Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] End User Documentation / Basic Setup Guide / How to upload PDFs etc

2013-11-17 Thread James Cameron
What, Browse loses the reading position for a PDF? Let's fix Browse? ;-) On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 09:54:22AM +0530, Anish Mangal wrote: > I thought read also opened pdf's from the journal too. (Not sure if it saves > what page you were on). > > > On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 9:46 AM, Anna wrote: >

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] End User Documentation / Basic Setup Guide / How to upload PDFs etc

2013-11-17 Thread Anish Mangal
I thought read also opened pdf's from the journal too. (Not sure if it saves what page you were on). On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 9:46 AM, Anna wrote: > If possible, deploy epubs rather than pdfs. > > You can always convert an epub to a pdf. You can't easily do it the other > way round. Go ahead a

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] End User Documentation / Basic Setup Guide / How to upload PDFs etc

2013-11-17 Thread Anna
If possible, deploy epubs rather than pdfs. You can always convert an epub to a pdf. You can't easily do it the other way round. Go ahead and search, the pdf format is a bane for people who use ereaders. Also, epubs open from the Journal in the Read Activity, where kids can use bookmarks. PDFs

[Server-devel] The three step XSCE demo!

2013-11-17 Thread Anish Mangal
Hi, Had some time on my hand this week to try out XSCE in a virtual environment. It actually worked out pretty well, and now there's a working appliance. Here's the three step XSCE demo! *Step #1 - Download and install Virtualbox* - Head to https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads to downloa

Re: [Server-devel] Moving toward headless install on trimslice

2013-11-17 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Sun, 2013-11-17 at 17:01 -0500, Tim Moody wrote: > How does the os get onto the trimslice? > zcat it onto a SDcard, > How do you sudo if the only known user is not a sudoer? > use su, and the default password setup in the image. Jerry > Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2013 12:12:33 -0500 > >From: Georg

Re: [Server-devel] Moving toward headless install on trimslice

2013-11-17 Thread Tim Moody
How does the os get onto the trimslice? How do you sudo if the only known user is not a sudoer? Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2013 12:12:33 -0500 From: George Hunt To: XS Devel Subject: [Server-devel] Moving toward headless install on trimslice for XSCE Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] End User Documentation / Basic Setup Guide / How to upload PDFs etc

2013-11-17 Thread Sameer Verma
On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 8:15 PM, Anna wrote: > Pathagar is still a work in progress. I'm not sure if it can handle pdfs, > though. Last I saw, it was just epubs. > By design, Pathagar will serve *any* kind of file. The file serving is done via HTTP (Can be apache, nginx, or lighttpd, etc). Here