Re: [Trisquel-users] Is Google the biggest, most successful proprietary software company ever?

2018-02-01 Thread mo98
I have an Android 5.1 phone without any SIM card installed in it. I don't use the WI-FI and it is left continuously in flight mode. Nevertheless, it is possible to dial an emergency number with it. I use it only for note-taking using an .apk app, pdf reading using pocketbook, taking pictures

Re: [Trisquel-users] stopping unwanted telemetry in Toutatis browser

2017-02-10 Thread mo98
I tried running epiphany from the command just like I usually do with a abrowser. This way I can track the pid right from the start. Any, up to many problems then show up on the command line which otherwise are invisible. With epiphany, for example, there is no obvious way to stop javascript

Re: [Trisquel-users] stopping unwanted telemetry in Toutatis browser

2017-02-09 Thread mo98
Thanks for the advice. Will try epiphany: Web. from the add/remove programs menu. About to logout and close abrowser.

[Trisquel-users] stopping unwanted telemetry in Toutatis browser

2017-02-09 Thread mo98
Browser Updates: Once per day, abrowser sends Update manifests for several langpacks to abrowser.mozilla.org. Starting abrowser & from bash shell and using it off-line, will cause nearly a dozen "addons.update-checker WARN HTTP Request failed for an unknown reason" messages to spill out to

Re: [Trisquel-users] Add own short cut in Abrowser or Icecat?

2017-02-09 Thread mo98
I was considering building the gnu icecat 45.5.1 on my i386 Totatis system with gcc 4.6. What can I change there to stay with Toutatis? The newest icecat needs Belonos just as the needed gcc 4.7 to build it. I have tried Belenos before but I dislike its removed customizations for touchpad

Re: [Trisquel-users] I'm leaving Trisquel

2016-10-13 Thread mo98
Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.

Re: [Trisquel-users] I'm leaving Trisquel

2016-10-13 Thread mo98
Thanks. I've got my work cut out for me.

Re: [Trisquel-users] I'm leaving Trisquel

2016-10-13 Thread mo98
I always mount from bash using it with -ro option. I avoid using the gui which doesn't ask how to mount any drives and exposes me to inadvertently mounting anything in sight. Changing directories with the nautilus gui or from the shell using cd command always works. It is the chdir command

Re: [Trisquel-users] I'm leaving Trisquel

2016-10-13 Thread mo98
I'll check the licence and see if I can make sense of the source code.

Re: [Trisquel-users] I'm leaving Trisquel

2016-10-13 Thread mo98
The commonly available digital camera I have records and deletes and formats the fuse-exFat system reasonably well most of the time. If the code for the exFat system is proprietary, at least the code for accessing the data should be made free. I do not disrespect proprietary formats, but

Re: [Trisquel-users] I'm leaving Trisquel

2016-10-13 Thread mo98
After reviewing the four fundamental freedoms of libre software, from Richard Stallman's 3rd edition, I feel it is a bit of a distraction to see so much being made about Trisquel being behind other distros. If the latest security holes relate to CODECS and conveniences then maybe I am also

Re: [Trisquel-users] How can we contact the Trisquel Team ?

2016-10-11 Thread mo98
Thanks to staff names: Magic Banana, and also SuperTramp83 for useful advice given to me in "issues". At some point I was advised to use the forums first and on an issue-by-issue basis. I value the time people commit to helping others and wish to do likewise but I don't seem to know how to

Re: [Trisquel-users] Kernel panics

2015-02-23 Thread mo98
I believe I have isolated the cause of all the weird problems. Once first up with Trisquel 6.0 Live, I did the following 3 commands: $ free -m Mem: 431 425 5 buffers176 254 Swap: 1014 0 1014 $ sudo swapoff /dev/zram0 $ free -m Mem: 431 425 5 buffers

Re: [Trisquel-users] Kernel panics

2015-02-22 Thread mo98
Magic Banana: Thank-you for getting me this far. The live system boots without any hard drives present leaving me with 4 megabytes free RAM. A solid state drive, not visible in gparted, was found using the disk utility. All of the space appeared as grey and unallocated (approx. 200MB) and

Re: [Trisquel-users] Kernel panics

2015-02-21 Thread mo98
Thank-you again for your valuable time helping me: Indeed I have a hardware issue: I would like to bypass zram0 [SWAP] which makes up 184.1M of total Swap memory of 983M; where the Disk utility 'sees' only the /dev/sdb6 [SWAP] |-sdb6 of 799M which was wiped using DoD 5220.28-STD (7 passes)

Re: [Trisquel-users] Kernel panics

2015-02-20 Thread mo98
Thank-you. I stand corrected in reference to mount points. When running live, the device list changes after each resume from suspend. I specified do-nothing under system power options when closing lid, but system goes into suspend nevertheless. Device UUID's remain unchanged. With the

Re: [Trisquel-users] Kernel panics

2015-02-20 Thread mo98
Thank-you for your time and assistance. The usb I made was from the utility included with the Trisquel Live 6.0 System settings menu, using an .iso file and opting out of persistent storage for it. I have not yet looked for any suspend scripts, in the ram-resident file system. I will try

Re: [Trisquel-users] Kernel panics

2015-02-19 Thread mo98
Just finished downloading and trying trisquel mini. Cannot find option to disable mouse clicks with touchpad. After disabling automount, was getting error pop ups on the desktop for every media change but /media/trisquel stayed clean after umounting those universal id's initially placed

Re: [Trisquel-users] Kernel panics

2015-02-19 Thread mo98
Thank-you for your assistance. When suspending on live version, the system is able to recover but mount points for /dev/sdb.. are invalid. Checking with sudo fdisk-l they have migrated to /dev/sdc.. remounting restores operation until next suspend, then I have to remount the same to

[Trisquel-users] Kernel panics

2015-02-17 Thread mo98
The following happened on a Gateway MX3410 notepad running Trisquel 6.0 Live from a bootable usb memory. The built-in hardrive with a full and updated Trisquel 6.0 installation was now intentionally excluded from BIOS. The issue continues to happen. At present an external replacement