Re: is google earth safe to install?

2015-10-11 Thread Curt
On 2015-10-10, Mario Castelán Castro wrote: > > You want to hear "yes, I have been using it for years with no incident", > but that doesn't means it's secure. With the internals of the system > hidden from you, you will never be able to trust it. > That's what I tell my

Re: is google earth safe to install?

2015-10-11 Thread Timothy Hobbs
PRISM has been watching you for years with no incident. On 2015-10-10, Mario Castelán Castro wrote: You want to hear "yes, I have been using it for years with no incident", but that doesn't means it's secure. With the internals of the system hidden from you, you will

Re: is google earth safe to install?

2015-10-11 Thread moxalt
PRISM has been watching me my entire life without incident. Yet.

Re: is google earth safe to install?

2015-10-10 Thread Mario Castelán Castro
Indeed, using any software makes you used to it, and dependent on it up to whatever extent you use it. With free software, you know that you have control over the software. You can rely on the community to do most of the job, and do for yourself what they won't do or you would do better (and

Re: is google earth safe to install?

2015-10-10 Thread rlharris
On Sat, October 10, 2015 4:31 pm, Timothy Hobbs wrote: > You could try running google-earth in subuser.org . But I don't > recommend it, because I don't recommend using any non-free software ;). Thanks, Tim. This is the first I have heard of subuser.org. I just punched it up in the browser, and

Re: is google earth safe to install?

2015-10-10 Thread Torsten Rahn
Hi, > On Tue, September 1, 2015 9:47 am, Darac Marjal wrote: > > In that case, consider "marble", which provides a similar "virtual > > globe" and is LGPL 2.1+ licensed. > > I did install marble. Perhaps my installation is not correctly > configured, but after seeing the detailed photograph of

Re: is google earth safe to install?

2015-10-10 Thread rlharris
On Sat, October 10, 2015 3:20 pm, Torsten Rahn wrote: Thanks, Torsen. Over the past week I have been running Google Earth on an old machine in an isolated, but it would be nice to have GE capability without the GE liability. I still have Marble installed, so I shall read over the documentation

Re: is google earth safe to install?

2015-10-10 Thread Timothy Hobbs
You could try running google-earth in subuser.org . But I don't recommend it, because I don't recommend using any non-free software ;). Tim On 10/10/15 23:29, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: On Sat, October 10, 2015 3:20 pm, Torsten Rahn wrote: Thanks, Torsen. Over the past week I have been

Re: is google earth safe to install?

2015-09-05 Thread Ric Moore
On 09/03/2015 05:06 PM, Stuart Longland wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 02/09/15 08:55, Ric Moore wrote: Perhaps we should team up and buy some better satellite data to "free" it? Kickstarter anyone? I'm building "Grit". I'll let everyone know how well it works. You

Re: is google earth safe to install?

2015-09-03 Thread Martin Read
On 03/09/15 22:06, Stuart Longland wrote: I'll bite, why an nVidia graphic card? I have a couple, but the Intel GPU in this laptop would run rings around most of them. Surely it only matters that it implements ${OPENGL_FEATURES} to a sufficient standard to run the application. OpenGL's

Re: is google earth safe to install?

2015-09-03 Thread Stuart Longland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 02/09/15 08:55, Ric Moore wrote: >> Perhaps we should team up and buy some better satellite data to >> "free" it? Kickstarter anyone? > > I'm building "Grit". I'll let everyone know how well it works. You > do need an nVidia graphic card though.

Re: is google earth safe to install?

2015-09-02 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Tue, 2015-09-01 at 18:22 -0500, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: > I keep forgetting about WINE -- likely because I never have used > WINE. > > > From the WINE HQ web site, it appears that WINE may be a reasonable > solution, and even a way to circumvent the problems of running the > intel > code

Re: is google earth safe to install?

2015-09-02 Thread Ron
On Tue, 01 Sep 2015 16:48:35 -0700 Gary Roach wrote: > BTW Google Earth should operate on an AMD chip set if you enable > milti-arch as Sven said. That would seem to be the easier cleaner way to go. It does, on my box, without any problem. Cheers, Ron. -- If you

Re: is google earth safe to install?

2015-09-02 Thread Ric Moore
On 09/02/2015 03:52 AM, Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote: On Tue, 01 Sep 2015 16:48:35 -0700 Gary Roach wrote: BTW Google Earth should operate on an AMD chip set if you enable milti-arch as Sven said. That would seem to be the easier cleaner way to go. It does, on my box,

Re: is google earth safe to install?

2015-09-01 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Sep 01, 2015 at 03:47:53PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Tuesday 01 September 2015 14:09:39 rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: > > > On Tue, September 1, 2015 9:47 am, Darac Marjal wrote: > > > In that case, consider "marble", which provides a

Re: is google earth safe to install?

2015-09-01 Thread rlharris
On Tue, September 1, 2015 9:47 am, Darac Marjal wrote: > In that case, consider "marble", which provides a similar "virtual > globe" and is LGPL 2.1+ licensed. I did install marble. Perhaps my installation is not correctly configured, but after seeing the detailed photograph of "Tour Eiffel" on

Re: is google earth safe to install?

2015-09-01 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 01 September 2015 14:09:39 rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: > On Tue, September 1, 2015 9:47 am, Darac Marjal wrote: > > In that case, consider "marble", which provides a similar "virtual > > globe" and is LGPL 2.1+ licensed. > > I did install marble. Perhaps my installation is not

Re: is google earth safe to install?

2015-09-01 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Tue, 2015-09-01 at 13:09 -0500, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: > On Tue, September 1, 2015 9:47 am, Darac Marjal wrote: > > In that case, consider "marble", which provides a similar "virtual > > globe" and is LGPL 2.1+ licensed. > > I did install marble. Perhaps my installation is not correctly >

Re: is google earth safe to install?

2015-09-01 Thread rlharris
I keep forgetting about WINE -- likely because I never have used WINE. >From the WINE HQ web site, it appears that WINE may be a reasonable solution, and even a way to circumvent the problems of running the intel code on an amd machine.

Re: is google earth safe to install?

2015-09-01 Thread Gary Roach
On 09/01/2015 04:22 PM, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: I keep forgetting about WINE -- likely because I never have used WINE. >From the WINE HQ web site, it appears that WINE may be a reasonable solution, and even a way to circumvent the problems of running the intel code on an amd machine.

Re: is google earth safe to install?

2015-09-01 Thread Ric Moore
On 09/01/2015 03:53 PM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Sep 01, 2015 at 03:47:53PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: On Tuesday 01 September 2015 14:09:39 rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: On Tue, September 1, 2015 9:47 am, Darac Marjal wrote: In that case,

Re: is google earth safe to install?

2015-09-01 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 01 September 2015 01:41:20 rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: > To facilitate our search for property and discussion over the > telephone of various properties, my client wishes me to install google > earth. > > I see that Debian has a google earth package. > > In view of our recent discussion

Re: is google earth safe to install?

2015-09-01 Thread rlharris
On Tue, September 1, 2015 12:41 am, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: > To facilitate our search for property and discussion over the telephone > of various properties, my client wishes me to install google earth. > > I see that Debian has a google earth package. > > In view of our recent discussion

Re: is google earth safe to install?

2015-09-01 Thread Darac Marjal
On Tue, Sep 01, 2015 at 03:31:22AM -0500, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: > On Tue, September 1, 2015 12:41 am, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: > > To facilitate our search for property and discussion over the telephone > > of various properties, my client wishes me to install google earth. > > > > I see

Re: is google earth safe to install?

2015-09-01 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 01 September 2015 09:08:19 Richard Owlett wrote: > Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Tuesday 01 September 2015 01:41:20 rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: > >> To facilitate our search for property and discussion over the > >> telephone of various properties, my client wishes me to install > >>

Re: is google earth safe to install?

2015-09-01 Thread Richard Owlett
Gene Heskett wrote: On Tuesday 01 September 2015 01:41:20 rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: To facilitate our search for property and discussion over the telephone of various properties, my client wishes me to install google earth.[SNIP] No clue about safety, but its unsupported and doesn't work at