Re: [Trisquel-users] what media file formats are free software?

WebM actually has two versions. The first and currently most supported uses VP8 for video and Vorbis for audio. The second version has VP9 for video and Opus for audio, but is only supported by Chrome/Chromium and Firefox as of the past year. The WebM plugin for Internet Explorer (http://ww

Re: [Trisquel-users] what media file formats are free software?

FLAC and the MKV container are also going to be supported in Windows 10 by default, but Microsoft will not support WebM or the codecs (VP8, VP9, Vorbis, Opus) by themselves even if they are royalty free under a permissive license. I know people can use VLC on Windows, but having native suppor

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

Thank you onpon, I'll have to try it then.

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

Thank you Banana. :)

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

Thank you Banana. :)

[Trisquel-users] Re : what media file formats are free software?

A question I did not make my mind about: is it better or worse to not only distribute a content in a patent-unencumbered format but also in a popular patent-encumbered format readable with free software (says MP3 for audio, MP4 for video)? The latter format aims to have a greater audience.

[Trisquel-users] Antwort: Browser windows disappears

Yesterday I tried to reproduce the error by opening many browser tabs that the available RAM shrank to about 5% as I was thinking that low memory was the reason. A while ago I already pressed Alt+F4 that lead to no reaction at all.

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

Defeated Attitude, Beat Down Much? I have heard this argument multiple times, it seems to be recycled quite often. Do you think winning is impossible? Why strive for something unless you believe it's possible to accomplish? Do you believe fully free modern computers will be available to

Re: [Trisquel-users] X200s: Libreboot with Linux-libre payload?

Thanks for that, maestro. On Fri Feb 20 2015 at 4:59:48 PM wrote: > Just wanted to say that one should learn how to read before posting > nonsense > (casey) > > http://support.lenovo.com/us/en/product_security/superfish? > cid=ww:social:148321261:148321259:TWITTER:lenovo:*% > 20Customer%20Servic

Re: [Trisquel-users] Forum topics become difficult to read when there is a certain number fo nested responses

Trust me - I would be worried if you did.

Re: [Trisquel-users] X200s: Libreboot with Linux-libre payload?

Just wanted to say that one should learn how to read before posting nonsense (casey) http://support.lenovo.com/us/en/product_security/superfish?cid=ww:social:148321261:148321259:TWITTER:lenovo:*%20Customer%20Service%20and%20Support&linkId=12461872 Thinkpad was never affected by superfish

Re: [Trisquel-users] what media file formats are free software?

svh...@gmail.com wrote: What about flac? If flac is not free software, then there is no other file format that provides the same sound quality? FLAC is fully implemented with free software and (as far as I know) unencumbered by patents. As a practical matter, I think you'll find more support

Re: [Trisquel-users] what media file formats are free software?

Personally I take the following ideal. I am more than happy to decode a proprietary/patent encumbered format with Free software but I would never distribute in it as it only encourages use of non-free software. As others have said, anything that is in the WebM container is fine.

Re: [Trisquel-users] X200s: Libreboot with Linux-libre payload?

Please don't turn this technical thread into a political discussion. Again, i am looking for the fastest way to boot trisquel. Should i load the kernel from flash or can i optimize the grub2 config? Is there some kind of log for the errors that occur on booting?

Re: [Trisquel-users] what media file formats are free software?

Mumble was actually one of the first programs to support Opus. If you join a server click on the information button (the blue "i") and you will see which codec this particular server uses. It's mostly Opus nowadays (some still use Speex, though).

Re: [Trisquel-users] what media file formats are free software?

Yes, Opus is better than Speex, but Speex is still commonly in use AFAIK (I think Mumble uses it, for example).

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

"Troll": In Internet slang , a *troll* (/ ˈ t r

Re: [Trisquel-users] Firmware on your hard drive may be collecting data for NSA

I think it's because people here are under some impression that anything potentially political has no place in the free software discussion - which is outright incorrect. This is not a troll hole topic. This is an issue of free hardware rather than software, however. I have no idea if that's approp

Re: [Trisquel-users] Forum topics become difficult to read when there is a certain number fo nested responses

Not a troll - I just don't like you. On Fri Feb 20 2015 at 10:24:50 AM wrote: > nice banana magique! totally agree with you.. >

Re: [Trisquel-users] what media file formats are free software?

Agreed on the not software bit - however, I think "free" formats are definitely worth considering on their own. Off to check out opus-codec. On Fri Feb 20 2015 at 12:19:48 PM wrote: > Yes, correct. I just wanted to make sure that the OP knows about the > difference between container format and t

Re: [Trisquel-users] what media file formats are free software?

Yes, correct. I just wanted to make sure that the OP knows about the difference between container format and the actual codec. Speex is obsolete btw now http://www.speex.org/ and has been replaced by Opus. Opus is basically the sucessor of both Speex and Vorbis, because it has bettter quali

Re: [Trisquel-users] "unresponsive" keyboard

marioxcc said: > You are confusing different concepts.< Not so fast; look here: http://savethenbn.com/res/CopperOxide.pdf The specified contact resistance of a USB connector is 0.030 ohm. Let's say that the copper oxide rectifier at the copper/copper-oxide/copper junction has a 0.3 volt for

Re: [Trisquel-users] what media file formats are free software?

Calling a file format "free software" makes no sense. It's not software, just a specification for how data should be stored. Free/libre software is perfectly able to read MP3 files. The problem with MP3, as well as other MPEG formats, is that it's patent-encumbered, so restrictions are plac

Re: [Trisquel-users] what media file formats are free software?

I don't think a format by itself is software. It can be encumbered by patents of course, which makes writing software for encoding and decoding problematic. If you want to store your media in formats that writing free software for is unproblematic, then I'd recommend FLAC, Vorbis and Opus f

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

its pretty insany, if I search (on duckduckgo) for libregames, that libregamewiki doesn't show up, only some crap Philippine sinkhole shows up!

Re: [Trisquel-users] twittering-mode

I got them, the packages, tittering-mode from Elpa. At least for Trisquel and OS X and Xubuntu. I downloaded twittering-mode from Apt on Debian, just to try something else. As I say the only one that works is OS X. To repeat both Aquamacs in OS X and Emacs in Trisquel are Elpa packages.

[Trisquel-users] what media file formats are free software?

ogg is free software. Mp3 is not. What about flac? If flac is not free software, then there is no other file format that provides the same sound quality? What about mkw, is it free software? What about webm? Is there a listing of formats that are free software?

Re: [Trisquel-users] can you get i2p on raspberry pi and use computer to access?

mzee, you are right. I should have written comments on usability, speed, config. My reading on i2pBerry is, that you can connect to the application from another computer.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Forum topics become difficult to read when there is a certain number fo nested responses

nice banana magique! totally agree with you..

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

I chose the EFF: EIN: 43091431

Re: [Trisquel-users] Firmware on your hard drive may be collecting data for NSA

explain?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Firmware on your hard drive may be collecting data for NSA

This is a troll hole topic.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Firmware on your hard drive may be collecting data for NSA

Ooops, this has been posted already: https://trisquel.info/en/forum/spying-software-hidden-deep-within-hard-drives-made-western-digital-seagate-toshiba-and-other-

Re: [Trisquel-users] changing default filemanager

http://www.webupd8.org/2013/10/install-nemo-with-unity-patches-and.html

[Trisquel-users] Ubuntu 14.04.2 is out. Please add backported Utopic kernel to Trisquel 7!

Ubuntu 14.04.2 ISO ships with the Utopic kernel (3.16) and the backported Xorg stack. Please clean up the 3.16 kernel and add to Trisquel. Thanks.

[Trisquel-users] Firmware on your hard drive may be collecting data for NSA

I just read this article at http://theweek.com/articles/539748/kaspersky-right-reveal-nsa-secrets about how Kaspersky revealed more of the NSA's tactics. One of them was interesting... the firmware on your hard drives may contain collection sensors implemented by the NSA: "The Kapersky La

Re: [Trisquel-users] Browser windows disappears

in lxde I sometimes by accident minimize/shade the application by using the scroll wheel (actually double finger drag) on the title bar.

Re: [Trisquel-users] "unresponsive" keyboard

> Remember that copper oxide is a semiconductor and its presence in an electrical connection will introduce a breakdown forward/backward voltage drop that will interfere with the serial communications protocol. You are confusing different concepts. Breakdown voltage refers to a property of m

Re: [Trisquel-users] changing default filemanager

"note that the mimeapps.list is in ~/.local/share/applications/" Sorry, my mistake. I'm glad it worked :-)

Re: [Trisquel-users] installing libreboot on a x60 thinkpad

i have has success! i got it to boot to a usb the mistake i made was using unetbootin to make a live usb stick make sure you follow the instructions here: http://libreboot.org/docs/gnulinux/grub_boot_installer.html

[Trisquel-users] Re : Kernel panics

It looks like you have an hardware issue. I hope you frequently backup your data! Have you recently "auto-tested" your drive? You can do that from the "Disk" utility in "System settings" (use the menu button in the upper-right corner of the windows). I would try to properly define permanent

[Trisquel-users] Re : Forum topics become difficult to read when there is a certain number fo nested responses

Those threads should never have grown that deeply. We (at least I) fell into the troll trap. A message like https://trisquel.info/en/forum/wa-can-change-not-one-day?page=1#comment-65205 only deserves to be ignored (rather than receive twelve additional levels of replies): It asks for just

Re: [Trisquel-users] Kernel panics

Thank-you for your time and assistance. The usb I made was from the utility included with the Trisquel Live 6.0 System settings menu, using an .iso file and opting out of persistent storage for it. I have not yet looked for any suspend scripts, in the ram-resident file system. I will try

Re: [Trisquel-users] Kernel panics

Thank-you. I stand corrected in reference to mount points. When running live, the device list changes after each resume from suspend. I specified "do-nothing" under system power options when closing lid, but system goes into suspend nevertheless. Device UUID's remain unchanged. With the b

Re: [Trisquel-users] twittering-mode

Does twittering work on OS X with the binaries from here? http://emacsformacosx.com/ I don't want to encourage you to use OS X of course, but maybe like this you can know if the problem is with a difference between GNU Emacs and Aquamacs or with a difference between operating systems.

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

Only reddit accounts that already existed before they started this thing can vote (for obvious reasons).

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

I set up an auto-responder for my old gmail address so everyone that tries to send me mail there knows that I probably won't read it. if you have so many sources containing your old email, you are probably better off not completely deleting it. An auto-responder is pretty easy to set up in go

Re: [Trisquel-users] Forum topics become difficult to read when there is a certain number fo nested responses

I agree. Couldn't read my own post lately. But even if it's not that extreme, it's still confusing; often I can't see who replied to me or to the post above.

Re: [Trisquel-users] "unresponsive" keyboard

Well, that makes me feel better. This has happened to me, too. I assumed it was something wrong with my keyboard. I guess not. When it happens, I usually use Onboard until it starts working again (usually a few minutes later).

Re: [Trisquel-users] Forum topics become difficult to read when there is a certain number fo nested responses

I never liked the nesting behavior. The posts should just be sorted by date.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Forum topics become difficult to read when there is a certain number fo nested responses

so this is how I (don't) see onpon's last post on the page https://trisquel.info/en/forum/wa-can-change-not-one-day?page=1

Re: [Trisquel-users] "unresponsive" keyboard

With a former used motherboard, I, too had to follow a ritual to restore keyboard access: Shut down, unplug power cord, press & hold start button, restore power, restart ... and sometimes repeat. A newer used motherboard has a dead PS2 connection (never worked for me) so I applied a USB ke

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

Protecting users from accidentally doing things they don't want to do isn't a digital restriction, and it isn't even remotely similar to denying source code. Lots of libre programs have this kind of feature. Some examples: * Trisquel's package manager warns you if you try to install a package

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel 7, can't login after two successful logins

Indeed I too saw several posts dealing with keyboard issues both in the english and spanish forums and they were often related to ibus.. cheers

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel 7, can't login after two successful logins

It's an ibus bug, i've seen it reported somewhere, I had this issue with ubuntu. My system language is portuguese, I had a portuguese keyboard, but sometimes it booted with an en_US layout.

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

Along the past two days, someone has put much confusion in the the forum. You. Answering to random posts (so that the conversation cannot be followed) with general statements (usually on politics), never backing anything with facts, writing that we are ignorant as much as you can (even when i

Re: [Trisquel-users] Forum topics become difficult to read when there is a certain number fo nested responses

Ok, good to know it's not just me. Thanks for raising the bug lembas.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel 7, can't login after two successful logins

I once had this problem and the reason as lembas pointed out was the keyboard layout that would change to eng fom italian. So instead of writing the actual psswd I was writing something else.. Had this issue on several distros Trisquel included. In trisquel disabling ibus fixed the problem for

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

Most people don't even know what DRM is. There is no such thing as covenience in DRM for the user, at least.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Forum topics become difficult to read when there is a certain number fo nested responses

I experience this too

Re: [Trisquel-users] Forum topics become difficult to read when there is a certain number fo nested responses

Not just you. I just filed this https://trisquel.info/en/issues/13702

[Trisquel-users] Forum topics become difficult to read when there is a certain number fo nested responses

Or is it just for me? Note, I see the same issue when viewing the forum in Abrowser, Firefox and as an extra experiment in Chrome ...

Re: [Trisquel-users] "unresponsive" keyboard

This is an old HP laptop. Since this seems to happen on different hardware, my bet is it's a software issue.

Re: [Trisquel-users] "unresponsive" keyboard

I have suffered from this issue too running T6 on a Libreboot X60s and had to resort to what Lembas has had to do.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Ubuntu 14.04.2 has been released

In Trisquel 6 we got the backports of the kernel and X stack from the newer non-LTS upstream releases. Those had to be manually installed.

Re: [Trisquel-users] "unresponsive" keyboard

I've noticed the same. What kind of keyboard are you using? And motherboard. Personally I'm using a Asus M5A57 board and a ... actually I don't know who made my $5 keyboard. On Fri Feb 20 2015 at 1:44:47 AM wrote: > This also happens to me sometimes (on a non-TP computer). I've been trying > to

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

onpon4 - I doubt anybody needs the logic/debate class lesson, I'm sure we've all learned the logical fallacies before. I was absolutely equating software and art, in both directions. It's an opinion stance, and there's nothing concrete to argue there, just my own view. Icerf - I'm not a troll. Eco

Re: [Trisquel-users] "unresponsive" keyboard

This also happens to me sometimes (on a non-TP computer). I've been trying to figure out what causes it but no success. For me it's enough to logout/login to make it work again.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Re : X200s: Libreboot with Linux-libre payload?

Absolutely valid. I really don't have a clue there, and there probably isn't a current better choice. I just don't like that it seems like people are thinking of it as a valid solution. It's a stop-gap. At least, I think so. On Thu Feb 19 2015 at 6:29:48 PM wrote: > Let say I need a laptop right

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

Wow. You know, Icerf, people do other things in life than only replying to threads here. Given where the conversation has gone in my absence, I'm ... confused. Just confused. I said nothing about the security OR insecurity of Java, and certainly never mocked it being insecure. Carry on. I'll just

[Trisquel-users] Ubuntu 14.04.2 has been released

The new version contain additional hardware support and bug fixes over the original 14.04 release: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TrustyTahr/ReleaseNotes/ChangeSummary/14.04.2 Maybe new updates will arrive soon from Trisquel

Re: [Trisquel-users] Why are some packages not trustworthy?

I also have seen those warnings in the past. I guess one thing you could try is using another mirror. While probably nothing evil, it certainly does not feel good to just ignore such warnings.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Kernel panics

One thing you could try to mitigate that is edit the suspend scripts to unmount and the resume scripts to mount the devices. I remember seeing that error message once and editing some text file on the usb stick changing isolinux to syslinux in the path. I believe this might be related to wh