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Scott Castaline

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Mar 17, 2012, 10:26:56 PM3/17/12
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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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Ron Frazier (ALE)

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Mar 17, 2012, 10:49:50 PM3/17/12
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That's too bad.  Guess you'll have to buy another.

Ron

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Charles Shapiro

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Mar 19, 2012, 9:24:34 AM3/19/12
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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.

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Brian W. Neu

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Mar 19, 2012, 4:10:59 PM3/19/12
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I rooted my Kindle Fire, and while it's been quite a frustrating process installing Google Market & apps on the thing because they are labeled "incompatible", I'm still happy with the tablet.  I never watch Amazon Prime content, so I'd be perfectly fine with installing a new ROM, but I wanted to give the devs time to work out all the bugs.

If you're considering rooting a Fire -- it would be far simpler to just install a new ROM than to jump through all the hoops I did to make it feel like a regular Android system.


On 3/17/2012 10:26 PM, Scott Castaline wrote:
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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Michael Trausch

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Mar 19, 2012, 4:51:23 PM3/19/12
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I had a relatively easy time loading an ICS firmware on my Fire, but I am debating trying to use one of the stock+mod firmwares because I really do miss the Kindle app from the Fire itself.

Or maybe I will see if I can somehow merge that version of the Kindle app with my ICS environment.

Neither is likely to happen anytime soon, though, because of time constraints...

Chris Fowler

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Mar 30, 2012, 9:51:19 AM3/30/12
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On 03/17/2012 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.

Yea, that nook is in one hand and we know what is in her other hand.

Lightner, Jeff

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Mar 30, 2012, 10:10:22 AM3/30/12
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So does that make her the nookee and you the nooker?


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Jim Kinney

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Mar 30, 2012, 11:48:20 AM3/30/12
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I'm
Just
Not
Going
To
Jump
On
This

To much opportunity for social mayhem :-)

Scott Castaline

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Mar 30, 2012, 3:52:35 PM3/30/12
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On 03/30/2012 10:10 AM, Lightner, Jeff wrote:
> So does that make her the nookee and you the nooker?
>
>

Sookie Sookie Sue! I lost my little blue pill

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