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Probably the lowest power netbook in the world

Posted at 12:23 pm on Sep 3rd, 2009 by googfan

very impressive

yer that’s it

Posted at 1:16 pm on Sep 3rd, 2009 by Universal

That’s really dodgy about the GPS/syslog uploading.

The video’s really not that technical.

Posted at 1:17 pm on Sep 3rd, 2009 by Tim

$400 for e-paper signage that you can update over the internet? Sounds like a heck of a good deal to me.

Posted at 1:21 pm on Sep 3rd, 2009 by sean

If you don’t comprehend the terms he uses, you shouldn’t be using a computer.

Stop embedding flash videos! for fuck sakes already.

Posted at 1:27 pm on Sep 3rd, 2009 by Yrb

@yrb: Um, maybe YOU shouldn’t be using a computer. The video is QuickTime, not Flash. N00b.

Posted at 1:56 pm on Sep 3rd, 2009 by Rich

@rich: Yes, that’s probably why the context menu says “About Adobe Flash Player 10″ when I right click the movie.

Posted at 2:25 pm on Sep 3rd, 2009 by bry

Dosn’t the Ubuntu 9.04 include the 2.6.29 release of the Linux OS?

Well, Linux OS running on Kindle is something nice.

And if you can use it for notes, remote server queries and checks it would be awesome!

Posted at 2:27 pm on Sep 3rd, 2009 by Tommy.S

“I tarred up a copy of Ubuntu… I typed chroot, and I have a working Ubuntu on my kindle! But x requires a TTY, for no good reason. So I added a couple of return one statements, and x works fine!” [gets biggest audience reaction of entire talk]

This is comparable to:

“Unless you have a DIS, you can usually
fix hesitation by moving the timing so it’s not as far retarded.”

If you don’t comprehend those terms you shouldn’t be using a car.

Posted at 2:28 pm on Sep 3rd, 2009 by Peter Shank

I dare you to run ubuntu on my nokia 5300.

Posted at 2:29 pm on Sep 3rd, 2009 by RamBahadur

I dare you to use debian

Posted at 2:50 pm on Sep 3rd, 2009 by medix

@tommy.s: actually, Kindle’s platform is Linux. He didn’t “install” Linux in it, he just used the running Linux installation to run some software included with Ubuntu, like Xorg.

Posted at 3:11 pm on Sep 3rd, 2009 by IceBrain

im really not that impressed with this because of the fact that kindle is using a form or linux

Posted at 3:56 pm on Sep 3rd, 2009 by meh

How many minutes into the video until Jesse starts his presentation?

Posted at 4:31 pm on Sep 3rd, 2009 by Bucky

It is really a shame that a hackaday.com editor thought this was an overly complex explanation. Why not assign stories to staff members that have relevant knowledge in that field?

It seems like at least once a week something is put up here that the staff member simply didn’t understand, or at least misjudged. Kind of embarrassing considering that technical articles are basically what this site is about.

Posted at 4:48 pm on Sep 3rd, 2009 by Tom

it says 2 if you read the story bucky

Posted at 4:48 pm on Sep 3rd, 2009 by sean

The most interesting use of this, to me, would be SSH through the wireless service. If Amazon allows those packets to get through, then I could do a lot of my work from a Kindle wherever I went. I suspect they’ll not allow this, blaming bandwidth issues. But a day’s worth of SSH would amount to fewer packets than a single web page with graphics. Really, if Amazon just included that single app, I’d buy a Kindle right now.

Posted at 5:36 pm on Sep 3rd, 2009 by cyd

It might be possible to SSH to a server with sshd on port 80 or 443. Worth trying, anyway.

Posted at 5:43 pm on Sep 3rd, 2009 by cyd

Interesting… Where does the atmega328 go again?

Posted at 5:51 pm on Sep 3rd, 2009 by Shyft

not enough arduinos.

Posted at 6:21 pm on Sep 3rd, 2009 by andrew

I want this book.

Seriously though…

Posted at 6:57 pm on Sep 3rd, 2009 by me

I’m not into the whole Kindle scene, but it’s nice to see something other than Arduino hack’s that really aren’t useful for much more than oddities.

Posted at 9:27 pm on Sep 3rd, 2009 by NidStyles

Ok, so how do I enable Kindle on my Ubuntu Laptop?

Posted at 9:59 pm on Sep 3rd, 2009 by salt

i’m curious why he chose ubuntu, but frankly not curious enough to watch the video.

Posted at 10:13 pm on Sep 3rd, 2009 by cptfalcon

Lol, was reading about Kindle on Wikipedia, hit StumbleUpon button, and landed here.

Posted at 9:16 am on Sep 4th, 2009 by Kop

I’m going to run out *right now* and load Ubuntu on my Atari 2600!

Posted at 10:13 am on Sep 4th, 2009 by Beavis

@beavis: If you do get ubuntu running on your atari 2600 make sure to send it in. I’d love to see it.

Posted at 10:22 am on Sep 4th, 2009 by Mike Szczys

What Would John Connor Do ?!

Posted at 5:50 pm on Sep 4th, 2009 by ffilou6

The difference between cool and useful would be when some-one gets a desk-top running on a kindle. To save power, it would have to avoid things like constantly changing clocks and flash animations etc. Quite a challenge :)

Posted at 1:08 am on Sep 7th, 2009 by David Legg

Brilliant.

I think I might buy one, but only when the DRM which stops PDFs going on the Kindle is removed.

-AS

Posted at 4:57 am on Oct 29th, 2009 by andysuth

I don’t think anything “stops” PDFs from going on the Kindle. I didn’t detect an invisible shield popping up over my Kindle — I can put anything on it, basically. PDF’s won’t WORK on the Kindle, because there’s no PDF reader on it, but to say DRM stops PDFs from going on the Kindle is a bit too incoherent for me.

Posted at 3:27 am on Oct 31st, 2009 by Gene Venable

The new Kindle Global has a native PDF reader, and free global Wifi.

Posted at 12:00 pm on Dec 16th, 2009 by deathcapt

the wifi you speek of is actualy using the 3g mobile network and the new kindle speeks of being able to load simple webpages and having net access i beleave it has access to face book

Posted at 11:51 pm on Jan 11th, 2010 by damon