Re: [Trisquel-users] What are your thoughts on the BadUSB source code release?

2014-10-07 Thread nux
I have read it and I think it's largely confused nonsense. "Imagine selling pens with conditions about what you can write with them; that would be noisome, and we should not stand for it." Everyone buys pens with the understanding that there are laws covering what you can write with that pe

Re: [Trisquel-users] GNU/LINUX logo and logotype

2014-10-07 Thread silvibus
It's very nice. liGNUx

Re: [Trisquel-users] ***SPAM*** Re: is trisquel not worth to mention in prism-break.org?

2014-10-07 Thread Adfeno Huvlov
2014-10-08 02:49:36, onp...@riseup.net: > I stopped referring people to prism-break.org a long time ago. I don't think > it's something to take seriously anymore. At this point, I don't think it's > even a good source of information for beginners, which I thought was the > whole point of it to begi

Re: [Trisquel-users] Adding a 3rd monitor?

2014-10-07 Thread silvibus
# View available outputs $ xrandr # Enable the VGA1 output $ xrandr --output VGA1 --auto # automatically select mode # Turn it off $ xrandr --output VGA1 --off # Set up a dual display, using outputs LVDS1 and VGA1 $ xrandr --output LVDS1 --mode 1024x768 --pos 0x0 --output VGA1 --mode 1920x1080

Re: [Trisquel-users] Looking for an email provider

2014-10-07 Thread ken
I have tried on multiple occassions to sign up for OpenMailbox, but each and every time, after registering, I can't log in. I would love to use a service, but it has to actually work for me.

Re: [Trisquel-users] What are your thoughts on the BadUSB source code release?

2014-10-07 Thread jason
"Allowing others to do as they please, without regard for the consequences, is not any kind of freedom I recognise. If we follow that to its logical conclusion there'd be no Police" That's not what I was talking about, and you know it. Please read the page that onpon4 linked to.

[Trisquel-users] Antwort: is trisquel not worth to mention in prism-break.org?

2014-10-07 Thread dns
yes the whole page becomes a it messy and the overview is becoming bad as well... and why the hell bleacbit is listed under disk encryption lol anyways i stop, because im goin offtopic here.

Re: [Trisquel-users] is trisquel not worth to mention in prism-break.org?

2014-10-07 Thread onpon4
I stopped referring people to prism-break.org a long time ago. I don't think it's something to take seriously anymore. At this point, I don't think it's even a good source of information for beginners, which I thought was the whole point of it to begin with; it's all over the place and hard t

Re: [Trisquel-users] is trisquel not worth to mention in prism-break.org?

2014-10-07 Thread Andrew Lindley
Trisquel removes all known privacy invasive features of Ubuntu. If you find or hear of new ones, file a bug. Prism Break had a lynching mob for Ubuntu for their privacy invasive features. And by the well known feature of such 'justice' derivatives were caught by contagion - just like a medieva

[Trisquel-users] Antwort: is trisquel not worth to mention in prism-break.org?

2014-10-07 Thread dns
Yea sux that it doesn't list it directly but read in the notes:"GNU/Linux has a much larger community..." http://prism-break.org/en/categories/gnu-linux/#operating-systems

Re: [Trisquel-users] Looking for an email provider

2014-10-07 Thread Andrew Lindley
From: svh...@gmail.com > Have you bought something from the webshop? Where do you get software > for the Lemote Yeeloong 8089B 8.9? Do you know the power consumption? The link was given by someone else on this list/forum a little while ago. I ordered one from there about a week past, it was mark

[Trisquel-users] is trisquel not worth to mention in prism-break.org?

2014-10-07 Thread toni . schultheis
i followed an forum in prism-break, where the argument for replacing it with gnewsense was, that trisquel is based on ubuntu and so the risk for security leaks and so on is to high... is that true ? in my opinion it could be the most advancend fsf distro, but with these issues i wouldn't use

Re: [Trisquel-users] Looking for an email provider

2014-10-07 Thread svhaab
Have you bought something from the webshop? Where do you get software for the Lemote Yeeloong 8089B 8.9? Do you know the power consumption?

Re: [Trisquel-users] making a free bios for a present notebook x86 mainboard?

2014-10-07 Thread svhaab
I have seen a video where he quite directly encourage corporate engineers to whistle blow about source software and documentation.

Re: [Trisquel-users] making a free bios for a present notebook x86 mainboard?

2014-10-07 Thread svhaab
Thanks. When I ask a question about this subject the replies are like Pandora's box. Things I do not know about appear and it is complicated. AMD would require reverse engineering on the graphic card and the boot software. And more. Difficult but not impossible? Loongson mainboards only requi

Re: [Trisquel-users] Looking for an email provider

2014-10-07 Thread dhood
I have used openmailbox.org for a bit less than a year and for webmail it does its job well and provides enough storage that I haven't had to pay for added storage yet. They also provide Owncloud, but I don't use this. The only issue I have had is that I can't get their jabber server to work.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Looking for an email provider

2014-10-07 Thread tombates70
After reading your posts I changed my mind. I decided to send an account request to either riseup.net or A/I. Leny is right, email can't be gratis. So private email providers, those that don't "sell their users", are either paid or at least ask for donations. I prefer donating to riseup or

Re: [Trisquel-users] Looking for an email provider

2014-10-07 Thread forna
Hey did you take a look at A/I? http://www.autistici.org

Re: [Trisquel-users] Looking for an email provider

2014-10-07 Thread tombates70
Thanks to FSF for creating that page, there are some good services mentioned on it. But mail.ru shouldn't be there. It's just a Russian equivalent of Gmail and as far as I know it was also a target of NSA's XKeyscore program.

Re: [Trisquel-users] tp link free router, what is gained by that?

2014-10-07 Thread davidvargas1
Tonlee There is other options as for "WIFI-Routers". LAN side For example: For my home/BUSINESS, network#1 is on 5 PC'S. network#2 is my own HOME PC;S and the rest for my Internet Cafe! I use IPFIRE! What I did? one of my desktop PC's was converted to an IPFIRE-FIREWALL/ROUTER. I did Pu

[Trisquel-users] Re : Looking for an email provider

2014-10-07 Thread lcerf
Here is a very recent interview of Brennan Novak, a Mailpile developer: http://files.curiouskids.co/podcast-onetoone-01-20140705-Brennan-Novak.mp3 It is a French podcast but the only presenter of this episode is Italian and the interview is in English (only a few seconds of French at the begi

Re: [Trisquel-users] What are your thoughts on the BadUSB source code release?

2014-10-07 Thread shiretoko
Just read onpons link and have to correct myself: rms has some good arguments.

Re: [Trisquel-users] What are your thoughts on the BadUSB source code release?

2014-10-07 Thread shiretoko
'So "for any purpose" must literally mean "for any purpose" - even for the purposes that someone else might not like.' The question is: why does it have to be this way in order to make a program free? In a free society, there are things you aren't allowed to do, like beating people up in ba

Re: [Trisquel-users] What Free Software books should I suggest to our library?

2014-10-07 Thread gary02121993
I've also suggested the social engineering book by Christopher Hadnagy to our library and it was just approved and ordered to our library yesterday! Must be sweet! :D For those of you not familiar, I believe it's the top rated book in Amazon when you search for social engineering under books

Re: [Trisquel-users] What are your thoughts on the BadUSB source code release?

2014-10-07 Thread onpon4
Preventing handing a child a loaded gun is handled by laws. It's not the job of software licenses. Did you read this? https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/programs-must-not-limit-freedom-to-run.html

Re: [Trisquel-users] tp link free router, what is gained by that?

2014-10-07 Thread onpon4
As a note in the product page says: "There is only one revision of this board at this time which is fully free software friendly and compatible with libreCMC. In almost all instances router model numbers are not sufficient to determine free software status or compatibility. There are curren

Re: [Trisquel-users] What are your thoughts on the BadUSB source code release?

2014-10-07 Thread eemeli . blasten
I am not sure using copyright law would be the right way to go to prevent people killing each other or hacking into others' systems. There are other laws for that. People also usually behave ethically regardless of the status of the nation's laws. You can not demand anything more in license

Re: [Trisquel-users] Looking for an email provider

2014-10-07 Thread jabjabs
Personally I run on Fastmail.fm, it is fairly decent service (great interface) and I haven't had any issues to deal with so far. Yes it is paid but it seems fairly capable as far as I can tell, also offers very basic web hosting (no scripting) on the $40 plans if that interests you.

Re: [Trisquel-users] What are your thoughts on the BadUSB source code release?

2014-10-07 Thread nux
I can't help thinking that this is perilously close to handing a child a loaded gun and then calling it an unfortunate aspect of freedom when he then shoots himself with it. Allowing others to do as they please, without regard for the consequences, is not any kind of freedom I recognise. If