Re: [Trisquel-users] [OT] Fetching BBC Radio Programs with get-iplayer?

2015-01-16 Thread bbcnewsplanet
Good job done by leny2010. I also want to learn this by searching on google. I have already tried to do this but fail. May be i am doing something wrong. I like a program of Radio and commonly i used BBC News Online (http://bbcnewsplanet.com/) to listen the radio program. Thanks for sharing

Re: [Trisquel-users] Old Kernels

2015-01-16 Thread davesamcdxv
(As I've said above) Unlike (most) other pacakges, different versions of the kernel are provided in different packages, and because of that don't overwrite each other. To remove them you've got to manually do so by locating their packages. Or if they're installed only because one of the

Re: [Trisquel-users] Does anyone use freenet?

2015-01-16 Thread gromobir
I have never seen any inappropriate content on I2P so far (except for normal pornographic content). Maybe you just want to give it a try.

[Trisquel-users] Re : 2 Trisquel Problems

2015-01-16 Thread lcerf
Don't you use the GNOME edition of Trisquel? If yes, then Brightness and lock should be in the System settings! You can launch it from a terminal with 'gnome-control-center screen'; You can update with 'apt-get' but not with the Update manager? What about updating with the Synaptic package

Re: [Trisquel-users] New Updates: Opensource/Free FPS standalone mod of Xonotic (ChaosEsque) version 42 etc.

2015-01-16 Thread chaosesqueteam
New Release: 46. Did a good deal of code having to do with doors and the buildable building code. You can now build doors. You can also teamlock doors you build or doors that come with buildings you build. Also in the code you can directly set door trigger mins/maxs and set doors to open

Re: [Trisquel-users] BLAG 200000

2015-01-16 Thread tomlukeywood
is there a download? looks awesome! but i rely liked there old theme i wish they had uses mate or xfce insted of gnome3 :(

Re: [Trisquel-users] my family want me to install non-free software

2015-01-16 Thread sleepruim
Hi all, I am sort of in the same situation as the topic starter. I have been using GNU/Linux for a while now. Started with Ubuntu, but switched to Mint after the Amazon implementations. Now I started reading the fsf and RMS websites and I agree with their points of view. I wanted to try

[Trisquel-users] flac2opus

2015-01-16 Thread Lara Tris
What do you use to convert (and write the metadata at the same time) from flac to opus?

Re: [Trisquel-users] BLAG 200000

2015-01-16 Thread tesseract
Looks good!

Re: [Trisquel-users] BLAG 200000

2015-01-16 Thread legimet . calc
Doesn't SeaMonkey have the same trademark problem as Firefox? If so, it needs to be rebranded (Debian rebranded it as Iceape but later got rid of it)

Re: [Trisquel-users] flac2opus

2015-01-16 Thread myself600
DeaDBeeF with opus-tools. Opus is good when you need to overcome upload limits.

Re: [Trisquel-users] my family want me to install non-free software

2015-01-16 Thread onpon4
1. My wife needs to use citrix to connect to her work. I am yet to find a free alternative It looks to me like Citrix is a company, not a program. Which program is it? If it's something that allows her to access a desktop remotely, maybe she could use VNC? Depends on her employer's policy,

Re: [Trisquel-users] my family want me to install non-free software

2015-01-16 Thread tomlukeywood
1. if your wife NEEDS that application for work then if you MUST use it you can see if it runs in wine: https://www.winehq.org/download/ but i hope her employer will let her use a alternate method to connect to work if not then there may be pepole on this fourm who know more about that

Re: [Trisquel-users] [OT] Fetching BBC Radio Programs with get-iplayer?

2015-01-16 Thread ka1cey
I found the schedule for the radio program of interest and downloaded the episodes with youtube-dl instead of get-iplayer. Why do they use flash video for files containing only audio? I tried converting one to ogg with oggconvert; the result sounded horrible; I'll just keep the flv's for

Re: [Trisquel-users] how to enable log-in sound

2015-01-16 Thread ka1cey
I didn't realize they had electronic instruments back in old Messopotamia; LOL. You can replace the file with any sound you like; I just use the stock Trisquel one that has been in place since Brigantia, maybe earlier, but that's when I started using Trisquel.

Re: [Trisquel-users] my family want me to install non-free software

2015-01-16 Thread mail
Note that a fair amount of (Older, about 2007 or so) Flash games still work with Gnash, so they won't have to give up entirely on Flash games.

Re: [Trisquel-users] BLAG 200000

2015-01-16 Thread mail
Nice to see it's still active! Blag 2000 comes with GNOME 3 (non-fallback) by default, right? That's nice.

Re: [Trisquel-users] how to enable log-in sound

2015-01-16 Thread maestro
p.s - if you can get over their awful accent - a very nice band!!

Re: [Trisquel-users] my family want me to install non-free software

2015-01-16 Thread sleepruim
Thanks for your comments! Regarding citrix, I need a progam to open .ica files. Citrix has GNU versions available, just not libre. Thanks for the list of games, i will have a look. I know about some of them, but I'm a bit worried about letting my kid play doom already ;-) I will continue

Re: [Trisquel-users] how to enable log-in sound

2015-01-16 Thread maestro
it reminded me of an album http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwPz53zPNPc it's a nice login sound but it doesn't work for me

Re: [Trisquel-users] flac2opus

2015-01-16 Thread Alexander Stephen Thomas Ross
I wrote some scripts for this, they might be that they could do with some more work but it's a start http://software.aross.me the opus tools are very good in that you can give them a flac, they will copy the metadata over to the encoded opus file. however they don't do batch processing which is

Re: [Trisquel-users] BLAG 200000

2015-01-16 Thread davesamcdxv
It does (all the while being left in Parabola's dust, of course).

Re: [Trisquel-users] flac2opus

2015-01-16 Thread gramex
I noticed that the script in question (http://george.the-petries.co.uk/software/media_processing_scripts/flacs2opus.sh) is missing a license. I'm assuming this is just an oversight. :-)

Re: [Trisquel-users] flac2opus

2015-01-16 Thread Lara Tris
Ups. I have read the man page. Now I see that opusenc from opus-tools does read flac without a problem. Problem solved! As for recurent - find and for are two commands that can do miracles. Sure, a GUI would be good. But besides the regular two bit scripts that invoke gstreamer, there's not much

Re: [Trisquel-users] my family want me to install non-free software

2015-01-16 Thread Sachin
I think you mean your wife uses citrix app server or something I think they use rdp, try using remmina.

Re: [Trisquel-users] BLAG 200000

2015-01-16 Thread gramex
Where did you get this version of BLAG? The latest I see on the download page (http://www.blagblagblag.org/download/index.html) is 14.

Re: [Trisquel-users] new user to linux

2015-01-16 Thread thedude
hello I'm looking into purchasing a refurbished laptop from a small local computer shop, is there any concerns with such a purposes besides trisquel gnu/linux not working I mean should I be concerned with embedded virus in hard drive or in the hardware or even the bios? If I could I would

Re: [Trisquel-users] BLAG 200000

2015-01-16 Thread noordinaryspider
My Blag has MATE; i got it here: ftp://blag.fsf.org/20/Live/x86_64/Alpha/ thanks to islander. It's not just you, Jaded. Bleeding edge software isn't a huge concern for me, but security updates are. It's still nice to see choices.

Re: [Trisquel-users] new user to linux

2015-01-16 Thread noordinaryspider
Here ya go eljinete: https://www.h-node.org/ It's not perfect, but it's what we have and I feel the same way about keeping perfectly good hardware out of the landfill. What ultimately happens to our ewaste isn't pretty. :'( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_waste_in_Guiyu

Re: [Trisquel-users] flac2opus

2015-01-16 Thread Alexander Stephen Thomas Ross
On 16/01/15 16:50, gra...@openmailbox.org wrote: I noticed that the script in question (http://george.the-petries.co.uk/software/media_processing_scripts/flacs2opus.sh) is missing a license. I'm assuming this is just an oversight. :-) yea, it's if it's around 200 lines of code then it's public

Re: [Trisquel-users] flac2opus

2015-01-16 Thread Lara Tris
People should not assume anything. It should be written somewhere. Besides copyright is granted the moment something is published even in the US.

[Trisquel-users] text to speech voice david is it free enough and then how do I install?

2015-01-16 Thread svhaab
http://www.cepstral.com/en/personal/download/?os=linuxrefpage=linux Is it fine to use the voice by the standards of this forum? If it is, can I get explained how to install it? On the cepstral forum I found some info on how to install, but not much and not info that enabled me to install the

Re: [Trisquel-users] how to enable log-in sound

2015-01-16 Thread noordinaryspider
About the only thing I miss from winblows is my old log-in sound: http://wavcentral.com/sounds/televis/lost_space/lsbest.mp3 Well, that and the cursor that flipped links the bird instead of pointing at them

Re: [Trisquel-users] how to enable log-in sound

2015-01-16 Thread ka1cey
Nothing stopping you from putting that favorite login sound into your Trisquel. Not sure what you can do with the pointer; LOL.

Re: [Trisquel-users] how to enable log-in sound

2015-01-16 Thread noordinaryspider
Nah, I'm not changing this for a long time if ever. It's way too pretty and it brings back good memories ;) I do kind of wish I could enable the log-off sounds and generally have a noisier 'puter; I tweaked that windoze sound scheme until I felt like a mad scientist playing all these weird

Re: [Trisquel-users] new user to linux

2015-01-16 Thread ka1cey
I'm glad to hear you are considering buying a pre-owned laptop, thereby keeping a few bits of toxic materials out of the waste stream. Also, you're repurposing perfectly-good hardware. Before installing any new operating system onto such a machine, I'd shred the drive. You can do this

Re: [Trisquel-users] BLAG 200000

2015-01-16 Thread ka1cey
I tried a BLAG GNOME live image, and found that it has no accessibility, thereby denying a class of users freedom #0, nevermind the other three.

Re: [Trisquel-users] BLAG 200000

2015-01-16 Thread nospamhere
Praise be to Parabola, which allows you to tippy toe along the bleeding edge with a system that won't betray you. Now, as far as BLAG goes, is it true the Gdnewhat guys are now working on BLAG? Their website refers users to BLAG and Gdnewhat proved long ago they could get a fully free

Re: [Trisquel-users] BLAG 200000

2015-01-16 Thread marioxcc . MT
I'm glad to see that there's active development of fully free systems. Freedom 0 is “The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose” [1]. This doesn't mean that a neccesary condition or a program to be free is that everybody is able to do everything with a program; that's

Re: [Trisquel-users] BLAG 200000

2015-01-16 Thread shiretoko
I agree that it's not a freedom problem, but it *is* a problem and should be fixed with high priority.

Re: [Trisquel-users] new user to linux

2015-01-16 Thread onpon4
Even if there is a Windows virus left over in the RAM or hard drive: 1. Trisquel isn't going to attempt to execute them. They're going to be completely ignored, in fact. 2. Even if Trisquel attempted to execute them, it would fail, because they're written for Windows. Keep in mind that

[Trisquel-users] Re : my family want me to install non-free software

2015-01-16 Thread lcerf
GCompris is for your kids: http://gcompris.net/index-nl.html And it is in Trisquel's repository! :-)

[Trisquel-users] Best Secure AMD Laptop for free software

2015-01-16 Thread a1716479
I'm looking for the best secure free software friendly modern laptop with an AMD CPU, and Powerful GPU. Will compromise on BIOS, but TPM, UEFI, Trusted Computing, or baked in Processor WIFI allowing remote involuntary firmware/microcode changes is not an option, also would like

[Trisquel-users] Re : text to speech voice david is it free enough and then how do I install?

2015-01-16 Thread lcerf
That is correct: this community only provides help on free software. If an application cannot be used commercially (for instance), then it is not free software because freedom 0 is not satisfied.

Re: [Trisquel-users] 2 Trisquel Problems

2015-01-16 Thread rainteller
He's using Trisquel Mini.

[Trisquel-users] Re : new user to linux

2015-01-16 Thread lcerf
He may be talking about malware in the hardware (more precisely in their firmware). The BIOS launches it.

Re: [Trisquel-users] trisquel-recommended package

2015-01-16 Thread rainteller
Thanks for the answers, guys! Thanks to you I was able to get rid of unneded stuff :)

[Trisquel-users] Re : Best Secure AMD Laptop for free software

2015-01-16 Thread lcerf
Laptops with AMD processors come with AMD graphic cards. You will not get any 3D acceleration with such a card. Linux-libre perfectly handles the Intel graphical chipsets (except the PowerVR ones). That is why you only see Trisquel laptops with Intel processors. As far as I know

Re: [Trisquel-users] my family want me to install non-free software

2015-01-16 Thread noordinaryspider
Minetest is free Minecraft Potato Guy is Mr. Potato Head only you won't hurt your feet stepping on the pieces if the kid forgets to put it away. Tux Paint is a educational and fun--MUCH more than m$ paint Celestia if they want to explore outer space PySyCache Child's Play What kind of

Re: [Trisquel-users] Old Kernels

2015-01-16 Thread noordinaryspider
This could change in the not too distant future: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Ubuntu-Devs-Are-Talking-Whether-to-Let-Software-Update-Delete-Old-Kernels-470284.shtml

Re: [Trisquel-users] flac2opus

2015-01-16 Thread gramex
I think you may be confusing the minimum standards for copyright eligibility with the FSF's recommendation for when to use a copyleft license. They recommend using a copyleft license when a program is over 300 lines of code, and licensing anything with less than 300 lines of code under a

Re: [Trisquel-users] BLAG 200000

2015-01-16 Thread gramex
The FSF actually has an article specifically about this: https://gnu.org/philosophy/imperfection-isnt-oppression.html

Re: [Trisquel-users] new user to linux

2015-01-16 Thread thedude
so should I be concerned? Is there any program I can run to find out? thanks