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Forum: Amazon Kindle 01-22-2018, 05:14 PM
Replies: 554
Views: 88,362
Posted By hacker
I don't have the ability to add a "Text in Books"...

I don't have the ability to add a "Text in Books" tab on this OS version, but when I search for a random string of impossible characters, search comes back with: "There are no results". So I guess...
Forum: Amazon Kindle 01-22-2018, 05:03 PM
Replies: 554
Views: 88,362
Posted By hacker
I should add, I'm using the "new" 2017 Oasis v2...

I should add, I'm using the "new" 2017 Oasis v2 (with the aluminum back, no external battery possible).

How would I know if it's "stuck indexing"? I tried the ';dm' trick, which didn't show...
Forum: Amazon Kindle 01-22-2018, 01:36 PM
Replies: 554
Views: 88,362
Posted By hacker
The battery life on my 2-week old Oasis, is...

The battery life on my 2-week old Oasis, is absolutely HORRID. I find myself charging my Oasis from nearly empty to full 1-2 times a day, every day.

To validate that it's not just my reading...
Forum: Lounge 10-20-2008, 08:40 AM
Replies: 295
Views: 270,173
Posted By hacker
Forget PageRank; focusing on it is pointless and...

Forget PageRank; focusing on it is pointless and it has become an irrelevant measure of ranking your website's "quality" in current times. It served its purpose when it was created, but that purpose...
Forum: Sunrise 09-03-2008, 12:39 PM
Replies: 3
Views: 11,452
Posted By hacker
Then EVERY blog from Blogspot is being served...

Then EVERY blog from Blogspot is being served with incorrect HTML. I'm not surprised, as less than 5% of people know how to write proper, correct, valid and semantically-correct HTML anyway. ...
Forum: Sunrise 08-23-2008, 05:34 AM
Replies: 3
Views: 11,452
Posted By hacker
Whatever that is, it isn't HTML

Plucker (and as a result, SunriseXP) can parse HTML, and what you have on that blog, is not HTML... so when the author fixes his content, Plucker will then be able to handle it.

Validate it...
Forum: Reading and Management 05-04-2008, 09:10 PM
Replies: 1
Views: 2,602
Posted By hacker
Plucker deals with real HTML, not fake HTML

Plucker deals with clean, proper HTML, not the horribly-broken and invalid constructs that are represented on that site.

This is especially important when dealing with XML, because the spec...
Forum: Reading and Management 04-07-2008, 06:49 PM
Replies: 31
Views: 12,543
Posted By hacker
Plucker has included a tool to do this for over 4...

Plucker has included a tool to do this for over 4 years, and it exists in the source and in cvs: The GTK+ Plucker viewer.
Forum: Amazon Kindle 01-24-2008, 09:38 AM
Replies: 225
Views: 28,969
Posted By hacker
Unless you live outside the US, or are playing a...

Unless you live outside the US, or are playing a DVD that was designed for another country. Try playing some anime DVD you bought in Japan on your US region DVD player. It won't work. Likewise, try...
Forum: Amazon Kindle 01-24-2008, 09:24 AM
Replies: 225
Views: 28,969
Posted By hacker
Stealing is Wrong, even if you steal from a thief

It may not be "wrong" in some moral view, but it is illegal, and you will be arrested and prosecuted for doing so.
Forum: Amazon Kindle 01-23-2008, 04:48 PM
Replies: 225
Views: 28,969
Posted By hacker
Copyright infringement is NOT stealing, please get it right.

I see this all the time, about how we're "stealing" from the corporations if we breach DRM to be able to use the data on our device.

Please correct your erroneous assumptions: Piracy is NOT...
Forum: Amazon Kindle 12-02-2007, 01:32 AM
Replies: 225
Views: 28,969
Posted By hacker
As long as the same physical device that is...

As long as the same physical device that is required to read the work is available in 200 years still exists, the same operating system used to interface (i.e. "sync") with that device still exists...
Forum: Reading and Management 12-01-2007, 01:51 PM
Replies: 12
Views: 15,123
Posted By hacker
Just a minor update... those images come in at...

Just a minor update... those images come in at 2.5TB now, for the English version of Wikipedia.

I've committed to get the Wikimedia Foundation a storage server once this project takes off a...
Forum: Bookeen 11-28-2007, 09:44 AM
Replies: 38
Views: 10,120
Posted By hacker
Plucker file formats are supported on PalmOS,...

Plucker file formats are supported on PalmOS, Windows Mobile, PocketPC, and on desktops capable of using the GTK+ reader (or any other reader someone decides to write that can read the format)....
Forum: Lounge 11-26-2007, 03:42 PM
Replies: 295
Views: 270,173
Posted By hacker
The Myster of PageRank

Why are people so interested in Google's PageRank value? It means ABSOLUTELY NOTHING with respect to a site's quality or content.

PageRank means one thing: Sites link to you. That's it, that's...
Forum: Reading and Management 11-15-2007, 10:55 AM
Replies: 4
Views: 2,848
Posted By hacker
That would be why. Can you give me an...

That would be why.

Can you give me an example of a file that includes this kind of issue? PG text ID?
Forum: Reading and Management 11-15-2007, 08:51 AM
Replies: 4
Views: 2,848
Posted By hacker
Fix your input and output encoding in whatever...

Fix your input and output encoding in whatever distiller you're using.

What do the characters look like in the original HTML? Are they already encoded? Binary? Junk?
Forum: Reading and Management 10-14-2007, 06:39 PM
Replies: 31
Views: 12,543
Posted By hacker
The proper location is as follows: ...

The proper location is as follows:

http://cvs.plkr.org/docs/DBFormat.html?view=co
Forum: Workshop 10-13-2007, 01:09 PM
Replies: 23
Views: 5,064
Posted By hacker
I'll see if I can add a mandatory disclaimer that...

I'll see if I can add a mandatory disclaimer that the user must agree to before launching the conversion. I'll also log he heck out of the request, so if there is any question about whether or not it...
Forum: Workshop 10-13-2007, 01:05 PM
Replies: 23
Views: 5,064
Posted By hacker
I may make it available, but I'm not sure people...

I may make it available, but I'm not sure people will want to pay what I'd have to charge for it..

Not to mention, it would only run on platforms designed for such a purpose, the requirements to...
Forum: Workshop 10-13-2007, 11:37 AM
Replies: 23
Views: 5,064
Posted By hacker
It's definitely a grey area.. especially given...

It's definitely a grey area.. especially given the tool I've created (and others I've written over the last several years).

Now I'm seriously reconsidering making the service public at all. In a...
Forum: Workshop 10-13-2007, 08:23 AM
Replies: 23
Views: 5,064
Posted By hacker
The Legalities of Conversion

I've been laying low for the last 2+ years, but I haven't been sitting around doing nothing.

On the backend, I've been building and rebuilding the tools I use every day to create, build and...
Forum: Calibre 08-30-2007, 01:21 PM
Replies: 2
Views: 8,128
Posted By hacker
Was libprs500 taken down?

I'm adding functionality to my mass converter for Sony LRF support, and tried to install html2lrf, but it gracefully fails as follows:
easy_install -U TTFQuery libprs500
Searching for TTFQuery
...
Forum: Reading and Management 08-30-2007, 09:00 AM
Replies: 17
Views: 4,152
Posted By hacker
The problem was actually mod_php when running...

The problem was actually mod_php when running under the wrong MPM under Linux, which was causing Apache to crash the child socket before it was cleanly finished writing data to the client. The...
Forum: Workshop 08-27-2007, 11:13 PM
Replies: 5
Views: 2,967
Posted By hacker
Gentoo Weekly News, Handbooks in Plucker format

I just cleaned this up and finally got around to properly automating it on the content build servers.. it should remain current (until/unless Gentoo changes their location or upstream filesystem...
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