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    Case Cracks

    Hmmm, well, I've had my Pandora long enough to be able to say that this is the VERY FIRST personal machine I've had which is truly entertaining, in so many fields. I can operate the keyboard fast enough to where its an acceptable editing platform (I use vim & Terminal, usually keeping 5...
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    I Finally Finished My Building Calibre

    I think you missed my point ... I wasn't asking how to do it vis-a-vis Linux, that part I have working totally fine and stable. It's always more simple that most people think it is. The part I regret not getting to work is getting opkg to operate. Opkg's docs say it WLL allow you to set a...
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    Reporting *possible* Power Problem

    Hmm, I DO leave it on charge for long periods, and I've always caught the fact that it had stopped charge before it got as far down as 20%. OK, time to experiment, next time I'll let it run down on purpose, and see what happens ... beyond me being a nervous nellie over the whole thing. Thanks
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    I Finally Finished My Building Calibre

    Thanks. I just tried updating it to the latest version (from 0.7.20 to 0.7.28) and it went very smoothly. Note please that this ISN'T the version that's been available (and broken, from what I can see) as an opkg. Maybe that package wasn't so heavily salted with dependencies, though. As far...
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    Reporting *possible* Power Problem

    I've noticed a problem, and since this is my 2nd Pandora (the first had to be returned) and they both have the same problem, I thought I'd report it. What it is, is that on an unpredictable schedule maybe averaging once every day or so, the red charging light goes out. I've had enough...
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    I Finally Finished My Building Calibre

    Well, I have two problems you didn't have ... 1, Calibre has an enormous list of dependencies, huge things like qt4 and python, and you need a full X11 development environment (all the libs and all the include files). If I were to even try to build a separate package, it wouldn't work for...
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    I Finally Finished My Building Calibre

    Finally, I have a Calibre (a recent one, ver 0.7.20), and it seems to work fine and dandy. I'd kinda like to give it away, but I am facing some problems with this, and I'm inviting comment. 1st, if a recent Calibre is already done, then stop reading right now, ok? 2nd, Calibre is dependent on...
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    Keyboard State?

    I find that, more than once, I find myself making keyboard errors, because I've changed the state of the CapsLock state. Am I right, are there still LEDs that haven't been assigned a regular usage yet? I want to suggest that having one of the leftover LEDs be assigned to track the state of...
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    Repairing Broken Xfce4 Menu

    I think maybe you misunderstood me (or I missed what you meant, also possible). I'm not saying that the file I need is missing, I figure that my son caused xfce4 to modify one of the files that carries the state of the various menus (the topmost menu item). So, while the file's here, it's...
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    Repairing Broken Xfce4 Menu

    About 30 years ago, while in the basement playing with my first (brand new) Unix system, I caught one of my sons going thru my /usr/bin, and executing everything he saw, and looking up the man page afterwards. No, I didn't get the order wrong, either. He was a very stubborn little kid, and...
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    Case Cracks

    I had to return my Pandora because a crack showed up in the top left hand corner of the case (near the topleft of the display). Beyond commenting that the customer service was extremely good, I'm thinking of adding a small, "L" shaped piece of foam rubber stick-on padding to the bottom left and...
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    Are Hotfixes Idempotent?

    I'm sure this must have been answered elsewhere, but I have tried really hard to find it, and I can't. I want to bring this Pandora to the latest Hotfix level, but I can't see anywhere that tells me what the Hotfix level is. I supposeit only really matters if the Hotfixes aren't idempotent...
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    Installs Outside Of /usr

    My most pandora-fun comes from developing things to run on pandora, which at the moent mostly means porting. This might possibly be unusual, but that doesn't bother me at all. Probably because my background is from the BSDs, I like putting the system into / and /usr, but installing all add-in...
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    Devel Packages

    There's a pretty nicely chosen set of extra things available for the Pandora. I'm taslkling aboout those packages that everything else depends on, like the X.Org stuff, and it's nicely done ... but what's missing, and really truly badly needed for those few extremists who like to do software...
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    Pandora Kernels For The Pandora

    I need to know who's organizing development of kernels for the Pandora, if there's a tarball of the sources (and all of the available, if not selected, options) so I could maybe build me a kernel with additional options. Specifically, right now it seems that /sbin/mount in the currently...
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