Wow- I didn't expect that to solve anything.
Interesting bit I read in wikipedia:
Gallium3D has been a part of Mesa since 2009[3] and is currently used by the
free and open source graphics driver for Nvidia (nouveau project),[4][5] and
by the free and open source graphics driver for ATI
This is something that is asked all the time...
There are a lot of issues with this system and the comparison besides the
ones you have mentioned. It's not in the same class for starters. The system
ships with digital handcuffs, has privacy invasive enabling technology, has a
wifi card
I can recommend viewtube or viewtubeplus.
Both are greasemonkey scripts. Last one supports some additional *special*
sites... you know what I mean!
Hello everyone,
at university, I have to meet in regular intervals (mainly a few weeks) with
a woman from the phil-hist faculty, because our faculties work together in
some cases.
We meet, have a bit of smalltalk and then we have to do our work together.
It's an rather old lady with a
If you don't care about privacy and your computers have wireless cards, you
can use the networked computer as an insecure hotspot. (no encryption or the
insecure WEP)
This is probably not a good idea but since I don't know the circumstances I
mention it.
Apparently the WPA2 ad-hoc
I suggest to make a multilingual transaltion of this Stallman's speech
(Richard Stallman at UofC), and its duratinon is more than hour:
http://archive.org/details/20090203-Richard-Stallman-UofC-01
I also like this one (shorter one, 10 minutes long), and there are aleady
some subtitles
First I'd help with the translations at gnu.org. It would help a lot of
people. Including this lady.
If the translation situation cannot be quickly fixed, I would point her to
the English page to make sure she isn't exposed to any hodge-podge German
translation,
And also please pay your attention to this (Guns are getting smarter.
Soldiers are getting dumber):
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/guns-are-getting-smarter-soldiers-are-getting-dumber
I guess that one the best ways to inform and motivate people in this
direction is to show to them a video-speeches, so that they could understand
what it is all about. What else, then, is more understandable to
out-of-computing people than a nice video-speech? (Well, actually there is
also
I don't know if lack of Flash is a problem today. Fortunately many websites
is removing this or adding video in H.264 for tablets and smartphones and
Abrowser in Trisquel support this. It's amazing to see many websites without
this bullshit :-)
First, I absolutely don't want anybody to become a opensource/ubuntu type,
and I would make sure that everyone knows about GNU and the philosophy after
reading my page. I agree with you in what you said about the threat to free
software because of those people.
Your advice to think penguin
If you're interested in translating, this site might be of interest
https://www.amara.org/ (requires JavaScript)
In the repositories, there are packages gnome-subtitles and subtitlecomposer
(KDE) that might come handy too.
At least you may try to think about what is better _not_ to do.
The ppas could still be added, though with a bit more manual work; it's
not as easy as, for instance,
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:sparkers
You'd have to go to the launchpad page, locate the 'deb' and 'deb src'
lines for the ppa of interest, add them to '/etc/sources.list', and add
the gpg
This is simply not enough
Could you give her a Raspberry Pie with a free OS on it? Would that be
appropriate?
This way, the switch will not have surprises (eg. interfere with her using
websites that require Flash).
She will notice the differences between the RPie PC and her current PC (docx,
Flash, etc). If you
How about loaning her a computer with a working Trisquel or giving her a
USB Trisquel installation to try? Demonstration might make the best
case of all.
On Thursday 13 June 2013 09:44 AM, det31...@aol.com wrote:
What does this mean?
dpkg: error processing
/var/cache/apt/archives/libgtk2.0-0_2.24.10-0ubuntu6+6.0trisquel2_i386.deb
(--unpack):
'./usr/share/doc/libgtk2.0-0/changelog.Debian' is different from the
same file on the system
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On 2013-06-14 07:46, mikko.viinam...@students.turkuamk.fi wrote:
going cold turkey
Can you please try and avoid such expressions here? Is this what you meant?:
*Cold turkey* describes the actions of a person who abruptly gives up
a habit or
The matte screen was indeed included. What do you mean by digital
handcuffs? The specs clearly stated the card was Intel HD.
It also appears I can get the ZaReason Strata, again with a faster processor
and otherwise almost identical specifications (downside: webcam is 1.3
megapixels and
A Raspberry PI requires a non-free graphics driver to even boot.
Maybe it would be a better idea to loan a desktop computer.
There's nothing good on television, anyway. :-)
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Thanks for sharing your concerns, it's very important that you do,
specially here.
On 2013-06-14 04:42, shiret...@web.de wrote:
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So two questions:
1. how would you try to help this person in my situation
You mention three major perception
Can you please try and avoid such expressions here? Is this what you meant?
What's the problem? Yes that is what I mean.
Hello Trisquel users,
I am a novice Trisquel user. I have just installed Trisquel 6.0 (dual boot
with Windows). I am not very knowledgable about software or computers, but I
am interested in GNU/Linux operating systems and free software.
If you have any spare time, I would like you to help
Trisquel has only free software. Probably you have one wireless card that
requires non-free firmware or non-free driver.
Search about wireless, wi-fi here in the Trisquel website (top bar) and
learning more about this issue.
On Friday 14 June 2013 09:21 PM, aniny...@tormail.org wrote:
Hello Trisquel users,
I am a novice Trisquel user. I have just installed Trisquel 6.0 (dual
boot with Windows). I am not very knowledgable about software or
computers, but I am interested in GNU/Linux operating systems and
free
On 2013-06-14 11:37, mikko.viinam...@students.turkuamk.fi wrote:
Can you please try and avoid such expressions here? Is this what you
meant?
What's the problem? Yes that is what I mean.
Not everyone will understand such expressions. I for one had to look it up.
Well, it's a fairly common expression. And now you know what it means the
next time you encounter it.
Something must be wrong with this info.
On my raspberry pi, debian ist running without contrib or non-free, so I
don't have any non-free drivers installed and my raspberry pi is able to
boot.
I never used the xserver, so I can only talk about text mode.
There is more to it than that. The CPUs and chipsets also include components
which are problematic.
The CPUs offered include technology which enables companies like Netflix,
Youtube, and others to gain and restrict access to your system. They can
control the stream of content and do things
Thank you for your long answer.
1- Make yourself available, but you don't need to know everything
Well, I pointed out that I don't have even the possibility to make myself
more than *a little bit* available. So there's no danger I will become the
only free software maintainer for this
Definitely this would be the best.
But:
unfortunately, I don't have any notebook I could lend to her.
The thing with the usb stick seems to be the best solution possible.
I will send her a link to the gnu page and give her a trisquel usb stick as
well as a trisquel cd in case usb-boot doesn't
What is a GSM card?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GSM
It's what phones use.
Is it the same as a SIM card, or is that a different technology?
Le Fri, 14 Jun 2013 13:33:20 +0200 (CEST),
kgnao...@riseup.net a écrit :
Please, make your suggestions.
And maybe it would be better to render texts right in the video,
instead of any kind of manual choosing the subtitles from a special
menu - at least because there are people who have
GSM devices rely on SIM cards.
Two things:
1. Don't push non-technical types of people to use free software if there is
no support infrastructure. It will only end badly and hurt any future
potential when the infrastructure does exist.
2. By infrastructure I mean technical people who can support it and hardware
If anyone is interested in writing subtitles for videos or translating things
into other languages please consider joining as a GNU Translator. In this way
your work can be features on the official gnu.org website (like
audio-video.gnu.org, mentioned earlier.)
GNU breaks up translation
That is...very disturbing. I guess I'd better check then: my processor is,
according to the system details, an AMD Athlon II P340 Dual-Core. Is that
safe? How do I know what processors are safe and which are not?
Having looked at the downsides of SSDs I'm no longer sure I want one. If they
I am not in the market for a laptop right now but I am buying a wee 3 on the
first when I get paid. Do I need to do that through the link on the trisquel
page for trisquel to get the 25%?
You can just go to libre.thinkpenguin.com; that's the address of the Trisquel
link. Or, you could just make the donation yourself via the ordinary donation
page.
You're right about the Strata being Fifteen-Six (and coming w/ an optical).
Source: I just measured the one in front of me.
I think Chris misspoke on that detail. He's probably right on the rest, if
histtory is any guide.
Also, I don't want to install Trisquel just yet, so I can't use the
netinstall method.
I recently obtained a computer that can't boot the Trisquel 6 live CD because
the CPU doesn't support PAE (Physical Address Extensions). Is there a way to
get around this?
I like Dave's idea too. Does your university library lend laptops? If so,
perhaps you can use a university laptop to show her how the live-usb works.
She may appreciate you showing her how it works before giving it a go
herself.
I see.. they use basically the same name for many different models over a
long period of time. You said Strata and I didn't realize a quick search
would result in the wrong model. I was mistaken about the stock situation and
the screen size as a result.
I was looking at the following:
As long as you order through libre.thinkpenguin.com we'll know to make a
donation to Trisquel. If your ordering by phone or email just add a polite
reminder about the donation. It'll probably happen either way if I take the
order although I don't handle the majority of the orders and we do
This is an old iThing that I bought for my wife about five years ago. It was
before I really completely understood free software. I was still in the open
source understanding at that point. I'm going to avoid iThings from now on
but she doesn't want to get rid of this one because it was a
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