I HAVE taken my Sony Reader to the beach. The screen is perfectly readable on the direct sunlight. I have use cheap vinyl protective bag (sold at Tecso as a "protective cover for maps") to protect it from sand and splashing water. A good old "ziploc" bag will work just as well.
Sony Reader PRS-700, Sony Reader PRS-505, Bokeen Cybook Gen3, IRex Digital Reader, IRex iLiad, The Jinke/Hanlin, Ganaxa GeR2, Soribook, Readius, Hanvon N510 , Hanvon N516, astak EZ Reader, Astak Mentor, the new 5" models from several manufacturers and quite a few clones and rebranded OEM versions of above mentioned devices.
I wonder what makes it more highly portable than Sony Reader (PRS 500. PRS 505, PRS 700), Kindle (1 and 2), Bookeen Cybook Gen3, The Jinke/Hanlin and quite a few others.
Developing / testing / implementing / commissioning HMI system in a steel factory. HMI is also called visualisation. I displays what goes on in facility and provides means for Humans to give commands to control computers (PLCs) that run all the machinery.
I was sitting in a control room with operators that have been using computer I was trying to program for working with the facility. The control room was VERY busy as the facility was being "brought to life" gradually. The operators asked me often to let them use my [unfinished] system to operate some devices [fill some tanks with water for testing, check the temperature and flow of water, see if hardware regulators are functioning yet, move some piece of machinery, test a sequence of fail-safe procedures]. They have also been testing the stuff I have done so far and were suggesting changes that I was supposed to do so they could use those 24 or so large HMI screens to actually run the mill.
Most of the Linux and FreeBSD users get OpenOffice from a repository or as a package prepared by the authors of their distro.
I personally have downloaded OpenOffice.org 3.0 as an update from a PC-BSD server.
FreeBSD has GEOM, a "modular disk I/O request transformation framework", which is arguably more generic and better designed than LVM. Notice a trend here...
Plus, there is wonderfull atacontrol command that allows you to create and maintain RAID1 and RAID0 using a few simple commands.
You install Vanilla bare FreeBSD, use
atacontrol create RAID1 ad4 ad6
Reboot, run installer again and this time install FreeBSD to the/dev/ar0
There is a very nice language for learnig to program. Euphoria www.rapideuphoria.com As easy as Basic, with all the stuff a programmer needs, without the need to use object-oriented methods. Very, very nice and clean syntax
A teenager can learn all the stuff he needs to start writting his own programs in an afternoon.
It has a VERY friendly mailing list, discussion forum, 1800 programs submitted by users, on Windows it has a nice clicking IDE - submitted by some user and written in Euphoria itself. It also runs on Linux and has even FreeBSD binary available for download. There are quite a few graphical games written in Euphoria, Euphoria Editor (with syntax highlighting that works as an "IDE" written in Euphoria), many, many libraries, lots of stuff. Ready for download and tinkering. I know there are quite a few C programs (or python, or perl, or [insert the name of your favourite language here]) available, but majority of those 1800 programs written in Euphoria are readable (and understandable) by an absolute beginner. I personally have learned how to program with "raw" Windows API using Euphoria and their win32lib. I have created a simple Windows graphical game. By writting code, not by clicking on fancy buttons.
It is a simple interpreter with a GRAPHICAL debuger (by graphical I mean running in color terminal in text mode, resembling the very old Borland C you remember from 'good ole DOS days') that can be used to step through the program ((this is one of the most important tools for a beginning programmer)) and display variables, and... The debugger is surprise... surprise, also written in Euphoria.
When you have program debuged and you want speed, you simply "compile" your into a C source and run that through a compiler of your choice.
The newest version is OpenSource (used to be shareware, nagware, free for non-commercial use)
using 98Lite from LitePC you can make a very maen and lean installation of Windows 98.
They boast unbelievable boot times.
You can load it into CF card...
*I* am one of those 66.66666666% that do not snoop.
It is a matter of principle.
I go out of my way to access as little information as possible when I solve e-mail server problems or do other things. I have even been cleaning some really nasty stuff from computers belonging to a very high-ranking staff members and nobody has heard any juicy story from me. I am also administrator for online banking system and I have never been tempted to take a peek. I also make point in not knowing passwords I am not supposed to know and I insist on responsible banking system operator to type her password with me standing out of sight.
I have their trust. Period.
There is no free energy to be pulled from the alternator. It works like this. In the presence of hydrogen the burning of the fuel is more thorough. There is much less solid particles and unburned fuel in the exhausts. You can increase mileage of the diesel car up to 5%.
look for Toshiba libretto Closed it has the dimensions of the VHS video tape. (without port replicator (Port replicator is the predecessor of the docking stations))
It is, however quite expensive. With eee you get much more bang for your buck.
Mine has got Pentium processor 90MHz. I used it for reading e-books. If you set the harddisk to stop after certain inactivity time (mine was set to 2 minutes) the notebook makes about as much noise as a calculator. If you connect 8GB CF card instead of harddisk you can have dream machine.
If you want to have something even MORE minimalistic look for HP Jornada pocket PC.
Hi.
I have implemented greylisting (package postgrey for debian) on our company server (cca 120 accounts). The level of cpam dropped significantly and I have not received *single* complaint about it.
I have purchased Sony(*) PRS500 about a year ago and I am a very happy owner. I use it. Every. Single. Day.
It is absolutely awesome for travel. You do not need to make compromises about what books to bring along. You can bring HUNDREDS of books. (well, actually, thousands, but it gets impractical, because this reader has "flat" file structure. No folders, no groups, no skipping pages in the file list (10 books per page))
(*) I know, I know. "Sony Rootkit" (Tm)! Phew! Do not be afraid to purchase PRS505. You can use the reader without touching Sony software. Just use an SD memory card and a card reader. PRS 505, unlike 500 also works like umass device - it looks like an USB memory stick to FreeBSD, Linux or MacOSX.
Like:
Will I be finaly able to actaully fill my application built in OpenOffice.org Base with real data? No typing data in manually or copy & paste from an... aehm... spreadsheet DOES NOT count as a means to import data.
Will Regular Exressions in OOo Writer finally work according to the standards - I mean proper support of \n as a paragraph end and NOT manual break?
You do not need a divers knife to hold an edge. You only use it in emergencies. Titanium does not rust. Even stainless steel will rust if you use it for a frequently used divers knife.
There is no best reader. What is the best fruit? Apple or Orange? It depends.
If you want to purchase (RELATIVELY) cheap books with a click of a button, if you want to have The Times ready for reading every morning, then go for Kindle.
If you want just read books, I mean *fiction* (no fancy pictures, no fancy fonts, no formulas, no A4 formated complicated pdf files), book after book after book after book and if you "get" your reading material from somewhere else than Sonny Connect store, then I very strongly recommand buying a refurbished Sony Reader PRS 500.
I personally own Sony Reader and I am very satisfied. It has the best battery life out of all e-ink readers out there, there is hack kit floating arround (check www.mobileread.com) so you can custonize it a little bit. If you are uncomfortable with using any software from SONY, just like I am, just purchase an SD card and a SD card reader. This way you can load your reader with rtf files of your choice. Or, if you want to use Linux or Mac OSX there is software libprs500. Again check www.mobileread.com
You might also want to chech NAEB - a customized verzion of the Cybook Gen3 reader.
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Dell gets paid for each piece preinstalled crapware, trialware and crippleware they force uppon poor buyer. That is why you can get PC without an OS from a big OEM manufacturer for the same price as identical PC with XP preinstalled. They can rake in enough money from preinstalled craplets to pay those cca. 49.95 bucks Microsoft charges them for an OEM version of XP.
Dell would happily preinstall OOo. But who is going to pay them?
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I HAVE taken my Sony Reader to the beach.
The screen is perfectly readable on the direct sunlight.
I have use cheap vinyl protective bag (sold at Tecso as a "protective cover for maps") to protect it from sand and splashing water. A good old "ziploc" bag will work just as well.
well, 10 years later, you have the same candidates.
Candidate A has 10 years experience
Candidate B has 8 yesrs experience PLUS a Masters degree
Wo which one is it now?
I carry my Sony reader in my breast pocket in my jacket.
Well, there are quite a few readers http://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/E-book_devices with much less draconian DRM or even completely without DRM:
Sony Reader PRS-700, Sony Reader PRS-505, Bokeen Cybook Gen3, IRex Digital Reader, IRex iLiad, The Jinke/Hanlin, Ganaxa GeR2, Soribook, Readius, Hanvon N510 , Hanvon N516, astak EZ Reader, Astak Mentor, the new 5" models from several manufacturers and quite a few clones and rebranded OEM versions of above mentioned devices.
I wonder what makes it more highly portable than Sony Reader (PRS 500. PRS 505, PRS 700), Kindle (1 and 2), Bookeen Cybook Gen3, The Jinke/Hanlin and quite a few others.
Developing / testing / implementing / commissioning HMI system in a steel factory.
HMI is also called visualisation. I displays what goes on in facility and provides means for Humans to give commands to control computers (PLCs) that run all the machinery.
I was sitting in a control room with operators that have been using computer I was trying to program for working with the facility. The control room was VERY busy as the facility was being "brought to life" gradually. The operators asked me often to let them use my [unfinished] system to operate some devices [fill some tanks with water for testing, check the temperature and flow of water, see if hardware regulators are functioning yet, move some piece of machinery, test a sequence of fail-safe procedures]. They have also been testing the stuff I have done so far and were suggesting changes that I was supposed to do so they could use those 24 or so large HMI screens to actually run the mill.
Most of the Linux and FreeBSD users get OpenOffice from a repository or as a package prepared by the authors of their distro. I personally have downloaded OpenOffice.org 3.0 as an update from a PC-BSD server.
Plus, there is wonderfull atacontrol command that allows you to create and maintain RAID1 and RAID0 using a few simple commands. You install Vanilla bare FreeBSD, use /dev/ar0
atacontrol create RAID1 ad4 ad6
Reboot, run installer again and this time install FreeBSD to the
There is a very nice language for learnig to program.
Euphoria
www.rapideuphoria.com
As easy as Basic, with all the stuff a programmer needs, without the need to use object-oriented methods.
Very, very nice and clean syntax
A teenager can learn all the stuff he needs to start writting his own programs in an afternoon.
It has a VERY friendly mailing list, discussion forum, 1800 programs submitted by users,
on Windows it has a nice clicking IDE - submitted by some user and written in Euphoria itself.
It also runs on Linux and has even FreeBSD binary available for download.
There are quite a few graphical games written in Euphoria, Euphoria Editor (with syntax highlighting that works as an "IDE" written in Euphoria), many, many libraries, lots of stuff. Ready for download and tinkering.
I know there are quite a few C programs (or python, or perl, or [insert the name of your favourite language here]) available, but majority of those 1800 programs written in Euphoria are readable (and understandable) by an absolute beginner.
I personally have learned how to program with "raw" Windows API using Euphoria and their win32lib. I have created a simple Windows graphical game. By writting code, not by clicking on fancy buttons.
It is a simple interpreter with a GRAPHICAL debuger (by graphical I mean running in color terminal in text mode, resembling the very old Borland C you remember from 'good ole DOS days') that can be used to step through the program ((this is one of the most important tools for a beginning programmer)) and display variables, and ... ... surprise, also written in Euphoria.
The debugger is surprise
When you have program debuged and you want speed, you simply "compile" your into a C source and run that through a compiler of your choice.
The newest version is OpenSource (used to be shareware, nagware, free for non-commercial use)
using 98Lite from LitePC you can make a very maen and lean installation of Windows 98. They boast unbelievable boot times. You can load it into CF card ...
*I* am one of those 66.66666666% that do not snoop. It is a matter of principle. I go out of my way to access as little information as possible when I solve e-mail server problems or do other things. I have even been cleaning some really nasty stuff from computers belonging to a very high-ranking staff members and nobody has heard any juicy story from me. I am also administrator for online banking system and I have never been tempted to take a peek. I also make point in not knowing passwords I am not supposed to know and I insist on responsible banking system operator to type her password with me standing out of sight. I have their trust. Period.
Here it is. http://www.levenez.com/unix/
It is like an equivalent of a nice map hanging on the wall.
There is no free energy to be pulled from the alternator.
It works like this.
In the presence of hydrogen the burning of the fuel is more thorough. There is much less solid particles and unburned fuel in the exhausts.
You can increase mileage of the diesel car up to 5%.
look for
Toshiba libretto
Closed it has the dimensions of the VHS video tape. (without port replicator (Port replicator is the predecessor of the docking stations))
http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?from=R40&_trksid=m37&satitle=toshiba+libretto&category0=
It is, however quite expensive.
With eee you get much more bang for your buck.
Mine has got Pentium processor 90MHz. I used it for reading e-books.
If you set the harddisk to stop after certain inactivity time (mine was set to 2 minutes) the notebook makes about as much noise as a calculator.
If you connect 8GB CF card instead of harddisk you can have dream machine.
If you want to have something even MORE minimalistic look for HP Jornada pocket PC.
Hi. I have implemented greylisting (package postgrey for debian) on our company server (cca 120 accounts). The level of cpam dropped significantly and I have not received *single* complaint about it.
I have purchased Sony(*) PRS500 about a year ago and I am a very happy owner.
I use it. Every. Single. Day.
It is absolutely awesome for travel. You do not need to make compromises about what books to bring along. You can bring HUNDREDS of books. (well, actually, thousands, but it gets impractical, because this reader has "flat" file structure. No folders, no groups, no skipping pages in the file list (10 books per page))
(*)
I know, I know. "Sony Rootkit" (Tm)! Phew!
Do not be afraid to purchase PRS505.
You can use the reader without touching Sony software. Just use an SD memory card and a card reader.
PRS 505, unlike 500 also works like umass device - it looks like an USB memory stick to FreeBSD, Linux or MacOSX.
Like: Will I be finaly able to actaully fill my application built in OpenOffice.org Base with real data? No typing data in manually or copy & paste from an ... aehm ... spreadsheet DOES NOT count as a means to import data.
Will Regular Exressions in OOo Writer finally work according to the standards - I mean proper support of \n as a paragraph end and NOT manual break?
You do not need a divers knife to hold an edge. You only use it in emergencies.
Titanium does not rust. Even stainless steel will rust if you use it for a frequently used divers knife.
There is no best reader.
What is the best fruit? Apple or Orange?
It depends.
If you want to purchase (RELATIVELY) cheap books with a click of a button, if you want to have The Times ready for reading every morning, then go for Kindle.
If you want just read books, I mean *fiction* (no fancy pictures, no fancy fonts, no formulas, no A4 formated complicated pdf files), book after book after book after book and if you "get" your reading material from somewhere else than Sonny Connect store, then I very strongly recommand buying a refurbished Sony Reader PRS 500.
I personally own Sony Reader and I am very satisfied. It has the best battery life out of all e-ink readers out there, there is hack kit floating arround (check www.mobileread.com) so you can custonize it a little bit.
If you are uncomfortable with using any software from SONY, just like I am, just purchase an SD card and a SD card reader. This way you can load your reader with rtf files of your choice. Or, if you want to use Linux or Mac OSX there is software libprs500. Again check www.mobileread.com
You might also want to chech NAEB - a customized verzion of the Cybook Gen3 reader.
ZZ
is even shorter.
Dell gets paid for each piece preinstalled crapware, trialware and crippleware they force uppon poor buyer. That is why you can get PC without an OS from a big OEM manufacturer for the same price as identical PC with XP preinstalled. They can rake in enough money from preinstalled craplets to pay those cca. 49.95 bucks Microsoft charges them for an OEM version of XP. Dell would happily preinstall OOo. But who is going to pay them?
If you are afraid that your pst file might get deleted definitely use OneCare ;-)