No matter what the software is, it's better if it's free. Even if it is not
copy-left at least it is free software. Every little bit helps so I think you
did do a good thing.
I have purchased a Penguin desktop from ThinkPenguin for work and I haven't
had any problems with it at all. I think that it would be great to see custom
designed cases and fancy plastic bezels on the thing but I also realize that
there's an expense there and it's hard for a small company to
We should bring up these problems with the Mumble developers and see if they
have any suggestions or insight to what's going on. My work around is less
involved but consistent across three installs so I'd say it's still worth
bringing up. You and one other person on the forums have noticed is
You're absolutely right, you did point to that thread in your original post.
Sorry for overlooking that and suggesting again that you look at that thread.
Have you tried creating a new user and trying it with that user? I know you
said it works as root but I mean a new user with user-level permissions.
Also, have you tried purging your mumble settings? The directory containing
user settings is under ~/.config/Mumble
I'm just throwing ideas ou
Andrew asked:
"Are you taking these tests in-class?"
No, all of the tests are done from home, even the finals.
"But remember that using someone else's computer is like using a network
service - you don't have control of what happens to your data."
I am already plotting on this for the next
I am hardly betraying myself in this instance, because the educational system
is not within my control. Were the educational system within my control,
there would be no proprietary software in it, for NUMEROUS reasons.
I would be betraying myself were I to use the separate system with the
p
Andrew said
"the problem here is that with a test that requires proprietary software, the
ability to provide evidence of completing the exam becomes difficult (because
you lack the freedom to control your computing)."
I don't know where in the world you are, but it doesn't sound like you ar
I'm not having sex with the Mate. =)
1." your views sound to me from your posts like authoritarian (e.g. fascist
or authoritarian socialist) views."
I don't know who I am. Political tests results are very different,from
liberalism to totalitarism.
2." I get this impression mostly because you say you don't like democracy
(!)"
Just saw that MATE packages are making their way into Debian's unstable (sid)
repos which means that future Ubuntu and Trisquel releases will be able to
nab it without a secondary repository or PPA.
I'm only seeing one package, but it seems like the addition to the
repositories is fairly ne
El 20/05/13 19:21, gamebo...@lavabit.com escribió:
> Where is the custom BIOS for the Thinkpad t61p
Maybe in www.coreboot.org
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Saludos libres,
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Asociación de Software Libre del Ecuador - ASLE
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El 20/05/13 14:31, shiret...@web.de escribió:
> As I said, I think someone who's in a bad economical situation often
> can't afford to quit his job because of being forced to use prop.
> software.
Perhaps most people think that the job they have is barely enough to
cover their basic needs. The rea
Where is the custom BIOS for the Thinkpad t61p?
El 20/05/13 14:28, nospamh...@runbox.com escribió:
> I can give an example.
>
> I am taking a class whereby tests required for the class REQUIRE
> flash. Gnash doesn't work. For example, if I attempt to read the
> online chapters in Gnash there is no text to read. Each chapter also
> has labs which
El 20/05/13 16:19, tris...@xemaps.com escribió:
> Interesting discussion.
>
> I'm glad that there are people in this world like Richard Stallman.
> I'm glad there's a distro like Trisquel. I'm glad there is a company
> like ThinkPenguin. We need them all.
>
> And, I'm not in a position to live that
On 21/05/13 05:28, nospamhere wrote:
I am taking a class whereby tests required for the class REQUIRE
flash.
[I wrote:]
The only problem with using a computer for an exam is that the
evidence that you ever completed the exam can disappear more easily
than a paper exam.
I would like to expand
"the distro is dead"
You can certainly be forgiven for thinking so. It seemed the same to me.
But we were wrong!
http://distrowatch.com/?newsid=07871
FWIW I feel pretty much the same vague sense of dis-ease with the idea of
basing on a Canonical product. However, I appreciate that Ruben is p
On 21/05/13 05:28, nospamhere wrote:
I can give an example.
I am taking a class whereby tests required for the class REQUIRE
flash. Gnash doesn't work. For example, if I attempt to read the
online chapters in Gnash there is no text to read. Each chapter also
has labs which can be done from home
Interesting discussion.
I'm glad that there are people in this world like Richard Stallman. I'm glad
there's a distro like Trisquel. I'm glad there is a company like
ThinkPenguin. We need them all.
And, I'm not in a position to live that purely 100% of the time, personally.
Yet. Something
So it did take over two weeks--and they did screw up one of my distro
requests (got vanilla Debian 7 instead of the requested XFCE)--but:
I'm satisfied with the Strata so far. It's much heavier, and a little bigger
than I was after, but it does have a solid and polished feel to it so far.
I
Actually, there is an important situation where this would be a good deed on
your part. The thing is, you're not noticing one key point: the university
would probably help him/her, but only if he/she uses Windows (which is very
sad, to say the least, but it does mean that you are not his/her
Ok, last question:
If my collegue at university had the same fate like me (no prop software = no
degree) and he had problems running this software, I understand that he can't
ask for help in this forum, it's ok for me.
But I personally (not representing the trisquel community) would have helpe
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Date: Mon, 20 May 2013 21:46:19 +0200
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planet.trisquel.org/
It will work one day?
Libere,
Pascal Diogo Antunes.
--
"Plus faible sera l'opposition, plus étroit sera le d
I don't think it excludes you from the ideals of the Trisquel community.
There may be certain (very limited) circumstances in which choosing to run
proprietary software is less bad than choosing not to, and you are free to do
so if you wish. However, we will never help you to do so.
planet.trisquel.org/
It will work one day?
Libere,
Pascal Diogo Antunes.
--
"Plus faible sera l'opposition, plus étroit sera le despotisme."-
Orwell, 1984.
As I said, I think someone who's in a bad economical situation often can't
afford to quit his job because of being forced to use prop. software.
Or:
If my professor at university would have told me: "you have to use this
proprietary software for your final theses, because everyone does; otherw
I can give an example.
I am taking a class whereby tests required for the class REQUIRE flash. Gnash
doesn't work. For example, if I attempt to read the online chapters in Gnash
there is no text to read. Each chapter also has labs which can be done from
home by connecting to the online labs
Let me blunt: your views sound to me from your posts like authoritarian (e.g.
fascist or authoritarian socialist) views. I get this impression mostly
because you say you don't like democracy (!), but you also say that privacy
is not very important and that having a "Big Brother" (a totalitari
El 20/05/13 13:53, shiret...@web.de escribió:
> I can accept not to recommend non-free software to anyone in this
> forum. It's also ok for me not to call it a "solution" whenever
> running proprietary software is the only appropriate choice.
> But I don't share the view that there is never a case
> But I don't share the view that there is never a case where running
> proprietary software is the less bad choice of two evils.
Who does?
I found out that the problem is that the libc6-i386 is version 2.13, while
the libc6-amd64 is 2.15 and this is preventing libc6 from being configured.
'sudo-do-release-upgrade' no longer works, but my system is clearly not 6.0.
The latest libc6-i386 i can find to download from the Trisquel pa
I'm thinking of the whole thing for quite a while, trying to figure out
whether this is the right place for me or not.
Debian is far away from my views;
I can accept not to recommend non-free software to anyone in this forum. It's
also ok for me not to call it a "solution" whenever running pro
El 20/05/13 13:09, aaz...@mail.ru escribió:
> 1."Because they are contradictory with each other."
>
> Where is any contradiction? I don't see it. Maybe these words have a
> different meaning for you? Please give your definition of
> "protectionism" and "fair competition".
Fair is not competitive.
1."Because they are contradictory with each other."
Where is any contradiction? I don't see it. Maybe these words have a
different meaning for you? Please give your definition of "protectionism" and
"fair competition".
2."But you are out of politeness and nettiquette if you work against the
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El 20/05/13 04:04, shiret...@web.de escribió:
> " The job market for people that know how to use
> libre (free as in freedom) software is greater than the market for
> people that know about non-libre software."
>
> This might be the case in ecuador,
El 20/05/13 01:13, aaz...@mail.ru escribió:
> And what you will do, if I will send the community guidelines to FSF,
> and then FSF say "some of guidelines not fits well to ideology of FSF"?
Nothing. I would read what you have to say and what they have to say.
> "That is an oxymoron."
> Why?
I do
"There is no reason to keep a nonfree program "dormant" on your computer
except to use it later."
Yes, I want to install it later. Because I noticed, that Wine@Etersotf can
run such software, with which does not run on the free version. Therefore, I
want to make an experiment. I'll try to f
But I have fast Internet-connection. If I will need this functionality, I can
be tempted regardless of existence of file on my hard disk.
Like the most recent GNOME desktops, there is a limitation to setup only 4
keyboard layouts to choose from. This is annoying for us who use more than
four languages. I know that in Fedora 18 this has been resolved. Also there
it is possible to switch by choosing keybindings for previous and n
There is no reason to keep a nonfree program "dormant" on your computer
except to use it later. That would be a bad choice to make. Delete it now,
and you will not risk being tempted to sacrifice your freedom for
functionality in the future.
You are making a false comparison and mis-representing his logic.
In one situation the package is clearly non-free. It is good for only one
thing, installing a non-free program. If you are committed to only using
free software the package is of no use to you. If you reject non-free
softw
"Is there even a reason you would "update" the nonfree BIOS to a newer
nonfree BIOS?"
Yes. Sometimes updating of BIOS help fix some technical problems. Sometimes
new version have additional features.
FLOSS BIOS have much better functionality, but installation of it very
problematic. Ask C
This would one call a "replacement" and not an update.
But anyway:
it's strange that no one is allowed to help others installing non-free
software, no matter under which circumstance, but almost everyone uses
non-free software.
I heard all the time "there is no reason why running prop. softwar
"The solution to that problem is easy"
But is there a problem? The software is NOT installed.
Otherwise, we will get to the point of absurdity.
Because there are a lot of sources of non-free software. The Internet, for
example. If I will follow your logic, I must disconnect from Internet,
beca
What are you talking about? I'm sure people here would be perfectly happy to
help update a nonfree BIOS to a free one (if they have the ability to help).
Is there even a reason you would "update" the nonfree BIOS to a newer nonfree
BIOS?
Well done. Good for him and for the rest of us. GPL is the most popular free
software license.
David A. Wheeler famously agrees
http://www.dwheeler.com/essays/gpl-compatible.html
Well, this is very acceptable.
But if you're taking the guidelines for serious, nobody here will help you
when you have to update your bios, and I think that's not good.
http://www.gentee.com/index.htm
Gentee has GPL-incompatible, Open Source, non-copyleft licence.
But from version 3.6.1 Gentee changes license to MIT.
The license became GPL-compatible.
This is because I'm persuaded the author to change license to GPL-compatible.
I was tried to persuade him to
Maybe TV box is not such good illustration of my thought ...
Another example. I'm owner of Wine@Etersot copy. It is commercial version of
Wine with some non-free components. Wine@Etersoft not installed now, but I
have deb-package on my hard disk.
Unless there is DRM you can install GNU/Linux on that TV and run a free
browser.
If there is DRM (which seems to be the case in this example which would
prevent you from doing this then it is evil by default.
1.Example:
You are have TV box with built-in web browser. The web browser have built-in
Adobe Flash plugin. You can't remove Adobe Flash plugin. But you CAN disable
it in the browser preferences.
I think this will be equivalent to removing of non-free soft. Removing are
better only because
I wasn't making accusations -"Incidently I may be wrong *(if I am I
apologise)* but it is surely against the rules to use IRC chat which does not
appear to be free software. "
I agree My alternative forum wasn't very good but that wasn't the point , it
was just to show that things could be do
I don't think anyone here actually manages to use only nonfree software; my
laptop, for example, has a nonfree BIOS. The point is that we try to use only
free software, and we don't accept nonfree software. If we are forced to use
nonfree software, we treat it as a problem that must be solved
"For example, I'm very prefer FLOSS to non-free software."
Oh, sh*t! Maybe there are misunderstanding? English not my native language,
so sometimes I making errors. I mean "If I could use FLOSS, then I will use
FLOSS. Otherwise, I will use non-free software(or will not use any software)"
Hi again. I've discovered a way to connect to a Mumble server.
1. Start Mumble and connect. Mumble will freezed.
2. Go to System Monitor, close Mumble process.
3. Start Mumble again
4. Create new account pressing button "add new" Fill the server data
connection.
5. Enter Mumble settings, n
Probably not. Of all the items in our catalog it had the least demand. People
have to show interest or products will disappear from the catalog. Each
product takes a lot of time to add/maintain/support/etc. If something isn't
selling we aren't going to continue it. We tried all-in-one desktop
I'm PREFER to use FLOSS. My computer have only free/open software installed.
But I also realize, that sometimes compromise are better choice.
The whole situation quite funny. On linux.org.ru(popular linux forum in
exUSSR) I have reputation of zealot of FSF. :-)
@Roboq6 : "all of us" means "all Trisquel users". And for me, a Trisquel user
is only using free software in his personal use.
If you prefer using non-free software, it's your choice but in this case what
are you doing here ? what is your purpose ? you do like playing the troll,
don't you ?
What are your basis for the accusations?
Having a free software only host for websites is very trivial, since most
widely used programs in web servers are free software. And the server
software of Freenode, where Trisquel's IRC channel resides, is also free
software.
Well said stefano,particularly your remarks about a *technical* forum and ,
if you like non-technical forum. I proposed this some time ago, I even
offered to pay for hosting it (and I'm still prepared to do so) but was
ignored.
Incidently I may be wrong (if I am I apologise) but it is surely
" The job market for people that know how to use
libre (free as in freedom) software is greater than the market for
people that know about non-libre software."
This might be the case in ecuador, but in many countries, like in germany,
this is completely wrong.
Furthermore, you didn't read the
Someone solved the same question here:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-software-2/change-the-size-of-the-titlebar-878066/
I'm not sure what the default theme is under Toutatis. Maybe Clearlooks or
ClearlooksClassic from memory of Brigantia.
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