Re: [Trisquel-users] Your thoughts on Firefox to have ads in the browser

2014-02-20 Thread gromobir
As long as we can make sure that ABrowser does not: - Spy on its users - Track any information - Become unfree software in any way I don't have any problems with ABrowser including advertisement. Mozilla is a company and has to get its money from somewhere. That's how it is and how it will be

Re: [Trisquel-users] Batch rename -- Auto rename

2014-02-20 Thread jbar
I don't know any gui application to recursively rename files. I'm afraid you need to do some scripting job. Maybe rpl will be useful. http://packages.trisquel.info/toutatis/rpl

Re: [Trisquel-users] Your thoughts on Firefox to have ads in the browser

2014-02-20 Thread shiretoko
Little analogy: trisquel is based off of ubuntu. Take the rest of your comment and replace google with canoncial.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Laptops and free software?

2014-02-20 Thread garsmith
The laptops are from UK and they have around the same keyboard layout as I want. Some sticker seems to be a good alternative as others have commented. Was little afraid it would be the US layout. I did some research and found that X60 has the problem with high pitch noise when on battery.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Your thoughts on Firefox to have ads in the browser

2014-02-20 Thread mikko . viinamaki
Almost, except the up/downstream relations don't match.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Your thoughts on Firefox to have ads in the browser

2014-02-20 Thread onpon4
I've tried Chromium before, and I honestly don't get what the big deal is. Far as I could discern, it isn't any faster or more lightweight than Firefox these days.

Re: [Trisquel-users] FOSS gaming

2014-02-20 Thread onpon4
*shrug* It's about what I expected. I'm glad there was a response at all, and at that, a huge one for this site; it was on the front page of this site's articles for a long time (something like a month and a half) because of all the comments. Most was negative, but some was positive.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Your thoughts on Firefox to have ads in the browser

2014-02-20 Thread tegskywalker
Yes, it is true that Chromium is based off of code created by Google, but it is still considered a lot more open than the non-free Chrome browser. Chromium is actually less restricive than Firefox as there is no trademarked graphics or related assets that force the Trisquel teams to alter

Re: [Trisquel-users] Your thoughts on Firefox to have ads in the browser

2014-02-20 Thread george . standish
@quantumgravity i think you make a valid point there. the fact trisquel is based on ubuntu, is a BIG issue for me personally. infact, i'd say it's the biggest reason, that i wasn't able to keep all my systems running trisquel (my now failed new years resolution).

Re: [Trisquel-users] Your thoughts on Firefox to have ads in the browser

2014-02-20 Thread george . standish
actually, when i heard about this ad thing in mozilla, it did make an impact on me. i use Tor Browser Bundle, which while firfox-based, will never include ads, as ads = tracking/privacy issues - for most of my web surfing. i am using the minimal uzbl a lot more. but, i do still have

Re: [Trisquel-users] Desktop shows no toolbar

2014-02-20 Thread gustavo_cm
Try removing the file ~/.config/dconf/user.

Re: [Trisquel-users] gluglug thinkpad x60 w/ coreboot mini review

2014-02-20 Thread gustavo_cm
Hi nbd, try to find the correct device domain for your graphics controller with the lspci command. You should search for VGA compatible controller... here it is this way: $ lspci | grep -i vga 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: [controller name] Then, take the numerical code in the

Re: [Trisquel-users] Your thoughts on Firefox to have ads in the browser

2014-02-20 Thread tegskywalker
I also encrypt my DNS with the OpenDNS DNSCrypt proxy: https://launchpad.net/~shnatsel/+archive/dnscrypt

Re: [Trisquel-users] Your thoughts on Firefox to have ads in the browser

2014-02-20 Thread George Standish
On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 04:55:52PM +0100, tegskywal...@hotmail.com wrote: I also encrypt my DNS with the OpenDNS DNSCrypt proxy: https://launchpad.net/~shnatsel/+archive/dnscrypt personally, i'd say your @hotmail.com might be a bigger issue, then encrypted DNS...

Re: [Trisquel-users] Your thoughts on Firefox to have ads in the browser

2014-02-20 Thread tegskywalker
Its a bullshit email I had since 1997.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Batch rename -- Auto rename

2014-02-20 Thread gustavo_cm
You genius could find something useful when searching for packages with batch rename in their descriptions: $ apt-cache search batch rename gprename - Complete batch renamer for Linux gwenrename - Batch renamer tool for KDE id3ren - id3 tagger and renamer kipi-plugins - image

Re: [Trisquel-users] Your thoughts on Firefox to have ads in the browser

2014-02-20 Thread dhunt
If Chromium has the questionable bits removed, and user does not sign into a Google account, Where is the remaining trouble?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Your thoughts on Firefox to have ads in the browser

2014-02-20 Thread dhunt
+1 By continuing to base Trisquel on Ubuntu, using ppas, reporting bugs, etc, are we not halping Canonical? Parabola is helping Arch; Bnewsense is helping Debian, ...

Re: [Trisquel-users] Your thoughts on Firefox to have ads in the browser

2014-02-20 Thread retro
Mozilla should have no problem getting its money according to this thread: https://trisquel.info/en/forum/piracy-industries-created-theft

Re: [Trisquel-users] Your thoughts on Firefox to have ads in the browser

2014-02-20 Thread shiretoko
ads = tracking/privacy issues If you have some facts why this should be true in general, then please go ahead and explain them to us. I can't see any reason why this should be true. Technically, it is perfectly possible to show a banner of an online-shop without sending any data to nsa or

Re: [Trisquel-users] Batch rename -- Auto rename

2014-02-20 Thread antiesnob
Click on Add/Remove Applications. Search for rename. There are some results. I never try anyone so you could do it and post which of them is better or has the skills you want to for your purpose.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Batch rename -- Auto rename

2014-02-20 Thread antiesnob
Now I get it. I didn't know that scripting files had a common name. I always called scripting for Windows (DOS not PwerShell or others) batch and scripting for linux shell scripting and I always supossed that other OS has its own names for it. Good to know that now.

Re: [Trisquel-users] 6.0.1 Ready For Testing

2014-02-20 Thread antiesnob
I probed Live System 32 and 64bits, on both there is system monitor on system configuration.

Re: [Trisquel-users] 6.0.1 Ready For Testing

2014-02-20 Thread antiesnob
I probed 6.0.1 Live System 32bits and 64bits. Worked fine. However there are a mistake in Trisquel as it is claiming that it is 6.0 instead of 6.0.1 on: * boot screen menu * Loading up Trisquel. * welcome on terminal onced logged in ()automatically in Live System. * When the system is called

Re: [Trisquel-users] 6.0.1 Ready For Testing

2014-02-20 Thread antiesnob
QUestion, is there any table/documentation about Trisquel requirements, 32bits Live system, 64bits Live system, 32bits installed, Trisquel-mini, etc. TO sum up something, when the system loads up in Trisquel live system 32bits its memory consumption is 198MB while on 64bits 319MB.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Your thoughts on Firefox to have ads in the browser

2014-02-20 Thread shiretoko
Well, I agree that there certainly is a problem and personally I'd rather see mozilla doing a fund raising campaign like wikipedia or gnu.org /fsf.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Your thoughts on Firefox to have ads in the browser

2014-02-20 Thread legimet . calc
There won't be any tracking. http://www.zdnet.com/mozilla-clarifies-defends-firefox-ad-position-726335/

Re: [Trisquel-users] Your thoughts on Firefox to have ads in the browser

2014-02-20 Thread jason
Abrowser 27 is ready and the ad system has been removed.

Re: [Trisquel-users] 6.0.1 Ready For Testing

2014-02-20 Thread antiesnob
I've installed Trisquel 6.0.1 64bits; memory consumption is 299MB at startup. Issues: * Windows and effects management icon is missing if you change the theme to Adwaita. * I set my keyboard to Spanish layout at installation but the truth is that the layout when I typed was in USA despite

Re: [Trisquel-users] Your thoughts on Firefox to have ads in the browser

2014-02-20 Thread tegskywalker
Mozilla already pushed the ad system in Firefox 27? That sure was quick and I figured it would be in the next release. Oh and to the guy saying Chromium is non-free. If it was non-free, then why is it in the main repo of Debian and universe for Ubuntu? What makes you the authority on what

Re: [Trisquel-users] Your thoughts on Firefox to have ads in the browser

2014-02-20 Thread George Standish
On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 01:16:44AM +0100, tegskywal...@hotmail.com wrote: Oh and to the guy saying Chromium is non-free. If it was non-free, then why is it in the main repo of Debian and universe for Ubuntu? Ask Trisquel and/or GNU what the non-free issues are... they're the ones saying

Re: [Trisquel-users] Your thoughts on Firefox to have ads in the browser

2014-02-20 Thread tegskywalker
ZykoticK9, you live in a fantasy world where you think a company can release software on a large scale for free without any type of financial backing. Some of the most popular and stable free software that you use was created due to the developers finding ways to make money on it (through

Re: [Trisquel-users] Your thoughts on Firefox to have ads in the browser

2014-02-20 Thread tegskywalker
Prove it. I want you to go grab the source code from https://packages.debian.org/sid/chromium or http://packages.ubuntu.com/precise-updates/chromium-browser and let us all know which components of the browser make it non-free. Put it in a nice text document or put it in this thread which

Re: [Trisquel-users] Your thoughts on Firefox to have ads in the browser

2014-02-20 Thread legimet . calc
Hmm, it seems that the copyright file is automatically generated. I checked a few file with unknown license and they were free.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Your thoughts on Firefox to have ads in the browser

2014-02-20 Thread George Standish
On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 01:25:02AM +0100, tegskywal...@hotmail.com wrote: ZykoticK9, you live in a fantasy world where you think a company can release software on a large scale for free without any type of financial backing. Some of the most popular and stable free software You might be wrong

Re: [Trisquel-users] Your thoughts on Firefox to have ads in the browser

2014-02-20 Thread George Standish
On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 01:32:58AM +0100, tegskywal...@hotmail.com wrote: Prove it. I want you to go grab the source code from see https://libreplanet.org/wiki/List_of_software_that_does_not_respect_the_Free_System_Distribution_Guidelines#chromium-browser

Re: [Trisquel-users] Your thoughts on Firefox to have ads in the browser

2014-02-20 Thread tegskywalker
Thanks for checking Legimet. Did you use the license check method/scripts from https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=28291 or something else?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Your thoughts on Firefox to have ads in the browser

2014-02-20 Thread legimet . calc
No, I just checked the license headers of a few files of unknown license in the copyright file. I think it shouldn't be too difficult to just check all such files. I did a grep UNKNOWN on the copyright file, and there's only 325 lines in the output.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Your thoughts on Firefox to have ads in the browser

2014-02-20 Thread tegskywalker
That may be an old listing and they should revisit the codebase.

[Trisquel-users] Intel CEO Refuses To Answer Questions On Whether NSA Can Access Processors

2014-02-20 Thread fernando . negro
http://www.prisonplanet.com/intel-ceo-refuses-to-answer-questions-on-whether-nsa-can-access-processors.html (One most interesting paragraph, from the text, relating to Free Software:) In December, developers of the FreeBSD operating system noted that they could no longer trust[*] Intel and

[Trisquel-users] eth0 connected but network manager icon shows no network

2014-02-20 Thread apf
Greetings Trisquel Community! As a new user I want to introduce myself by posting something hopefully helpful here and say that thus far my brief experience with Trisquel has been great. Thanks to all who have made the project's dreams come true. Down to the point... I just installed