[ubuntu-uk] OT Kindle
Hi this is slightly off topic but the answer could be useful to others. Looking at the amazon kindle it looks as if i can use it to open / read normal pdf files such as the one for the ubuntu manual, if this is the case it would be useful. On another note, part of my Open uni studies requires me to read and highlight text in book, if i could get hold of electronic versions can i do this with kindle or other book readersl as in highlight text adnthen some how save the file with the highlights so i can use it to take notes, or perhaps there is other ways to attach notes to text. i amk looking at several books on LInux atm, have very little shelf space left and don't want to be a tree killer by printing out documentation, i can also buy electronic books cheaper than paper, copies any suggestions or ideas paul --ha Paul Sutton Cert SLPS (Open) http://www.zleap.net 17th September 2011 - Software freedom day -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT Kindle
On 22 March 2011 10:41, Paul Sutton zl...@zleap.net wrote: Looking at the amazon kindle it looks as if i can use it to open / read normal pdf files such as the one for the ubuntu manual, if this is the case it would be useful. You can, but PDF rendering is less than ideal. You're better off using more 'native' formats on the Kindle than PDF. i can also buy electronic books cheaper than paper, copies That's not always the case. Often the electronic book costs exactly the same as the dead-tree one. Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT Kindle
On 22 March 2011 10:41, Paul Sutton zl...@zleap.net wrote: any suggestions or ideas I love my Kindle 3G. However, I'm already running into the limitations of the 6 screen with PDFs. Depending on the number of books you need, buying the tree copy or just reading on a netbook may work out better than shelling out another £100+ for a gadget to do the same thing. Try and find someone who has one so you can see it in the flesh, sorry, plastic. It won't be difficult. :) Then you can decide if it will work well enough for your needs. Jonathon -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT Kindle
On Tue, 2011-03-22 at 10:48 +, J Fernyhough wrote: On 22 March 2011 10:41, Paul Sutton zl...@zleap.net wrote: any suggestions or ideas I love my Kindle 3G. However, I'm already running into the limitations of the 6 screen with PDFs. Depending on the number of books you need, buying the tree copy or just reading on a netbook may work out better than shelling out another £100+ for a gadget to do the same thing. Try and find someone who has one so you can see it in the flesh, sorry, plastic. It won't be difficult. :) Then you can decide if it will work well enough for your needs. Jonathon My Mrs loves hers over the normal books. Infact when we moved she gave all but her favourite books away and is now buying them all on kindle. -- Seek That Thy Might Know http://www.davmor2.co.uk signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT Kindle
On 22 Mar 2011, at 11:10, Dave Morley davm...@davmor2.co.uk wrote: On Tue, 2011-03-22 at 10:48 +, J Fernyhough wrote: On 22 March 2011 10:41, Paul Sutton zl...@zleap.net wrote: any suggestions or ideas I love my Kindle 3G. However, I'm already running into the limitations of the 6 screen with PDFs. Depending on the number of books you need, buying the tree copy or just reading on a netbook may work out better than shelling out another ￡100+ for a gadget to do the same thing. Try and find someone who has one so you can see it in the flesh, sorry, plastic. It won't be difficult. :) Then you can decide if it will work well enough for your needs. Jonathon My Mrs loves hers over the normal books. Infact when we moved she gave all but her favourite books away and is now buying them all on kindle. -- Seek That Thy Might Know http://www.davmor2.co.uk -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ Likewise, I'm loving mine too. Although I can't say that I've tried to view PDFs on there. But I do prefer carrying that around than a few hefty books. Thanks and Regards, Liam Gallear -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT Kindle
On 22/03/11 10:41, Paul Sutton wrote: Hi this is slightly off topic but the answer could be useful to others. Looking at the amazon kindle it looks as if i can use it to open / read normal pdf files such as the one for the ubuntu manual, if this is the case it would be useful. On another note, part of my Open uni studies requires me to read and highlight text in book, if i could get hold of electronic versions can i do this with kindle or other book readersl as in highlight text adnthen some how save the file with the highlights so i can use it to take notes, or perhaps there is other ways to attach notes to text. i amk looking at several books on LInux atm, have very little shelf space left and don't want to be a tree killer by printing out documentation, i can also buy electronic books cheaper than paper, copies any suggestions or ideas paul --ha Paul Sutton Cert SLPS (Open) http://www.zleap.net 17th September 2011 - Software freedom day Do you have a Staples locally? Here in Plymouth they are selling both versions of the Kindle and they have a demo/display booth where you can try them out. regards, Steve -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT Kindle
I used calibre to convert a series of pdf's (funnily enough for an ou course) into the more native format for my kindle as I found reading the pdf to much of a strain on the eyes. It seems to work well, however its not a perfect conversion formatting can sometimes go a bit funny and images don't seem to come though, but works for my purposes. Sent from my HTC - Reply message - From: Paul Sutton zl...@zleap.net To: UK Ubuntu Talk ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Subject: [ubuntu-uk] OT Kindle Date: Tue, Mar 22, 2011 06:41 Hi this is slightly off topic but the answer could be useful to others. Looking at the amazon kindle it looks as if i can use it to open / read normal pdf files such as the one for the ubuntu manual, if this is the case it would be useful. On another note, part of my Open uni studies requires me to read and highlight text in book, if i could get hold of electronic versions can i do this with kindle or other book readersl as in highlight text adnthen some how save the file with the highlights so i can use it to take notes, or perhaps there is other ways to attach notes to text. i amk looking at several books on LInux atm, have very little shelf space left and don't want to be a tree killer by printing out documentation, i can also buy electronic books cheaper than paper, copies any suggestions or ideas paul --ha Paul Sutton Cert SLPS (Open) http://www.zleap.net 17th September 2011 - Software freedom day -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT Kindle
On 22 March 2011 11:24, Simon Redmond si...@sibass.co.uk wrote: I used calibre to convert a series of pdf's (funnily enough for an ou course) into the more native format for my kindle as I found reading the pdf to much of a strain on the eyes. It seems to work well, however its not a perfect conversion formatting can sometimes go a bit funny and images don't seem to come though, but works for my purposes. I've found Amazon's free conversion process gives a better result, keeping more formatting and fonts; email the pdf with the subject convert to yourusern...@free.kindle.com (no body text needed). It's even delivered to your device via WiFi. For native PDFs Briss (http://sourceforge.net/projects/briss/) works well to crop margins so it's a better fit. As an aside, if you're into comics or manga the Kindle will read images straight from a zip (.zip, .cbz) and keep track of the last page viewed. I've found that processing the images using Mangle before zipping gives a good quality output on the Kindle. Jonathon -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT Kindle
On 22/03/11 10:45, Alan Pope wrote: On 22 March 2011 10:41, Paul Suttonzl...@zleap.net wrote: Looking at the amazon kindle it looks as if i can use it to open / read normal pdf files such as the one for the ubuntu manual, if this is the case it would be useful. You can, but PDF rendering is less than ideal. You're better off using more 'native' formats on the Kindle than PDF. thats ok i would probaby buy books in the kindle format from amazon, i see the point about cost, but i can either buy a 100 quid book case or a kindle, the latter is more portable and perhaps the better option. :) its more for practicality i will howevler investigate before hand,may sugget to the ou they look in to kindle versions of books esp as according to amazon i can highlight and take notes, they do allow download of course books which is handy, for on screen reading, clearly a native version and pdf would be useful. i could also look and see if it will be possible to save LaTeX documents in a format forkindle it does do some ebook stuff not really looked in to it will need to do some research :) thanks to everyone for your help / comments. Paul i can also buy electronic books cheaper than paper, copies That's not always the case. Often the electronic book costs exactly the same as the dead-tree one. Al. -- Paul Sutton Cert SLPS (Open) http://www.zleap.net 17th September 2011 - Software freedom day -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Edubuntu thin client subnet and Windows Domain
Hi All
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new to the group and would like to ask your help.
I'm an IT tech at a school and I want to demo Edubuntu with thin clients to the
senior management and help them see the light.
I have an Edubuntu server with two nics joined to the primary windows domain
and I can log on with domain credentials and everything is AOK. I used
LikewiseOpen 6 to join the server to the primary domain.
So, on my Edubuntu server eth1 is connected to the primary domain and has a
static IP. eth2 also has a static IP and is the DHCP for the thin client
subnet, connected to a switch. IP forwarding is enabled.
DOMAIN eth1 Edubuntu Server eth2 (SUBNET)
switch clients
So far, so good: I can log on the thin clients with one of the local accounts
specified on the Edubuntu server and with that account I can surf the net and,
if I supply domain credentials, browse the primary domain.
Problem I have is:
I can't work out how to log on to the primary domain with a Active Directory
account directly from a thin client. If I try DOMAIN\user to log on, after
giving the password, the password screen refreshes and 'domainuser@11.*.21.*'s
password' appears under the blank password box. The IP in that message is the
IP for the subnet and not the primary domain.
I feel like I'm miss-understanding some basic simple step but I just can't
figure it out.
Here's some of the config files:
etc/network/interfaces
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
auto eth1
iface eth0 inet static
address 10.73.16.29
netmask 255.255.252.0
gateway 10.73.16.1
broadcast 10.73.19.255
auto eth2
iface eth2 inet static
address 11.69.21.1
netmask 255.255.255.0
up iptables-restore /etc/ltsp/nat
DHCP.conf
#
# Default LTSP dhcpd.conf config file.
#
authoritative;
subnet 11.69.21.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
range 11.69.21.20 11.69.21.250;
option domain-name Edubuntu;
option domain-name-servers 10.73.16.7;
# option domain-name-servers 11.69.21.1;
option broadcast-address 11.69.21.255;
option routers 11.69.21.1;
# next-server 11.69.21.2;
# get-lease-hostnames true;
option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;
option root-path /opt/ltsp/i386;
if substring( option vendor-class-identifier, 0, 9 ) = PXEClient {
filename /ltsp/i386/pxelinux.0;
} else {
filename /ltsp/i386/nbi.img;
}
}
resolv.conf
Generated by NetworkManager
search gtravesend gravesend.local
nameserver 10.73.16.7
nameserver 10.73.16.12
IP ROUTE
root@edubuntu-server:~# ip route
11.69.21.0/24 dev eth2 proto kernel scope link src 11.69.21.1
10.73.16.0/22 dev eth1 proto kernel scope link src 10.73.16.29 metric 1
169.254.0.0/16 dev eth2 scope link metric 1000
default via 10.73.16.1 dev eth1 proto static
/etc/hosts
10.73.16.29 edubuntu-server.gravesend.local edubuntu-server # Added by NetworkM$
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
::1 edubuntu-server.gravesend.local edubuntu-server localhost6
# ::1 edubuntu-server localhost6.localdomain6 localhost6
127.0.1.1 edubuntu-server.gravesend.local edubuntu-server
# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
::1 localhost ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0 ip6-localnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
ff02::3 ip6-allhosts
Thanks
Nathan
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT Kindle
On 22 March 2011 10:41, Paul Sutton zl...@zleap.net wrote: Looking at the amazon kindle it looks as if i can use it to open / read normal pdf files such as the one for the ubuntu manual, if this is the case it would be useful. I have a Kindle 3G (the new one with both GSM and WiFi) and it is great for reading ebooks. PDF rendering depends on the source materials, and is not as good as it could be. I just came back from the US with a Barnes and Noble Nook Color. It is a full-colour 7 1024x600 Android tablet that ties in with their in-store/NA based ebook business (which of course only works with a US credit card and perhaps a US IP -- I'm not using it anyway). It is much better for reading full-colour PDFs, magazines, etc. It is easy to root, and that opens up the full Android Marketplace. At $250, it's not expensive. There is also the iPad, of course, but I am a former employee of the Mothership, and not much of a fan these days. It seems way too expensive to me. Anyway, I like both the Kindle and the Nook for different things and still have a massive pile of paper books as well. The Kindle is a great ebook reader in daylight, and has an amazing battery life (weeks) with wireless off. I am not sure that I would spend the extra on 3G again, as the service isn't rock-solid, and the browser is a little crappy. It works, but claims of service coverage (Nigeria, UAE, China, etc) is pretty optimistic. The Nook is full colour, so technical diagrams are better. Battery life is worse (one full day). You have the full Android App Store. You do have the Kindle app, as well, if you want to access your Amazon books. I am not sure how hard the Nook is to get outside of North America. Most other cheaper Android tablets (Archos, etc) have lower resolution screens, so I steered away from them in the past. On another note, part of my Open uni studies requires me to read and highlight text in book, if i could get hold of electronic versions can i do this with kindle or other book readersl as in highlight text adnthen some how save the file with the highlights so i can use it to take notes, or perhaps there is other ways to attach notes to text. This is easy on the Kindle with native formats (or on Android/iOS with the Kindle app -- same thing). With PDF, I am not so sure, but I would not expect the Kindle to do it -- at least not well. i can also buy electronic books cheaper than paper, copies I don't think eBooks offer value for money, with the exception of Public Domain works. I have a lot of classics on my Kindle (and Nook) but nothing that I had to pay for. I also find a paper copy to be easier to leaf casually through (and yes, I do leaf through at least one Linux book casually: Unix and Linux System Administration Handbook, Nemeth, et al). Of course electronic is easier to search. any suggestions or ideas It depends how you read, but if most of your source material is PDF, I would go with the Nook Color (if you can get it). If you opt for the Kindle, make sure that you can get the books in a native format (by converting or otherwise -- most stolen copies will be scans and therefore not convertible). I would skip the Kindle 3G and just stick to Wifi -- there's not a huge difference in price, but I also think there's not much difference in usability. And, just to tie this closer to the list topic, on the Ubuntu side, Calibre is your ebook management application. It is very good. Kind regards, travis -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
