Re: [Trisquel-users] Backup operating system into installable media

2012-09-17 Thread Alexander Stephen Thomas Ross
http://code.google.com/p/ubuntu-builder/ On 14/09/12 19:36, john.wilkin...@btinternet.com wrote: Remastersys is good, relatively easy to install, after you have played around with it easy to use , I've used it for a couple of months. The only drawback is that it can only handle up to 4 GB (this

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel 5.5 / SMPlayer / LinternaMagica YouTube codec suddenly doesn't plays.

2012-09-17 Thread Alexander Stephen Thomas Ross
JDownloader.org is reliable. Knows about webm too. Codec is software implementation. Format is the standard.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Just a question for all Free Software Users from a Student

2012-09-17 Thread Alexander Stephen Thomas Ross
Stuff school. Stupid institution to zombieafly imhumans to do what there are told. Home Education! If they are still teaching trash/flash they really are obsolete. I've been to private then state schools. In the UK. I am not leaning about engineering. Left school at the end of year 8. I am now

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel 5.5 / SMPlayer / LinternaMagica YouTube codec suddenly doesn't plays.

2012-09-18 Thread Alexander Stephen Thomas Ross
Dam. What is it? On 18/09/12 02:06, alonivt...@gmail.com wrote: Unfortunately, JDownloader is not free software as it includes some non-free code.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Just a question for all Free Software Users from a Student

2012-09-18 Thread Alexander Stephen Thomas Ross
Ras PI needs propriety software for the GPU just to boot! No good for free software subscribers. Rhombus Tech is superior! http://rhombus-tech.net/ On 18/09/12 01:57, aliasb...@gmail.com wrote: It's very kind of you but I can't accept that, it goes against my way of life (if I can say this

Re: [Trisquel-users] Just a question for all Free Software Users from a Student

2012-09-18 Thread Alexander Stephen Thomas Ross
Do check out the mailing list. There is a lot of info on the site if you look carefully. On 19/09/12 00:54, aliasb...@gmail.com wrote: I know but I was hopping to use it only in server mode :S One more dream broken xD I will see Rhombus Tech (never heard of it).

Re: [Trisquel-users] How can i shut off my screen

2012-09-18 Thread Alexander Stephen Thomas Ross
...also there is setx

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel 5.5 / SMPlayer / LinternaMagica YouTube codec suddenly doesn't plays.

2012-09-19 Thread Alexander Stephen Thomas Ross
So they have a proprietary format (dlc). I guess there software for that proprietary format is proprietary? If so, what needs to be removed to make it free? Will deleting some files make it free or does it need a big modification? On 19/09/12 05:16, alonivt...@gmail.com wrote: Read about it

Re: [Trisquel-users] Tux Super Key Keyboard Sticker Replacement for Microsoft Keyboards

2012-09-20 Thread Alexander Stephen Thomas Ross
Yes please make a GNU/Linux (guu/tux). I would love to buy loads of those! This image http://static.fsf.org/nosvn/stickers/duo.xcf would be fantastic!

Re: [Trisquel-users] Tux Super Key Keyboard Sticker Replacement for Microsoft Keyboards

2012-09-20 Thread Alexander Stephen Thomas Ross
I don't think rms would be happy having his face on a keyboard of a non-free BOIS computer...? On 20/09/12 11:53, aliasb...@gmail.com wrote: We should have 4 different Super Key Stickers to choose: 1 - Tux (for the Linux Fans) 2 - GNU (for the Gnu Fans) 3 - Trisquel (for pure trisquel users) 4

Re: [Trisquel-users] Tux Super Key Keyboard Sticker Replacement for Microsoft Keyboards

2012-09-20 Thread Alexander Stephen Thomas Ross
It's not about winning. :) There is an Nano Note, Lemote, Rhombus-tech On 20/09/12 12:25, aliasb...@gmail.com wrote: You got me there... but I will found and argument to win the next time ! (PS: Or we can just find a laptop with free BIOS and everything using nothing but free software :D)

Re: [Trisquel-users] H-node

2012-09-22 Thread Alexander Stephen Thomas Ross
Please Name Shame them. They are defiantly rubbish at education. On 22/09/12 06:38, migatheot...@gmail.com wrote: And don't worry about people laughing about you for not having Adobe Flash. I've gone through the same. A few months back, I went to an online high school (that I had started when

Re: [Trisquel-users] Anyone interested on a Trisquel Gnu/Linux Forum Android application ?

2012-09-23 Thread Alexander Stephen Thomas Ross
Give the code? The code is the application. The binary is for convenience. Well if your offer a bad service don't expect your customer to put up with it like they would stupidly with a proprietary program. But then they also might have more patience because you gave them freedom and if your

Re: [Trisquel-users] Anyone interested on a Trisquel Gnu/Linux Forum Android application ?

2012-09-23 Thread Alexander Stephen Thomas Ross
The so called freedom to restrict freedom? yuck what a load of rubbish. You just want your own private monopoly. Which is unnecessary. GPLv3 and say you require a fee. Make it easy (Bitcoin!). Use repos, so one's update experience is not like m$ Dows. On 23/09/12 09:09, a...@hannan-joyner.net

Re: [Trisquel-users] Anyone interested on a Trisquel Gnu/Linux Forum Android application ?

2012-09-23 Thread Alexander Stephen Thomas Ross
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html

Re: [Trisquel-users] Anyone interested on a Trisquel Gnu/Linux Forum Android application ?

2012-09-23 Thread Alexander Stephen Thomas Ross
I don't like all these apps that can be instead done in HTML5 as a website. Keep it in the web browser. That way I have more flexibility. The forum is the same as the mailing list right? Then just use good old email. I guess if the forum is naff to view on a small screen then why not make a

Re: [Trisquel-users] Anyone interested on a Trisquel Gnu/Linux Forum Android application ?

2012-09-24 Thread Alexander Stephen Thomas Ross
I am getting sick of this. Just go and read ALL the writings on gnu.org and fsf.org and if you still don't get it, Read Them again and again and again. Like I did. Constantly think about it for one mouth. Don't let your self not take note of other details so all you end up doing is being stuck

Re: [Trisquel-users] Adobe Flash required by math professor; how to confront him?

2012-10-03 Thread Alexander Stephen Thomas Ross
If he is a non ethical person :o. One of these open source practical only inhumans. Say it's a legal issue. You broke the licence agreement by using it when you don't agree to it. You committed a crime (?) :P. On 03/10/12 14:02, onp...@yahoo.com wrote: Second, I've been giving in and using

Re: [Trisquel-users] A FSF supported project needs help: mediagoblin

2012-10-12 Thread Alexander Stephen Thomas Ross
Yea. GNU Media Goblin means they are a officially part of the GNU project. On 12/10/12 22:27, Alexander Stephen Thomas Ross wrote: I think so or at least there providing support. You can find out. It's probably on there mailing list. On 12/10/12 22:24, tegskywal...@hotmail.com wrote: Did

Re: [Trisquel-users] A FSF supported project needs help: mediagoblin

2012-10-12 Thread Alexander Stephen Thomas Ross
pah I'll see about that. My biz in one sentence is a decent digital video distributor. bye bye netflik, *rents, Amazon,etc. :) need to have something to show. I am currently planing to use media goblin if it gets bigger ought. On 12/10/12 23:43, tegskywal...@hotmail.com wrote: The problem

[Trisquel-users] Found it. GNU Art (and so legal info for mr Thinkpenguin.)

2012-10-15 Thread Alexander Stephen Thomas Ross
http://www.gnu.org/graphics/graphics.html

Re: [Trisquel-users] Tegskywalker needs help

2012-10-15 Thread Alexander Stephen Thomas Ross
I am sick of trolls. Bit of fun off the internet: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCchaOIIvOU boo no webm!

[Trisquel-users] Spammers Trolls Punishment Policy

2012-10-17 Thread Alexander Stephen Thomas Ross
Put spammers trolls email addresses on a list of shame, on a webpage or text file for spamming spiders to find. he he he.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Script to remove nonfree software from Ubuntu

2012-10-18 Thread Alexander Stephen Thomas Ross
Yes please! On 18/10/12 21:02, aliasb...@gmail.com wrote: I didn't try it yet, but I was thinking of something like vrms (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vrms) but with a lot of changes. Or a little bit like the your-freedom package like in Parabola GNU/Linux, with just the need for a simple

Re: [Trisquel-users] Script to remove nonfree software from Ubuntu

2012-10-18 Thread Alexander Stephen Thomas Ross
I don't like ubuntu also. with there polices. For example restricted boot. fedora did a better job than ubuntu. However I want my Gnome-shell and Tribler. Ubuntu is more stable then Debian unstable, by the looks of things. Though I am looking at Debian unstable and aptosid. Trying to decide if

Re: [Trisquel-users] Script to remove nonfree software from Ubuntu

2012-10-18 Thread Alexander Stephen Thomas Ross
Sorry. I should have said I was talking about ubuntu base but with with non-free contamination removed. I didn't say Trisquel because of the context of a script to decontaminate ubuntu. Re Parabola. I might try it on my newish main monster PC. So thanks for the offer. This ant a webserver

Re: [Trisquel-users] How many of you dual-boot ?

2012-10-21 Thread Alexander Stephen Thomas Ross
Never properly bother with duel boot. Began with USB flash drive installs. for 1 or two years and eventuality committed to hd install on pc when dad let me or backuped hd i forget details.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Spammers Trolls Punishment Policy

2012-10-21 Thread Alexander Stephen Thomas Ross
http://www.pastebay.net/

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel on ARM

2012-10-22 Thread Alexander Stephen Thomas Ross
The only ARM (but *not limited* to arm) hardware I would put my effort into is Rombus-Tech. The future is very exciting. http://rhombus-tech.net/ Look at the mailing for what’s happening. Do say what you want. when people have agreed on a product they will go about getting produced. The

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel on ARM

2012-10-22 Thread Alexander Stephen Thomas Ross
On 22/10/12 23:36, Andrew M. 'Leny' Lindley wrote: On Monday 22 October 2012 22:38:54 Alexander Stephen Thomas Ross wrote: The only ARM (but *not limited* to arm) hardware I would put my effort into is Rombus-Tech. The future is very exciting. http://rhombus-tech.net/ Look at the mailing

[Trisquel-users] Flash Drive Install File Systems

2012-10-24 Thread Alexander Stephen Thomas Ross
EXT4 I believe had advantages for flash media. You can disable journalling. Search EXT4 disable journal. I use EXT4 with an disabled journal on my USB flash drive installs. On 24/10/12 12:14, aliasb...@gmail.com wrote: PS: Nothing to do with the post, but for those that want to put Trisquel

Re: [Trisquel-users] ARM Code for Raspberry Pi Goes Free

2012-10-24 Thread Alexander Stephen Thomas Ross
@ch...@thinkpenguin.com Sorry but don't brother with them. Go and properly look into Rhombus-tech.net. Especially the mailing list! Cool,exciting,cheaper,future proof stuff :D. BTW I'm not an hardware expert but a newbie!

Re: [Trisquel-users] youtube-dl

2012-10-31 Thread Alexander Stephen Thomas Ross
sudo echo 'youtube-dl -t -c --console-title --prefer-free-formats --srt-lang en --write-srt $@ exit' /usr/local/bin/vdl If there is no subtitle then youtube-dl moans and does not download the video.

Re: [Trisquel-users] FSF giving away Trisquel GNU/Linux installers at Win 8 launch

2012-11-03 Thread Alexander Stephen Thomas Ross
SPAM! On 03/11/12 09:40, nickcav...@hushmail.com wrote: Thanks really informative and appreciative... G***s

Re: [Trisquel-users] The Economics of Free Software

2012-11-07 Thread Alexander Stephen Thomas Ross
comp...@gevail.com Thanks for the incite to how you got to were you are now. Looks like if most people used the name GNU/Linux you would have started at the GNU website and not webpages about Linus Torvalds.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Prospects of a GNU/Linux Tablet

2012-11-15 Thread Alexander Stephen Thomas Ross
On 13/11/12 07:42, mattij.la...@kolumbus.fi wrote: There is the Vivaldi tablet project. Project page: http://makeplaylive.com/ Forums: http://opentablets.org/ Main developer's Blog: http://aseigo.blogspot.fi/ They are making a GNU/Linux tablet that should be fully free software compatible.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Prospects of a GNU/Linux Tablet

2012-11-15 Thread Alexander Stephen Thomas Ross
Rhombus-Tech are making progress on a KDE Tablet. There are also in talks with the FSF in doing a fund-raising campaign like they did for Media Goblin. There will be an Free Software compatible card that has an attractive spec of 1.2GHz 1 core CPU and 2GB RAM, if I remember correctly. The tablet

Re: [Trisquel-users] Prospects of a GNU/Linux Tablet

2012-11-17 Thread Alexander Stephen Thomas Ross
On 17/11/12 09:17, postmodernhousew...@gmail.com wrote: I'm not as techy as I'd like to be, so I'm using Android 'as is', and I'm not even remotely impressed. I hate the way the apps are hardboiled into the OS so that I can't delete them, and are using up precious memory instead of installing

Re: [Trisquel-users] How to install gnome-shell

2012-11-19 Thread Alexander Stephen Thomas Ross
On 19/11/12 21:32, aliasb...@gmail.com wrote: Do you know what package I need to install on Trisquel 6.0 ? I installed gnome-session and gnome-shell but they don't appear on the list :s.. At the Login manager look for GNOME in the DE menu.

[Trisquel-users] Base Alternitive: Aptosid ?

2012-12-02 Thread Alexander Stephen Thomas Ross
I have been trying out the distribution Aptosid. It's based on Debian Unstable. It's cutting edge, rolling release but most of the time it's _*stable*_. I have been using if for a month now and not had any problems. So apps like Tribler -The future of bit-torrent.- are in the repos :). So with

Re: [Trisquel-users] Base Alternitive: Aptosid ?

2012-12-02 Thread Alexander Stephen Thomas Ross
On 02/12/12 18:11, aliasb...@gmail.com wrote: but not to be used as default. What was your thinking? Is the problem exiting X to install upgrades? Which I forgot to mention.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Making an FSF Endorseable Mass-volume Embedded Processor

2012-12-04 Thread Alexander Stephen Thomas Ross
On 05/12/12 01:14, a...@member.fsf.org wrote: I believe an existing project called OpenCores aims to make a free CPU architecture. However I think it is more geared towards embedded applications, but it is still an interesting project nonetheless.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Base Alternitive: Aptosid ?

2012-12-06 Thread Alexander Stephen Thomas Ross
On 02/12/12 17:49, Alexander Stephen Thomas Ross wrote: The non-free repo does not seam to be kept separate, The is not non-free repo to disable in the package manager. I guess work that would need to be done is: * Exterminate (remove) the non-free repo. What a load of rubbish. Just

Re: [Trisquel-users] Base Alternitive: Aptosid ?

2012-12-07 Thread Alexander Stephen Thomas Ross
On 07/12/12 04:31, aliasb...@gmail.com wrote: It is a problem of stable vs rolling, the old story. I personally think that the future is with the rolling distributions rather than with the stable distributions, but not a rolling-on-the-second, just a simple rolling-close-to-stable. Something

Re: [Trisquel-users] Ignored e-mail

2012-12-17 Thread Alexander Stephen Thomas Ross
Consider getting a £5 a year domain name like me.uk with email. I use gandi.net Look at my address for this mailing list.

[Trisquel-users] How To Boot Latest In Dev ISO?

2012-12-19 Thread Alexander Stephen Thomas Ross
I am trying to save a CD and boot of a flash drive. I have grub2, i think. I am using this in my config file: set isofile_trisquel=/trisquel.iso menuentry Trisquel { loopback loop (hd0,0)$isofile_trisquel linux (loop)/casper/vmlinuz boot=casper iso-scan/filename=$isofile_trisquel noeject

Re: [Trisquel-users] How To Boot Latest In Dev ISO?

2012-12-21 Thread Alexander Stephen Thomas Ross
Thanks. the key was the set var needed to be in menuentry Trisquel { } On 21/12/12 10:30, e.k.or...@gmail.com wrote: There is an error in (hd0,0) expression. The hard drive number starts from zero while partition number starts from 1. Try change to (hd0,1). Here is the crub.cfg entry that

Re: [Trisquel-users] How to install gnome-shell

2013-01-10 Thread Alexander Stephen Thomas Ross
I am trying to install Gnome shell in Trisquel 6. The problem is https://trisquel.info/en/issues/7367 In the mean time and to test my theory how do I force,override conflicting,broken deps? So apt* will install gnome-session without wanting to not install gnome-shell which affects gnome-core

Re: [Trisquel-users] Slow Scrolling on Trisquel 6.0 and Abrowser 17

2013-01-15 Thread Alexander Stephen Thomas Ross
In FF prefs did you enable smooth scrolling? On 13/01/13 06:02, aliasb...@gmail.com wrote: I've found that it is related to the Slow problem (because of the nouveau driver). I've tested with compiz and firefox is slow, mutter from Gnome3 it is the same, but without any composite (like while

Re: [Trisquel-users] Do you reject software labeled open source instead of free software

2013-02-20 Thread Alexander Stephen Thomas Ross
I treat it as a warning that there might be non-free yuck yuck now or in the future. EG jdownloader, ubuntu.

Re: [Trisquel-users] How to install gnome-shell

2013-02-23 Thread Alexander Stephen Thomas Ross
See this previous post regarding gnome-shell: Original Message Subject: Re: [Trisquel-users] How to install gnome-shell Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 01:53:29 + From: Alexander Stephen Thomas Ross maillist_trisq...@aross.me To: trisquel-users@listas.trisquel.info I am trying

Re: [Trisquel-users] How to install gnome-shell

2013-02-23 Thread Alexander Stephen Thomas Ross
Sorry wrong thread. I meant for my prev post to go to the Remaining issues in Trisquel 6.0 thread. On 23/02/13 23:20, onp...@gmail.com wrote: Well, I don't know about forcing, but I got it to work by installing this PPA: https://launchpad.net/~gnome3-team/+archive/gnome3 Then you can install

Re: [Trisquel-users] how to install bitcoin

2013-03-10 Thread Alexander Stephen Thomas Ross
I don't think a GPU is good enough now. I believe mining now done on FFGPA's. On 10/03/13 21:18, bitcoinsmas...@gmail.com wrote: Can I mine bitcoins with with my Mac? is the hardware is powerful enough? I am eager to enter this field.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Re : Enabling Gnome 3 in Trisquel 6 - now works

2013-03-18 Thread Alexander Stephen Thomas Ross
I think this is related to ram and swap usage. How much swap and ram are you using? I believe what’s happening is, it is loading all those nice big icons from swap. That's why if you haven't accessed activities for a while it takes 10 secs. On 18/03/13 22:39, Dave Hunt wrote: I find that,

Re: [Trisquel-users] Enabling Gnome 3 in Trisquel 6 - now works

2013-03-18 Thread Alexander Stephen Thomas Ross
I have a Intel Atom N570. duel care 1.66 per core but with 2 more virtual cores and *2GB* ram. When my 4GB swap gets to 14% used, my system starts to become unusable. Attached is my Conky config. Conky is a system monitor that is running at the bottom of my screen which displays status info

Re: [Trisquel-users] Re : Trisquel Multitouch ARM Tablet?

2013-03-31 Thread Alexander Stephen Thomas Ross
On 31/03/13 23:47, magicban...@gmail.com wrote: As far as I know, it is, today, impossible to get 3D acceleration on ARM with free software. 29 Mar 2013: Etnaviv 3D GPU Reverse-Engineering Project: http://rhombus-tech.net/freescale/iMX6/news/ Do not hope for ARM to support FaiF drivers and

Re: [Trisquel-users] Freeplane suggestions

2013-04-05 Thread Alexander Stephen Thomas Ross
That's linking or something. Freeplane has that feature. On 05/04/13 17:56, firefoxbugrepor...@yahoo.com wrote: Some programs are mind maping software, which is not what you want. You need concept mapping software, but I can only give you a list of both.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Please, help me get rid of Skype.

2013-05-13 Thread Alexander Stephen Thomas Ross
http://www.webrtc.org

Re: [Trisquel-users] vPro

2013-06-24 Thread Alexander Stephen Thomas Ross
On 23/06/13 21:27, ejectm...@me.com wrote: http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/american-ambassador-says-u-s-is-not-spying-on-canadians-1.1329420 That new nsd data centre is not for americans. Its for you and every one of us on plant earth! canada has it's own censorship and surveillance(?)

Re: [Trisquel-users] vPro

2013-06-24 Thread Alexander Stephen Thomas Ross
Look Rhombus-tech are after a some millions for getting a new SOC design into has production so it would have been available this year if they got the money. It would make for a brilliant SOC and be 100% free software completable! http://lkcl.net/articles/fsf_endorseable_processor.html The

Re: [Trisquel-users] Jamendo Ogg Vorbis

2013-07-16 Thread Alexander Stephen Thomas Ross
On 16/07/13 13:32, zatr...@riseup.net wrote: Heya fellas! Modify this shell scripts according to your needs and enjoy. Happy hacking, credits go to user showing up under drtan nickname from the Parabola project. Note that the current one, does not tag the files for you.. thou works alright.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Jamendo Ogg Vorbis

2013-07-17 Thread Alexander Stephen Thomas Ross
On 17/07/13 15:17, zatr...@riseup.net wrote: Way cool man, way cool! May I live until I got my fingers on some decent videocamera and push the output straight to VP9/WebM. Seems like you are too an audiophile from the collection of other scripts.. Thank you. I try hard to be a audiophile/fuss

[Trisquel-users] Bypass Cameras h264 Encoder Via HDMI?

2013-07-17 Thread Alexander Stephen Thomas Ross
On 17/07/13 15:17, zatr...@riseup.net wrote: May I live until I got my fingers on some decent videocamera and push the output straight to VP9/WebM. I have been wanting too test (Pending getting some hdmi cables + adaptors and access to a hdmi screen or buying an hdmi2vga.) to see if one gets

Re: [Trisquel-users] OLinuXino - free alternative to raspberry pi?

2013-10-25 Thread Alexander Stephen Thomas Ross
On 26/10/13 01:32, gra...@openmailbox.org wrote: AMD made a single-board computer called the Gizmo Board, which is x86 based. I'd assume that it has an AMD video card, which generally require nonfree drivers for 3D acceleration to work. I hope Linus and other copyright holders of the Linux

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel tablet

2013-10-30 Thread Alexander Stephen Thomas Ross
I want a tablet too. The only one I recommend getting is http://rhombus-tech.net/community_ideas/kde_tablet/ http://makeplaylive.com/ Unlike other tablets this one is future prof. It's upgradable. Pop out the old CPU card which you can then cheaply reuse in another case/product or in your own

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel tablet

2013-10-30 Thread Alexander Stephen Thomas Ross
On 26/10/13 01:01, st...@openmailbox.org wrote: Most tablets use ARM processors which are heavily Android based. There are some Ubuntu and Debian versions for ARM that some tablets use. Check ebay and go from there with the product names you find for further research. Aliexpress also. 99.*%

Re: [Trisquel-users] MediaGoblin Opinions

2013-11-13 Thread Alexander Stephen Thomas Ross
Private albums is coming in the future with federation. I'm working towards a static html5 multimedia gallery. I expect to do this as it is related to my non-existent biz but we'll see when I have actually made yee galley. Currently I working on personal camera video processing script and video

Re: [Trisquel-users] Converting to OGG

2013-12-26 Thread Alexander Stephen Thomas Ross
http://sourceforge.net/projects/fastoggenc/ http://www.tuxamito.com/joomla/index.php/en/component/content/article/46-fastoggenc/86-fastoggenc I use currently. Properly preserves metadata, if I remember correctly. Lacks a normalization feature (not repalygain, which I love but the audio players

Re: [Trisquel-users] converting to ogg in mass

2014-03-22 Thread Alexander Stephen Thomas Ross
flac2all pacpl fastoggenc A script I made for flac into opus and copys all metadata! Including embedded artwork! no --help. modify to your needs. todo: * add --help/-h * only encode new files can be modified to do vorbis. With Opus you get more music on your laptop for same quarlty :) but

Re: [Trisquel-users] Free Software that is not GPL'd

2014-04-05 Thread Alexander Stephen Thomas Ross
I advise to avoid the telling mind set. For a non-telling mind set have a read: http://www.myinovationspace.com which I hope you will find helpful in developing how you go about talking about FS. On 05/04/14 05:04, g33k0...@gmail.com wrote: As someone who has come to learn to love free software,

Re: [Trisquel-users] Jitsi video black

2014-05-19 Thread Alexander Stephen Thomas Ross
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 jitsi can (and does? I forget) use vp8 mabybe vp9, I forget. as well as Opus for audio :) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/

Re: [Trisquel-users] Jitsi video black

2014-05-21 Thread Alexander Stephen Thomas Ross
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've not been able to try Jitsi/sip based voip with anyone. Would you (or anyone else?) like to try jitsi with me? I've had success with https://vmux.co it's libre software and in the web browser via html5 webrtc. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-

[Trisquel-users] Looking for USB Bluetooth 3.* or newer

2014-05-21 Thread Alexander Stephen Thomas Ross
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I need a bluetooth 3.0 or newer usb dongal. I can't use bt versions below 3 as there crypto is compromised,broken,cracked. this is for a mini wireless BT keyboard + touchpad. so it needs to be secure. So any suggestions? products or places to look or

Re: [Trisquel-users] Re : New (first) libre planet in UK

2014-08-24 Thread Alexander Stephen Thomas Ross
thanks for setting this up, I'll add it to my list of things I'd like to visit. been fancying a uk FS meetup. Could you setup a ical feed? (I think ical is the standard to use?) So any events/meetups showup in my calender. thank you! :D

Re: [Trisquel-users] LibreBin - Share any text securely

2014-08-25 Thread Alexander Stephen Thomas Ross
btw I believe libre wise github is not preferable, I believe http://gitorious.org/ is preferable.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Re : Diaspora*

2014-09-05 Thread Alexander Stephen Thomas Ross
http://social.aross.me

[Trisquel-users] VIA Graphics, Non-Free Blobs?

2014-09-08 Thread Alexander Stephen Thomas Ross
Can I have a fully free system but for the dam bois with a VIA system? http://www.via.com.tw I'm currently seeing if there is any source code.

[Trisquel-users] Home Server Mother Board Recommendation?

2014-09-08 Thread Alexander Stephen Thomas Ross
looking for a efficient (to the point where it's fanless) computer with lots and lots of sata and ram, 4gb min, 6gb or maybe 8gb ram I'm thinking of using. I guess to get lots of sata the only way to go is x86 and so dam intel as they have free graphics but evil bois :( booo!. 6 sata ports min

Re: [Trisquel-users] VIA Graphics, Non-Free Blobs?

2014-09-08 Thread Alexander Stephen Thomas Ross
On 08/09/14 15:27, Michał Masłowski wrote: If I understand your question correctly, you want a system with everything free except for the BIOS. I.e. just something that works with Trisquel out of the box with all needed features, like ThinkPenguin computers (that also use money to support

Re: [Trisquel-users] VIA Graphics, Non-Free Blobs?

2014-09-09 Thread Alexander Stephen Thomas Ross
Chris: yea,looks like your thinking of the same one as me. thanks for the history/info.

Re: [Trisquel-users] camera/camcorder that supports webm or ogg

2014-10-10 Thread Alexander Stephen Thomas Ross
maybe could be done with http://www.elphel.com/ or a webcam that doesn't encode the video it self - outputs raw. I don't think any hd webcams do this. early HD cameras (hint: DLSR's ;) ) or camcorders, recorded into mjpeg which doesn’t have any fees to be paid and so I believe that format is in

Re: [Trisquel-users] camera/camcorder that supports webm or ogg

2014-10-14 Thread Alexander Stephen Thomas Ross
On 14/10/14 06:22, adel.af...@gmail.com wrote: I wonder what it would take to get one of those cameras in working order for regular people. not much I think, well if you use ssh and ffmpeg then I guess it wouldn't be to hard. In fact I think(?) I remember them having a cool looking pro GUI,

Re: [Trisquel-users] imp: the tiny home computer - free software friendly?

2014-11-30 Thread Alexander Stephen Thomas Ross
forgive me, I've writen the first half as a rant. dam it why is it yet more disposable junk that keeps being mention here. that thing has non-free gpu = junk device = landfill. as the gpu drivers are forbidden knowage it's stuck to old ubuntu. forever most likely unless massive reverse

Re: [Trisquel-users] Free Software eBay

2014-12-02 Thread Alexander Stephen Thomas Ross
how much btw? just wondering. try bitcoin people http://bitcointalk.org/ https://startpage.com/do/search?q=bitcoin+escrowl=english_uk

Re: [Trisquel-users] Free Software eBay

2014-12-04 Thread Alexander Stephen Thomas Ross
On 03/12/14 20:35, fernando.ne...@inbox.ru wrote: If that's for me, and a question about the price... I'm thinking on selling it as close as possible to 150€ (since that it has a new hard drive and memory). And, concerning Bitcoin forums, Thank you for your suggestion. But, besides

Re: [Trisquel-users] Music on the fly

2014-12-25 Thread Alexander Stephen Thomas Ross
magnatune's nice html5 player http://greattuneplayer.jit.su/ I use it all the time for listening to new releases. https://libre.fm when I want to listen to all sorts stuff thats different from my usual. i download jamendo albums in flac (yes they do provide flacs but only via there api!) heres

Re: [Trisquel-users] Garmin MapSource libre alternative

2014-12-28 Thread Alexander Stephen Thomas Ross
I use navit, it's fantastic. easy to use with touch but can be used with a keyboard and mouse, works faily great in the car with rout auto planning. it's in the repo. snag is with navit you have to edit a xml file to configure it/setup. to tell it where your map data is and to enable UI bits, I

Re: [Trisquel-users] flac2opus

2015-01-16 Thread Alexander Stephen Thomas Ross
I wrote some scripts for this, they might be that they could do with some more work but it's a start http://software.aross.me the opus tools are very good in that you can give them a flac, they will copy the metadata over to the encoded opus file. however they don't do batch processing which is

Re: [Trisquel-users] flac2opus

2015-01-16 Thread Alexander Stephen Thomas Ross
On 16/01/15 16:50, gra...@openmailbox.org wrote: I noticed that the script in question (http://george.the-petries.co.uk/software/media_processing_scripts/flacs2opus.sh) is missing a license. I'm assuming this is just an oversight. :-) yea, it's if it's around 200 lines of code then it's public

Re: [Trisquel-users] dr. gnu i have to heal my apple hw how?

2015-02-25 Thread Alexander Stephen Thomas Ross
I found your post quite easy to read. it was also interesting, a insight into your life and your thinking. I think your stuffed if you want to try and reuse your ithing hardware, that your going to have to replace it all. maybe the desktop/laptop can be reused (minus wifi unless with a different

Re: [Trisquel-users] replacement for adobe after effects?

2015-02-22 Thread Alexander Stephen Thomas Ross
On 22/02/15 20:51, cromo...@swn.nu wrote: ok, I was trying to build it in trisquel, but sadly there is a dependency to libfaac-dev which is non-free. I remember there being a ubuntu package/repo you could add for cinelerra, a few years ago. search cenelerra ubuntu repo and see what you get now.

Re: [Trisquel-users] 'Files' (the file manager) stopped accepting input on file rename

2015-01-29 Thread Alexander Stephen Thomas Ross
had this bug on my old systems. had to kill nautilus command for ref: $ killall -9 nautilus so note that the folders you have open will be closed, you'll just have to reopen them. I think it might be fixed in the latest nautilus? what trisquel version are you on?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Call to Japan - I need your help!!

2015-01-29 Thread Alexander Stephen Thomas Ross
webrtc wise i have had success (only used it once with a techy. i forget what web browser he used) with https://vmux.co it's free software btw. hmmm what about (q)TOX? it's alpha, if someone would like to test video and/or voice chat with me msg me and i'll send my address. I'd like to try it :).

Re: [Trisquel-users] Torify my Software Updater and Synaptic

2015-04-19 Thread Alexander Stephen Thomas Ross
look on the tor website, i think there’s a howto on there. On 18/04/15 23:39, tomlukeyw...@fastmail.co.uk wrote: just while i can ask dose anyone know how to use tor with irc clients?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Qualcomm Atheros AR242x / AR542X Wireless

2015-05-13 Thread Alexander Stephen Thomas Ross
ive had a bug with the current trisquel like this. i booted into trisquel 6 and it was able to re-enable it.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Torify my Software Updater and Synaptic

2015-04-18 Thread Alexander Stephen Thomas Ross
hmm, global system proxy or maybe apt has a proxy setting? if your not doing a global system proxy then try searching apt settings proxy maybe?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Personal Digital Assistant

2015-11-07 Thread Alexander Stephen Thomas Ross
i use my nano note I also have zipit z2 that i use for usb host jobs. and i also have a gta04 im pending to learn (with help for the chap i bought it from) about howto compile kerenls for it. firstly nano notes are very rare now. same for gta04 but the team is working on its exciting successor

Re: [Trisquel-users] What DE do you prefer for Trisquel 8?

2015-11-07 Thread Alexander Stephen Thomas Ross
gnome-shell please :D.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Citizenfour on Popcorn Time

2015-08-31 Thread Alexander Stephen Thomas Ross
you know with https://tribler.org you get the best of both worlds. download and watch while it downloads and/or stream. + there theres the beta anonymous download option. proper cutting edge stuff! Tor tech and bt combined to make a tor-like bit-torrenting. so the main diff with tribler and

Re: [Trisquel-users] The future of Libre Computing: Crowd Funding Campaign Starts Now

2016-07-06 Thread Alexander Stephen Thomas Ross
storage is 2x micro sd + internal usb dongle department . so one micro sd in the computer card and one in the laptop. you can get cheap or high spec/seed 128GB mirco sd cards starting at £30. you can also get 256GB ssd tech in a usb flash drive package/dongle for around £80 or a cheap 256GB usb

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