[Trisquel-users] Software Updater Bug

2015-02-24 Thread gothiccard
Hi I am new to Gnulinux. I used the Software Updater this morning and got an error, which asked me to report problem. I have attached screen shot. It worked okay on second attempt, and I had not had the problem before. I hope this is the right place to report the problem,

Re: [Trisquel-users] A company tracked 530 million mobile phones in Asia with drones

2015-02-24 Thread jabjabs
Exactly, ads are fine and all but they don't really need tracking on them just for the sake of it.

Re: [Trisquel-users] SMPlayer doesn't play youtube vids

2015-02-24 Thread tomlukeywood
"Youtube now adopt full html5." with non-free javascript

Re: [Trisquel-users] Libreboot x60 always at 100% cpu usage

2015-02-24 Thread tomlukeywood
weird top is saying my cpu usage is about 60% and system monitor is saying 100% maby its just system montior thats wrong i will try running some other distros like gnewsense to see if it improves

Re: [Trisquel-users] unetbootin fork

2015-02-24 Thread tomlukeywood
i guess as i put the links in the source code myself i have more confidence that it wont be out of date but i do intend to update the program when new updates come out i will probably make a website or gitorios page for it eventually

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

2015-02-24 Thread tomlukeywood
it was a bit of a joke but i think any HDD made when the internet was in wide use has a chance of having spy-ware your best option would be a cdrom drive made in the early 1990's if your a political activist or whistle-blower then it would be a good idea to not go online at all and if you do t

Re: [Trisquel-users] SMPlayer doesn't play youtube vids

2015-02-24 Thread t8mf4nu6lizp
And digital restrictions management (DRM) https://trisquel.info/en/forum/youtube-ditches-flash-and-it-hardly-matters-meet-new-boss-same-old-boss

Re: [Trisquel-users] Apt-get upgrade runs amuck in Trisquel thumb drive

2015-02-24 Thread amenex
davidnotcoulthard inquired: >you were performing the update on a LiveUSB?< Yes - that's worked before, on the LiveUSB with which I Gparted the errant one. My worry is that the apt-get upgrade said it was getting 350MB, that the upgrade would take up 75MB beyond that was already there, and

Re: [Trisquel-users] Libreboot x60 always at 100% cpu usage

2015-02-24 Thread t8mf4nu6lizp
That's what I though and was somewhat surprised to see systemd in that top output. I'm still on Trisquel 6 and don't have any systemd processes running.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Libreboot x60 always at 100% cpu usage

2015-02-24 Thread t8mf4nu6lizp
No, it says 64% is used by user processes that are not niced. The manual page is your friend.

Re: [Trisquel-users] The truth about Purism

2015-02-24 Thread jabjabs
That's exactly it, I had always compared this project to that of what Think Penguin already offers.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Libreboot x60 always at 100% cpu usage

2015-02-24 Thread blade . vp2020
systemd in trisquel7!! this idea makes me so crazy now I Will look for it if I find it I'll dont use trisquel forever

Re: [Trisquel-users] The truth about Purism

2015-02-24 Thread maestro
As I said - not librem!

Re: [Trisquel-users] SMPlayer doesn't play youtube vids

2015-02-24 Thread maestro
Thanks all of you for the answers! :) I think I wasn't clear enough - the question is: why can't smplayer stream youtube vids (although I updated the youtube code to the latest 02/20/15 code)? If you take an url and paste it in VLC, it will play it. If you do the same using SMPlayer you get

[Trisquel-users] OS X, iOS and Linux have more vulnerabilities than Windows!!!!!

2015-02-24 Thread blade . vp2020
OS X, iOS and Linux have more vulnerabilities than Windows!! !! ! this idea makes me so crazy http://betanews.com/2015/02/22/os-x-ios-and-linux-have-more-vulnerabilities-than-windows/

Re: [Trisquel-users] OS X, iOS and Linux have more vulnerabilities than Windows!!!!!

2015-02-24 Thread maestro
This startling fact comes from the National Vulnerability Database (described as the "US government repository of standards based vulnerability management data").. I think you have your answer here alimiracle... You always have to check the sources of information.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Libreboot x60 always at 100% cpu usage

2015-02-24 Thread tomlukeywood
recommended replacement so you can chose if you want systemmd or not: https://www.parabola.nu/

Re: [Trisquel-users] Software Updater Bug

2015-02-24 Thread maestro
welcome

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

2015-02-24 Thread maestro
To lower the paranoia I would say an X60/200 with tails would cut it :)

Re: [Trisquel-users] OS X, iOS and Linux have more vulnerabilities than Windows!!!!!

2015-02-24 Thread tomlukeywood
this may be true (though i don’t think its true) but you have to remember as gnu/linux-libre is libre software more vulnerability's will be discovered Note the word Discovered its a good thing if a vulnerability is discovered in a libre program because it means people can fix it if it were neve

Re: [Trisquel-users] Software Updater Bug

2015-02-24 Thread tomlukeywood
i think here is were you submit bugs: https://trisquel.info/en/project/issues

Re: [Trisquel-users] Software Updater Bug

2015-02-24 Thread davesamcdxv
That looks liek a few files are missing, rather than a "real" bug. Check if the files reported to be missing are in the folder /var/lib/apt/lists . And perform (by copying-and-pasting) "sudo apt-get update" from/to the Terminal and open the updater again, and see if it's worked.

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

2015-02-24 Thread tomlukeywood
if your a normal user then yes but if your are a whistle blower in the nsa for example its very very important you don’t get caught but if your just a normal user then a x60 with libreboot is good

Re: [Trisquel-users] OS X, iOS and Linux have more vulnerabilities than Windows!!!!!

2015-02-24 Thread davesamcdxv
Might as well say that according to ISIS 99.9% of law-abiding human beings practice Islam as practiced by ISIS. Sadly the commenters on there don't know that.

Re: [Trisquel-users] OS X, iOS and Linux have more vulnerabilities than Windows!!!!!

2015-02-24 Thread onpon4
Or that Microsoft just fixes the vulnerabilities before they become known, and pretends they never existed. I can't help but notice that Windows only shows having fewer "medium" and "low" vulnerabilities than "Linux" (not sure if that's referring to the kernel or GNU/Linux); in fact, the pr

Re: [Trisquel-users] OS X, iOS and Linux have more vulnerabilities than Windows!!!!!

2015-02-24 Thread dooleyn
The table presented in the article lists it as the 'Linux Kernel' ...

Re: [Trisquel-users] OS X, iOS and Linux have more vulnerabilities than Windows!!!!!

2015-02-24 Thread davesamcdxv
Oh, and which would one prefer? A 2nd-hand car with 10-powered-by-God-knows-what cosmetic problems or one that is prefect except that the brakes have all failed?

Re: [Trisquel-users] OS X, iOS and Linux have more vulnerabilities than Windows!!!!!

2015-02-24 Thread danigaritarojas
> US government repository as source of course Windows is more secure FOR THE GOVERNMENT than the Linux kernel, with Windows it's more easy to spy citizens.

Re: [Trisquel-users] OS X, iOS and Linux have more vulnerabilities than Windows!!!!!

2015-02-24 Thread shiretoko
And why is my gnu/linux system running safe and secure since 12 years now while every windows system of my friends and collegues is permanently fucked up with malware? But if some random site on the internet states something different, then of course i have to be wrong...

Re: [Trisquel-users] OS X, iOS and Linux have more vulnerabilities than Windows!!!!!

2015-02-24 Thread davesamcdxv
Especially if The Daily Mail then echoes the Internet article. (In all fairness the article cited a rather authorative (if not always correct) site, only to then draw conclusions worse than what floppies are compared to HDDs capacity-wise)

Re: [Trisquel-users] Libreboot x60 always at 100% cpu usage

2015-02-24 Thread legimet . calc
udev was merged into systemd in 2012, which is why you see "systemd-udevd". Trisquel 7 does not use systemd as the init system (but Trisquel 8 will)

Re: [Trisquel-users] Apt-get upgrade runs amuck in Trisquel thumb drive

2015-02-24 Thread davesamcdxv
I'm not an expert at all here but might it have something to do with a lack of RAM?

Re: [Trisquel-users] OS X, iOS and Linux have more vulnerabilities than Windows!!!!!

2015-02-24 Thread blade . vp2020
Windows is Closed Source How We Knew our b this gaps? Talk is not logical all this malware and thei tel OS X, iOS and Linux have more vulnerabilities than Windows hahaha but I want tel Windows like Raccoon City

Re: [Trisquel-users] OS X, iOS and Linux have more vulnerabilities than Windows!!!!!

2015-02-24 Thread jagsoul
Windows like Raccoon City More like the Umbrella Corporation for that matter ;). Any goverment source is full of crap, they are just trying to save their doomed to extintion, and so beloved back doors paradise OS.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Libreboot x60 always at 100% cpu usage

2015-02-24 Thread t8mf4nu6lizp
Thanks for the info.

Re: [Trisquel-users] OS X, iOS and Linux have more vulnerabilities than Windows!!!!!

2015-02-24 Thread dooleyn
Your comment reminds me of this issue of xkcd. Very funny. https://www.xkcd.com/386/

Re: [Trisquel-users] OS X, iOS and Linux have more vulnerabilities than Windows!!!!!

2015-02-24 Thread jei
You can't correlate something like the number of vulnerabilities recorded in a public database with a notion of being "more secure" or "less secure". And nobody (not the government, not Microsoft, not the Linux Foundation) says that, it's just a wrong conclusion by some "journalist". But you

Re: [Trisquel-users] SMPlayer doesn't play youtube vids

2015-02-24 Thread jei
It still makes more sense to use this userscript, because you can choose what video stream you want to watch exactly and not just the quality, and you don't have to run any non-free Javascript.

Re: [Trisquel-users] A company tracked 530 million mobile phones in Asia with drones

2015-02-24 Thread jei
So Cleiton-, are you gonna buy a phone now or not? Are you living in Australia, East Asia or India or not?

Re: [Trisquel-users] SMPlayer doesn't play youtube vids

2015-02-24 Thread jei
I don't know about smplayer but how does mpv perform on your laptop? It's pretty light-weight as far as I can tell.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Software Updater Bug

2015-02-24 Thread gothiccard
Hi Thank you all for information. I have reported the issue at https://trisquel.info/en/project/issues I checked the folder and those files were there.

Re: [Trisquel-users] A company tracked 530 million mobile phones in Asia with drones

2015-02-24 Thread mail
Well, if you use a phone that has entirely free software, there won't be an application to track you via battery, nor will there be ad-ware. You could still be tracked via cell towers, though. Replicant or the Neo900.

Re: [Trisquel-users] A company tracked 530 million mobile phones in Asia with drones

2015-02-24 Thread gothiccard
On the BBC news web site there is a report that you can be tracked just by battery power use. I starting to think the only way not to be tracked by mobile phone is not to have one. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-31587621

[Trisquel-users] Amazon donates 0.5% of the price of your eligible AmazonSmile purchases to the charitable organization of your choice

2015-02-24 Thread dadix
I found this. https://smile.amazon.com/

[Trisquel-users] Antwort: A company tracked 530 million mobile phones in Asia with drones

2015-02-24 Thread shiretoko
What about the modem software? I guess they're not perfectly isolated, at least not always.

Re: [Trisquel-users] A company tracked 530 million mobile phones in Asia with drones

2015-02-24 Thread dbpalma9
"While Replicant is a fully free system, some proprietary components that are not part of the system, such as bootloaders, may still be executed (the situation depends on each device). These proprietary pieces have access to the data stored on the device. Hence, they represent a risk for secu

Re: [Trisquel-users] OS X, iOS and Linux have more vulnerabilities than Windows!!!!!

2015-02-24 Thread marioxcc . MT
The article is fallacious. It makes several assumptions, and among them, that the number of vulnerabilities listed in a public database is representative of an operating system security. To start with, since GNU/Linux is mostly free software, then it can be examined by security researchers ea

Re: [Trisquel-users] Amazon donates 0.5% of the price of your eligible AmazonSmile purchases to the charitable organization of your choice

2015-02-24 Thread onpon4
0.5%? So, for every $100 you spend, they'll give a charity 50 cents. I don't think that amount is anywhere near enough to justify buying from Amazon for that purpose. If you were going to buy from Amazon anyway, fine, but please don't give Amazon gratis advertising based on it.

Re: [Trisquel-users] A company tracked 530 million mobile phones in Asia with drones

2015-02-24 Thread tomlukeywood
"Nevertheless, a phone with replicant is as free as a smartphone can possibly be these days." http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Main_Page ???

[Trisquel-users] computer monitoring software

2015-02-24 Thread adel . afzal
Does anyone know of software that can monitor computer use? In particular, monitoring Internet use and email access, on a particular computer. It's fine if the software indicates to the user that he is being monitored. It's a situation where the user has provided informed consent for the m

Re: [Trisquel-users] Apt-get upgrade runs amuck in Trisquel thumb drive

2015-02-24 Thread amenex
davidnotcoulthard queried: > ... lack of RAM ? < Not hardly ... the laptop has 4GB.

Re: [Trisquel-users] unetbootin fork

2015-02-24 Thread jason
"but dose anyone know how i could give this the trisquel developers? Request on account for https://devel.trisquel.info/groups/trisquel and start working.

Re: [Trisquel-users] A company tracked 530 million mobile phones in Asia with drones

2015-02-24 Thread cromozon
My take on this: Ads should be illegal in public space.

[Trisquel-users] dr. gnu i have to heal my apple hw how?

2015-02-24 Thread rockinko
hi, recently I could to downgrade to a cheap laptop intel fr kb without flashing bios yet (it's not mine). so it's not 100% trisquel env. i couldn't test trisquel seriously because I have patented hardware (apple) 4 comps (1 macbook 1,1 1 macpro 4,1 1 macbook 8,2 1 iphone 5). a day i read a

Re: [Trisquel-users] computer monitoring software

2015-02-24 Thread tomlukeywood
" It's a situation where the user has provided informed consent for the monitoring" out of curiosity what situation is this?

Re: [Trisquel-users] unetbootin fork

2015-02-24 Thread tomlukeywood
thanks!

Re: [Trisquel-users] unetbootin fork

2015-02-24 Thread legimet . calc
You can sign up here: https://devel.trisquel.info/users/sign_up

Re: [Trisquel-users] The truth about Purism

2015-02-24 Thread adel . afzal
I remember that the Trisquel community was mostly cautious about this. https://trisquel.info/en/forum/librem-15-freelibre-and-open-source-laptop-respects-your-essential-freedoms Todd-at-purism said: "Well, it's smart to be cautious, since building trust is usually a game of time. But to answe

Re: [Trisquel-users] computer monitoring software

2015-02-24 Thread adel . afzal
The police in my city allege that a man committed some computer-related crime. It could be child porn, some Internet related fraud, or something else. The police arrested him, and held him for a bail hearing. The trial won't happen for a year, maybe more. Unless there is some societal in

[Trisquel-users] are there free software cameras with batteries?

2015-02-24 Thread svhaab
Is there a camera that is not high quality? Can take pictures and video? Has a renewable battery? Can be used as a computer webcam? Something like the thinkpenguin webcam if it had a battery.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Amazon donates 0.5% of the price of your eligible AmazonSmile purchases to the charitable organization of your choice

2015-02-24 Thread t8mf4nu6lizp
If somebody here doesn't hate Amazon they might want to read this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon.com_controversies

Re: [Trisquel-users] are there free software cameras with batteries?

2015-02-24 Thread marioxcc . MT
Most compact, bridge and DSLR cameras can be used with free software in the sense that you can interface with them through USB and copy the photographies to a computer running free software. However, I don't know of any that you can use, also as a “webcam” with free software (that is, transfe

Re: [Trisquel-users] Amazon donates 0.5% of the price of your eligible AmazonSmile purchases to the charitable organization of your choice

2015-02-24 Thread dadix
is just a news , not advertising

Re: [Trisquel-users] are there free software cameras with batteries?

2015-02-24 Thread dadix
Maybe this Snappicam: https://learn.adafruit.com/snappicam-raspberry-pi-camera/overview

Re: [Trisquel-users] OS X, iOS and Linux have more vulnerabilities than Windows!!!!!

2015-02-24 Thread taiji_tao
Article is bunk. One must consider that the most secure servers in the world all run GNU/linux. The US federal government mainly uses GNU/Linux, especially RHEL (RedHat Enterprise Linux), NSA uses RedHat, most of the worlds air traffic controllers are using GNU/Linux etc...Oh, by the way t

[Trisquel-users] where is xclock?

2015-02-24 Thread cromozon
I am missing xclock. and I can't seem to find it using aptitude, or even duckduck. how can I get xclock?

[Trisquel-users] Re : where is xclock?

2015-02-24 Thread lcerf
Install the "x11-apps" package.

[Trisquel-users] Re : computer monitoring software

2015-02-24 Thread lcerf
Wireshark (GUI) and tcpdump (terminal-only) are possible answers. There are alternatives such as Ettercap, EtherApe, Tcptrace or netsniff-ng's flowtop.

[Trisquel-users] Re : dr. gnu i have to heal my apple hw how?

2015-02-24 Thread lcerf
No offense but nobody wants to read such a block of text. Try again with paragraphs, capital letters at the beginning of the sentences and, most importantly, only what is required to understand your question.

Re: [Trisquel-users] where is xclock?

2015-02-24 Thread cromozon
mmm xclock, thanks :)

Re: [Trisquel-users] dr. gnu i have to heal my apple hw how?

2015-02-24 Thread mail
I had a fair amount of difficulty attempting to understand your question... But I think you were asking how you can free your computer and phone? There is no Android for iPhone in a working state, and Replicant is currently impossible for iPhones. You can install Trisquel on a fair amount of Ma

Re: [Trisquel-users] Amazon donates 0.5% of the price of your eligible AmazonSmile purchases to the charitable organization of your choice

2015-02-24 Thread jei
Additional link: https://stallman.org/amazon.html

Re: [Trisquel-users] Amazon donates 0.5% of the price of your eligible AmazonSmile purchases to the charitable organization of your choice

2015-02-24 Thread maestro
http://www.democracynow.org/2013/8/7/i_was_a_warehouse_wage_slave

Re: [Trisquel-users] Amazon donates 0.5% of the price of your eligible AmazonSmile purchases to the charitable organization of your choice

2015-02-24 Thread mail
Not even every $100 you spend- only "eligable AmazonSmile" purchases have 0.5% donated, so it's probably more like 50 cents per $200 or so.

Re: [Trisquel-users] computer monitoring software

2015-02-24 Thread adel . afzal
Thanks MB, I will pass on this suggestion to the person who needs it I thought that I would try it out in case he has questions. Wireshark is in the Add/Remove Programs list, but "cannot be authenticated". Add/Remove Programs gives a warning about programs that are not authenticated (screen

Re: [Trisquel-users] Amazon donates 0.5% of the price of your eligible AmazonSmile purchases to the charitable organization of your choice

2015-02-24 Thread legimet . calc
Examples of workers having to endure extreme temperatures: http://www.mcall.com/news/local/amazon/mc-allentown-amazon-complaints-20110917-story.html http://www.mcall.com/news/local/amazon/mc-amazon-workers-left-out-in-the-cold-20120123-story.html Also, Amazon was part of ALEC, a secretive right-w

Re: [Trisquel-users] dr. gnu i have to heal my apple hw how?

2015-02-24 Thread danigaritarojas
> i grew up in 68's (paris evenements) philosophia with non-material value as concept and became autodidact when I was 14 yr... Really? the story of your life? As MB said, try again. Because I simply refuse to read such chunk of useless text.

Re: [Trisquel-users] are there free software cameras with batteries?

2015-02-24 Thread danigaritarojas
The Raspberry pi needs proprietary software to boot, it can't reach the point of executing libre software without binary blobs. This is a fatal flaw so I don't recommend this SoC board.

Re: [Trisquel-users] are there free software cameras with batteries?

2015-02-24 Thread danigaritarojas
> free software cameras Do you mean a camera that is free software friendly (a camera that is reconciled by Triquel)? Or a camera that only includes free software (like RYF devices)?

[Trisquel-users] Re : computer monitoring software

2015-02-24 Thread lcerf
It probably just is a mistake from the administrator behind your mirror. Try to download your packages from another mirror. You can change it from "Software and updates" (or something like that: I am translating from French) in the "System settings".

Re: [Trisquel-users] A company tracked 530 million mobile phones in Asia with drones

2015-02-24 Thread davidvargas1
Is this forum about stupid mobile phones or just everyone likes to post shit, about non trisquel issues all the time? This post should be post it in the TROLL HOLE!

Re: [Trisquel-users] computer monitoring software

2015-02-24 Thread davidvargas1
Is this forum about Trisquel? or just everyone likes to post shit, about non trisquel issues all the time? This post should be post it in the TROLL HOLE!

Re: [Trisquel-users] dr. gnu i have to heal my apple hw how?

2015-02-24 Thread davidvargas1
Is this forum about Trisquel? or just everyone likes to post crap, about non trisquel issues all the time? This post should be post it in the TROLL HOLE!

Re: [Trisquel-users] are there free software cameras with batteries?

2015-02-24 Thread davidvargas1
Is this forum about stupid cameras? or just everyone likes to post bullshit, about non trisquel issues all the time? This post should be post it in the TROLL HOLE!

Re: [Trisquel-users] OS X, iOS and Linux have more vulnerabilities than Windows!!!!!

2015-02-24 Thread davidvargas1
Is this forum about Trisquel? or just everyone likes to post bull-crap, about non trisquel issues all the time? This post should be post it in the TROLL HOLE!

Re: [Trisquel-users] dr. gnu i have to heal my apple hw how?

2015-02-24 Thread tomlukeywood
i think the question was how can i free my apple phone with a os like replicant? and as much as the question could of been clearer its related to free software which is closely related to trisquel

Re: [Trisquel-users] dr. gnu i have to heal my apple hw how?

2015-02-24 Thread tomlukeywood
as i think this question was not rely attempted to be answerd i will post what i think xfury was trying to ask: "my question is how i could recycle my apple hw* including my iphone (from that i read it could possible to install android and then replicant) to gnu/linux freedom. *hw means har

Re: [Trisquel-users] computer monitoring software

2015-02-24 Thread tomlukeywood
"or just everyone likes to post shit, about non trisquel issues all the time?" sometimes people post about non-trisquel related topics yes if this question was in the troll hole its fairly sure it would get zero or minimal attention

Re: [Trisquel-users] are there free software cameras with batteries?

2015-02-24 Thread tomlukeywood
this post is about free software helping people use free software instead of non-free software is on of the main goals of trisquel