Correct me if I'm wrong on this - all the stuff that I've seen thus far seems
to say that the monitoring malware is part of the Unity Dash, not something
that is internal to the entire Ubuntu universe.
Thus if one is using Kubuntu, or even regular Ubuntu with some other window
manager than Unit
Check out Bluehost.com - they are a commercial ISP / colo hosting service that
seems to offer a really good deal on hosting, for about the $5 / mo price, with
PHPbb forums, and lots of other available stuff.
I've known quite a few folks that use them, and have heard good reports about
their sup
In my limited experience, the biggest gotchas are memory issues, power supply
problems hard drive failures and heat...
1. Heat - when was the last time you opened up the case on the laptop and
cleaned out all the dust and crud? This may be all it is, as the crud can
(rarely) cause intermittent
No knowledge beyond what is in the links cited, but they say it's a 100% open
hardware design.
The software is Debian based which is 'free' for at least some definitions of
the word. They seem to give a pretty good impression of wanting to be free -
including the note on the SD cards that th
One of the "must-see" places IMHO for any techno-geek visiting the area is the
Artisan's Asylum in Somerville, MA. It is one of the worlds largest
hacker-spaces at 40,000 sq.ft. of shops and studio spaces that have a
tremendous range of people working on all sorts of projects from pure art to
Seems odd that a tech support person for a FLOSS program would want to install
proprietary stuff, but that's off the subject...
My answer would be to respond to the tech that can't discuss the use of other
software with a request / demand to be connected to someone that CAN discuss
it...
Pre
I am finding a lack in the universe of free / open software - I can't find any
programs that do flow charting...
On the evil MS platform there is Visio, but I can't find anything that looks
like it would do something similar in the GNU/Linux world Any pointers?
Would this be a project that
I appreciate the many suggestions on flow charting software - haven't started
testing on any of them, but from reading the docs, it looks like DIA may be the
closest to what I'm after...
My need isn't so much for documenting an existing program, as it is to define
the structure and flow of a pr
Mostly of direct interest to US folks, but conceptually of interest to all - I
just got this e-mail from the American Motorcyclist Association - I am sure you
can get more info on their website.
Seemed like it is relevant to pass on from both a data privacy and a control of
the software in ou
My recollection is that there are different 'section types' in the Gnu Free
Documentation License (GFDL) and most of them DO allow derivative works. The
only exception is the 'invariant' sections, which don't. The invariant
sections are usually supposed to be 'editorial comment' like the words
Philosophical issues aside, the most relevant question, and what I haven't seen
anyone else asking, is whether this has been reported to the appropriate rights
holders and what actions are being taken to get the Astra folks into
compliance?
I'm willing to bet that if Astra had improperly in
No comments on the pun(ishment), but a couple of thoughts on T-shirt design /
selection... Makes a BIG difference on whether or not I will even consider
purchasing a given shirt, no matter what its for...
1. Black or dark colors hold up and will be worn FAR longer than light colors /
pastels -
While I respect and admire Richard's 'purity' - I also want to be able to deal
with the real world, so my computer does have non-free software installed on it
where I don't think the free alternatives are as good...
Having a list / ranking / score system has a benefit - if for whatever reason
The 'Copyleft is GOOD for Business" pitch is hardly new - but usually it
doesn't come loudly from the "Free Software" side of the aisle...
Summarizing broadly, and yes, ignoring a lot of the nuances, there are two
'camps' of copy left enthusiasts, with a lot of folks having various ratios of
bo
Thanks for the clarification John, it does make the RYF label a bit less
onerous, but I thought I remembered that the restriction on mention of
proprietary operating systems seemed more than a bit restrictive and
one-sided So I looked it up
at https://www.fsf.org/resources/hw/endorsement/cr
Speaking as a person with a disability, though fortunately not one that affects
my ability to use software, it seems to me that this is a prime area where the
classic Unix mantra of "don't do all things, instead do individual things well
and string them together" is really the way to go...
Wh
The thing I've been grumbling about almost since I started using Free Software
all to many years ago is the lack of a competent 3-D CAD package LibreCAD
is OK for 2D, and it is being actively maintained and worked on, but it is ONLY
a 2-D package, and a lot of people look at you like you ar
This seems like something that MIGHT be helped, or at least encouraged, by the
folks in the "Digital Right to Repair" movement. They are trying to produce a
legal REQUIREMENT that companies release the information needed for outside
entities to service their products to the same extent that an
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Date: Sat, 6 Feb 2016 10:01:13 +0100
From: Fabio Pesari
To: Koz Ross ,
Esteban Enrique
Cc: libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org
Subject: Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Reverse Engineering
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Yes, repair.org is the new name for the folks that started out as Digital right
to repair...
On the OSHWA, I don't see a conflict just because of the name. As I said
previously, I think that even Richard has said that 'Open Source' is a better
term for hardware, since it isn't possible to re
Hi Julia;
I am looking for more a 3-D version of LibreCAD, where you essentially draw on
the canvas, possibly specifying relevant points or doing other sorts of things
like that, but always using the mouse/menus/keyboard to directly manipulate
objects on the screen...
I am probably dating myse
In a recent digest it was suggested -
>For GNU, we have accessibility standards:
> https://www.gnu.org/accessibility/accessibility.htmlo
> See the recommendations at the bottom.
I got -
>404 - Page Not Found
>The page you were looking for could not be found on the GNU web server.
>If you f
Worth pointing out that there have been successful demonstration cracker
attacks on some cars (Mopars if I recall correctly) where the attacker was able
to do everything from remotely play with the radio station / volume and the
climate control system to shutting down the vehicle So this is
No references - On the car story, I read a LOT of stuff, and don't have any
easy way to find / refer back to stories I may have seen months or more ago...
I figure if people are really interested there are these amazing things called
search engines For the wheelchair programming question,
There is a very mixed bag situation on medical device hacking, in that yes, it
is definitely possible to cause potentially life threatening situations if one
makes modifications the wrong way... On the flip side, is it any better if
that mistake is because the proprietary manufacturer doesn't a
Don't know about pacemakers, in the power wheelchair world, Medicare IS one of
the MAJOR problems - along with most of the other insurance companies in the
US, most of which just copy the Medicare rules... In a gross
mis-interpretation of the original legislation, which attempted to make a
dis
I agree, although at least from the evidence we see of users in the power chair
world, a great many don't have any interest is knowing how their technology
works. This seems really strange to me, but is it that much different from the
computer owners that don't care about the O/S, programs, etc.
My experience is several years back, but I worked for a while as a substitute
teacher in the Tewksbury, M, USA school system, and ended up seeing the
computer stuff in most grades / schools in the system. Regrettably it was all
Windows based, and the courses were very focused on using the speci
Hello,
I'm an elected Town Meeting member in Billerica, MA. We have just passed an
article to implement electronic voting at future Town Meetings (Target date is
the fall 2012 session), and I have been appointed to the committee that will be
choosing the hardware and software that will be use
I think that a labeling system is needed, for both hardware and software.
IMHO Software licenses are a good indicator, but it would be nice to have a
logo or a small set of them that can be put on project websites and other
appropriate places to say that it is Free Software, works w/ Free Soft
Looking at this, I see both sides. Yes, there is a lot of good info on the
existing FSF pages, but it is LONG...
Arguably the GPL is longer than many proprietary software ULA's, and we know
how many folks read those Add in the GNU software manifesto, and the
lengthy free software defin
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