Thanks guys, your comments are really helpful. I'll read your articles
before I do a second draft.
I heard that some countries made it illegal to decrypt css dvds, even though
it's the only way to watch those dvds without proprietary software. Does
anyone know which countries have this rule?
I noticed that the criminal justice system in my town works with proprietary
video formats. I'm thinking of asking the government to use free formats
instead.
I have some questions -- but here's some background info first:
The Toronto Police Service collects video evidence from
Haha Sal, what a novel idea ;)
When you type in Chinese, do you enter pinyin, which turns into Chinese
characters?
I looked up lightdm and kdm on Wikipedia. Are desktop managers the same as
desktop environments? Does anyone know of a desktop manager/environment that
makes language-switching easy?
my ideas are [more] along the line of maintaining a set of 'solutions'
(think virtual images that could be easily deployed and updated) by anyone in
such a way that you control them locally, but don't have much of anything to
do beyond clicking an update button -- Chris
I like this idea
Thanks for the heads up onpon
In fact, I'm about to push the button on the Lemote 8101B (the rms
notebook). I want to help contribute to the MIPS community, because I think
that's where we will have the best shot of establishing a viable alternative
to the x86 monopoly. -- ahj
I thought that Lemote stopped making the
I see; thanks for the heads up onpon
That sounds cool; thanks for the recommendation Fernando. Do you know about
the privacy laws/procedures that Mail.ru has to follow?
If showing a different address will make spam filters catch my messages, I
might hold off on this until I can run my own email server.
Let's say that I own a domain name ABC, and that I have an email service from
Autistici. I have the name muham...@abc.com set up to forward to my
muhammed@Autistici email account.
I read muhammed@Autistici from Evolution, and reply to my emails from there.
Is there a way to show
Is there a way to have voice conversations with xmpp, between Trisquel and
Android?
Chris posted that Think Penguin may one day offer some web services. Some
people had concerns that any service would be subject to intrusive privacy
laws. I think that the conversation ended there.
But I just had an experience with Google Drive. It won't let me share a
GPG'd folder of
Last paragraph: *just not worth it despite the convenience
I didn't read the part about the full backup before I posted about Deja
Dup. I haven't done that with Deja Dup before.
I used Deja Dup a year or two ago. It allowed backup to an SD card ... maybe
also to storage via USB or to a second harddrive. Is anyone more familiar
with this program?
Thank for the responses guys. I'm surprised at how popular Mini seems to be.
My computer is a pretty regular laptop. It has a dual core Pentium
processor. Trisquel runs well on it. I was wondering if Mini might run
faster.
Here are my specs (I think these are right):
2.2ghz dual core
Cool; I was thinking of getting Abrowser even if I use Mini. It probably
won't come with Gnash and other extras (if there are any other extras)
pre-installed from the repos though, right?
What do you mean ... what can we do?
I hope to attend the one in Kitchener. Thanks for the info Lembas and Chris.
I haven't tried Mini, but I'm thinking about switching when the new edition
comes out.
How do the two compare?
How do Midori and Abrowser compare, for example?
It happens to me sometimes.
I usually use an application called Synapse for launching programs and
finding files. Your friend can install it from the terminal with sudo
apt-get install synapse.
When his computer starts up without gnome-panel, he can launch Synapse with
Ctrl+Space. Type
Is the Troll Hole meant to be a general board? For topics that aren't
specifically about Trisquel?
If general (non-Trisquel) topics/questions are best left off trisquel.info,
perhaps someone could set up a a forum for that.
The PDFs here don't seem to open.
http://www.legalaid.on.ca/en/info/forms.asp
This is one of the pdfs that don't open:
http://www.legalaid.on.ca/en/info/forms/panel%20application_criminal.pdf
Any ideas on why this could be happening? This error message appears in the
PDF document, in place
I should have removed the Adobe links from the error message. That's not the
solution for me.
Thanks for your help guys. LAO sent me a version in standard PDF.
I will ask them to use standard formats. I'll have to do it in writing; they
don't seem to take those kinds of requests over the phone.
I would be happy for 911 operators to have access to my GPS location info,
for 911 responders. Especially if the phone informs the user, and asks for
consent, as part of phone's set-up process.
I don't know much about this topic so please correct me if I've
misunderstood.
Companies like
I think had an error trying to update. I didn't write down the error
message, unfortunately. I still use Google's name server.
I would be happy to contribute to your blog. I think it's a great idea.
Autistici gives free hosting for volunteer projects. Self-hosting may work
as well.
Adfeno, Cyberhawk, and I worked on a new-user guide together. Adfeno and I
were thinking of uploading it somewhere so that people
Cool, that sounds good to me
When selecting a domain name, we should think about our audience,
Geek suggests that the subject matter is a niche interest. Proprietary
software affects all kinds of people, and not just people who identify as
geeks.
I'll private-message you a few ideas ngawang.
I like Andrew's planet idea. And I agree with MB and ssd; Trisquel.info is
an obvious place for this kind of info.
But you seem motivated to make your own site, so I think you should go for
it. Getting a small team together, choosing topics,
the Wikipedia argument is that the terminology Linux is in wide use,
therefore is correct. -- andrew
Wikipedia would be a bad source for information, if it used popular
misunderstanding as the standard for the articles.
Wikipedia doesn't usually use popular opinion as the standard for
Is there a way to upgrade to 6.01, without reformatting, if I am using 6.0?
Will that perhaps come as a regular system update, after this testing period?
Thanks for the upgrade, all involved :)
Wikipedia seems to under-credit GNU, and over-credit Linux.
Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system... (Linux page, Wikipedia)
...no stable release of GNU yet exists as of May 2013. Non-GNU kernels, most
famously the Linux kernel, can also be used with GNU. (GNU page, Wikipedia
And
Cool, arbuzik, you sounds really enthusiastic about this lol. I'd like to
clarify some words in your post. Lots of people, including me, mix these
words up:
Free vs Open Source:
Free refers to specific freedoms. Open source allows for proprietary parts.
Open source can be 5%
My sister gave me her old Galaxy S2. I'd like to put Replicant on it. I
downloaded the img files (list below) and installed Heimdall and its
front-end.
boot.img
system.ext4.img
recovery.img
Replicant is not fully free on the Galaxy S2. Is it worth replacing Android?
Replicant on S2
Yeah good point; the pre-installed Android has a lot of proprietary stuff in
addition to those things that Replicant cannot avoid.
I booted into the phone's Download Mode, just to see what it's like. I have
four lines of text, followed by large green Android logo, followed by two
more
Oh -- never mind; I think that's how it's supposed to be. I just have to
connect the USB and run Heimdall.
my recovery.img is here:
mtp://[usb:001,008]/65537/28/recovery.img
I'm not sure how to tell whether that's a kernel partition, or recovery
partition, for Flashing step 1.
I tried both commands in the terminal, and the phone did not reboot. I'm
stuck =/
You understand why we don't help with non-free software/drivers on this forum
right? We're not doing it to be mean ... we're doing it because we care
about others.
Sometimes we assume that people understand why free vs non-free matters.
If you use proprietary software, your computer could
Thanks Lloyd; I look forward to reading your tutorial as well.
Thanks! I'll check out the Ubuntu Server Guide
It won't export mindmaps to jpg or png. Exporting to odt and saving as mm
both work.
A single-board computer like the Raspberry Pi seems like a good way to do
this, because those don't cost too much, and consume little electricity.
But single-board computers demand proprietary software to use GUIs, right? I
think that they can be used freely with the command line (is this
Thanks Andresm
No error message; the computer just doesn't do anything when I try to export
the mind map as an image.
Your workaround will work for me, thanks. I usually put those maps in GIMP
before printing anyway, so that I can make the maps fit the letter sized
paper that I print on. Building those
Hi Igor
Could you private-message Adfeno or I, when you have the chance. The contact
info we had for you doesn't seem to work now.
We were thinking of posting the new user guide online, so that others can
contribute if they like.
We figure that you would be cool with it because it's the
Thanks Lloyd, it worked
lol
the delete key doesn't do it, and I can't find a menu option that deletes
Looks like a good computer; 7 hr battery, fast processor, and 1080 screen.
I like removing the battery when I have an outlet. It's nice that the
battery is in the centre-back and not on a corner, so that the laptop sits
firm even without the battery.
Yeah (friend); rejecting intrusive initiatives, unfortunately, is no longer
as easy as leaving facebook, Google, Microsoft, Apple, etc.
Intel is beginning to sell hardware with technologies that they market as
vPro. With it, they (or anyone they cooperate with) could access our
machines
I dropped off two copies of a poster I made to promote the club. If the
manager approves the poster, she'll put one up on the public board. Maybe
two if I'm lucky!
On the poster, I asked people to sign up in August, and wrote that we'll have
our first meeting in September.
I'm not
I'm looking forward to Tox as well.
I tried Jitsi once a while ago but had trouble using it ... I'll give it
another go.
Haha, I think I will be in a similar position, but that's alright. Big
changes don't usually happen overnight -- it took me a few years to
transition from proprietary to open source to free. I'm not even truly free
right now. I have a Think Penguin computer, which is top tier free, and I
You said this to me a few weeks ago:
I think if one participates in facebook, though not frequently uses it, he
keeps this unjust system alive and growing.
It got me thinking about whether I really want to go along with things just
because others are. I won't always have the luxury of
Thanks Fabian. I'm transitioning to Autistici now. I'd like to learn how to
set up my own email server eventually; hopefully it's not hard. I hope to
buy a small single-board computer for that eventually.
The $210 are government and private name-search fees for registering a
non-profit corporation. The $45 is the community centre's fee. The
community centre waives this fee for non-profit corporations.
I changed my mind about paying these fees ... I think I will start
informally, meeting
Well, it's a status update, so they'll see it if they see it.
I left facebook a year or two ago because I got uncomfortable with it
tracking people. I've been back for a few months now; I decided to compromise
to keep in touch with friends. But I regret supporting facebook.
I don't like
Prism-break does not recommend Trisquel any more
FSF-approved OSes do not appear in the short list. Parabola and gNewSense
show up in the long list.
I agree with you. gNew Sense is probably the best because it supports MIPS.
But most people don't have MIPS computers.
gNew Sense's shortcomings in software support and user community may put off
new users. Trisquel has strong software support and a larger user community;
it's the
I like everything in one forum. I like the variety (clutter); a gaming topic
here, a hardware topic there.
Could we compromise: maybe we can optionally tag topics, and have a drop-down
menu to filter the forum by topic.
Thanks MB
Many of your posts are anti feminist, vPro. I find it offensive.
that's a shame...
I visited the community centre near where I live, and asked about starting a
club about civil liberties and computers. The manager told me that the
centre charges $45 for each room booking. They waive the fee for registered
non-profit corproations. Registering a non-profit corporation
I'll give PowerTOP a try, and check out the page you linked. Thanks lembas
Here are a few statements on Ubuntu's page from November 2004. They seem to
use free and open source interchangably.
The Ubuntu community is built on the ideas [...] and that people should have
the freedom to customise and alter their software in whatever way they see
fit.
These
There's Diaspora, GNU Social, and I've heard of one that uses xmpp for
accounts. Are these inter-operable? A challenge with starting a social
network is that in the beginning, peoples' friends are not on it.
Thanks guys, this really helps
Is there a GUI I can get for it, or is it new user friendly in its standard
form?
Oh I thought there would be a save electricity, computer button. lol. I
guess it's not that easy?
Thanks guys. I decided on jabber.at. I don't have friends on xmpp at the
moment, so it's kind of lonely! I'll ask a few friends to try it out. If
anyone wants to add me, my username is toronto
I'm looking at the podupti.me list and there is a lot to choose from. I care
about privacy, but don't know much about privacy law. Especially in European
countries.
So ... I just read this:
Ejabberd currently stores passwords in plain text in its database. This
means that anyone who compromises the server would be able to get the
password for your account.
https://jabber.at/en/passwords-0
Could anyone compromise the site? Will the compromiser be able to log into
my account and see who my friends are?
I only have two xmpp buddies right now so it's not that big a deal. Unless
the hacker impersonates me.
But it doesn't cost anything to care about privacy in principle. And
Thanks for the add Dave; it's good to meet you
the kind of pdf doc where the text is a scan (image) of a physical text
document
I found this page (below). Does anyone know whether this program will work
with pdf docs?
http://packages.trisquel.info/dagda/amd64/graphics/tesseract-ocr
Most peoples' first choice seems to be jabber.org. I guess that's because
they were the first. But their registration site is down at the moment.
Can you recommend a place to make an account?
I may want to use xmpp for audio/video calls later, so a site that supports
that feature would be
Does your usb memory card work for other tasks? Do you have another card you
could try?
Oh ... how embarassing:
I was using the UX Term and X Term instead of the LX Terminal. I just
installed a program from the LX Terminal, without that problem.
Thanks MB
I started writing a guide for beginners recently. I'm a beginner in some
ways, so I'm learning a lot as I go along. I wonder if there are others
interested in doing this ... maybe we could work together.
Pidgin does text, but I'm not sure it does voice
Cool, thanks.
Do you know wheter Jabber.org is one of those (video-supporting) service
providers?
I just put Trisquel Mini on a netbook. When I try to install applications
from the terminal, I get this message:
WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!
The terminal then lists the packages that are not authenticated, and asks
whether I want to install anyway. I said no.
The task bar looks half the size because I made the font size larger by
almost 2x. I did this in the Advanced Settings' font tab. The setting is
called Text scaling factor
oh man ... now I have five web browser icons. I think Ctrl+Alt+ right-click
dragging copies the icon.
Ctrl+Alt+left click doesn't seem to do anything. Neither does Alt+ right
click.
Does Meta mean Ctrl?
You should also remove that terrible window theme you have and revert back
to Trisquel's default, or just find something better and more suitable . --
mYself
haha =P. I use that theme because I am teaching my grandmother how to use
the computer. The theme has large minimize-to-tray,
haha thanks =D
I think that I probably care about the big buttons and font more than her =P
Thanks for your help guys, I put the web browser icon back where it started
=D
Thanks, this worked!
I accidently moved the web browser icon ... how do I put it back, to the left
of the window items?
Here's a screen:
http://i.imgur.com/4bJkTu5.png
haha, thanks man
Thanks quantumgravity. I will think carefully about your post.
Thanks Lloyd
I don't mind at all
I just posted this on facebook. I know, I know, facebook. Sorry okay? I
stayed off for a few years but it's hard not to compromise sometimes.
My post:
If you're using proprietary software, your computer could be informing on
you. One problem with proprietary software is that users
Thanks for the tip Andrew. I will use the url that you posted.
Does the standard facebook page track people in that way, even if they access
facebook with an OS like Trisquel? I use a free OS (Trisquel) ...so I
assumed that I don't have Java on my computer. Does their tracking work even
Oh, my bad. Thanks guys. Sorry for the confusion; I don't know much about
computers, just the philosophy and ideals. Thanks for explaining!
Could you give her a Raspberry Pie with a free OS on it? Would that be
appropriate?
This way, the switch will not have surprises (eg. interfere with her using
websites that require Flash).
She will notice the differences between the RPie PC and her current PC (docx,
Flash, etc). If you
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