{"id":522,"date":"2008-01-13T15:41:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-13T19:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=522"},"modified":"2009-01-15T12:20:04","modified_gmt":"2009-01-15T16:20:04","slug":"odd-lots-48","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=522","title":{"rendered":"Odd Lots"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Bob Halloran wrote to remind me that dual-booting Windows and                 Linux on a single hard drive is easy\u2014but you have to install                 Windows <i>first<\/i>. When you install Linux it will see the Windows                 partition and configure grub so that grub will allow you to choose                 either OS when the hard drive&apos;s MBR gets control. If you install                 Linux and then Windows, Windows will overwrite the MBR with its                 own stuff, and grub will be gone. I&apos;m going to try this with a                 couple of Linux installs alongside Windows (I want both Ubuntu                 and Kubuntu on that drive, at minimum) and will report back here                 in detail as to how it goes.<\/li>\n<li>From Engadget comes a report of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2008\/01\/13\/iriver-prepping-handwriting-friendly-e-book-tablet\/\">a                 prototype ebook reader<\/a> (including handwriting recognition)                 shown without any explanation at the recent CES. This looks damned                 good to me, and is worth watching, at least in part because it&apos;s                 not tiny. <i>I do not want a tiny ebook reader<\/i>. I want something                 that shows an 8 1\/2&#8243; X 11&#8243; page full-size. The dimensions                 on this gizmo are unclear, but it&apos;s sure as hell bigger than a                 cell phone. I&apos;ll trade a keyboard for a stylus, but I want the                 display to be at least letter-sized. (And I want a photovoltaic                 panel on the back to charge it when I&apos;m not using it!)<\/li>\n<li>There&apos;s nothing whatsoever preventing a piece of software from                 rendering a PDF ebook as reflowable text, and we&apos;re starting to                 get hints that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teleread.org\/blog\/2008\/01\/08\/new-pdf-reading-software-for-sony-reader-reflowing-and-resizing-will-help-cope-with-small-screen-issues\/\">Adobe                 may provide that ability<\/a>, at least for the Sony Reader. This                 will allow people with big displays to read an ebook as pages,                 and people going crosseyed on small displays to read an ebook                 five words at a time. It should be the reader&apos;s choice, and I&apos;m                 annoyed that that ability was not there from the beginning of                 PDF time.<\/li>\n<li>Finally, I&apos;m going in for serious gum surgery tomorrow morning,                 and I do not plan to be fully present intellectually for a couple                 of days. Do not look for a Contra entry before Thursday, but if                 you see one, it means I&apos;m in better shape than I expected to be.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bob Halloran wrote to remind me that dual-booting Windows and Linux on a single hard drive is easy\u2014but you have to install Windows first. When you install Linux it will see the Windows partition and configure grub so that grub will allow you to choose either OS when the hard drive&apos;s MBR gets control. If [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[17,59],"class_list":["post-522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oddlots","tag-ebooks","tag-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":537,"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522\/revisions\/537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}