Re: [Trisquel-users] Big Brother has a name, and his name is P*OMIS (R instead of the *) software

2013-12-14 Thread fernando . negro
But, one thing I forgot to say, is that, The situation in Europe is, nevertheless, not as bad as in the US - in terms of /physical/ police state (with troops patrolling the streets, and FEMA camps waiting to be populated). The European concentration camps ending up being the cities and

Re: [Trisquel-users] New Indian and Telugu libre gnu/linux distribution?

2013-12-14 Thread dudeski
And what's the difference? It's probably just a shell script deleting files anyway. The kernel doesn't suggest anything, the installer does.

Re: [Trisquel-users] freedom friendly netbook

2013-12-14 Thread dudeski
Shame they don't make them like the 1000H anymore.. So easy, one big panel with two screws that got you straight to WiFi card, harddisk and RAM. Even got a modded bios on it to enable AHCI for the SSD. Just in general though, if you want a bit more snappiness, should look into an Arch-based

Re: [Trisquel-users] New Indian and Telugu libre gnu/linux distribution?

2013-12-14 Thread trisquel
You can look at this thread for details. It's from 2010 - I don't think much has changed since then, but I may be wrong: http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/gnu-linux-libre/2010-12/msg00022.html

Re: [Trisquel-users] (likely unoriginal) idea

2013-12-14 Thread Michał Masłowski
The goals are different: one is based on Ubuntu, the other on Debian. (The same was true before they both changed their upstreams.) This leads to important differences like Trisquel having useful Ubuntu changes, and gNewSense supporting Loongson systems with a CPU architecture not supported by

Re: [Trisquel-users] [OT] free video formats

2013-12-14 Thread adel . afzal
You're right -- Adresm's edit fixes a lot of it I think

Re: [Trisquel-users] Free software is getting better...and faster that it seems

2013-12-14 Thread icarolongo
Cool presentations with HTML5, CSS and JavaScript: http://lab.hakim.se/reveal-js/ http://imakewebthings.com/deck.js/ http://bartaz.github.io/impress.js/

Re: [Trisquel-users] Hypothetical licensing question

2013-12-14 Thread jason
Yep, in that example you're adding your copyright notice and also upgrading to v3 of the GPL, which was allowed since the original person published it as v2-or-later.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Mix-down MIDI to Vorbis

2013-12-14 Thread jason
ffmpeg2theora may be such a program. I imagine that it can decode MIDI files. (And yes, it says Theora in the name but can also encode files that only contain audio and produce Ogg Vorbis files.)

Re: [Trisquel-users] [OT] free video formats

2013-12-14 Thread adel . afzal
Thanks Andresm, I used your edits

[Trisquel-users] how to choose server hardware?

2013-12-14 Thread adel . afzal
I'm looking for server hardware. I'll probably choose from an old netbook at home, or one of my friends' old desktop PCs, or buy something from a used computer store. What should I think about, when choosing hardware to run an email server? Maybe I'll run other server applications later

Re: [Trisquel-users] how to choose server hardware?

2013-12-14 Thread Michał Masłowski
Does processor speed matter much? If it does, in what situation would I need a more powerful processor? It doesn't if you don't have many users. Things like complex spam filtering (that I don't do: postscreen, postgrey and an SPF policy daemon are sufficient for my needs) or some Web

Re: [Trisquel-users] Libre fonts I've found

2013-12-14 Thread adel . afzal
Oh, that's awesome! What do you mean by white intersections of strokes?

Re: [Trisquel-users] how to choose server hardware?

2013-12-14 Thread adel . afzal
Michal's post is blank on the forum again A fellow member linked me to his post on a different page once before. How do I find his post myself?

Re: [Trisquel-users] how to choose server hardware?

2013-12-14 Thread Michał Masłowski
http://listas.trisquel.info/pipermail/trisquel-users/2013-December/030567.html Found it via thread archives linked from http://listas.trisquel.info/pipermail/trisquel-users/. I don't understand what exact patterns cause it to be rendered blank. pgpncIBMdL7KG.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [Trisquel-users] Libre fonts I've found

2013-12-14 Thread Michał Masłowski
The ł glyph (L with stroke) in Anton and ł and ę (e ogonek) in Comic Relief are made from two separate outlines, the images on https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/list-free-fonts have white intersection between the stroke and the base letter. FontForge and the browser display it correctly. For

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

2013-12-14 Thread george . standish
as the final line of ~/.bashrc add: unalias rm then source ~/.bashrc to apply the change. special thanks to mjmt and jxself in #trisquel for the solution

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

2013-12-14 Thread lloyd
Thanks! This is useful.

[Trisquel-users] SteamOS based on Debian a good thing for Ubuntu/Trisquel?

2013-12-14 Thread tegskywalker
Version 1.0 of the SteamOS was released recently and it is based off of Debian 7.1 instead of Ubuntu as thought. Do you see this as a good thing that hopefully improvements to audio and video drivers get pushed back into Debian and then trickle down into Ubuntu and Trisquel? That is of

Re: [Trisquel-users] how to choose server hardware?

2013-12-14 Thread adel . afzal
Thanks!

[Trisquel-users] Re : Secure/Anonymous VPN Services

2013-12-14 Thread pierrefalek
Ceveral years ago, I was using hotspot shield on my Apple computer. http://www.hotspotshield.com But being recommended by New York Time, CNN, Fox and all kind of medias owned by bloody bastards doesn't create a great confidence to myself. And I don't this this is a free software (I hope I don't

Re: [Trisquel-users] SteamOS based on Debian a good thing for Ubuntu/Trisquel?

2013-12-14 Thread gav616
sorry guys but I do use steam on tris (anyways...) ..I do think this is a sane choice for valve, deb is save, deb is boring, very good I say. ohh and hello fellows!

Re: [Trisquel-users] SteamOS based on Debian a good thing for Ubuntu/Trisquel?

2013-12-14 Thread shiretoko
@t3g Your implying that Valve might be interested in contributing to free software in some way. Do you have a specific reason for thinking so? Because if not, I highly doubt that they give a damn about everything related to freedom. They will put a lot of effort in improving the proprietary

Re: [Trisquel-users] SteamOS based on Debian a good thing for Ubuntu/Trisquel?

2013-12-14 Thread george . standish
this planet.debian.net post might be of interest: http://richardhartmann.de/blog/posts/2013/12/14-SteamOS/

Re: [Trisquel-users] SteamOS based on Debian a good thing for Ubuntu/Trisquel?

2013-12-14 Thread gav616
I agree, random patches to get the 'debain base' up to 'scratch' is not freedom ideology, It might be opensource based but based on a nonfree solution.

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

2013-12-14 Thread anandawardhana
I just sumbled upon a very disturbing privacy issue in the gnome shell 3 version provided with Trisquel 6. Gnome 3 has instant messaging and voice calls intergrated with the desktop. And I found (to my horror) that it auto answers incoming voice/video calls! The only way I have found to

[Trisquel-users] evince printing problem

2013-12-14 Thread Quiliro Ordóñez
how can i diagnose a problem that gives no error on cups? the printer leds light but it prints nothing and at the end system-config-printer says the job is completed the system prints all documents remotely except though evince (or adobe acrobat nor sumatra on windows) the

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

2013-12-14 Thread george . standish
I would hardly classify this as a critical bug...

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

2013-12-14 Thread anandawardhana
Well, it auto answers and start broadcasting your video to whoever that calls you. I thought it's a critical issue.

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

2013-12-14 Thread anandawardhana
to replicate the bug: 1) Install gnome shell on !trisquel 6. 2) Add your xmpp/jabber/google account to the default IM client (empathy). This starts operating in the background. Your status can be set from the desktop. 3) Log out from the desktop and log in. Your online status is now shown

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.

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

2013-12-14 Thread george . standish
ssdclickofdeath I take it Trisquel dev(s) agrees with you. I found it SUPER annoying.

Re: [Trisquel-users] SteamOS based on Debian a good thing for Ubuntu/Trisquel?

2013-12-14 Thread tegskywalker
The Steam programs included in SteamOS are nonfree of course, but if improvements to the Debian code are for the nonfree bits to appease vendors, then it really sucks. If Valve releases improvements upstream to the free software bits, then that would be amazing and benefit everyone. In

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

2013-12-14 Thread Andrew Roffey
On 15/12/13 12:59, anandawardhana wrote: Well, it auto answers and start broadcasting your video to whoever that calls you. I thought it's a critical issue. I completely agree. If you can, I would recommend sending a bug report upstream (to GNOME), as a bug report here will most likely go

Re: [Trisquel-users] New Indian and Telugu libre gnu/linux distribution?

2013-12-14 Thread Andrew Roffey
On 15/12/13 00:22, dudeski wrote: The kernel doesn't suggest anything, the installer does. The kernel does tell the user on bootup if a firmware blob is missing and lists the file (which can presumably be used to find the blob). Andrew.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Problem with File Browser

2013-12-14 Thread oralfloss
Is there any other way to fix this? I'd rather keep nautilus