Re: [Trisquel-users] Is there any interest in privacy free software friendly services?

2013-06-08 Thread trisqit
Yep. And the major difference between this administration and the last is that the first guys just didn't care about the law ... and the new guys are putting all their effort into doing the same unconstitutional bullshit and trying to make the law bless it, when they do it. Instead of

Re: [Trisquel-users] Is there any interest in privacy free software friendly services?

2013-06-08 Thread chris
There is more to this issue than just the US government's invasion of our privacy. The issue extends to companies such as Google, Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, and others. They have an incentive to collect, track, and use the information for targeting advertisements, and potentially other

Re: [Trisquel-users] Is there any interest in privacy free software friendly services?

2013-06-08 Thread trisqit
I heard someone say the other night that Americans tend to fear government, while the rest of the developed world fears corporate power. I think that's generally right. In many ways the federal government is the only protection left to people without power. That's why business is all over

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel 6 Mini- Black border on AMD Raedon/Limited Resolution

2013-06-08 Thread mikko . viinamaki
I think that in Trisquel 6 by default radeon is blacklisted, which I find a surprising choice. You can add a # in front of the blacklist line in /etc/modprobe.d/disable-radeon.conf and then update-initramfs -u. (Both these actions need to be done as root or using sudo.) Then reboot. That

Re: [Trisquel-users] Intstalling Virtualbox in Trisquel 6 Howto (solved, if you need it)

2013-06-08 Thread lloyd
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 [BUMP] Anyone? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) iF4EAREIAAYFAlGy+fQACgkQgijxUCZnvlsS4QD/VsKCXM6zYA8ApnNxxrBymi+A w1rH/1RY1PLUVxV6RwsBAI/tWxlI/+fePKMy/pg2A1QyNCuyePjWur90FUtOw7dw =YDwV -END PGP SIGNATURE-

Re: [Trisquel-users] Directory 'jetpack': Permission Denied.

2013-06-08 Thread mikko . viinamaki
To access a directory, you need the execute permission. so o+x

Re: [Trisquel-users] Major changes in the next Trisquel release

2013-06-08 Thread nowaman
How important are visually impaled persons? Is it a priority to be able to fully control your computer without actually seeing the screen? How usable are these different windowing systems?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Minitube Not Playing Videos

2013-06-08 Thread mikko . viinamaki
I agree free PPAs would be nice. But it's a somewhat tricky proposition. First one would need to check out the licensing of every single file on the PPA. Many people are lazy and don't include any licensing details and leave people guessing. Or maybe they're infringing somebody's copyright,

Re: [Trisquel-users] Is there any interest in privacy free software friendly services?

2013-06-08 Thread Fabian Rodriguez
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2013-06-08 00:02, ch...@thinkpenguin.com wrote: You only need to be better than the rest to make it worthwhile. I believe you already are better on several levels, or already there, at ThinkPenguin. If I were you I'd create such a service with

Re: [Trisquel-users] Owncloud and domain names

2013-06-08 Thread asmith_kv
Definitely a great post.. The information that you have provided is very helpful. it outsourcing

[Trisquel-users] gnome panel

2013-06-08 Thread arsen . ba
Dear all How to get rid of launchers right stick-ines somehow I have got this function activated but cant deactivate it Thank you

Re: [Trisquel-users] Directory 'jetpack': Permission Denied.

2013-06-08 Thread gameboyab
What would the command be, lembas?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Major changes in the next Trisquel release

2013-06-08 Thread tegskywalker
Cinnamon by default uses 3d, but there is also a 2d mode which uses up extra CPU. In that case if you cannot run it with libre drivers, is to go with the Mini or MATE route. Cinnamon uses GTK3 and is based on an older Gnome 3 while MATE is GTK2 based and based on Gnome 2. Someone else here

Re: [Trisquel-users] Directory 'jetpack': Permission Denied.

2013-06-08 Thread mikko . viinamaki
sudo chmod o+x /path/to/ sudo because you don't own the file chmod to change permissions o to change permissions for non-owner, non-group +x to change execute bit

Re: [Trisquel-users] Intstalling Virtualbox in Trisquel 6 Howto (solved, if you need it)

2013-06-08 Thread mikko . viinamaki
I would guess a new kernel version causes a mismatch between your kernel and the virtualbox kernel module. So either use dkms to build for the current kernel or purge and reinstall virtualbox.

Re: [Trisquel-users] gnome panel

2013-06-08 Thread gameboyab
Could you be more clear? I find your question hard to understand.

[Trisquel-users] How to back up to multiple volumes?

2013-06-08 Thread gameboyab
How do I back up to multiple volumes in Backup, the backup program included in Trisquel?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Intstalling Virtualbox in Trisquel 6 Howto (solved, if you need it)

2013-06-08 Thread lloyd
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, Have tried both those options, but they both result in this: http://pastebin.com/f07kxDfW Any idea how to solve that? Thanks. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux)

[Trisquel-users] Re : Is there any interest in privacy free software friendly services?

2013-06-08 Thread magicbanana
I am surprised, nobody has referenced the two recent articles from The Guardian and the Washington Post. The article in the Guardian starts with: The National Security Agency has obtained direct access to the systems of Google, Facebook, Apple and other US internet giants, according to a top

Re: [Trisquel-users] Has Unity Search Spyware been removed from Trisquel?

2013-06-08 Thread mohamadi . salman
What you concerned about is unity-lens-shopping. But this lens is not available even in the Trisquel repositories. http://packages.ubuntu.com/raring/unity-lens-shopping http://packages.trisquel.info/search?suite=defaultsection=allarch=anysearchon=nameskeywords=unity-lens-shopping

Re: [Trisquel-users] Has Unity Search Spyware been removed from Trisquel?

2013-06-08 Thread gameboyab
Why is it that it shows Amazon's results?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Major changes in the next Trisquel release

2013-06-08 Thread Dave Hunt
if Cinnamon is, as you say a more mature and vital project than is Consort, maybe making it accessible is as simple as adding the at-spi stack that already works with GTK3? It could just be that Linux Mint doesn't include this stack? If, even with the at stack installed, an instance of

Re: [Trisquel-users] Is there any interest in privacy free software friendly services?

2013-06-08 Thread gameboyab
A corporation is the most dangerous with a government; the pair create laws like the DMCA.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Major changes in the next Trisquel release

2013-06-08 Thread Dave Hunt
I'm as important a human as anyone with working eyeballs! It follows that I should have as much control of my computing as someone who happens to be able to read a screen. Some sort of windowing environment and the console must be accessible by means of alternate inputs and outputs.

Re: [Trisquel-users] ath9k_htc WiFi Update

2013-06-08 Thread icarolongo
Chris, now the default Linux-libre 3.2.0-45 works with the firmware. Now you can recommend your customers to run Update Manager in Trisquel and put the firmware in /lib/firmware and done.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Re : Is there any interest in privacy free software friendly services?

2013-06-08 Thread Stefano
On Sat, 8 Jun 2013 19:30:01 +0200 (CEST), you wrote: I am surprised, nobody has referenced the two recent articles from The Guardian and the Washington Post. Actually, I have linked the article from the Guardian in one of my posts. :-P -- Stefano Fortune of the day: You will pioneer the

Re: [Trisquel-users] Has Unity Search Spyware been removed from Trisquel?

2013-06-08 Thread jason
This should probably be properly reported as a bug so that it can be tracked, yes?

[Trisquel-users] Re : Directory 'jetpack': Permission Denied.

2013-06-08 Thread magicbanana
Your system? You only need to backup /etc, which is very small (hence XZ), and the list of installed software, which is returned by the following command: $ dpkg --get-selections From the list of installed software (let say you redirected the previous command in a file named packages), you

Re: [Trisquel-users] Major changes in the next Trisquel release

2013-06-08 Thread trisqit
Yes you are, Dave, and you shouldn't have to say it for it to be true. We're all impaired (not impaled, Telstar, for f's sake ... :)) and regardless of the flavor of our impairment, any project should take Real Accessibility seriously. From what I've read and watched, that's more true of

Re: [Trisquel-users] Default Music App

2013-06-08 Thread briareoh
A very good graphical music frontend is Audacious, or DeadBeef. To managing playlist and large music collection we have rhythmbox.

[Trisquel-users] Re : Directory 'jetpack': Permission Denied.

2013-06-08 Thread magicbanana
Your home directory is huged. XZ would last days to compress a tar of it. Go ZIP.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Directory 'jetpack': Permission Denied.

2013-06-08 Thread gameboyab
When I said 'system', I meant my home directory, but I can back up what you showed me, too.