Re: [Trisquel-users] How to date girls using free software :P
I can't resist I'm probably old enough to be your mother, but I have the same problem with dating and had to end a romantic liason with an otherwise pleasant gentleman who couldn't seem to understand why I didn't just install Windows so Yahoo messenger will work and we can cyber. It felt kind of shallow at the time, but if he couldn't respect that then there were just too many other irreconcilable differences for it to end well. It was actually a careless mistake that my Trisquel username is my (obviously feminine) real first name, but maybe it's time to just go with it and ditch the gender/generation neutral pseudonyms for good. I've been a free software user for ten years now even though I look exactly like Shuttleworth's sexist stereotype of the 50ish grandmother who doesn't understand free software or why us guys work so hard to make it easy enough that even she can use it. My 21 year old son doesn't mind asking me for computer advice anyway. My 25 year old daughter thinks she's such hot shit for installing Ubuntu that she doesn't ask or I'd help her upgrade from McLinux to Trisquel too. :P On Sun, 20 Oct 2013 18:46:36 +0200 (CEST) tuxf...@gmail.com wrote: Hi i'm a new member..ity's really true that girls use linux free softwere??? -- Heather noordinaryspi...@gmail.com
[Trisquel-users] Antwort: updates messed up all my configurations
Well cinnamon is not the standard desktop of Trisquel. So it is not very likely that anyone is experiencing your issues. From my experiences you now have two possible approaches (given you have another working (!) PC for searching the www): 1) Look through all logs in the shell after boot and try tho find the possible cause, or (less time consuming) 2) Create a backup of your personal data and re-install the system. One can waste an incredible amount of time to fix a screwed up system. Possibly you get it to work again but often strange side effects stay.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Secret 3G Intel Chip Gives Snoops Backdoor PC Access
You've got RTC alarms, which is what the kernel / BIOS uses to wake up the machine. If you look at this page https://www.linux.com/learn/docs/672849-wake-up-linux-with-an-rtc-alarm-clock/ You will see if there's any output from cat /sys/class/rtc/rtc0/wakealarm Then you have an alarm set. And it would be best to reset it in case of a driver error in any event, use a sudo sh -c echo 0 /sys/class/rtc/rtc0/wakealarm Lastly there's been kernel maintenance recently. It's perfectly possible a bug has been introduced that does this with a tiny number of machines. So if there's no output from the first command above then boot into an older kernel for a bit. IIRC it's hold down shift throughout boot to get the grub menu where you can select older kernels. (Correct me anyone please if I'm wrong about which key to press).
Re: [Trisquel-users] How to date girls using free software :P
The feeling of being 'left out' is very powerful. It's so hard, sometimes I get such a strong desire to have a smartphone, use Windows, watch soap operas, read the gutter press, support a football team, be just like everyone else, even though I know I'd hate it, even though I've spent my whole adult life avoiding such things. Whether you want to call it the path of righteousness/wisdom/enlightenment/freedom/political awareness/whatever. It can be a very lonely road at times.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Question about the future plans of Trisquel GNU/Linux
There just isn't any legitimate reason to claim that GNOME Shell is horrible or terrible. It's just different. Have to disagree. Unity/Gnome 3 broke a number of standards and principles for no good reason. The most important one is that GUI standards were pretty much universal, whether you used OSX or Windows or Linux, certain aspects were reliably similar and so one didn't have to spend time figuring out non-intuitive methods. Gnome3 and Unity threw this out of the window. To subject an existing user base (particularly one that was so happy with the previous incarnations), to such a huge and stupid change was absurd (if it used to take one click and now it takes three, that's not good design that's arrogance on the behalf of the designers). The Gnome devs have been dragging Gnome from a decent level of usability into childish nosense, step by step, for some years. Every new version had more functionality stripped out, for no good reason - not as a result of thousands of confused users, but because they, as designers, had the power and couldn't resist using it. Rather like spiteful children given a complicated toy going on to wreck it bit by bit. It very much appeared to go hand in hand with the all round dumbing down that has pervaded pretty much every aspect of society for the last15-20 years. Canonical seems to want to distance themselves from Linux in general and make out that they have some sort of unique product. They don't. They have the work of a lot of other people, given freely, to humanity as a whole, in the name of freedom, onto which they have bolted a series of badly designed bits of nonsense, over which they then sneered at everyone who tried to disagree. If this is community then I have to say I'm disappointed - when a minority imposes changes on an unwilling majority and is nasty to anyone who disagrees, it's no longer a community but more of a dictatorship. Again, very typical of the way society is going in general. Very corporate, very inhuman, very arrogant. Then we have the various areas where backend configuration system have been over-complicated with successive versions. So, to recap, you personally think that Gnome3 and Unity are acceptable. That's fine. I don't and a lot of other people don't and I don't appreciate being told that I have no legitimate reasons for doing so. I think I have more legitimate reasons for not liking it than you do for liking it and throwing around psychological diagnoses is cheap. I have no problem with switching between Mate, Cinnamon, KDE, enlightenment, blackbox, fluxbox and windowmaker, so don't talk to me about baby duck syndrome as that's a poor justification for your judgment. None of this is to deny a design team's right to say ok, time for something completely different. It's to point out that the changes introduced were introduced badly, were explained badly and there was altogether too much sneering and selfrighteousness from those in favour of the change. No matter - the community responded as it always does and now we have Mate and Cinnamon. By way of example - I installed Ubuntu 10.04 on a couple of computers in a care home. There was no opportunity to take the residents through why windows had disappeared and been replaced, so I left a text file on the desktops with a short paragraph explaining why they'd changed, with my phone number. A few weeks later, having heard nothing, I asked how things were going oh, they love it, no problems at all I was told. Canonical threw that intuitiveness away when they changed to Unity as did Gnome when they changed to version 3 and that, for Linux as a whole, is a crying shame.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Wireless adapter help!
Generally we don't need to install drivers. It might lack a free driver. You can try installing the latest Linux-libre kernel to see if that supports it, e.g. via http://jxself.org/linux-libre/ If that doesn't help, you could get a supported wifi, e.g. from http://trisquel.info/sites/countclick.php?url=http://libre.thinkpenguin.com
Re: [Trisquel-users] Secret 3G Intel Chip Gives Snoops Backdoor PC Access
IIRC it's hold down shift throughout boot to get the grub menu This is correct.
Re: [Trisquel-users] MPL 1.1 Incompatibility
Yeah... which is why it's OK to use software under a license that's ethical even if it has practical problems. I might understand, for example, avoiding software under the Netscape licenses because the copyleft not applying to a particular organization is too unethical for you. (It isn't for me; what's the real difference between that and everyone being allowed to make proprietary versions? It's just that one proprietary software developer has an advantage over other proprietary software developers.) But this topic is about the MPL 1.1, right? That license doesn't have any sort of ethical problems, unless you think being weak copyleft is unethical somehow (which would extend to all permissive licenses being unethical, making X unethical).
Re: [Trisquel-users] Wireless adapter help!
This device is listed in h-node as not working: http://h-node.org/wifi/view/en/133/Ralink-corp--RT3090-Wireless-802-11n-1T-1R-PCIe However, it was tested with Trisquel 5.5. Can you please test it with Trisquel 6.0 (and use the latest Linux-libre as lembas suggested) and report the results to h-node?
[Trisquel-users] Re : Question about the future plans of Trisquel GNU/Linux
Whenever you write Linux, you actually mean GNU/Linux. Properly giving credits to the main project behind your OS matters. Then, I repeat, GNOME Shell is a very efficient interface when controlled with the keyboard. More efficient than GNOME 2. You should try it. Sure, there is a need to change a little your habits (in particular to use Alt+[key above Tab]). About your affirmation: If this is community then I have to say I'm disappointed - when a minority imposes changes on an unwilling majority and is nasty to anyone who disagrees, it's no longer a community but more of a dictatorship. It looks like many users like GNOME Shell (at least in this forum); You can (and do) use another desktop; GNOME is free software and has been forked by users who did not like the new paradigm: MATE is a fork of GNOME 2, Cinnamon is a fork of GNOME Shell (well, more a set of extensions that totally revamp it). There is no dictatorship with free software.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Question about the future plans of Trisquel GNU/Linux
Sorry, but being different is not a legitimate reason to say that it's a terrible design. But being unituitive is. Note - I didn't say it was unusable, nor did I say it was broken. I said it was badly designed and unintuitive and it is both of those. That it is learnable is not in dispute. But having to learn a new set of skills, merely to carry on what a user could already do, easily and quickly, is not good design. This particular wheel did not need reinventing, yet that is just what happened.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Question about the future plans of Trisquel GNU/Linux
It looks like many users like GNOME Shell (at least in this forum); I did not claim that nobody likes it, I pointed out that many didn't. There is not one iota of untruth in that statement. You can (and do) use another desktop; Which was said in answer to the baby duck syndrome label, to which I objected. I regarded it as an ad hominem attack - the if you don't agree with me, there's something wrong with you line of reasoning. I think such reasoning sucks. GNOME is free software and has been forked by users who did not like the new paradigm: MATE is a fork of GNOME 2, Cinnamon is a fork of GNOME Shell (well, more a set of extensions that totally revamp it). Your point being what?
Re: [Trisquel-users] MPL 1.1 Incompatibility
That doesn't mean the license itself is not ethical. All free software licenses are. The version of the BSD license with the advertising clause is free, but not GPL compatible because of the advertising clause. That doesn't mean you don't have all four freedoms. Strong copyleft licenses always cause this problem. If you want to make a system that had no license compatibility issues, good luck with that. You'd have to remove, for example, openssl because it's not under a GPL compatible license, even though it's still free software. You'd also have to remove the kernel called Linux because it's not compatible with GPLv3. Good luck having a working system without a kernel. So... GPL-incompatible is not non-free nor does GPL-incompatible mean less free. That's the first thing to get into your head.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Question about the future plans of Trisquel GNU/Linux
How is it unintuitive? I pointed out that being different doesn't mean it's unintuitive and that it's very easy to find a detailed manual that will tell you everything you could possibly need to know about GNOME Shell. Just saying that it's difficult to learn does not make it so.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Question about the future plans of Trisquel GNU/Linux
It tries to kill the unnecessary overused task-bar and try new ways of working. That would be the taskbar that's used in hundreds of millions of desktops, the world over and is the basis for collating shortcuts and various other information feeds. Sorry - unnecessary and overused are words that just don't apply. However, we are of course arguing about whether slip on shoes are better than laceups. I did nothing more than express an opinion. And my opinion is that these desktops are poor and unintuitive. I do not want to have to learn how to use my computer all over again, it's a waste of time. Nor do I want a touchscreen based UI on my non-touch screen based computer. I'm happy with Mate and KDE is is just about the best desktop I've ever used. But, whatever gets you through the night...
Re: [Trisquel-users] updates messed up all my configurations
thanks!
Re: [Trisquel-users] Question about the future plans of Trisquel GNU/Linux
I think that the problem is that while you understand that your preference is just that: a preference, you are forgetting that your preference doesn't make GNOME Shell's design choices horrible, and that things that are different from what you are used to are not necessarily unintuitive.
Re: [Trisquel-users] MPL 1.1 Incompatibility
Version 2.0 of the MPL is the future of the license and 1.1 licensed software can be migrated to version 2.0, which is GPL compatible. Maybe you can email the authors to make the change?
Re: [Trisquel-users] Question about the future plans of Trisquel GNU/Linux
Trisquel 7 will be based on 14.04, which will use a version of Gnome greater than or equal to 3.8 that has an improved classic desktop: http://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/03/28/2146221/
Re: [Trisquel-users] youtube
Thx a lot Damián; extension linked by you works perfectly in combination with media.gstreamer.enabled set on true inside an about:config. (= I got so frustrated last week when mates wanted to pump out some YT track and none worked. =W Hope in no more groundbreaking (shaking?!) API changes..
Re: [Trisquel-users] Question about the future plans of Trisquel GNU/Linux
Please someone competent lock this topic already. (;
Re: [Trisquel-users] [OT] free video formats
Let's just wait now for a decent successor to come.. Daala we call you out from the Earth's mantle! =P http://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/daala/demo4.shtml
[Trisquel-users] Is Think Penguin capable of making a computer that RMS can use?
Poor ole Richard Stallman is stuck on his Yeelong netbook since no other totally free hardware existed at the time. Isn't it time for an upgrade and if so, wouldn't it be nice if he could use Trisquel? So seeing that Think Penguin is a trusted company making libre hardware, is it possible to make a desktop or laptop that is so strictly free that even RMS can use? With him having a birthday recently and the GNU turning 30, it would be a great treat for him. You could call it The RMS and offer it on thinkpenguin.com for customization and purchase. How does that sound?
Re: [Trisquel-users] Question about the future plans of Trisquel GNU/Linux
+1! I can use the shell, but prefer not to, so, it's flashback or xfce for me!
Re: [Trisquel-users] is a real time kernel available for 6.0
thank you! I am not sure if you find it a stupid question. Why is it not in the ppa:linux-libre/rt-ppa ?
Re: [Trisquel-users] Is Think Penguin capable of making a computer that RMS can use?
I think that I've read here, that MIPS respects freedom, while x86 is merely free sw compatible. I'm not sure of the details, or what it means to RMS. Maybe one of our friends could explain?
[Trisquel-users] Antwort: how do i get this sytem to dual boot trisquel and win 7 on the same hdd but different partition
well i figured it out now the thing is how you partitition the hddd you need to make one logical that is ext4 journal modethat is a root and one the sam way that is home and a 3rd that is swap and a swap space and then you install on the drive not on the partition well now that it worked i am really happy just typed this out to help iothers
