xset -r off didn't work
You mean xset -r on?
I just installed Trisquel 7 on my Acer Aspire One, and I'm having a few
issues. I installed IceCat using 'apt-get install'. It seemed to install
fine, but seems to crash an awful lot, possibly something to do with LibreJS,
which is a useful tool, but at this point in the 'Free Your JS'
Unethical or not, it's clear that you have way more independence and control
over your computing running the software on your own than using a service.
And since the whole point of the free software movement is to have control
over your computing then SaaSS should be avoided. SaaSS is even
Follow-up: a brand new ~/.mozilla/abrowser profile fixes the problem, so I
guess I have a setting somewhere that conflicts with the addon (now what
could that be, I have no idea!). Maybe some modification in about:config?
Can you please link to a set of newbie-friendly instructions for updating
GRUB that will work reliably in Trisquel 7?
Speaking of GRUB, I find that I need to run boot-repair every time I install
Trisquel. Is there a reason why it isn't in the Trisquel repos, or even
installed by default?
...what if you don't have someone who is also a programmer to take it over?
Someone else may. And I mean some random person on the internet who cares to
do so. This is not guaranteed of course. Unless the software is well-like by
other people, it may very well just die.
As an example, I
That really doesn't matter; you still depend on the software on the other
player's computer to communicate with them. The only difference you're
talking about is whether the communication job is centralized or distributed.
If centralized communication jobs were no good, that would extend to
Personally, I'm of the opinion that SaaSS is not necessarily unethical. I
can't see a way to justify calling services substituting for software
unethical which wouldn't also justify calling all services to do something
you could do yourself unethical. However, I do think RMS is right that we
I'm on LXDE. LXinput isn't like that (changing repeat delay and interval,
which you can do with it, didn;t help).
(Otherwise I wouldn't be posting it here since my search of the WWW mostly
net answer like Open GNOME Control Centre's Keyboard-setting utility :)
moxalt wrote:
In the same way that the issue with proprietary software is not
necessarily that it is directly abusing the user (in many cases it is
not) but a matter of principle.
Then this is where you differ with the free software movement.
Proprietary software mistreats each of its users
There are plenty of competing engines, like
right..
To ansser the original question re: tradition vs functional requirement,
it's a convention that helps to maintain order by keeping binaries, taken
from repository packages, from binaries resulting from compilation of sources
not in the repos, and from scripts for use only by one user. For
There are peer-to-peer games around like Stunt Rally, which do not have any
central server, aside of the master server which handles the list of games.
Well, I realized that it doesn't block specific ads:
It blocks Urban's Terror adds on its website but it does not block ads on
google, startpage, ixquick... But it blocks the majority of them and blocks
most of the third party trackers (I've checked the list).
You could take a look at the end dmesg's output right after the problem
occurs (using your USB keyboard). There might be useful information.
That way, the copyright isn't tied to a dead entity and the software gets
ignored.
You can also write down who should manage the copyrighted on your works in
case of death (like Aaron Swartz did).
heartbleed would probably have been discovered sooner.
any the nsa would release this info and not abuse it...?
Yes, I don't believe this is a Libreboot issue. You mention you use your
machine for terminal use, web and email. Does your symptoms only affect your
terminal session by any chance? That is when it occurs can you still input
via the keyboard to your browser etc. If it only affects your
Well, it is cleaner to have your homemade programs (for all users of the
system) in a separate directory. Nothing prevents your program in /usr/bin
from being overwritten if you install a package that happen to have picked
the same name as yours for one of its binaries.
See what
I do not think there can be any executable code embedded in SVG. The picture
is scalable because objects are mathematically defined. A circle, for
instance, is defined as a center and a radius. In this way, whatever the
zoom, the application (for instance the Web browser) draws a perfect
Quote:Free software for your own search engine, data explorer and research
tools based on Apache Lucene / Solr or Elastic Search open-source
enterprise-search and open standards for Linked Data and Semantic Web.
Looks a bit complicated, but very interesting !
Downloads have VMs, .deb file,
Games are for fun, so you don't need to care if they're SaaSS
I know that Games aren't exactly computing/work/tool. But still, cloud
gaming means depending on someone's else server for doing something that
you're perfectly capable of doing on your computer. It also means that you
never
I thought they were just mere XML. I wonder if this JS gets executed on
IceCat even with JS disabled.
So, it isn't SVG can be dangerous but the browser can hold exploits while
rendering SVG or PNG files, so disable it if you don't want to leave any clue
(like in TBB).
what exactly do you mean by doesn't work? Icecat's spyblock addon function
is not to block ads but the trackers and thus only those adds that track the
user will be blocked. If you want it to block all adds you need to add a
filter to its filters list. If I may recommend a filter: fanboy
Looks like SVGs can contain scripts, e.g. JavaScript.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SVG#Scripting_and_animation
When I press f for a few seconds on one of the Trisquel installations on my
laptop (as usual made by debootstrapping and continuing from there), I expect
to get
.
This is what I get upon login.
But if
what are you talking about man? lembda actually gave you a link? and just
ignore everything I said? I wasn't theorizing...lol Try searching online
sometimes for information, its useful.
https://technet.microsoft.com/library/security/ms09-062#section2
also theres all the quake and doom engines
and LÖVE and pygame and sdl, allegro, gosu, rubygame, corange, Blender,
HAFF's Game engine, castle engine, panda3d, pearengine3d etc etc etc
you definitely don’t have to worry about choice!
if you want to block adds use Ublock
https://www.blackhat.com/docs/us-14/materials/us-14-DeGraaf-SVG-Exploiting-Browsers-Without-Image-Parsing-Bugs.pdf
it can potentially exploit any program that renders it. media players,
email clients...etc...
So spyblock don't block adds that don't spy? Excellent because I have no
problem with ads that don't track.
It happens to you too?
A few concerns:
1. The intermixing of the terms free software and open source is always a
red flag. It could be just confusion in the messaging, but its still a red
flag.
2. Based on a multi-page quick walk through of the website I could not find
any licensing information. My assumption
*misspelled and as any
interesting you say that, your post is making me feel like I'm in the
twilight zone now. Because it happened to me in windows yesterday, for the
first time ever... keyboard just stopped working, I rebooted and it worked
again. It totally baffled my mind.
And last night I couldn’t wake
I'm getting x problems trying to wake monitor from a long suspend, i want to
revert back to a previous kernel to see if thats the issue? How can I do
this?
I tried these directions
https://blog.okturtles.com/2014/06/how-to-downgrade-a-linux-kernel-on-debian/
it didn't work.
I figured it out, I had to remove the 01_PASSWORD file. it just didn't work
no matter what username and passwd i used. Ty Quidam.
Check out the Keyboard utility in the System settings. There is a
checkbox to control that.
No. That's a communication job, a joint activity. It's impossible to play a
multiplayer game with someone else using only software on your computer.
If the game was single-player, and the server only existed to provide the
game world... that still probably wouldn't be SaaSS, because in that
Nothing, I was just mentioning that yes, SVG pics can be dangerous maybe the
warning is there because the same might apply to PNG pics. Not sure though
(Lembas seems to have a proof there)
SVG are not pictures in the way you would consider a picture. See, you can
zoom inside of them infinitely without losing detail, so you know there is
code involved. It is considered (though I am not sure it has been proven)
that this code could be used to attack the browser. (doing more than
Yeah, but what if you don't have someone who is also a programmer to take it
over? Can't burden a wife or child that has no interest and/or skill to
maintain the code. What about if I'm a corporation or organization? Do I
simply assign to another entity (like a software conservatory) even if
That's the point. From a system administration standpoint, there is no real
difference between an executable someone compiled themselves and put
in /usr/local/bin and a shell script someone chmodded themselves. They are both
local user-created executables outside of the package management system,
Shouldn't such scripts be placed in /home//bin/? I thought /usr/local/bin/ is
reserved for applications you compile and install manually as in not from the
repositories. For example I am running emacs 24.5 as only 24.3 (and not even
that) is available in the repositories and it was installed
Probably not, because PNG and SVG pictures are composed with a completely
different mechanism. PNG (and all other bitmap image formats) are essentially a
matrix of bits representing pixels at a set resolution. SVG (scalable vector
graphics) are instead a set of instructions for drawing said image-
Although the classic 'chmod +x cat.png' always holds true.
I agree. Seeing that paragraph in the original version of the article had me
somewhat confused as to how that qualified as SaaSS, and got me asking this
question here. I held, and still hold, the opinion that multiplayer gaming is
not SaaSS.
It's impossible to play a multiplayer game with
You clearly don't understand the distinction between SaaSS and connecting to
servers in general. Browsing the web is not SaaSS, but under your definition
('anything that involves connecting to a server you do not directly control')
it would be. The difference is that in the case of, say, Google
I believe he was probably referring to things like AdventureQuest, BattleDawn,
and the like- all multiplayer games, yet hosted entirely online.
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