Re: [Trisquel-users] i am going to challenge myself for 3 days

2015-08-31 Thread cdwaldrum
now to my laptop - installing antergos right now and i can sleep

Re: [Trisquel-users] Very nice plymouth theme for Trisquel!

2015-08-31 Thread nicolasmaia
By the way, I noticed the progress bar doesn't go to the end. Is this intentional?

Re: [Trisquel-users] The FCC is asking for comments on a proposal to to lock down computing devices (routers, PCs, phones)

2015-08-31 Thread cdwaldrum
i still like trying to send one to mine but that webstie is to confusing!

Re: [Trisquel-users] libre film scripting software?

2015-08-31 Thread pgpattison
I recommend Trelby. GPLv2 http://www.trelby.org/ The .deb file on the Downloads page works with *buntu 14.04, so it should work with Trisquel 7.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Citizenfour on Popcorn Time

2015-08-31 Thread zatroch
Better late than never. Seen it after initial p2p release. For your consideration (=

Re: [Trisquel-users] Location entry in Nautillus Manager

2015-08-31 Thread sradms0
Thanks to both of you.

[Trisquel-users] Weird behaviour of youtube-dl

2015-08-31 Thread j . schraten
Dear all, when I run 'youtube-dl URL' in a terminal, I first get the 'WARNING: Your copy of avconv is outdated and unable to properly mux separate video and audio files, youtube-dl will download single file media. Update avconv to version 10-0 or newer to fix this', and then it takes ages

[Trisquel-users] Re : What free email provider do you prefer?

2015-08-31 Thread calinou
If you want to self-host, try Mail-in-a-Box. If you don't want to self-host, give Tutanota a try. It offers 1 GB of gratis storage, a responsive Web interface and can send end-to-end encrypted e-mails. Beware, you can't access it using regular e-mail clients since the storage is encrypted.

Re: [Trisquel-users] i'm going to buy a Nintendo 64 lads.

2015-08-31 Thread tomlukeywood
maby its being used in a different way here. in the UK i have never know it to mean anything but referring to a male.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Weird behaviour of youtube-dl

2015-08-31 Thread tomlukeywood
you should upgrade youtube-dl try running sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

Re: [Trisquel-users] Weird behaviour of youtube-dl

2015-08-31 Thread mcz
It happened to me as well, regardless of the update and upgrade. I didn't fix it yet, but here's an answer: https://askubuntu.com/questions/563245/avconv-warning-while-downloading-youtube-video

Re: [Trisquel-users] i'm going to buy a Nintendo 64 lads.

2015-08-31 Thread tegskywalker
If it is a one function device and cannot go online to potentially share your info and habits, who cares if it is a jail? It's like me complaining about my toaster or microwave.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Weird behaviour of youtube-dl

2015-08-31 Thread j . schraten
Hi, I had a fully upgraded system. The solution was to run 'youtube-dl --all-formats --get-filename URL'. The output was something like 'filename-XY.flv \\ filename-XY.mp4'. After that, I could run 'youtube-dl -f XY URL', and the warning disappeared. However, the download still took a lot

Re: [Trisquel-users] i'm going to buy a Nintendo 64 lads.

2015-08-31 Thread tomlukeywood
"who cares if it is a jail?" it would mean a lot of otherwise wasted machines like old microwaves, dead hard-drives or broken toasters could be reused as for example simple video games consoles or reused in other machines like toasters, CD players etc also anything that in unnecessarily a

Re: [Trisquel-users] The FCC is asking for comments on a proposal to to lock down computing devices (routers, PCs, phones)

2015-08-31 Thread chris
So I have some updated information on this issue. Canada is going to have the same rules as the US and the EU are also going to be passing similar rules: Industry Canada RSS-247 Posted on Industry Canada website: May 28, 2015 Issue 1 http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/smt-gst.nsf/eng/sf10971.html

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel for PowerPC

2015-08-31 Thread cdwaldrum
Debian is one of my favourite distribution but lately i been wanted something more and trying out anterigos! Gnome has grown on me but i still think KDE and mate are more dominant! i believe we need to get some more updated DE like Gmone 3 and KDE and MAte iso!

Re: [Trisquel-users] The FCC is asking for comments on a proposal to to lock down computing devices (routers, PCs, phones)

2015-08-31 Thread nicolasmaia
Have you tried the Linux Action Show? They have a large audience on YouTube.

Re: [Trisquel-users] The FCC is asking for comments on a proposal to to lock down computing devices (routers, PCs, phones)

2015-08-31 Thread tomlukeywood
:(

Re: [Trisquel-users] i'm going to buy a Nintendo 64 lads.

2015-08-31 Thread tegskywalker
I understand the concept of tinkering with hardware you own. I just don't understand how someone would benefit from trying to shoehorn functionality on an N64 considering it has no hard drive, network access, USB ports, and the cartridges the games it came on weren't off the shelf. I'm

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel for PowerPC

2015-08-31 Thread tomlukeywood
"i believe we need to get some more updated DE like Gmone 3 and KDE and MAte iso!" i am running gnome 3 with trisquel as i post this you can run just about any DE you want on trisquel but it would be good if it were easier to install them

Re: [Trisquel-users] Very nice plymouth theme for Trisquel!

2015-08-31 Thread tomlukeywood
"I know, I know.. dropbox.. meh.." Have a mirror!: http://92.19.232.58:82/files/Plymouth%20themes.tar.gz

Re: [Trisquel-users] i'm going to buy a Nintendo 64 lads.

2015-08-31 Thread tomlukeywood
"I'm aware of devices like the EverDrive, but that would be unethical as it is another device to allow non-free games illegally downloaded from ROM sites." just about any computer can play illegally downloaded ROMS by your logic the computer your posting this on is unethical for this reason.

Re: [Trisquel-users] i'm going to buy a Nintendo 64 lads.

2015-08-31 Thread onpon4
Wiktionary suggests that the meaning I interpreted is one meaning of "lads" found in Ireland, Northern England, and Geordie: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/lads#English (Note: this just applies "lads", not "lad". It looks like "lad" always refers to a boy or young man. A bit weird, but hey,

Re: [Trisquel-users] Weird behaviour of youtube-dl

2015-08-31 Thread onpon4
The warning is just telling you that youtube-dl can only download the files which are complete audio and video files, i.e. one single file. YouTube recently (sometime in the last year, I think) started serving audio and video separately and combining them together with client-side JavaScript

Re: [Trisquel-users] libre film scripting software?

2015-08-31 Thread cdwaldrum
thanks!

Re: [Trisquel-users] libre film scripting software?

2015-08-31 Thread cdwaldrum
@tomlukeywood- check out final draft and celtx! there what the industry use!

Re: [Trisquel-users] Very nice plymouth theme for Trisquel!

2015-08-31 Thread covalski . cleiton
This is a grub theme?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel for PowerPC

2015-08-31 Thread franparpe
I think he is referring to the latest version of gnome, with the new features included: gnome is constantly implementing new and very attractive functionalities.

Re: [Trisquel-users] libre film scripting software?

2015-08-31 Thread contactame+antiesnob
LOL I also thought it was about the shell scripting or sumthing and I didn't get it but he's talking about filming scripts like movies and documentals

Re: [Trisquel-users] How translate the documentation to a non-enabled launguage

2015-08-31 Thread contactame+antiesnob
I don't get what ur sayin bout the 403 error but there's no greek language enabled so I don't know where are you clicking "to go for Greek". Portuguese is a non oficial language and users r translating it in the English wiki but naming it in Portuguese. I don't know exactly how they deal

Re: [Trisquel-users] diffence in mac and ip?

2015-08-31 Thread contactame+antiesnob
CONGRATULATIONSS!! VOTED AS THE WORST ANSWER OF THE MONTH!!

Re: [Trisquel-users] diffence in mac and ip?

2015-08-31 Thread contactame+antiesnob
IP is for the DoD model (AKA TCP/IP or Internet model) while MAC is for the OSI model. OSI has 7 layers while DoD has 4. Now I'm gonna say that what marioxcc is "partially wrong" in the sense of the use of the word Internet plus another thing I'm going 2 mention: Internet AKA The Net

Re: [Trisquel-users] Citizenfour on Popcorn Time

2015-08-31 Thread Alexander Stephen Thomas Ross
you know with https://tribler.org you get the best of both worlds. download and watch while it downloads and/or stream. + there theres the beta anonymous download option. proper cutting edge stuff! Tor tech and bt combined to make a tor-like bit-torrenting. so the main diff with tribler and

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

2015-08-31 Thread strypey
I just got back from a week AFK, and downloaded the latest ABrowser patch (40.0.3) on both Trisquel 6 and 7. This seems to have fixed the segfault crashes on 6 (writing this in 6), and improved the stability in 7. Thanks to everyone who helped triage and fix the bugs involved. Great work!

Re: [Trisquel-users] Crowdfunding a game I'm developing: ReTux (Mario-inspired game)

2015-08-31 Thread onpon4
9 days left! There hasn't been much in the way of new contributions, but there have been a couple -- and given how few people have contributed, that's actually quite significant (those two contributions acount for over 1/3 of the total money raised, after all). I've run out of ideas for

[Trisquel-users] Mounting HP Slate tablet as a USB external drive in Trisquel

2015-08-31 Thread strypey
I've got an HP Slate tablet. Apparently, it's possible to plug the USB charger cable into the USB port on a computer, and mount the tablet as a browsable drive. The device probably only comes with a Windows driver by default, and plugging it into my partner's MacBook doesn't seem to do

Re: [Trisquel-users] Very nice plymouth theme for Trisquel!

2015-08-31 Thread greatgnu
thx tomlukeywood :)

Re: [Trisquel-users] libre film scripting software?

2015-08-31 Thread taknamay
Scrivener is more for novels, but maybe you should take a look.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Very nice plymouth theme for Trisquel!

2015-08-31 Thread nicolasmaia
Is there a way to add a custom sound to the bootup procedure?

Re: [Trisquel-users] i'm going to buy a Nintendo 64 lads.

2015-08-31 Thread jabjabs
This is true but spying is only one of many issues that Free software solves.

Re: [Trisquel-users] i'm going to buy a Nintendo 64 lads.

2015-08-31 Thread tomlukeywood
"i don't do \"computing\" with them" but you can do computing with them as they are computers technically and practically someone got unix to run on the GBA!(non-free but with src): http://www.kernelthread.com/publications/gbaunix/ and there was a BASIC Interpreter for the Atari 2600:

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel for PowerPC

2015-08-31 Thread tomlukeywood
and Ubuntu is based on Debian

Re: [Trisquel-users] libre film scripting software?

2015-08-31 Thread catfishagain
There is this template which says it will work in libre office. http://templates.libreoffice.org/template-center/screenwright-r-screenplay-formatting-template/

Re: [Trisquel-users] i'm going to buy a Nintendo 64 lads.

2015-08-31 Thread jabjabs
That would be because they where/are truely awful machines interms of the lock down they provide - Nintendo is one of the worst as well in terms of the control they put on every single element in the most extreme fashion. They have been doing that since the early 80's.

Re: [Trisquel-users] i am going to challenge myself for 3 days

2015-08-31 Thread jabjabs
Exactly, best in terms of ease of use and the freedoms are brilliant.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Scanner drivers won't install

2015-08-31 Thread wendythorn
Thank You Arielenter I'm sorry for the late reply. The scanner was not recognised when I tried to scan, I had to download the drivers from the Epson website. There were drivers for the Linux kernel, I also had to do this for the old OS before I switched to Trisquel, but on closer

Re: [Trisquel-users] Installing a CA certificate authority system-wide

2015-08-31 Thread vfvs
I see the source, so It's working, so why Pidgin and other software don't recognize the fact that the Cetificate Authority is installed and tell me to trust the ssl certificate?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel for PowerPC

2015-08-31 Thread ethernet252
But debian isn't FSF endorsed... Ah well, Might as well be the only choice. But Trisquel is based on Ubuntu, not Debian!

Re: [Trisquel-users] The FCC is asking for comments on a proposal to to lock down computing devices (routers, PCs, phones)

2015-08-31 Thread davidvargas1
Chris and everyone We could all take the Rebels view and see this as a power grab and the knee jerk reaction is "hands off my WiFi!" I don't believe the FCC is there to hinder innovation, at least I hope not.. this is not typically how the FCC works.. but I've seen them throw out

Re: [Trisquel-users] i'm going to buy a Nintendo 64 lads.

2015-08-31 Thread matt . ivie
What a strange place for this topic. There really is no way to enjoy N64 games in true freedom is there? One positive aspect of using an old used console is that you're not financially supporting the company that made it, as it is used. Secondly, you won't be breaking any laws by legally

Re: [Trisquel-users] libre film scripting software?

2015-08-31 Thread cdwaldrum
Trelby- was going to be the one but it not being maintain anymore and i still new on how to maintain the program like that...

Re: [Trisquel-users] i'm going to buy a Nintendo 64 lads.

2015-08-31 Thread tomlukeywood
"i'm going to buy a Nintendo 64 lads" this implies that there are no women on this forum which is untrue Definition of lad

Re: [Trisquel-users] Location entry in Nautillus Manager

2015-08-31 Thread moxalt
Open dconf-editor, go to org > gnome > nautilus > preferences and toggle on always-use-location-entry.

Re: [Trisquel-users] i'm going to buy a Nintendo 64 lads.

2015-08-31 Thread nicolasmaia
"and the same gose for microwaves, toasters, games consoles, Punch Card Controllers, Digital Radios, SD cards etc" That's a wild thought. I love it! I'd like to see some microwave hacking!

Re: [Trisquel-users] i'm going to buy a Nintendo 64 lads.

2015-08-31 Thread nicolasmaia
"and the same gose for microwaves, toasters, games consoles, Punch Card Controllers, Digital Radios, SD cards etc" That's a wild thought. I love it! I'd like to see some microwave hacking!

Re: [Trisquel-users] What free email provider do you prefer?

2015-08-31 Thread moxalt
As Chris suggested, the best option for an email solution is to DIY. If not, I would recommend riseup.net. You can find my recommendation, as well as a whole bunch of other suggestions, on this thread: https://trisquel.info/en/forum/what-kind-email-services-are-you-using-and-recommend-and-why

Re: [Trisquel-users] how to fix my resolution on an old amd pc

2015-08-31 Thread moxalt
Bit more info would be nice.

Re: [Trisquel-users] i'm going to buy a Nintendo 64 lads.

2015-08-31 Thread onpon4
That's probably over-thinking it. We don't commonly use the word "lads" where I live, but it's commonplace for us to say "guys" to just refer to a group of people we're talking to, and there's no implication at all that everyone in that group is male. I get the impression that "lads" is