Running kindle on GNU/Linux with wine

September 8, 2013 less than 1 minute read

I enjoy reading ebooks during my train trip to work on my nexus 7.

At home I prefer to read on my monitor since this is bigger.

Most of the time I use epub or pdf for reading, I bought a kindle version of a book from amazon assuming that I could read with amazon cloud reader at home.

Unfortunately this books is not compatible with cloud reader.

Proprietary_formats should be avoid, lesson learned (again).

To read my book at home I decided to give the windows version of kindle on wine a try

The installation was pretty straightforward on Fedora 19.

• Install wine

[root@vicky ~]# yum install wine
Loaded plugins: langpacks, refresh-packagekit

• Download Kindle for Window xp

Download it from: http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=kcp_pc_ln_ar?docId=1000426311

• Run the installer

[swagemakers@vicky ~]$ wine ~/Downloads/KindleForPC-installer.exe 

• Create kindle startup script

wine $HOME/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files\ \(x86\)/Amazon/Kindle/Kindle.exe &

Happy reading

but

It’s better to only read ebooks in an open format

fedora 19 boottime on an intel core i7 4770 with a Samsung 840 Pro Series 256GB ssd

September 1, 2013 1 minute read

I installed fedora 19 on my new pc mainly to play with ovirt which seems to be easier to install on fedora than on Debian.

Don’t worry I still have a debian system at hand…

The boot time on a ssd is fast:

The Benefits of Stopping Smoking…

August 25, 2013 less than 1 minute read

Besides the health benefits you save a lot of money.

My “no smoking” Piggy Bank was fat enough to sponsor a pc upgrade.

My upgrade consists;

• a new motherboard: MSI Z87-G43
• a new cpu: Intel® Core Haswell i7-4770
• 16 GB DDR3 Ram: Crucial 16 GB DDR3-1600
• I had even some money left to purchase a nice ssd: Samsung 840 Pro Series 256GB

My pc is “smoking” fast now :-)

Lookat 1.4.3 released

August 18, 2013 less than 1 minute read

I’m pleased to anounce that Lookat/Bekijk 1.4.3 has been released.

This new stable version will compile correctly with LLVM/clang.

The new stable version 1.4.3 is available at http://www.wagemakers.be/english/programs/lookat Or at the Git repository at GNU savannah http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/lookat.git

Have fun...

Ide is still alive…

August 10, 2013 less than 1 minute read

The dvd drive in my sun blade 1500 workstation broke down. I use this system acausally for some development, it's always handy to have a big endian system at hand.

The dvd drive was still handy to load another operating system on it.
The dvd drive has an ide interface which are hard to get these days…

I found a ide to sata convertor and a new dvd drive with a sata interface at conrad. This should convert the sata interface to an ide interface without any driver and works with any operating system.

Well let's put this to a test on a sparc system with solaris :-)

The installation was pretty straightforward, luckily the dvd rom drive has a plastic back since the converter touches the back of the dvd rom drive.

After a quick test it seems to work like a charm. I might install opensxce on it.

It seems to be the only option to run an opensolaris ancestor on sparc hardware.