advice to seek here, what to discuss and how
help will be provided (e.g. no help in installing non-free stuff).
It might also be worth creating sub-forums to discuss e.g.
ethics-related topics or technical issue.
My two cents.
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do that tomorrow night...)
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the link: http://libre.thinkpenguin.com/
MagicBanana has replied using the website rather than the mailing list
and the embedded link got lost (this is actually and issue that should
be solved).
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Sorry to bump this thread, but I really feel that a sticky post on top
of each forum is necessary.
I am kind of sick of seeing how sometimes the forum is abused.
Thanks,
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to build a fairly large
system from source!
Best,
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Fortune of the day: You feel a whole lot more like you do now than you did
when you used to.
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them and their computers (e.g.
Xfce on an old laptop and GNOME3 on a high performance desktop). As
far as I know, no other OS offers this possibility!
Best,
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I usually check the Trisquel User forum[1] via the mailing list, but I
found out that a new forum named The Troll Hole[2] exists... and that
I get notifications from that forum even if I am not subscribed.
So, what about that?
Thanks,
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[1] https://trisquel.info/en/forum/users
[2
://artisopensource.net/cure/
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or use services such as Dropbox.
Regards,
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Fortune of the day: You are dishonest, but never to the point of hurting a
friend.
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Sorry about the off-topic post, but I had to...
I knew about Chuck Norris... but this possibly beats it!
http://www.stallmanfacts.com
My favorite so far:
Richard Stallman doesn't sleep, he is compiling.
Hi,
what is your goal? Are you trying to install the Enlightenment E17
desktop manager?
If so, you may want to build from source (more stable snapshots have
been released recently). I may be able to help you.
Let me know.
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 12:01 PM, john.wilkin...@btinternet.com wrote:
Hi Stefano,
That's exactly what I'm trying to do (I've done it on other distro's)
any help would be much appreciated.
OK, I routinely build E17 from source on my Trisquel (dagda) machine.
I will provide you with a list
source ~/.bashrc
to refresh your global variables.
Also, take a look at bash man page
man bash
Best,
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the information from.
On my Desktop workstation (not a laptop), the file is empty: no name whatsoever.
I'll try later on my laptop and let you know.
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On Fri, 28 Sep 2012 12:29:56 +0100
Stefano pietran...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 11:47 AM, mattij.la...@kolumbus.fi wrote:
Found this:
/sys/class/dmi/id/product_name
Got correct result (Vostro 3300) with
cat /sys/class/dmi/id/product_name
Does this command work
-premiere-pressrelease.pdf
Enjoy!
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two.
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students ridiculous fees, but their real customers are the teachers.
Wow, students have to pay to have their homework graded? That's outrageous!
Good luck with that,
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fortunately, it can still be changed
/suggestions.
+1
The questions are:
1) can that be implemented with Drupal in the official Trisquel website?
2) will people who use the mailing list linked to the forum (like myself) be
able to continue to do that?
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point.
You should try to build some sort of critical mass to make yourself heard.
Maybe your in your university there are students rights' associations
or other offices of that sort that may help you.
Good luck,
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repositories (Midori definitely
is), they're free software.
You can always double check by downloading the sources and looking for
the license.
Best,
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!).
I use regularly claws mail with Gmail with no problems whatsoever.
Best,
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Fortune of the day: All the troubles you have will pass away very quickly.
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is allocated.
Best,
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Fortune of the day: You can create your own opportunities this week.
Blackmail a senior executive.
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Hi,
I am not 100% sure, but it is often useful to bind or mount also /sys and /proc
can you do something like the following in your script?
chroot /mnt/root mount /proc
chroot /mnt/root mount /sys
chroot /mnt/root
Hope it helps.
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Fortune of the day: You will give someone a piece
installation of tor with
sudo apt-get purge tor
One last thing, it seems that you have some unused packages (see the
output of your apt-get). You can run apt-get autoremove to get rid of
them.
Best,
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On Fri, 2 Nov 2012 19:31:35 +0100 (CET)
lddi...@yahoo.com wrote:
Thank you Stefano! I run both commands. For the 2nd however, I got this:
apt-get autoremove
E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (13: Permission denied)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var
Bump.
Sticky post... please!
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Fortune of the day: You feel a whole lot more like you do now than you did
when you used to.
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in the forums.
Thank you,
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Fortune of the day: Cheer Up! Things are getting worse at a slower rate.
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. There used to be an automatic
mechanism that masked the email addresses on the web forum, but it seems it did
not work in this case.
I've manually edited this reply, but I'll try and find an automated solution.
Best,
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Fortune of the day: There is a 20% chance of tomorrow
Ruben (via PM or IRC) and see if this is OK with him.
However, he might be very busy right now on the next Trisquel release and I
doubt he will respond any time soon.
Also some sort of poll would probably help (as it's already been suggested).
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Fortune of the day: Are you ever going
, I'd rather not register to yet another site though.
Best,
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Fortune of the day: Executive ability is prominent in your make-up.
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Hi,
could you please be a bit more descriptive in the *title* of your posts?
Thanks!
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-disk-encryption-install
or this:
https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/full-disk-encryption-terminal
?
Hope it helps.
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On Sun, 11 Nov 2012 08:08:04 +0100 (CET), you wrote:
Thanks for your inputs.
@stefano
I can't believe I haven't remembered the method form the second link you
posted.
No worries!
I remember it because I contributed to it... and in fact I go back to that page
every time I need a refresh
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sorry guys,
I sent this email by mistake...
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, you won't probably be able to shut down the computer from the
DE, so you should logout from it and then, once you're back to your
text terminal, run
sudo shutdown -h now
(-h option powers off, -r option reboots)
see
man shutdown
for more information.
Best,
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Fortune of the day: Your boyfriend takes chocolate from strangers.
On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 11:03 AM, you wrote:
Can we remove this search reporting feature by removing some packages?
A bit of www search returns:
sudo apt-get remove unity-lens-shopping
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Hi,
what version of e17 are you using? E17 stable has been recently
released. You may want to upgrade your installation. I know that a PPA
with deb packages exists, but I can't remember the link right now,
sorry.
Also, can you try and execute Synaptic in a terminal and post the ouput?
Thanks.
/to/your/folder
***BEWARE: this is going to delete EVERYTHING in that folder, it's
going to be very to recover that data, so be careful about what you
type in!***
3) hit enter
4) type your standard password
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So, I am looking for a nice e-reader[1] that is as free software
compatible as possible.
The Kindle is of course not an option, and I was looking at the Sony Reader.
Any advice?
Thanks,
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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-reader
On Fri, 15 Feb 2013 20:36:33 +0100 (CET), you wrote:
but they won't block all the trackers Ghostery blocks.
On what are you basing this? Is there any benchmark around?
Thanks,
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Fortune of the day: Don't get to bragging.
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that the tracking websites will know that you DON'T
WANT to be tracked and won't save any other cookies in your browser.
Best,
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Fortune of the day: Blow it out your ear.
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to play around with mine when it gets here.
Great news!
Here's the link to the announcement:
http://www.parallella.org/2013/02/22/esdk-source-tree-published-today/
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also need to apply the chmod command afterwards.
A very useful resource is the *nix manual 'man' that will give you more
information about the various commands and their options, e.g.
man chown
man chmod
...and even
man man
Best,
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Fortune of the day: You will stop at nothing
You probably need to run ldconfig.
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does not
provide! (We expect the last problem to be rare, as the feature set of
dash is largely a subset of that offered by bash, but we mention it
for completeness.)
-
[1]https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DashAsBinSh
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in a terminal or enable
the show hidden files/dirs in your favorite file manager) and then
put it back when you're done, if you're keeping the home directory,
you shouldn't lose anything.
Best,
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Have you tried Scribus[1,2] or InkScape[3,4] to edit PDF files?
Both are available in the Trisquel repositories.
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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scribus
[2] http://scribus.net/canvas/Scribus
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inkscape
[4] http://inkscape.org/
The Trisquel community guidelines are here:
https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/trisquel-community-guidelines
You can read that:
We will not distribute, recommend, or otherwise support non-free
software. Inevitably, non-free software might slip through into the
system. Upon discovering non-free
to understand why you posted that! :/
[This forum-mailing list connection doesn't work too well]
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Fortune of the day: It's all in the mind, ya know.
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You can see what process is active on a file or folder by using lsof
(sudo apt-get install lsof if you don't have it). Then run
lsof /path/to/folder
to see what's using it.
Check
man lsof
for more information.
Also, before blacklisting, check whether the modules are present in
/etc/mouled
.
What should I do? Any ideas?
Have you tried startpage?
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Fortune of the day: Afternoon very favorable for romance. Try a single person
for a change.
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Hi,
you can actually boot with Trisquel live CD and instruct it to format the whole
drive upon installation.
Best,
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Fortune of the day: You teach best what you most need to learn.
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Fortune of the day: Stay the curse.
[1] http://planetorion.org/news/2011/11/orion-editor-ships-in-firefox-8/
[2] http://userstyles.org/help/stylish_firefox
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to orion). I tried to set it to 'textarea'[1] but nothing changed.
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Fortune of the day: Domestic happiness and faithful friends.
[1]
http://antennasoft.net/robcee/2011/08/18/orion-is-now-on-by-default-in-nightlies/
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.
For those interested, you can read the coreboot mailing list thread about the
topic (found on DDG):
http://www.coreboot.org/pipermail/coreboot/2012-April/069564.html
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Fortune of the day: Tonight's the night: Sleep in a eucalyptus tree.
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, but that didn't help. Anybody know what went wrong and how
to fix it. Thank you.
Try to install man-db
Best,
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Fortune of the day: Be different: conform.
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Hope it helps,
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Fortune of the day: You'll never see all the places, or read all the books,
but fortunately, they're not all recommended.
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what comes from the Linux distors.
Best,
Stefano
created.
# more information here: https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html.en
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to qemu-kvm that should make your life easier with it.
Best,
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Fortune of the day: Do something unusual today. Pay a bill.
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I might have missed something here... to which of the Penguins[1] are
you referring to?
[1]https://www.thinkpenguin.com/catalog/notebook-computers-gnulinux
whose name is something like 'ahrjsk4p.default'.
Best,
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Fortune of the day: You're not my type. For that matter, you're not even my
species!!!
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the screenshots?
[0] https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/burn-trisquel-cd-images
You can check what Wikipedia does with Mac OS X screenshots. I think
that you will be OK if the resolution is low enough (say 800x600).
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,
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(WP:NFCC#1) It is a screenshot of the software
Minimal use (WP:NFCC#3) It will only be used to show what OS X looks
like
Respect for commercial opportunities (WP:NFCC#2) No, it will only show
people what the software looks like
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On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 3:36 AM, ch...@thinkpenguin.com wrote:
I'm curious if people would pay for a set of services that had:
1. clearly defined privacy policies
2. based on free software
3. developed and maintained by a trusted party (and possibly endorsed by
respectable individuals and/or
On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 11:21 AM, Stefano pietran...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 3:36 AM, ch...@thinkpenguin.com wrote:
I'm curious if people would pay for a set of services that had:
1. clearly defined privacy policies
2. based on free software
3. developed and maintained
On Sat, 8 Jun 2013 19:30:01 +0200 (CEST), you wrote:
I am surprised, nobody has referenced the two recent articles from The
Guardian and the Washington Post.
Actually, I have linked the article from the Guardian in one of my posts. :-P
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Fortune of the day: You will pioneer
).
Best,
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Fortune of the day: Beware of Bigfoot!
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On Sun, 9 Jun 2013 11:45:47 +0200 (CEST), you wrote:
Thank you stefano. I am aliased to rm -i. But I don't see it in any of the
files you had listed. I had already checked them. I was so frustrated I
didnt even think about unalias rm. So I did that and all files are deleted.
Thanks
On Sat, 15 Jun 2013 11:09:12 +0200 (CEST), you wrote:
Could not start My computer this morning, I think BIOS has died, is there a
way to recover it?
Is it a laptop? Maybe your battery is dead and you need to replace it.
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Fortune of the day: You can create your own opportunities
Hi,
are you running 32bit games on a 64bit environment?
If so, you are probably missing 32bit libraries. I think that you will
need to enable multiarch support (it's disabled in Trisquel 6 Toutatis
AFAIK) and then install the 32bit packages.
That's all the help I can give for now, sorry.
://www.linuxadvocates.com/2013/06/linux-extremism-puts-hurt-on-linux-and.html
Sorry, but your post is tot really relevant to the user forum.
You should have posted to the troll hole[1] (I don't like that name btw).
Best,
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Fortune of the day: Generosity and perfection are your everlasting
Have you tried todo.txt[1]? It's licensed with GPLv3[2]
[1]http://ginatrapani.github.io/todo.txt-cli/
[2]https://github.com/ginatrapani/todo.txt-cli/blob/master/LICENSE
the software very often, but that's just me.
Regarding todo.txt not being in the repos, I think it's not a big deal
since it's just a GPL'd bash script (but it would be nice to have it
anyway).
Best,
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held broken packages.
Any ideas would be appreciated.
What package are you trying to install?
The 'triskel' package . spelled with a 'k', should solve all the dependency
problembs. If that doesn't work you should probably file a bug.
Best,
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Fortune of the day: Just because
it myself, but usually the metapackage is the safest option.
Another option would be the kde-plasma-desktop metapackage.
Best,
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Fortune of the day: Another good night not to sleep in a eucalyptus tree.
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/sources.list.d/ because it's easier to manage.
$ echo 'deb http://debian.yacy.net ./' /etc/apt/sources.list.d/yacy.list
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install yacy
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Fortune of the day: A visit to a strange place will bring fresh work.
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in a more reasonable
way (not saying that people should be burnt alive is a good start) and the
forum moderators to delete this thread.
Many thanks,
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Fortune of the day: You will stop at nothing to reach your objective, but only
because your brakes are defective.
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Hi,
maybe you can help me here, because I am not sure that I understand
why fonts are software.
I used to see proprietary fonts more like a patent-encumbered format:
I don't want to meddle with mp3, so I use ogg... I don't want to
meddle with Times New Roman, so I use FreeSerif. So, if you want
as synaptic, but honestly I've
never used it.
Hope it helps,
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Fortune of the day: You're ugly and your mother dresses you funny.
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Thanks for the info. Remember that the Raspberry Pi has freedom issues though.
I look forward to reading your howto.
that is specific to the machine in hand.
Best,
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[1]http://libreplanet.org/wiki/Single_Board_Computers
This thread looks very interesting. Could you font gurus create a
page on the Wiki with a list (and links) to the free/libre fonts
mentioned here? That would be a great thing to do.
Thanks,
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non-free
software, you can install it from INFORMATION
Best,
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this as
a betrayal. As a poster in the Debian thread says, Oracle move just sent the
Berkeley DB to oblivion because there are some great alternatives, like
OpenLDAP's LMDB.
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nothing about BerkelyDB, but this is an example of how the copyright
holder can determine the fate of free software. Another example is Linus
Torvalds who allows binary blobs in his Linux kernel.
Best,
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Fortune of the day: Bridge ahead. Pay troll.
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to factory (it's still taking forever to boot
though).
Thanks,
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Fortune of the day: Stay the curse.
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succeeded in restoring the factory settings. My idea was to try
to root it with the tools available and then try to install Cyanogen and
eventually Replicant.
Thanks,
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Fortune of the day: Your aims are high, and you are capable of much.
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replicant to work on the Nook, but don't
expect anything in the immediate future.
Best,
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Fortune of the day: You prefer the company of the opposite sex, but are well
liked by your own.
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or later.
Best,
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[1] http://xmpp.org/xmpp-software/servers
[2] http://xmpp.net/
anyone get sued / is it technically possibel?
I would like to use tor-browser-bundle.
A rapid search gave me
https://blog.torproject.org/category/tags/tor-legal-support-directory
and
https://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-doc-relay.html.en (see step 4).
Hope it helps.
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://status.net/2013/03/26/no-more-new-registrations-on-identi-ca
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[1]. I don't know about
telepathy or other software.
Best,
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Fortune of the day: You will not be elected to public office this year.
[1] https://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/PlainTextPasswords
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a Trisquel user. Great.
If instead you go to DDG and make the same search the query will be
tag=duckduckgo-d-20
Best,
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Fortune of the day: Afternoon very favorable for romance. Try a single person
for a change.
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to use DGG this time.
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Fortune of the day: You will be surprised by a loud noise.
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to muck with the referer.
I know about the referer. But the query is not generated when you
click the link, it's already in it.
In any case, I just wanted to let the other users know about this.
Best,
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