| * ojwb glares at launchpad for timing out and apparently just throwing away his bug report | 11:46 | |
| ajmitch | morning | 20:33 |
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| ibeardslee | morning | 21:03 |
| Atamira | mornin | 21:26 |
| ojwb | morning | 21:31 |
| ibeardslee | ohhh my nook color arrived today | 22:27 |
| thumper | nice | 22:29 |
| ibeardslee | and Angry Birds is installed | 22:37 |
| thumper | :) | 22:40 |
| thumper | ibeardslee: it is android based? | 22:40 |
| thumper | not e-ink though? | 22:40 |
| hads | thumper: They are based on Android but a custom interface. You can load a custom ROM such as Cyanogenmod onto them to get full Android | 22:42 |
| * thumper nods | 22:42 | |
| ibeardslee | the nook and the nook colour are a bit different like that | 22:44 |
| ibeardslee | the colour has about 8 hours battery and the nook has about 10 days | 22:45 |
| ibeardslee | I'm assuming the colour screen is what kills it a bit | 22:45 |
| hads | Yeah | 22:45 |
| ibeardslee | as well as the other apps etc that can be instaled | 22:45 |
| hads | ibeardslee: Are you running CM7? | 22:46 |
| ibeardslee | CM7? | 22:46 |
| ibeardslee | no .. still original | 22:47 |
| hads | Ah okay | 22:47 |
| hads | Cyanogenmod 7 | 22:47 |
| ibeardslee | google was my friend ;) | 22:47 |
| hads | http://www.cyanogenmod.com/devices/nook-color | 22:47 |
| hads | Basically Android 2.3 | 22:48 |
| hads | Starting to get chilly this morning | 22:49 |
| ibeardslee | hads: are you running CM7? | 22:52 |
| hads | Yeah | 23:00 |
| ibeardslee | does it lose any or much functionality of the original nook color? | 23:01 |
| snail | my ubuntu machine appears to have a fried video card: as the boot progresses more and more apparently random (but the same every time) effects appear on the screen before the screen locks up. | 23:16 |
| snail | is my best option to by a cheap video card from a random vendor and trying swapping it in? | 23:16 |
| hads | ibeardslee: You lose all the book reading type stuff. To be honest I didn't have a good look through the features it provided out of the box. | 23:16 |
| ajmitch | worth a try, what video driver are you using? | 23:17 |
| hads | ibeardslee: You can restore the stock firmware though whenever. | 23:17 |
| snail | ajmitch: no idea, but the effects start before the kernel is loaded | 23:17 |
| snail | ajmitch: i had assumed that meant that my video driver wasn't to blame | 23:17 |
| ajmitch | snail: it'd just make it more likely to get to a desktop if you got a card which used the same driver, otherwise it may just fallback to safe graphics mode with a VESA driver | 23:18 |
| ajmitch | you should be able to pick up a new or 2nd hand video card pretty cheaply though | 23:18 |
| snail | oh, ok | 23:18 |
| ibeardslee | and Angry Birds fails because I'm not physically in the US or Canada | 23:44 |
| ibeardslee | looks like there maybe little reason to actually keep it as a Nook | 23:44 |
| snail | ibeardslee: governments have traditionally been protective of book industries, since they're linked to education and our ideas of wisdom; thus we trade protectionism is rampant globally in the book trade; thus annoying geographical restrictions (which are technically jurisdictional not geographical restrictions, but the only place you notice the difference is in places like foreign military bases). | 23:55 |
| ojwb | angry birds is wisdom! | 23:59 |
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