[ale] The Nook

[Charles Shapiro]

Well darn. Think how much more she'll enjoy it once she has control.
A jailbroken Nook can run the Kindle for Android reader as well, if
you're into that Proprietary Stuff.

-- CHS
On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 10:49 PM, Ron Frazier (ALE)
<atllinuxenthinfo at c3energy.com> wrote:
> That's too bad.  Guess you'll have to buy another.
>
> Ron
>
>
> On 3/17/2012 10:26 PM, Scott Castaline wrote:
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> Just to let everyone know, my domesticate boss, (aka wife or
> significant other) laid claim to the Nook that I had won at the
> meeting. As I wound up in the proverbial dog house due to some other
> actions on my part, so I didn't feel that at the time it was safe to
> challenge her claim of ownership. As a result my being able to crack
> it or root it is not going to happen in the very near future. Note I
> said near future, I'm known as a very persistent SOB and a stubborn
> jacka$$ in my family, so it may very well happen in the future, just
> can't say precisely when.
>
> Now as far as our opinion of it. The boss is thrilled with it and is
> enjoying exploring it. I find the screen to be a bit ultra sensitive
> for me, but then I don't do well with laptop touchpads either. There
> were a couple of things that didn't seem intuitive or at least not the
> way I'm used to doing on Linux desktop. I guess this old dog will have
> to learn a few new tricks. I am impressed with the clarity of the
> screen, but am slower than *hit use the touch keyboard, and I'm slow
> on a real keyboard.
>
> I had mentioned on another thread about a project that is based on
> OpenHardware design and OSS. The OS is a fork from MeeGo or based on
> MeeGo, and I was talking to Mike W. about it at the post meeting,
> meeting at Melton's. So Mike W. here is the link
> http://makeplaylive.com/. It is a tablet originally called Spark, but
> they had to change the name to Vivaldi.
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