Re: [Trisquel-users] How's the performance of the gluglug x60?

2014-02-26 Thread alonivtsan
I'm guessing when people ask perfermonace they mean some of the following things: Can it play back HD/full HD movies smoothly? Can it play free software games smoothly (which ones)? How fast is it for other tasks and is it suitable at all (e.g. how fast does it encode VP8/VP9 video, can it

Re: [Trisquel-users] Pitivi needs YOUR HELP

2014-02-26 Thread shiretoko
Lol ok I got confused since I recommended sharelatex as well in another post. Anyway, Pitivi uses the Lgpl which is a perfectly free software licence. So just replace Sharelatex with Pitivi in my post and agpl with lgpl and everything is still correct.

Re: [Trisquel-users] SSH Server Enabled By Default!

2014-02-26 Thread gromobir
I couldn't find an issue for that, so I created one, which can be found here: https://trisquel.info/en/issues/11188

Re: [Trisquel-users] SSH Server Enabled By Default!

2014-02-26 Thread shiretoko
Thank you, Mzee!

Re: [Trisquel-users] SSH Server Enabled By Default!

2014-02-26 Thread gromobir
You are welcome. :-)

[Trisquel-users] Re : Anyone got touchpad running on a chromebook with Trisquel 6?

2014-02-26 Thread magicbanana
If it works on the vanilla Linux but not on the same version of Linux-libre, then it probably requires a blob. The policy of this community is to never help anyone install proprietary software (because that is not helping).

Re: [Trisquel-users] How's the performance of the gluglug x60?

2014-02-26 Thread info
I use mine for everything. Most of my use of a computer is text editing, email, web browsing and the like, but I also watch videos and compile source code, etc. I never have any performance issues. Mine is an X60s with the Core Duo L2400 processor, running Trisquel 6 with Gnome 3 desktop.

[Trisquel-users] Re : Resolution issue

2014-02-26 Thread magicbanana
According to the logs, your display is managed by the basic vesa driver, not the radeon one: [19.222] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/radeon_drv.so [19.223] (II) [KMS] drm report modesetting isn't supported. [19.223] (II) GPU only supported with KMS, using vesa instead. [

Re: [Trisquel-users] SSH Server Enabled By Default!

2014-02-26 Thread antiesnob
Would you prefer another examples? Abrowser opens ports... What about Totem and zeitgeist? There's no bug in openssh server.

Re: [Trisquel-users] SSH Server Enabled By Default!

2014-02-26 Thread antiesnob
They don't tend to use it because they don't know such a things. They could not easily install it because they do not know such a things. Learning curve.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Resolution issue

2014-02-26 Thread joshuaallenwatson
I'm running 3.2.0 generic.

Re: [Trisquel-users] SSH Server Enabled By Default!

2014-02-26 Thread antiesnob
Guys, I'm sorry about not remaining my Ps and Qs but I have no time to write to everyone everything. I know it looks kinda roughly from me but I assure you I'm not trying to answer that way.

[Trisquel-users] Re : Resolution issue

2014-02-26 Thread magicbanana
This is the original two-year-old kernel. You did not do any update. Try to install the package linux-generic-lts-saucy from the Synaptic package manager (as I suggested first), reboot and see if it did the job.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Recommend web design program for newbie

2014-02-26 Thread sanwatson04
First of all let me tell you, you have got a great blog about Website design London .I am interested in looking for more of such topics and would like to have further information. Hope to see the next blog soon.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Recommend web design program for newbie

2014-02-26 Thread info
WordPress is pretty nice. (use wordpress.org, not wordpress.com) The gluglug sites runs on it.

Re: [Trisquel-users] SSH Server Enabled By Default!

2014-02-26 Thread antiesnob
MrMaui76, I'm antiesnob not antisnob (that's the English translation actually). I just wanted you to noticed that. I ain't taking this as personal. Don't worry. When I was taking about option I was just saying that Trisquel developers have taken that option. There are things to improved

Re: [Trisquel-users] Microsoft now fighting UK government over FLOSS

2014-02-26 Thread Andrew Roffey
Number of documents written in standardised OOXML? Practically zero: https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/e969fc0a-9fcd-4efe-bf6d-79ea8c34360f/what-is-the-default-file-format-for-saving-in-ms-office-2013-is-it-still-the-transitional-ooxml-or MS Office 2010 and below don't even

Re: [Trisquel-users] Resolution issue

2014-02-26 Thread info
Hi acriticalcookie, On my old system, I couldn't get 3D acceleration but a newer kernel allowed native resolution of the display. Try updating your kernel: http://jxself.org/linux-libre Follow the instructions on that page to install the latest version. This may or may not solve your issue,

Re: [Trisquel-users] Resolution issue

2014-02-26 Thread joshuaallenwatson
I installed the new kernel and it still didn't fix it. I just found out I was using Synaptic wrong.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Microsoft now fighting UK government over FLOSS

2014-02-26 Thread info
Worth a look. https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/elibrary/case/british-school-switches-students-computers-linux-reducing-costs-and-improving-computin

Re: [Trisquel-users] Microsoft now fighting UK government over FLOSS

2014-02-26 Thread info
Also see (in the article): computer science education in schools. This is literally new. Quote: The WHSG ICT department is already teaching programming to students from age 11 and Moore notes that in our environment, the worst thing they can do is crash their own account - even if they

Re: [Trisquel-users] Microsoft now fighting UK government over FLOSS

2014-02-26 Thread arielxgbarton
Clearly the reason that people's computers might not be compatible with ODF is that Microsoft made it that way. What do you expect? This will harm them.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Resolution issue

2014-02-26 Thread joshuaallenwatson
I also just installed the latest Linux Libre kernel. Didn't fix a damn thing. :|

Re: [Trisquel-users] Resolution issue

2014-02-26 Thread info
H-node has nothing on this, but this user had a problem when upgrading from Trisquel 5 to 5.5: http://trisquel.info/en/forum/graphics-problems-after-upgrade-55 In that thread, the workaround is found: use vesa driver. Setting vesa should be considered a last resort.

Re: [Trisquel-users] How's the performance of the gluglug x60?

2014-02-26 Thread icarolongo
What's the storage, RAM and CPU of yours? The best is Core Duo T2400 (X60), L2300 or L2400 (X60s) with 3GB RAM and 120 GB SSD - probably this increase the performance.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Anyone got touchpad running on a chromebook with Trisquel 6?

2014-02-26 Thread leoneoleoneo
Maybe Magic Banana is right or maybe i didnt write the sccript well since i dont know which urls i should use.

Re: [Trisquel-users] SSH Server Enabled By Default!

2014-02-26 Thread mikko . viinamaki
None of those are servers, unlike ssh. And if you want to remove abrowser, totem or zeitgeist, feel free to start another thread. And it's absolutely ridiculous to say there's no bug. No such piece of software without bugs. Here are the KNOWN bugs for openssh

Re: [Trisquel-users] Re : Anyone got touchpad running on a chromebook with Trisquel 6?

2014-02-26 Thread Michał Masłowski
The patches are at [0]. They are free (no blobs inside, they modify GPL2-licensed files with the original patches having Signed-off-by). The script included in that repo uses blobbed kernel sources. A proper solution would be to apply the patches to Linux-libre kernel sources and build it,

Re: [Trisquel-users] Microsoft now fighting UK government over FLOSS

2014-02-26 Thread tegskywalker
The problem with OOXML is that Microsoft shoehorned the format in Office 2007 as Traditional OOXML, meaning that it had a reliance on Microsoft's programs and was a mess. Microsoft wasn't even complete with the specification and doesn't follow the ISO standards, which is known as Strict

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

2014-02-26 Thread elgrande71
After installing libftdi1 on my system, I have to copy coreboot.rom in the flashrom directory . Finally with the following command line, sudo ./flashrom -p internal -w coreboot.rom -c MX25L1605D/MX25L1608D flashes my firmware flawlessly . Thank you Continue to do a good job

[Trisquel-users] Re : SSH Server Enabled By Default!

2014-02-26 Thread magicbanana
Simply having it installed by default and without a notice does not make the user aware of it. She thinks no server is running and chooses a short password for convenience. She is screwed. Notice that I use SSH on a daily basis. Yet, I see no point in installing an SSH server by default

[Trisquel-users] Re : Resolution issue

2014-02-26 Thread magicbanana
His system already is using the vesa driver, hence the low resolution.

[Trisquel-users] Need help: How to download embedded audio from a web site

2014-02-26 Thread alejandroamatmartinez
Hello! I was wondereing if any of you know how to download embedded audio from this website: http://www.speakenglish.co.uk/phrases/at_a_restaurant I tried but I couldn't. I think that page was created using Drupal. Your help is welcome. Thanks!

Re: [Trisquel-users] Resolution issue

2014-02-26 Thread retro
Did you do a complete shutdown and reboot after installing the kernel? What do you get now when you enter uname -r? It's just possible that GRUB isn't using the new kernel that you just installed. I know this is frustrating, but it's worth it when you finally get high resolution - it makes

Re: [Trisquel-users] Need help: How to download embedded audio from a web site

2014-02-26 Thread Ivaylo Valkov
В 19:18 +0100 на 26.02.2014 (ср), alejandroamatmarti...@gmail.com написа: Hello! I was wondereing if any of you know how to download embedded audio from this website: http://www.speakenglish.co.uk/phrases/at_a_restaurant With a little bit of black Bash magic :) (and Abrowser developers

Re: [Trisquel-users] Resolution issue

2014-02-26 Thread joshuaallenwatson
Yes, I'm running the latest version of the Linux Libre kernel. I ran uname -r. I rebooted 2-3 times just to make sure.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Need help: How to download embedded audio from a web site

2014-02-26 Thread alejandroamatmartinez
Wow! It works wonders! Thank you so much again ;)

Re: [Trisquel-users] How's the performance of the gluglug x60?

2014-02-26 Thread bm-2cwce5abrzcyn1hzwsb33z4btaxgamtogq
For me, I can't sense a delay in reaction. So it's fast enough for anything I do. But I don't do gaming apart from a few simple 2D, and video processing is reserved for something more powerful.

Re: [Trisquel-users] SSH Server Enabled By Default!

2014-02-26 Thread bm-2cwce5abrzcyn1hzwsb33z4btaxgamtogq
Of course, but now I'm starting like everybody else: think of the children! Removing trisquel sounds pretty spectacular. Those two metapackages should not have such dependencies. Or at least trisquel-basic.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Microsoft now fighting UK government over FLOSS

2014-02-26 Thread bm-2cwce5abrzcyn1hzwsb33z4btaxgamtogq
That is a far better and more reasonable argument than the one published above[1]. [1] https://trisquel.info/en/forum/microsoft-now-fighting-uk-government-over-floss#comment-49938

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

2014-02-26 Thread bm-2cwce5abrzcyn1hzwsb33z4btaxgamtogq
Hurray! Thank you. It looks great!

Re: [Trisquel-users] Pitivi needs YOUR HELP

2014-02-26 Thread bm-2cwce5abrzcyn1hzwsb33z4btaxgamtogq
Another sign: having no idea which spam was discussed.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Pitivi needs YOUR HELP

2014-02-26 Thread bm-2cwce5abrzcyn1hzwsb33z4btaxgamtogq
I noticed Snowden had an EFF sticker on his laptop at some interview. Does that mean EFF makes laptops or only rebrands them as free laptops?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Pitivi needs YOUR HELP

2014-02-26 Thread shiretoko
Elodie, what is your damn problem? I promoted a free software project which is trying to make money. You come along, making many false claims, insulting my post as spam, obviously without any knowledge about any licence you've been talking about. Three people proved you wrong and still you

[Trisquel-users] Re : Need help: How to download embedded audio from a web site

2014-02-26 Thread magicbanana
Just for the pleasure of showing a simpler solution: $ awk -F \' '/play\(/ { print $2 .mp3 }' at_a_restaurant | wget -B http://speaklanguages.cachefly.net/sound/english/mp3/ -i - ;-)

[Trisquel-users] Re : SSH Server Enabled By Default!

2014-02-26 Thread magicbanana
Whenever you remove something from the default install, you remove at least one trisquel meta-package. The meta-packages define the default install.

[Trisquel-users] Re : Pitivi needs YOUR HELP

2014-02-26 Thread magicbanana
We are not talking about a sticker. GNU LESSER GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE is the whole name of the LGPL. It is copyrighted by the Free Software Foundation. Just open it and see: https://gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.txt

Re: [Trisquel-users] SSH Server Enabled By Default!

2014-02-26 Thread antiesnob
Both on this thread and on the feature request are not any bug posted. Known bugs are (supossedly) treated by openssh maintainers. Don't change my words. What I said was extremely clear.

[Trisquel-users] Re : SSH Server Enabled By Default!

2014-02-26 Thread magicbanana
Nobody here is talking about a bug in the SSH server. We are talking about a bug in the Trisquel distribution that should not run a SSH server out of the default install (without even telling the user that it is there).

Re: [Trisquel-users] Microsoft now fighting UK government over FLOSS

2014-02-26 Thread tegskywalker
What was wrong with my submission at https://trisquel.info/en/forum/microsoft-now-fighting-uk-government-over-floss#comment-49938 It was to the point, expressed a lot of concerns, and provided some details. Heck, compared to a lot of the posts on that site that were short and not as

Re: [Trisquel-users] Anyone got touchpad running on a chromebook with Trisquel 6?

2014-02-26 Thread legimet . calc
Could you try installing the package linux-image-generic-lts-saucy? This is a deblobbed version of the Ubuntu saucy kernel. I know that Ubuntu applies some patches, so maybe they applied the patch for your touchpad.

Re: [Trisquel-users] SSH Server Enabled By Default!

2014-02-26 Thread antiesnob
To run openssh server is a decision made by the project leader not a bug. Thus, to talk about a bug here you need to say that openssh has one. To think that the decision of having openssh by default is not good is request for a feature as Mzee made and I pointed out several times.

Re: [Trisquel-users] SSH Server Enabled By Default!

2014-02-26 Thread onpon4
If a decision made was a reckless one and causes a major security hole, that's a bug. The bug is the security hole, not SSH being installed by default, but the cause is SSH being installed by default. A bug that is ultimately caused by a programmer or packager's poor decision is still a

Re: [Trisquel-users] Re : Need help: How to download embedded audio from a web site

2014-02-26 Thread Ivaylo Valkov
В 00:01 +0100 на 27.02.2014 (чт), magicban...@gmail.com написа: Just for the pleasure of showing a simpler solution: ;-) :) signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part