprietary software. Most of them  
use Firefox, VLC or LibreOffice on Windows. But even among those using  
GNU/Linux, most of them do not see any problem in running proprietary  
software (e.g., in the Linux kernel) and have never heard of GNU.


[Trisquel-users] Re : Problem with steraming video

2014-08-30 Thread magicbanana
This page will explain you everything about playing most Flash videos in  
freedoms: https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/play-videos-without-using-flash


As for installing software, here is the most user-friendly way:  
https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/installing-updating-and-removing-software


A little more on the topic of software installation:  
https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/how-software-installation-trisquel-different-windows


Re: [Trisquel-users] finding particular pages within PDFs

2014-08-30 Thread magicbanana
It is true that you have to turn the script executable. You can do that with  
'chmod +x' or from a graphical file browser (in Nautilus: right click,  
Properties, Permissions tab, a box to check).


If you plan to frequently use the script, you had better move it to a  
directory listed in your PATH variable. To /usr/local/bin/ for example:

$ sudo mv pdf-page-grep /usr/local/bin/

In this way, you can run it anywhere by just typing its name.

The files in arguments can be specified in any Shell way. The script sees a  
list of file names.


Again: if you want slightly different ways of selecting text, it is only  
about adding options to the 'grep' command. I am thinking of the following  
options:

`-i'
`-y'
`--ignore-case'
 Ignore case distinctions in both the pattern and the input files.

`-F'
`--fixed-strings'
 Interpret the pattern as a list of fixed strings, separated by
 newlines, any of which is to be matched.

`-w'
`--word-regexp'
 Select only those lines containing matches that form whole words.
 The test is that the matching substring must either be at the
 beginning of the line, or preceded by a non-word constituent
 character.  Similarly, it must be either at the end of the line or
 followed by a non-word constituent character.  Word-constituent
 characters are letters, digits, and the underscore.

`-r'
`-R'
`--recursive'
 For each directory mentioned on the command line, read and process
 all files in that directory, recursively.


Re: [Trisquel-users] finding particular pages within PDFs

2014-08-30 Thread magicbanana
The script now considers that the arguments that start with - (e.g., -F  
or --ignore-case) are options for 'grep'. I put the script on my website:  
http://dcc.ufmg.br/~lcerf/en/utilities.html#pdf-page-grep


Re: [Trisquel-users] Munich gives up on GNU/Linux and free/open source software

2014-08-30 Thread magicbanana
Those are the core tenants of the free software movement:  
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html


Discover them. You will hopefully acknowledge that you, like any user,  
deserves essential freedoms that are above any convenience.


[Trisquel-users] Re : finding particular pages within PDFs

2014-08-29 Thread magicbanana

See the attachment. You owe me a beer. ;-)

An example of use:
$ pdf-page-grep *.pdf
regexp: GNU
OR regexp (empty to stop): [fF]ree
OR regexp (empty to stop):

matching pages in Agglomerating Local Patterns Hierarchically with  
ALPHA.pdf:
matching pages in A Parameter-Free Associative Classification Method.pdf: 1  
3 5 7 9 11 12

matching pages in Artificial Regulatory Networks Evolution.pdf: 2
matching pages in Closed and Noise-Tolerant Patterns in n-ary  
Relations.pdf: 8 9 11 20

matching pages in Closed Patterns Meet n-ary Relations.pdf: 16 21 23 27
matching pages in Complete Discovery of High-Quality Patterns in Large  
Numerical Tensors.pdf: 7
matching pages in Constraint-Based Search of Different Kinds of  
Discriminative Patterns.pdf: 4 6
matching pages in Constraint-Based Search of Straddling Biclusters and  
Discriminative Patterns.pdf: 6 10
matching pages in Data-Peeler: Constraint-Based Closed Pattern Mining in  
n-ary Relations.pdf: 7 9
matching pages in Descoberta de n-Conjuntos Fechados Eficiente e Restrita a  
Grupos de Interesse.pdf: 8
matching pages in Discovering Descriptive Rules in Relational Dynamic  
Graphs.pdf: 12 19
matching pages in Discovering Inter-Dimensional Rules in Dynamic  
Graphs.pdf: 8 12
matching pages in Discovering Relevant Cross-Graph Cliques in Dynamic  
Networks.pdf: 7

matching pages in Distributed Skycube Computation with Anthill.pdf: 3 5
matching pages in Exploiting Temporal Locality to Determine User Bias in  
Microblogging Platforms.pdf:
matching pages in Extraction de motifs fermés dans des relations n-aires  
bruitées.pdf:
matching pages in Mining Constrained Cross-Graph Cliques in Dynamic  
Networks.pdf: 8 20
matching pages in Multidimensional Association Rules in Boolean  
Tensors.pdf: 7 12
matching pages in Parameter-free classification in multi-class imbalanced  
data sets.pdf: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21
matching pages in Reachability Queries in Very Large Graphs: A Fast Refined  
Online Search Approach.pdf: 4
matching pages in Sémantiques et Calculs de Règles Descriptives dans une  
Relation n-aire.pdf: 2 14 15
matching pages in Tackling Closed Pattern Relevancy In n-ary Relations.pdf:  
5
matching pages in Un nouveau cadre de travail pour la classification  
associative dans les données aux classes disproportionnées.pdf: 4
matching pages in Watch me Playing, I am a Professional: A First Study on  
Video Game Live Streaming.pdf:


Output written to Un nouveau cadre de travail pour la classification  
associative dans les données aux classes disproportionnées-matches.pdf


It actually is pretty fast: a little bit more than 10s for the example above  
that processes 24 documents (341 pages in total) and generates a 62-page PDF.


As you can see, I decided to name the output with the basename of the last  
matching PDF followed by -matches.pdf. I initially wanted to concatenate  
the names of all matching PDFs but you may then reach the size limit for file  
names!


I do not know if you really wanted regular expressions (instead of simple  
strings). Maybe you wanted whole-word matches and/or to ignore the case.  
Those things are simple options to add to the 'grep' command.


[Trisquel-users] Re : finding particular pages within PDFs

2014-08-28 Thread magicbanana
You could first split the PDFs into individual pages ('pdfjam' can do that)  
that you could put in a pages directory, enumerate those pages with a Shell  
'for file in pages/*.pdf' loop, test 'if pdftotex $file - | grep -i  
regexps' (where regexps is a file with one regexp per line) and, if the  
test passes, append the file to a Shell variable so that, outside the loop,  
you 'pdfjoin' them all. That is for a or query. For  and query you need  
to pipe several 'grep's.


[Trisquel-users] Re : LibreBin - Share any text securely

2014-08-26 Thread magicbanana
The user should be warned about the shortcomings of the tool. If the key is  
sent to the server, the attacker only needs to sniff the traffic at the  
entrance of the server and nothing actually is secret to her.


If the key is not send, the attacker could still see what IP is sending the  
text and then sniff the traffic going out of it. The user who send the key  
unencrypted via Internet (in an email, via XMPP, etc.) is screwed as well.


But, then, if the user sends the key in an encrypted way (or give it in  
person) then she could have send the message instead! I guess the user could  
use Tor so that the attacker cannot know her IP... but she is not a lambda  
user anymore!


In the end, and unless I missed something, I do not see a use-case for this  
service.


[Trisquel-users] Re : New (first) libre planet in UK

2014-08-24 Thread magicbanana

Given that I live in Brazil, Brixton is a little bit too far! :-)


[Trisquel-users] Re : I know this is silly, but is there a GNU replacement for mspaint?

2014-08-23 Thread magicbanana
That is another world: vector graphics (à la Inkscape) rather than raster  
graphics (à la GIMP).But you are right: that may be what he actually wants.


[Trisquel-users] Re : New (first) libre planet in UK

2014-08-22 Thread magicbanana
In Brixton, there is the blag group, authors of the eponymous GNU/Linux  
distribution: http://blagblagblag.org/


[Trisquel-users] Re : I know this is silly, but is there a GNU replacement for mspaint?

2014-08-22 Thread magicbanana
If you kept your child soul, you can install Tux Paint too:  
http://tuxpaint.org/


Re: [Trisquel-users] numeric keypad

2014-08-20 Thread magicbanana
obscurité has first tried to get some help on the French-speaking forum:  
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/paver-numerique-d%C3%A9faillant-pour-login-session


He is actually talking about the numeric keypad of a virtual keyboard:  
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_keyboard


Re: [Trisquel-users] Network issue with Trisquel 6.01

2014-08-20 Thread magicbanana
That is terrible hardware when it comes to free software support. You will  
not get any 3D acceleration from the Radeon card and your Wifi chipset is not  
among the ones Linux-libre can drive (it requires a proprietary firmware):  
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/searching-open-wifi#comment-54590


See this post as for more information on acquiring a Wifi card/adapter that  
would perfectly work with Trisquel:  
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/request-wlan-card-support#comment-55424


As for the graphics, you can get an nVidia card. The support for those cards  
is far from perfect though. The most recent models may be even less supported  
than your current Radeon card (fallback on the vesa driver). You can also  
settle for your current 2D display and remember than, in the future, you want  
to buy Intel processors. Linux-libre perfectly handles their integrated  
graphical chipsets.


Re: [Trisquel-users] Problems with AMD screen resolution

2014-08-16 Thread magicbanana

Can you post somewhere your /var/log/Xorg.0.log ?


Re: [Trisquel-users] Problems with AMD screen resolution

2014-08-16 Thread magicbanana

[29.581] (EE) Screen 0 deleted because of no matching config section.
[29.581] (II) UnloadModule: radeon

Xorg did not manage to make the radeon driver work and use the generic  
vesa driver instead.


If you have an Intel processor (with a graphical chipset) you should remove  
the video card (and get much better performance for less energy consumption).


If not and if you card model is very recent, you could try to get the latest  
3.16 kernel from jxself repository: http://jxself.org/linux-libre/


[Trisquel-users] Re : Problems with Trisquel on KVM

2014-08-14 Thread magicbanana
A Trisquel system without apt-get?! That is weird! Personally, I would forget  
about this install and go with  
http://devel.trisquel.info/makeiso/iso/trisquel-mini_7.0-20140807_amd64.iso  
(since you seem to want a lightweight desktop system).


[Trisquel-users] Re : Request for WLAN-card support

2014-08-14 Thread magicbanana
The Trisquel project only distributes free (as in freedom) software. At the  
kernel-level, where the drivers and firmware are, that means using  
Linux-libre. Ubuntu's kernels include proprietary drivers and firmware.


Apparently, both your network devices cannot be used in freedom. As for the  
Ethernet card, you really are unlucky: Linux-libre handles almost all  
Ethernet cards. As for Wifi cards, most chipsets now depend on proprietary  
firmware and it is not easy to pick a card that works:  
https://trisquel.info/fr/forum/tehnoetic-wireless-usb-adapter-awarded-fsfs-ryf-certificate#comment-55244


Anyway, acquiring such a device is what you need to have the whole control on  
your system. You deserve it. The thread I referenced above will give you  
advices on where to buy such a card and have the guarantee that Trisquel will  
handle it out of the box (ThinkPenguin and Tehnoetic). You can try to get the  
same models elsewhere. See, for instance, this recent thread:  
https://trisquel.info/fr/forum/another-ar9271-unex-dnua-93f-usb-wifi-vendor


I personally bought this Wifi adapter:  
http://www.tp-link.com/en/support/download/?model=TL-WN722Nversion=V1


Notice however that the manufacturers sometimes (rarely though) change the  
chipset in a given model. In other terms, outside ThinkPenguin and Tehnoetic,  
you may have a bad surprise: a model that was reported to work with  
Linux-libre but does not anymore because the chipset was changed.


[Trisquel-users] Re : Command line installer (Trisquel-mini)

2014-08-14 Thread magicbanana
You should then install the NetInstall and, once you are done, fire this  
command:

$ sudo apt-get install trisquel-mini trisquel-mini-recommended

As far as I know, the resulting system exactly is Trisquel Mini.


Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel 7 screenshot

2014-08-13 Thread magicbanana

Not to mention the waste of screen space!

Anyway, it is true that there is, now, no easy (0-click) way to know the  
space left on a partition. The floating bar only gives the status of selected  
files.


Re: [Trisquel-users] Problems with Trisquel on KVM

2014-08-13 Thread magicbanana
It is a fully-featured terminal environment, not BusyBox. You can install  
LXDE in this way:

$ sudo apt-get install lxde

However, you may instead want the whole Trisquel Mini experience (based on  
LXDE):

$ sudo apt-get install trisquel-mini trisquel-mini-recommended

Or you can only install the base of Trisquel Mini, which includes LXDE, and  
later choose by yourself the user applications (the Web browser, the office  
suite, the email client, the PDF viewer, the instant messenger, etc.):

$ sudo apt-get install trisquel-mini


[Trisquel-users] Re : Trisquel 7 screenshot

2014-08-12 Thread magicbanana
I translated from French. Here, it is the fifth entry in the View menu.  
Also, I am still on Trisquel 6.


[Trisquel-users] Re : Trisquel 7 screenshot

2014-08-12 Thread magicbanana

Indeed: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=676840

Sorry for the outdated fix.


[Trisquel-users] Re : Trisquel 7 screenshot

2014-08-11 Thread magicbanana
No you don't. Conky 1.9.0 is is the main repository of Trisquel 7. I was just  
pointing out that you do not even need to install Trisquel 7 to enjoy that  
latest version of Conky.


[Trisquel-users] Re : Trisquel 7 screenshot

2014-08-11 Thread magicbanana
You can easily have that in Nautilus (GNOME's file browser): just enable the  
Status bar from the View menu.


[Trisquel-users] Re : Trisquel 7 screenshot

2014-08-10 Thread magicbanana
Conky 1.9.0 (the version in Ubuntu 14.04) already is available in the  
backport section of Trisquel 6's repository!


[Trisquel-users] Re : Setting up a Trisquel box at a public library

2014-08-08 Thread magicbanana
There are solutions for other popular sites hosting videos in Flash:  
https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/play-videos-without-using-flash


I personally use ViewTube. Other users prefer Linterna Mágica, another  
GreaseMonkey script.


[Trisquel-users] Re : DDE support for opening multiple files with one instance of Audacity.

2014-08-06 Thread magicbanana
You should send this patch to that mailing list:  
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/audacity-devel


[Trisquel-users] Re : LibreTrend - My Vision of Free Software

2014-08-05 Thread magicbanana

I wish you a lot of success!

A question you will definitely have to answer (you had better write the  
answer on the website): Is the BIOS free software? I believe the answer is  
no given Intel's attitude towards coreboot... and I understand that Intel's  
graphics is what is best supported by Linux-libre, hence the choice.


Is the choice of an older CPU really justified by Secure Boot? I mean: as  
long as it lets you install a free operating system (and one even comes  
installed by default), what is the problem?


Technologies in Intel vPro such as TXT (  
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_Execution_Technology ) and AMT (  
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Active_Management_Technology ) are to be  
avoided but you can still find i7 processors without them.


[Trisquel-users] Re : Removing services not needed - Need advice

2014-08-05 Thread magicbanana
Of course, some distros might have one or two slight changes, but in general  
services like ftp, ssh, telnet, ping, etc, are running in all linux distros.


Trisquel does not run a FTP server by default (it only ships with a client).  
'telnet' is not installed by default either. 'ping' is not a server. Trisquel  
6 runs a SSH server by default but Trisquel 7 will not.


As for Debian, ask people running it.


[Trisquel-users] Re : Removing services not needed - Need advice

2014-08-05 Thread magicbanana

$ nmap -sV localhost

Starting Nmap 5.21 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2014-08-06 00:10 BRT
Nmap scan report for localhost (127.0.0.1)
Host is up (0.00023s latency).
Not shown: 995 closed ports
PORTSTATE SERVICE VERSION
22/tcp  open  ssh (protocol 2.0)
53/tcp  open  domain  dnsmasq 2.59
139/tcp open  netbios-ssn Samba smbd 3.X (workgroup: WORKGROUP)
445/tcp open  netbios-ssn Samba smbd 3.X (workgroup: WORKGROUP)
631/tcp open  ipp CUPS 1.5
1 service unrecognized despite returning data. If you know the  
service/version, please submit the following fingerprint at  
http://www.insecure.org/cgi-bin/servicefp-submit.cgi :

SF-Port22-TCP:V=5.21%I=7%D=8/6%Time=53E19C9D%P=i686-pc-linux-gnu%r(NULL,30
SF:,SSH-2\.0-OpenSSH_5\.9p1\x20Trisquel_GNU/linux_6\.0-1\r\n);

Service detection performed. Please report any incorrect results at  
http://nmap.org/submit/ .

Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 11.14 seconds


[Trisquel-users] Re : I've seen the apple conference of 2014 and I feel outraged.

2014-08-04 Thread magicbanana
That actually is common. For instance, I often read people that pretend that  
Firefox copies ideas Chrome when, most of the time, it is the opposite.


Anyway, copying ideas is good. It is when you prevent that (software patents)  
that dramatic problems arise.


[Trisquel-users] Re : New Hardware Support is available

2014-08-03 Thread magicbanana
It does not work on 32-bit either. Install linux-image-3.13.0-30-generic and  
leave linux-image-generic-lts-trusty (a meta-package) with its unsatisfied  
dependency.


Re: [Trisquel-users] E-readers

2014-08-02 Thread magicbanana
One can acquire a Galaxy Tab 2 (7 or 10.1), install Replicant 4.2 on it and  
get one of the e-book readers in the free software repository F-Droid.


For more information:

http://redmine.replicant.us/projects/replicant/wiki/GalaxyTab270P31xxInstallation
http://redmine.replicant.us/projects/replicant/wiki/GalaxyTab2101P51xxInstallation
https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdfilter=bookfdid=org.coolreader
https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdfilter=bookfdid=org.geometerplus.zlibrary.ui.android
https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdfilter=bookfdid=net.nightwhistler.pageturner



[Trisquel-users] Re : FoxFilter 7.7 or alternatives

2014-08-02 Thread magicbanana
Here is free alternative:  
https://trisquel.info/fr/browser/addons/procon-latte-content-filter


[Trisquel-users] Re : Does gNewSense use less cpu and ram?

2014-07-31 Thread magicbanana
gNewSense 3.1 (the latest version) uses the antique GNOME 2.30 (it must be  
something like four years old) by default. Like its base: Debian 7.0 wheezy.


If you have older hardware, I would advise the soon-to-be-released Trisquel  
Mini 7: http://devel.trisquel.info/makeiso/iso/


The desktop it ships by default, LXDE, is lighter than GNOME 2. And being  
based on *buntu 14.014 Trusty Tahr, you would have applications in their  
latest (or close to latest) versions a few clicks away.


[Trisquel-users] Re : Does gNewSense use less cpu and ram?

2014-07-31 Thread magicbanana
I am simply talking about the versions of the packages in gNewSense's  
repositories: GNOME 2.30, Firefox 3.5, LibreOffice 3.2, etc. If you want to  
know about other applications, look at their versions in Debian stable:  
https://packages.debian.org/stable/


Installing software not in the repository can quickly become a dependency  
hell. Not to talk about the hassle of finding the packages in the first  
place. Go for the packages in Debian testing if you really want to try  
gNewSense: https://www.debian.org/distrib/packages


But, again, if you want a light GNU/Linux system where recent applications  
are easily available, Trisquel Mini 7 is a way better option than gNewSense  
3.1 (w.r.t. both criteria) : http://devel.trisquel.info/makeiso/iso/


[Trisquel-users] Re : Libre kernel USB wifi

2014-07-29 Thread magicbanana
The Linux kernels available from Trisquel's repositories all free/libre. I  
assume you are referring to the latest Linux-libre kernels (version 3.15.x),  
like those in jxself's repository (see  
https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/update-linux-libre-kernel for the different  
options).


The TL-WN722N Wifi adapter has a AR9271 chipset. ath9k_htc drives it.  
According to Chris, there is a bug with ath9k_htc on Linux 3.15.x (when  
connecting to encrypted access points):  
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/penguin-wireless-n-adapters-ath9khtc-bug-atheros-ar9271


Here is the bug: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=78581

And here is a temporary fix:  
https://www.thinkpenguin.com/gnu-linux/penguin-wireless-n-usb-adapter-gnu-linux-tpe-n150usb-tpe-n150usbl-tpe-nusbdb


[Trisquel-users] Re : Firefox (and perhaps even Abrowser) is sending data about the downloads to Google

2014-07-28 Thread magicbanana
I think the string is never used if the second box of Preferences/Security is  
unchecked. It is unchecked on my system and I do not remember having  
unchecked it manually.


[Trisquel-users] Re : My wifi card that isn't supported.

2014-07-25 Thread magicbanana
Is it bad to support non-free systems? I do not think so. Users need to make  
a transition from proprietary to free. I'd rather not see the creation of an  
apparently impermeable border between the 100%-free GNU/Linux systems and the  
rest of them. Do you complain that https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/  
(Emacs' main page) mentions Mac OS X, Windows and Solaris?


As for the distribution names not mentioning GNU, they actually are the names  
chosen by the projects themselves. I certainly do not approve those choices  
but is it a reason to change them? Maybe...


I would prefer the name ThinkGNU to ThinkPenguin. Anyway ThinkPenguin is no  
ThinkLinux. And I do not think the name matters more than the speech and  
the actions.


[Trisquel-users] Re : I might install Mint 17 in Vbox if I can't print.

2014-07-25 Thread magicbanana
That printer can perfectly work:  
http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/models/deskjet_aio/deskjet_3520_series.html


However, it requires a more recent version (3.12.6 or later) of HPLIP than  
the one in Trisquel 6's repository (3.12.2).


You may want to early adopt Trisquel 7:  
http://devel.trisquel.info/makeiso/iso/


Otherwise, install that .deb of a more recent version of HPLIP:  
http://packages.ubuntu.com/precise-backports/hplip


That .deb requires some dependencies (GDebi will indicate them) that you  
would also have to download from the precise-backports section of  
http://packages.ubuntu.com


[Trisquel-users] Re : fre version from lazarus

2014-07-24 Thread magicbanana
What is the problem with the license? The Lazarus compiler is under the terms  
of the GNU GPL and the Lazarus Component Library is under the GNU LGPL.  
Lazarus actually is in Trisquel's repository. For instance, you can install  
it from Add/Remove Applications.


If you are talking about the license of the programs compiled with Lazarus,  
the GNU GPL and LGPL do not impose anything on them. I just hope you will  
choose a free software license if you distribute them.


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