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Re: 15,000, and yet another offer to help
by Bowerbird＠aol.com 23 May '09

23 May '09

jim said: > If it is a tool that takes less than a day on my end to reverse-engineer > what is going wrong with it or with its installation then I’m interested. well, jim, as i said, this is just a _skeleton_. none of the routines have been written yet. (after all, i only just made the offer today.) i mounted this merely to show that i am operating in good faith, and ready to go, just as soon as i get those 18 statements. i'll consider your download to be the first. current status: 1 requests. -bowerbird p.s. even in this skeletal form, however, the app does indicate how the user can traverse through the pages of the book, with the text and scan for each in sync... just click the arrow-buttons at the top, or use the cursor-keys on the keyboard. it also shows how the app will download each of the scans from a remote source as it becomes needed to perform the job. ************** Recession-proof vacation ideas. Find free things to do in the U.S. (http://travel.aol.com/travel-ideas/domestic/national-tourism-week?ncid=emlc…)

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Re: 15,000, and yet another offer to help
by Bowerbird＠aol.com 23 May '09

23 May '09

nice try, christine. but i won't waste a substantial amount of time programming a tool that nobody is gonna use. what would be the point? current status: 0 requests. -bowerbird ************** Recession-proof vacation ideas. Find free things to do in the U.S. (http://travel.aol.com/travel-ideas/domestic/national-tourism-week?ncid=emlc…)

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Re: 15,000, and yet another offer to help
by Bowerbird＠aol.com 22 May '09

22 May '09

got the skeleton done on my guiguts clone, which i've named "gutsgooey" to be clear... for the p.c.: > http://z-m-l.com/gutsgooey/gutsgooey.exe for linux: > http://z-m-l.com/gutsgooey/gutsgooey.x86 for mac o.s.x.: > http://z-m-l.com/gutsgooey/gutsgooey.zip put it in its own folder, because it will download the images associated with the embedded text... (it has its own scan-image-viewer built-in, so you don't have to fiddle with an external viewer, like guiguts requires you to do. more convenient, since it automatically synchs the text and image.) type a number into the top box and press return to jump automatically to the text for that page... no testing done on it yet, but it runs on my mac... current status: 0 requests. installation instructions: 1. download. 2. decompress (mac only). 3. double-click. -bowerbird ************** Recession-proof vacation ideas. Find free things to do in the U.S. (http://travel.aol.com/travel-ideas/domestic/national-tourism-week?ncid=emlc…)

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Re: remember eucalyptus?
by Bowerbird＠aol.com 22 May '09

22 May '09

it ends up that having the app rejected (stupidly) by apple is probably the best thing that could've happened to eucalyptus. twitter is atwitter, with tweets coming about one per minute... and the news is on a number of blogs, including boing boing. that's a ton of publicity you couldn't buy... :+) the app hasn't even been released yet, and people already love it. good thing lexcycle sold out while stanza still had the spotlight... -bowerbird ************** Recession-proof vacation ideas. Find free things to do in the U.S. (http://travel.aol.com/travel-ideas/domestic/national-tourism-week?ncid=emlc…)

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15,000, and yet another offer to help
by christine travers 22 May '09

22 May '09

Don't talk about it, don't wait for post-processors to ask for it. If you know what is needed, write it, test it, share it on sourceforge near guiguts and wait for the feedback. If the tool is good, it will find takers, if it isn't, they will stick to their old method. Christine (aka Lostpaces)

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15,000, and yet another offer to help
by Bowerbird＠aol.com 22 May '09

22 May '09

d.p. hit 15,000 e-texts a while back when i wasn't paying much attention... congratulations to the volunteers who've worked so hard on this vital task! i and many others appreciate deeply the time and energy you've contributed. i recently hit a milestone myself. for the first time ever, i have now installed guiguts on my mac. (after having first upgraded from tiger to leopard.) yay! and boy, what a hassle it was. (not to mention all the earlier failed attempts.) these kinds of installation difficulties are _not_ what us mac users are used to. of course, this crap isn't unique to guiguts in any way, shape, or form. i chuckle at _all_ of the open-source programmers who think that just because a linux program _can_ be inflicted on a mac, they can call it "mac compatible"... maybe it will _run_. but we mac users expect a much higher standard than that. we expect a program to be _friendly_ to us, very friendly, not outright _hostile_. and any time we have to scrounge around in "terminal", that is _hostile_. (and no, it's not because we're incapable of doing that. no, it's because we know that it's not _necessary_ that one has to deal with crap like that.) but those poor people over at d.p. are used to being abused... they just sit and take it. and every once in a while, make a little pipsqueak. lately, for instance, lvl wondered it he could skip a round if he used an independent digitization to compare against the output from a round... after the tons and tons of research that i've shared about that method, both over on the d.p. forums and in _countless_ posts on this listserve, you'd think that they'd be past the asking stage on that particular matter. and meanwhile carlos is still whining because there's no .html generator. first of all, there _is_ one, in guiguts. and donovan scripted another one. and i've programmed my own, and shown that it's _not_ all that difficult, and have even offered to make mine available to distributed proofreaders. and i'll repeat the offer again, right now. but they won't take my help. they're too stubborn. they'd rather whine. still, i continue to offer it. indeed, here's my newest pledge. i'll create a clone of guiguts, one with these installation instructions: download, decompress, and double-click. (if you want to know how radical that is, read any one of a _large_ number of d.p. forum threads where people have battled with guiguts installation.) the only catch is that 1.5 dozen people have to say they'd like such a tool. just 18 people, sending messages to this listserve, saying "please make it". that's all i need to start working on it... -bowerbird ************** Recession-proof vacation ideas. Find free things to do in the U.S. (http://travel.aol.com/travel-ideas/domestic/national-tourism-week?ncid=emlc…)

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kerpoof
by Bowerbird＠aol.com 22 May '09

22 May '09

wanna see what the e-books of tomorrow will look like? see what the kids of today are playing with: > http://www.kerpoof.com they won't even realize this is a kick-ass authoring tool. they'll just know they are having fun... -bowerbird ************** Recession-proof vacation ideas. Find free things to do in the U.S. (http://travel.aol.com/travel-ideas/domestic/national-tourism-week?ncid=emlc…)

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remember eucalyptus?
by Bowerbird＠aol.com 22 May '09

22 May '09

remember i told you about eucalyptus, an iphone e-book viewer-program that loads in e-texts from project gutenberg? it's been rejected by an apple reviewer, because the app was able to download the kama sutra, which is a naughty book. yeah, yeah, this isn't the first time that apple's review process has been an ass, and it'll get straightened out eventually, but the p.g. connection is pretty funny... -bowerbird ************** Recession-proof vacation ideas. Find free things to do in the U.S. (http://travel.aol.com/travel-ideas/domestic/national-tourism-week?ncid=emlc…)

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brewster kahle weighs in on the google book "settlement"
by Bowerbird＠aol.com 19 May '09

19 May '09

brewster kahle weighs in on the google book "settlement": > http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/18/AR200905180… he is opposed to google's boondoggle... -bowerbird ************** Recession-proof vacation ideas. Find free things to do in the U.S. (http://travel.aol.com/travel-ideas/domestic/national-tourism-week?ncid=emlc…)

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Re: About the Samsung i730 (Verizon, 3G, CDMA) Re: Well, it has kindled a lot of discussion, hm?
by Kevin Pulliam 15 May '09

15 May '09

Just to be clear, the phone in question 'already' has Wifi built in. (This is one of the few touch screen, PDA, Wifi, Bluetooth, Cellular internet, and qwerty keyboard phones that Verizon ever released. Sorry no Camera.. but to some of us, that's actually a feature too). The trick is to avoid the hefty dataplans to reduce the Total Cost of Ownership to a fraction of what it costs to buy a modern PDA/phone which don't have a way to turn off the Cellular Internet. The procedure: I slightly exaggerated for effect (it's not quite a 5 second procedure), but it's really quite easy and most folks can follow these one time instructions in under a minute or so. ------------- Step 1: In File Explorer (on the phone), browse to MyDevice/Windows/Startup Step 2: 'Cut' (using the right hand 'Menu' Then 'Edit' then 'Cut' choices) the file named "CDMACSP" from the directory. Step 2a: Go up one level and 'paste' (using the right hand Menu then Edit, then Paste) the file to the windows directory. (This step is optional if you want an easy way to put the program back in the startup folder, or to temporarilly re-enable the cellphone internet). Step 3: Now, on the phone menu, go to 'Settings'. Then choose 'Connections' tab, then choose 'Connections' icon, lastly choose 'Manage existing connections'. Step 4: Edit each of the two shown connections and change the phone number to #### (or anything really) instead of #777 and #7772. -------------- That's it, you are done. The phone is now incapable of connecting to the cellular internet system. NOTE: Verizon does require you to 'select' a data-plan when you activate this phone. Simply select the (outragous) per Kb charge of 'pay as you go' or something similar (but remember, you've already disabled internet. - there will be no 'as you go') You now have a $75 ebook reader / cell phone with no data plan, that is WiFi enabled, a full function PDA, and a windows mobile device. This phone will also work just fine with the cell phone radio turned completely off. If you just want a cheap portable ereader/wifi device, you don't even need to signup for anything with verizon. Verizon also offers a 'Data-block' option that you can ask for via customer service, but I don't trust them to always/continue to offer that, or to get a tech on the phone that knows how to enable it on their system. This way, all the control is on your end of the data pipe. For those technically interested, the program we removed from startup 'fixes' the phone numbers at startup if you ever mess them up. If you are ever stuck somewhere and MUST get internet, and there is no 802.11b wifi available. you can go back to the windows directory, run the CDMACSP program, and then connect to the internet through the cellular network. Change the numbers back to something useless when you are done. I learned this trick (and many others) for this phone here http://pdaphonehome.com/forums/samsung-i730-i830-i830w/ I recommend this website for any discussion of 'how do I do what I WANT to do' with just about any brand of phone or PDA. There are updates and software packages to allow playback of DivX, WMP, and Tivo recorded TV shows. You can even load your unencrypted itunes or amazon music purchases. The only true limitation is that it cannot read an SD Card larger than 4GB, and it also doesn't have a 'slick' iphone/ipod like interface. At the moment I have 4 hours of TV from my tivo, 8 hours of Divx video files, 4-5 albums of music, and 460 ebooks loaded; The card is 75% full. Amazon and Apple do have one thing figured out. The ability to grab a book on the fly is 'priceless'. There is nothing so futuristic, yet here today (here for several years actually), than browsing to a website (feedbooks.com, fictionwise.com, webscription.net) and downloading a new book straight to your reader (no cables, cards, or laptops required) while sitting in an airport because you want to read the next book in a series, or another by the same author. Cheers Kevin On 5/14/09, Michael S. Hart <hart(a)pglaf.org> wrote: > > About the Samsung i730 (Verizon, 3G, CDMA). . . . > > How do you rename that file to make it wifi??? > > > Thanks!!! > > > > Michael > > > _______________________________________________ > gutvol-d mailing list > gutvol-d(a)lists.pglaf.org > http://lists.pglaf.org/mailman/listinfo/gutvol-d >

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