Re: Why does it take the debian-7.3.0-i386-lxde-CD-1.iso installer so long to install inside a VirtualBox VM?

2014-01-09 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
re:all +additions 2014/1/7 Shlomi Fish shlo...@gmail.com: Hi Geoff, On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 10:44 PM, Geoff Shang ge...@quitelikely.com wrote: On Mon, 6 Jan 2014, Shlomi Fish wrote: P.S: another thing that annoys me about Debian is the fact that apt-get -y dist-upgrade still sometimes

Re: Why does it take the debian-7.3.0-i386-lxde-CD-1.iso installer so long to install inside a VirtualBox VM?

2014-01-09 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
E.S. Rosenberg esr+linux...@g.jct.ac.il writes: Debian does that too, that still doesn't change the fact that the system needs to know which version of config to use, you don't want apache, squid or any other program to revert to vanilla state after you worked hard on configuring it (even if

linux-friendly ebook with decent support in Israel?

2014-01-09 Thread Vassilii Khachaturov
Can anyone recommend an ebook reader? I need one that 1) allows me to read my own PDFs and taking notes under Linux; 2) is sold and (well) supported in Israel; 3) doesn't require me to have a non-Linux machine to flash the updates; 4) doesn't require me to go online to download my own content to

Re: linux-friendly ebook with decent support in Israel?

2014-01-09 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On 1/9/2014 12:31 PM, Vassilii Khachaturov wrote: Can anyone recommend an ebook reader? I need one that 1) allows me to read my own PDFs and taking notes under Linux; Any Android tablet. Though these days a used iPad 2 16gb Wifi sells for around 1200 NIS. Not Linux, and old, but still

Re: linux-friendly ebook with decent support in Israel?

2014-01-09 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On 1/9/2014 12:31 PM, Vassilii Khachaturov wrote: 5) isn't illegal to have in Israel because of its wireless capabilities (in fact, I'd like to be able to disable any wireless technology and not to use it anyway). BTW, that was only the original iPad, and it was blocked in an attempt to

Re: linux-friendly ebook with decent support in Israel?

2014-01-09 Thread Vassilii Khachaturov
On 09.01.2014 14:08, geoffrey mendelson wrote: [SNIP] It's pretty much obsolete. Probably 99% of ebook reading is done on iPads and Android tablets. In the real world where people buy their eBooks, the iPad and Android tablet offer the ability to buy books from several sources, while the

Re: linux-friendly ebook with decent support in Israel?

2014-01-09 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On 1/9/2014 3:08 PM, Vassilii Khachaturov wrote: Thanks for your answer. When I posted a link to a matrix of all the current eink-based readers, I assumed it is obvious I want an e-ink based one. I'd think dedicated reader would be more energy/weight/price efficient than a general purpose