Re: [Trisquel-users] TALOS II Secure Workstation, from Raptor Engineering

2017-08-17 Thread happy_gnu
I know where you live might not be that much but 7 thousand in 6 months! Wow that is a lot where I live. A lot! And yeah that is a monumental amount of money for a computer :/ To put it in perspective that is almost 5 years of minimum wage in my country :/

Re: [Trisquel-users] TALOS II Secure Workstation, from Raptor Engineering

2017-08-17 Thread onpon4
Unfortunately, these are definitely upper-class prices. What you are talking about is literally just a motherboard and CPU; nothing else is included, not even a power supply or case. An actual Talos machine would be this one: https://secure.raptorcs.com/content/TL2WK2/purchase.html Note the

Re: [Trisquel-users] which webcam?

2017-08-17 Thread Alexander Stephen Thomas Ross
look for USB (video or something) Class Compliant ones. I think logitech make a fancy HD one that works? thinkpengin sell webcams. most cheap china ones these days i suspect are perhaps class compliant (but maybe buggy?) ones?

[Trisquel-users] Re : 13Aug2017 buy Trisquel laptop

2017-08-17 Thread lcerf
There usually (always?) is something like "Restore defaults" in the BIOS/UEFI configuration. Search for it. Trisquel's documentation suggests "the USB installer provided by pendrivelinux.com" to create the live USB: https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/how-create-liveusb I wrote a manual to

Re: [Trisquel-users] TALOS II Secure Workstation, from Raptor Engineering

2017-08-17 Thread J.B. Nicholson
great...@riseup.net wrote: >Would it be having a truck act as a car? No.. but I'm sure it will be as expensive as a car :'( $2300 for a single CPU Talos II bundle, according to https://secure.raptorcs.com/content/TL2B01/purchase.html I don't think it's fair to compare the Talos II (or the

Re: [Trisquel-users] 13Aug2017 buy Trisquel laptop

2017-08-17 Thread blogstory
I don't have any computer running gnu/linux, sudo commands are out and I changed the BIOS settings several times trying to get the USB recognized first. The usb is already formated and readable. then I tried to make it a bootdrive with pendrivelinux.com I thought it worked (no errors

Re: [Trisquel-users] 13Aug2017 buy Trisquel laptop

2017-08-17 Thread greatgnu
Don't worry, verbose mate hehe :) If you have there available a GNU distro then format the usb key (you can use either winzozz - format in fat32, or on GNU you can use 'gparted') in terminal: lsblk Look at the output- the hard drive should be sda, the usb key should be sdb or sdc. Say

Re: [Trisquel-users] TALOS II Secure Workstation, from Raptor Engineering

2017-08-17 Thread greatgnu
>Would it be having a truck act as a car? No.. but I'm sure it will be as expensive as a car :'(

Re: [Trisquel-users] can a website see from which folder firefox uploads a file?

2017-08-17 Thread greatgnu
I'll leave as it is coz editing won't benefit mucho as mailing list and shit.. but re-reading "first of all I don't do anything illegal on Internet." comes out as very suspicious. Isn't the first thing a drunk man would comment 'I am never drunk'? Oh shit, now they know, close everything,

Re: [Trisquel-users] 13Aug2017 buy Trisquel laptop

2017-08-17 Thread blogstory
4:53 PM 8/17/2017 I screwed up! I don't recall what I did last time I installed Trisquel (3 years ago) maybe I burned the ISO on a DVD disk. but I don't have that DVD now and my son has all my burnable DVDs so I can't make another. But, really I didn't think it would matter. I have the

Re: [Trisquel-users] free PDA running JMP

2017-08-17 Thread gpast_panama
Thank you!

[Trisquel-users] which webcam?

2017-08-17 Thread svhaab
Which webcams do you want to tell about? I watched the h node list on webcams. I cannot search by price. In result I cannot make a swift search. Can you suggest a new or used libre software and low priced webcam? Thanks.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Important: GNUPad & GNUberry Libre

2017-08-17 Thread gpast_panama
There's no real reason to "replace" the Raspberry Pi. The major technical obstacles to freeing it, I believe, have already been surpassed, meaning some fleshing-out work is all that remains: https://github.com/christinaa/rpi-open-firmware. Rather than start from scratch, it would make more

Re: [Trisquel-users] Important: GNUPad & GNUberry Libre

2017-08-17 Thread gpast_panama
There's no real reason to "replace" the Raspberry Pi. The major technical obstacles to freeing it, I believe, have already been surpassed, meaning some fleshing-out work is all that remains: https://github.com/christinaa/rpi-open-firmware. Rather than start from scratch, it would make more

Re: [Trisquel-users] Encrypting files?

2017-08-17 Thread svhaab
http://www.deutschlandfunk.de/verschluesselungssoftware-veracrypt-unabhaengige.684.de.html?dram:article_id=369309 Veracrypt says, do not encrypt on ssds. The ssd software may cancel secure encryption. Any information on the matter about gnulinux encryption?

Re: [Trisquel-users] TALOS II Secure Workstation, from Raptor Engineering

2017-08-17 Thread gpast_panama
>Can you say, what it is for? https://secure.raptorcs.com/content/TL2B01/intro.html Can it be a desktop computer? Would it be having a truck act as a car? It's a high-end desktop and server board, so I'm pretty sure it'd be useful primarily those with computing-power-intensive needs. As such,

Re: [Trisquel-users] What service do you recommend to replace OpenMailBox

2017-08-17 Thread leoo
Great but hosted in Germany rather than Switzerland. And not a big fan of the domain name either.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Installing dmx6fireusb sound card on trisquel-mini

2017-08-17 Thread greatgnu
Probably it requires non-free firmware and that's the reason why it doesn't work. Try using a search engine to find more about that particular hardware. Searx instances are very good for instance -> http://stats.searx.oe5tpo.com/ Gives me among other things this page ->

Re: [Trisquel-users] TALOS II Secure Workstation, from Raptor Engineering

2017-08-17 Thread svhaab
Can you say, what it is for? https://secure.raptorcs.com/content/TL2B01/intro.html Can it be a desktop computer? Would it be having a truck act as a car? Is the quality such, it can run for decades? It has no dvi port. Can you put a x86 pci graphic card on it? What system do you install on it?

Re: [Trisquel-users] can a website see from which folder firefox uploads a file?

2017-08-17 Thread greatgnu
Well, first of all I don't do anything illegal on Internet. Second, my user name is 'gnu', it always has been and always will be. No need to hide it, on the contrary I am very proud of my user name. :P I can see how this can worry you though. I imagine if this was the case, if it was

Re: [Trisquel-users] can a website see from which folder firefox uploads a file?

2017-08-17 Thread greatgnu
nickymate, how about you stick it all into one post? There's no reason to flood the forum. :)

Re: [Trisquel-users] SSL handshake failed on trisquel mini

2017-08-17 Thread greatgnu
You are welcome, andresj !

Re: [Trisquel-users] Important: GNUPad & GNUberry Libre

2017-08-17 Thread happy_gnu
The technical and legal challenges on creating a completely libre device are far way beyond giving it a cute name. You can support https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68/micro-desktop

[Trisquel-users] Important: GNUPad & GNUberry Libre

2017-08-17 Thread matthias . lehr
GNUPad L100 GNUPad L100 Docking station GNUPad L100 Battery GNUberry Libre 1 Model A Why is there no startup company ready to produce such devices as a replacement for our current refurbished ThinkPads and the Raspberry Pi?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Automatically Start VPN Connection

2017-08-17 Thread pyromane
merci à toi pour l'explication ! Ca marche tres bien et meme si je n'ai que du wifi... lien donné par Magic Banana bonne journée à toi

[Trisquel-users] TALOS II Secure Workstation, from Raptor Engineering

2017-08-17 Thread matthias . lehr
Recently, Raptor Engineering has launched a new series of workstation and server computers. These are high-end systems, using the libre IBM POWER9 architecture, and the boot firmware is entirely Free Software like Libreboot. https://libreboot.org/news/talos.html