Re: [Trisquel-users] Problems Installing Abrowser/Icecat

2014-08-29 Thread Ivan Antipenko
Have you tried apt-get install -f ? On Fri, 2014-08-29 at 07:50 +0200, a1716...@trbvm.com wrote: I added the PPA (sudo add-apt-repository ppa:legimet/abrowser-kde) and updated synaptic. Everything went fine up to that point. Then I accidentally installed Abrowser (which worked btw

Re: [Trisquel-users] Problems Installing Abrowser/Icecat

2014-08-29 Thread a1716479
Will try. Guessing at your context, but will try. Thanks

Re: [Trisquel-users] Problems Installing Abrowser/Icecat

2014-08-29 Thread a1716479
No Dice. localhost5@Localhost:~$ sudo apt-get install -f [sudo] password for localhost5: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: linux-image-3.2.0-58-generic

Re: [Trisquel-users] Munich gives up on GNU/Linux and free/open source software

2014-08-29 Thread a1716479
Considering iTunes had an unpatched phin-phisher back door in it for over four years, any employees installing it on corporate hardware could cause huge problems for a company.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Problems Installing Abrowser/Icecat

2014-08-29 Thread Ivan Antipenko
and apt-get install icecat --reinstall after it? On Fri, 2014-08-29 at 08:18 +0200, a1716...@trbvm.com wrote: No Dice. localhost5@Localhost:~$ sudo apt-get install -f [sudo] password for localhost5: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done

Re: [Trisquel-users] Problems Installing Abrowser/Icecat

2014-08-29 Thread a1716479
localhost5@Localhost:~$ sudo apt-get install icecat --reinstall [sudo] password for localhost5: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you

Re: [Trisquel-users] Problems Installing Abrowser/Icecat

2014-08-29 Thread icaro . perseo
Today I had the same problem. I resolved it in the following manner: First install; sudo apt-get install xul-ext-torproxy tor Then, you need to download the necessary debs from here (lang and arch): http://devel.trisquel.info/icecat/belenos/pool/main/i/icecat/ and install it (one by one)

[Trisquel-users] Learning self-defense

2014-08-29 Thread golyn
Hi guys, Recently I've been really aware of all the risks in privacy (thus, in freedom) one is exposed in todays digital world. Inmediately I thought, There should be a way I can defense myself against these kind of things? and then I found out about ethical hacking for security assesment.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Learning self-defense

2014-08-29 Thread onpon4
You don't need to be a hacker to defend yourself from surveillance. You just need to change some of your practices. For protecting your anonymity when browsing the Web, the best tool is Tor, and the easiest way to get that working properly is to use the Tor Browser Bundle. To use Tor with

Re: [Trisquel-users] Learning self-defense

2014-08-29 Thread mikko . viinamaki
Hey lep! I think that's a very worthy goal. Here's a new nuggets to think about On browser hygiene https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evercookie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Device_fingerprint On hardware backdoors https://www.blackhat.com/html/bh-us-12/bh-us-12-archives.html#Brossard

[Trisquel-users] Free software friendly Gamepads

2014-08-29 Thread franparpe
Greetings ladies and gentlemen. I would like to buy a gamepad for emulators like rpcsx. Of course, I want it to be the most free software friendly as possible. Could you help me? Thank you.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Free software friendly Gamepads

2014-08-29 Thread onpon4
Most are fine. What you mainly need to watch out for is compatibility with Linux. The Linux Joystick Driver works with XInput (the non-standard API used by Xbox 360 controllers), and any USB HID class controllers will of course work (it's a USB standard). The only source of incompatibility

Re: [Trisquel-users] Learning self-defense

2014-08-29 Thread jason
TAILS is a non-free distro. Binary blobs for example which seems odd given the nature of the distro. Please don't recommend non-free distros here.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Learning self-defense

2014-08-29 Thread daniele_argento
There is tails. It's a live distro used by Edward Snowden. I installed it in a USB key, you can bring it with you and use it on every computer you want (if it has the USB option on boot) https://tails.boum.org/

Re: [Trisquel-users] Free software friendly Gamepads

2014-08-29 Thread franparpe
Thank you very much onpon

[Trisquel-users] Problem with steraming video

2014-08-29 Thread drozzord
Hi everybody. I'ma new gnulinux user so please, pardon the ignorance :) Usually I watch docufiction or movie on streaming both for school and hobby. Now with trisquel I'm not able to see streaming video on vidto, freedrive, ecc... I tried with VLC, UnPlug add-ons for firefox and also with

Re: [Trisquel-users] Problems Installing Abrowser/Icecat

2014-08-29 Thread legimet . calc
I have to add the extension packages to the ppa, which I'll do later today. Meanwhile, get the deb package from http://devel.trisquel.info/icecat/toutatis/pool/main/x/xul-ext-torproxy/ and install it. Also, if you want the KDE integration (which I assume you do since you're installing from

[Trisquel-users] Can't believe I missed this, but ODF won in the UK to be default

2014-08-29 Thread tegskywalker
A little while back there was a proposal to let people vote on picking ODF over the Microsoft formats with the majority going for ODF. Of course Microsoft tried to slander the format, but the UK stuck by their guns. Dunno how I missed this earlier, but a big win for open formats:

Re: [Trisquel-users] Problem with steraming video

2014-08-29 Thread onpon4
With Vidto, I didn't have any luck with any of the methods I tried. One more possibility, which I can't try because I don't have Lightspark installed, is to use the Flash Video Downloader extension while Lightspark is playing the Flash object. Lightspark might also be able to play the videos

Re: [Trisquel-users] Can't believe I missed this, but ODF won in the UK to be default

2014-08-29 Thread nux
Weird. It's not like the Tories to get anything right, least of all something pertaining to technology. I'm waiting for the Ahhh, so that's why they did it revelation.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Firefox 27 wont play Bandcamp and Soundcloud

2014-08-29 Thread alexisfick232
If the internal mechanism of the lens so that the amount of manual flash meter to determine the amount of light in the scene. For the best picture quality of an instrument to help the photography equipment to control the brightness of the light.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Can't believe I missed this, but ODF won in the UK to be default

2014-08-29 Thread davesamcdxv
Somehow I'm thinking about what could've been had the UK not decolonised itself yet before this decision..

Re: [Trisquel-users] Learning self-defense

2014-08-29 Thread nux
http://www.cryptogon.com/?p=624

Re: [Trisquel-users] finding particular pages within PDFs

2014-08-29 Thread adel . afzal
MB, having the text would be way more useful than the PDF pages! Thanks for recommending pdftotext and the -layout option. I have some questions -- could you help me break this process down into smaller steps? I looked up pdfjam's split command online -- I think that it may be a little

Re: [Trisquel-users] Learning self-defense

2014-08-29 Thread adel . afzal
proprietary software in a security-oriented distribution ... how bizarre

Re: [Trisquel-users] finding particular pages within PDFs

2014-08-29 Thread legimet . calc
for file in pages/* is a for loop. That means that it will execute the body of the loop for each file in the directory pages/*, setting the variable file to the filename each time. 'if pdftotext $file - | grep -i regexps': the 'pdftotext $file -' part outputs the text of the pdf to

Re: [Trisquel-users] Problem with steraming video

2014-08-29 Thread legimet . calc
Flash Video Downloader is SaaSS I think (didn't verify it), and there's a nonfree eula.txt inside the extension although it says MPL 1.1 on the Mozilla Addons page.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Learning self-defense

2014-08-29 Thread gnuser
I'm sorry, but I believe that must not be correct. According to https://tails.boum.org/doc/about/license/index.en.html all their software is free software, and IIRC they even got rid of TrueCrypt some time ago (because of the issues with it). Also, since this is based on Debian main distro, I

Re: [Trisquel-users] Security Problem

2014-08-29 Thread gnuser
I cannot help you (since I don't have a machine running trisquel at the time) but I would suggest (in terms of security) to use a BIOS password. More effective than OS password.

[Trisquel-users] Security Problem

2014-08-29 Thread mar7829a
Whenever I boot up my laptop which has Trisquel installed, it logs in automatically to my account without asking for my password. I have the settings set to ask for a password on log in so I'm confused why this happens. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Can't believe I missed this, but ODF won in the UK to be default

2014-08-29 Thread joel
Great news! Thanks for the links.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Security Problem

2014-08-29 Thread mikko . viinamaki
Edit as super user /etc/gdm/custom.conf to say AutomaticLoginEnable=false

Re: [Trisquel-users] Learning self-defense

2014-08-29 Thread Andrew Roffey
gnuser wrote: I'm sorry, but I believe that must not be correct. According to https://tails.boum.org/doc/about/license/index.en.html all their software is free software, and IIRC they even got rid of TrueCrypt some time ago (because of the issues with it). Also, since this is based on

Re: [Trisquel-users] Problems Installing Abrowser/Icecat

2014-08-29 Thread a1716479
Ok, so. Icecat is successfully installed! Thank you everyone who helped. I truly haven’t encountered such a helpful Linux community before, not to diss anyone, but you guys have been much more helpful. Following your advice I: ~$ sudo apt-get install xul-ext-torproxy tor [sudo]

Re: [Trisquel-users] Learning self-defense

2014-08-29 Thread 555
read the response to comment 7: https://tails.boum.org/forum/GNU_Award_for_Projects_of_Social_Benefit/ Interesting that TAILS won an FSF award despite the fact that it includes proprietary firmware - i.e., it's not free.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Translation of Trisquel official documentation and elimination of IceCat/Abrowser duplicate extensions

2014-08-29 Thread icaro . perseo
Thank you for appreciating it ;).

Re: [Trisquel-users] Problems Installing Abrowser/Icecat

2014-08-29 Thread Perseo
El sáb, 30-08-2014 a las 03:06 +0200, a1716...@trbvm.com escribió: Ok, so. Icecat is successfully installed! Thank you everyone who helped. I truly haven’t encountered such a helpful Linux community before, not to diss anyone, but you guys have been much more helpful.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Translation of Trisquel official documentation and elimination of IceCat/Abrowser duplicate extensions

2014-08-29 Thread icaro . perseo
Well, here the progress in cleaning up Abrowser/Icecat extensions and themes (First part). https://trisquel.info/en/issues/8176#comment-55992 Admins: Enjoy!!! :P

[Trisquel-users] Re : finding particular pages within PDFs

2014-08-29 Thread magicbanana
See the attachment. You owe me a beer. ;-) An example of use: $ pdf-page-grep *.pdf regexp: GNU OR regexp (empty to stop): [fF]ree OR regexp (empty to stop): matching pages in Agglomerating Local Patterns Hierarchically with ALPHA.pdf: matching pages in A Parameter-Free Associative

Re: [Trisquel-users] Learning self-defense

2014-08-29 Thread jason
Precisely - Too many apply the logic that 'It is a variant of the Debian GNU/Linux distro so it *must* be equally free.' This is not a good place to start from and results in people reaching the wrong conclusion.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Learning self-defense

2014-08-29 Thread blancorasa riseup
On Sat, 2014-08-30 at 03:35 +0200, 5...@verizon.net wrote: read the response to comment 7: https://tails.boum.org/forum/GNU_Award_for_Projects_of_Social_Benefit/ Interesting that TAILS won an FSF award despite the fact that it includes proprietary firmware - i.e., it's not free. Correct

Re: [Trisquel-users] Translation of Trisquel official documentation and elimination of IceCat/Abrowser duplicate extensions

2014-08-29 Thread icaro . perseo
Second part: https://trisquel.info/en/issues/8176#comment-55998

Re: [Trisquel-users] Problems Installing Abrowser/Icecat

2014-08-29 Thread a1716479
Wow, thanks :D

Re: [Trisquel-users] Learning self-defense

2014-08-29 Thread mikko . viinamaki
No it didn't win. And in fact the forum thread says that Tails does ship with proprietary firmwares.