Re: [Trisquel-users] The NSA can tap into Android systems

2013-09-07 Thread Andrew R .
On 08/09/13 15:57, Chris wrote: > What phone do you use? Does it run Replicant? > > I'd be curious as to how that works. Where is the code for that? Is > it in the modem firmware or part of the OS firmware? It's not Replicant, or even a smartphone. It's an ancient Nokia phone, actually. I'm not

Re: [Trisquel-users] Playing video freezes my netbook!

2013-09-07 Thread janeandreas
I have fixed the problem. What I had to do was add the following to the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="" field: acpi_osi=Linux acpi_backlight=vendor I am not sure which one statement is the one fixing the situation, so I am leaving both. then of course I ran sudo update-grub Now, finally th

Re: [Trisquel-users] The NSA can tap into Android systems

2013-09-07 Thread chris
What phone do you use? Does it run Replicant? I'd be curious as to how that works. Where is the code for that? Is it in the modem firmware or part of the OS firmware?

Re: [Trisquel-users] The NSA can tap into Android systems

2013-09-07 Thread chris
This shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone for a number of reasons. First off the encryption used in GSM phones was broken long ago. Now that in and of itself doesn't mean they have access to the phone itself. Here is one article from 2009 on it: http://www.pcworld.com/article/185552/GSM_En

Re: [Trisquel-users] Fundraising campaign: Privacy Friendly Mail (TLS/OpenGPG/etc) Software

2013-09-07 Thread Andrew R .
On 08/09/13 03:11, Fernando Negro wrote: > Am I the only one who thinks someone might be reading the > conversations held in "MSN Messenger"? > > http://omnitechsupporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/MSN-Messenger-300x243.jpg No, they are surely spying on MSN conversations. MSN has now been re

Re: [Trisquel-users] The NSA can tap into Android systems

2013-09-07 Thread Andrew R .
On 08/09/13 12:30, Fernando Negro wrote: > The *NSA can tap into Android systems(!)* (and also other, > non-Linux, mobile devices). > > There's an initial report here: > http://rt.com/news/nsa-smart-phones-spying-563/ > > And, I'll probably post some more links about the Android part (that > mo

[Trisquel-users] The NSA can tap into Android systems

2013-09-07 Thread fernando . negro
The *NSA can tap into Android systems(!)* (and also other, non-Linux, mobile devices). There's an initial report here: http://rt.com/news/nsa-smart-phones-spying-563/ And, I'll probably post some more links about the Android part (that most interests me) once I find some more information

Re: [Trisquel-users] NSA Decryption capabilities

2013-09-07 Thread fernando . negro
Correction: Since this is not about "decryption" capabilities (but tapping capabilities), I think it deserves a thread of its own. So, I'll just create one, instead.

Re: [Trisquel-users] NSA Decryption capabilities

2013-09-07 Thread fernando . negro
The *NSA can tap Android systems(!)* (and also other, non-Linux, mobile devices). There's an initial report here: http://rt.com/news/nsa-smart-phones-spying-563/ And, I'll probably post some more links about the Android part (that most interests me) once I find some more information about

Re: [Trisquel-users] NSA Decryption capabilities

2013-09-07 Thread atilio . baroni
For those who have more technical knowledge (and thought the first article lacked details), this guy read the snowden files and has a good idea of what the NSA can and cannot do: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/05/nsa-how-to-remain-secure-surveillance He didn't use the words "Free

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trouble with sound

2013-09-07 Thread ejectmail
It just happened again, under the same circumstances, and restarting pulseaudio fixed it. However, the pavucontrol command was not found.

Re: [Trisquel-users] NSA Decryption capabilities

2013-09-07 Thread fernando . negro
(But, just to finish my comments in this thread...) I don't know if other people, in here, realize how *serious* all of this is... (Forget the light critics, made by the controlled "civil liberties organizations", and pay real attention to what's going on around you.) You have an *out*-*o

[Trisquel-users] Re : Strange thing about WLAN card and etc

2013-09-07 Thread magicbanana
The orinoco driver should work for your card... and "is part of any recent Linux kernel". Maybe it is damaged.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel on Samsung Chromebook?

2013-09-07 Thread tesseract
I think RMS would call that a "slippery slope" if I'm not mistaken. If I were more technically adept I'd attempt to dicsern between free and nonfree. Sadly I'm not!

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel on Samsung Chromebook?

2013-09-07 Thread Michael Mehrazar
On 09/07/2013 05:03 PM, franpa...@openmailbox.org wrote: > Hey, not all the software on the nonfree repository is propietary > software, some game data are in the non-free even if the software is > under GPL. > > That is true, and is due to disagreements between the FSF's definition of software fre

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel on Samsung Chromebook?

2013-09-07 Thread franparpe
Hey, not all the software on the nonfree repository is propietary software, some game data are in the non-free even if the software is under GPL.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel on Samsung Chromebook?

2013-09-07 Thread tesseract
Okay, thanks. I'll try and flog it on eBay.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel on Samsung Chromebook?

2013-09-07 Thread Michael Mehrazar
On 09/07/2013 04:22 PM, mikko.viinam...@students.turkuamk.fi wrote: > I guess no free GNU/Linux supports ARM even if their upstreams do. > > *gNewSense > *Trisquel > *Parabola > *Ututo > Yes, that is unfortunate, especially because both gNewSense and Parabola support MIPS, a much less popular arch

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel on Samsung Chromebook?

2013-09-07 Thread mikko . viinamaki
I guess no free GNU/Linux supports ARM even if their upstreams do. *gNewSense *Trisquel *Parabola *Ututo

Re: [Trisquel-users] Fundraising campaign: Privacy Friendly Mail (TLS/OpenGPG/etc) Software

2013-09-07 Thread fernando . negro
People are not supposed to know about this kind of symbols - since they are used by *secret* societies. The thing is, that, this kind of information has been leaked out (and was not supposed to) by people who (if you read further, in my previous post) have proven to be credible persons. S

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel on Samsung Chromebook?

2013-09-07 Thread jason
It appears to be an ARM CPU. Trisquel doesn't support ARM, only x86.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Fundraising campaign: Privacy Friendly Mail (TLS/OpenGPG/etc) Software

2013-09-07 Thread shiretoko
"You can't expect people to take you seriously with crap like this. What makes you think that a mind control conspiracy would go out of its way to plant "mind control" symbols into its activity?" +1 >> The truth is that people are, in general, not stupid. -1 Can't agree on this; there are

Re: [Trisquel-users] Fundraising campaign: Privacy Friendly Mail (TLS/OpenGPG/etc) Software

2013-09-07 Thread onpon4
> The disguised butterfly symbol, that appears in the logo of the (apparently) > cynically named "FreedomBox" company - in the "Our Community" section, in > Mailpipe's web page - is a "mind control" symbol I stopped reading after this. You can't expect people to take you seriously with crap

Re: [Trisquel-users] Ubuntu 13.10 the second step to spy its users ?

2013-09-07 Thread fernando . negro
Thanks for that (very valuable) piece of information, that definitely adds to the debate about all the control/spying that Ubuntu is starting to impose on its users (or trying to "invite" their users to adhere to). Definitely, another incentive to use Trisquel, instead...

Re: [Trisquel-users] Penguin GNU / Linux Laptop /w 1920x1080 Matte Screen Now Shipping

2013-09-07 Thread capitalkid
I am relatively new to Linux, about 4 years now so i know less than some and more than others at this point. I decided on a buy for A Snares come the end of the month, it will replace my husbands T60 Thinkpad, which I bought for him as a stopgap last June. Eventually we will all get thinkp

Re: [Trisquel-users] Fundraising campaign: Privacy Friendly Mail (TLS/OpenGPG/etc) Software

2013-09-07 Thread fernando . negro
And, also, by the way... (I hesitated to point this out, because I know everyone else in here, but me, knows about it... But,) The disguised butterfly symbol, that appears in the logo of the (apparently) cynically named "FreedomBox" company - in the "Our Community" section, in Mailpipe's

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel on Samsung Chromebook?

2013-09-07 Thread icarolongo
Chromebooks is different from Chromeboxes. Oct 2012Samsung Series 3 XE303C121.7 GHz Samsung Exynos 5 Dual https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exynos

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel on Samsung Chromebook?

2013-09-07 Thread tesseract
Sorry, not enough information! It's an arm processor, Exynos 5250 Dual Core, 2GB RAM and 16GB flash storage. icarolongo, your're spot on! I know it will run ubuntu alongside chrome os, but would greatly prefer Trisquel.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel on Samsung Chromebook?

2013-09-07 Thread stanekjack
Series 3 Chromebooks use Celeron or i5. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromebook#Chromeboxes)

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel on Samsung Chromebook?

2013-09-07 Thread icarolongo
ARM or x86?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Fundraising campaign: Privacy Friendly Mail (TLS/OpenGPG/etc) Software

2013-09-07 Thread onpon4
...Or, you're making baseless speculation that isn't supported by evidence at all.

[Trisquel-users] Trisquel on Samsung Chromebook?

2013-09-07 Thread tesseract
Hello. I have acquired a Samsung Chromebook and was wondering if anyone has installed Trisquel on such a machine. Is it possible, or are there too many hurdles? I beleive it's the series 3 version. Thanks!

Re: [Trisquel-users] Fundraising campaign: Privacy Friendly Mail (TLS/OpenGPG/etc) Software

2013-09-07 Thread fernando . negro
That can be just "theatre", made to deceive people. By making it appear as if this new e-mail hosting service goes against the interests of the establishment. Intelligence operations are all about deception.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Fundraising campaign: Privacy Friendly Mail (TLS/OpenGPG/etc) Software

2013-09-07 Thread fernando . negro
And, speaking of former Russian intelligence officers... The following, is a Free Software program, that has been repeatedly recommend by two of them, as a secure mean of private communications. http://www.911thology.com/cipher_wall.html (Although, it's intended for use on - the non-free OS

Re: [Trisquel-users] Fundraising campaign: Privacy Friendly Mail (TLS/OpenGPG/etc) Software

2013-09-07 Thread fernando . negro
As long as Putin is in power, at least, Russia will not become Western-like, in terms of a great loss of civil rights and an immense Big Brother surveillance. Putin is no "champion" of Democracy, yes. But he's also not the "devil" that the Western media portraits of him. Putin is hated by Wes

Re: [Trisquel-users] NSA Decryption capabilities

2013-09-07 Thread erikthorsen
I'd would like to point out that OpenBSD backdoor thing is entirely unproven and by all accounts just nonsense.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Strange thing about WLAN card and etc

2013-09-07 Thread dujingshan
du@dujingshan-IBM:~$ lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: ALi Corporation M1621 (rev 01) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: ALi Corporation PCI to AGP Controller (rev 01) 00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: ALi Corporation M5451 PCI AC-Link Controller Audio Device (rev 01) 00:07.0 ISA bridge: ALi Corporation M1533/M153

Re: [Trisquel-users] live CD ask to log in

2013-09-07 Thread heir4c
Thanx, these commando's solve my problem with the login issue.

Re: [Trisquel-users] live CD ask to log in

2013-09-07 Thread heir4c
ThanX. These commands solve my problem with the login issue.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Fundraising campaign: Privacy Friendly Mail (TLS/OpenGPG/etc) Software

2013-09-07 Thread mikko . viinamaki
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/09/05/1238242/paypal-freezes-mailpiles-account