Re: [Trisquel-users] How inconvenient freedom can be?

2015-06-01 Thread catfishagain
I've been using Trisquel as my only OS for almost two years now. I used Ubuntu briefly and then found Richard Stallman. Was lucky with my hardware in that it worked without problems. Then I was inspired to get a free bios in the form of libreboot and got a gluglug http://shop.gluglug.org.uk/

Re: [Trisquel-users] Freedom Certified Hardware

2015-06-01 Thread greatgnu
ohh, you didn't post this one twice! just when it was getting interesting. Don't be patanioid! Stay fres!

[Trisquel-users] Re : Questions on old programming languages

2015-06-01 Thread lcerf
C++ is indeed a meta-language, i.e., many different styles are possible: some write C code with the STL, some write truly oriented object code with polymorphism and so on, some write STL-like code with iterators everywhere and function objects, some write generic code (the templates), etc.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Share your Desktop!

2015-06-01 Thread catfishagain
My desktop

Re: [Trisquel-users] How inconvenient freedom can be?

2015-06-01 Thread deavmi
Both very good links right there, I would recommend the person who posts this thread reading them. Even I am going to read them :D.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Fortran Question Right Here

2015-06-01 Thread tomlukeywood
also if your wondering thats why alot of programmers still today use i j and k for counters at least thats what a c programming book told me

[Trisquel-users] Fortran Question Right Here

2015-06-01 Thread deavmi
What is the use of stating implicit none at the start of your FORTRAN? The picture shoes what a user on Reddit said.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Fortran Question Right Here

2015-06-01 Thread deavmi
So is counting in decimal values useless.I think so. Unless you are simply counting and printing them to the screen, other than that it seems useless, like you will always do a for loop through an array with integers it makes no sense to do so with a decimal counter as indexes in arrays are

Re: [Trisquel-users] How inconvenient freedom can be?

2015-06-01 Thread deavmi
As in the RMS analogy?

Re: [Trisquel-users] How inconvenient freedom can be?

2015-06-01 Thread blade . vp2020
Trisquel is my only OS and has been since 2010 But I' not coming from windows I'm come from Solaris and net bsd for me Trisquel is user-friendly I love it

[Trisquel-users] Ulatency - Better performance?

2015-06-01 Thread grandizo
There is ulatency package in the Trisquel 7 repo. Has someone tested it and can that software improves a system performance? Inert use cfq I/O scheduler by default but it can be changed to bfq that is as default in Trisquel. How about prelink and preload? Should I also use them in the same

Re: [Trisquel-users] Fortran Question Right Here

2015-06-01 Thread deavmi
Oh okay. But. Lol. Does no one count in floating points at all. I have never requires counting in anything else than integers tho. So that's a fair point I guess.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Fortran Question Right Here

2015-06-01 Thread deavmi
Do you have any advice on good Fortran or C books.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Fortran Question Right Here

2015-06-01 Thread deavmi
Okay. No picture. My browser does not support the upload dialog. Anyway basically the guy on reddit said if I do not state implicit none then all variables starting with I,j,k,l,m,n will all be of data type integer.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Share your Desktop!

2015-06-01 Thread nicolasmaia
Nice!

Re: [Trisquel-users] Questions on old programming languages

2015-06-01 Thread tegskywalker
Python is great for web applications as well when you pair it with PyPy and Falcon framework.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Sites Server and Forum Software?

2015-06-01 Thread tegskywalker
Are you guys running HHVM for your PHP tasks instead of the standard package? You may get a big performance boost: Trisquel 6: https://github.com/facebook/hhvm/wiki/Prebuilt-Packages-on-Ubuntu-12.04 Trisquel 7: https://github.com/facebook/hhvm/wiki/Prebuilt-packages-on-Ubuntu-14.04

[Trisquel-users] New user switched from OSX

2015-06-01 Thread demian . dee
Hello fellas, this is ThunderDee from Italy. Recently I've switched my 2008 MacPro into a one OS system, Trisquel 7! I love Trisquel, it's so fast and I think I'm gonna install it into another computer but I'm not so pratical about using linux systems in general and with theme-customisation

Re: [Trisquel-users] Questions on old programming languages

2015-06-01 Thread deavmi
FreeBASIC is awesome. Bringing back the feelingnof Visual Basic. Any other old languages?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Freedom Certified Hardware

2015-06-01 Thread deavmi
Lol.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Freedom Certified Hardware

2015-06-01 Thread deavmi
Lol.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Fortran Question Right Here

2015-06-01 Thread deavmi
Thank you very much. ;D

Re: [Trisquel-users] Fortran Question Right Here

2015-06-01 Thread tomlukeywood
= FOR C(advanced) this book isnt that accessible but has loads and loads of in depth info about c and assembly you can buy the book here: https://www.crcpress.com/product/isbn/9781466568242 or if you dont have the money use the pdf here:

Re: [Trisquel-users] New user switched from OSX

2015-06-01 Thread nicolasmaia
Welcome! There are many active users in the forum that will help you with troubleshooting :)

Re: [Trisquel-users] Questions on old programming languages

2015-06-01 Thread tomlukeywood
COBOL is a old one: http://www.mainframegurukul.com/tutorials/programming/cobol/cobol-tutorial.html also this one was ment to be the first high level language: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plankalk%C3%BCl

Re: [Trisquel-users] Questions on old programming languages

2015-06-01 Thread deavmi
I must say something about Lisp. The idea of operators being functions is truly awesome.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Questions on old programming languages

2015-06-01 Thread deavmi
Will check it out. :D thanks.

Re: [Trisquel-users] New user switched from OSX

2015-06-01 Thread greatgnu
Ciao ThunderDee e benvenuto nella comunità di Trischello!

Re: [Trisquel-users] getting an ubuntu notebook and installing debian 8?

2015-06-01 Thread marioxcc . MT
When buying any computing hardware, you must research whether it works with free software. You can start with h-node.org. The ideal procedure is (1) to build a list of all relevant components (usually the main IC manufacturer names and models), then (2) investigate whether each of them works

Re: [Trisquel-users] Fortran Question Right Here

2015-06-01 Thread tomlukeywood
just relised i by mistake put one of the links in the wrong place but oh well...

Re: [Trisquel-users] Fortran Question Right Here

2015-06-01 Thread deavmi
Nah. It's all good.

Re: [Trisquel-users] New user switched from OSX

2015-06-01 Thread demian . dee
Thanks for the answers guys!! Grazie per le risposte!! I would ask you what I have to write in the terminal to make automount my usb memories and my second HD without going to Trisquel menu, just like I had in MacOSX. I find troubles sometimes typing with my apple keyboard inside abrowser

Re: [Trisquel-users] Questions on old programming languages

2015-06-01 Thread deavmi
Oh yes. Nimrod or Nim is an awesome language.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Fortran Question Right Here

2015-06-01 Thread deavmi
I am taking little baby steps into this language. And I think will will begin to like it.

Re: [Trisquel-users] New user switched from OSX

2015-06-01 Thread greatgnu
Thunderdee - Io ho usato gnome flash per vari mesi pero non ho mai investigato molto su di esso.. Per quanto riguarda la personalizzazione di Xfce posso sì spiegarti come si fa. Pero chiaramente devi avere installato l'ambiente desktop Xfce. Se tale è il caso, sentiti pure libero di mandarmi

Re: [Trisquel-users] Backup (Duplicity) not working

2015-06-01 Thread tomlukeywood
if you run it from a terminal it might give you some usefull output

[Trisquel-users] Re : New user switched from OSX

2015-06-01 Thread lcerf
See https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/play-videos-without-using-flash for solutions to play videos on many popular sites (including YouTube).

[Trisquel-users] Is Belenos Moving to SystemD?

2015-06-01 Thread ka1cey
Hello, I recently did my monthly dist-upgrade, and heard mention of Pieces of systemd, like the journal and services, getting installed. After the upgrade, I went looking for the cli tools like systemctl and journalctl; they're not present. How much of systemd do I now have? Are my

Re: [Trisquel-users] getting an ubuntu notebook and installing debian 8?

2015-06-01 Thread t8mf4nu6lizp
The caveat of trying to do the homework yourself is that if it works with Linux it might require a blob that comes with Linux but not with Linux-libre. In a similar vein some devices proudly state that their driver is open source, yet fail to mention that it is more or less useless with a

[Trisquel-users] Re : getting an ubuntu notebook and installing debian 8?

2015-06-01 Thread lcerf
If you do not want Gluglug's X200 (the only solution with a free BIOS), the easiest way to go is http://libre.thinkpenguin.com Everything will work out of the box. Trisquel will even come pre-installed and 25% of the benefits on your command will be donated to the Trisquel project. If,