Comments on: Merry Xmas

By: Paul McAdams

Paul McAdams — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 19:22:36 +0000

Well I was just chucking round a couple of ideas an had already clicked the send button, but I wouldnt want to cause warmongering, either way I was thinking along the lines of some sort of external resources which beginners may not know about.

I have had many computers an I like having a good google when i want to know something, but it can be a little daunting for beginners, the amount of information and the thriving communtity trying to help lost linux users, its hard to know where to start sometimes.

By: Alan Bell

Alan Bell — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 22:52:27 +0000

what a great question. If you use the synaptic package manager to install gutenbrowser you get a nice e-book reader integrated with project gutenburg. It doesn’t appear to give itself a menu entry so use alt+f2 then type gutenbrowser and press run to start it (or add it to the menus). First thing you have to do is tell it what server you want to use (settings-server settings) then download the list of titles (Library-update) The first UK mirror seems to work, some of the others didn’t for me. From then on it gets pretty intuitive. Scroll down the list, click on whatever you like and it goes and gets it for you.

By: MichaelJoyce

MichaelJoyce — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 22:35:23 +0000

I’ve had my webbook for a while now, and I’m more than happy with the Ubuntu Operating System. I have been thinking how nice it would be to put some electronic book reader software on it, so I can take some novels with me. I know that project Gutenberg has thousands of (out of copyright) books to download.
(http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page?sess=25607a1aa5) Has anyone got any suggestions as to the best software? I know I could just download plain text and use any word processor but is there anything that would be better suited to the webbook?

By: Kristy

Kristy — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 19:33:00 +0000

Happy New Year to you all!

I was thinking of installing Sabayon (Gentoo based) and was wondering if anyone had introduced the webbook to this as yet? If yes, then any hints, tips, tricks and caveats to be aware of?

Thank you in advance

Kristy

By: Alan Bell

Alan Bell — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 20:29:46 +0000

adverts are somewhat tempting but would cause a bit of a bunfight over where the revenue goes.

By: Jim Murray

Jim Murray — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 18:44:40 +0000

What could be better about the WebBook? – the battery! The only criticism I have about this excellent little laptop is the bargain-basement battery it uses. If anyone knows of a source of alternative batteries that might give 3-3.5 hours usage I would be very interested to hear about it. Wishing you all a happy 2009, Jim.

By: Matt

Matt — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 13:39:58 +0000

What you’re essentially asking me to do is basically put a “Blogroll” somewhere on the site where Alan can easily add any useful links from within the WordPress admin pages?

I think calling it “Useful links” rather than “Advertisments” may go down a lot better with most people.

Now you’ve got me thinking – what are people’s feelings about putting Google AdSense somewhere on the blog?

By: Paul McAdams

Paul McAdams — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 08:55:23 +0000

Hi Alan,

Despite this being an unpopular suggestion, adverts. Not big massive garish ones, just a small sidebar on the right with links to the resources people might be looking for. As a simple example, a link to the elonex shop, an other distributers as they appear, a link to the ubuntu main website and one for the comunity documentation.

Also, other suggested resources with simple tutorials. Here is one to get you started, not sure whose website it is, but it explains most stuff in a way that I have never seen simpler an I think im still a beginner

http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/

Paul.