Re: [Hampshire] eReaders

2010-09-13 Thread Russell Morris
The nook is apparently quite excellent, but I don't believe you can buy it in this country. On 13 September 2010 00:07, Stuart Sears stu...@sjsears.com wrote: On 12/09/10 22:24, Philip Stubbs wrote: I would be interested in peoples thoughts on ereaders. Ever since I first read about eink

Re: [Hampshire] eReaders

2010-09-13 Thread john lewis
On Sun, 12 Sep 2010 22:24:02 +0100 Philip Stubbs phi...@stuphi.co.uk wrote: I would be interested in peoples thoughts on ereaders. Ever since I first read about eink displays, I have been fascinated. Recently, the price has dropped to a point where I am seriously tempted, but I have a

[Hampshire] Linux meets at Nokia in Oct Dec

2010-09-13 Thread robert.beattie
Hello fellow LUGgers, Head on over to the Surrey LUG site to check dates for meetings held at Nokia, Farnborough. Best regards, Bob. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk

Re: [Hampshire] eReaders

2010-09-13 Thread Anton Piatek
After all that, the short question is, does anybody use an ereader and if so, who have you got on using it with Linux? FBReader on my HTC android phone, like Jan. If you read on android, try aldiko - its an ePub reader and has an interface into a huge number of free and public domain books

Re: [Hampshire] eReaders

2010-09-13 Thread Philip Stubbs
On 12 September 2010 22:35, trotter m.nutt...@ukonline.co.uk wrote: Is there a feature in the 350 that you are looking for? Haven't heard about it and most features seem to be present in the 505 including a SD card slot. It has a touch screen. Unlike the older PRS-600, the new PRS-350 and

Re: [Hampshire] eReaders

2010-09-13 Thread trotter
At 14:40 13/09/2010, you wrote: On 12 September 2010 22:35, trotter m.nutt...@ukonline.co.uk wrote: Is there a feature in the 350 that you are looking for? Haven't heard about it and most features seem to be present in the 505 including a SD card slot. It has a touch screen. Unlike the older

[Hampshire] Fwd: [ANNOUNCE] London Perl Workshop 2010

2010-09-13 Thread Dr A. J. Trickett
This may be of interest to Perl users, or even Python users wishing to upgrade ;-) -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: [ANNOUNCE] London Perl Workshop 2010 Date: Monday 13 Sep 2010, 16:40:00 From: Mark Keating m.keat...@shadowcat.co.uk To: London Announce

[Hampshire] Ubuntu startup

2010-09-13 Thread Leo
Does anybody know how to get ubuntu to show useful info when booting? The reason I ask is that it keeps hanging when mounting disks every few boots, but for all I know it could just be fscking them. Or failing, that is it possible to get it to keep old /var/log/boot files? Thanks, Leo --

Re: [Hampshire] Ubuntu startup

2010-09-13 Thread Jan Henkins
Hello Leo, On Mon, September 13, 2010 22:35, Leo wrote: Does anybody know how to get ubuntu to show useful info when booting? By pressing the Esc key when you see the first splash screen, it should take you to the text-based bootup area where you can see everything happening. It might not show

Re: [Hampshire] Ubuntu startup

2010-09-13 Thread John Cooper
On 13/09/10 22:35, Leo wrote: Does anybody know how to get ubuntu to show useful info when booting? The reason I ask is that it keeps hanging when mounting disks every few boots, but for all I know it could just be fscking them. Or failing, that is it possible to get it to keep old /var/log/boot