Update: eVrit e-book Reader

2011-02-17 Thread Amichai Rotman
Hi all, Just wanted to share my experience with this little device... As some of you know, I asked which one should I buy: Amazon Kindle or this one. I am glad I have bought this one. It's all I need! I have 130 books on the internal 1.2GB memory and I still have lots of space. I bought it so

Re: Update: eVrit e-book Reader

2011-02-17 Thread guy keren
in addition to this discussion - i found out that the nook cannot be delivered to israel neither from bn, nor from bestbuy (which sells it in the USA). i considered getting it via mustop- but then i found that online book purchases won't work using an IP address outside the USA. this is quite a

Re: Update: eVrit e-book Reader

2011-02-17 Thread Marc Volovic
Will they work using an open US-based proxy? ---MAV Marc. Volovic +972-54-467-6764 marcvolo...@me.com Sent from my iPhone On Feb 17, 2011, at 12:39, guy keren c...@actcom.co.il wrote: in addition to this discussion - i found out that the nook cannot be delivered to israel neither from bn,

Re: Update: eVrit e-book Reader

2011-02-17 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Feb 17, 2011, at 11:57 AM, Amichai Rotman wrote: Hi all, Terrible for photos / pictures. Too dark, no colors and slow. The books' covers and in-book diagrams and line art look great! User Experience: As I mentioned, I am very happy with the device. It is very light and under the

Re: Remote control on Linux machine

2011-02-17 Thread Arie Skliarouk
http://skliarie.blogspot.com/2008/09/back-to-my-linux.html -- Arie ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

Changing the Unicode data in ICU?

2011-02-17 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Hi all, I am trying to recompile ICU so that it has a different BiDi classification for some characters. ICU contains some of the Unicode Character Database files, so I tried simply changing the classification there and recompiling. Some files changed, but the end result did not do what I

Re: Is it a legit CA or is it an MITM attack on a gateway level ?

2011-02-17 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Feb 17, 2011, at 4:31 PM, Boris shtrasman wrote: Hi , Is it a legit CA or is it an MITM attack on a gateway level ? Tested - no arp poisoning. Getting incorrect CA from google imap servers (but correct for https) I belive that this some one on the infrastructure level. Gmail

I have an unused shrink-wrapped router I want to sell

2011-02-17 Thread Stan Goodman
It is a D-Link DIR-615, a wireless N 300 router, still virgin and shrink- wrapped, and I want to sell it. This is not a modem-router combo, but if you need an ADSL/Cable modem (Pre-owned, works fine) ai can sell you. -- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel

Re: Update: eVrit e-book Reader

2011-02-17 Thread Dotan Cohen
2011/2/17 Amichai Rotman amic...@iglu.org.il: Hi all, Just wanted to share my experience with this little device... As some of you know, I asked which one should I buy: Amazon Kindle or this one. I am glad I have bought this one. It's all I need! I have 130 books on the internal 1.2GB memory

Re: Update: eVrit e-book Reader

2011-02-17 Thread Stan Goodman
On Thursday 17 February 2011 11:57:38 Amichai Rotman wrote: I downloaded a sample book from the Barns Noble site (what they call a 'NookBook) and transfered it to the device directly (an .epub file) From its name, I was sure that the NookBook was specialized to pornographic literature. --

Re: Update: eVrit e-book Reader

2011-02-17 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Feb 17, 2011, at 6:36 PM, Stan Goodman wrote: On Thursday 17 February 2011 11:57:38 Amichai Rotman wrote: I downloaded a sample book from the Barns Noble site (what they call a 'NookBook) and transfered it to the device directly (an .epub file) From its name, I was sure that the

Re: Update: eVrit e-book Reader

2011-02-17 Thread Amichai Rotman
I didn't mention this because I wasn't at home when I wrote the post, but I am using Calibre with the e-vrit. The version on the Ubuntu 10.04 was too old and didn't detect the reader. I added a PPA (PM me to get the details) and upgraded it to version 0.7.44. Now it detects the reader as a bq

Re: Update: eVrit e-book Reader

2011-02-17 Thread Steve G.
Re PDF files, I can give you my experience using kindle, but it should apply equally to all readers with a 6 screen. It works if you are young and have eagle eyes, or the book is specially formatted with very large letters and small page size. Otherwise, it looks like insect dropping on the page.