Re: [Trisquel-users] unetbootin fork

2015-02-21 Thread tomlukeywood
heres the source code

[Trisquel-users] unetbootin fork

2015-02-21 Thread tomlukeywood
hi i made a fork of unetbootin that replaces the non-free distros you can download with all the distros here: https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.html the reason why i made this was unetbootin is not included in trisquel as it makes it very easy to install a non-free distro like Ubuntu

Re: [Trisquel-users] Spying software hidden deep within hard drives made by Western Digital, Seagate, Toshiba and other top manufacturers

2015-02-21 Thread tomlukeywood
Take pen and paper, there you go; problem solved. you could just use a offline computer with no wifi or bluetooth card

Re: [Trisquel-users] unetbootin fork

2015-02-21 Thread tomlukeywood
what warning message should i put? i made a test warning:

Re: [Trisquel-users] unetbootin fork

2015-02-21 Thread tomlukeywood
if i am going to include debian i think i have a good warning message:

Re: [Trisquel-users] Spying software hidden deep within hard drives made by Western Digital, Seagate, Toshiba and other top manufacturers

2015-02-21 Thread tomlukeywood
i guess get a non modem-ed motherboard with no wifi blue-tooth etc and never have it online :(

Re: [Trisquel-users] X200s: Libreboot with Linux-libre payload?

2015-02-21 Thread tomlukeywood
i found this page on the coreboot wiki: http://www.coreboot.org/Payloads coreboot is just libreboot but with non-free blobs so as long as you make sure your not installing non-free software the info on here is relevant to libreboot

Re: [Trisquel-users] X200s: Libreboot with Linux-libre payload?

2015-02-21 Thread tomlukeywood
i found this page on the coreboot wiki: http://www.coreboot.org/Payloads coreboot is just libreboot but with non-free blobs so as long as you make sure your not installing non-free software the info on here is relevant to libreboot

Re: [Trisquel-users] installing libreboot on a x60 thinkpad

2015-02-20 Thread tomlukeywood
i have has success! i got it to boot to a usb the mistake i made was using unetbootin to make a live usb stick make sure you follow the instructions here: http://libreboot.org/docs/gnulinux/grub_boot_installer.html

Re: [Trisquel-users] Reddit will be giving 10% of their ad revenue to charities based on user voting. Make sure you vote!

2015-02-19 Thread tomlukeywood
damm i missed it :(

Re: [Trisquel-users] Spying software hidden deep within hard drives made by Western Digital, Seagate, Toshiba and other top manufacturers

2015-02-19 Thread tomlukeywood
i use fast-mail with ice-dove there privacy policy seems good: https://www.fastmail.com/about/privacy.html

Re: [Trisquel-users] Reddit will be giving 10% of their ad revenue to charities based on user voting. Make sure you vote!

2015-02-19 Thread tomlukeywood
your account must be created before 2015-02-18 to participate in the voting process!

Re: [Trisquel-users] client side search engine?

2015-02-19 Thread tomlukeywood
Extremism of any kind has never once worked out well please define extremism

Re: [Trisquel-users] Reddit will be giving 10% of their ad revenue to charities based on user voting. Make sure you vote!

2015-02-19 Thread tomlukeywood
i am from the uk and reddit works fine but i heard a lot of isp's sky, BT broadband, talk-talk etc have been blocking porn sites by default and you have to turn the filter off

Re: [Trisquel-users] Free website making

2015-02-18 Thread tomlukeywood
why would a isp block me?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Spying software hidden deep within hard drives made by Western Digital, Seagate, Toshiba and other top manufacturers

2015-02-18 Thread tomlukeywood
floppy controllers in the 1980's would not have internet spyware as there was no internet i guess the same with HDD's

Re: [Trisquel-users] Kernel panics

2015-02-18 Thread tomlukeywood
if ram is a problem trisquel mini will run on 128mb of ram here are the minimum system requirements: https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/system-requirements

Re: [Trisquel-users] client side search engine?

2015-02-18 Thread tomlukeywood
Worse, when a page changes you'd have to download a whole index again. why? if you download it from a server the server could check which pages have changed and only send those to the text file you definitely would not have to download the hole thing again without even containing the full

Re: [Trisquel-users] Free website making

2015-02-18 Thread tomlukeywood
my cat will login to your router with ssh and run rm -r /*

Re: [Trisquel-users] Free website making

2015-02-18 Thread tomlukeywood
the loxley valley protection society(i host there website) has recived death threats before and there not liked by some big businesses can pepole pay isp's to block websites?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Spying software hidden deep within hard drives made by Western Digital, Seagate, Toshiba and other top manufacturers

2015-02-18 Thread tomlukeywood
i was

Re: [Trisquel-users] Free website making

2015-02-18 Thread tomlukeywood
ordd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda

Re: [Trisquel-users] client side search engine?

2015-02-18 Thread tomlukeywood
it would still be enough for a good search engine and you could update it every few weeks

Re: [Trisquel-users] remember the Samsung Galaxy backdoor?

2015-02-17 Thread tomlukeywood
i think that while there is no genrel discussion forum this is the only place were posts get noticed so if there’s something important like a Samsung backdoor its fine to post it here

Re: [Trisquel-users] remember the Samsung Galaxy backdoor?

2015-02-17 Thread tomlukeywood
please explain the negative effect of this post

Re: [Trisquel-users] google analytics everywhere

2015-02-17 Thread tomlukeywood
people in charge of web sites don't care about revealing private information of their users to a monopoly i would replace the world all with alot for example the fsf privacy policy: https://www.fsf.org/about/free-software-foundation-privacy-policy I block Google Analytics with No Script why

Re: [Trisquel-users] client side search engine?

2015-02-17 Thread tomlukeywood
i have 16gb ram i will try yacy

Re: [Trisquel-users] Free website making

2015-02-17 Thread tomlukeywood
if you do use JavaScript please make your website usable without it i disable automatically run javascript as it can be a security issue also i don’t think that a program libre or not should be run without the users permission most of the time websites dont need javascript anyway if you want

Re: [Trisquel-users] Spying software hidden deep within hard drives made by Western Digital, Seagate, Toshiba and other top manufacturers

2015-02-17 Thread tomlukeywood
:( i guess ill go back to floppy disks

Re: [Trisquel-users] client side search engine?

2015-02-17 Thread tomlukeywood
If you're searching an index, it's *somebody's* index. whats wrong with that you just download the text file you do not have to let that someone know what your searching why would searching a text index take a long time? The data itself isn't really available without crawling the whole web it

Re: [Trisquel-users] Wa can change, but not in one day

2015-02-17 Thread tomlukeywood
also all the software on steam is non-free and that in itself it a reason not to use it

Re: [Trisquel-users] google analytics everywhere

2015-02-17 Thread tomlukeywood
ublock works fine but when i installed clean links it didn’t seem to help this is the url in my browser: https://www.google.co.uk/?gfe_rd=crei=zh3jVN_oHob98wfA9oGQDA BTW i don’t use Google it was just as a example

Re: [Trisquel-users] Free website making

2015-02-17 Thread tomlukeywood
@tomlukeywood - neither of your websites render in any of my 6 browsers. Check them with Dillo to find the needed corrections. Best wishes to you. this is not good dose it load on firefox? i only use html and css this is me using lots of diffrent browsers on it:

Re: [Trisquel-users] google analytics everywhere

2015-02-16 Thread tomlukeywood
i use icecat with JavaScript disabled ad block edge(libre) grease monkey(libre) with some libre scripts to watch youtube https everywhere and the libre speed dial plug-in(libre mpl)

Re: [Trisquel-users] Wa can change, but not in one day

2015-02-16 Thread tomlukeywood
if you install a little bit proprietary software on your system, you will install more and more, and more. this is not always the case i had a few blobs (wifi and gpu) and minecraft on my old system but i eventually got rid of them when i got a externel wifi card and made a sacrifice with

Re: [Trisquel-users] Purism computer (possibly as free as FSF encourage)

2015-02-16 Thread tomlukeywood
if this laptop is libre it looks amazing!

Re: [Trisquel-users] Happy Valentines Day everyone!

2015-02-15 Thread tomlukeywood
you went to space?

Re: [Trisquel-users] How to enable bluetooth?

2015-02-15 Thread tomlukeywood
so just to up this post if theirs anyone who could help pogiako please do!

Re: [Trisquel-users] apt-get update question

2015-02-15 Thread tomlukeywood
or even better a libre bios as well: http://shop.gluglug.org.uk/

Re: [Trisquel-users] occupygpl.org wants to make copyleft licenses go away

2015-02-15 Thread tomlukeywood
is this trolling or is this your opinion? if it is can you not see that by stopping developers harming people’s freedom everyone is free and that they must respect others freedom to keep it this way

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel 7.0 is unable to detect CD, DVD etc.

2015-02-15 Thread tomlukeywood
when you run gnome disks is it detected?

Re: [Trisquel-users] How to enable bluetooth?

2015-02-14 Thread tomlukeywood
is this a usb bluetooth device or internel?

Re: [Trisquel-users] apt-get update question

2015-02-14 Thread tomlukeywood
if i ran apt-get update and saw that i would faint then wake up then move my computer far away and drop a bomb on it NOTICE: if your a mass surveillance system please note the sarcasm!!!

Re: [Trisquel-users] Tweaks to optimize user friendliness

2015-02-14 Thread tomlukeywood
Libre office calc is good but for a slower pc gnumeric looks good:

Re: [Trisquel-users] Tweaks to optimize user friendliness

2015-02-14 Thread tomlukeywood
when i run apt-get autoremove this is the output: root@trisquel7-gnu-linux:/home/tom# apt-get autoremove gnumeric Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages will be REMOVED gnome-desktop-data gnumeric gnumeric-common

Re: [Trisquel-users] Eric S. Raymond Calls LLVM The Superior Compiler To GCC and defending GCC is futile

2015-02-14 Thread tomlukeywood
and it just so happens to be a awesome compile as well!

Re: [Trisquel-users] How to enable bluetooth?

2015-02-14 Thread tomlukeywood
what is the name off your blue-tooth card? so i can check if it dose work with libre software

Re: [Trisquel-users] apt-get update question

2015-02-14 Thread tomlukeywood
if you format your disk or install trisquel again google will be away but i dont think you have to do that please post the output to this commandls /etc/apt/sources.list.d/

Re: [Trisquel-users] Eric S. Raymond Calls LLVM The Superior Compiler To GCC and defending GCC is futile

2015-02-14 Thread tomlukeywood
is by reading it's documentation and understand it. do you know of any tutorials for gnu assembler aimed at people who are new to assembly? they all seem to be for nasm

Re: [Trisquel-users] How to enable bluetooth?

2015-02-14 Thread tomlukeywood
i found 2 pages on the ubuntu forums with pepole that seemed to have the same have the same device that was not working: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2254759 http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2231813 but the only solution seems to be installing non-free software if this is the

Re: [Trisquel-users] Eric S. Raymond Calls LLVM The Superior Compiler To GCC and defending GCC is futile

2015-02-14 Thread tomlukeywood
why?

Re: [Trisquel-users] apt-get update question

2015-02-14 Thread tomlukeywood
do you know how you got the google-chrome.list file in the first place?

Re: [Trisquel-users] How to enable bluetooth?

2015-02-14 Thread tomlukeywood
i think your right

Re: [Trisquel-users] apt-get update question

2015-02-14 Thread tomlukeywood
just to point out the fact that chrome is non-free software

Re: [Trisquel-users] Happy Valentines Day everyone!

2015-02-14 Thread tomlukeywood
the ubuntu phone advertising makes it look so much like a iphone! a trisquel libre smart-phone os would be a great thing for the libre software community if it could happen but the chances are there would be a lot of non-free drivers to replace so it might be a while before it was usable with

Re: [Trisquel-users] Youtube Ditches Flash, and it Hardly Matters: Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss

2015-02-14 Thread tomlukeywood
i think its fine to have posts related to libre software on trisquel forms as much of the purpose of trisquel is to make a fully free gnu/linux distro so this is relevant

Re: [Trisquel-users] Tweaks to optimize user friendliness

2015-02-13 Thread tomlukeywood
i recommend pastebin.com

Re: [Trisquel-users] Tweaks to optimize user friendliness

2015-02-13 Thread tomlukeywood
If you prefer Claws, it is about three clicks away in the Synaptic package manager (also installed by default). i counted a minimum of 8 clicks

Re: [Trisquel-users] Woah! My Bluetooth driver now works!

2015-02-13 Thread tomlukeywood
i had the same experiance with my laptop and wifi one day i just ran apt-get upgrade and my wifi started working! thats for whoever made this laptop's wifi work!:

Re: [Trisquel-users] I am looking to build my first computer.

2015-02-13 Thread tomlukeywood
if the wifi requires non-free software thats not a good thing not too hard to replace with a libre wifi card but still there a quite a few people (like myself about 6 months ago) that would just install the non-free wifi blob the GPU is not as big a problem as it will still run but only without

Re: [Trisquel-users] Tweaks to optimize user friendliness

2015-02-13 Thread tomlukeywood
my first pc was a very very slow computer running windows 200 i think that my dads school(he was a teacher) didn’t want anymore i was 6 so i don’t remember much though apart from the fact i was very disappointed :( and i didn’t know what lxde was at the time the second pc i owned was a 2gb ram

Re: [Trisquel-users] Tweaks to optimize user friendliness

2015-02-13 Thread tomlukeywood
i assume you are expressing your value in ASCII if so it would be 99 a lot more than the minimum clicks for claws mail on a LXDE desktop environment would be however if the firmware in the mouse was programed to only send a value to the operating system letting it know the mouse was clicked if

Re: [Trisquel-users] RMS:There's A Systematic Effort To Attack GNU Packages:

2015-02-12 Thread tomlukeywood
why would someone make a anti GPL site and not a anti EULA site? -.-

Re: [Trisquel-users] Brother DCP-7055 printer

2015-02-12 Thread tomlukeywood
i will post a video of me doing it soon just give me a few minits!

Re: [Trisquel-users] Tweaks to optimize user friendliness

2015-02-12 Thread tomlukeywood
if you want something more office like than leafpad Abiword is a good light-weight libre program: http://www.abisource.com/screenshots/

Re: [Trisquel-users] occupygpl.org wants to make copyleft licenses go away

2015-02-12 Thread tomlukeywood
yes it gives power to everyone and not one person or one company the GPL is simply put your free to do whatever you want with this program but on condition you do the same for everyone else that’s what copyleft is it makes sure its always free/libre

Re: [Trisquel-users] Brother DCP-7055 printer

2015-02-12 Thread tomlukeywood
Now I haven't installed a printer in like... 15 years in linux i am assuming you mean gnu/linux

Re: [Trisquel-users] I am looking to build my first computer.

2015-02-11 Thread tomlukeywood
from the inatux page: We can build systems with Coreboot as the BIOS, but there will be some limitations they can flash coreboot but coreboot by default contains some non-free blobs so it might not be a fully free bios it would still be better than the completely non-free bios that comes

Re: [Trisquel-users] My family has smart TVs and I am scared.

2015-02-11 Thread tomlukeywood
i dont know if they would sell it as in some countries include the usa by law the data must be given to the security agencys like the NSA

Re: [Trisquel-users] Question about thinkpenguin:

2015-02-11 Thread tomlukeywood
I booted into Linux from grub within 5 seconds the linux kernel was loaded but most of the system you loaded was gnu thats why its best to call it gnu/linux

Re: [Trisquel-users] very good documentary

2015-02-11 Thread tomlukeywood
on future reflection this should be in the troll hole as its not too do with trisquel please someone down-vote this post

Re: [Trisquel-users] very good documentary

2015-02-11 Thread tomlukeywood
if you use torrents i am fairly sure your ip address is still reviled but if you want to stay anonymous while getting this film use a live cd on a laptop with no permanent storage at all outside your house using tor

Re: [Trisquel-users] My family has smart TVs and I am scared.

2015-02-10 Thread tomlukeywood
the problem is not completely gone it could still monitor what your watching getting into the computer isn’t too easy also also i have heard its possible to turn speakers into microphones

Re: [Trisquel-users] RMS:There's A Systematic Effort To Attack GNU Packages:

2015-02-10 Thread tomlukeywood
it looks like Apple Google and nivadia based on the email addresses in this CODE_OWNERS.txt file: http://pastebin.com/hDxizadv i uploaded it to paste-bin it wasn’t there already

[Trisquel-users] very good documentary

2015-02-10 Thread tomlukeywood
this post is not related to trisquel and please feel free to down-vote it so it goes to the troll hole however i thought i would post it here as i feel most of the people here would be willing to take it seriously and not assume that i am crazy as is common with most pepole(that i have met)

Re: [Trisquel-users] French Mirror appears down, repositories out of sync

2015-02-10 Thread tomlukeywood
it works for me: tom@trisquel7-gnu-linux:/media/HDD 1tb/iso's$ sudo apt-get update [sudo] password for tom: Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net trusty InRelease Hit http://fr.archive.trisquel.info belenos InRelease Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net trusty Release.gpg Hit http://fr.archive.trisquel.info

Re: [Trisquel-users] very good documentary

2015-02-10 Thread tomlukeywood
i should of said film

Re: [Trisquel-users] installing libreboot on a x60 thinkpad

2015-02-09 Thread tomlukeywood
hello i have received a email from i...@gluglug.org.uk and memtest and grub invaders were not working for me as the developers did not cross compile them for the x60 textmode roms so its best for now to flash the vesafb roms so sadly we will have to wait a bit longer to play space invaders in

Re: [Trisquel-users] Update Manager Not Working

2015-02-09 Thread tomlukeywood
have you tried running make install insted of make? this will install the program from source just like sudo apt-get install program_name would

Re: [Trisquel-users] Brother DCP-7055 printer

2015-02-09 Thread tomlukeywood
i dont think you did install it because you only ran make try running make install and if that dose not work try making a video with a screen-recorder of what your doing so we can see more clearly how to help you but for now at the root directory of the source code run make install

Re: [Trisquel-users] Youtube Ditches Flash, and it Hardly Matters: Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss

2015-02-09 Thread tomlukeywood
that’s not a true statement of course Google would make money off YouTube its the biggest video sharing website in the world hundreds of millions people visit that site every day they just need a small amount of advertising it would just mean they might be making million's instead a billions(if

Re: [Trisquel-users] Youtube Ditches Flash, and it Hardly Matters: Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss

2015-02-09 Thread tomlukeywood
Because at least JavaScript can be run reliably with free software you can run adobe flash fine on free software but the program adobe flash is not free its the same with JavaScript just because your using a libre browser or operating system dose not make the thing your running libre

Re: [Trisquel-users] An annoying thing that happens when upvoting a post here in the forums.

2015-02-08 Thread tomlukeywood
i have no problem with javascript i just have a problem when a program is run without the users permission

Re: [Trisquel-users] I am looking to build my first computer.

2015-02-08 Thread tomlukeywood
the motherboard like most motherboards would use a non-free bios if you want a free bios theirs a list of supported motherboards here: http://www.libreboot.org/docs/hcl/index.html#supported_list but they will be older and wont support a i7 at least yet if you don’t mind a non-free bios the

Re: [Trisquel-users] Youtube Ditches Flash, and it Hardly Matters: Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss

2015-02-08 Thread tomlukeywood
i rely think the solution to this is to have a genrel discussion forum

Re: [Trisquel-users] I am looking to build my first computer.

2015-02-08 Thread tomlukeywood
sorry i meant a pci gpu

Re: [Trisquel-users] installing libreboot on a x60 thinkpad

2015-02-08 Thread tomlukeywood
i have installed libreboot and at first all seemed fine it shows the grub menu but when i tried to boot to a os it gave this error: disk ahci(0,1) not found i can edit the commands and i can go to a grub command line dose anyone know the command to boot a kernel in grub? or any way for me to

Re: [Trisquel-users] I am looking to build my first computer.

2015-02-08 Thread tomlukeywood
the computers at thinkpenguin work perfectly with libre software but still have a non-free bios so there much much better than most pc but still not perfect if you want a computer with a completely libre bios look here: http://shop.gluglug.org.uk/ i have one of the netbooks and they are very

Re: [Trisquel-users] installing libreboot on a x60 thinkpad

2015-02-08 Thread tomlukeywood
i installed a HDD and it gave the same error dose anyone else have libreboot or know how to could boot to a os from the grub command line? also just to note i have not compleated the second stage of the installation yet theses instructions told me t reboot before completing them

Re: [Trisquel-users] Brother DCP-7055 printer

2015-02-08 Thread tomlukeywood
i think Verlasse Verzeichnis means leave listing in english i think its done try running make or make install now

Re: [Trisquel-users] installing libreboot on a x60 thinkpad

2015-02-08 Thread tomlukeywood
i have emailed i...@gluglug.org.uk and i am waiting for a reply i got myn for £30 on ebay and i have seen a few other for about that since so if you want to try its not too expensive to get one but if you dont want this risk of messing it up then get a gluglug one which you can get for £198

Re: [Trisquel-users] An annoying thing that happens when upvoting a post here in the forums.

2015-02-07 Thread tomlukeywood
i disagree even if the software is libre its run normally without the users permission automatically people should always be-able to use a website without java-script

Re: [Trisquel-users] Freedoom is awesome

2015-02-07 Thread tomlukeywood
i have just been playing it rely fun on nightmare mode

Re: [Trisquel-users] Brother DCP-7055 printer

2015-02-06 Thread tomlukeywood
i was trying to compile this and when i run ./configure i get this error: configure: error: cups-config command not found. Please install the CUPS development package. i cant find cups-config in the Trsiquel repos or on the internet dose anyone know were to find this it dose not look like

Re: [Trisquel-users] Brother DCP-7055 printer

2015-02-06 Thread tomlukeywood
you can edit comments

Re: [Trisquel-users] Brother DCP-7055 printer

2015-02-06 Thread tomlukeywood
thanks now it works so to give some help to amilopowers this is how you install 1. extract the archive 2.run these commands sudo apt-get install libcups2-dev libcupsimage2-dev 3. run ./configure if it gives you a error that it dosent have a certain program install it 4. run make if you just want

Re: [Trisquel-users] Enable Wi-Fi disappears from network menu when ThinkPenguin's wireless USB ethernet adapter loses connection

2015-02-06 Thread tomlukeywood
what wifi card are you using i read and learned from experience that the wireless N card dose not tend work well with older computers but the wireless G card works very well on old and new also have you tried one of these to get more Ethernet ports i use them with my web-servers

Re: [Trisquel-users] Brother DCP-7055 printer

2015-02-06 Thread tomlukeywood
i think its after a certain amount of time

Re: [Trisquel-users] problems compiling from source

2015-02-06 Thread tomlukeywood
so how do i make this run on a gameboy? i tried renaming it to a .gb file and running it in a emulator but it gave me a error i assume this was becuase the file was in the ASCII format if the file was pure hex would it run?

Re: [Trisquel-users] problems compiling from source

2015-02-06 Thread tomlukeywood
thanks for some reason when i logged in in icecat it would not keep me logged it i then used abrowser and it now works fine! here is the gitorios repo: https://gitorious.org/sdcc-without-non-free/sdcc-without-non-free

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