Re: [Trisquel-users] is there freedom in PDF format?

2014-02-06 Thread gramex
Document Viewer is included in Trisquel, and it can read PDFs.

Re: [Trisquel-users] On Open Source Hardware

2014-02-03 Thread gramex
As hardware cannot be copied, the 4 freedoms do not apply to hardware. Should it be called hardware based on free designs?

Re: [Trisquel-users] What's the point of a firewall?

2014-02-02 Thread gramex
Now let's pretend that, by a bit of luck, a black hat hacker[...] Do you mean cracker? http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid#Hacker

[Trisquel-users] On Open Source Hardware

2014-02-02 Thread gramex
I recently got an Arduino[1], and am glad to know that it works with free software. Many shields (Arduino expansion boards) are Open Source Hardware. This is silly because there is no source code for printed circuit boards. It means the schematic is publicly available and the circuit board

Re: [Trisquel-users] Connecting a Lego Mindstorms NXT brick via Bluetooth

2014-01-27 Thread gramex
Have you tested the Bluetooth device on the computer with other devices to make sure it works? I don't know if an NXT can be programmed with only free software. When I had one (version 1.0), it required a very buggy proprietary LabVIEW IDE to program it. I have heard of another way to

Re: [Trisquel-users] [OT] Speaking of fully-free open hardware

2014-01-25 Thread gramex
I really hate it when people abuse JavaS***t Is JS a swear word? :)

Re: [Trisquel-users] ARM support

2014-01-24 Thread gramex
The A10 has 512 MB of RAM and a 1 GHz CPU[1], the A13 has similar specs[2]. [1] https://www.olimex.com/Products/OLinuXino/A10/A10-OLinuXino-LIME/open-source-hardware [2] https://www.olimex.com/Products/OLinuXino/A10/A10-OLinuXino-LIME/open-source-hardware

Re: [Trisquel-users] Permanently switched to Trisquel, have a few questions ...

2014-01-22 Thread gramex
'And lastly, why are block reported attack sites and block reported web forgeries disabled by default inside Abrowser?' As far as I know, Abrowser would have to query a server if a site to be visited is a reported attack site or a forgery, which would reveal your browsing habits to the

Re: [Trisquel-users] Computer not booting properly

2014-01-21 Thread gramex
You can compile linux-libre from source. On my Core 2 Duo (running 32-bit) with 2 GB of RAM, it took about an hour. Wiki page: http://trisquel.info/en/wiki/compiling-gnu-linux-libre-kernel

[Trisquel-users] Freedom status of software written in assembly language

2014-01-20 Thread gramex
I know that writing software in assembly language is no trivial matter, but would that make the program nonfree, because there is no source code apart from the binary? Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure that the assembly language can be derived from the binary.

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

2014-01-20 Thread gramex
Here's a torrent version of linux-sunxi-libre-3.4.75.tar.bz2. Please seed! magnet:?xt=urn:btih:1070a71f0dc1abd2327dfb66b9240f393f1a0b08dn=linux-sunxi-libre-3.4.75.tar.bz2tr=http%3A%2F%2Ftorrent.gresille.org%2Fannouncetr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.leechers-paradise.org%3A6969%2Fannounce

Re: [Trisquel-users] Installing packages without internet connection

2014-01-20 Thread gramex
Instead of dpkg, you can install gdebi, a GUI based package installer. You will have to connect to a Trisquel repo once to install it, though. http://packages.trisquel.info/toutatis/gdebi

Re: [Trisquel-users] Apertium Overload

2014-01-16 Thread gramex
Would it be better to contact Apertium?

Re: [Trisquel-users] gluglug thinkpad x60 w/ coreboot mini review

2014-01-16 Thread gramex
What is a userspace driver? Also, have you published the drivers anywhere for others to use?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Delayed Public Domain Dedication

2014-01-16 Thread gramex
Hello? Anyone there? :)

[Trisquel-users] Delayed Public Domain Dedication

2014-01-14 Thread gramex
How would I do a delayed Public Domain dedication on a copyrighted work? In the copyright notice of the Advanced Shell Scripting Guide (at the bottom of the page), it says: The author intends that this book be released into the Public Domain after a period of 14 years from initial

Re: [Trisquel-users] securing trisquel

2014-01-13 Thread gramex
How do I disable/remove the ssh server? I'd prefer to disable it.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Firewall in Trisquel?

2014-01-13 Thread gramex
DuckDuckGo shows the query in the URL by default, even using HTTPS. In the settings you can change it to hide the query. The URL showing the query would look something like this: https://duckduckgo.com/q=baby20%kittens

Re: [Trisquel-users] securing trisquel

2014-01-13 Thread gramex
After restarting my computer, why do I still see a process called ssh-agent running?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Firewall in Trisquel?

2014-01-13 Thread gramex
How do I make gufw start with the computer?

Re: [Trisquel-users] VLC Media Player - free or not?

2014-01-13 Thread gramex
On this forum many people said that VLC is not free. Could you link to that?

Re: [Trisquel-users] VLC Media Player - free or not?

2014-01-13 Thread gramex
It must be different now. That thread was from five years ago.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Considering Trisquel. I Have Questions

2014-01-13 Thread gramex
If visitors to the site don't enter through the libre.thinkpenguin.com link (just thinkpenguin.com), any computers ordered will be sent with Ubuntu instead of Trisquel by default.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Text to speech

2014-01-09 Thread gramex
Can you attach the shell script in a .gz file? I get a 403 (Forbidden) when I try to download shell scripts from Trisquel's web site.

Re: [Trisquel-users] AMD K6-2 Support

2014-01-06 Thread gramex
Download Trisquel 6.0.1 instead. It should work without PAE. http://devel.trisquel.info/makeiso/iso/

Re: [Trisquel-users] BT backdoors

2014-01-05 Thread gramex
What does BT stand for?

Re: [Trisquel-users] You might be using a google name server

2014-01-05 Thread gramex
@Datenknecht Following your instructions worked, after I restarted. I replaced them with some OpenNIC servers.

Re: [Trisquel-users] 6.0.1 Ready For Testing

2014-01-01 Thread gramex
Who can authorize these torrents for Trisquel's torrent tracker?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Mouse and External Hard Drive that RYF

2014-01-01 Thread gramex
How could the HDD hardware access the internet? It could only be done by some software installed on the computer itself.

Re: [Trisquel-users] new to netinstall

2013-12-29 Thread gramex
To install a program with apt-get, use the command sudo apt-get install programnamehere.

Re: [Trisquel-users] LightDM installer script

2013-12-29 Thread gramex
I get a 403 (Forbidden) error when trying to download the script. Compress it with gzip first. (lightdm.sh.gz)

Re: [Trisquel-users] A laptop earns FSF Respects Your Freedom certificate

2013-12-28 Thread gramex
Is there any special model of X60 required to install libre coreboot?

Re: [Trisquel-users] upgrade xfce?

2013-12-28 Thread gramex
What's the license for the script?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Front end for qrencode

2013-12-27 Thread gramex
I'm trying to upload qrgui to Gitorious, but when I enter this in the terminal: x@Inspiron-Libre:~/git/qrgui$ git push -u origin master I get this error: Read from socket failed: Connection reset by peer fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly I checked, and Git is trying to connect to

Re: [Trisquel-users] 6.0.1 Ready For Testing

2013-12-27 Thread gramex
The torrents on the http://devel.trisquel.info/makeiso/iso/ page don't work. The Transmission error message says: Tracker gave an error: Requested download is not authorized for use with this tracker. I see that the torrent is set to use the normal Trisquel torrent tracker,

Re: [Trisquel-users] Has development on Trisquel 7 started?

2013-12-26 Thread gramex
How many gigabytes is Trisquel's Git repo?

Re: [Trisquel-users] sound not working with headphones

2013-12-26 Thread gramex
Try unmuting it with the headphones plugged in. There may be different volume settings for the PC speakers and the headphones.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Problem with Photosmart c3180

2013-12-26 Thread gramex
Can you insert the printer into http://h-node.org ?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Problem with Photosmart c3180

2013-12-26 Thread gramex
Click on the add link on this page: http://h-node.org/printers/catalogue/en Even if it's not worth using that printer with free software, it's still a good idea to add it so others know that it doesn't work too well. (Here's the list of printers that don't work at all with free software.

Re: [Trisquel-users] trisquel-libreplanet-2013 download and streaming link is dead ?

2013-12-23 Thread gramex
It's been three days. I can't believe transcoding would take this long.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel team keep up the good work

2013-12-23 Thread gramex
What are the major changes from CC 3.0 to CC 4.0?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Proprietary software as result of psychological problems

2013-12-23 Thread gramex
I consider liberation funds to be unethical. Are you talking about crowdfunding? I have written a program but have never released it. I will release it under the GNU GPL if you (the crowd) can raise $100,000. Is this what you mean? Nothing seems wrong about it to me.

Re: [Trisquel-users] My conceptual problem with my computer.

2013-12-23 Thread gramex
POSIX-type operating systems are very complicated.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Front end for qrencode

2013-12-23 Thread gramex
If I run this, the dialog boxes pop up and work, but nothing gets saved. The script ends with this message: ./qrgui: line 21: (I'm not copying the script line for line; it means the line with qrencode on it.) qrencode: command not found. I know that qrencode is installed; I just used it on

Re: [Trisquel-users] Free Clarendon!

2013-12-23 Thread gramex
What is special about Clarendon?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Front end for qrencode

2013-12-23 Thread gramex
It works now. I can't understand why that would make a difference. Is my shell script looking for qrencode in the working directory?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Front end for qrencode

2013-12-23 Thread gramex
I have qrgui working now. I'll do some final polishing, then post the final version.

Re: [Trisquel-users] My conceptual problem with my computer.

2013-12-22 Thread gramex
proprietary MS-DOS... There is FreeDOS, but I heard it relies upon a proprietary compiler.

Re: [Trisquel-users] My conceptual problem with my computer.

2013-12-22 Thread gramex
1.I must understand how it works under hood. My understanding must vary from very abstract concepts to detail comprehension of every cogwheel, according to my needs. 2.If I encounter a problem, then I should be able to solve it on my own, without help of other people. In ideal, even

Re: [Trisquel-users] A laptop earns FSF Respects Your Freedom certificate

2013-12-22 Thread gramex
http://www.gluglug.org.uk/contact/ The form requires a name, but you can use a fake one, such as Sudo Nymn.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Has development on Trisquel 7 started?

2013-12-22 Thread gramex
It's the administrator forum account, I think.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Why block Tor even for browsing?

2013-12-21 Thread gramex
I don't think it should be blocked even if it was nonfree software. It would just be like trisquel.info blocking Internet Explorer because it's proprietary.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Is ethic really good argument for FLOSS?

2013-12-21 Thread gramex
Quakers are a strict sect of Christians. Most Christians are not Quakers. What is fatalism?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Front end for qrencode

2013-12-21 Thread gramex
I can't seem to get the output from the zenity dialog box into the read [variable here] command.

Re: [Trisquel-users] RMS, in 2001, talked about a 1999 NSA backdoor in MS server software

2013-12-21 Thread gramex
It sounds familiar to me, but I don't have a link.

Re: [Trisquel-users] A laptop earns FSF Respects Your Freedom certificate

2013-12-20 Thread gramex
All the recent Intel X86 laptops are too hard to liberate How recent? 2010?

Re: [Trisquel-users] trisquel-libreplanet-2013 download and streaming link is dead ?

2013-12-20 Thread gramex
I thought I uploaded it to gobblin.se, but it doesn't show up in my profile, or on the main page.

Re: [Trisquel-users] A laptop earns FSF Respects Your Freedom certificate

2013-12-20 Thread gramex
How much is that in USD?

Re: [Trisquel-users] The install script for libdvdcss

2013-12-20 Thread gramex
http://trisquel.info/en/wiki/enable-dvd-playback How fast is that? :-)

Re: [Trisquel-users] A laptop earns FSF Respects Your Freedom certificate

2013-12-20 Thread gramex
How hard/easy is it to DIY a coreboot X60?

Re: [Trisquel-users] The install script for libdvdcss

2013-12-20 Thread gramex
I grabbed this from /usr/share/doc/libdvdread4/install-css.sh.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Has development on Trisquel 7 started?

2013-12-20 Thread gramex
Rubén Rodríguez is the main developer of Trisquel.

Re: [Trisquel-users] A laptop earns FSF Respects Your Freedom certificate

2013-12-20 Thread gramex
Perhaps Lemote never tried to get them certified. Anyway, they are to hard to obtain.

Re: [Trisquel-users] I bought a Replicant/Cyanogenmod-incompatible Android phone.

2013-12-20 Thread gramex
http://wiki.cyanogenmod.org/w/Doc:_porting_intro

Re: [Trisquel-users] Is ethic really good argument for FLOSS?

2013-12-20 Thread gramex
Christians believe that man has a free will, not that people are puppets in the hands of God.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Front end for qrencode

2013-12-20 Thread gramex
I'm just bumping this thread so it doesn't lock.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Forum moderation

2013-12-19 Thread gramex
Users who want to promote proprietary software can go to the many other proprietary software forums and promote it there.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Is ethic really good argument for FLOSS?

2013-12-19 Thread gramex
Ethics is the whole point of Free Software.

Re: [Trisquel-users] New RPM-based fully free system distribution

2013-12-19 Thread gramex
What's better about CentOS? As far as I know, CentOS is rebranded, has RHEL's proprietary software removed, and you can get gratis binaries.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Merry Grav-mass!

2013-12-19 Thread gramex
Grav-mass is an atheistic movement I find that strange; Isaac Newton was a Christian.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Merry Grav-mass!

2013-12-19 Thread gramex
That's why I think it's ironic!

Re: [Trisquel-users] Migration from Ubuntu 13.10 (Saucy) to Trisquel 6.0 (Toutatis)

2013-12-17 Thread gramex
Can you put this post under a free license?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Compile Abrowser for Windows and OS X

2013-12-17 Thread gramex
So... MinGW is a free compiler for windows executables?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Changing system fonts (especially monospace)

2013-12-17 Thread gramex
I just made this a couple of hours ago. https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/change-user-interface-fonts

Re: [Trisquel-users] Forum moderation

2013-12-17 Thread gramex
I made this issue several days ago because of other annoying users which should be banned (vPro) http://trisquel.info/en/issues/10727

Re: [Trisquel-users] Problem with File Browser

2013-12-17 Thread gramex
Did you try restarting your computer?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Forum moderation

2013-12-17 Thread gramex
What about users like me, who either have or had questions about free software? Would that be forbidden, too? I think some of this type of discussion is necessary. For mailing list users who can't see HTML links:

Re: [Trisquel-users] Proprietary software as result of psychological problems

2013-12-17 Thread gramex
Get a job. ;)

Re: [Trisquel-users] Proprietary software as result of psychological problems

2013-12-17 Thread gramex
More seriously, sell support for free software, whether you wrote it or not, or do it as a side activity. It's not a very realistic scenario where someone can't get a job delivering pizza, or be a janitor, etc., but can be a (proprietary) software developer.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Migration from Ubuntu 13.10 (Saucy) to Trisquel 6.0 (Toutatis)

2013-12-16 Thread gramex
Quit trolling, dudeski.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Home on LVM

2013-12-16 Thread gramex
Bump!

Re: [Trisquel-users] Compile Abrowser for Windows and OS X

2013-12-16 Thread gramex
How would one compile Abrowser for Win32? Is the upstream source for Firefox for Windows different then the code for Firefox on GNU/Linux?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Think Penguin Laptop Questions

2013-12-16 Thread gramex
You can ask Thinkpenguin. Chris, the CEO of Thinkpenguin, took extra pictures of a computer for me when I asked. https://www.thinkpenguin.com/contact

Re: [Trisquel-users] Compile Abrowser for Windows and OS X

2013-12-16 Thread gramex
Does Mozilla have a tutorial on compiling Firefox for Windows?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Free Trisquel Wallpepers

2013-12-15 Thread gramex
The download doesn't seem to work without nonfree JavaScript. http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html

Re: [Trisquel-users] Gnome shell privacy issue : Auto answering voice and video calls

2013-12-15 Thread gramex
Even if it's not a bug, it's an antifeature, and it should be removed.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Gnome shell privacy issue : Auto answering voice and video calls

2013-12-15 Thread gramex
Anandawardhana, can you check in the settings if this feature can be disabled?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Free Trisquel Wallpepers

2013-12-15 Thread gramex
Dadix, you can upload them to http://gobblin.se , a MediaGoblin[0] instance. The accounts there are free, (gratis) and MediaGoblin is free software, so that means all the JavaScript is free.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Gnome shell privacy issue : Auto answering voice and video calls

2013-12-15 Thread gramex
Then it's not a bug, but I agree; it should be disabled by default.

[Trisquel-users] DVD Authoring

2013-12-15 Thread gramex
Hi everyone; does anyone know of a GUI based DVD authoring program? I know of dvdauthor, but that seems too difficult to use.

Re: [Trisquel-users] DVD Authoring

2013-12-15 Thread gramex
I want to make a DVD without a menu, in the MPEG2 format, because that is standard.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Free Trisquel Wallpepers

2013-12-15 Thread gramex
You can upload them to MediaGoblin as an attachment.

Re: [Trisquel-users] DVD Authoring

2013-12-15 Thread gramex
How do I convert a Theora video into MPEG2?

Re: [Trisquel-users] malware

2013-12-15 Thread gramex
http://trisquel.info/en/forum/careful-ppa Is this just FUD?

Re: [Trisquel-users] DVD Authoring

2013-12-15 Thread gramex
VLC converts video?

Re: [Trisquel-users] DVD Authoring

2013-12-15 Thread gramex
I used DVD Styler to make a DVD of Patent Absurdity[0], complete with a menu! Do you think Patent Absurdity wants the ISO? It's yet another way to watch it. [0] http://patentabsurdity.com

Re: [Trisquel-users] Are you tired of seeing rm: remove regular file foo when using rm?

2013-12-14 Thread gramex
I think that it's too easy to accidentally remove the wrong file without the confirm prompt.

[Trisquel-users] License of Abrowser texture

2013-12-13 Thread gramex
Does anyone know what license the dark texture is under on the right side of the screenshot? I want to use it as a background texture for my website. You can see it in Abrowser by right-clicking on some text, then select the menu option Inspect Element (Q), then clicking on the Responsive

Re: [Trisquel-users] Hypothetical licensing question

2013-12-13 Thread gramex
If program X is licensed like this: I meant program foobar.

Re: [Trisquel-users] freedom friendly netbook

2013-12-13 Thread gramex
Chromebooks already run coreboot.

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