Re: [Trisquel-users] Wonderful news for Gluglug X60 owners

2014-06-27 Thread mikko . viinamaki
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PMS ?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Wonderful news for Gluglug X60 owners

2014-06-26 Thread mikko . viinamaki
Good to hear that! Here's a few tips that might help with heating and power https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/optimizing-battery-time

Re: [Trisquel-users] New Cinnamon PPAs for Trisquel 6/7

2014-06-26 Thread mikko . viinamaki
Do you know whether these PPAs consist entirely of free software?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Startup Disk Creator Inaccessibility in Trisquel 6.1

2014-06-25 Thread mikko . viinamaki
You mean Trisquel 6.0.1. And you'll need to be a little more specific.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Startup Disk Creator Inaccessibility in Trisquel 6.1

2014-06-25 Thread mikko . viinamaki
And what is the problem exactly?

Re: [Trisquel-users] How can I automatically force file permissions?

2014-06-23 Thread mikko . viinamaki
Perhaps try appending /* to the command,

Re: [Trisquel-users] How can I automatically force file permissions?

2014-06-22 Thread mikko . viinamaki
I guess one way would be using incron. I wonder if a setup like that causes some security considerations.

Re: [Trisquel-users] How can I automatically force file permissions?

2014-06-22 Thread mikko . viinamaki
Try adding IN_NO_LOOP to the flags.

Re: [Trisquel-users] gtk give me error

2014-06-20 Thread mikko . viinamaki
Have you got the libgtk-3-dev package installed?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Live sport stream

2014-06-18 Thread mikko . viinamaki
Actually in Abrowser the user agent can be changed via about:config by setting general.useragent.override. That is, if you know the UA string you wish to use.

Re: [Trisquel-users] problem adding a PPA

2014-06-17 Thread mikko . viinamaki
Caused by https://trisquel.info/en/issues/11841 (Contains fix.)

Re: [Trisquel-users] Job opening @ ThinkPenguin (technical support position)

2014-06-16 Thread mikko . viinamaki
Great to hear you're hiring. If you're eligible you might want to get listed at https://www.fsf.org/resources/service and https://www.fsf.org/resources/jobs/

Re: [Trisquel-users] Information about FPS

2014-06-15 Thread mikko . viinamaki
I forgot what wiki has another big list with rationales of non-free stuff to block in 100% FaiF distros; do anyone know what is it? Do you mean this? http://libreplanet.org/wiki/List_of_software_that_does_not_respect_the_Free_System _Distribution_Guidelines

Re: [Trisquel-users] Live sport stream

2014-06-12 Thread mikko . viinamaki
The first step you should take is to write an email to the people who insist of flash. Than search for flash on these forums, there has been a lot of threads on the subject.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Gaijim XMPP Video Chat

2014-06-09 Thread mikko . viinamaki
I guess you could try this old version http://packages.trisquel.info/taranis-updates/python-farsight If that's a no go, then you're in for a compile. Looks like gstreamer 1.0 is required, ditto a newer libnice than in Trisquel. I did not check out what dependencies those might have in

Re: [Trisquel-users] copied orig. bootpartition 3times by gparted for modification/testing can only boot into orig partition properly (with coreboot)

2014-06-09 Thread mikko . viinamaki
It's not possible to edit the first post.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Mate-desktop

2014-06-09 Thread mikko . viinamaki
Sounds like this bug https://trisquel.info/en/issues/11841

Re: [Trisquel-users] repartition drive

2014-06-08 Thread mikko . viinamaki
You can use http://gparted.org/ to partition. Just backup your data before just in case. Don't know about misalignment.

Re: [Trisquel-users] ¿Is metasploit free as in freedom software?

2014-06-08 Thread mikko . viinamaki
Hi slacker! Apparently the free version is called Framework. Downloads *binary http://www.rapid7.com/products/metasploit/download.jsp#msf *source http://downloads.metasploit.com/data/releases/framework-latest.tar.bz2

Re: [Trisquel-users] no access to software sources

2014-06-08 Thread mikko . viinamaki
Hmm... works on 64 bits. What happens if you open a terminal and runsoftware-properties-gtk if anything? Any errors?

Re: [Trisquel-users] ¿Is metasploit free as in freedom software?

2014-06-08 Thread mikko . viinamaki
You're welcome. I agree it wasn't too obvious to find.

Re: [Trisquel-users] no access to software sources

2014-06-08 Thread mikko . viinamaki
What is the output oflsb_release -a

Re: [Trisquel-users] no access to software sources

2014-06-08 Thread mikko . viinamaki
Thanks alot!

Re: [Trisquel-users] Tehnoetic wireless USB adapter awarded with FSF's RYF certificate

2014-06-06 Thread mikko . viinamaki
The fact that all the free hardware (wi-fi adapters, coreboot-supported motherboards, etc) are a few years old, makes me really sad :( Me too and here's the reason: I like free hardware, but not that much :P People are apparently for now not willing to pay for free hardware. I expect this

Re: [Trisquel-users] Free Software Alternative to Citrix Receiver?

2014-06-05 Thread mikko . viinamaki
The description says This package provides the xe utility, the command-line interface for XCP systems. This tool can be used from dom0 to control a Debian XCP system, or from a non-Xen system to control an XCP or Citrix XenServer system. I have no idea what that means. :) You could try

Re: [Trisquel-users] Hungarian keyboard

2014-06-04 Thread mikko . viinamaki
Hello! Try this, edit /etc/gdm/Init/Default (as superuser). Add there to the end, just before exit 0 setxkbmap hu Then restart gdm. (i.e. reboot or close your open programs and goto VT1 with Ctrl+Alt+F1 and login and then input sudo service gdm restart)

Re: [Trisquel-users] Hungarian keyboard

2014-06-04 Thread mikko . viinamaki
Glad to hear that, enjoy freedom!

Re: [Trisquel-users] orca screen reader in installer

2014-06-04 Thread mikko . viinamaki
I believe Orca is activated if you leave the welcome screen alone right after booting for some time. (30 secs or so)

Re: [Trisquel-users] File Naming Error This item could not be renamed

2014-06-03 Thread mikko . viinamaki
What program is that from?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Unsupported Packages?

2014-06-02 Thread mikko . viinamaki
What unsupported packages?

Re: [Trisquel-users] No Firewall?

2014-06-02 Thread mikko . viinamaki
There is a SSH server installed by default, you might want to get rid of that if you don't have use for it. Besides that you can forget about a firewall really. NoScript is a very good idea.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Free Software Alternative to Citrix Receiver?

2014-05-31 Thread mikko . viinamaki
Would the packages openxenmanager and xcp-xe help?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Abrowser: Not Retaining Windows and Tabs Upon Restart

2014-05-30 Thread mikko . viinamaki
Are you guys cleaning your history? https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/665620#answer-26468

Re: [Trisquel-users] bitcoin

2014-05-30 Thread mikko . viinamaki
Did you follow the advice on the wiki?

Re: [Trisquel-users] bitcoin

2014-05-30 Thread mikko . viinamaki
Pop open a terminal and punch in mv ~/.bitcoin ~/bitcoin-backup mkdir ~/.bitcoin cp ~/bitcoin-back/wallet.dat ~/.bitcoin/ (You might want to copy/paste to avoid typos.)

Re: [Trisquel-users] hplip backports?

2014-05-30 Thread mikko . viinamaki
Watch out though, apparently it might suggest you a non-free binary blob! If it tries to get you to agree to a proprietary license agreement you should consider declining.

Re: [Trisquel-users] trying to use losetup, ioctl tells me argument is invalid

2014-05-29 Thread mikko . viinamaki
Have you tried inserting the modules as suggested in the manual? I also see that the manual states DES encryption is painfully slow. On the other hand, XOR is terribly weak. Both are insecure nowadays. Cryptoloop is deprecated in favor of dm-crypt.

Re: [Trisquel-users] bitcoin

2014-05-29 Thread mikko . viinamaki
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Bitcoind#I_get_.22Error_loading_blkindex.dat.22_when_I_try_to_run_the_client

Re: [Trisquel-users] Giving Away Trisquel?

2014-05-26 Thread mikko . viinamaki
Hello! You're allowed to make all those changes and even sell it as Trisquel consists entirely of free software. What is required of you as you distribute the result is that you follow the license terms of the packages that constitute Trisquel. The GNU General Public License (GNU GPL)

Re: [Trisquel-users] Looking for USB Bluetooth 3.* or newer

2014-05-24 Thread mikko . viinamaki
Wonder if this RYF-certified part would work for you https://www.fsf.org/news/tehnoetic-wireless-usb-adapter-now-fsf-certified-to-respect-your-freedom

Re: [Trisquel-users] Abrowser: Not Retaining Windows and Tabs Upon Restart

2014-05-24 Thread mikko . viinamaki
Does it work if you make a new profile? Close all abrowser windows and then open a terminal and inputabrowser -PThen set the pref to retain tabs and see if it works.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Abrowser: Not Retaining Windows and Tabs Upon Restart

2014-05-24 Thread mikko . viinamaki
Interesting... I have neither of those files and it works for me FWIW.

Re: [Trisquel-users] gcc

2014-05-23 Thread mikko . viinamaki
Why distribution is still on the old version? Trisquel is based on Ubuntu LTS versions. That's the version they happened to have. https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/how-trisquel-made

Re: [Trisquel-users] Tehnoetic wireless USB adapter awarded with FSF's RYF certificate

2014-05-23 Thread mikko . viinamaki
Great news, congratulations and thank you!

Re: [Trisquel-users] how to change the text-based console colors from gray on black to red on black

2014-05-21 Thread mikko . viinamaki
You can easily change the color after login with setterm. E.g.setterm -store -foreground red (perhaps put that in your ~/.bashrc) It probably is possible to put that somewhere in the startup scripts to make things work as you wish from the beginning but with Upstart and whatnots it's

Re: [Trisquel-users] Keyboard broken + HDMI

2014-05-21 Thread mikko . viinamaki
Usually this is what needs to be done if there are more than one command you wish to bind.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Best free laptop

2014-05-20 Thread mikko . viinamaki
Sweeet! Hugs and kisses!

Re: [Trisquel-users] Abrowser: Not Retaining Windows and Tabs Upon Restart

2014-05-19 Thread mikko . viinamaki
Or you could try toggling the setting to not remember and then back to remember... computers...

Re: [Trisquel-users] Front end for qrencode

2014-05-19 Thread mikko . viinamaki
In kinda sorta related news, here's my super lame QR decoder one liner. It takes a screenshot and looks for a qr code (actually for many bar code formats) and then spits the results in a zenity window. Dependencies: scrot, zbar-tools, zenity. scrot /tmp/scrot_'%s.png' -e 'zbarimg -q $f|sed

Re: [Trisquel-users] Keyboard broken + HDMI

2014-05-19 Thread mikko . viinamaki
:) So the solution works. Goto system settings keyboard or something like that where you get to define shortcuts. Then define a custom shortcut. Hit the plus. Input the command. Then the name you gave it will appear in the list. Click the word disabled after it and hit the key combo you

Re: [Trisquel-users] Keyboard broken + HDMI

2014-05-18 Thread mikko . viinamaki
What kind of special keys?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Keyboard broken + HDMI

2014-05-18 Thread mikko . viinamaki
I don't know such combo but try this. First install xdotool and then run xdotool key XF86Display (Letter case is meaningful, like usually.) You might need to do that a few times perhaps. You can find more funny stuff at http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/proto/x11proto/tree/XF86keysym.h

Re: [Trisquel-users] Yet another wifi issue

2014-05-18 Thread mikko . viinamaki
yes, 3.5 is older than 3.11, what was I thinking Not a too crazy mistake to make, so not too much shame! :) Glad it works.

Re: [Trisquel-users] free save formats -- list

2014-05-18 Thread mikko . viinamaki
You still need to put the page in a category, so it can be found without knowing the URL before hand. It's a bit weird how to get it there... hit edit on the page and select a book. If you wish to select a subcategory (which is strongly suggested to not pollute the highest level), you need

Re: [Trisquel-users] Typos in the Trisquel installer; What is its package helper name?

2014-05-17 Thread mikko . viinamaki
I think it's so silly we still have different conventions. Of course we had originally invented different ways to mark and measure things when there was little communication but this is 2014, interwebs and all. Furlongs and fortnights, driving on the left, pounds and feet...

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel 6 not recognizing second VGA monitor

2014-05-16 Thread mikko . viinamaki
What kind of a video card? Are you running the latest kernel and x? https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/installing-latest-backported-kernel-and-xserver

Re: [Trisquel-users] [Gnumeric] - Actualización

2014-05-16 Thread mikko . viinamaki
I'm afraid not.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel 6 not recognizing second VGA monitor

2014-05-16 Thread mikko . viinamaki
Glad to hear that, enjoy!

Re: [Trisquel-users] Add wallpaper

2014-05-16 Thread mikko . viinamaki
I guess one way would be to make /usr/share/backgrounds a symbolic link to your wallpaper folder. You need to be super user to operate in /usr. Use the ln command to make links.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Can't find syslinux folder

2014-05-16 Thread mikko . viinamaki
Trisquel uses isolinux.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Yet another wifi issue

2014-05-15 Thread mikko . viinamaki
An easy fix to try is a newer Linux-libre kernel.

[Trisquel-users] Looking for a job?

2014-05-14 Thread mikko . viinamaki
Love free software? If you answered yes twice, then this might be of interest https://www.fsf.org/resources/jobs

Re: [Trisquel-users] DRM, CDM, EME and Mozilla

2014-05-14 Thread mikko . viinamaki
Wow, bad day for reason and freedom. Shame on Mozilla for abandoning its own charter! Will write an email and hang my head low...

Re: [Trisquel-users] installing trisquel from ubuntu?

2014-05-12 Thread mikko . viinamaki
cant boot from cd, neither from usb While I guess it is possible that an old computer couldn't boot from either, have you looked at the BIOS setup? It might be possible to change the boot order so that USB or CD would be before HDD.

Re: [Trisquel-users] dpkg error when installing packages

2014-05-12 Thread mikko . viinamaki
Also during installation of the OS using the graphical install the mirror that was selected automatically (I didn't get an option to choose a repository) was offline and the installation would stop saying it was done. So I restarted into a broken system. Using the text installer everything

Re: [Trisquel-users] Work On Trisquel 7 Has Begun

2014-05-11 Thread mikko . viinamaki
Be a part of the solution, write emails explaining the situation to the problematic web sites. The faster flash dies the better it is for everybody.

Re: [Trisquel-users] BBC videos.

2014-05-10 Thread mikko . viinamaki
Wow. Great catch Legimet! Automatically downloading proprietary software, sounds lovely! Perhaps you could file a bug about this to make sure it doesn't end up in Trisquel.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Keepod: re-inventing the wheel

2014-05-10 Thread mikko . viinamaki
I think this is a good idea except for the google and proprietary software parts. $7 doesn't buy much of a laptop these days.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Crowdfunding the Novena Open Laptop

2014-05-10 Thread mikko . viinamaki
Novena is some ARM flavor of hardware architecture. Debian supports currently 9 archs, Ubuntu 5 and Trisquel only 2.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Keepod: re-inventing the wheel

2014-05-10 Thread mikko . viinamaki
Most if not all computers are set to not boot from the USB and the BIOS setup is locked where I live.

Re: [Trisquel-users] is xmpp an open standard, or a free standard?

2014-05-06 Thread mikko . viinamaki
Regarding the license, this is the link you should be paying attention to https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#josl

Re: [Trisquel-users] dermdoc

2014-05-03 Thread mikko . viinamaki
According to a web search that contains an intel atom processor and 1gb of memory. Wikipedia says that SOME atoms can do 64 bit but not all... so you might want to try that. I guess you can try the regular version with gnome.

Re: [Trisquel-users] AMD drivers in Trisquel

2014-05-01 Thread mikko . viinamaki
Check the BIOS setup at the very early stage of booting. There you might find an option to disable the radeon.

Re: [Trisquel-users] trisquel 7 - what is the default username and password?

2014-04-29 Thread mikko . viinamaki
It should not ask those but autologin. It's a bug that has to do with hardware. I see you're running on a vm, perhaps try changing the hw settings. Here's a related bug https://trisquel.info/en/issues/10902

Re: [Trisquel-users] Free license addon to include in Abrowser

2014-04-28 Thread mikko . viinamaki
… And I don't suppose they're any known libre alternative? I wonder if this addon would do the job? https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/form-history-control/

Re: [Trisquel-users] Liberting other technology

2014-04-27 Thread mikko . viinamaki
These guys can help you liberate your phone as much as possible http://www.replicant.us/ Regarding the router, wasn't Chris of Thinkpenguin searching for testing users for his new libre router?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Help me get rid of the last proprietary component of my OS, the b43 driver

2014-04-27 Thread mikko . viinamaki
/usr/share/doc/openfwwf/README.Debian: OpenFWWF has so far only been tested with core revision 5 (as identified by the module initialisation routine in dmesg for kernels = 2.6.30) variants of the following Broadcom AirForce wlan chipsets: * BCM4306 * BCM4311 revision 1 * BCM4318 *

Re: [Trisquel-users] dereani

2014-04-27 Thread mikko . viinamaki
-- https://trisquel.info/en/forum/trisquel-utilisateurs

Re: [Trisquel-users] Free license addon to include in Abrowser

2014-04-27 Thread mikko . viinamaki
Congratulations and welcome. You can add new addons via https://trisquel.info/en/node/add/addon but please make sure the content you add is actually free.

Re: [Trisquel-users] maps program

2014-04-26 Thread mikko . viinamaki
Pretty sexy stuff, eh? https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/3D

Re: [Trisquel-users] Work On Trisquel 7 Has Begun

2014-04-26 Thread mikko . viinamaki
GNOME Shell wasn't made default because it requires hardware acceleration. That isn't available on any ATI/AMD card and some Nvidia cards. I believe it's fully free but have no idea about its stability.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Problem with graphics driver

2014-04-24 Thread mikko . viinamaki
Did you try the UXA accelmethod as suggested in the bug?

Re: [Trisquel-users] maps program

2014-04-23 Thread mikko . viinamaki
OsmAnd, in F-Droid, allows to download small parts of the whole OpenStreetMap (like in tens or hundreds of MB): http://osmand.net I do not know any GNU/Linux (rather than Android) application that does that. Marble does that.

Re: [Trisquel-users] 3d Acceleration support

2014-04-23 Thread mikko . viinamaki
Whining doesn't help. I don't see either of your names on the Trisquel donate list.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Cannot Configure VPN and unable to import Openvpn cert in Trisquel 6.0.1

2014-04-20 Thread mikko . viinamaki
wat

Re: [Trisquel-users] Installing Applications (Pitivi 0.92 and cairo)

2014-04-20 Thread mikko . viinamaki
https://trisquel.info/en/issues/8056 :-/

Re: [Trisquel-users] Cannot Configure VPN and unable to import Openvpn cert in Trisquel 6.0.1

2014-04-20 Thread mikko . viinamaki
Crystal ball still cloudy... What exactly did you do and what failed? How, cite the exact error messages.

Re: [Trisquel-users] New kernel in X60

2014-04-18 Thread mikko . viinamaki
Do I have to compile the kernel on the same computer as on which I like to install the compiled kernel? No, doesn't even have to be the same architecture.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Preventing Orca from launching automatically

2014-04-18 Thread mikko . viinamaki
Hello and welcome. I guess one solution would be to just uninstall orca if you have no use for it.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Alternatives web search

2014-04-17 Thread mikko . viinamaki
I also have Disconnect.me and Ghostery installed Ghostery is proprietary, no wonder you might have all kinds of issues... The server sees your IP addy and can guess your location based on that. I believe any search engine is better than g from the privacy view point.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Julian Assange: Debian Is Owned By The NSA

2014-04-17 Thread mikko . viinamaki
Thanks for the link. It's a good vid, watch it. But only after you've watched his CCC30 talk, to protect and infect part 2.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Storing passwords

2014-04-14 Thread mikko . viinamaki
I wonder how good an argument this is considering you still need to input the password using hardware and software, potentially vulnerable to keyloggers and network sniffers c. In related news I'm always shocked to see people logging in to various services using public computers, not aware

Re: [Trisquel-users] MediaGoblin campaign

2014-04-14 Thread mikko . viinamaki
Wow, To make all of this even more exciting, we have also received a 10k matching grant from a generous anonymous donor! This means that all of your donations currently count for double! You heard that right! As soon as we raise the next 10k (basically, we hit 46k) all donations given

Re: [Trisquel-users] Is there an alternate site to download Viewtube?

2014-04-14 Thread mikko . viinamaki
Is this useful? http://wayback.archive.org/web/20140223160102/http://userscripts.org/scripts/review/87011

Re: [Trisquel-users] Installation of Boinc

2014-04-13 Thread mikko . viinamaki
What exactly does the error message say? Note that these are the only free projects for BOINC http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Free_software_BOINC_projects

Re: [Trisquel-users] Installation of Boinc

2014-04-13 Thread mikko . viinamaki
The whole climate change story, due to human behaviour (I later learned) it's a huge hoax. (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker... Look at this guy's track record, he's a nut job: He has taken a stance which runs counter to the scientific consensus on a number

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel 7 - User comments/tips/reguests thread?

2014-04-11 Thread mikko . viinamaki
Nice attitude you have. The entire point of Trisquel is to only contain free software and to not recommend or mention proprietary software.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Help With My Think Pinguin Wireless USB Adapter

2014-04-10 Thread mikko . viinamaki
The bash or knock theory sounds plausible. All electronics are total junk these days.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Weird graphics all of a sudden

2014-04-10 Thread mikko . viinamaki
Alt + right click on element move If you use compiz you also need to add was it shift.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel 7 - User comments/tips/reguests thread?

2014-04-10 Thread mikko . viinamaki
That page suggests proprietary software, please don't link to such pages, thank you.

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