Fuck Windows man! Oh by the way, I went with my classmate for him to buy a
new laptop and he bought a Toshiba, don't know exactly which one though.
Anyway, we agreed that he'd use Trisquel once he buys his laptop, but then he
suddenly tells that he'd prefer dual-booting with Mint (alongside
Err, wrt cussing I think you've skipped reading the Community Guidelines
(link at the top).
Some Toshibas have an anti-feature where the BIOS locks you to a specific
WiFi card, so he might need USB WiFi for which there are some FSF Respects
Your Freedom devices available from two suppliers
I recently acquired such a Toshiba (Satellite something), which has an
in-built Intel wifi card that does not work with free firmware, so I got
the TP USB wifi radio, and it works. Debian Jessie doesn't see the TP,
but that's for another list. lol.
Cheers,
Dave
09/24/2014 02:30 PM,
What Chris said is that Toshiba, along with some other companies, have
restrictions in the BIOS and won't boot if you replace the internal PCI wifi
card.
Ah ok. What does PPA mean?
PPA are personal package archives, found on launchpad.net. They are
repositories of user-contributed code; anyone can set one up; use them
at your own risk.
On 09/23/2014 04:25 PM, gary wrote:
Ah ok. What does PPA mean?
Ah ok. Thanks!
It means
Personal Package Archive.
On 09/23/2014 04:25 PM, gary wrote:
Ah ok. What does PPA mean?
Since today, I couldn't connect to Pidgin so I do my daily log in to Freenode
webchat. As with Thunderbird, I can connect but from time to time I get a
system notification (the one on the upper right corner that pops up) that I
am being disconnected. Now, I am getting hunch that I might be
If VPN is an option, go with it.
I am experiencing a good service from airvpn.org
If VPN is not an option then Tor is probably your best option.
...assuming your problem is censorship related and not a poor ISP service.
--
Teodorescu Petre
trisquel.info | ceata.org | fsf.org | eff.org |
Thanks! Hopefully Dubai bodies aren't as agressive with Tor as with US.
gary wrote:
Thanks! Hopefully Dubai bodies aren't as agressive with Tor as with
US.
The US isn't aggressive with Tor, except maybe the NSA internally.
In fact many universities in the US run Tor nodes, which is ideal
because they have very fast internet access.
Andrew.
Well then that's good.
Are you also using the latest Pidgin?
https://launchpad.net/~pidgin-developers/+archive/ubuntu/ppa
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