Re: [Trisquel-users] The Need for Free and Open HardDrive firmware

2015-02-18 Thread Casey Parker
Well ... that .. that was intensely interesting and I thank you for that link. On Tue Feb 17 2015 at 9:34:50 PM wrote: > Here is a great example of Hard drive controller hacking. > > http://spritesmods.com/?art=hddhack > > Scary to think what can be done with this stuff. >

Re: [Trisquel-users] client side search engine?

2015-02-18 Thread Casey Parker
Yancy is pretty cool, and desktop search is definitely a good thing ... but it can't ever really replace a search engine's legion of spiders. Please, please prove me wrong on that. One huge hurdle is that a simple list of websites and pages - without even containing the full text to search through

Re: [Trisquel-users] Spying software hidden deep within hard drives made by Western Digital, Seagate, Toshiba and other top manufacturers

2015-02-18 Thread Casey Parker
tomluckeywood, noordinaryspider; what makes you think floppy controllers weren't bugged as well? Better pull out that punch tape and do it manually. On Tue Feb 17 2015 at 3:29:49 PM wrote: > I'm right behind you as usual, tomlukeywood. Wish I hadn't tossed my > floppies > and taken my PIIs to eW

Re: [Trisquel-users] Wa can change, but not in one day

2015-02-18 Thread Casey Parker
Okay. This is like trying to convince an anti-vaxxer that vaccines are a good thing ... pointless. So, carry on, I'll just be over here. On Tue Feb 17 2015 at 11:14:48 AM wrote: > You don't seem to know what DRM is too, as you were saying advantages of > cloud computing, not Digital Rights M

Re: [Trisquel-users] Wa can change, but not in one day

2015-02-18 Thread dbpalma9
>This is like trying to convince an anti-vaxxer that vaccines are >a good thing ... pointless Bad analogy, no one ever told me any good thing DRM does, not even you, quite contrary to vaccines that have eradicated smallpox, for example. But many people told me about bad things DRM does and I'

Re: [Trisquel-users] The Need for Free and Open HardDrive firmware

2015-02-18 Thread jabjabs
Yeah I mentioned it at a local Free software meet up about a month back, your reaction is normal. It is so easy to forget just how pervasive programmable processors are in even what we consider to be innocent devices.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Free website making

2015-02-18 Thread tomlukeywood
why would a isp block me?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Kernel panics

2015-02-18 Thread tomlukeywood
if ram is a problem trisquel mini will run on 128mb of ram here are the minimum system requirements: https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/system-requirements

Re: [Trisquel-users] client side search engine?

2015-02-18 Thread tomlukeywood
" Worse, when a page changes you'd have to download a whole index again." why? if you download it from a server the server could check which pages have changed and only send those to the text file you definitely would not have to download the hole thing again "without even containing the full

Re: [Trisquel-users] Spying software hidden deep within hard drives made by Western Digital, Seagate, Toshiba and other top manufacturers

2015-02-18 Thread tomlukeywood
floppy controllers in the 1980's would not have internet spyware as there was no internet i guess the same with HDD's

Re: [Trisquel-users] Spying software hidden deep within hard drives made by Western Digital, Seagate, Toshiba and other top manufacturers

2015-02-18 Thread Casey Parker
No internet in the 1980's? That's insane. I mean, for something invented in 1965, having a strange decade 15 years later where it doesn't exist is just ... weird. Are you sure about that? Also the floppy statement was a joke in the first place. On Wed Feb 18 2015 at 3:39:48 AM wrote: > floppy c

Re: [Trisquel-users] client side search engine?

2015-02-18 Thread Casey Parker
You're saying you want to download The Web. That's kind of ... using the optical drive tray for your coffee cup. As for hundreds of thousands of websites - there are at least 4.5 billion - and that's just the ones that have already been indexed by the insanely difficult work of search engines. That

Re: [Trisquel-users] Free website making

2015-02-18 Thread onpon4
I don't know, but I know that AT&T blocks many of 000webhost's servers, so it's clearly a possibility.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Spying software hidden deep within hard drives made by Western Digital, Seagate, Toshiba and other top manufacturers

2015-02-18 Thread blade . vp2020
This news makes me so crazy Where I run The only solution is to leave the network

Re: [Trisquel-users] Spying software hidden deep within hard drives made by Western Digital, Seagate, Toshiba and other top manufacturers

2015-02-18 Thread dooleyn
He may be confusing the internet with the web ...

Re: [Trisquel-users] Spying software hidden deep within hard drives made by Western Digital, Seagate, Toshiba and other top manufacturers

2015-02-18 Thread davidvargas1
For this news article and The U.S. National Security Agency actions, I'm wearing my home made Aluminum Foil Deflector Beanie because is a Practical Mind Control Protection against Paranoids. For more info in how is done by The The U.S. National Security Agency, here are additional few lin

Re: [Trisquel-users] Free website making

2015-02-18 Thread maestro
the nsa doesn't like cats - you are on the watchlist! :)

Re: [Trisquel-users] Free website making

2015-02-18 Thread davidvargas1
If I to choose between a cat and a Bull, I'll preferably choose "NADA"...

Re: [Trisquel-users] client side search engine?

2015-02-18 Thread fabio . pitari
Sorry, I'm not so expert in this, but I don't see so much difference between a yacy server and for instance a googlebot except for their number. Which means that is unlucky to replace (let's say) google with yacy as the most diffused and efficient search engine, but still the concept is great

Re: [Trisquel-users] client side search engine?

2015-02-18 Thread fabio . pitari
It looks nice! It reminds me of this https://freenetproject.org/

Re: [Trisquel-users] The Need for Free and Open HardDrive firmware

2015-02-18 Thread davidvargas1
It is good reading, but in my opinion knowing this vulnerability, is hitting everyone at lighting speed. What I was looking for was the specific manufacture model number and year. but that is not disclose yet. To hack it to be compatible for a game console is one thing, but to be hack and use

[Trisquel-users] Re : Wa can change, but not in one day

2015-02-18 Thread calinou
There is some free software on Steam, as far as I remember. The vast majority of games and software available on Steam are non-free though.

[Trisquel-users] Re : Debian Jessie soon out ... Trisquel?

2015-02-18 Thread calinou
The next Trisquel release is very likely to be Trisquel 8, which will be released after the release of Ubuntu 16.04 in April 2016.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Spying software hidden deep within hard drives made by Western Digital, Seagate, Toshiba and other top manufacturers

2015-02-18 Thread cromozon
I guess this solves the mystery why windows boots slower and slower ehh?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Wa can change, but not in one day

2015-02-18 Thread onpon4
I think Naev is on Steam, for example. (Or if it isn't, it was at one point.)

Re: [Trisquel-users] Free website making

2015-02-18 Thread tomlukeywood
my cat will login to your router with ssh and run rm -r /*

Re: [Trisquel-users] Free website making

2015-02-18 Thread tomlukeywood
the loxley valley protection society(i host there website) has recived death threats before and there not liked by some big businesses can pepole pay isp's to block websites?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Debian Jessie soon out ... Trisquel?

2015-02-18 Thread knut . erik
Tx for reply. Good to know.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Spying software hidden deep within hard drives made by Western Digital, Seagate, Toshiba and other top manufacturers

2015-02-18 Thread tomlukeywood
i was

Re: [Trisquel-users] Spying software hidden deep within hard drives made by Western Digital, Seagate, Toshiba and other top manufacturers

2015-02-18 Thread noordinaryspider
My dad was on the internet in the late 60s or early 70s. There was no Internet Explorer, no eBay, no Amazon, no Facebook, etc. so it certainly wasn't the internet as we know it, but it was used by the defense department of the you ess aye. That's probably more than I should even say; I've g

Re: [Trisquel-users] google analytics everywhere

2015-02-18 Thread marioxcc . MT
>why not just disable JavaScript? Most of the time I have it disabled, but since I use JavaScript for some pages (For example, in Wikipedia, with JavaScript you can have Media viewer, MathJax (Which I occasionally enable), and for redirect pages, you get the target page URL) I use NoScript

[Trisquel-users] changing default filemanager

2015-02-18 Thread cromozon
hello fellow humans et al. As you might know, I am using fluxbox as my window manager and have trimmed down on some of default stuff that comes with trisquel... I have removed nautilus, since it gave problems overriding fluxboxes 'right click' in practice making fluxbox unusable. also I lik

Re: [Trisquel-users] Free website making

2015-02-18 Thread marioxcc . MT
Or better yet :) : rm -rf / --no-preserve-root

Re: [Trisquel-users] changing default filemanager

2015-02-18 Thread cromozon
hmm apparently it works now in ABrowser from the download manager. Anyway, any idea what the problem could be with atom? When I had nautilus, it used to work.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Free website making

2015-02-18 Thread maestro
ff mean :)

Re: [Trisquel-users] client side search engine?

2015-02-18 Thread Casey Parker
If you need only to search through sites you already know about, and that you index deliberately, it works okay. It definitely does not and could not replace a powerhouse search engine - do any of you remember before Search? You either knew about a page, or you didn't. On Wed Feb 18 2015 at 7:34:4

Re: [Trisquel-users] Wa can change, but not in one day

2015-02-18 Thread Casey Parker
There is plenty of FLOSS on Steam. Though, from the sounds of it, I'm not entirely certain that the difference between being without cost and being without limitations isn't lost on this mailing list. On Wed Feb 18 2015 at 11:44:48 AM wrote: > I think Naev is on Steam, for example. (Or if it isn

Re: [Trisquel-users] Spying software hidden deep within hard drives made by Western Digital, Seagate, Toshiba and other top manufacturers

2015-02-18 Thread Casey Parker
I'm all for ridiculous paranoia and whatnot, but noordinaryspider, why on Earth do you think that was more than should be said? And how is this a conversation that demands tinfoil?? The Internet's history with DARPA and the DOD is well published and well known. I mean ... you realise you're emailin

Re: [Trisquel-users] client side search engine?

2015-02-18 Thread gramex
Unfortunately, the index will become outdated even as it is being collected, so it could never be "complete."

Re: [Trisquel-users] Free website making

2015-02-18 Thread tomlukeywood
ordd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda

Re: [Trisquel-users] client side search engine?

2015-02-18 Thread tomlukeywood
it would still be enough for a good search engine and you could update it every few weeks

Re: [Trisquel-users] Spying software hidden deep within hard drives made by Western Digital, Seagate, Toshiba and other top manufacturers

2015-02-18 Thread a1716479
Yes, I was going to post this. Judging by some of the dates listed in these articles Kaspersky's knowledge of this goes back years, and much information is redacted, as well as many involved conspirators not named, even though the articles imply such knowledge. Why would Kaspersky be s

Re: [Trisquel-users] Will Abrowser get phased out by IceCat eventually?

2015-02-18 Thread a1716479
I would also like to see this. I use Icecat as my primary browser, and it would be great to have it Updated for security.

Re: [Trisquel-users] client side search engine?

2015-02-18 Thread a1716479
Doesn't installing the OpenJDK framework represent a security threat?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Spying software hidden deep within hard drives made by Western Digital, Seagate, Toshiba and other top manufacturers

2015-02-18 Thread Casey Parker
Use public/private key encryption implemented with code written by somebody far smarter than yourself, which you have then audited. Unless you're relying on the harddrive itself to encrypt, the strength is up to You. DPR's encryption didn't fail him - he failed at doing it properly. And you ALL obv

Re: [Trisquel-users] client side search engine?

2015-02-18 Thread Casey Parker
If you're getting your data from another source, it will always be cen... sor you know. You guys are batshit. I'm sorry. On Wed Feb 18 2015 at 4:24:48 PM wrote: > Doesn't installing the OpenJDK framework represent a security threat? >

Re: [Trisquel-users] Spying software hidden deep within hard drives made by Western Digital, Seagate, Toshiba and other top manufacturers

2015-02-18 Thread blade . vp2020
In fact, there is considerable ambiguity Do it take advantage of the functions of the os to spy?? Or everything is built inside There are programs that tells you about the data that passes from your computer Is wraps on the program? There is no answer

Re: [Trisquel-users] Will Abrowser get phased out by IceCat eventually?

2015-02-18 Thread onpon4
It does get security updates; that's the whole point of Firefox LTS!

Re: [Trisquel-users] client side search engine?

2015-02-18 Thread onpon4
No. There's a vulnerability presented by Java applets (via the Java plugin), but I don't know whether or not that applies to IcedTea anyway.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Will Abrowser get phased out by IceCat eventually?

2015-02-18 Thread blade . vp2020
for me I said farewell to Abrowser

[Trisquel-users] I want to change my email address, but it seems impossible

2015-02-18 Thread blade . vp2020
hi I need help to change my email But this seems impossible I've got many Software projects contain my email And I have a lot of clients And I have a lot of books and articles contain my email Do you have a suggestion??

Re: [Trisquel-users] I want to change my email address, but it seems impossible

2015-02-18 Thread gaming4jc2
To change your e-mail on these forums just navigate to: The Sidbar's "My Account" --> "Edit" then --> "Personal Information" Regarding changing your e-mail entirely, you should be able to setup an e-mail forwarder to your new e-mail, then just e-mail all your contacts (be sure to use BCC) and

[Trisquel-users] Reddit will be giving 10% of their ad revenue to charities based on user voting. Make sure you vote!

2015-02-18 Thread gaming4jc2
Courtesy Reddit - be sure and vote for your favorite free software charities. https://www.reddit.com/donate Some EIN's of known F/LOSS that you can vote for... 04-248 FSF 412165986 SFLC 043572618 GNOME 20-8096820 Tor 412203632 Software Freedom Conservancy 841611178 XM

Re: [Trisquel-users] Will Abrowser get phased out by IceCat eventually?

2015-02-18 Thread davesamcdxv
On the other hand, the Mothership that is Trisquel has gone LTS only, hasn't it?

Re: [Trisquel-users] I want to change my email address, but it seems impossible

2015-02-18 Thread noordinaryspider
You can change the where the mailing list sends your mail. You cannot change the address that appears on your profile.

Re: [Trisquel-users] client side search engine?

2015-02-18 Thread gramex
True...