[Trisquel-users] advanced metering reader software (electricity)

2013-05-13 Thread Andresmp
Do any of you know of a simple (FLOSS) advanced metering software? I am particularly interested on one that can "catch" the wifi signal that is already being sent with my electricity consumption (kwh) to a stand alone device that sits at home. I would like to pick it up on my laptop. I tried

Re: [Trisquel-users] DuckDuckGo and RuNet(russian segment of the Internet)

2013-05-13 Thread Andresmp
!ru should give only russian webpages?

Re: [Trisquel-users] W3C bullied to push DRM into HTML5. FSF campaign failed.

2013-05-13 Thread matt . ivie
I suppose I need to get better at figuring that out.

Re: [Trisquel-users] free software phone

2013-05-13 Thread alonivtsan
It's buzz fixed but it doesn't include some of the additional fixes like improved sound (bass rework).

Re: [Trisquel-users] free software phone

2013-05-13 Thread chris
Yes- but is it the fixed version?

[Trisquel-users] Proper Way to Upgrade Mesa?mesa

2013-05-13 Thread nospamhere
Trisquel includes mesa version 8.0.4. However, I notice there is a mesa-xxx-xxx-quantal version at 9.0.3. I would like to install the newer mesa version, but I am not sure of the proper way to do it, as in, are there other packages I would need to upgrade at the same time?

[Trisquel-users] my computer freezes when I try to change the system font size

2013-05-13 Thread adel . afzal
Has this happened for anyone else? Any ideas about possible reasons?

Re: [Trisquel-users] new laptop

2013-05-13 Thread asmegir
Thinkpenguin is very cool but I picked up my laptop from a local retailer. Non-free systems also just work.. unless they don't..

Re: [Trisquel-users] W3C bullied to push DRM into HTML5. FSF campaign failed.

2013-05-13 Thread jibaro
Apparently, you never heard of the hacker's hacker Richard Greenblatt. According to Steven Levy's book "HACKERS HEROES OF THE COMPUTER REVOLTION", "Greenblatt was a single-minded, unkempt, prolific, and cannonical MIT hacker who went into night phase so often that he zorched his academic c

Re: [Trisquel-users] Is "SRWare Iron" free browser?

2013-05-13 Thread Quiliro Ordóñez
El 12/05/13 22:23, tegskywal...@hotmail.com escribió: > Of course the Firefox logo involves a fox f**king the earth. Perhaps you see it as a female fox sees it. -- Saludos libres, Quiliro Ordóñez Presidente (en conjunto con el resto de socios) Asociación de Software Libre del Ecuador - ASLE Av

Re: [Trisquel-users] W3C bullied to push DRM into HTML5. FSF campaign failed.

2013-05-13 Thread Quiliro Ordóñez
El 11/05/13 13:31, matt.i...@gmail.com escribió: > The reason I say that users typically choose convenience over freedom is that > when I try to make the argument for software freedom most people will shrug their shoulders and say,"I don't care, it does what I want". When someone shrugs their sho

Re: [Trisquel-users] new laptop

2013-05-13 Thread adel . afzal
It feels great when everything just works. Non-GNU people take that for granted! Well, except for the planned-obsolescence and feature-tiering.

Re: [Trisquel-users] free software phone

2013-05-13 Thread adel . afzal
Thanks Magic Banana. Is there a reason you recommended the Galaxy S2 over the other Replicant-compatible phones? I stopped by the phone store today to ask them about the S2, and I like it.

Re: [Trisquel-users] WIFI not working on DELL D610 - HELP -

2013-05-13 Thread chris
I'm pretty confident this system has a Mini PCI card slot so the Mini PCIE or Mini PCIE half height cards will not work. Given the age of the system and the manufacturer there is a higher chance of the system not containing digital restrictions on this slot. The card which can be installed

Re: [Trisquel-users] WIFI not working on DELL D610 - HELP -

2013-05-13 Thread chris
I think you have mistaken two different issues. The "Trusted Computing" issue is separate from the digital restriction issue on the PCIe / wifi slot. The "Trusted Computing" issue is more so about entertainment and control of ones hardware. The simplest work around is to go with in this ins

Re: [Trisquel-users] WIFI not working on DELL D610 - HELP -

2013-05-13 Thread chris
Model numbers don't equate to chipsets. It's not uncommon to find a different different chipsets used in a product. Particularly over time. It is one of the things that makes h-node's database challenging to use. You can never be sure about the reliability of the data. It's useful to the exte

Re: [Trisquel-users] free software phone

2013-05-13 Thread chris
Is there a place to buy the buzz-fixed freerunner? I never had the time to deal with this issue. I believe there wasn't a fix at the time either. I know that a fix existed and the newer board has the issue fixed. If you can get a fixed phone that might do the trick and it would be less than $

Re: [Trisquel-users] new laptop

2013-05-13 Thread cyberhawk
Nice to hear you have such a good experience with it! Was it a machine from thinkpenguin.com?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Please, help me get rid of Skype.

2013-05-13 Thread cyberhawk
This is interesting, in my case I'd definitely need a program replacing skype though, just as the OP. The person whom I want to talk with uses Opera exclusively.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Another FLOSS project moves to a permissive license to be more "open"

2013-05-13 Thread krzysiek . stachowiak
"The GPL benefits the original copyright holder..." The post is generally true, but don't forget the end-users. It is important to emphasise the gains of the end-users as the benefits of the copyright holder are only a side effect of the user protection, which happens to be at the cost of li

Re: [Trisquel-users] Another FLOSS project moves to a permissive license to be more "open"

2013-05-13 Thread shiretoko
"No. Because then we will say "You took the code from GPL-version of the soft". Because the code will be have only slight difference." This would be just a statement without any evidence. Since there _is_ a version of the sourcecode licensed under a licence which allows making the code propri

Re: [Trisquel-users] Another FLOSS project moves to a permissive license to be more "open"

2013-05-13 Thread aaz893
"but an evil proprietary software developer is free to take the code of the apache version" No. Because then we will say "You took the code from GPL-version of the soft". Because the code will be have only slight difference.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Another FLOSS project moves to a permissive license to be more "open"

2013-05-13 Thread cyberhawk
The problem is, if a piece of software is under the Apache (or similar) license, it is perfectly legal to fork it under a proprietary license. Changes can be made, that are secret and there is no obligation to publish the software under a free software license. This means, the new proprieta

[Trisquel-users] new laptop

2013-05-13 Thread asmegir
After 5+ years a number of "issues" (dead battery, structural flaws, semi-working keys, iffy fan etc..) forced me to buy a new laptop. After unboxing I installed Trisquel and all seems to be working out of box. No issues with the graphics (intel), sound (intel), wifi (ath9x), etc. All I did

Re: [Trisquel-users] Another FLOSS project moves to a permissive license to be more "open"

2013-05-13 Thread tegskywalker
The GPL benefits the original copyright holder the most becuase they have total control over the licensing. The copyright holder can change the license at any time and even dual license the code with the GPL and their own commercial license if they wanted to make code proprietary if needed.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Another FLOSS project moves to a permissive license to be more "open"

2013-05-13 Thread shiretoko
The problem is not "there is not gpl version of the program" but "there is an apache licence version of the program". of course you can gplize it, but an evil proprietary software developer is free to take the code of the apache version and make a proprietary program out of it. But I don't

Re: [Trisquel-users] Another FLOSS project moves to a permissive license to be more "open"

2013-05-13 Thread aaz893
"another FLOSS prоject" Free/Libre/OPEN SOURCE Software Apache license is Open Source

Re: [Trisquel-users] Please, help me get rid of Skype.

2013-05-13 Thread Alexander Stephen Thomas Ross
http://www.webrtc.org

Re: [Trisquel-users] Another FLOSS project moves to a permissive license to be more "open"

2013-05-13 Thread aaz893
Let's just do fork and GPLizef it.

Re: [Trisquel-users] DuckDuckGo and RuNet(russian segment of the Internet)

2013-05-13 Thread aaz893
Are you sure? Cookies and other technologies of tracking only help improve relevance of search queries, because of personalization. But even without personalization , filter bubble is possible. Just imagine the situation: You are learning biology. You are found hard question in the textbook

[Trisquel-users] Another FLOSS project moves to a permissive license to be more "open"

2013-05-13 Thread tegskywalker
I made a post in December of 2012 about StatusNet moving from a GPL license to a more permissive one (https://trisquel.info/en/forum/statusnet-identica-and-another-blow-agpl) and now it seems another GPL licensed project is moving away: http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Video-js-goes-A

Re: [Trisquel-users] DuckDuckGo and RuNet(russian segment of the Internet)

2013-05-13 Thread onpon4
I don't think Startpage has a filter bubble, unless I'm missing something. If they don't track you (which Startpage doesn't, as far as I'm aware), there isn't even a technical way to implement a filter bubble.

Re: [Trisquel-users] WIFI not working on DELL D610 - HELP -

2013-05-13 Thread mikko . viinamaki
Different wifi card, different results.

Re: [Trisquel-users] DuckDuckGo and RuNet(russian segment of the Internet)

2013-05-13 Thread tegskywalker
If you want the best searc results under a powerful engine (currently Google), then use Startpage under SSL: https://www.startpage.com. It is Google's search results minus the data and IP tracking. They even have image and video searching as well.

Re: [Trisquel-users] WIFI not working on DELL D610 - HELP -

2013-05-13 Thread superbyelich
badspell68, you may have to use this one: https://www.thinkpenguin.com/gnu-linux/penguin-wireless-n-mini-pci The D610 is an older laptop, and I'm not sure it used a mini pci-e... Make sure and check it out first, also if it does, it may be full-height rather than half height like this one:

Re: [Trisquel-users] WIFI not working on DELL D610 - HELP -

2013-05-13 Thread fournierfrederick
I use a Dell Latitude D610 and the wifi always worked fine for me. The chipset is 03:03.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02). I bought this laptop especially for it compatibility with the wifi. That's ode to find a De

Re: [Trisquel-users] DuckDuckGo and RuNet(russian segment of the Internet)

2013-05-13 Thread aaz893
otvety.google.ru is quite popular in the RuNet. Result of this query discovers bad indexation of some popular russian sites by DuckDuckGo.

Re: [Trisquel-users] DuckDuckGo and RuNet(russian segment of the Internet)

2013-05-13 Thread aaz893
I'm writing in Cyrillic without any accents.

Re: [Trisquel-users] WIFI not working on DELL D610 - HELP -

2013-05-13 Thread mikko . viinamaki
That card will work with Trisquel if it works with your machine.

Re: [Trisquel-users] DuckDuckGo and RuNet(russian segment of the Internet)

2013-05-13 Thread aaz893
http://trisquel.info/en/forum/duckduckgo-and-runetrussian-segment-internet#comment-34726

Re: [Trisquel-users] DuckDuckGo and RuNet(russian segment of the Internet)

2013-05-13 Thread aaz893
Sometimes DuckDuckGo gives me only irrelevant trash. Sometimes DuckDuckGo don't gives me ANY results. It seems that it's search database have only small part of RuNet. Only for example, search query "ватикан - рай для педофилов": https://duckduckgo.com/?t=trisquel&q="ватикан+-+рай+для+педофило

Re: [Trisquel-users] Looking for a free software to edit sheet music (solfic writing)

2013-05-13 Thread marandamoses611
If you are looking for a professional audio mixing and editing click here

Re: [Trisquel-users] DuckDuckGo and RuNet(russian segment of the Internet)

2013-05-13 Thread aaz893
I need balance. I don't want "filter bubble". But I also want some relevant search results.

Re: [Trisquel-users] DuckDuckGo and RuNet(russian segment of the Internet)

2013-05-13 Thread aaz893
I don't want just another private search engine. I want DuckDuckGo only because of the feature: http://dontbubble.us/