I've been constantly being disconnected from services such as Thunderbird and Pidgin.
Since today, I couldn't connect to Pidgin so I do my daily log in to Freenode webchat. As with Thunderbird, I can connect but from time to time I get a system notification (the one on the upper right corner that pops up) that I am being disconnected. Now, I am getting hunch that I might be tracked or monitored by some ICT body here because in Dubai I've gotten a lot more censorship (/r/nsfw_gif, /r/nsfw_gfys, etc), than in Qatar (some of you might rememeber that I'm from Qatar, and I actually just got here last week). I'm pretty sure Tor is pretty popular here, and I've been using Tor, though not as much as Abrowser. I am using ethernet cable by the way.
Halp!
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If VPN is an option, go with it.
I am experiencing a good service from airvpn.org
If VPN is not an option then Tor is probably your best option.
...assuming your problem is censorship related and not a poor ISP service.
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Thanks! Hopefully Dubai bodies aren't as agressive with Tor as with US.
gary wrote:
> Thanks! Hopefully Dubai bodies aren't as agressive with Tor as with
> US.
The US isn't aggressive with Tor, except maybe the NSA internally.
In fact many universities in the US run Tor nodes, which is ideal
because they have very fast internet access.
Andrew.
Well then that's good.
Are you also using the latest Pidgin?
https://launchpad.net/~pidgin-developers/+archive/ubuntu/ppa
I don't know :) I just know that all of my programs update when I do a system upgrade.
Then, you do not use a PPA. Trisquel only ships security fixes and critical bug corrections in its upgrades. You would not get new versions of the programs until you switch to the next version of the distribution. The Web browser is an exception (the only one as far as I know) to the previous rule: latest versions are shipped with the Trisquel upgrades.
Ah ok. What does PPA mean?
I am a member!
PPA are personal package archives, found on launchpad.net. They are
repositories of user-contributed code; anyone can set one up; use them
at your own risk.
On 09/23/2014 04:25 PM, gary wrote:
> Ah ok. What does PPA mean?
Ah ok. Thanks!
As with your Thunderbird thread this is almost certainly some sort of network problem and neither Pidgin or Thunderbird. Please move to the other thread with this, as the same questions will apply.
Don't worry it's a perfectly natural mistake to make - if your machine was running Windows then it would be the first thing to suspect not the last :-).
Fuck Windows man! Oh by the way, I went with my classmate for him to buy a new laptop and he bought a Toshiba, don't know exactly which one though. Anyway, we agreed that he'd use Trisquel once he buys his laptop, but then he suddenly tells that he'd prefer dual-booting with Mint (alongside pre-loaded Windows 8) -_-
Pissed!
Err, wrt cussing I think you've skipped reading the Community Guidelines (link at the top).
Some Toshibas have an anti-feature where the BIOS locks you to a specific WiFi card, so he might need USB WiFi for which there are some FSF Respects Your Freedom devices available from two suppliers see:
http://www.fsf.org/resources/hw/endorsement/respects-your-freedom
Booting a USB stick with Trisquel on it is the best way of checking any PC you might buy for use with any recent distro. If money hasn't changed hands yet that would be advisable in this case, just cos it's locked doesn't necessarily mean the WiFi won't work.
Thinkpenguin do laptops which are guaranteed to work with Trisquel and Mint (link low down in panel on right of this site). But you have to pay import duties on top - so watch it.
Finally, yes agreed, there's no need for anything other than just a freedom respecting distro on a PC.
I am a member!
I recently acquired such a Toshiba (Satellite something), which has an
in-built Intel wifi card that does not work with free firmware, so I got
the TP USB wifi radio, and it works. Debian Jessie doesn't see the TP,
but that's for another list. lol.
Cheers,
Dave
09/24/2014 02:30 PM, andrew wrote:
> Some Toshibas have an anti-feature where the BIOS locks you to a
> specific WiFi card, so he might need USB WiFi for which there are some
> FSF Respects Your Freedom devices available from two suppliers see:
What Chris said is that Toshiba, along with some other companies, have restrictions in the BIOS and won't boot if you replace the internal PCI wifi card.