Re: [Trisquel-users] anyone using Trisquel for music production?

2015-05-06 Thread maestro
I suggest you guys musicians or music workers or music aficionados or..well I think you get the point..give a try to http://gnuetertics.org/article/getv5-xfce4/ It's a 100% not yet fsf approved libre distro for libre radios made in and for the south American libre radio communities. It has

Re: [Trisquel-users] The end of YouTube API v2

2015-05-06 Thread maestro
I went to compile the latest version of minitube. It now needs a google api key for which I would need to signup a google account!!!?? wtf? Is there a workaround for this?

Re: [Trisquel-users] The end of YouTube API v2

2015-05-05 Thread maestro
both minitube and smtube work perfectly here.

Re: [Trisquel-users] First time using a Linux/GNU OS. Looking for help connecting to my router

2015-05-05 Thread maestro
or ebay wifi adapter Atheros series AR9xxx or AR5xxx and replace your N15 with one of those (5 or 10 dollars and no usb thingy permanently hanging on your lappy)

Re: [Trisquel-users] What are the dangers of using email?

2015-05-05 Thread maestro
Well said Lembas! I would just like to make it absolutely clear that what you refer to as complete picture is a complete psychological profile! Some dangerous scary shit that is.. p.s - I hear very often this I don't care or I have nothing to hide so my answer tends to be: Oh, you don't

Re: [Trisquel-users] What are the dangers of using email?

2015-05-05 Thread maestro
https://riseup.net http://www.autistici.org/en/index.html If someone sends me a mail using gmail I answer that if he/she wants to keep any further mail communication with me they will have to signup for a decent mail service. I usually point them to openmailbox. Between giving away all

Re: [Trisquel-users] Mozilla - Deprecating Non-Secure HTTP

2015-05-02 Thread maestro
quantum - exactly! :)

Re: [Trisquel-users] Searx metasearch engine

2015-05-02 Thread maestro
ugh what a tasteless awful radioactive green terminal color you got there ay ay ay!! :P

[Trisquel-users] Searx metasearch engine

2015-05-01 Thread maestro
https://searx.me/about

Re: [Trisquel-users] Mozilla - Deprecating Non-Secure HTTP

2015-05-01 Thread maestro
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/11/certificate-authority-encrypt-entire-web

Re: [Trisquel-users] RV730 PRO [Radeon HD 4650] Woes

2015-04-30 Thread maestro
I don't know if there is some other workaround (I doubt it) - you will have to downgrade your kernel. I'm using jxself's 3.10.75 with debian 8 and it works great! http://jxself.org/linux-libre/

Re: [Trisquel-users] RV730 PRO [Radeon HD 4650] Woes

2015-04-30 Thread maestro
It shouldn't. I mean, it didn't break anything on my lappy - anyway backup first! Then go for it. cheers!

Re: [Trisquel-users] New to Trisquel :)

2015-04-28 Thread maestro
..but..but...why?

Re: [Trisquel-users] DuckDuckGo recently donated $125, 000 to open source projects

2015-04-28 Thread maestro
and the servers the two use are different too

Re: [Trisquel-users] DuckDuckGo recently donated $125, 000 to open source projects

2015-04-28 Thread maestro
exactly

Re: [Trisquel-users] Microsoft was the biggest presence at a recent Linux conference in Washington. Your thoughts?

2015-04-27 Thread maestro
I prefer if they stay far far away..

Re: [Trisquel-users] Plasma 5

2015-04-25 Thread maestro
Supose you have version (i'm making this up) 1.2 of the application named teletubbies in your repositories and you want the latest version for some reason, version 1.4. When you build something usually the headaches are caused by the dependencies. it gives you errors because you miss

Re: [Trisquel-users] Librebooted Macbook 2,1

2015-04-25 Thread maestro
pizzaiolo - please do. It could help many folks. cheers!

Re: [Trisquel-users] Librebooted Macbook 2,1

2015-04-25 Thread maestro
great work pizzaiolo! gonna translate it to Italian.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Italian forum for Trisquel: is anyone interested?

2015-04-24 Thread maestro
lenbas you old taco with churros! :P

Re: [Trisquel-users] vpnbook.com - A free VPN service

2015-04-24 Thread maestro
this depends on da vpn u use..

Re: [Trisquel-users] New to Trisquel :)

2015-04-24 Thread maestro
I does seem as it's loading each time I type in a letter, and its annoying as I need to type everything in the other way round. there have been a lot of folks having similar issues with keyboard and most of them solved it by setting Keyboard input method system to `none' in the

Re: [Trisquel-users] Librebooted Macbook 2,1

2015-04-24 Thread maestro
you don't!

Re: [Trisquel-users] Plasma 5

2015-04-24 Thread maestro
Trust me - compiling is very easy. I'll give you a tip - check this command sudo apt-get build-dep name of application to build mao!

Re: [Trisquel-users] Is anyone here from China?

2015-04-22 Thread maestro
Everything is perfect and we live in a beautiful world! People are awesome. And the world is just one big community. In fact these days it is very natural and normal that companies offer you 36 TB of space for free. That is because they love us! They love us so much that they work hard and

Re: [Trisquel-users] I can't see videos, just sound

2015-04-21 Thread maestro
ati video card? Trisquel 7? I guess you have also a screen resolution something like 1024*768 .. Yes? Ati cards require non free firmware for video acceleration. I guess your problem is caused by the video player you are using (like totem or vlc) set to use the wrong outpout driver (I think

Re: [Trisquel-users] I can't see videos, just sound

2015-04-21 Thread maestro
what video card? lspci | grep VGA

Re: [Trisquel-users] Your privacy strategy/todo list for a minimal install

2015-04-20 Thread maestro
Stay away form the internet? No! It's like saying don't go out and stay in your home because out there there are a lot of dangerous things I won't stop using internet and doing whatever I want to do, saying whatever I want to say just because the Big Brother is listening. Protect yourself the

Re: [Trisquel-users] Screen resolution

2015-04-19 Thread maestro
Banana Magique - I know for sure it stopped working with the pont release of Trisquel 6. Do you know what kernel used the point release 6.0.1? I guess that was the first kernel to crap out the ati cards.. cheers!

Re: [Trisquel-users] Your privacy strategy/todo list for a minimal install

2015-04-19 Thread maestro
Privacy and anonymity are not the same. If you want privacy having a 100% free OS and a VPN (not trusting external repos, compiling any external application by yourself, setting your browser in a proper manner, not using idiotic nonsense like say facebook) should do it. If you want

Re: [Trisquel-users] Screen resolution

2015-04-19 Thread maestro
Banana Magique - I didn't try the point release personally but I have been reading a lot of posts about this topic here on the Trisquel website and several users were writing about the fact that ATI worked great with 6 but not with 6.1 and 7..

Re: [Trisquel-users] Screen resolution

2015-04-19 Thread maestro
0.6.1 ? :P

Re: [Trisquel-users] Wiki Installation Troubleshooting : page never created ?

2015-04-18 Thread maestro
sure I'll help Forna!

Re: [Trisquel-users] Italian forum for Trisquel: is anyone interested?

2015-04-18 Thread maestro
Fabio mi aveva detto che avrebbe chiesto a quidam. Fabio??

Re: [Trisquel-users] Screen resolution

2015-04-18 Thread maestro
I asked about this around and read a lot of stuff. As far as I know having native screen resolution with ati and recent kernels is not possible! I wish someone could prove me wrong. I would really like to install Trisquel 7 or Debian 8 on this laptop.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Resolution problem

2015-04-18 Thread maestro
As far as I know getting native scrren resolution with recent kernels and ati crap is simply not possible.. :(

Re: [Trisquel-users] LibertyBSD - OpenBSD minus the blobs

2015-04-18 Thread maestro
..demanding donations for access means just that - it costs money! Most of the proprietary software on windblowz is gratis. Does that mean that it is free software? nope! Free software hasn't got anything to do with money. It just happens to be almost always gratis, and always non malicious

Re: [Trisquel-users] Wiki Installation Troubleshooting : page never created ?

2015-04-17 Thread maestro
Banana Magique - the issue is not that non-English users are not redirected to English when there is no doc in their mother language. The issue I am talking about and that affects the Italian docs is that many links on the Ita wiki (https://trisquel.info/it/wiki) point to a inexistent page

Re: [Trisquel-users] New to Trisquel :)

2015-04-17 Thread maestro
I don't know about this Eli the computer guy. All you need to learn in order to use any debian based distro is: aptitude search name of the program sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade sudo apt-get install name of program sudo apt-get remove --purge name of program sudo dpkg -i name of the

Re: [Trisquel-users] Wiki Installation Troubleshooting : page never created ?

2015-04-17 Thread maestro
opened a feature request

Re: [Trisquel-users] New to Trisquel :)

2015-04-17 Thread maestro
sure tomlukey! autoclean too! On debian for instance learning the basics of gnucoreutils is a must. You cannot not learn how to copy or remove files and folders in Debian. example: Just to have touchpad tap click you need to create a file 70-synaptics_custom.conf and copy that file to

Re: [Trisquel-users] Italian forum for Trisquel: is anyone interested?

2015-04-17 Thread maestro
fabio?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Wiki Installation Troubleshooting : page never created ?

2015-04-16 Thread maestro
I translate in italian from time to time and am aware of the issue. I bumped into several links that don't work. Someone really needs to fix this. This is an excellent example- go to https://trisquel.info/it/wiki/guida-allinstallazione from there any link I click on directs to an empty page

Re: [Trisquel-users] Please support the campaign for Net Neutrality in India.

2015-04-15 Thread maestro
so is FBI..

Re: [Trisquel-users] Abrowser add-ons OpenH264

2015-04-14 Thread maestro
I see. Yes I use the ESR one.

Re: [Trisquel-users] I'm missing the community that was available when using nonfree software

2015-04-14 Thread maestro
The only website I allow javascript is diaspora. very funny and entertaining website. I use IRC and see no problem in using it. Use a VPN. You don't need Tor to have privacy. A VPN is enough for that.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Disable tracking in Abrowser

2015-04-14 Thread maestro
Don't know about the privacy.trackingprotection.enabled. Never heard of it, I don't have that entry in Iceweasel. I suspect it doesn't do the job that noscript, adblockedge or ublock with a good list and disconnect can do.. As for the geo.wifi.uri make sure geo.enabled is set to false - that

Re: [Trisquel-users] Disable tracking in Abrowser

2015-04-14 Thread maestro
I see. It uses the disconnect list. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/tracking-protection-firefox

Re: [Trisquel-users] I'm missing the community that was available when using nonfree software

2015-04-14 Thread maestro
What do you need a proprietary addon for especially given the fact that it is completely useless on Trisquel as there is no flash player? LSOs are the supercookies used by the giant spyware that goes under the name of adobe flash player.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Upgrading kernel?

2015-04-14 Thread maestro
Persona A: And..oh..yeah..Actually it is GNU/Linux.. Linux is just a kernel.. Persona B: It is not important how you call it and also the majority calls it Linux and, being that the majority is always right, you are wrong and it is Linux! Persona A: So you don't mind if I call you Stink

Re: [Trisquel-users] Accidentally removed a panel icon and can't find it in order to add it back.

2015-04-14 Thread maestro
He he :) This reminds me the first time I installed a GNU distro on my laptop. I messed it up so badly that it wasn't able to boot at all in the record time of 40 or 50 minutes... That taught me the golden rule (which unexpectedly is not he who has the gold makes the rule) of GNU - If you

Re: [Trisquel-users] Abrowser add-ons OpenH264

2015-04-13 Thread maestro
There is no media.gmp-gmpopenh264.provider.enabled entry in Iceweasel!

Re: [Trisquel-users] Share your Desktop!

2015-04-12 Thread maestro
ha!

Re: [Trisquel-users] Evolution

2015-04-11 Thread maestro
icedove works with every site I try it. pop3 and imap work by default and the addon enigmail is easy and works great.

Re: [Trisquel-users] ESA: preserving old games is hacking and therefore illegal

2015-04-11 Thread maestro
:)

Re: [Trisquel-users] Disconnect? Internet privacy?

2015-04-11 Thread maestro
adblock edge with just the ultimate fanboy list, noscript and disconnect.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Test and install Trisquel on any laptops without operating system

2015-04-09 Thread maestro
gnuvideoro - as long as it is free software related, useful and not spam, your contributions are more than welcome! cheers! p.s - I find your website very nice and clean. Works great without javascript, lookg nice and no nonsense like widgets and analytics.. great job!

Re: [Trisquel-users] i3wm on a Trisquel 7 and dual screen issue + intro

2015-04-09 Thread maestro
Michal. That's true. But I would say that above all the argument assumes that all ati cares about is keep doing a lot of money.. cheers!

Re: [Trisquel-users] i3wm on a Trisquel 7 and dual screen issue + intro

2015-04-09 Thread maestro
I've read on a forum a post by a guy who claimed to work for ATI and he was very normal, experienced and serious so I think he wasn't making it up - He said that ati doesn't want to free its firmware because that would put at risk their work related to windose drivers - they need to keep

Re: [Trisquel-users] Google is talking in our campus...

2015-04-07 Thread maestro
I see..well..next time!

Re: [Trisquel-users] trisquel 7 weird spying voice

2015-04-07 Thread maestro
If you don't need it nor anybody that uses your computer you can remove it: sudo apt-get remove --purge gnome-orca

Re: [Trisquel-users] i3wm on a Trisquel 7 and dual screen issue + intro

2015-04-07 Thread maestro
wheezy (Debian 7) comes with an older kernel and that kernel doesn't require the non-free firmware to display the native screen resolution with the ati graphics card. Same goes for Trisquel 6. But Trisquel 7 and Debian Jessie (which will be soon the new stable release of debian) ship a new

Re: [Trisquel-users] How Does linux work? is it fair to all women?

2015-04-07 Thread maestro
if she can type in a terminal sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade and sudo apt-get install name of application she's good to go! :)

Re: [Trisquel-users] How do I access my computer from anywhere in the world from another computer?

2015-04-07 Thread maestro
Jodiendo has this way of posting here..so some people may think (and rightfully so) that he is troll! He is not! He is actually a quite normal and also kind old man. We spoke on irc several times and he is always cool and gentle. He likes to joke and btw his user name says it all.. :)

Re: [Trisquel-users] i3wm on a Trisquel 7 and dual screen issue + intro

2015-04-06 Thread maestro
quantum gravity has excellently explained the situation of both trisq and deb! I have been usin Trisquel 7 on a netbook with a tiny screen (was giong blind .. hehe) for almost 6 months. Now I have a laptop with ati crap graphics and being that this setup gave me several issues with

Re: [Trisquel-users] Share your Desktop!

2015-04-06 Thread maestro
debian wheezy xfce looks exactly like that by default. If you like my desktop (look above) you can make it look like that in 3 minutes - Greybird-master theme / Numix-master windows theme / elementary xfce icons theme and whisker menu. cheers mangy!

Re: [Trisquel-users] Google is talking in our campus...

2015-04-06 Thread maestro
Ask them this: do you value at all concepts like ethics, freedom and privacy?.

Re: [Trisquel-users] How can I make a master boot record without resorting to Windows ?

2015-04-06 Thread maestro
Partitioning should not be that difficult. Here is how I partitioned my debian wheezy setup: / primary 1gb /usr logical 10gb /var logical 3gb swap logical 8gb /tmp logical 3gb /home logical the rest of the hard drive (450gb or so) hope

Re: [Trisquel-users] trisquel 7 weird spying voice

2015-04-05 Thread maestro
spying voice? I'm shocked. I'm out of here! Adieau!

Re: [Trisquel-users] i3wm on a Trisquel 7 and dual screen issue + intro

2015-04-05 Thread maestro
yes. And when you install debian (whatever installation method you followed) you can always enable those 2 non-free repos. But you have to do it by yourself (opt-in). The real issue with Debian is that you need to double-check any addon and software you install (other than those contained

Re: [Trisquel-users] Are libblueray/libdvdcss legal?

2015-04-05 Thread maestro
ohh. you don't expect to be shot? And you live in the USA? hmm. optimistic girl..

Re: [Trisquel-users] trisquel 7 weird spying voice

2015-04-05 Thread maestro
try in terminal: alsamixer see if the speaker is all the way up (it was 60%) on a fresh installation of debian wheezy. I turned it up all the way and now it's loud and pumping welcome to the community!

Re: [Trisquel-users] i3wm on a Trisquel 7 and dual screen issue + intro

2015-04-04 Thread maestro
quantum - debian wheezy never suggested to install the non-free firmware required by the ati-crap in my lappy. I guess they fixed that.. But iceweasel on a fresh install after visiting some websites suggested the installation of flash-player! :(

Re: [Trisquel-users] Is anyone else getting a CPU spikes when you edit anything in Gedit?

2015-04-04 Thread maestro
?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel mini - Audio and streaming problem

2015-04-04 Thread maestro
minitube for viewing yt vids and youtube-dl for downloading yt and several other websites vids (ex. vimeo, daikymotion etc..)

Re: [Trisquel-users] 2tb hdd choosing which one taking spying firmware into account?

2015-04-02 Thread maestro
I am referring to the Equation_group_questions_and_answers.pdf . Reading that pdf it seems quiet obvious to me that in order to work it needs windose. Maybe give it a read. Maybe i am too anti-talented for informatics and I misunderstood everything. That's a possibility certainly.. Anyway

Re: [Trisquel-users] i3wm on a Trisquel 7 and dual screen issue + intro

2015-04-02 Thread maestro
what do you mean by allegedly it is ok to use main repo..? By default debian is 100% free software. You have to opt-in to screw it up (by screw it up I mean installing any kind of proprietary nonsense)! By accessing some pages with icecat you mean that you don't see the page displayed

Re: [Trisquel-users] I Succeeded to convince a few Is the use of free software

2015-04-02 Thread maestro
never and I say NEVER. wait. I will repeat this: NEVER use a router that you ISP has given you! p.s - I woudn't use and I don't like the word convert (alimiracle) - GNU is not a religion and we are not a church .. I made maybe 10 people switch to some kind of GNU distro in about a year

Re: [Trisquel-users] For free desktop email programs, Geary is still an option

2015-04-02 Thread maestro
yes. If you know how to do it then you should compile every single application that is not directly in the repos. I agree.

Re: [Trisquel-users] I Succeeded to convince a few Is the use of free software

2015-04-02 Thread maestro
you want to keep your ISP from accessing your lan

Re: [Trisquel-users] 2tb hdd choosing which one taking spying firmware into account?

2015-04-02 Thread maestro
As far as I remember, and as long as I understood correctly what I've read about it - the spying firmware in hard drives works only on winddoze

Re: [Trisquel-users] I Succeeded to convince a few Is the use of free software

2015-04-02 Thread maestro
hehe.. geeks :P

Re: [Trisquel-users] bbc iplayer

2015-04-01 Thread maestro
youtube-dl is gold! :)

Re: [Trisquel-users] Is anyone else getting a CPU spikes when you edit anything in Gedit?

2015-04-01 Thread maestro
I don't know if systemd is better or worse. The only thing I know is that it is free software.. Anyway I hate to say this but the behavior of this loco team is unacceptable and some measures ought to be taken. This is like the 1321th time he posts extremely unpleasant, stupid and rude shit -

Re: [Trisquel-users] ***POSSIBLE SPAM*** Is webmail a service as a software substitute (SaaSS)?

2015-03-31 Thread maestro
You are right Onpon! I was able to sign in riseup mail without allowing javascript at all. I just assumed it wouldn't work for I've seen the red letters warning this site requires javascript...

Re: [Trisquel-users] bbc iplayer

2015-03-31 Thread maestro
xbmc is great but I think not all the addons are libre.. This is where you get tons of them but you have to be careful which one you install - https://superrepo.org/ Xbmc was my favorite for watching HD movies before popcorntime (peerflix) came out - I used it with an addon called mashup

Re: [Trisquel-users] ***POSSIBLE SPAM*** Is webmail a service as a software substitute (SaaSS)?

2015-03-31 Thread maestro
thx for the link legimet! After reading that page I signed up for a mailoo account and then opened up icedove to set it up with mailoo. This is where the process ended for when I've seen this I just clicked on cancel and quit icedove.. will attach the screenshot.. Why is so? Do they use some

Re: [Trisquel-users] New Updates: Opensource/Free FPS standalone mod of Xonotic (ChaosEsque) version 42 etc.

2015-03-31 Thread maestro
it's not .wad - it's pk3!!!

Re: [Trisquel-users] New Updates: Opensource/Free FPS standalone mod of Xonotic (ChaosEsque) version 42 etc.

2015-03-31 Thread maestro
that's it pk3!!!

Re: [Trisquel-users] SMPlayer doesn't play youtube vids

2015-03-30 Thread maestro
Thx Legimet! I've been using minitube for half a year now. great software! Had to compile it on debian but it is so easy that I had no problems. Just qmake and make and then install phonon-backend-vlc. The only downside is that I wasn't able to download the vids through minitube but now I

Re: [Trisquel-users] New Updates: Opensource/Free FPS standalone mod of Xonotic (ChaosEsque) version 42 etc.

2015-03-30 Thread maestro
I see. Thx for the explanation. had no idea!

Re: [Trisquel-users] ***POSSIBLE SPAM*** Is webmail a service as a software substitute (SaaSS)?

2015-03-30 Thread maestro
I have yet to find a web mail interfaxe that works without non-free JS! Do you know of any?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Is anyone else getting a CPU spikes when you edit anything in Gedit?

2015-03-30 Thread maestro
https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/how-change-default-file-type-associations

Re: [Trisquel-users] GNU IceCat talk at LibrePlanet 2015

2015-03-29 Thread maestro
I've noticed that too (but it was the lp2013 so not last years but 2 years ago) - the accent is way better and he seemed much more at ease..relaxed.. I've enjoyed very much that speech! p.s - I have a question (I guess it would require the opening of another thread but am too lazy..) - How

Re: [Trisquel-users] Unable to login in Trisquel

2015-03-29 Thread maestro
right.. typo.. lxle is the distro.. :)

Re: [Trisquel-users] Unable to login in Trisquel

2015-03-29 Thread maestro
the non-free distro - stay away from those!

Re: [Trisquel-users] New Updates: Opensource/Free FPS standalone mod of Xonotic (ChaosEsque) version 42 etc.

2015-03-29 Thread maestro
By best arena shooter is Unreal 3 you mean the best arena shooter is Quake 3 Arena .. right? :P

Re: [Trisquel-users] Unable to login in Trisquel

2015-03-29 Thread maestro
Trisquel mini comes with lxle, not xfce. Did you try ctrl alt f2? and then reinstalling lightdm in the command line and rebooting?

Re: [Trisquel-users] SMPlayer doesn't play youtube vids

2015-03-29 Thread maestro
Thank you so much for youtube-dl!! Incredible software! I recently also found a substitute for Porpcorn-Time (doesn't work on Debian Wheezy) with peerflix - I've been streaming torrents via terminal..and now I also download yt vids via terminal - I'm a true hacker now!! :P

Re: [Trisquel-users] New Updates: Opensource/Free FPS standalone mod of Xonotic (ChaosEsque) version 42 etc.

2015-03-29 Thread maestro
:) I reject also any kind of non-free software (now. If you asked me a couple of years ago I would have stared at you like a dead fish if you mentioned free software..), so no proprietary games. I know the engine source code for Q3A is free (http://ioquake3.org/) but you still need the .wad

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