General :: Using Amazon Kindle To Reference Documenation?
Apr 4, 2011
I do a bit of programming and tinkering with Linux so I have to refer to documentation a lot. As a result my eyes do get sore when reading through documentation on PC. Another problem is when tinkering and something goes wrong, either with Ubuntu crashing or loss of internet connection, I can't get access to the relevant document to fix it. Because of these, I was thinking of getting an e-reader, in particular, an Amazon Kindle as it is the only one I've seen sold locally as I don't like buying electronic goods online as it is a hassle with shipping if anything goes wrong.
I would like some advice. Is the Kindle worth having to view documentation and tutorials? Is it easy to reference relevant material through it's search facilities? Most important of all, can it connect to (Ubuntu) Linux through a usb port?
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May 31, 2011
I have a dual boot with Windows XP and Ubuntu 10.10. I connected my Amazon Kindle to an USB interface in XP and in Ubuntu. From XP everything works with no flaw. In Ubuntu the data exchange is perfect, but the device does not charge.
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Oct 11, 2010
how can i set up my ubuntu 10.10 in order to use amazon kindle?
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Jul 7, 2011
I hope we'll understand well. So - i'm offering to earn few dollars for few hours of Your time doing something quite interesting. From long time all my activities connected with computers are painful because me eyes are becoming tired very fast, which cause headache and generally make work impossible.
Cure for my problems is e-ink, im in possesion of Amazon kindle 3 now and it's beyond awesome for me. I've checked a lot of sites and keywords about ' e-ink monitor ', or desktop display, or using e-ink reader as computer display - and at this moment there isn't single device od market with such a function, but a lot of prototypes.
I've found also, that almost all e-ink readers are functioning on linux. My knowledge about linux is less than none, but some people written, that it should be possible to somehow make kindle a display for pc by making some linux operations on both
devices. What i'm asking You is not:- informing me about disadvantages of e-ink display, framerates, movies, speed and any other things, i don't care about any of those at all
- informing me about some crap imitations of e-ink like pixel qi, anything which isn't exactly e-ink is in my book worth nothing in terms of comfortable work with text.What i'm really asking is someone that will seriously try to make amazon kindle a monitor/display for netbook/notebook/pc. I'm really not geek at all, so i will not understand any of details, i'm asking someone to do it - and write precise, step by step guide for me which will tell me what i should do to use my kindle as computer display.
It may need change of OS, it may cause lose of data, it doesn't matters - what i need is fully operational internet browser with mouse and keyboard - on e-ink. So kindle attached to any kind of pc/netbook as display will be great. If task need some changes with hardware, or inside device - i can buy the one that You will modify from You after i will see pictures as proof that it works. If someone will help me - i will pay. It's quite hard for me to somehow ' prove it here ' - but i just will, we will work out Your fee and other details.
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Nov 29, 2010
I have read some of the previous posts on banshee,etc but i am not smart enough to understand it. I downloaded the amazon mp3 downloader and tried to install it and it said "Failed to install file. Unknown error. Please refer to the detailed report and report in your distribution bugtracker. More details - could not do simulate: 1:amazonmp3-1.0.9-1.i686 requires libboost_iostreams.so.4
1:amazonmp3-1.0.9-1.i686 requires libcrypto.so.8
1:amazonmp3-1.0.9-1.i686 requires libboost_regex.so.4
1:amazonmp3-1.0.9-1.i686 requires libboost_system.so.4
1:amazonmp3-1.0.9-1.i686 requires libboost_filesystem.so.4
1:amazonmp3-1.0.9-1.i686 requires libboost_thread-mt.so.4
1:amazonmp3-1.0.9-1.i686 requires libboost_date_time.so.4
1:amazonmp3-1.0.9-1.i686 requires libboost_signals.so.4
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May 31, 2011
I just finished setting up a default Linux EC2 instance and would like to install PHPMyAdmin. I already have Apache and MySQL installed but cannot seem to install PHPMyAdmin. I tried using
sudo apt-get phpmyadmin but the command apt-get is not recognized.
I also tried sudo yum install phpmyadmin but that I get the message No package phpmyadmin available.
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Mar 10, 2010
We have our web site hosted by Go daddy and they provide us with the mail service as well. But there are a lot of constraints with the mail service with regards to the number of mail boxes, size per box, relays per user and so on.To avoid this, we are looking at other options. One is to have our own mail server but it will require a lot of infrastructure and expertise. But Amazon web services looks nice. They have infrastructure needed and all. One thing on my mind is the reverse look up of the mail servers. They wont be associated with the domain as both would be on different hostings. I am open to both windows exchange server as well as Linux server. Has anyone done this before or has any idea about it? I have gone through some of the threads in their forum and there are a lot of mixed views about it.And main concern everyone views is the reverse lookup. This could lead to all the mails sent from my server tagged as spam at the recipient end.I could not make out in which forum to write and hence in newbie. If this is enough about networking or server please move it.
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May 31, 2011
I just setup an EC2 instance running Linux. Is there a way to get the version/distribution of Linux that is running on the instance via the terminal?
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Jul 11, 2011
i have some compatibility questions/concerns about switching my os. on my current windows 7 os, i transfer purchases to my pc kindle, then, once on my pc kindle account, i go to the manage my kindle account and transfer to my windows 7 by dl an azw file which i then transfer to my kindle. (i don't have a wireless card/router so i have to transfer via usb i also like this because i don't get charged?) what is whisper net? i know its not a free service?
what i want to be able to do is, (i heard calibre can access my amazon account directly from the interface but not sure if that's really true or if only true on 7 and not ubuntu) if it is true, can i still buy free/paid books for my kindle3, transfer them to calibre/or kindle pc thru wine, "manage my account" on calibre/kindle wine then dl the azw file, transfer the azw to my home folder on ubuntu, then copy/paste to my kindle3 folder on my kindle?
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Feb 17, 2011
Ubuntu 10.10 64-bit.
I had it working. After it installed, it ran and everything worked. After I closed it, I can find no way to start it again. I can not find any kindle application, anywhere.
I can not fine anything about kindle anywhere in my /home/walter/.wine directory.
Application->Wine->Programs shows me nothing.
Another problem, Amazon downloads books into /root/My Kindle Content. The only way for me to read my kindle books is chmod my /root directory, which I don't like doing.
Is there any way to remove the DRM, so I can use Calibre to view the book in an epub format? Instead of having to fight with this evil amazon format?
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Jul 8, 2010
I searched through this forum and the Wine DB before trying, but found so little real data that I decided to just try it. I got this far and would appreciate someone with more expertise looking at the result and what to try next.
[Code]...
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Jan 10, 2010
How to read kindle books on Ubuntu 9.10? I googled and tried the wine with Kindle for PC and that didn't work. Mebbe I did somethig wrong. Anway, I have a very nice EEE that I love having Ubuntu on it and am desperately trying to avoid the Windows OS, but the Kindle app. is most important. Wonder if Amazon or open source software solutions are in sight?
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Dec 9, 2010
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2. /usr/lib/../lib64/crt1.o: In function `_start': (.text+0x19): undefined reference to `__libc_csu_init'
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May 21, 2011
When I am trying to compile the code in this linkI get the following error:
fmech_subs.o: In function `focalmc_':
fort77-3595-1.c.text+0xa9f): undefined reference to `rand_'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
[code]....
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Jan 25, 2011
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Feb 22, 2015
The kindle device is seen as per lsusb:
Code: Select allmax@max-debian:~$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:0024 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 8087:0024 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
[Code] ....
But this is my output of calibre debug device detection
calibre 2.20 isfrozen: True is64bit: True
Linux-3.2.0-4-amd64-x86_64-with-debian-7.8 Linux ('64bit', 'ELF')
('Linux', '3.2.0-4-amd64', '#1 SMP Debian 3.2.65-1+deb7u1')
Python 2.7.9
Linux: ('debian', '7.8', '')
[Code] ....
what does exactly means that device error?
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Jan 10, 2011
I bought a kindle dx the other day. When I wanted to copy some pdf files to kindle attached to my pc running Debian testing, I found I could not do that. Once the files began being written, kindle disconnected from my pc !
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Code:
item1
item3
item4
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I Have a file2.txt. It's like this:
Code:
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Code:
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I keep getting the error:
Here is my code:
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Jul 19, 2011
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