This is excellent information! I think the WLAN card slot wouldn't
be a viable solution because of the BIOS whitelisting? Still, the
USB option is there. I've ordered an Atheros USB WLAN card from
thinkpenguin.
This more or less solves, or at least helps, against vPro. But what
about TXT?
Oh, and btw. This kind of information is very valuable. We should
update it in h-node or a valid equivalent :-)
On Mon, 30 Sep 2013 07:00:04 +0200 oralfl...@lavabit.com wrote:
Luckily for free software users, vPro can be avoided by removing
the built-in
WLAN card, which requires proprietary
This is wrong. It's a misconception about duties and taxes. Taxes are paid
regardless of if the laptop is imported by a business and then sold or
imported by a customer for personal use. The only difference is going to be
when those taxes are paid. IE you pay them to the local shop or you
I'm pretty confident vPro TXT are also dependent on a GSM module being
installed in the machine. I was reading up on it somewhere that the way it
works is via SMS and not TCP/IP. So I think there may have been an assumption
or misreporting of something and possibly propagation of bad info.
I'm not actively looking into it so I can't say for sure. I think there is or
may be a home-grown solution from China now or in the future which might
work. I think there are hurdles to overcome still although I can't recall
what they are any more.
...
When I think we are ready to do
Upgrade your BIOS.
The solution is to ignore or push back the people who are making BS
claims/dividing us/etc. Don't assume your safe, but take action to avert
problems, and help fix them. There may be a few great people leading. However
it takes everybody to fix the problems.
Hi Chris,
Thanks for your very detailed answer. It really helped clear things up for
me.
I'm really glad that there is a company out there, yours, which is not only
offering good hardware compatible with libre software, but also taking an
active position in these discussions. Things like
I think the best approach to the problem is probably to have a client
application do the encrypting such that the host doesn't ever know the
contents being stored.
I think sparkleshare does it this way:
http://sparkleshare.org/
That actually has to be deployed by you though.
I think my
When will be the next Version of Trisquel Mini? I mean not 6.1 but 7.0.
I see Lubuntu 13.10 is close to release.
Hello everybody,
I have these three partitions:
/dev/sda1/
/dev/sda6/home
/dev/sda7/var
And now I need to install Debian and Trisquel in the same machine but I have
a question: can I install two distributions that share partitions? So, each
distro will have its root (/) but the
I can only tell you about /home, know nothing about /var.
It's possible, but it can cause some unpleasant effects in practice, mainly
if you use same programs but different versions on your distros.
But if you make sure all versions are pretty equal (especially gnome or your
DE) then this
Technical this is possible but not really advisable.
Applications store their configuration stuff inside hidden files and
directories.
They might interfere e.g. if you use different versions of the same tool in
Debian and Trisquel.
If rms accepts to do mass surveillance and hand out data to the gouvernment,
then I think the end of all days is near!
In the end IMO this discussion is somewhat useless. SteamOS and Steam itself
as well as the majority of games distributed via it will never be free as
defined per FSF.
You either deal with it or simply ignore Steam / SteamOS. I have accepted
that fact since I like to play Games in my spare
I suppose you could build a box dedicated just to steam with libre hardware.
I know the new intel HD 4600 graphics are really quite good for mainstream
gaming at modest resolutions. You could have libre graphics, libre wireless
and a libre OS. Which would make it an ethical step-up from a
What we really need is a new non-x86 design. Unfortunately that takes
significant resources and people in the larger community (whom could make it
a reality).
MIPS!
I'm losing faith in ARM; maybe there will be entirely free ARM SOCs in the
future, but I suspect other companies like Lemote
I wanted to ask you, and others who read this, a general question
about non-x86 design: What options are there for the future? Should
people start thinking about MIPS, for example? I've toyed with the
idea of getting a yeeloong notebook to tinker with, but AFAIK there
are also some inevitable
No idea about /var.
As long as you don't use the same user name then sharing /home is fine.
If you have folders with stuff you want to access from both, then one
possible solution is to make a folder at the root of /home and put them in
there, then make it readable by all. You can then
seen on Distrowatch this morning,
on the homepage of the project, you'll find
''Gnu/Linux is free and Dax OS too, which you can study your code, distribute
it among your friends, and you can modify it as you want, whenever you
respect that freedom.''
the main difference is desktop, as Dax
I forgot link
http://daxos.org/
I've understood that future Trisquel versions will be based on the LTS
versions, so you'll have to wait a bit longer, till 14.04. Some of the stuff
like kernels and likely X will be backported though.
It doesn't say anywhere that it includes only free software. Did you check
the packages?
thank you for information
no, I haven't find packages list.
This interview seems that guys working on Dax OS believe in free software
http://www.daxos.org/store/categories.php?cat=Internet lists some
well-known nonfree programs, it's not what a free distro would do.
(Offtopic: I would not expect a site recommending Facebook and Google
Translate to support free software, if not for knowing a distro that
does this.)
Thing is that Steam is only *working* DRM out there. Anything else can be
cracked by a moderately skilled programmer with a debugger (Guess what is
the most popular use of OllyDbg?)
In addition to removing the WiFi card that needs proprietary software (which
is reason enough to get rid of it) you should also use Coreboot and get rid
of the proprietary BIOS entirely. I bought the ThinkPad X60s specifically
because it was supported by Coreboot.
Is that laptop able to be 100% free?
How are fonts installed in Trisquel?
There is an easy way and a hard way to do it. The hard way is to open a
terminal, enter sudo nautilus, enter your password, and copy the files into
/usr/share/fonts. The easy way is to install the program Font Manager from
add/remove applications, click the gear in the bottom left corner,
Using a proprietary BASIC IDE/Compiler, JustBASIC, I have written a few
simple programs.
None of these programs are particularly important, but I want to know how to
port them.
I released them all into the Public Domain with CC0, as they are too short to
bother to GPL. (The average is
Correction: None of these programs are particularly important, but I want to
know how to port them to Python.
Rewrite them. Look at the code, and write similar code in Python. There is no
magical converter tool from BASIC to Python that I'm aware of.
Hi,
I wanted to install a program that has no 64 bit version on a 64 bit Trisquel
install. I read that this was possible. I followed the instructions here:
http://howtoubuntu.org/how-to-install-a-32bit-program-in-64bit-ubuntu since I
couldn't find Trisquel specific instructions. I ran:
I don't know Python. These programs are quite simple, so they shouldn't be
too hard for me to port, but I don't know the equivalent of input and gosub,
and other commands like that.
my ideas are [more] along the line of maintaining a set of 'solutions'
(think virtual images that could be easily deployed and updated) by anyone in
such a way that you control them locally, but don't have much of anything to
do beyond clicking an update button -- Chris
I like this idea
Thanks for the heads up onpon
I just hope that the new MIPS computers won't be outdated like the Yeeloong.
In fact, I'm about to push the button on the Lemote 8101B (the rms
notebook). I want to help contribute to the MIPS community, because I think
that's where we will have the best shot of establishing a viable alternative
to the x86 monopoly. -- ahj
I thought that Lemote stopped making the
Python is pretty easy. In Python 3 (what you ought to use; Python 2 is being
phased out), you print with the print function (e.g. ``print(Hello,
world!)``) and get text input with the input function (e.g. ``a =
input(What's your name? )``). I don't know what gosub does. As an aside,
This worked, thank you!
gosub means go to subroutine.
I don't remember what the difference between gosub and goto is, though.
tekmote.nl and kd85.com still have them.
pgpArygxzwQAz.pgp
Description: PGP signature
Looks like some sort of a function. Just define functions in Python. The
keyword for defining functions is def; look at the docs for more specific
details.
sudo nautilus
It's better to categorically teach people to use gksudo for graphical apps.
Sure some gfx apps work with sudo but others will give you nasty permissions
issues.
Hello All,
we are pleased to announce the release of Gnome Panel 3.8.0. This is what the
Gnome Flashback team has been
working on in the last months. We are glad to achieve compatibility with the
Gnome 3.8 stack just hours
before the final Gnome 3.10 release. ;-)
This is the first release
Dosen't work with Abrowser 24...
What do you mean by putting the /home/user folder into a dedicated partition?
It's already on a separate XFS file-system, and that cannot be changed (XFS
partitions cannot be shrunk), unless I recreate the partition from backup.
Since backup is not something I'd like to pay too much
What program do you use (onpon4) for writing Python code?
Deja Dup is a general data backup tool. It does not do partition cloning, so
it doesn't fit the task. Other than than, it's a nice app, mainly useful for
recovering accidentally modified/deleted/lost files, using timed backups on
the background of the most important stuff.
user interface - anything other than working with command line utilities
You mean by using dd+rsync, right?
look at this post:
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/abrowser-firefox-24-solution-non-working-mp4-video
If you have previous programming skills, 'dive into python' [1] is a very
good starting point to learn python.
To write python code you can use editors like gedit or geany or complete
IDE's like eclipse + pydev [2], eric [3], etc.
[1] http://www.diveintopython3.net/
[2] http://pydev.org/
Does this support disk cloning and image compression? Both of them are
important aspects for me.
IDLE is the basic native IDE (sudo apt-get install idle3). gedit will work
just fine as well. If you're more into larger IDEs than basic ones and text
editors, probably Eclipse.
rsync has many options. There are gui frontends, as mentioned earlier, but a
simple script is very useful for me. Maybe it could work for you. Some
examples:
- https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Full_System_Backup_with_rsync
- http://crunchbang.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=28150
Works for me; one just has to be patient; I think the count-down is about
minute? What's more, the installed system has the orca screen reader turned
on, even for the gdm greeter. I'd like to see this accessibility carried
over to the net install, as has been done with Debian Wheezy.
I find that gedit works quite well.
They're on http://audio-video.gnu.org/ now.
You need to install pavucontrol; it's not included by default.
sudo aptitude update
sudo aptitude install pavucontrol
Well, I have spent most of the day trying to return my Trisquel to the way it
was before I tried installing the ia32-libs. I think the solution must be to
remove the broken packages manually, but I am wary of screwing things up
further, since I understand these same named packages already
I have tried removing the packages individually but that doesn't work either:
$sudo apt-get remove ibus-gtk
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these:
The following packages have unmet
Have also tried:
$sudo apt-get remove --auto-remove -f
With the following results:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
libgtk2.0-0:i386 libsdl1.2debian:i386
Seems I have found a way to remove them one by one. One done so far. I hope
I'm not destroying anything.
:/var/lib/dpkg/info$ sudo mv libsdl-image1.2:i386.* /tmp/
:/var/lib/dpkg/info$ sudo dpkg --remove --force-remove-reinstreq
libsdl-image1.2:i386
(Reading database ...
dpkg: warning: files
OK, that seems to have done the job! :D
Some problems after fix:
Could not launch Pidgin. Had to:
reinstall libcanberra-gtk-module
reinstall python
remove and reinstall apparmor
We'll see what else I've broken.
I see; thanks for the heads up onpon
That sounds cool; thanks for the recommendation Fernando. Do you know about
the privacy laws/procedures that Mail.ru has to follow?
If showing a different address will make spam filters catch my messages, I
might hold off on this until I can run my own email server.
ia32-libs-multiarch being broken (caused by a couple 32-bit packages) is a
known problem, and there's a way to fix it on an individual system. See:
https://trisquel.info/en/issues/8155
It sounds like you panicked and removed basic system packages. Bad idea in
general; better to deal with
I have taken all the possible privacy measures I can possibly take with
Abrowser. I have NoScript on 24/7, RequestPolicy on 24/7, no permanent
whitelist on either, all cookies disabled except for few websites, DOM
storage turned off. and I have network.http.sendRefererHeader set to 0.
Yet,
This free book is interesting:
http://openbookproject.net/thinkcs/python/english3e/
It teaches you Python and also systematic program design as far as I
remember.
Have you tried with FireGloves. Maybe it's tracking your browser's
fingerprints?
I haven't tried FireGloves. Does it just mask your browser's user_agent? I'm
not sure they could track my browser by its fingerprints considering many
other browsers, probably have the same fingerprints.
Here's my results.
so your browser is quite unique with almost 16 bits of identifying
information. Try again after installing FireGloves.
It's just using URLs.
All hyperlinks on Amazon are fixed with a ref variable (or whatever it is
those things are called in URLs) that is some sort of unique identifier. So
Amazon stores your browsing history by associating it with that unique
identifier, and links are presented to you with
yes, it masks your browser's fingerprints making them more generic.
Try this:
https://panopticlick.eff.org/
FireGloves: https://trisquel.info/en/browser/addons/firegloves
That makes more sense. Although I have read that google is researching a way
to track your browser's fingerprints, so FireGloves may still be a useful
addon for those who want more anonymity.
Thank you for the explanation. I did try to remove the packages one by one
with sudo apt-get remove package but it wouldn't remove anything...it would
just keep complaining about the dependencies.
How can I check to make sure that the trisquel and trisquel-recommended
packages are
I guess it makes sense that making the fingerprint more generic is less prone
to tracking. Thanks for the info. Although I belive onpon4 is right about the
URL, which I think is very sneaky. Is there any add-on that will disable
refids or other sorts of tracking prefixs on URLs?
You were right. trisquel and trisquel-recommended packages were no longer
installed. Installing them again now.
do you think I still need to do this:
Problem solved ! Just needed to remove the old changelog files on the
/usr/share/doc/ folder.
But this need to be solved.
Best Regards,
Luis Da Costa
---
If so, how should I proceed? My Trisquel seems to be working well now,
Thanks mate.
Yes, I think onpon4 is right. I don't know of any add-ons to disable them.
That sounds like a very good idea for an add-on to make, espcially for the
privacy-aware users. You can tell that the browsing lists are actually stored
server-side because you can delete items from the history and the link will
remain the same. This can be temporarily linked to your IP, and
I have no idea what the laws are, concerning electronic correspondence, in
Russia. But, as a decent enough Democracy, that I know that it is, I don't
believe things have got to the point where the government can simply access
you e-mail box, any time it wants to, without a warrant - like it
I'm using Firefox 27 (Nightly UX) and now it's support Gstreamer by default.
:-)
Of course - That's why I selected it.
I posted this as a reply buried down in this thread, but it's really useful
and I want everybody to know about it.
At Mozilla's add-on site, to which I don't think I can link because they
promote proprietary software, they have an add-on called YouTube ALL HTML5.
It is developed by Klemens
I wouldn't call it sneaky, and it's not new either. Websites have been doing
that for a long time.
cat /etc/resolv.conf
# Dynamic resolv.conf(5) file for glibc resolver(3) generated by
resolvconf(8)
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE BY HAND -- YOUR CHANGES WILL BE OVERWRITTEN
nameserver 127.0.0.1
nameserver 8.8.8.8
nameserver 213.186.33.99
search trisquel.info
domain trisquel.info
Setting up
The fact that the list from Amazon history is server-side is a sneaky idea to
me. Usually all the information is shoved into a long suffix on the URL, but
in this case it is actually stored on their servers; that is what's new to
me. If the information is stored on their servers rather than
vPro manual from intel
http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/enterprise-security/3rd-gen-core-vpro-data-protection-paper.html
Good discussion at Wilders Security on this topic as well. Sandy Bridge
background, intesting post...
vPro manual
http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/enterprise-security/3rd-gen-core-vpro-data-protection-paper.html
vPro is not a threat.
Take a deep breath, calm down. I know this forum might have shoved it down
your throats so many times, but VPRO IS NOT A THREAT! (Sorry, didn't mean to
yell.)
Let's think logically here. Imagine I wanted to put an OS-independent
technology in all computers that
Really interesting and alarming story. Two solutions could be:
1) Buy an old analog telephone. If you're not an expert, have someone of your
trust analyze and eventually hack it,
so that when the phone's on the cradle the mic is disabled.
2) You have your telephone inside a soundproof box.
Does anyone know of any Libre games like tradewars, astro-empires, or
eve-online? I'm looking for a space trading game, preferably 2d or browser
based. A multiplayer component isn't necessary, but it'd be nice.
Thanks!
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