Re: [Trisquel-users] Apt-Get upgrade finds the US repository unready

2015-09-10 Thread t8mf4nu6lizp
I've filed a bug on this behavior here https://trisquel.info/en/issues/5876

Re: [Trisquel-users] libreboot t400 is now available for purchase on minifree (gluglug)

2015-09-10 Thread moxalt
It'll take them some time to get it certified. I'm sure the FSF have been informed of the release.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Apt-Get upgrade finds the US repository unready

2015-09-10 Thread moxalt
Try another one. mirror.fsf.org is usually pretty reliable (if somewhat slow).

Re: [Trisquel-users] Is there a shut down log, and where can I find it ?

2015-09-10 Thread jason
Look in /var/log. Things like syslog and kern.log and dmesg and etc.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Nautilus will add native support for Google Drive and require an opt-out. Thoughts?

2015-09-10 Thread J.B. Nicholson-Owens
You wrote: i have no choice in the matter with this - i use youtube a lot and i need google accouint for youtube You could choose to use the Internet Archive at https://archive.org/ for your gratis hosting. archive.org's hosting is more flexible than youtube has ever been and doesn't have the

Re: [Trisquel-users] Nautilus will add native support for Google Drive and require an opt-out. Thoughts?

2015-09-10 Thread jadedml
Sounds like a great feature to me-- it'll make Trisquel more approachable to new users.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Nautilus will add native support for Google Drive and require an opt-out. Thoughts?

2015-09-10 Thread cdwaldrum
i upploaded and comment on the videos... it is needed -@SuperTramp83

Re: [Trisquel-users] thinkpenguin question- graphic

2015-09-10 Thread cdwaldrum
i may ended up buying an system76 workhorse cause this going to pack an punch for my editing

Re: [Trisquel-users] libreboot t400 is now available for purchase on minifree (gluglug)

2015-09-10 Thread tomlukeywood
i wonder why it hasn’t got a "Respects Your Freedom hardware product certification" from the FSF yet?

Re: [Trisquel-users] thinkpenguin question- graphic

2015-09-10 Thread tomlukeywood
"both up to 8 cores per Socket." and if you get a certain type of the board you can have 16 cores per socket!

Re: [Trisquel-users] Nautilus will add native support for Google Drive and require an opt-out. Thoughts?

2015-09-10 Thread tomlukeywood
i use YouTube but what i do is have a link in the descriptions of all the videos to the same video but on my web-server which can be used without any non-free Javascript so you could do the same thing with your YouTube channel an offer an alternative method of viewing the videos on say gobl

Re: [Trisquel-users] thinkpenguin question- graphic

2015-09-10 Thread zwiebel444
What software are you going to use? Nuevo isn´t Cuda nor opencl compatible... I don´t know why how, low end gpu´s drop frames, if any. For editing, I would take, if you need so much cpu power, ASUS KFSN4-DRE server/workstation board. It has 2 cpu-sockets both up to 8 cores per Socket. It is

Re: [Trisquel-users] What WiFi speeds can I expect?

2015-09-10 Thread calle
The machines are sitting next to each other. Or do you mean switch the network cards of the computers? I don't think that's going to work...

Re: [Trisquel-users] What WiFi speeds can I expect?

2015-09-10 Thread contactame+antiesnob
What happens if u switch the pcs places? atheros to the mac and vice versa?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Nautilus will add native support for Google Drive and require an opt-out. Thoughts?

2015-09-10 Thread greatgnu
no you don't. you don't **need** a goog account. you **want* to have a goog account. Commenting or uploading videos to youtube is not a *need*.

Re: [Trisquel-users] thinkpenguin question- graphic

2015-09-10 Thread greatgnu
you can software render avi and mp4 on any computer with a decent cpu without the need of any video acceleration whatsoever..

Re: [Trisquel-users] Nautilus will add native support for Google Drive and require an opt-out. Thoughts?

2015-09-10 Thread cdwaldrum
i have no choice in the matter with this - i use youtube a lot and i need google accouint for youtube

Re: [Trisquel-users] Nautilus will add native support for Google Drive and require an opt-out. Thoughts?

2015-09-10 Thread cdwaldrum
i have no choice in the matter with this - i use youtube a lot and i need google accouint for youtube

[Trisquel-users] Re : Internet connexion sharing

2015-09-10 Thread Julius22
My problem is that my access to Internet is from PC1 (by Wi-Fi). I want to share this access to Internet with PC2. I may want to connect another PC to my network one day. So, I want to use my router to share the access to Internet. But I may try to connect PC1 and PC2 directly, avoiding the

Re: [Trisquel-users] Nautilus will add native support for Google Drive and require an opt-out. Thoughts?

2015-09-10 Thread onpon4
Proprietary software is required to create an account in the first place. That's the biggest reason why I don't have a Google account, and I'd wager to guess that's the case for a lot of others here.

Re: [Trisquel-users] What WiFi speeds can I expect?

2015-09-10 Thread calle
OK, I did the test with urandom described above. My MacBook is stable at 16 megabyte/s. My X200 is fluctuating wildly but seems to average around 500 kilobyte/s. The Bit Rate from iwconfig says 65 Mb/s but the card is capable of 150 Mb/s (to my understanding). Nobody else here running a lib

Re: [Trisquel-users] Do DRM free games matter even if the game is non-free?

2015-09-10 Thread onpon4
It's not the same scripts, and there's one difference in outcome: Debian just removes the proprietary firmware, leaving in error messages telling you the names of the firmware files, while Linux-libre replaces those names with some slightly stylized version of "DEBLOBBED" (I want to say eithe

Re: [Trisquel-users] thinkpenguin question- graphic

2015-09-10 Thread cdwaldrum
the graphic card is for the frames that it renders - the lower ebd cards drop aboout 5 frames and that bothers me a lot - i going to be rendering a lot so i figure the titian be a good choice - i use to be surround by macs that been fitted with very high end cards at college and at high schoo

Re: [Trisquel-users] Is there a shut down log, and where can I find it ?

2015-09-10 Thread amenex
More data ... What alarmed me about the very brief text is that I thought I picked up something about an apache server ... which I am not knowingly using. The extra text doesn't always appear ... and the brevity varies.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Nautilus will add native support for Google Drive and require an opt-out. Thoughts?

2015-09-10 Thread J.B. Nicholson-Owens
tomlukeyw...@fastmail.co.uk wrote: now that i think about it i guess there is nothing bad about using Googles online storage if you encrypt all your files. The data describing one's uploads (when were transfers made, how large were the transfers, what IP addresses were involved in the transfer

[Trisquel-users] Apt-Get upgrade finds the US repository unready

2015-09-10 Thread amenex
Two days in a row, when I ran sudo apt-get update and then sudo apt-get upgrade, the console said that there are upgrades ready to be downloaded, but when I ask for them, it turns out that the files aren't there yet. This applies to the US repository. Not sure about any others. Details: > N

Re: [Trisquel-users] Do DRM free games matter even if the game is non-free?

2015-09-10 Thread moxalt
> Debian's kernel by default ships without the potentially non-free kernel bits Does Debian actually use the Linux-libre scripts to deblob their kernel? Or do they have their own in-house solution? Also, is Debian's de-blobbed kernel (after Squeeze) effectively the same as Linux-libre?

Re: [Trisquel-users] What WiFi speeds can I expect?

2015-09-10 Thread moxalt
> 11 megabytes/second You lucky people- I consider 300kb/s fast. 500 tops. Usually around 120.

Re: [Trisquel-users] thinkpenguin question- graphic

2015-09-10 Thread tomlukeywood
"Games, AND NOTHING ELSE (excuse all-caps) come close to actually, technically requiring discrete cards as far as I know." well if you were doing video editing or making highly detailed animations professionally then you would most likely want a good GPU just to improve your productivity an

[Trisquel-users] Accessing the Troll Hole

2015-09-10 Thread moxalt
Is the Troll Hole at all linked to a mailing list in the same way as the users board? Thing is, I'd like to post on/read the Troll Hole, but can't be bothered to actually log in to do it- I would rather post via mail, as I do in trisquel-users. Is there a mailing list for the Troll Hole? Will there

Re: [Trisquel-users] thinkpenguin question- graphic

2015-09-10 Thread tomlukeywood
"Games, AND NOTHING ELSE (excuse all-caps) come close to actually, technically requiring discrete cards as far as I know." well if you were doing video editing or making highly detailed animations professionally then you would most likely want a good GPU just to improve your productivity an

Re: [Trisquel-users] Is there a shut down log, and where can I find it ?

2015-09-10 Thread moxalt
> It very well could be the shutdown dialog I doubt it. He seems to be describing a message occuring after X has already been killed- like the shutdown message in text mode. Why this happens is beyond me- Plymouth should kick in for the shutdown procedure (at least if he's using Trisquel or Triske

Re: [Trisquel-users] Is there a shut down log, and where can I find it ?

2015-09-10 Thread moxalt
Anyway, I think that the white message on a black background you see is actually a brief glimpse into text mode- the desktop environment has already shut down, and the system is closing everything. The dialogue reads something like this: "The system is going for shutdown NOW" and a bunch of things

Re: [Trisquel-users] Do DRM free games matter even if the game is non-free?

2015-09-10 Thread tegskywalker
Yeah, they cannot completely open up the old Source engine due to the middleware. Would be interesting if Source 2 is all in-house.

Re: [Trisquel-users] thinkpenguin question- graphic

2015-09-10 Thread davesamcdxv
Games, AND NOTHING ELSE (excuse all-caps) come close to actually, technically requiring discrete cards as far as I know. For best graphics performance without discrete cards though, just get a Broadwell (not skylake, not Haswell), or ix-5xxxC processor and then go without a discrete card.

Re: [Trisquel-users] thinkpenguin question- graphic

2015-09-10 Thread jadedml
Huh? You need a Nvidia card to render certain file formats? You can render avi and mp4 files on pretty much any fair GPU (Including ones that work better than Nouveau) or CPU. If you get a Penguin machine, you'll be able to render avi and mp4 files, period- this I guarantee you.

[Trisquel-users] Re : Do DRM free games matter even if the game is non-free?

2015-09-10 Thread calinou
Source has third-party proprietary dependencies, like Havok.

Re: [Trisquel-users] The Boinc problem

2015-09-10 Thread gromobir
Thank you very much for your efforts, Larissa. What actually happened to your LibreBOINC project? Is the source code still available somewhere?

Re: [Trisquel-users] thinkpenguin question- graphic

2015-09-10 Thread tomlukeywood
"for it can render avi files and mp4." my pc uses integrated intel graphics and can render high quality mpeg-4 and avi (ogg, webm, mpeg-2 etc etc) video very well so i don’t think you rely need an external GPU for this purpose.

Re: [Trisquel-users] What WiFi speeds can I expect?

2015-09-10 Thread calle
I was downloading the same file from my NAS on both computers. Both computers approx 3 meters from the router. The file was traveling from my NAS, cat6 cable, Asus RT-AC68U, WiFi, to laptop, in both cases. Transfer was over SMB. I'm at work now, but when I get home I do a better test for the