Re: [Trisquel-users] Update Manager Not Working

2014-10-03 Thread dhood
My update manager has been greyed out for about two weeks making it unusable. Adding to the issue running update via Terminal failed as well, it would simply check for updates, and then do nothing. Per MYself's post I tried synaptic which for some odd reason had not occured to me to try

[Trisquel-users] is there an offline translator for trisquel?

2014-10-03 Thread adel . afzal
One that can translate sentences and paragraphs, and not just one word at a time. I'd like to use it for (English to/from) Chinese (simplified and traditional) and Spanish.

[Trisquel-users] Address book questions (Gnome Contact)

2014-10-03 Thread garsmith
I have a couple of questions regarding the address book. I do not use any online services. 1. I use Gnome (3.12 right now) and want to use a clean installation as possible. I want to use Gnome Contacts (Evolution Database Server, EDS?) and sync Thunderbird to that address book database. I

[Trisquel-users] Good free website hosting

2014-10-03 Thread riftyful
Hello! I am looking for a website that can provide a decent web hosting. I don't even really specially need web hosting, I need to make an online website with some pages, text, images and files to download. I used Wordpress at 000webhost, but my IP got reported as spam bot and now I have

Re: [Trisquel-users] Good free website hosting

2014-10-03 Thread myself600
What about WordPress.com? I doesn't have any personal experience with it though.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Update Manager Not Working

2014-10-03 Thread legimet . calc
That's normal behavior if you ran apt-get update. It just updates its database. You have to run apt-get dist-upgrade to upgrade everything.

[Trisquel-users] Adding a 3rd monitor?

2014-10-03 Thread webmaster
I've got a 3rd monitor which is connected to an older graphics card (I grabbed that from my older computer). Both graphics cards is detected, I can see them if I type lspci. When I run xrandr, it shows all displays, but the 3rd monitor is disabled. My question is, how do I enable it?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Good free website hosting

2014-10-03 Thread riftyful
No custom design for the free version... well, that is not ideal, but it would be sufficient. I am a little worried about lack of customization, though. I prefer not having too many restrictions (By that I mean, the service offers a lot of them, but most of them are not offered for the free

Re: [Trisquel-users] Good free website hosting

2014-10-03 Thread myself600
Well, you can use ShoutWiki if you don't mind using a wiki style interface filled with some ads (ad-free if you'll gonna pay for it). Since it's based on MediaWiki, it'll allow you to customize your site through CSS so the potential for customization is practically endless (see Wikipedia vs.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Update Manager Not Working

2014-10-03 Thread noordinaryspider
Thanks, lembas; my lappy is all pretty now and I have some new brain food. :D I must have just downloaded the patch and missed the sudo patch -d /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages -p1 remove-format-args.patch the first time. Better get over myself and get used to leaving Orca running until

[Trisquel-users] does http://libdlo.freedesktop.org respect your freedom

2014-10-03 Thread arielgnu
Hello every one: I'm planing on buying a usb touch screen mini monitor from http://www.mimomonitors.com I read there that their monitor works on linux (they ment to say gnu/linux ;) thanks to an open source implementation (http://libdlo.freedesktop.org) libdlo says it's A fully open

Re: [Trisquel-users] does http://libdlo.freedesktop.org respect your freedom

2014-10-03 Thread Michał Masłowski
I haven't found any obvious blobs in the drivers, it looks free. Check if it works and supports the features that you need: someone who has that hardware should be able to tell you, and that it is being maintained and won't get orphaned while you use the device. pgpnOKOlICTdZ.pgp Description:

Re: [Trisquel-users] Good free website hosting

2014-10-03 Thread ken
The custom design is overblown, anyway. There are one or two things I would customize on my WordPress blog, but there is a theme for virtually every purpose imaginable, and you could easily find something that does almost exactly what you want. Especially if all you want is a simple website

Re: [Trisquel-users] Good free website hosting

2014-10-03 Thread davidvargas1
Good information,, I'm going to try them out. Thank You

Re: [Trisquel-users] does http://libdlo.freedesktop.org respect your freedom

2014-10-03 Thread arielgnu
Thank you Michal. I will.

Re: [Trisquel-users] US Patent Office Grants 'Photography Against A White Background' To Amazon

2014-10-03 Thread gramex
Sorry, I forgot...

Re: [Trisquel-users] US Patent Office Grants 'Photography Against A White Background' To Amazon

2014-10-03 Thread Andrew Lindley
From: gra...@openmailbox.org Sorry, I forgot... Don't worry about it, neither of the two incidences (one is lower and isn't yours) actually make me look as boring or as foolish as I actually am :-).

Re: [Trisquel-users] Good free website hosting

2014-10-03 Thread Eric Duhamel
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Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel Enhancement Project reaches version 0.1 alpha milestone

2014-10-03 Thread zatroch
Awesome man; and thanks for the indirect tip on Openmailbox project! ;D Time to get rid of Google Inc. remnants.. Footnote: PopcornTime hosts now its sources due to geopolitical agenda in their own Git repo and since version 3.3 Beta it requires the host to have ttf-mscorefonts-installer

Re: [Trisquel-users] Good free website hosting

2014-10-03 Thread ericxdu23
Apparently I have no idea how this mailing list works

Re: [Trisquel-users] Good free website hosting

2014-10-03 Thread webmaster
Why is my post from another forum thread + my e-mail in there?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Good free website hosting

2014-10-03 Thread ericxdu23
I've been using openshift.com to host my website. It's by Red Hat and runs on free software. For a simple website choose the diy cartridge and you must use SSH keys and git on your local machine to manage and upload your web pages, documents, and media into the app root. The free account