Re: [Trisquel-users] Give me recommendations about a video sharing site.

2015-07-24 Thread J.B. Nicholson-Owens
franpa...@openmailbox.org wrote: Hello, I want to share my videos in a youtube style. Could you recommend me a webpage about that? Yes, the Internet Archive -- https://archive.org/ -- you can upload via FTP and either link to the upload (or any of the derivative files the site generates for y

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel Noob Here

2015-07-24 Thread mudjack64
The deeper I go, the deeper it gets... Now, I have used Gparted to (apparently) wipe out that sda5. I partitioned the hard drive once again and came up with an sda1 and an sda2, and a swap partition. (An interesting side note here is that this is the first time I have ever placed the swap

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel Noob Here

2015-07-24 Thread moxalt
What that was supposed to do was open Nautilus, the graphical file manager, as root, in /root. It evidently didn't work. I personally would just use the terminal for any serious file management, but then that's just me. As to your strange partitioning problem, what you seem to be doing is deleting

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel Noob Here

2015-07-24 Thread jadedml
In Quirky, try to mount one of the partitions and look at the data on them. If it can't mount the partition/there isn't data on the partition, then gparted is correct and Quirky is incorrect.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel Noob Here

2015-07-24 Thread mudjack64
Yes, interesting you should say that... I just booted from USB stick, then found sda1 and made sure it was unmounted. Then I opened up Gparted and deleted sda1. Now, Gparted says the entire drive is unallocated. I even tried to boot from the drive to be certain this was done... It's done.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel Noob Here

2015-07-24 Thread jadedml
How about you just competely nuke it, in which case? You could make a new patition table on sda-- you could do so with a gparted live CD, etc. I'd recommend GPT or an MSDOS partition table.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel Noob Here

2015-07-24 Thread mudjack64
Now, just for fun, I stuck in my old Ubuntu Saucy Salamander disk and booted the machine, installed Ubuntu, and without creating any partitions. I just wiped all the old partitions out and used the entire drive for Ubuntu -- so the partition manager said at install. Guess what? It didn't

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel Noob Here

2015-07-24 Thread jadedml
To run a program with root access, you should use the "sudo" command. To use it, type in "sudo (command to run as root here)" The second argument, which is "(command to run as root here)" is necessary to use sudo. At first, it gives you usage gibberish, and then asks for your password. You th

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel Noob Here

2015-07-24 Thread mudjack64
i ran gksudo nautilus /root... I got a window that says: "Enter your password to perform administrative tasks" -- which I did. Then the password entry window vanished and the terminal returned to command entry perfectly. Does this mean I'm in? If so, it didn't change anything as far as my

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel Noob Here

2015-07-24 Thread mudjack64
lsbk says: NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT sda 8:0 0 55.9G 0 disk sda1 8:1 0 11.5G 0 part / sda2 8:2 0 40.6G 0 part /home sda3 8:3 0 3.8G 0 part [SWAP] sr0 11:0 1 603M 0 rom /media -- etc. Gparted says the sda5 is mounted and that it can't delete any mounted partitions. Then it tells

Re: [Trisquel-users] 'Abrowser' behaves strangely after a system update.

2015-07-24 Thread gramex
Abrowser 39 crashes on my 32-bit Trisquel 6 machine as well.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Conky acting wierd!

2015-07-24 Thread abhijithb21
Yes. I did make a lot of changes. First, I installed Gnome Shell. I was using Trisquel Desktop before (http://trisquel.info/files/Screenshot%20from%202015-07-09%2016:20:05.png). Then, from the older conky, I removed the date and time and added a Trisquel logo. I tweaked the position of imag

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel Noob Here

2015-07-24 Thread tomlukeywood
for a user friendly way of accessing root directory’s run gksudo nautilus /root in a terminal

Re: [Trisquel-users] Best secrity tools to defend my Trisquel system against douchebags?

2015-07-24 Thread David
suntzunnoy? You mean Sun Tzu? lol On 07/24/2015 10:27 PM, great...@riseup.net wrote: > sudo ufw enable > > sudo netstat -tulpn and see what is listening to the internetz. > Remove everything you don't use/need. > > Relax. If your suntzunnoy enemy is not the NSA, you are perfectly fine.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Conky acting wierd!

2015-07-24 Thread greatgnu
Strange. When did this start? Did you change anything recently?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Best secrity tools to defend my Trisquel system against douchebags?

2015-07-24 Thread greatgnu
sudo ufw enable sudo netstat -tulpn and see what is listening to the internetz. Remove everything you don't use/need. Relax. If your suntzunnoy enemy is not the NSA, you are perfectly fine.

Re: [Trisquel-users] italian reading who can translate a court decision?

2015-07-24 Thread greatgnu
Year 2005. Marco Pieraccioli demands the money of the unused winowns license returned to him. HP disagrees saying that the software and the hardware are inextricably joined together on the computer they sold to Pieraccioli. Pieraccioli did not accept the terms of the EULA. He did not click o

Re: [Trisquel-users] 'Abrowser' behaves strangely after a system update.

2015-07-24 Thread ron
Exact same issue for me after v 39 upgrade, on my GlugGlug X60 laptop. Immediate crash. I've had to install the only other version in the repo, which was version 19!

[Trisquel-users] Help!

2015-07-24 Thread moxalt
Reddit needs proprietary JavaScript! My life is ruined!

[Trisquel-users] Re : Trisquel Noob Here

2015-07-24 Thread lcerf
The reason for your problem must be that the user id of the files you copied is not your user id. Assuming you put those files in your home folder, you can change the owner and group of all the files (recursively) by opening a terminal and executing the following command: $ sudo chown -R $U

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel Noob Here

2015-07-24 Thread jadedml
A standard user cannot access the /root directory, only the root user can do so. To access it, you'll need to use either sudo or su. And standard users cannot access some mounted devices and partitions so you may have to access it with sudo or su. You could also use the chown command so that yo

[Trisquel-users] Trisquel Noob Here

2015-07-24 Thread mudjack64
Howdy Folks, Just tried Trisquel for the first time just yesterday. So far, very cool, but lots of bugs and glitches to be worked out. I downloaded all my files to a partition and it won't let me go to work on my own files! What the... ? Can't save the changes! It wants to make a new f

Re: [Trisquel-users] 'Abrowser' behaves strangely after a system update.

2015-07-24 Thread matt . ivie
Once you install abrowser 39 you can't downgrade back to 38. You can go to 33. The problem I have with Icecat is that it is so privacy and security oriented that it breaks sites. Normally that is not a major problem for me but there are a few that won't work at all because of the tight sett

Re: [Trisquel-users] Best secrity tools to defend my Trisquel system against douchebags?

2015-07-24 Thread cooloutac
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_lhqg_p21k&feature=player_embedded

Re: [Trisquel-users] Best secrity tools to defend my Trisquel system against douchebags?

2015-07-24 Thread David
Ah thanks a lot man! On 07/24/2015 05:36 PM, coolou...@yahoo.com wrote: > it only updates everyday after install, you would have to call it to > scan. > > clamscan is the command, you can check manpage for all the options. > I make an alias for it. > https://askubuntu.com/questions/250290/ho

[Trisquel-users] Re : Best secrity tools to defend my Trisquel system against douchebags?

2015-07-24 Thread lcerf
Update the database of viruses: $ sudo freshclam Scan the whole system: $ sudo clamscan -r / Each command takes tens of minutes if not hours. And the searched virus almost all are Windows viruses.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Best secrity tools to defend my Trisquel system against douchebags?

2015-07-24 Thread cooloutac
it only updates everyday after install, you would have to call it to scan. clamscan is the command, you can check manpage for all the options. I make an alias for it. https://askubuntu.com/questions/250290/how-do-i-scan-for-viruses-with-clamav

Re: [Trisquel-users] Best secrity tools to defend my Trisquel system against douchebags?

2015-07-24 Thread David
I installed clamav already. Does it run after installation or do I call it? My terminal says 'no such clamav found' or something like that when I try to call clamav via 'clamav'. On 07/24/2015 04:41 PM, coolou...@yahoo.com wrote: > also install and routinely use rkhunter, and clamav.

Re: [Trisquel-users] 'Abrowser' behaves strangely after a system update.

2015-07-24 Thread cooloutac
You can't use abrowser 38 on trisquel 7? Or isn't it maybe safer to use icecat on trisquel 7 until issue is fixed?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Best secrity tools to defend my Trisquel system against douchebags?

2015-07-24 Thread cooloutac
also install and routinely use rkhunter, and clamav.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Best secrity tools to defend my Trisquel system against douchebags?

2015-07-24 Thread David
This is really helpful! I'll go check these! Thanks a lot! On 07/24/2015 04:30 PM, coolou...@yahoo.com wrote: > +1 to grsecurity patch, this website has good tips > http://hardenubuntu.com/ > > Trisquel also comes with lots of default apparmor profiles you can > enforce. > > use a file integrity

Re: [Trisquel-users] Best secrity tools to defend my Trisquel system against douchebags?

2015-07-24 Thread cooloutac
+1 to grsecurity patch, this website has good tips http://hardenubuntu.com/ Trisquel also comes with lots of default apparmor profiles you can enforce. use a file integrity program like tripwire or AIDE, to check when files have been changed. Use a program like logwatch to check some import

Re: [Trisquel-users] Advertising Trisquel & FLOSS

2015-07-24 Thread strypey
That's great Luke, I'd been starting to suspect we all talk about being able to edit graphics or video on GNU+Linux because the applications exist, but nobody had actually *done* it ;) If you could point me at some simple instructions for getting started? I really just want to reliable tips o

Re: [Trisquel-users] 'Abrowser' behaves strangely after a system update.

2015-07-24 Thread strypey
I solved the problem with Abrowser 39 on Trisquel 7 (http://trisquel.info/en/forum/abrowser-behaves-strangely-after-system-update#comment-73839) by going back to Trisquel 6. I'm now using ABrowser 38 on Trisquel 6 (same hardware). Most things work, but I just tried to use Subrosa.io (GPLv3,

Re: [Trisquel-users] Best secrity tools to defend my Trisquel system against douchebags?

2015-07-24 Thread qazxswedc
Nihaoma! :)

[Trisquel-users] Re : AMD Processor + Nvidia?

2015-07-24 Thread calinou
No, it is technically impossible to have a AMD CPU + NVIDIA GPU in a laptop.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Give me recommendations about a video sharing site.

2015-07-24 Thread tomlukeywood
i also do not reccomend using youtube goblinrefudge is a good site but also if you want to you can always host your own website running mediagoblin

Re: [Trisquel-users] italian reading who can translate a court decision?

2015-07-24 Thread svhaab
Thank you. What you should look for is any reference to eu law and the eu court. You should look for text about a right to cancel an agreement, if a consumer buys an item. And in detail what the court says about whether the computer and the software system is one buy or two. Notice what the c