[Trisquel-users] How can I update KGpg?

2013-10-28 Thread 438963
I downloaded KGpg Version 2.7.4 from the repositories, but I discovered that the latest version of KGpg is actually 2.9. How can I update KGpg to the latest version?

[Trisquel-users] How can I update gnupg?

2013-10-28 Thread uedibupi
I discovered that Trisquel 6.0 has gnugpg version 1.4.11 installed, but the latest version of gnupg is 2.0.22. How can I upgrade gnupg to the latest version?

[Trisquel-users] How can I move the .bitcoin folder from 'Home' to a new directory?

2013-10-28 Thread uedibupi
I am using bitcoin-qt (GUI, 64-bit), but the data in the .bitcoin folder is taking too much space in my Home folder. I would like to move the .bitcoin folder to a larger directory, but I don't know how to do it. Even if I remove the .bitcoin folder, the bitcoin-qt executable file will create

Re: [Trisquel-users] Remote Support (aka Teamviewer Replacement)

2013-10-28 Thread openid77
VNC won't work untill you configure port forwarding for your router. So this is not the best choice. You may also want to try free Aeroadmin which solves the issue and requires no installation and configuration at all. It uses teamviewer like connection by ID and works pretty fast. Anyway

Re: [Trisquel-users] How can I update gnupg?

2013-10-28 Thread Michał Masłowski
No need to remove, use the gpg2 program to use gnupg2. pgpZ0uroSu5hl.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [Trisquel-users] [OT] Mobile telephony survey

2013-10-28 Thread fernando . negro
(The article in question is a repost of a Natural News article. But, you can put them in the same bag as the Infowars articles, if you want to. Since, the editor of Natural News is also a volunteer in the Infowars team.) The people at Infowars may, occasionally, make mistakes (like any other

Re: [Trisquel-users] How to recognize non-free javascript

2013-10-28 Thread tegskywalker
I think you are missing the point of my argument Banana. Jason Self as well. I said MULTIPLE times that if the JavaScript is free software (jQuery) and is being served from a server (like the official one or the Google AJAX one) and matches the official, free release, then there should be no

Re: [Trisquel-users] can't update GDB (libpython3-stdlib)

2013-10-28 Thread mikko . viinamaki
Buongiorno! The reason it's not included is it's too new. Trisquel 6 is built on Ubuntu pp 12.04. That package exists in rr 13.04 onwards (so it will be included in Trisquel 7, which will be based on tt 14.04. New Trisquel releases will be made on Ubuntu LTS versions only.) You could try

Re: [Trisquel-users] How to recognize non-free javascript

2013-10-28 Thread shiretoko
It seems to me that the developer of a free program is the only one who has disadvantages due to a permissive licence. If he doesn't care - what's the problem with this kind of licence? Someone can take it and make a proprietary version out of it, but the original free one still exists, and

[Trisquel-users] Re : How can I update KGpg?

2013-10-28 Thread magicbanana
The versions of all applications (but Abrowser) in Trisquel 6.0 date from April 2012. Since then, only security and severe bug fixes go in through updates. That makes Trisquel a very stable GNU/Linux distribution. That said you can find on the Internet, more recent versions of kgpg that

Re: [Trisquel-users] Replicant ?

2013-10-28 Thread darrenvenables
For heaven's sake, remove that proprietary software! People have worked hard to bring you a phone containing only free software, and installing proprietary firmware defeats the purpose.

[Trisquel-users] Re : How to recognize non-free javascript

2013-10-28 Thread magicbanana
Oh, I see! Sorry for the misunderstanding. However, I am pretty sure that, in the case you mention, LibreJS executes JQuery (because the original authors, hosting the executing script, properly set the licensing terms).

Re: [Trisquel-users] Replicant ?

2013-10-28 Thread mve1
I understand and agree with your sentiment, Armworm. I am unhappy that the WiFi firmware is proprietary. I am a FS advocate and I understand the risks of running such software, as well as the vicious cycle that compromise in this area often fosters. While I agree with you on principle, a

Re: [Trisquel-users] Replicant ?

2013-10-28 Thread darrenvenables
We can do nothing about the bootloader, as it is unmodifiable, but we can do something about the Wi-Fi firmware: remove it! According to the Replicant Status page, mobile data is working on the Galaxy Note. Is it not working for you?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Replicant ?

2013-10-28 Thread mve1
Mobile data is now working on the N7000 as stated in my previous post. It is still not working on the GT-I9100. I have been working to fix this under advice from the developers of Replicant and hope to eventually resolve this issue. As to the WiFi firmware, I will not remove it. I hoped my

[Trisquel-users] Re : Replicant ?

2013-10-28 Thread magicbanana
The bootloader (such as GRUB) is modifiable. I believe you meant the BIOS or the UEFI. However, they are modifiable as well. They can be flashed.

Re: [Trisquel-users] How to recognize non-free javascript

2013-10-28 Thread tegskywalker
Yeah, and that's why I said it would be nice if LibreJS had some file integrety check (via MD5 or whatever) against the official version(s) and reject the file if it does not match common MD5 checks. There may be multiple MD5 checks for jQuery for example as sourceMap linking names in the

Re: [Trisquel-users] [OT] Mobile telephony survey

2013-10-28 Thread davidvargas1
Mr. Fernando Negro Who gives a rat ass about your hypothesis of phones, the reality we all need some kind of COMMUNICATION medium AKA CELL phone. If you don't want to be track then LAUNCH yourself to the moon and stay there. frozen in time, you will not be miss at all

[Trisquel-users] Re : [OT] Mobile telephony survey

2013-10-28 Thread magicbanana
Is this hate really needed?!

Re: [Trisquel-users] [OT] Mobile telephony survey

2013-10-28 Thread em9002
Clearly not. I'm worried about what's happening to our community. Things seem a lot less civil than they used to be.

Re: [Trisquel-users] OLinuXino - free alternative to raspberry pi?

2013-10-28 Thread Michał Masłowski
Would be nice if someone freed the video BIOS. (It is possible, several projects did this for some cards from other vendors and the RadeonHD driver supported older cards without running such code.) There is no 3d since the driver needs nonfree microcode. Various cards have problems with suspend

Re: [Trisquel-users] [OT] Mobile telephony survey

2013-10-28 Thread shiretoko
Not having a cellphone because of the radiation is ridiculous. Do you never go somewhere by bus? There are cell phones all around you and the transmission antenna maybe next to your house. You don't use any wlan? Well, your neighbour probably does. Even if you're living somewhere in complete

Re: [Trisquel-users] [OT] Mobile telephony survey

2013-10-28 Thread onpon4
Fear of radiation is highly overblown. Radiation is something that has always existed in nature and something that you come into contact with every day. In fact, radiation is something that life depends on; light and heat are radiation. Even ultra-violet radiation is necessary for us in

Re: [Trisquel-users] Replicant ?

2013-10-28 Thread Michał Masłowski
Boot firmware (called BIOS on x86) is much different on other systems. Commonly used ARM SoCs have bootrom (real ROM in the chip: just like circuit) that boots a bootloader from NAND (the phone memory where the OS is usually stored) which might be signed like in restricted boot. (There might be

Re: [Trisquel-users] How can I move the .bitcoin folder from 'Home' to a new directory?

2013-10-28 Thread Andrew R.
On 28/10/13 22:35, jason wrote: ln -s /path/to/where/you/put/the/bitcoin/folder ~/.bitcoin Not sure if it'll follow a symlink and even if it did you'd need to update it if you ever moved your bitcoin folder again. I can confirm that Bitcoin does follow symlinks as I do this myself. Andrew.

Re: [Trisquel-users] How to recognize non-free javascript

2013-10-28 Thread Andrew M . Lindley
The users of the proprietary version(s) have their freedoms stolen, so they are also affected. Further any technical benefit that could be gained from the proprietary modifications is lost to the users of the free version unless someone is able to code a replacement. In effect not putting

Re: [Trisquel-users] How to recognize non-free javascript

2013-10-28 Thread jason
I think LibreJS already does some hashing and, in any event, this doesn't invalidate the issue I raised and that you started replying to about something which we can now see is a different issue.

Re: [Trisquel-users] How to recognize non-free javascript

2013-10-28 Thread jason
It seems to me that the developer of a free program is the only one who has disadvantages due to a permissive licence. Actually, with a permissive license, it's the other way around: The developer still has the source code and so has lost nothing. The users are the ones that have lost out

Re: [Trisquel-users] [OT] Mobile telephony survey

2013-10-28 Thread stask
Siding with Fernando on this--but not as passionately! :) Clearly there *are* many scientific studies that find trouble with cell phones. A recent new one... http://www.naturalnews.com/042323_brain_cancer_risk_cell_phones_mobile_devices.html There aren't none or no studies. People may

Re: [Trisquel-users] [OT] Mobile telephony survey

2013-10-28 Thread ahj
There are many logical fallacies in this post. It cites what you call scientific literature, and points to the fact that other so-called scientific literature is funded by the wireless industry. I would like to see these papers. Merely asserting that such peer reviewed papers exist without

Re: [Trisquel-users] [OT] Mobile telephony survey

2013-10-28 Thread gaming4jc2
Confirming there are some concerns for radiation: http://www.cnn.com/2011/HEALTH/05/31/who.cell.phones/index.html However - Radiation prevention: http://radblocker.com/ Spying prevention: http://offpocket.com/ Now you can safely use your phone only when required. ;D

Re: [Trisquel-users] [OT] Mobile telephony survey

2013-10-28 Thread onpon4
I just want to put that last paragraph another way: just because there's *some* evidence or supposed evidence for a claim does not mean that claim is true. People have found evidence or evidence for all kinds of absurd things; that's why you have ridiculous beliefs such as a belief in a flat

Re: [Trisquel-users] How to recognize non-free javascript

2013-10-28 Thread tegskywalker
You forget about those people who include a library like Qt with their application and just want it there and have no intention of changing those Qt libraries. I think some devs like permissive for ease of integration and bundling with the focus being on creating other software and leaving

Re: [Trisquel-users] How can I move the .bitcoin folder from 'Home' to a new directory?

2013-10-28 Thread uedibupi
Thanks for your assistance. Your suggesion worked for me. The problem is now resolved.

Re: [Trisquel-users] How can I update KGpg?

2013-10-28 Thread uedibupi
Thanks. But how did you find these files? How do you know where to look for new updates like these? I tried looking for them by myself before asking for help here, but I did not succeed.

Re: [Trisquel-users] How can I update gnupg?

2013-10-28 Thread uedibupi
How can I run gnupg2? How can I use it to encrypt files? Do I need to enter commands in Terminal?

[Trisquel-users] Re : How to recognize non-free javascript

2013-10-28 Thread magicbanana
Terrible example: Qt is not, and has never been, distributed under a permissive license. Today, it is distributed under the GNU LGPL 2.1 (before that, between 2000 and 2009, the GNU GPL was used) and, for evil proprietary software, under the Qt Commercial License. The former is copylefted

[Trisquel-users] Re : How can I update KGpg?

2013-10-28 Thread magicbanana
In DuckDuckGo (Abrowser's default search engine), the first result to the query kgpg ppa (without the quotes) leads to those packages (that used to be in the PPA Kubuntu-ppa Backports). Well, I also changed raring into precise directly in the URL (Trisquel 6.0 is based on Ubuntu 12.04

[Trisquel-users] Re : How can I update gnupg?

2013-10-28 Thread magicbanana
Have you first installed gnupg2 from the package manager?

Re: [Trisquel-users] How to recognize non-free javascript

2013-10-28 Thread jason
Even if they never change it, if they're distributing something under a permissive license and not passing on the source code and freedom, it matters not that the users of the program can go get source code elsewhere - the software that that particular developer is distributing is

Re: [Trisquel-users] How to recognize non-free javascript

2013-10-28 Thread jason
If you want freedom, go somewhere else. I'm not giving it to you and not going to cooperate. $*!@ off.