Re: [Trisquel-users] How to get an opendesktop.org account?

2015-07-14 Thread abhijithb21
Thank you ssdclickofdeath and SuperTramp83.

Re: [Trisquel-users] How to get an opendesktop.org account?

2015-07-14 Thread abhijithb21
Did that. Now I finally have an account.

Re: [Trisquel-users] When will trisquel update gnupg to the ecc support version?

2015-07-14 Thread tomlukeywood
https://www.gnupg.org/download/index.html you can download the latest gnu-pg version here and compile it from source

Re: [Trisquel-users] What kind of email services are you using and recommend and why?

2015-07-14 Thread svhaab
https://tutanota.de/ https://www.lavaboom.com/

Re: [Trisquel-users] Wireless Problem

2015-07-14 Thread amenex
My Thinkpad T420 with a Thinkpenguin wifi usb dongle was experiencing the same flakiness as tdlnx a couple of months ago, but I did two things that appear to have cured the problem: (1) Unplug the dongle from the USB port and plug it in again a few times to clean off the contacts; and (2)

[Trisquel-users] Re : When will trisquel update gnupg to the ecc support version?

2015-07-14 Thread lcerf
Debian experimental has a package for GnuPG 2.1.x: https://packages.debian.org/experimental/gnupg2 Use it at your own risks!

Re: [Trisquel-users] Problems with synaptic and apt-get update

2015-07-14 Thread sadieannie1
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[Trisquel-users] Re : Wireless Problem

2015-07-14 Thread lcerf
/usr/local/bin is intended to contain such local scripts.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Creating a license that switches between two external licenses

2015-07-14 Thread tegskywalker
Thanks for the feedback. I was thinking more in the line of keeping the software copyleft but if I die or a company goes under, it becomes free for all without restrictions to better society or something. That way, the copyright isn't tied to a dead entity and the software gets ignored.

Re: [Trisquel-users] SELinux and an interesting Warning on Blag

2015-07-14 Thread jadedml
No, it doesn't. That warning is for the PNG file, not for SELinux itself. It is clear to anyone that visits the URL (http://blag.fsf.org/wiki/index.php/File:30k-blag-install-14-firewall.png) that the warning is directed to the PNG file.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Share your Desktop!

2015-07-14 Thread cooloutac
ok well, to get the whole panel transparent, I use compiz. Unless you know of another way?

[Trisquel-users] SELinux and an interesting Warning on Blag

2015-07-14 Thread cjpaperbond
If you scroll down until you see the last two topics, you'll read this: Firewall SELinux File:30k-blag-install-14-firewall.png BLAG does not enable SELinux on install. Some legacy applications do not work with SELinux. If you wish to enabled it in the future, you can run

Re: [Trisquel-users] SELinux and an interesting Warning on Blag

2015-07-14 Thread tomlukeywood
png files can be execute code...? *mind blown

Re: [Trisquel-users] SELinux and an interesting Warning on Blag

2015-07-14 Thread davesamcdxv
In all fairness I don't recall sudo chmod +x hamburger-concerto.png to be impossible. And I guess one really never knows what, after that, would be triggered upon doing./hamburger-concerto.png (after all, an extension is nothing more than an extension...)

Re: [Trisquel-users] Problems with synaptic and apt-get update

2015-07-14 Thread moxalt
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[Trisquel-users] Are multiplayer games SaaSS?

2015-07-14 Thread moxalt
Is playing Nexuiz online SaaSS? RMS seemed to think so here, in the original version of Who Does That Server Really Serve?: http://www.bostonreview.net/richard-stallman-free-software-DRM Interestingly enough, the passage where he mentions games is no longer in the current updated version on the

Re: [Trisquel-users] SELinux and an interesting Warning on Blag

2015-07-14 Thread gnuser
SVG pictures are actually potentially dangerous, that's why the Tor Browser disables them if you move the security slider to a higher position. BUT I don't know about png images. As for the file extension being enough to prevent a file from executing code, it should be simple to test, if I

Re: [Trisquel-users] Share your Desktop!

2015-07-14 Thread moxalt
So you spend all this time trying to convince me my panel's transparency setting is bugged, and then just back off with an 'ok well' when I prove it isn't. I have no idea of any other way (other than using Compiz) to force the panel items to take their background setting from the panel

Re: [Trisquel-users] SELinux and an interesting Warning on Blag

2015-07-14 Thread moxalt
1. The warning you referenced clearly refers to the potential dangers of the PNG being an executable in disguise. 2. BLAG gave a clear reason as to why SELinux is not enabled by default- it does not work with certain legacy applications. 3. If SELinux was actual malware then a) BLAG would not

Re: [Trisquel-users] SELinux and an interesting Warning on Blag

2015-07-14 Thread dbpalma9
I'm glad NSA developed SELinux. If openSSL had been developed by NSA, heartbleed would probably have been discovered sooner.

Re: [Trisquel-users] How to create a mail server?

2015-07-14 Thread topopzioni
Thank you for this post very informative 30 iopzioni 30 o9ckxz on 3

Re: [Trisquel-users] Re : Wireless Problem

2015-07-14 Thread moxalt
Is it? I've been living a lie! I always put my own scripts and things in /usr/bin with everything else. Is there some practical reason behind this? Or just Unix tradition?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Problems with synaptic and apt-get update

2015-07-14 Thread moxalt
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Re: [Trisquel-users] Share your Desktop!

2015-07-14 Thread cooloutac
well if I can't convince you thats bugged what else can I say? Compiz fixes the issue for me is all I can say... THe guy who got me started with this on the IRC help channel believed transparency would help limit the screen burning on his monitor, i guess he has a black desktop

Re: [Trisquel-users] Are multiplayer games SaaSS?

2015-07-14 Thread dbpalma9
It's not SaSS, like software repositories and webmail services aren't. It's only SaSS when the server is running software you don't know with your data that you could be running in your own machine, like wolfram alpha for example.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Any Trisquel users on the Libreboot X60 have their keyboards turn off randomly?

2015-07-14 Thread nicolasmaia
You can reach libreboot folks at the #libreboot IRC channel if need be.

Re: [Trisquel-users] SELinux and an interesting Warning on Blag

2015-07-14 Thread danigaritarojas
SVG pictures are actually potentially dangerous Why? I'm curios about this.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Are multiplayer games SaaSS?

2015-07-14 Thread danigaritarojas
Thanks for the info onpon4. I didn't knew this was already happening, or even possible. This is exactly the nightmare that I have been seeing becoming true over time. This, the tablets/toasters, and everything that has cloud in their name is pure crap. Whether we are talking from a freedom,

Re: [Trisquel-users] Are multiplayer games SaaSS?

2015-07-14 Thread danigaritarojas
If this is actually SaaSS then being under a free license isn't enough if you're going to use the service anyway. You have to run it on a computer under your control (both server and client). So the question isn't whether SaaSS can be acceptable under a free license but whether using

Re: [Trisquel-users] Are multiplayer games SaaSS?

2015-07-14 Thread danigaritarojas
Multiplayer games == SaaS? Well this is new, sort of. A SaaS game would be more like having the whole game on the server. So the client only sends the input and receives the frames. Could Stallman actually be referring to MMO games that have an important part of the game only in the

Re: [Trisquel-users] Are multiplayer games SaaSS?

2015-07-14 Thread onpon4
That actually has been done before; there was a system designed for this called the OnLive. I don't think it ever really caught on.

[Trisquel-users] Re : Private Browsing Tor Proxy not working anymore in Abrowser

2015-07-14 Thread mtlben
Cannot edit the first message, so here's some additional information: when I write that the addon doesn't work, what I mean is that when a Private Browsing opens, I don't see the Private Browsing Tor Proxy popup message notifying me that the Proxy has changed. A visit to

[Trisquel-users] Private Browsing Tor Proxy not working anymore in Abrowser

2015-07-14 Thread mtlben
On my main computer, the Private Browsing Tor Proxy addon is not working anymore in Abrowser. It does work in IceCat, and still works in Abrowser on my secondary computer. I may have changed some setting Abrowser (although I can't recall I did...). Can anyone help me fix that problem (I

Re: [Trisquel-users] Are multiplayer games SaaSS?

2015-07-14 Thread onpon4
It seems obvious to me that he simply changed his mind. He was probably referring to exactly what it looks like in the original version. Like all human beings, RMS is imperfect and makes mistakes.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Are multiplayer games SaaSS?

2015-07-14 Thread tegskywalker
With these games (especially the Quake 3 ones), there is a dedicated server for the clients to connect to. If the client is under a free license, the server software is probably free as well.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Are multiplayer games SaaSS?

2015-07-14 Thread onpon4
It doesn't. Multiplayer games aren't your own computing, but a shared activity by multiple people.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Are multiplayer games SaaSS?

2015-07-14 Thread danigaritarojas
Then we should ask Stallman what was he referring to with multiplayer games before people picks the wrong idea.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Any Trisquel users on the Libreboot X60 have their keyboards turn off randomly?

2015-07-14 Thread lovexdrew
How do you know it's a libreboot problem? Like I said it problem did not occur under other distros.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Are multiplayer games SaaSS?

2015-07-14 Thread J.B. Nicholson-Owens
moxalt wrote: Interestingly enough, the passage where he mentions games is no longer in the current updated version on the GNU website. Did you ask him why the versions differ with respect to your point? If so, what did he say in response? I personally don't share his view. I don't think

Re: [Trisquel-users] Are multiplayer games SaaSS?

2015-07-14 Thread tegskywalker
Why are you making such a big stink about this? It is software running on another server that you connect to and probably don't have any control of. If you have a problem with that, you may as well disconnect from the internet.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Share your Desktop!

2015-07-14 Thread moxalt
Fair enough.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Are multiplayer games SaaSS?

2015-07-14 Thread moxalt
But whether there is actually some grave threat or not is irrelevant. In the same way that the issue with proprietary software is not necessarily that it is directly abusing the user (in many cases it is not) but a matter of principle. The issue at stake here is not what the operator could

Re: [Trisquel-users] Are multiplayer games SaaSS?

2015-07-14 Thread danigaritarojas
I was trying to understand Stallman's position, but it seems he was just mistaking. So there's no reason to ask him now.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Are multiplayer games SaaSS?

2015-07-14 Thread moxalt
That's exactly the question. I could be running Quake solely on my machine- client and server. However, I am using someone else's server, and entrusting them with that part of the game- acting as a hub of communication between all instances of the game. Is this SaaSS? That is the question.

Re: [Trisquel-users] SELinux and an interesting Warning on Blag

2015-07-14 Thread cooloutac
It seems there all sorts of attacks, Lemba linked an example of a png file causing a memory corruption in firefox which can leak data out of memory. There are also examples of png file causing buffer overflows in wmp and ie on windows which can let an attacker execute remote code. There

[Trisquel-users] Any Trisquel users on the Libreboot X60 have their keyboards turn off randomly?

2015-07-14 Thread lovexdrew
It probably only happens once every 1.5 months but still, my keyboard just seems to turn off. Trackpoint works fine! But there is no output from the keyboard at all. This does not seem to happen in other distros I tried on the Libreboot X60. I really can't tell what could cause it to happen,

Re: [Trisquel-users] Are multiplayer games SaaSS?

2015-07-14 Thread danigaritarojas
You're right. This change clearly reflect that change: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/po/who-does-that-server-really-serve.ko-diff.html So it's pretty much solved now, the article is just outdated.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Are multiplayer games SaaSS?

2015-07-14 Thread moxalt
As well as things like AdventureQuest, which is an MMO hosted entirely in the browser as a (*spits*) Flash game.

Re: [Trisquel-users] SELinux and an interesting Warning on Blag

2015-07-14 Thread t8mf4nu6lizp
I see two such vulnerabilities mentioned here https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox/

Re: [Trisquel-users] What kind of email services are you using and recommend and why?

2015-07-14 Thread g . smyli
I started using hushmail before I found Trisquel and this forum. I paid for a years subscription but they were providing a web based only (uses javascript) account for free. It's Canadian, they say email is stored in encrypted form and my Evolution setup is using OpenPGP. It took me a long

Re: [Trisquel-users] SELinux and an interesting Warning on Blag

2015-07-14 Thread tomlukeywood
well yeah but just be viewing a .png file is what i ment