Re: [Trisquel-users] Searx metasearch engine

2015-05-02 Thread franparpe
Oh my! Searx is fast, very fast. I think I'll be using it as my default search engine and see if the results are as good. I've looked at preferences and they work similarly to ixquick's old days: you can select what search engines to use.

[Trisquel-users] Re : Mozilla - Deprecating Non-Secure HTTP

2015-05-02 Thread pinmaritim
http://arstechnica.com/security/2009/12/20/how-to-get-set-with-a-secure-sertificate-for-free/ Am no expert but rather curious,the only solution is a self signed cert : quote: You can sign your own digital certificates, essentially acting as your own certificate authority, but that's a problem.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Mozilla - Deprecating Non-Secure HTTP

2015-05-02 Thread J.B. Nicholson-Owens
cont...@gnuvideo.ro wrote: I know about Let's Encrypt and I believe it's a great idea. But helping people switch from HTTP to HTTPS is one thing and forcing people to switch is another. Censorious world governments, Comcast, ATT, and other organizations are forcing this switch when you

Re: [Trisquel-users] Searx metasearch engine

2015-05-02 Thread tomlukeywood
from a user interface point of view this search engine is the best i ever used! and its libre software bye bye ixquick! but do you need a powerful web-server to run the search engine yourself?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Searx metasearch engine

2015-05-02 Thread J.B. Nicholson-Owens
tiri...@openmailbox.org wrote: Looking at the paragraph right above that one, it says: It provides basic privacy by mixing your queries with searches on other platforms without storing search data. Queries are made using a POST request on every browser (except chrome*). Therefore they show up

Re: [Trisquel-users] any 8400gs graphic card?

2015-05-02 Thread svhaab
I know I should get the card from thinkpenguin. But I am too cheap and looking for other offers. That is why I want to know if any 8400gs chipset card goes.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Re : Searx metasearch engine

2015-05-02 Thread J.B. Nicholson-Owens
lc...@dcc.ufmg.br wrote: Searx appreciates your concern regarding logs, so take the code and run it yourself! I don't see how running a metasearch engine yourself helps you keep your privacy so long as queries are made from your computer to the search engines you depend on. Let's say I do

Re: [Trisquel-users] Searx metasearch engine

2015-05-02 Thread tirifto
Looking at the paragraph right above that one, it says: It provides basic privacy by mixing your queries with searches on other platforms without storing search data. Queries are made using a POST request on every browser (except chrome*). Therefore they show up in neither our logs, nor

Re: [Trisquel-users] Searx metasearch engine

2015-05-02 Thread tirifto
being free software SASS doesn't mean anything for the end user because one doesn't do the entire job on one's own computer. While this is true, usability-wise, I also appreciate the contribution to free software! :)

[Trisquel-users] Re : Searx metasearch engine

2015-05-02 Thread lcerf
Searx appreciates your concern regarding logs, so take the code and run it yourself! Let's say I do not want to run it myself for ecological reasons. What does searx have in its logs? Did one of you take a look at the code? DockDuckGo, Ixquick and Startpage promise that they neither store

Re: [Trisquel-users] Searx metasearch engine

2015-05-02 Thread tomlukeywood
heres a list of sites running the software: https://github.com/asciimoo/searx/wiki/Searx-instances

Re: [Trisquel-users] Searx metasearch engine

2015-05-02 Thread shiretoko
All services have to keep some track of who made which query in order to get them the right results back (we don't want people asking for cat pictures to get non-cat pictures back). Why should this be the case? It's perfectly possible to perform a search for some user and delete all data

Re: [Trisquel-users] Mozilla - Deprecating Non-Secure HTTP

2015-05-02 Thread maestro
quantum - exactly! :)

Re: [Trisquel-users] Searx metasearch engine

2015-05-02 Thread tomlukeywood
i compiled it sucsessfully run this command to save you some headaces! sudo apt-get install git build-essential libxslt-dev python-dev python-virtualenv python-pybabel zlib1g-dev heres a screenshot it runs rely rely rely fast btw but on thing to note is it only seems to work when i am

[Trisquel-users] What it would take to increase privacy in searching -- local database searching

2015-05-02 Thread J.B. Nicholson-Owens
shiret...@web.de wrote: Why should this be the case? It's perfectly possible to perform a search for some user and delete all data about the process afterwards. Which means while the search is going on (the queries have been issued to the dependent search engines but the replies have not yet

Re: [Trisquel-users] Searx metasearch engine

2015-05-02 Thread tomlukeywood
i was trying to run searx and after installing all the dependency’s it wanted me to i get these errors: tom@trisquel7-gnu-linux:~/searx-master$ python searx/webapp.py Traceback (most recent call last): File searx/webapp.py, line 53, in from searx.engines import ( File

Re: [Trisquel-users] Searx metasearch engine

2015-05-02 Thread maestro
ugh what a tasteless awful radioactive green terminal color you got there ay ay ay!! :P

Re: [Trisquel-users] Searx metasearch engine

2015-05-02 Thread tomlukeywood
i cannot contain my computers radio active power it is too great! i;t;s l;i;s;ti;n;i;ng ;:(; all hail the AMT in all your ADVANCEDNESS WE HAIL YOU! YOU ARE A GREAT INNOVATION YES YOU ARE WE LOVE YOU!

[Trisquel-users] Weather Item in Panel in Trisquel 7

2015-05-02 Thread tesseract
Hello. Is it possible to get the Weather item/indicator back in the panel in Trisquel 7 as it was in Trisquel 6?

[Trisquel-users] A gift for fans of free software

2015-05-02 Thread cteehayder
Hi A Gift for fans of free software I want to share my M.E.1 theme with all free software community especially in this free community , http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/M.E.1+theme+%28Beta%29?content=169814 have fun and be free :)

Re: [Trisquel-users] Calling all Trisquel users in GNU Social

2015-05-02 Thread taknamay
Dave_Hunt, did you accidentally send me a PM? I don't understand what you are referring to.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Calling all Trisquel users in GNU Social

2015-05-02 Thread blade . vp2020
Dave_Hunt now I use social.2mb.solutions but I cant find the join button located besides the trisquel logo.

Re: [Trisquel-users] A gift for fans of free software

2015-05-02 Thread gramex
I love how clean it looks. I'll try installing it tomorrow.

Re: [Trisquel-users] A gift for fans of free software

2015-05-02 Thread gramex
Never mind, I'll do it today. :-) I installed it in my ~/.themes/ directory, and was able to change the GTK theme, but not the window or icon themes. Is this theme supposed to include icons, or do I have to install them elsewhere to get the look in the preview image?

[Trisquel-users] Help with new install

2015-05-02 Thread dooleyn
Hi, I've come into possession of an old Intel Pentium 4 (HT) HP desktop machine - a colleague at work was upgrading some of our machines and this machine was destined for recycling and he was happy (and generous) for me to take it home. The previous OS which I believe was XP was completely

Re: [Trisquel-users] Help with new install

2015-05-02 Thread g . smyli
re (2) I tried this from a terminal: $ getconf LONG_BIT 64 re (4) I'm new to Trisquel myself, I have only a / partition of 20 GB and a /home partition of about 108 GB plus about a 4 GB swap, about as simple as it can be done. I have installed apache2 web server, mariaDB database server and a

[Trisquel-users] Re : Searx metasearch engine

2015-05-02 Thread lcerf
This is also why people like Richard Stallman are clear to distinguish the freedom concerns of SASS from the freedom concerns of programs running on one's own computer. Stallman's definition of SaaSS excludes search engine. See

[Trisquel-users] Re : Help with new install

2015-05-02 Thread lcerf
For example, the pipe character results in the character and I haven't been able to locate it. See https://trisquel.info/fr/forum/how-get-keys-thinkpad-t60-german-keyboard-layout#comment-60582 I found opening applications not slow but a little sluggish. It may be because you are using a