[Trisquel-users] Prepare for trouble and make it double

2014-04-13 Thread matsetes
Hi! From yesterday randomly the filesystem of my Trisquel installation becomes read-only until a new reboot. I want to fix that... I really need your help, but I can give some informations (perhaps useful): 1)I recently changed size at the partition, creating another one with 50 GB of the

Re: [Trisquel-users] Installation of Boinc

2014-04-13 Thread mikko . viinamaki
What exactly does the error message say? Note that these are the only free projects for BOINC http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Free_software_BOINC_projects

Re: [Trisquel-users] Installation of Boinc

2014-04-13 Thread mikko . viinamaki
The whole climate change story, due to human behaviour (I later learned) it's a huge hoax. (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker... Look at this guy's track record, he's a nut job: He has taken a stance which runs counter to the scientific consensus on a number

Re: [Trisquel-users] Prepare for trouble and make it double

2014-04-13 Thread aste9974
fsck is your friend.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Installation of Boinc

2014-04-13 Thread wabeard
I solved my issue. The Add/Remove function includes Boinc and actually works. Why the Package Manager version fails, I have no idea. It works with other OSs.

Re: [Trisquel-users] mp3

2014-04-13 Thread Andrew Roffey
Three points: 1. The MPEG Layer 3 encoders and decoders used in Trisquel are free software (at least from a copyright perspective). 2. There may be patent issues in the United States potentially up to the year 2017* but not in other countries anymore. That's just because the US has absurd patent

Re: [Trisquel-users] Julian Assange: Debian Is Owned By The NSA

2014-04-13 Thread blade . vp2020
https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/454246967124963328

[Trisquel-users] Re : Prepare for trouble and make it double

2014-04-13 Thread magicbanana
Try to remove/change some mount options (from the Live USB). I would start with removing those: dmask=000,fmask=111,nls=utf8 You can test with: $ mount /media/MoYan

Re: [Trisquel-users] Julian Assange: Debian Is Owned By The NSA

2014-04-13 Thread fernando . negro
You're not a reputable source. :/

Re: [Trisquel-users] Julian Assange: Debian Is Owned By The NSA

2014-04-13 Thread trisquel
Just to clarify for those who skim through the thread without clicking on the links, the link above by alimiracle (https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/454246967124963328) is Wikileaks denying the claim in the OP's original article, which was spread on the usual conspiracy channels but has

Re: [Trisquel-users] Installation of Boinc

2014-04-13 Thread fernando . negro
(And, Al Gore is a sexual predator - http://www.flynews.com/2010/07/01/police-reopen-al-gore-rape-investigation-on-masseuse-molly-haggerty.html - and a hypocrite - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6401489.stm...) I don't know anything about that journalist, besides what I read in that

Re: [Trisquel-users] mp3

2014-04-13 Thread tegskywalker
In an ideal world, Apple and Microsoft would support Vorbis and Opus natively in their browsers for audio, but they don't. It sucks because there are a huge percentage of users that use their browsers on the desktop and on mobile/tablet devices. At least Android supports Ogg and WebM

[Trisquel-users] A lightweight tool to write ISOs to a USB stick (Trisquel, Ubuntu, Debian, etc)

2014-04-13 Thread tegskywalker
I was looking for a lightweight tool to write Trisquel ISOs to a USB stick and came across mintstick. Have any of you tried this yet? You can grab it for Trisquel 6 from http://packages.linuxmint.com/pool/backport/m/mintstick/ (don't worry, its GPLv2) and it lets you write .iso and .img

Re: [Trisquel-users] A lightweight tool to write ISOs to a USB stick (Trisquel, Ubuntu, Debian, etc)

2014-04-13 Thread tegskywalker
Since I can't edit my orignial post, I meant to point out that there's also source code through the GitHub page: https://github.com/linuxmint/mintstick

Re: [Trisquel-users] Installation of Boinc

2014-04-13 Thread laigualdad
There is a lot of stuff in here I strongly object to, and since you're putting this out here as if it were fact, I will comment to say that research is a skill: it can be improved. Specifically, many people struggle with source hierarchy and distinguishing between credible and non-credible

Re: [Trisquel-users] Julian Assange: Debian Is Owned By The NSA

2014-04-13 Thread laigualdad
I'm not wasting time on this so here http://conspiracies.skepticproject.com/articles/alex-jones/

Re: [Trisquel-users] Julian Assange: Debian Is Owned By The NSA

2014-04-13 Thread laigualdad
None of our people said this. Mr. Assange spoke about vulnerability of OS's to bribes and bugdoors in upstream components. Exactly

Re: [Trisquel-users] Help With My Think Pinguin Wireless USB Adapter

2014-04-13 Thread laigualdad
Computer tech professionals who have the certifications and training to know that you should do that any time you open a computer chassis, that's who. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antistatic_wrist_strap

Re: [Trisquel-users] Julian Assange: Debian Is Owned By The NSA

2014-04-13 Thread fernando . negro
And, I'm not even going to waste my time debunking you, so here:

[Trisquel-users] Re : Storing passwords

2014-04-13 Thread ashok . biollay
I use no software. All passwords in my head.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Prepare for trouble and make it double

2014-04-13 Thread silvibus
If Manual Solution gives you a shell, does this work? Can't you $ chmod -R +w /mount/point But i bet there's something wrong with your fstab line as it appears to be complaining that it cannot mount something. Is there supposed to be a comma between 'ntfs' and 'auto' ?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Prepare for trouble and make it double

2014-04-13 Thread leny2010
This looks a bit like: http://itsfoss.com/solve-ntfs-mount-problem-ubuntu-windows-8-dual-boot/