Re: [Trisquel-users] Acer C7 Chromebook updates
It's a C710-2847. I just found out that it's a 64-bit installation by default following the ChromeOS-ChrUbuntu-Trisquel upgrade path. I prefer 32-bit, but I am not sure whether it's possible with ChrUbuntu. It took me a while to get it setup to my liking (removing that yucky unity-greeter and Trisquelizing the gdm theme). There is this video where someone got to run GRUB on the C7: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKylYaWbb-Ehtml5=1 They might be close to figuring out how to install other OS's on the C7 normally. I hope they do, as that OS verification screen at bootup is starting to annoy me.
[Trisquel-users] Trisquel 6.0 don't recognize wi-fi in Lenovo G550!
Trisquel 6.0 don't recognize wi-fi in Lenovo G550!Please help! Thanks
Re: [Trisquel-users] You're Invited: GNU 30th anniversary celebration and hackathon
No hijack, whatsoever... It was a very informative explanation as to why many people simply can't travel to these events. (And, a confirmation of what I suspected the situation for many of those living in the UK to be, also...)
Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel 6.0 don't recognize wi-fi in Lenovo G550!
Please type this in the terminal and post the results: sudo lspci -nnk | grep -i wireless
Re: [Trisquel-users] You're Invited: GNU 30th anniversary celebration and hackathon
And, also... People speak different languages. And, each country has its own culture and subcultures. As well as, its own political and social reality. So, to attended an event abroad, would, not only force oneself to deal with a different culture that one may not be familiar with (which is not a hard thing to do, but something that makes one more reluctant to travel), and also force oneself to immerse in a reality that is not one's own, only to shortly after having to emerge from that, but, it would also force (maybe, and out of politeness) the local people to not talk in their native language, during that event, so that foreigners could also socialize with the group. (Which doesn't sound like a very nice situation to create...) Summarizing... There are also language, social and cultural differences - and consequential barriers - within Europe. So, it doesn't make that much sense - at least, to me - to attend an event like this abroad.
Re: [Trisquel-users] You're Invited: GNU 30th anniversary celebration and hackathon
If that's aimed at me... I'm the only Gnu/Linux user I know. No one I know gives a damn about ethics. The facebook page I reluctantly have (for contact with a few people who refuse point blank to use ICQ or email) is full of three things at the moment OMG GTA5, OMG new iPhone and requests to play viral flash games. I tried a local LUG but one of the senior Members asked newbies to go away as they were annoying. I tried another only to find it populated with people who seemed to want to spend LUG nights getting drunk and indulging in toilet humour. Changing the subject briefly... Does anyone else see pictures of Richard Stallman and think... It is an ancient Coder, And he stoppeth one of three. `By thy long grey beard and glittering eye, Now wherefore stopp'st thou me?
Re: [Trisquel-users] You're Invited: GNU 30th anniversary celebration and hackathon
It was a general suggestion, for everyone that may be in a situation like yours. And, yes. I know how bad the situation is, in terms of social values, there in the UK, unfortunately - also from someone I know who lived there. I know that the term now used is even broken society. And, I deduce that, in such a society, it should be pretty hard to find anyone with social concerns. (My country is not that far behind, also...) But, I remembered this, and then forgot to mention it... I know of a group there, in the UK, that even had a FSF-approved GNU/Linux distribution of their own. Which is the one responsible for the BLAG Linux And GNU (BLAG) distribution - http://blackfernando.blogspot.pt/2012/07/blag-linux-and-gnu.html - which I liked quite a lot, and was very sad to learn that it's now pretty much abandoned. The group is called the Brixton Linux Action Group. And, I was able to contact one of its members, I think, less than a year ago, in the corresponding IRC channel - I think, on Freenode. (So, maybe they're still around.) Their distro seemed to be more anarchist-oriented. With various anarchist elements embedded in it. But, if they're the same type of anarchists that I am, they should be happy to know of other enthusiastic English GNU/Linux users. You can find more information about the distro, including their contact info, on their web site: http://blagblagblag.org/
Re: [Trisquel-users] Secret 3G Intel Chip Gives Snoops Backdoor PC Access
So the moral of the story is, when you power down, pull the plug or remove the battery?
Re: [Trisquel-users] You're Invited: GNU 30th anniversary celebration and hackathon
(Also, as an aside... And, answering that, because I think it is something really important...) I agree that, to overcome Evil, one must only practice Good. But, I also think that /self-defence/ (and, not /violence/ - that I define as the force that is used to attack, or impose something upon, others) is a good thing, because it protects that same Good from the destructive force of Evil. The people who are destroying our Western World, on purpose (http://www.forumdefesa.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=24t=10579) and who created this new culture of sex, drugs and rock roll (http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=97552.0) to help with that (which has very much destroyed the UK, where most of it comes from) are pretty similar to (and even worse than) the fascists, and have several former fascists among them (https://trisquel.info/en/forum/ubuntu-1310-second-step-spy-its-users#comment-41996). And, if it was only peaceful resistance that people had offered in the previous century to those same fascists, we would all be already enslaved, by now. So, I think that we should also be (very much) willing to defend ourselves, if our governments do indeed become tyrannical. We will win the war when the power of love overcomes the love of power. --- Daniel Estulin
Re: [Trisquel-users] Secret 3G Intel Chip Gives Snoops Backdoor PC Access
On 09/26/2013 06:13 PM, fernando.ne...@mail.ru wrote: (It never ends...) http://www.prisonplanet.com/secret-3g-intel-chip-gives-snoops-backdoor-pc-access.html (And, this is what I'm talking about, when I call everyone's attention to also the *hardware* that we use... - https://trisquel.info/en/forum/million-dollar-question-concerning-hardware-we-use) I first found out about this while perusing the thinkpenguin website. They explicitly state that they do not offer CPUs which have either vpro or txt technologies.
[Trisquel-users] Google brain implants. What do people think?
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/features/inside-google-hq-what-does-the-future-hold-for-the-company-whose-visionary-plans-include-implanting-a-chip-in-our-brains-8714487.html I have seen things suggesting google chips in brains before (in the daily mail; for people who live in the US, the Daily mail is a rubbish newspaper). It was within an article about what tech could be like by the time Prince George is king. Surely only an idiot would allow a google brain implant. That person is putting their life into google's hands. Google could, with a backdoor in the implant, make them want to commit suicide, for example (or a cracker could do that) Anyway, Google, to most people, seems too good to be true: Free email, video, search, 5gb cloud, et cetera. Surely it must be doing something bad with all that data everyone is giving it? For some people, google know every single thing they do: They have google diary; they go somewhere; google knows where it is if they use maps, et cetera.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Secret 3G Intel Chip Gives Snoops Backdoor PC Access
Very bad. These designers have no ideas about what is/isn't morally right. Or they do not care. How would this work? Surely the metal computer enclosure would block out any signal?
Re: [Trisquel-users] Google brain implants. What do people think?
Surely only an idiot would allow a google brain implant. You might think surely only an idiot would give all the details of their lives to an American corporation, that evades tax, censors search results and has alleged connections to the CIA, but people do just that every day and go on to praise the results. So, the next generation will embrace this stuff without thinking. And we will be mocked and laughed at for being crusty old paranoid fools who just don't get it.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Google brain implants. What do people think?
It sounds really stupid.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Secret 3G Intel Chip Gives Snoops Backdoor PC Access
Back when I was first online, circa 2001, I came across a post on a forum (I can't find it now, it may no longer exist) from a person who claimed that he left what was then called the GPO in the 1950's (now called BT) when he discovered that when you put a domestic phone back on its cradle that the speaker was cut off but not the microphone and that the roll out of the domestic phone network was basically a State sponsored bugging program (how they must have laughed, indeed are still laughing, that we pay them for the mechanisms used to spy on us) and that any house with a phone could be listened in on. (I worked for BT briefly in the early 1980's and there were rooms with military personel in them underground beneath one of the BT buildings. Listening for enemy activity I was told. I just presumed they meant the enemy as in the Cold War.) At the time I thought oh dear, paranoid much? Bearing in mind that basically pretty much everything we've been told since 1945 has been an artificial contruct (the lies told about WW2 in the official account are off the scale) and pretty much everything you see on the News is made up, added to all this now coming to light about computers and I'm thinking, no, not paranoid at all. If it's been going on since the 1950's then it's now very advanced indeed.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Secret 3G Intel Chip Gives Snoops Backdoor PC Access
I suppose that will pretty much prevent unwanted access to your computer when it's turned off - but, not when it's turned on... So, I think the moral of the story is: just don't buy new Intel chips.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Google brain implants. What do people think?
Does google pay their tax in the US? In which countries do they not pay their tax? I'm sure I will be mocked for refusing brain implants. It wouldn't surprise me that much if schools get replaced by brain implants later - brain implants congaing all the knowledge anyone could want to know. The article in the Daily Mail said that All babies have google chip inplanted. That is firstly a bit crazy to say that, because saying that assumes no competition - Microsoft? (hopefully they will go out of business). It's not especially easy to get away from google. You firstly have to make sure that your browser is set to ddg.gg for search. You need to use a real map, and a real diary (not a problem for me), or alternativly a free software one. DDG does not support image search, which I often need for schoolwork. I often use wikimedia commons for images. I read an article about it in a newspaper, not long ago, someone who had been challenged to not use google. Also, all the best videos are on YouTube. There is minitube, fortunatly
Re: [Trisquel-users] Million dollar question concerning the hardware we use
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/secret-3g-intel-chip-gives-snoops-backdoor-pc-access
Re: [Trisquel-users] Secret 3G Intel Chip Gives Snoops Backdoor PC Access
I'm not surprised to read that... Since that, that's something known to be possible with modern-day phones, like cell ones - and when they're turned off: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0G1fNjK9SXg
Re: [Trisquel-users] Google brain implants. What do people think?
Does google pay their tax in the US? In which countries do they not pay their tax? They pay no tax in the UK as far as I know. Certainly, the stories of them walking away without paying hundreds of millions have been around for at least the past 5 years or so. Nor in Europe, as they route all business through Southern Ireland. Ditto Microsoft. Ditto Apple and probably all the rest too. This was true a year or two ago, not sure if it still is, Almost certainly yes. This is one of the principle reasons that the European economies are collapsing. High unemployment, caused first by automation and then by computerisation and now by immigration added to massive tax evasion. Here in the UK we have HMRC (Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs) making sweetheart deals with big names for them to avoid tax.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Million dollar question concerning the hardware we use
…highlights the ability for an administrator to shut down PCs remotely “even if the PC is not connected to the network,” as well as the ability to bypass hard drive encryption. “Intel actually embedded the 3G radio chip in order to enable its Anti Theft 3.0 technology. And since that technology is found on every Core i3/i5/i7 CPU after Sandy Bridge, that means a lot of CPUs, not just new vPro, might have a secret 3G connection nobody knew about until now,”reports Softpedia. Jeff Marek, director of business client engineering for Intel, acknowledged that the company’s Sandy Bridge” microprocessor, which was released in 2011, had “the ability to remotely kill and restore a lost or stolen PC via 3G.” “Core vPro processors contain a second physical processor embedded within the main processor which has it’s own operating system embedded on the chip itself,” writes Jim Stone. “As long as the power supply is available and and in working condition, it can be woken up by the Core vPro processor, which runs on the system’s phantom power and is able to quietly turn individual hardware components on and access anything on them.” The above says it all: a second processor with its own operating system and phantom power supply which doesn't need to be connected to YOUR network (or any existing network you know of) because a secret 3g connection is built in! Free software is great. However once it is installed on a machine with a chip containing these other features, it loses its freedom, as it is at the mercy of the other software built deep inside the hardware chip. It is a huge security and privacy lapse. Encryption is also bypassed. Wow. As RMS says it will take lots of reverse engineering, and perhaps large bounties paid to those who can crack certain features. A never ending cat and mouse game. The apparent old model of disinterested makers of computer hardware who would not reveal their firmware or microcode has changed from disinterest to complete interest in having the power and the benefits of having the keys to the kingdom remain under their control. I can see why they are reluctant to give that power away. And why they often say, What's in it for us if we release the code? It's good to be king.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Getting to a pure Triskel ?
I got some packages when I tried to install trisquel and trisquel-mini after I installed in a virtual machine triskel with NetInstall. With those packages I created scripts that would remove the trisquel and trisquel-mini packages. I tested the scripts in virtualized environments and that should be it. I attached the scripts to this message in case anyone might find them useful. -- I use: trisquel.info | ceata.org | fsf.org | riseup.net | duckduckgo.com | eff.org | h-node.com | torproject.org | airvpn.org | flattr.com | skepdic.com | trisquel-mini-remove.sh Description: application/shellscript trisquel-remove.sh Description: application/shellscript
Re: [Trisquel-users] Google brain implants. What do people think?
A year or so ago (before I bailed for good) when Google changed the way they collect payment for Google Apps, it took 3 tech people 55 minutes to help me find out how they could accept my credit card. Brain implants? Not yet.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Gnome-Panel fails to load on startup sometimes
This happens to me quite often. I right click on the desktop and choose Open in Terminal then type gnome-panel and close the terminal.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Another annoying problem with flash
+1 on copying the link, using unplug, and playing the media with vlc. Totem and mplayer just don't stream as well as vlc, in my setup.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Gnome-Panel fails to load on startup sometimes
On 22/09/13 23:36, gaming4jc2 wrote: This sounds like a bug, but I no longer use Gnome3 myself. I was wondering if anyone else experienced this problem before or knew how to get a proper debug log without too much work? That way I can have the bug filed. Here is an existing bug report: https://trisquel.info/en/issues/7703 It seems to be caused by a segmentation fault. Andrew.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Where is System Settings Network ?
I also noticed that this is notably missing from Toutatis. There might have been an important package that was not included in the Trisquel repositories. Any suggestions?
[Trisquel-users] How does Trisquel Mini work?
When I boot normal Trisquel, everything works graphically. When I boot Trisquel Mini, I get a CLI! Does this mean my computer is not compatible with Mini, or do I need to learn some commands?
Re: [Trisquel-users] Google brain implants. What do people think?
I am thoroughly convinced that Google is evil.
Re: [Trisquel-users] How does Trisquel Mini work?
That has happened to me, too, with many of my computers. I am able to install the package trisquel-mini, (With LXDE desktop environment) though.
[Trisquel-users] Login prompt does not show automatically after splash screen
After the latest update, this happened: http://askubuntu.com/questions/285209/ubuntu-12-04-2-startup-waits-on-splash-screen-and-loads-desktop-only-after-press The login prompt only shows up after pressing any key. Has anyone encountered this?
Re: [Trisquel-users] Secret 3G Intel Chip Gives Snoops Backdoor PC Access
I'm pretty confident that the 3g is not built into the chips. It's dependent on the system having a compatible 3g card installed. So while this story has some level of truth to it it they made assumptions and stretched that truth. If 3g was actually embedded in the chip somehow and I'm pretty confident its not you'd be able to detect it. Think about that for a moment. The chip has to send out a radio signal of some kind. Plus there is going to have to be an antenna of some kind or the reception would be horrible.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Google brain implants. What do people think?
The mind is the last remnant of privacy we have, even if it cannot be shared. Now Google is encroaching on that. I won't stand for the idea that a corporation, or anyone for that matter, could listen to my every thought — not even if its source code is 100% libre (and I'm sure it won't be). Like axgb said, All babies have google chip inplanted [sic]. Who knows what kind of effect this could have on a child's development? Whatever happened to having a choice about what goes on in your head?
Re: [Trisquel-users] Some current free software friendly hardware
A few new things... 1.) ARM processors also have built-in system restriction features available (DRM). http://www.arm.com/products/processors/technologies/trustzone.php PDF http://infocenter.arm.com/help/topic/com.arm.doc.prd29-genc-009492c/PRD29-GENC-009492C_trustzone_security_whitepaper.pdf 2.) Since it apparently is ethically ok to use hardware as is, (Is there such a thing as unethical hardware?) if ARM TrustZone is just another processor mode, can such hardware be used along with free software code to ensure the hardware DRM features for instance are turned off? Can interacting with these features be used to keep things free rather than locked down? 3.) I suppose there could be (are?) backdoors or secret keys in these trusted features? http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.hardware.netbook.arm/7461 http://http://trisquel.info/en/forum/secret-3g-intel-chip-gives-snoops-backdoor-pc-access 4.) Also found this project to build a laptop. http://rhombus-tech.net/community_ideas/laptop/ 5.) Still looking into Loongson options.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Google brain implants. What do people think?
I'm not convinced that people would be receptive to embedding anything into themselves in the near future, outside of small niches. Especially embedding a chip into the brain seems like it would be an extremely invasive, dangerous surgery. Now, if that were to change in the future, we would need to convince people not to embed chips in their brains without public knowledge of how these hypothetical chips work and what they do, lest we run into a real-world supervillain brain control plot. But I don't think that's going to be an issue we face today even if it's possible for chips to be embedded into the brain in the first place.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Do you use Trisquel, or Trisquel Mini?
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 Pentium 2mb cache 2gb ram 40 gb hdd 5400 rpm
Re: [Trisquel-users] Do you use Trisquel, or Trisquel Mini?
My laptop runs pretty fast with the normal Trisquel DE. 1.5 GHz Pentium M, 1 GB of RAM (2 Matched 512 MB RAM) 40 GB Hard Disk Drive, 5400 RPM
Re: [Trisquel-users] Do you use Trisquel, or Trisquel Mini?
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?
[Trisquel-users] new Unix implementation
From: RMS%MIT-OZ@mit-eddie Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards,net.usoft Subject: new Unix implementation Date: Tue, 27-Sep-83 12:35:59 EST Organization: MIT AI Lab, Cambridge, MA Free Unix! Starting this Thanksgiving I am going to write a complete Unix-compatible software system called GNU (for Gnu's Not Unix)... - Tomorrow (U.S. Eastern Time), go read the conversation from Usenet on olduse.net, updated in real time as it was thirty years ago.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Secret 3G Intel Chip Gives Snoops Backdoor PC Access
It's in the chip. This video at around the 50 second mark says laptops do not have to be connected to a network and can still be disabled remotely. How? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7S4BUAm68eg Disable lost or stolen laptops, even if the PC is not connected to the network. (With a superscript 8) There is a footnote at the end of the video. ...Requires an enabled chipset, BIOS, firmware, and software... Strangely it says nothing about hardware. Also needs a ...subscription to a capable service provider... List of providers http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/architecture-and-technology/anti-theft/anti-theft-service-providers-enterprise.html http://www.allieddigital.net/us/IntelAT/ Intel® Anti-Theft Technology is an intelligent way for you to help secure the mobile assets of your workforce. This intelligent security technology is available on 4 generations of laptops based on Intel® Core™ and Intel® Core™ vPro™ processor families. This technology is built into the processor, so this will be activated even before the laptops startup and will work even without internet as it is hardwired and it is completely tamper proof. http://www.securedisable.in/WhySecureDisable.html Looking at several of the companies on intels service provider list is very interesting. Way lots of control so to speak. Who's to say that like the onStar non-subscribers who are still being tracked, that something similar is not available on laptops to the right people or agencies? http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/gadgets/news/the-onstar-incident-isnt-about-digital-privacy-6499661
Re: [Trisquel-users] new Unix implementation
Or, how's this? A countdown timer for those in different time zones: http://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/generic?p0=43iso=20130927T123559csz=1
Re: [Trisquel-users] Million dollar question concerning the hardware we use
I'd read that article with a bit of skepticism. While it points out issues that we really should be concerned about 3g being integrated in the CPU is not realistic. It would almost certainly be easy to detect. More than likely the article is written by someone who doesn't understand the technology or was trying to put things together in such a way that it was scary. It's scary although more because we don't have all the info about the technology in question rather than there actually being some unknown 3g chip inside every CPU. This technology almost certainly has to work alongside a 3g mini card and there would probably have to be other support on the system as well. However that isn't to say some of the technology doesn't exist in every system at some level. It would probably be trivial (given the amount of money governments have) to have Intel implement the system such that it communicates whenever there was an Internet presence detected.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Secret 3G Intel Chip Gives Snoops Backdoor PC Access
Your reading too much into without a network connection. That would still require a GSM module in the system. If you think about it logically you would still require a network connection of some kind to communicate the message disable system. Now it may be that the network card has firmware that is communicating with a server somewhere such that no GSM module is required to disable the system. I would be interested in seeing the network traffic from testing anti-theft. Both wireless, ethernet, and GSM just so that we have a better understanding of how this technology actually works.
[Trisquel-users] Download Parted magic
Hi, new release of parted magic, great, but how can I download it? http://partedmagic.com/doku.php?id=downloads I have to pay? -- Libere, Pascal Diogo Antunes. Le vrai scandale n'est pas de manger des lasagnes au cheval sans le savoir. Le vrai scandale est d'en manger au boeuf en le sachant. pgpTKOHgisMLP.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [Trisquel-users] Million dollar question concerning the hardware we use
There's a reasonable chance that this stuff is aimed at Corporate espionage, spying on other nation's military/Governments and making sure that journalists with access to juicy stuff don't get ideas into their heads.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Million dollar question concerning the hardware we use
And what network is it going to connect with? Inductive scanning. Much like RFID chips give up thir information when scanned, why not a powered down pc too? Surely it's just a matter of the power applied to the scan? Several years ago it was reported that the ability had been obtained to scan a football stadium's worth of people in a few seconds and get a reliable read out of all present, using handheld scanners and RFID chips. That was a Linux being deployed story. I do think that the various Gnu licences need updating to include strict clauses stopping their use in drones or any devices which can be used to monitor people without their being aware or kill them or in anything that compromises people's right to privacy, security or freedom. Re Iran - it was claimed that their networks were shielded and secure from outside interference, yet the stuxnet virus got in. Either it was in the hardware to begin with, just waiting for a time/date/activation condition to arrive; or it was put there by someone undercover; or the ability to remotely infect exists.
Re: [Trisquel-users] How does Trisquel Mini work?
Try this https://trisquel.info/en/forum/graphics-driver-problem-trisquel-mini#comment-37120
Re: [Trisquel-users] How does Trisquel Mini work?
This similar issue occurs to me with trisquel-mini and parabola-lxde I trying to resolve this issue too. --- ___ Sachin Dey On 27/09/2013 05:13 AM, det31...@aol.com wrote: When I boot normal Trisquel, everything works graphically. When I boot Trisquel Mini, I get a CLI! Does this mean my computer is not compatible with Mini, or do I need to learn some commands?
