The BBC has changed the way it works and so get_iplayer no longer works as it
used to. (The BBC - making stuff with public money and then making it hard to
get).
The only method that now works (as far as I know) is to get the program to
load in the browser and then copy the program ID from th
Goodbye and goodluck with your distro.
I'm not staying, or returning, whilst you're employing such a system of
censorship.
I wish you well.
That's two strawman arguments in one post.
I did not claim to be like Gandhi, I merely tried to point out the flaws in
your system.
If the British had been able to use a few people to get Gandhi's message
silenced, they would have done. And this is what is wrong with this system -
it allo
All comments are preserved and can be replied to, but inappropriate messages
no longer lower the tone of the conversation.
A fine example of double-think.
The two statements are contradictory.
You do realise that if this system had been in existence since a hundred or
so years that Gandhi would have been silenced before he could get anything
done? Ditto MLK. Ditto everyone else who has questioned the status quo or
provided evidence of criminality or conspiracy.
This is not intell
Without Debian, the whole universe of GNU/Linux would collapse into dismay
and every one under Linux, would be pushing daisies of the past.
Er, no.
Without Debian things would look a lot different, but - Debian is neither the
oldest distro, nor the sole domain of freedom loving developers.
A
There's more than a little difference between Google and Canonical. Though,
that said, fiduciary duty, which is the legal requirement that all officers
of a company/Corporation act at all times in the organisation's best
interests (meaning best economic interests) stands contrary to the idea
Perhaps it's a mistake to think that the only distros available are ones that
are 100% libre from the get go. What about distros which have proprietary
stuff in them that is easily removable? Both Fedora (I hear Blag is up and
running again) and Slackware have methods to make them 100% libre.
That's the trouble with plain text, it's hard to impart tone of voice. It was
not obvious, at all, that you were being sarcastic, other than by saying "I
wish I could go back to Windows" on a libre software site.
The old fake html-style tags can help at such times. [sarcasm] and [/sarcasm]
What's wrong with Chromium btw?
It's made by Google.
What else do you need to know?
What's the point in using a distro that defaults to DuckDuckGo, on the basis
that Google cannot be trusted, if you then install Google's browser? It might
not have closed source code in it, though I doubt very
Distrohopping is not a disease, nor a sign of immaturity.
It can take a long time to settle down and besides, just after you've settled
down some bright spark goes and releases something even more attractive and
you're off again.
I'll tell you what beats the NSA - standing up and realising that you're not
doing anything wrong, even in speaking out against Government murders and
lies.
It's not for us to feel we have to hide from them. It is they who need to
hide from us. Their whole reality is built around the notion t
You're not seriously quoting the NSA? Of all the people in the world to say
"we can't catch people who use TOR" the NSA has got to be top of the list of
'Least Likely to be Telling the Truth'. The NSA helped to develop TOR!
TOR is a trap. It's already been shown that some of the routers are i
You might try opening a web browser and typing localhost:631 and seeing if
you can add the printer that way.
For honesty's sake - the mere presence of a working printer is no guarantee
that drivers are readily available. You could try searching for the something
along the lines of 'printer
The future of GNU/Linux development is now owned by a Corporation whose
biggest customer is the US military and if that doesn't make alarm bells
ring, there really is very little hope.
The whole systemd thing is based on a lie - that prior to its appearance,
Linux was all but unusable. We h
They do not want to learn systemd's short descriptive files (that systemd
organize in a nice dependence tree). They do not care that systemd is faster,
safer (using cgroups), uses a uniform format for log, etc. That is called
"conservatism". It is plain stupid.
With respect you are attribut
I think it's more about sending a message that systemd is not welcomed by all
and that if a distro as old and as serious as Debian intends to fork over it,
that perhaps the resistance to systemd, far from being a small group of
malcontents, is actually a seriously considered objection.
It i
http://debianfork.org/
This is very welcome news.
I have switched to freeslack.
When the dust has settled on the systemd controversy and the various
accusations against is have been proven to be groundless, or there is simply
no longer any choice at all, I'll consider accepting it on this machine.
But I don't see me ever accepting Gnome, un
tongue in cheek mode = on
Prism-break sort of reminds me of that sketch in Monty Python's The Life of
Brian
(edited to remove course language)
BRIAN: Are you the Judean People's Front?
REG: Judean People's Front? We're the People's Front of Judea! Judean
People's Front. Meh.
BRIAN: Can
I hear what you are saying.
I just cannot give assent to allowing open source code to be used for killing
and oppression. Not ever.
And if that means imposing a restriction on its use then that's fine by me.
Where does that lead to? Why does it have to lead anywhere? Why can there not
be jus
I installed LILO.
I love LILO, it's so simple and easy to understand.
I have read it and I think it's largely confused nonsense.
"Imagine selling pens with conditions about what you can write with them;
that would be noisome, and we should not stand for it."
Everyone buys pens with the understanding that there are laws covering what
you can write with that pe
I can't help thinking that this is perilously close to handing a child a
loaded gun and then calling it an unfortunate aspect of freedom when he then
shoots himself with it.
Allowing others to do as they please, without regard for the consequences, is
not any kind of freedom I recognise. If
the same situation as climate change - there'd be those who claimed and
campaigned otherwise in the face of what is proven and now obvious fact.
Nothing about the 'human activity produced C02 driven global warming' theory
is either proven or 'obvious fact'. On the contrary - there has been no
If I remember correctly, abuot 8 or so years ago, someone in America applied
for a patent to cover the act of putting food in the mouth, chewing and
swallowing it - in order to hilight the absurdity and general brokenness of
the US Patent system. Alas, as with so many other areas of life - th
ROFL
Er, the phrase "prior art" springs to mind.
We have unnecessary complexity under the hood and a massively dumbed down UI.
GNU/Linux is being destroyed, before our eyes, by idiots.
Grub has started asking for a username and password before it will boot other
OS's in its menu. After some mooching about I found a reference in the
grub.cfg file that seemed to refer to a name and password which subsequently
turned out to be the ones I wanted.
Is this a new feature or a bug
http://danwalsh.livejournal.com/71122.html
Interesting blog about how SELinux, if enforced, would protect data from
being read and files written to as a result of the current BASH exploit.
"Not patched on Trisquel 7 yet."
Was an observation, not a criticism.
Am I right in thinking that if I change the default shell on T7 (from bash to
dash), that this will provide some security whilst awaiting a patch?
Not patched on Trisquel 7 yet.
SELinux was developed by the NSA and as such attracts some suspicion.
However, it was open sourced and released under the GPL in the year 2000.
It can be a major PITA.
For example, if you're going to install a parallel distro/OS then disable
SELinux first or the next time you try to boot it wi
Nicely done.
However, I fear the masses will look at it and say "wtf is lignux?"
All I'm doing is helping people who are looking for a platform that works
with libre-software.
Dell are to be praised for releasing such hardware, even if it was done
unknowingly. They might not be the most ideal Corporation and I think I've
made it fairly clear in other posts what my attitud
I've got Trisquel 7 running perfectly on a Dell Precision Workstation 390. No
extra blobs required and yes, I've submitted it to h-node. Other than adding
a new SATA DVD drive and an SSD primary HD, it's default hardware.
Intel Core 2 Duo 64bit
4GB RAM
NVIDIA Quadro 2000
I've also had Trisquel
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/trisquel-7-suspend-issues
Post 3 contains a link to an alternative kernel. I installed it with no
problem whilst trying to get Suspend/Resume to work.
Graphics issue.
You might try powering down, disconnecting the video card, power up then down
again after a few seconds, then put the card back in, connect the monitor and
power up. This will not make one iota of difference if it's a driver issue,
but might help if it's a messed up hardware
Trisquel 7 is still using Upstart, so no need to worry about it until
2016+
That's made me a happy man.
Sorry to bring the dreaded subject up again, but, how much of systemd is in
Trisquel 7?
I was under the impression that it was part of T7, but when I tried to run
one of the systemd commands (journalctl -f), it reports that journalctl is
not installed, yet there is systemd stuff marked as ins
I would have thought that it's extremely unlikely that it's "them" messing
with your computer, unless you're some kind of recognised name planning to
promote libresoftware to the world, or a spy.
More likely is some sort of hardware issue. I've had mirror characters
onscreen, typing that ap
The more the internet becomes a thing provided 'for us, by them' the more
obvious it is that they will lock it down and seek total control over it -
like TV, radio and the printing press. The general trend is to get such
things out of the hands of the likes of us (ordinary people) and into th
Interesting video.
But - why are the laptop lids closed?
The detected typing is done very slowly and deliberately - does that mean
that normal typing would overwhelm the system?
On the face of it, it does look like "worst fears" may be true. But it could
just as easily be faked to appear t
Yes, systemd is fast but that's primarily just a side-effect of doing things
right.
No it's not. It's because systemd does things differently to the old way of
booting. It might be a better way, but it's not "right" versus sysvinit which
was "wrong". This is 5 year old runaway ego type stuf
I suspect you'll be in for a long wait.
Though it would be great to see it become a stand alone distro.
I'd do it myself but I wouldn't know where to start and would almost
certainly quickly come up against things that were orders of magnitude above
my current knowledge level.
Time was that
If you want to read about Lennart Poettering's grand vision of how GNU/Linux
should technically be, here it is:
Yep, I read that a few days ago.
It's quite frustrating to have a brain that just doesn't get code and so
doesn't appreciate the finer points raised in such discussions.
I will ad
So basically, trisquel is useless when it comes to privacy?
Not at all. But neither should it be viewed as a one size fits all solution
for all your privacy/security problems.
It's a step in the right direction.
But there are still the issues of ISP's mandated by law to keep records of
what
I don't fully understand the technical issues, but, systemd makes every alarm
bell in me ring long and loud.
Instinct says that Mr Poettering is going to turn out to be another Miguel de
Icaza.
I would prefer to not have systemd imposed upon me until it gets to the point
where it's finished a
This alleges that it's possible to focus on a particular house/room, from
outside, and be able to tell what's being typed - without any physical
connection. Though it has the smack of James Bond about it I do confess.
That was PS2 connections though and USB apparently is different. It was also
Tests have shown that the data can be read through walls and up to 65 feet
away.
From...
http://hackaday.com/2008/10/20/eavesdrop-on-keyboards-wirelessly/
It's not FUD.
The method works by detecting the differences in voltage that pass down the
keyboard wire. The technology has existed for a while now. It works through
solid walls and from up to 20 feet away. It is a specifically targeted method
rather than a broad keyword search, but exists
Agreed.
It is essentially a project to document all the instances of non-libre
software present in Slackware so that anyone can make a libre version
thereof.
A list of all the packages is offered so people can check the licences in
order to create a totally free version. I suppose that a sid
Got sent a link to this today.
From Mr Poettering's blog.
We want a unified solution that ultimately can cover updates for full
systems, OS containers, end user apps, programming ABIs, and more. These
updates shall be double-buffered, (at least). This is an absolute necessity
if we want to
Dragora is brutal. Even more so than Slackware. I got as far as getting
everything working on Dragora, except my printer - couldn't find half of what
I needed to compile drivers.
But the above instructions are for taking a vanilla Slackware install and
then cleaning it up. So you get pretty
For anyone interested, I found instructions for "sanitising" a Slackware
install.
http://freeslack.net/
But they're not just limiting their own freedom, they're limiting everyone
elses too. They are saying, effectively, "it's OK to publish proprietary
software and it's OK to limit people's use and freedom through it".
Greetings and welcome.
If it does not do harm to the user, is it okay?
Depends on your definition of harm.
The libre argument would possibly be along the lines that it's not harm that
registers with the user, but is still harm none the less.
Those who live by the market can be manipulated by the market. In other
What do you need full nvidia acceleration for, if I might ask?
I have nvidia cards in both my dekstops - on Trisquel 7 I found that nouveau
is sufficient to run some games (nexuiz, 0AD, etc) (even one Windows based
game running in WINE) without the need to install the proprietary drivers.
the "false gods" will be phased out over time, not incorporated
Depends which branch of Christianity you're talking about. Catholicism, which
was born in Imperial Rome, took from the Roman tradition the practice of
incorporating local gods and saints into the Catholic hierarchy, as well as
When you (and others) say "it takes a long time", what sort of time are you
talking about?
Is there a rough "x minutes per gigabyte" estimate or is it dependent upon
file size and type as well as on hardware type (IDE vs SATA vs SSD, for
example)?
I've never looked at encyption before. I ha
http://www.cryptogon.com/?p=624
Weird. It's not like the Tories to get anything right, least of all something
pertaining to technology.
I'm waiting for the "Ahhh, so that's why they did it" revelation.
They have the technology to read every single keystroke you make, through a
solid wall, with no physical connection required.
They build backdoors into hardware and standalone OS's into processors. There
is no realistic expectation of privacy, regardless of what software you use.
It comes dow
They probably use hardware backdoors
Ain't no probably about it. The only real question, to my mind, is how much
hardware is compromised?
Since we're under Free software, I guess we're out of risk group.
It was revealed, a few weeks ago, that the NSA regard the readers of Linux
Journal as "extremists" and that they are kept a close eye on.
So, we are not out of the risk group, we are our own special risk group.
We have already
The argument that anyone who resists change is "anti-progress" has left us
with genetically modified crops, nuclear power plants built on or near fault
lines, a whole raft of technology that has done nothing other than to
increase poverty and unemployment whilst increasing the concentration o
Why would you use a terminal command?
It just doesn't ever occur to me to find a UI alternative. If I can't see
what I want 'at a glance' I tend to go to the terminal. No idea why. Probably
because it's there.
I spend periods of time where the amount of free space left on my HD is less
than 1GB and/or copying files to smallish USB sticks so the wife can watch
the content thereof. It's no service to me if I have to open a terminal and
type df -h everytime I wish to see how much space I have left.
Tried that kernel, but alas, still no resume from suspend. Tried some of the
--quirks for pm-suspend, but always the same.
On the stock T7 kernel the screen comes back but is locked solid and the
network doesn't come back (ethernet, not wireless).
On the gnu kernel the network comes back but t
http://freeasinfreedom.org.uk/
That's the link to the Manchester group. Doesn't look like there's much
activity going on though. March of this year seems to be the most recent
thing I can find.
BLAG is still more or less nonfunctional. There are posts calling for action
and and a relaunch
The GNOME project removes unneeded features.
A status bar is not an unneeded feature, it's a vital part of a file manager.
Unless of course you were being sarcastic, in which case, I agree.
By the way, this is a free/libre software community, not an open source
community.
Yes, I'll go and stan
Manchester is the only other group as far as I can see. Birmingham is about
half between London and Manchester.
Does joining the FSFE cost? I noticed a "how much is your donation" part of
the registration form.
I favor http://snowdenandthefuture.info/ over YouTube because
snowdenandthefuture.info doesn't require you to accept cookies,
encourage users to install Flash, accept non-free media formats, or be
tracked by Google.
Quite right too. Only I didn't accept any cookies, or install flash - I
downloa
I watched a series of 4 hour long films of Mr Moglen giving talks about Ed
Snowden and NSA spying. Good stuff. He's quite strong in his condemnation of
facebook and it's owners as well. I see what you mean now, the stance he took
in the O'Reilly clip was very antagonistic and at odds with wha
Woot.
About time.
I'm in Birmingham - too far to come along - alas.
I've been wondering where the scene in the UK is at and whether anything
local to me exists and what to about it if it doesn't.
I keep getting unusual scrolling behaviour. I try to scroll down a page, but
it jumps back to the top. Sometimes if I scroll straight to the bottom and
then start scrolling up, the page jumps back to the bottom.
This happens on Midori, Icecat and Firefox, though not so far on Abrowser
(only i
Yes. Echoed here also..
.
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Munich-Switching-to-Windows-from-Linux-Is-Proof-that-Microsoft-Is-Still-an-Evil-Company-455510.shtml
I have a Samsung ML-1610 (monochrome) - it's worked perfectly with every
distro since the day I acquired it, about 10 years ago. Samsung used to
provide Linux drivers (they still might), but it works 'out of the box' these
days.
Interesting point of view expressed in that last link. I've not heard him
speak before.
To my mind there's a minor problem with his point of view. He says that the
behaviour of large software based Corporations is froth rather than substance
and that to focus on that is to waste time.
It remi
A problem with this is that whilst it's relatively easy to get all the
proprietary software for free from torrent sites, there is no motive to try
libre software other than from a moral point of view. So you could try to get
youngsters to try Ardour and free synths, but if they can get Reason
I get the feeling that some of the reasons why the users complain can be
extremely shallow
Yup, I can attest to that. And some will simply refuse to cooperate - they
will not try, they will not learn, they will make up problems and whine to
the wrong people, deliberately, they will do thing
But for lack of resuming from Suspend and the occasional hung boot, it's
running nicely for me.
"Microsoft, whose German HQ relocates to Munich in 2016, say they are 'ready
to talk' if and when things change."
I think it pretty much explains the whole situation. Sad to say, but given
Microsoft's previous tactics I don't give Linux much of a chance in Munich in
the long term. It would
So, time to find an alternative DE.
Except - MATE is, well, MATE, Cinnamon appears to be on its way out, XFCE
won't install, KDE is KDE (nothing wrong with it, but I sort of prefer all
the other DE's), enlightenment is a bit too quirky and WM is ancient.
So, the default Trisquel 7 desktop it
That's pretty much what I expected to hear.
I had a mooch about in System Settings, couldn't see anything related and
thought "I bet this has been stripped out completely".
I really like Trisquel 7, but I hate Gnome will all my heart.
So, time to find an alternative DE.
Is there any way to change how long 'onscreen notifications' appear for?
I'm talking about the ones that appear in the upper right corner to let you
know that a new track is being played, or a new email has arrived, etc. They
seem to hang around too long and I want to reduce the time they're v
My machine suspends but on resume the screen is frozen. It does not do this
on Trisquel 6. Or on any other distro. But you're right to say it has no show
stoppers. On the contrary, it's very good already.
As an aside - within the last few days a Beta has been released for the new
Elementary
What is the hurry? Aren't you
using the prerelease?
That I am. But I'm looking forward to being able to suspend the machine
instead of having to power it down.
A small thing I know...
Does anyone know when the final version is likely to be released?
A date?
A month?
A rough idea?
A bit late in the day, but...
If you were going to compromise a distro then Debian and Red Hat would be the
obvious ones to go for as they're more or less the root distros of all others
(Arch and Slackware aside). Compromise Debian and you compromise Ubuntu and
all it's spin offs. Compromis
Just another example of the pig headed stupidity that infects the Gnome Devs.
Remove a feature for no reason - get howled at by users - completely ignore
them.
Eventually I'm expecting Gnome to be locked down completely, so that nothing
can be added, or changed or customised. At which point
There is no "start with status bar" in that section of dconf on Trisquel 7.
Thou art a magician.
Many thanks.
I put a launcher on the Panel and it's in the wrong place. How do I remove
it?
There is no Status Bar option in the View menu for Nautilus that I can see.
Forgot to mention. I'm using the pcmanfm file manager in that shot. I can't
be doing with file managers that don't give an at a glance "Space Left on
Device" type readout.
http://nuxxed.deviantart.com/art/Trisquel-7-474641651?ga_submit_new=10%253A1407704106
Nuffin special, but it does look good.
Yes, Trisquel 6 suspends and resumes perfectly. It must be something in T7
then, rather than a missing proprietary blob.
Good to know.
I shall abide patiently until a more polished version arrives.
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