Re: [Trisquel-users] Wifi adapter very low signal :(

2016-04-26 Thread greatgnu
Well, this router works pretty fine with all devices people have connected so far. I'll try changing channel.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Is searx search engine free software?

2016-04-26 Thread greatgnu
Using it exclusively here - searx is my first choice yeaah x_X

Re: [Trisquel-users] Installer keeps crashing

2016-04-26 Thread greatgnu
good for you both cat and your friend cat :P

Re: [Trisquel-users] spell check for LibreOffice Writer

2016-04-23 Thread greatgnu
I know installing **myspell-it** takes care of it. **aptitude search libreoffice** will return the language packs, like: p libreoffice-l10n-it - office productivity suite -- Italian language packag p libreoffice-l10n-ja - office productivity

Re: [Trisquel-users] Stallman Talk

2016-04-30 Thread greatgnu
The coincidence! Saw it yesterday :)

Re: [Trisquel-users] New York Wants To Know: Have You Been Texting And Driving?

2016-04-30 Thread greatgnu
Viejito, I am terribly sorry for that and will make sure it'll never happen again. X_X

Re: [Trisquel-users] Overheating of Radeon HD 8550G when using open-source driver

2016-04-29 Thread greatgnu
vita_cell: I see you write often about this reclock on nvidia gpus. I never had an nvidia gpu and have no experience with it whatsoever. Could you spare me the trouble of researching o the net for it and kindly explin in few simple words how do you do the aforementioned reclock? What's the

Re: [Trisquel-users] Wifi for my x200

2016-04-29 Thread greatgnu
>Do not pay too much for each. 1-5 euros for card, is fine. Modern Atheros cards need blobs I think. Well, it varies a lot. You can find a lot of mini pci express adapters for dirty cheap - I bought 2 a year ago give or take for 15 bucks. I am now waiting for one (still ebay) for an older

Re: [Trisquel-users] Does Richard Stallman have a protégé?

2016-04-29 Thread greatgnu
>a brother in aRMS

Re: [Trisquel-users] What's your favorite not-so-famous application on Trisquel?

2016-04-28 Thread greatgnu
Tx for the recommendation BugRep. I tried recordmydesktop nd it works just fine. Will give Istanbul a try too.

Re: [Trisquel-users] What's your favorite not-so-famous application on Trisquel?

2016-04-28 Thread greatgnu
Thanks Banana Magique. Installing right now.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Who legally owns the Trisquel or 'Asociacion Trisquel'?

2016-04-28 Thread greatgnu
Minimum wage in Italy is "unemployment" and it seems to be of a great fashion here..

Re: [Trisquel-users] Penguin Adelie GNU / Linux Laptop

2016-04-28 Thread greatgnu
>If it's to your liking and the price is right, why don't you get it, install Ubuntu 16.04 without adding non-free repositories or firmware. How about installing DEbian and not the Spyuntuyu thing?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquelize other non-Free GNU/Linux distributions

2016-04-28 Thread greatgnu
Ubuntu provides specific repositories of nonfree software, and Canonical expressly promotes and recommends nonfree software under the Ubuntu name in some of their distribution channels. Ubuntu offers the option to install only free packages, which means it also offers the option to install

[Trisquel-users] Wifi adapter very low signal :(

2016-04-26 Thread greatgnu
Fellow Triskellonians, today, finally, after weeks of waiting for it to ship from Honga Konga, the wifi adapter for my new very old yet smooth old laptop I bought a month ago for 20 euros X_x, has arrived. As expected it works without the need for any kind of nasty blob but I have to sit a

Re: [Trisquel-users] Radeon Support

2016-04-21 Thread greatgnu
You'll need to downgrade to linux libre 3.4 -> https://jxself.org/linux-libre/

Re: [Trisquel-users] Privacy Badger

2016-04-21 Thread greatgnu
Hm, you're right, I actually went to the site now (have had no time when I wrote that so I trusted the OP's word) and there is no anomaly other than the usual offer for all pltaforms.

Re: [Trisquel-users] "System Program Problem Detected"

2016-05-24 Thread greatgnu
The first link in searx.me -> http://www.binarytides.com/ubuntu-fix-system-program-problem-error/ cheers

Re: [Trisquel-users] How to make a home phone using VOIP?

2016-05-24 Thread greatgnu
jitsi + ostel https://ostel.co/

Re: [Trisquel-users] Installing 32-bit stuff

2016-05-22 Thread greatgnu
https://askubuntu.com/questions/423083/cant-run-dpkg-add-architecture-i386-on-12-04-64-bit-to-run-eclipse-adt/423089#423089 Well, the command I gave you works for me. Try doing the fix as described in the link above.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Petition for Intel to Release an ME-less CPU design

2016-05-22 Thread greatgnu
happy ianal to all!

Re: [Trisquel-users] How to translate sentences

2016-05-24 Thread greatgnu
I have no idea, srry. I can only assure you it works fine here :(

Re: [Trisquel-users] Partioning issue, duel boot

2016-05-24 Thread greatgnu
Hmmm, I've always used the "full path", in fact I have GRUB_DEFAULT="1>2" Explanation: The first entry is 0, the second is 1 etc etc.. In my GRUB I have the kernel 686pae as first entry. The second entry is "other options" (or something alike), so I select this second entry (1) and then in

Re: [Trisquel-users] How to translate sentences

2016-05-20 Thread greatgnu
Hmm, I just installed it on this installation and it won't run without python-glade2 gnu@debian:~$ apertium-tolk Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/apertium-tolk", line 19, in import tolk File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/tolk/__init__.py", line 1, in from i18n

Re: [Trisquel-users] Any torrent sites that do not require javascript?

2016-05-11 Thread greatgnu
cloudflare has killed all the pleasure of my tor browsing experience :(

Re: [Trisquel-users] DuckDuckGo Gives $225, 000 to Open Source Projects

2016-05-10 Thread greatgnu
I really like riseup's website. It's full of very interesting text. You can find a lot in there.

Re: [Trisquel-users] What are your favorite encryption programs or methods?

2016-05-10 Thread greatgnu
It would I think. With VPN provider it always comes down to one thing: is it reliable and cn you trust it not to log? Not an easy question. Here an interesting thread on the two ->

Re: [Trisquel-users] When will Trisquel 8.0 (Flidas) release?

2016-05-10 Thread greatgnu
>ScullyItsMulder cool nick ;)

Re: [Trisquel-users] Replace Wifi card in x200 with one from t61?

2016-05-10 Thread greatgnu
Hmm, well if the lenovo x200 indeed has that wifi adapter blacklisted, then yes, you will need to use an external one or flash in libreboot. Actually I did not consider that when you first asked the question, my bad..

Re: [Trisquel-users] Any torrent sites that do not require javascript?

2016-05-10 Thread greatgnu
but that should not be... I can use perfectly fine almost all the torrent sites without js in TorBB.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Uruk screenshot and font rendering;

2016-05-11 Thread greatgnu
I have to say - it looks great. Alij, would it be possible to have a link for that nice gtk theme?

Re: [Trisquel-users] An Introduction, and a few questions

2016-05-11 Thread greatgnu
>Mind that I don't **recommend** you to do this, I just point out that you **can do it if you decide to do it**. >I gave you the solution but I can also give you a non solution becuase it would not solve anything, at least in my view, being that proprietary software is not a solution but

Re: [Trisquel-users] An Introduction, and a few questions

2016-05-12 Thread greatgnu
>You had a non free answer to the questioner. I have no idea what you mean by this. I don't understand you. >You wanted to give him the answer. You know it breaks the rules. You tried to circumvent by a not recommendation statement. Right? I think he should somehow get the answer you

Re: [Trisquel-users] Tor Browser Bundle: DRM deleted or not?

2016-05-17 Thread greatgnu
use torbb.

Re: [Trisquel-users] If you could go back in time and talk to your former "owned" self

2016-05-17 Thread greatgnu
faceborg.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Tor Browser Bundle: DRM deleted or not?

2016-05-17 Thread greatgnu
https://media.giphy.com/media/TQh3nVXVx9Xlm/giphy.gif

Re: [Trisquel-users] Password Generator instead of a password manager

2016-05-16 Thread greatgnu
Jxself: this one may be of some interest for you (if you don't mind it being written in java) -> https://ssl.masterpasswordapp.com/

Re: [Trisquel-users] Browser Tells DuckDuckGo I'm using Trisquel?

2016-05-16 Thread greatgnu
>I can't say I understand the appeal of searx over DDG. I appreciate and like that the software itself is free, but it's still being run on someone else's machines which I have no control over just like DDG. So long as I'm not looking into hosting a search engine myself, DDG offers me the

Re: [Trisquel-users] Do you support Santi to handle the project?

2016-05-14 Thread greatgnu
how can one decide such a thing? it is something that needs be talked between the two of them. Anyway, aklis is a great dood.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Where can I learn to do my own scripts?

2016-05-15 Thread greatgnu
I think a good idea would be to study this one first-> https://en.flossmanuals.net/_booki/command-line/command-line.pdf Then you learn this one-> https://www.gnu.org/s/bash/manual/bash.pdf Then you are invincible.. in a Spiderman sort of way.. U_u

Re: [Trisquel-users] Password Generator instead of a password manager

2016-05-15 Thread greatgnu
I use **keepassx**.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Uruk screenshot and font rendering;

2016-05-14 Thread greatgnu
x_X

Re: [Trisquel-users] Any torrent sites that do not require javascript?

2016-05-13 Thread greatgnu
Riseup does not require it.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Any torrent sites that do not require javascript?

2016-05-13 Thread greatgnu
>Trisk Spellian is talking about accessing a website where to download a torrent file. Not about using BitTorrent through Tor. Yes, I was talking about that too. Not only it **will without fail** your IP but it would also slow down the network for the people who really need it.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Uruk screenshot and font rendering;

2016-05-13 Thread greatgnu
non c'è di che ;P

Re: [Trisquel-users] An Introduction, and a few questions

2016-05-13 Thread greatgnu
Yes, Tonlee. I technically did indeed break the forum rule. Maybe I shouldn't have. But I broke it in good faith, if I may say so. See, after the OP explained us he could not buy another PC and also that with trisquel his PC was unusable being that it would shut down for the great heat, I

Re: [Trisquel-users] Uruk screenshot and font rendering;

2016-05-13 Thread greatgnu
!!

Re: [Trisquel-users] Uruk screenshot and font rendering;

2016-05-12 Thread greatgnu
Mangy: it seems to me your fonts don't display very well. Try setting "hinting=slight" and "subpixel order=RGB" and see if they improve a bit.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Replace Wifi card in x200 with one from t61?

2016-05-11 Thread greatgnu
try it, it won't hurt, mate.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Password Generator instead of a password manager

2016-05-15 Thread greatgnu
alberto: that's a bash script. You just paste it in an editor (gedit, mousepad etc..) and you save it into a folder. Then you give it executable permission with chmod and you run it. http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-run-a-script-in-linux/

Re: [Trisquel-users] ZFS now available in Debian. Maybe its time to stop fighting it?

2016-05-15 Thread greatgnu
>Debian comes and contrary to the principles of freedom to put ZFS in Linux kernel Debian's kernel is deblobbed and it will remain deblobbed (fully free). They put the module in contrib.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Browser Tells DuckDuckGo I'm using Trisquel?

2016-05-15 Thread greatgnu
callmeclean, that is not the case here. I tried with Iceweasel (debian) and I have javascript disabled. I remember this "issue" from my Xubuntu days and if I remember correctly it had to do with a firefox extension, namely *xul-ext-ubufox*. I may be wrong. Probably am wrong.

Re: [Trisquel-users] If you could go back in time and talk to your former "owned" self

2016-05-15 Thread greatgnu
>So what about you? What would you say to your old self on this matter? I would say to my older self to read the book "Free as In Freedom". That is exactly how I decided to go libre, I just wish I've read it 15 years ago.

Re: [Trisquel-users] What do you think about calling free systems as "GNU" systems (even if there is no GNU or Linux-libre)?

2016-05-03 Thread greatgnu
I never disagreed more with a post on a Triskello forum. I don't think it would be necessary to answer all the points of yours. I'd only like to answer one point though-> >I think this is why free software is so small. This is where you got it totally wrong. See, the reason why it is so

Re: [Trisquel-users] What do you think about calling free systems as "GNU" systems (even if there is no GNU or Linux-libre)?

2016-05-03 Thread greatgnu
> Corporations have the power because of governments. No.

Re: [Trisquel-users] An Introduction, and a few questions

2016-05-03 Thread greatgnu
>Hey! It would be cool if you posted your stats on https://h-node.org/ :) Why? His hardware is crap (freedom wise).

Re: [Trisquel-users] An Introduction, and a few questions

2016-05-03 Thread greatgnu
OP: Sell your laptop and for the money you get out of it buy a laptop with an integrated intel GPU older than skylake. All ati cards require proprietary firmware for video acceleration meaning that in Trisquel your laptop will run at 20% of its potential performance, give or take. Your

Re: [Trisquel-users] How to convice others to use FOSS

2016-05-06 Thread greatgnu
>Your general approach of getting them interested first, by showing them the good things in free software, is reasonable. It sounds like a great way to get people started. I have followed this approach myself at one point. In fact, if free software required no sacrifices in convenience, then

Re: [Trisquel-users] How to convice others to use FOSS

2016-05-06 Thread greatgnu
That is an excellent compendium Banana Magique :) +1

Re: [Trisquel-users] Its been nice meeting you all,

2016-05-06 Thread greatgnu
Mate, OP, it's not like we are a cult of the midnight lamb here - you can contribute to the forum even if you use MS/DOS.. Just respect the forum rules. I, for instance have been using Debian with only the main repo for over a year now. Mybe the next year I'll move to Parbola. Wht's the

Re: [Trisquel-users] fsf gets money from google?

2016-05-06 Thread greatgnu
Well, since it's very first phase it appears that the company has based almost its entire monetary income in collecting personal/private information and via ads (targeted ones) exploiting boldly that info, turning it into cash, and finally, **selling** it to the highest bidder, or the one

Re: [Trisquel-users] Do we have a date for the Trisquel 8 release?

2016-05-06 Thread greatgnu
I prophesy 10/10 Let's see who gets closer :P

Re: [Trisquel-users] Do we have a date for the Trisquel 8 release?

2016-05-06 Thread greatgnu
10/10/'16

Re: [Trisquel-users] fsf gets money from google?

2016-05-06 Thread greatgnu
>Yes they have problems, but and here is a big one, Google does at least donate money to the fsf... Hmm, I wasn't aware that donating money to the fsf purges one from all the sins he committed. Tx for clearing it out for me. ..talk 'bout sarcastic.. x_X

Re: [Trisquel-users] An Introduction, and a few questions

2016-05-06 Thread greatgnu
As root vegetable pointed out, being proprietary binary firmware no one really can say for certain what it does.. I don't know. cheers

Re: [Trisquel-users] dictionary that does not surveillance?

2016-05-01 Thread greatgnu
sudo apt install artha goldendict

Re: [Trisquel-users] I just updated to kernel 4.5 but a few things look amiss...

2016-05-01 Thread greatgnu
Yep. I'm using the TorBB and all his posts are definitely blank.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Libreboot X200 dont boot Trisquel 7 Netinstall

2016-05-01 Thread greatgnu
Off topic but funny, I guess - I installed Xubuntu on a friend's laptop (the hardware is horrible, ati gpu and broadcom wifi adapter, so, no libre distro) and in the few hours I spent to install and customize the system I found more bugs (much more) than I have found on Debian in a year..

Re: [Trisquel-users] An Introduction, and a few questions

2016-05-05 Thread greatgnu
>H-node is not just about hardware that works, but also about those which don't. That doesn't make sense.

Re: [Trisquel-users] fsf gets money from google?

2016-05-05 Thread greatgnu
>which is a sign they are not evil. Yeah, they've been directly feeding your info to the criminals since 2009, but they are so sweet and cute.

Re: [Trisquel-users] How to convice others to use FOSS

2016-05-05 Thread greatgnu
>I don't care. https://www.gnu.org/gnu/why-gnu-linux.en.html Names convey meanings; our choice of names determines the meaning of what we say. An inappropriate name gives people the wrong idea. A rose by any other name would smell as sweet—but if you call it a pen, people will be rather

Re: [Trisquel-users] fsf gets money from google?

2016-05-05 Thread greatgnu
Stallman gets 0 (zero, nada, niet) money from the fsf, unlike Sullivan and a bunch of other dudes who, joined, get 1/3 of the fsf's money. https://static.fsf.org/nosvn/Form990_FY2014.pdf

Re: [Trisquel-users] An Introduction, and a few questions

2016-05-05 Thread greatgnu
Banana Magique: It doesn't make sense to place laptops with ATI gpus on h-node. It's a waste of space and time: we know none of them works, if they have an ATI gpu they don't work.

Re: [Trisquel-users] fsf gets money from google?

2016-05-05 Thread greatgnu
>Most charities have paid staff. In fact I am considering founding one. 100.000 $ a year seems to me a very good pay.

Re: [Trisquel-users] How to convice others to use FOSS

2016-05-06 Thread greatgnu
I've had a huge load of hours of genuine fun with the supernintendo bust a move on zsnes. :))

Re: [Trisquel-users] An Introduction, and a few questions

2016-05-04 Thread greatgnu
> do seek a wholly free system, but if at the end of the day I cannot get my PC to work with Trisquel, and I cannot buy another, what are the drawbacks of looking for the original drivers, and is that even an option while using Trisquel? What I want and what I have are two different things.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Maintaining Security and Avoiding Surveillance

2016-05-04 Thread greatgnu
As far as the browzzer is concerned, I go this way: VPN - firejailed and apparmored TorBB - Internet or VPN - firejailed and apparmored Iceweasel with noscript, httpseverywhere, ublockorigin, RAS, privacy settings.

Re: [Trisquel-users] DuckDuckGo Gives $225, 000 to Open Source Projects

2016-05-09 Thread greatgnu
La Quadrature du Net is great organization indeed.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Italian forum question

2016-04-15 Thread greatgnu
Com'era il detto? La persistenza è l'ultima a morire! :)

Re: [Trisquel-users] Can you please help a new Trisquel user out in this thread ?

2016-04-15 Thread greatgnu
bye bye

Re: [Trisquel-users] I need help to install trisquel in Calgary, Alberta area...

2016-04-15 Thread greatgnu
Installing Trisquel is fairly easy, actually it is very really straightforward, but I am aware that "easy" is a relative concept and that we all have talent for something and anti-talent for many other things, so.. let's say "fairly easy". If you have a PC with more than 2 gb of RAM download

Re: [Trisquel-users] No messages from mailing list

2016-04-15 Thread greatgnu
that one for sure, greenman X_x

Re: [Trisquel-users] Some wonderings on Wine and Playonlinux

2016-04-15 Thread greatgnu
Hi. I have no idea but just a guess that audacity might do that for you. Investigate on it. I have used audacity for quite some time but am very noobish with it and I do some very basic stuff still.. A brief research into this has pointed me to this software ->

Re: [Trisquel-users] Italian forum question

2016-04-15 Thread greatgnu
hahaha :) Com'era l'altro detto? Se non vedo, non credo! :P

Re: [Trisquel-users] Libreboot and Kvm

2016-04-15 Thread greatgnu
The only distribution of Linux I am aware of is Android. Android is indeed purely a Linux distro and as a matter of fact it contains 0 % of GNU. All the other operating systems to which we commonly refer to as Debian, Buguntu, Fedora, Arch, Trisquel, Gentoo, etc are distributions of the GNU

Re: [Trisquel-users] Play games like 'Dying Light' on Trisquel

2016-04-15 Thread greatgnu
>I have Windows installed only because of videogames. Is there a way to play new games on Trisquel? sure, Winehq. Proprietary games are proprietary software, so that's bad. Also, if I had to make a wild guess I'd say out of 5 games, on Wine 1 will work perfectly fine, 1 will be barely

Re: [Trisquel-users] Play games like 'Dying Light' on Trisquel

2016-04-15 Thread greatgnu
>I've always believed in making the engine free, but then the art is non-free and sold to the user with watermarks to tie it to that user upon purchase. excellent idea and easily doable ..or at least it should be mandatory to release the engine after some years. I reckon 5 years tops would

Re: [Trisquel-users] Canonical merges GPL-incompatible kernel module ZFS to the kernel tree for Ubuntu 16.04

2016-04-15 Thread greatgnu
/home/gnu/Downloads/Pink Floyd - Tear Down the Wall - Part 1-deCjXe14y7E.mp4 Yet another proof that nothing original nor intelligent for that matter came out of Reginald.. :P TEAR DOWN THE WALL!

Re: [Trisquel-users] Play games like 'Dying Light' on Trisquel

2016-04-15 Thread greatgnu
Magic B. Yes, idealistically speaking and if we lived in an ideal world. But here we are talking of a ruthless industry that generates billions of dollars and will **never** start releasing anything for free.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Migrating from gnome to mate

2016-04-15 Thread greatgnu
network-manager-gnome and also make sure that it starts automatically when you boot, you'll find it in the settings, application autostart or something, see that network-manager is checked.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Migrating from gnome to mate

2016-04-15 Thread greatgnu
>How can I get mate specific apps to not be listed in gnome menu? To edit the menu try libremenu sudo apt install menulibre

Re: [Trisquel-users] Popcorn time music version?

2016-04-15 Thread greatgnu
https://github.com/tchoulihan/torrenttunes-client

Re: [Trisquel-users] Libreboot and Kvm

2016-04-15 Thread greatgnu
Ok ok, edgy mate, so we are all wrong (Stallman the "very obsessed man" included) and you are right. Right. Please, mate direct yourself to this link and stay chill, ok? ok https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/documentation I would like it very much if you payed particular attention on how this

Re: [Trisquel-users] I need help to install trisquel in Calgary, Alberta area...

2016-04-15 Thread greatgnu
Banan Magique: rkhunter is the only malware related software I keep installed on my GNUx. Same here: In 12 - 10 (2) years of GNUx I never found anything but false positives like for instance the warning you will get on Debian 8 Stable for the hidden /etc/.java/ folder.. I'd really like it if

Re: [Trisquel-users] I need help to install trisquel in Calgary, Alberta area...

2016-04-15 Thread greatgnu
As far as I know, clamav takes care **only** of windows malware and in its virus database there is no single one GNU/linux malware.. There is no need for antivirus. Just don't install random and not trusted .debs and you'll be fine. Browser exploits, on the other side are cross-platform and

Re: [Trisquel-users] Libreboot and Kvm

2016-04-15 Thread greatgnu
Why so edgy mate? And by edgy I mean rude. You got your answer. And yes I do use my brain. Quoting mr. Stallman in a discussion about whether GNU is an operating system is like quoting Isaac Newton when discussing whether on the Earth there is gravity or not. Anyway, chill down.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Italian forum question

2016-04-15 Thread greatgnu
http://www.ebay.com/p/TP-Link-TL-WN722N-846561012744-Wireless-Adapter/141348245 gargame...@nerdpol.ch cia!

Re: [Trisquel-users] Migrating from gnome to mate

2016-04-15 Thread greatgnu
but..did you try xfce? :)

Re: [Trisquel-users] Libreoffice crash

2016-04-15 Thread greatgnu
Beware what you remove. Anyway, next time (if) that happens I recommend you just try removing the folder I told you. If that does not work, **then** do: sudo apt purge libreoffice && sudo apt-get autoremove && sudo apt install libreoffice

Re: [Trisquel-users] Installing operating system without bios

2016-04-15 Thread greatgnu
reflash your bios to the latest version. Go to the acer support site and make sure you download the correct flash rom, you will also need to install the recommended Windows version to flash the BIOS. Better don't mess with it and try flashing it from GNU..

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