В 04:08 +0200 на 12.10.2012 (пт), ja...@bluehome.net написа:
> How would it do the translation? Send the page to a remote service for
> translation and show the result? That would mean the extension is nothing
> more than a SaaS front end.
Not a plugin, but ... There is a free software (GPL) m
How would it do the translation? Send the page to a remote service for
translation and show the result? That would mean the extension is nothing
more than a SaaS front end.
Interesting. I will see what I can get here once my classes are back.
I am not sure what it will be. It has been information technology and
computer engineering.
I actually did not have plans to do a thesis related to Free Software either
at first. I had other plans more into economics. It would had been highly
theoretical and 100% fun project for me. But the
Awesome, a thesis for what course?
I am a control engineering student and did not even think about making a
thesis out of free software in engineering. I once spoke to the course
coordinator about the research lab he works in and he told they usually work
with free software, but what he mea
I'd go for this too, just be careful not to use non-free software or install
non-free firmware, which is easier on Debian's kernel since it's stock Linux
without any non-free bits, where Linux-libre prevents loading non-free
firmware.
Ok, that's a great attitude and I think you can do it.
Hmm, FSF mirror, thanks of the suggestion. Now I think Trisquel it shall be.
I definitely didn't think it would be a trivial task. I'm not going to
overstate my abilities, because I've not done any serious programming (e.g.
hacking Gecko). But I have written some small programs in C (and I know some
other languages better).
I will at least check out what Ruben's don
This is total FUD. Who exactly is this fictional administrator you speak of?
They sound too incompetent to actually be running GNU/Linux let alone
administering it. I might buy that there are a handful whom might only be
willing to administer a Redhat box. However any administer with any
ex
I've never seen a problem with this. You can probably safely point to any
number of mirrors that and be confident they will exist in 5 years. For
instance the FSF mirror.
The only problem with Trisquel for this server is will the server in
sources.list address exist next 5 years. If I could be as sure of that as I
can be of that ftp.fi.debian.org will exist next 5 years there would be no
probs.
To get some knowledge of that I would have to know better who ex
That chart makes it look so easy.
I just counted the number of licenses found on my Hardened Gentoo install,
all of which are located at /usr/portage/licenses. The total number of
possible licenses is 638. How much time would it take me to read through all
638 licenses to determine which li
I could easily use Trisquel for servers I maintain.
It depends on the financial status of that organization. In some cases it may
cost more to have a full time and on-site salaried employee than using
contractors or support contracts from a company like Canonical and Red Hat.
Another hurdle is finding qualified workers who know how to use a pu
В 22:49 +0200 на 11.10.2012 (чт), tegskywal...@hotmail.com написа:
> The problem with Trisquel being used in a corporation, school, or government
> is the lack of support options.
Any same administrator or not-so-administrator, capable of maintaining
Debian or Debain-based system can support it
The problem with Trisquel being used in a corporation, school, or government
is the lack of support options. Plus, with it being a one man show, the
releases are 6 months behind schedule. If a company or large organization
invests in Ubuntu, they have some security in Canonical being a real c
Hey and thank you very much of the suggestions, much appreciated.
I know of Octave. Years ago I had plans with a mathematics teacher to do my
thesis of Octave as a replacement for Matlab.
Now we talked about GNU Octave too, but then I found Sage, which is a very
interesting alternative in m
It's not the greatest solution I'll admit :(. It's what we have for the
moment though. It's a dirty hack that works “good enough” to ensure that
those who want to avoid promoting non-free software can (this includes
myself- I frequently point to it over the main URL). When we have the new
s
Does Abrowser or Midori have a plug-in for translating a page in a foreign
language to English, like what Chromium does. Just curious. I've been
looking at Trisquel documentation & searching on forum here but can't find
out.
В 13:28 +0200 на 11.10.2012 (чт), moil...@gmail.com написа:
>
> Alright, I have finished my bachelor's thesis. Very surprisingly my (sucky)
> thesis about Sage as a replacement for Matlab in higher education rose
> interest in the teachers on my school.
Well done! You might have heard about
Yeah, using Flash is the most underrated example how non-free software can
suck. It compromises security in your computer, you can't do anything to fix
it, and some think they are forced to use it.
One said he could patch FF, but that he haven't patched anything before. The
offer is appreciated but it implies that patching would be trivial. It is not
unless you get the patch from somewhere. If you have to make the patch, then
it is not trivial.
I find any use of flash to be disturbing.
Your in a hard spot. I'd probably go with Debian stable. Debian shines on the
server and the kernel is already free. Just don't add the non-free
components. The main issue with Debian I believe is its endorsement of
non-free software (website has a lot of information on how to add non-free
Well, I wish I'd known that, I bought the video card from your shop a few
days ago, but I'm pretty sure I got there without the "libre." (I had the
site bookmarked).
At least I have the bookmark set to libre.thinkpenguin.com now, so I won't
make the mistake again. :)
Not that this changes anything although I'm pretty sure they would go after
the companies making money on free software rather than battle it out with a
lonely free software developer. The risk is to those financing the
development more so than developers themselves. At least I would think. I
Did I or someone say or imply it was trivial? It's not like any of this is
going to get done by a less than technical user.
I'm assuming Debian does not have in its backports the packages which define
Trisquel (abrowser, linux-libre, etc). The reason for using Ubuntu is that it
is a bit more polished. I was thinking (or Debian) in my head. Chose not to
write that though.
The libre.thinkpenguin.com link does two things. One it sets a cookie on your
computer so that we know not to display information on distributions which
include non-free software. The 2nd thing it does is it adds a fake product to
your shopping cart. This lets us know to make a donation to th
I have several partitions on my drive, and I currently have Kubuntu and
CrunchBang installed. I'd like to follow the development of Trisquel 6.0, so
I downloaded, burned, and booted the 10/8 alpha.
Regretfully, ubi-portman failed, and I was unable to continue. Before it
failed, a bunch of f
Heh, the joy of the "latest and greatest".
Hi, theblackpig!
I checked and I am sorry to say that Vanilla POP is a hosted, Enterprise
(paid for) service only. It is not available for download.
Here is info about Vanilla POP:
http://vanillaforums.org/docs/vanillapop
Firefox 16 Pulled To Address Security Vulnerability
Well, I think I must go for maximum customer satisfaction with Free Software.
If I ever start a real business that will be my guiding principle.
Interesting, but I don't need flash and it is not installed on my computer. I
am very lucky to not need it.
I can watch stuff from Youtube, mostly digitalrev.com vids, and those work
flawlessly at 1080p on my few years old X4500HD Intel integrated graphics
chip, were they HTML5 or Flash, f
Regarding youtube-dl, there is a GUI for that, called YTDownloader if I'm not
mistaken.
(This topic serves two purposes. At first it serves as an encouragement for
students to go for Free Software solutions. Unexpectedly good results can
happen by doing that. The second purpose is for me to become aware of things
I haven't thought myself.)
Alright, I have finished my bachelor'
Well, I know that none to whom I have installed GNU/Linux would not use it if
they would have to stop using Flash.
Everyone using Flash does not solve the flash problem, but everyone using MS
so that they can use Flash does not help a bit people to migrate to
GNU/Linux.
So you have two ch
Hm, why doesn't it keep the "libre." in the URL? When I saw it just disappear
like it does with no apparent change, I just ignored it thinking it did
nothing. Plus, the "bookmark this page" function will point you to the
regular site even if you got there from libre.thinkpenguin.com.
Yeah, but it doesn't change the fact he supports non-free software by chosing
to use it instead of boycotting whenever he can.
He has written even more about using non-free software. I remember that
because years ago when I was unhappy to use proprieatary tools in programming
in school I re
Hmm, patching stuff is not trivial unless someone has made it to be trivial.
If you are doing it to be trivial you need quite some skills in programming
and you have to understand the software you are patching, else nasty ooops
can happen.
The problem with this thinking is that they will release non-free solutions
if the majority on GNU/Linux users are on non-free distributions. This is
obviously not an acceptable solution. We need to work together to reduce the
communities dependency on non-free software. I'm doing that with h
In response to your other post (I don't want to split your posts apart since
they're related :] ):
Regarding Moonlight: it is no longer supported by its developers, for various
reasons (see
http://lists.ximian.com/pipermail/moonlight-list/2011-December/001392.html).
I'm not sure how much
Yeah, I have been thinking that too. But why you want it to be based on
Ubuntu? I am interested to know why.
In my opinion Debian is a better choise because it does not have that much
trademark and branding things like Ubuntu and when it gets good supplement
repos the fact that there is not
Just note by the way that I fully support the policy of not helping people to
use non-free software in Trisquel Forum, and I wont do that. Those who want
to get help to use non-free software can get that help from Ubuntu forums.
I value highly this kind of 100% committed to Free Software dist
I have actually read everything many times and more what has been pasted here
about RMS. Still I am very interested to read what he has said in order to
see if there is something new for me.
In my opinion this is about how you climb to a tree to grab an apple. You can
do it using your hands
By the way this topic needs more discussion so that it is better understood
for it is an important topic.
I have friends and some of them has been using years GNU/Linux even though
they are not at all computer people. They say that it is better than Windows.
That is only possible because I
Richard Stallman actually has some very good points about why we shouldn't
move people to GNU/Linux distributions that include non-free software. The
problem is it reduces the leverage we have against those who would like to
turn GNU/Linux into a Microsoft replacement (that is to turn it non-
Actually, I did leave some of what RMS wrote out of the quote. The rest:
> [...] Of course, I explain why they should migrate the machines to free
software, but I don't push them hard, because that would be
counterproductive.
You are doing it right.
The step to way of non-mainstream OS (µ$) is a huge step for normal people.
There is no way they will keep doing it if they can't use their computer as
they want.
This reminds me of the case when I consulted one organisation in moving to
Free Software. I said thing
> Mm, interesting. By the way, the new yeeloong I previously made a
> topic of has been released, yet with very few media coverage and an
> inappropriate price ->
> http://www.tekmote.nl/epages/61504599.sf/nl_NL/?ObjectPath=/Shops/61504599/Products/CFL-008
The GPU is a problem (the boot firmware i
> Isn't an amd+nvidia(nouveau)+coreboot+trisquel system "completely" free?
It might need a CPU microcode update in the BIOS, it needs to run the
VGA BIOS of the graphics card (Radeons need just to read it, not run),
it might have an embedded controller (all laptops have them, none run
completely f
What I would love to do is release a distribution based on Ubuntu LTS. Spend
a year or so focused on getting it just right. Then let someone else worry
about maintaining a few key packages.
We need a backports repository for abrowser, linux-libre, and hplip.
It shouldn't be too terribly diff
http://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html
> "If I am visiting somewhere and the machines available nearby happen to
contain non-free software, through no doing of mine, I don't refuse to touch
them. I will use them briefly for tasks such as browsing. This limited usage
doesn't give my asse
I'm actually impressed by the specifications. I wasn't expecting a 13.3"
screen. The price is in line with high end notebooks so that isn't a big
deal. The thing that concerns me is the non-free graphics dependencies.
We should probably be in communications with this company. I think this is
I did not point at you. It was just a general note what I wrote.
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