[11:46]  * ojwb glares at launchpad for timing out and apparently just throwing away his bug report
[20:33] <ajmitch> morning
[21:03] <ibeardslee> morning
[21:26] <Atamira> mornin
[21:31] <ojwb> morning
[22:27] <ibeardslee> ohhh my nook color arrived today
[22:29] <thumper> nice
[22:37] <ibeardslee> and Angry Birds is installed
[22:40] <thumper> :)
[22:40] <thumper> ibeardslee: it is android based?
[22:40] <thumper> not e-ink though?
[22:42] <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
[22:44] <ibeardslee> the nook and the nook colour are a bit different like that
[22:45] <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
[22:46] <hads> ibeardslee: Are you running CM7?
[22:46] <ibeardslee> CM7?
[22:47] <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
[22:48] <hads> Basically Android 2.3
[22:49] <hads> Starting to get chilly this morning
[22:52] <ibeardslee> hads: are you running CM7?
[23:00] <hads> Yeah
[23:01] <ibeardslee> does it lose any or much functionality of the original nook color?
[23:16] <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.
[23:17] <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
[23:18] <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
[23:44] <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
[23:55] <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).
[23:59] <ojwb> angry birds is wisdom!