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Originally Posted by starrigger
I use Calibre for all my ebook management already. It's just that sometimes I wish I didn't have to make sure I had both an epub and a mobi version of everything I want to read, or might want to read. Agreed that it does a great job of converting books. But between the duplicate formats of all my ebooks, plus having both original files and the files Calibre puts into its library, my whole ebook library resembles Microsoft code: four times the actual size it needs to be.
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It's probably possible to reduce the confusion, but I can relate. I keep all ebook related stuff under an ebooks directory on a drive, and there's about 18GB all told. That includes ebook related software, conversion projects and the like. Actual ebooks only take about 14GB.
I use an NTFS compressed directory, so actual space on disk is about a GB less that total file size.
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Oh well, this is needless fiddling at this point. I won't even have the device for a couple more days. Then we'll see.
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Keep us posted.
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Your home networking solution is way more complicated than I'd want to put up with. The router I got with Verizon FIOS seems only to support WEP, so that's what I use.
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My solution wasn't all that complicated, once I got it set up. It was coming up with the solution in teh first place that was the challenge.
What router did you get with Verizon? Personally, if my choice was WEP or no encryption, I might just choose "none", so I wouldn't be under the
illusion of being secure. WEP is relatively trivial to crack.
In your position, it the Verizon router
did only support WEP, I'd get a second router to actually handle my network, and connect it to the Verizon router. The Verizon router would be the interface to the outside world, but only the other router would connect to it.
I'm layered, here: a Linksys WRT54G connects to the cable modem connection. The model of WRT54G I have is an older one based on a Linux kernel, so the firmware is open source and various folks grabbed it nad hacked to fix bugs and add features. I run a third-party firmware package called Tomato.
I assign IP addresses to local devices from the router, and use MAC address filtering as well.
The Linksys has a hardware firewall which is enabled. The PCs also have software firewalls I left in place, because the laptop and notebook travel, and the software firewalls don't interfere with anything.
And I've tried to lock down access to the filesystems on the PCs in my network, so even if someone manages to get onto my net through my router, they can't access the devices on the net. All they can do is leech bandwidth.
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Dennis