http://www.bloovis.com/wordpress another geek blog Wed, 30 Jun 2010 11:56:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The new Amazon Kindle app for Android stores its books in the "kindle" directory on the phone's SD card. I naively assumed that I could copy any non-Amazon but Kindle-compatible books into that directory and have the app recognize them. I tried this with a mobipocket Jane Austen ... http://www.bloovis.com/wordpress/?p=234 It looks like the upgrade to the latest Ubuntu is going to keep me busy solving problems for a while. Today's second problem has to do with the fingerprint reader in the ThinkPad X41. There's a good source of information here, but there wasn't a definitive set of instructions for ... http://www.bloovis.com/wordpress/?p=230 I have an old Logitech QuickCam for Notebooks that uses the pwc (Philips Web Cam) driver on Linux. This camera has always worked flawlessly on Linux Mint 6 (Ubuntu 8.10). But on Linux Mint 9, the camera only worked the first time it was plugged in; on subsequent ... http://www.bloovis.com/wordpress/?p=227 My employer's VPN system doesn't allow more than one login at a time. But there are occasions when I'd like to be able to use the VPN from two different laptops simultaneously. The solution, most of which I found here, is to use iptables on the machine running ... http://www.bloovis.com/wordpress/?p=219 I just spent many hours getting a 4GB USB key into a state where it can be used to boot Linux Mint 9 (based on Ubuntu 10.04). Here are some notes on the problems I had to solve. In the past, I've used unetbootin to create bootable USB keys. ... http://www.bloovis.com/wordpress/?p=214 I upgraded one of my ThinkPads from Linux Mint 7 to Linux Mint 9 today, and discovered that I was no longer able to use my HP P1006 printer. The HP printer tool (hp-toolbox) detected the printer correctly, downloaded the appropriate plugin, but then couldn't install the plugin. ... http://www.bloovis.com/wordpress/?p=209 Keyring is a fine little open source application for Palm OS that stores and generates passwords. There is no Android version of this program, so I decided to move to KeePass 1.x, both the Linux version and the Android version. Then I hunted for way to import my Keyring data ... http://www.bloovis.com/wordpress/?p=202 One of the reasons why I decided to buy an Android device was to investigate the possibility of writing applications for that platform. After spending a couple of days with Android, it's pretty clear there are huge voids in the app space waiting to be filled. The transition ... http://www.bloovis.com/wordpress/?p=199 After nearly ten years of using Palm OS PDAs and cell phones, I'm moving to an Android phone. I didn't want to enter over 100 contacts manually on the new device. Some Google searching turned up ways to migrate the contact list, but most of them involved running ... http://www.bloovis.com/wordpress/?p=192 I use pilot-xfer (part of the pilot-link package) to back up the data on my Palm Centro, and occasionally to install files on the Centro. It's always worked fine on Linux Mint 6. The only thing I needed to do before running pilot-xfer was load the visor kernel ... http://www.bloovis.com/wordpress/?p=184