Re: [Trisquel-users] Offtopic: Assange on google

2015-06-25 Thread greatgnu
If by did you make it? you are asking if I added the cartoon cloud (or whatever that is called in English language) and inserted the text hypothiosist whaaa? the answer is: yes! :P

Re: [Trisquel-users] Offtopic: Assange on google

2015-06-25 Thread jadedml
A theory is a fact, a hypothesis is unproven. 'Tis why Snowden was a conspiracy theorist, and you are a conspiracy hypothiosist.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Offtopic: Assange on google

2015-06-25 Thread jadedml
Except that Google has been questioned (Prominately on this thread), systemd has been questioned and come up dry, and SELinux has been questioned and come up dry. Not coming to desired conclusions doesn't mean that they haven't been questioned.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Inactive swap partition

2015-06-25 Thread marioxcc . MT
That will cause problems if devices are renumbered, which may happen if one adds or removes hard disks.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Icecat 31.7.0

2015-06-25 Thread greatgnu
He is asking (I presume): why Trisquel's Icecactus wasn't updated to the latest version, being that the latest version came out 15 days ago?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Libreboot and grub

2015-06-25 Thread vfvs
Thank you for your answer, after all I've decided to be radical and do as libreboot suggested and re-flashed libreboot with edited grub.cfg as explained.

Re: [Trisquel-users] X200 and battery save

2015-06-25 Thread vfvs
Yes, I've also noticed that... screen brightness has a very huge impact.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Free software friendly GPS?

2015-06-25 Thread nicolasmaia
I found this, but I'm not exactly sure it's what you're looking for: http://opengts.sourceforge.net/

[Trisquel-users] Re : Free software friendly GPS?

2015-06-25 Thread lcerf
So, basically a strict receiver and not a transitter. Is that possible? Is that how GPS normally works? Yes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Positioning_System#Basic_concept_of_GPS And secondly, is it possible to get this in a way that even RMS would approve of? Privacy-wise, I do

Re: [Trisquel-users] Icecat 31.7.0

2015-06-25 Thread no-email
Also the developer is the same for both projects (Trisquel and Icecat)

Re: [Trisquel-users] Is full disk encryption possible?

2015-06-25 Thread fmv1992
I've heard of those already. I think you've got to start somewhere. In the end if they want you they get you. Just send a team of SEALS overseas (not the first time) and that's it. Problem solved. Of course the more you can protect the better but one step at a time! The community should be

Re: [Trisquel-users] Offtopic: Assange on google

2015-06-25 Thread greatgnu
Saying that google is very much entangled with the US gov is neither a conspiracy nor a theory. It is rather a mere fact. We know that from the Snowden files.

Re: [Trisquel-users] X200 and battery save

2015-06-25 Thread tomlukeywood
the best thing for battery life i found on the x200 was just to turn the screen brightness down

[Trisquel-users] Re : Inactive swap partition

2015-06-25 Thread lcerf
First off, on your Trisquel installation (not the USB stick) go into GParted, right click the partition, go to information, and then obtain the UUID. For lazy people, like me, you can simply specify the device in the first column. I have that line in my /etc/fstab: /dev/sda1 none

Re: [Trisquel-users] My experiences in switching to powerline ethernet and getting around non-free r8169 firmware

2015-06-25 Thread servicios
That could also be possible, maybe either the firmware is embedded inside the chip, or it has a separate firmware chip, and it's trying to update the firmware. Even before I knew about Trisquel (and was just barely familiar with the GNU Project), when I was still running Debian in 2013, it

Re: [Trisquel-users] Could systemd be an inconvenient on portability?

2015-06-25 Thread martin
How is the attitude here similar to blocking questions, is it the because people dare to disagree with all the speculations you refuse to provide prove for? Nobody is blocking or censoring you in any way, yet again you are twisting the truth here.

[Trisquel-users] template for a scrolly website?

2015-06-25 Thread adel . afzal
Something like one of these: http://nuabikes.com/#/home http://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/#0 http://trasmissione-energia.terna.it/?language=en-US#Travels-with-Terna Are these kinds of websites easy to work with from gedit and gimp?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Offtopic: Assange on google

2015-06-25 Thread martin
Show us the spyware in systemd and SELinux! Your questions are useless, as they don't provide any real information, only speculations. Your question are spreading noise and inhibiting any real knowledge, facts and investigations. Also, most people here already agree that Google is bad, is

Re: [Trisquel-users] template for a scrolly website?

2015-06-25 Thread martin
Are you asking if it's a good idea to use gedit and GIMP to make such websites? Yes, it is. Although you don't need to use gedit or GIMP specifically. For example, other text editor can be also be used instead of gedit. I would use GNU Emacs and GIMP. You'll also need to learn at least

Re: [Trisquel-users] Icecat 31.7.0

2015-06-25 Thread martin
Most probably because Ruben (the developer) is busy with other stuff and there's no one else to do the job. :)

Re: [Trisquel-users] Icecat 31.7.0

2015-06-25 Thread legimet . calc
Let's create a browser called Icecactus :D

[Trisquel-users] Inactive swap partition

2015-06-25 Thread neutr0n
Hello. I have recently installed Trisquel, spending days configuring and tweaking. When i used gparted for first time, the swap partition appeared corrupted (?) so i cleared it and created a new one. Now it not mounting automatically, and i have to manually do it every time i boot. How do

Re: [Trisquel-users] Offtopic: Assange on google

2015-06-25 Thread taiji_tao
Oh Jade, not agreeing with evidence provided does not make the evidence any less valid. Also, conspiracies stop being a theory, when they become a fact. Was Snowden a Conspiracy Theorist, how about Assange.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Offtopic: Assange on google

2015-06-25 Thread taiji_tao
LOL, great picture and excellent point! Did you make it? Beginning to think that some people want to turn this forum into a Carry on folks, nothing to see here kind of forum. Interesting, how it is ok to question Canonical on their spyware, but you cannot question sysytemd or SELinux or

Re: [Trisquel-users] Inactive swap partition

2015-06-25 Thread servicios
First off, on your Trisquel installation (not the USB stick) go into GParted, right click the partition, go to information, and then obtain the UUID. (You can install it by going into Add/Remove Software.) Then, do sudo nano /etc/fstab in a terminal window, and look for a line that looks

[Trisquel-users] Re : template for a scrolly website?

2015-06-25 Thread lcerf
And a tutorial (in the Help menu) teaches the basics in a few hours. The first weeks are tough. The user loses time because she has to look at the documentation to remember keyboard shortcuts. But that is days of her life (if not more) that are saved afterwards.

Re: [Trisquel-users] template for a scrolly website?

2015-06-25 Thread adel . afzal
Cool; Emacs sounds good. By chance, I installed it just before I read your post, because I needed a program that can help me wrap text at 80 columns. I'm looking for templates for scrolly websites because I think that it may be too difficult for me to make one from scratch. I just know

Re: [Trisquel-users] Icecat 31.7.0

2015-06-25 Thread franparpe
Oh my, Icecactus is so funny. I cannot stop laughing for unknown reasons... I'm just imagining a cactus in the middle of the snow :) No sarcasm there, I really started laughing the moment I saw the comment.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Inactive swap partition

2015-06-25 Thread servicios
I used to have my fstab file like that, and assume the boot device was on /dev/sda, until the boot device became sdb somehow and the system would not boot. I forgot what caused that, but now I only ever use the UUID.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Icecat 31.7.0

2015-06-25 Thread franparpe
There has been a lot of merge requests lately, and Ruben supervises every contribution before accepting the code change so that is a probable reason, another one could be that he is testing it to be sure.

Re: [Trisquel-users] template for a scrolly website?

2015-06-25 Thread franparpe
One thing: Emacs is brutal, the most powerful text editor I could ever dream of. But it requires learning to be able to use a fraction of its potential. I suggest you use html or CSS specific IDEs if you are in a hurry, if not, keep using and learning Emacs, it deserves it.

Re: [Trisquel-users] template for a scrolly website?

2015-06-25 Thread martin
Still, Emacs is easy to start with, not any harder than nano for example.

[Trisquel-users] Re : template for a scrolly website?

2015-06-25 Thread lcerf
Yes, thank you for saying this, because that's exactly the type of argument I just don't agree with! :) That is at least what I remember of my first weeks in Emacs... some twelve years ago. What keys does a basic user use in gedit and similar programs 99% of the time? Well, I might not

Re: [Trisquel-users] Offtopic: Assange on google

2015-06-25 Thread onpon4
No, a scientific theory is neither conjecture nor fact. Here's the basic run-down: - A hypothesis is a reasonable, testable conjecture which explains some phenomenon in nature. - A fact is a repeatable observation or measurement. - A theory is a hypothesis which has been subject to a great

Re: [Trisquel-users] Could systemd be an inconvenient on portability?

2015-06-25 Thread martin
You've posted numerous links in several topics and you have responses to all or almost all of them. How about you actually start by responding to those before wasting everyones time?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Icecat 31.7.0

2015-06-25 Thread martin
Still, testing and supervising contributions can be done by other people too, like in other distributions, not just by Ruben. So that's not really an excuse, it's just that Ruben is pretty much the only person who does everything here. So we either need to help Ruben, or make another similar

Re: [Trisquel-users] Inactive swap partition

2015-06-25 Thread greatgnu
I bet you have the /home partition encrypted! This happened to me and onpon (if I recall correctly, which then pointed to a link, explaining that it was a know bug) and we both had the /home encrypted. I used the same fix provided by alonso.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Offtopic: Assange on google

2015-06-25 Thread taiji_tao
That is what I meant. :)

Re: [Trisquel-users] Offtopic: Assange on google

2015-06-25 Thread taiji_tao
Jade and Onpon, A theory is not a fact, the very nature of a theory (scientific or otherwise) is a conjecture, that most likely points to the truth but is as yet unprovable, thereby it is not yet a fact. Reference the many theories that are accepted as fact even though they remain

Re: [Trisquel-users] Icecat 31.7.0

2015-06-25 Thread greatgnu
You **can** help! https://devel.trisquel.info/groups/trisquel I agree with you on one thing though: trisquel needs more developers. There are never too much developers.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Inactive swap partition

2015-06-25 Thread onpon4
This is the topic you're referring to: https://trisquel.info/en/forum/swap-not-turning-default

Re: [Trisquel-users] Offtopic: Assange on google

2015-06-25 Thread onpon4
You just reminded me of a post on some Flat Earth Society forum where some guy went at length explaining how their conspiracy theory would become conspiracy fact given enough evidence. Seriously, though, theory only means its scientific definition in science, so I don't see any problem

Re: [Trisquel-users] template for a scrolly website?

2015-06-25 Thread martin
Yes, thank you for saying this, because that's exactly the type of argument I just don't agree with! :) ... because, you can type code in Emacs almost exactly like in gedit. What keys does a basic user use in gedit and similar programs 99% of the time? Arrows for moving, Ctrl-c for copy,

Re: [Trisquel-users] Could systemd be an inconvenient on portability?

2015-06-25 Thread taiji_tao
Did you read the links?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Offtopic: Assange on google

2015-06-25 Thread taiji_tao
Never said systemd or SELinux was spyware. That reference was to the Unity/Ubuntu search features, and the label was by Stallman, not me.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Icecat 31.7.0

2015-06-25 Thread greatgnu
:)

Re: [Trisquel-users] Icecat 31.7.0

2015-06-25 Thread martin
And what do you disagree with, I don't understand? :)

Re: [Trisquel-users] Offtopic: Assange on google

2015-06-25 Thread martin
You are taking what I wrote too literally. In your previous post above you are implying that the issue of the discovered and proven spyware feature made by Canonical should be treated the same as your speculations (questions) about hypothetical vulnerabilities in SELinux and systemd. So,

[Trisquel-users] Icecat 31.7.0

2015-06-25 Thread no-email
Icecat 31.7.0 new version was released on 10th of June (http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnuzilla/31.7.0/). Why the only distro that is on your own mirror is not update yet?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Icecat 31.7.0

2015-06-25 Thread jadedml
Off-topic, sorry... But... And Android version of Icecat?! Finally! I've been using Firefox on my phone, thinking I wish Icecat was on Android... And here it is!

Re: [Trisquel-users] Libreboot and grub

2015-06-25 Thread eemeli . blasten
Since you have Libreboot installed your computer first boots grub that's located on the flash-chip of your X200. That grub will look for its configuration in a file called grub.cfg. That file is also located in the flash chip, in a file system called CBFS. In the menu-entries of the grub

[Trisquel-users] Free software friendly GPS?

2015-06-25 Thread elkingrey
Hello, I'm in the market for a GPS, but I've got some questions you might be able to answer. First, I want a GPS that tells me where I am, but doesn't transmit my location to anyone or anything else. So, basically a strict receiver and not a transitter. Is that possible? Is that how GPS