[Novalug] OT: Tablet/pad type computers and linux

Kevin Cole dc.loco@gmail.com
Sun Aug 11 07:31:38 EDT 2013


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http://calypso.tux.org/pipermail/novalug/2013-August/036523.html

On Aug 11, 2013 1:22 AM, "Bonnie Dalzell" <bdalzell@qis.net> wrote:
>
>
> Today I made my first visit to a Microcenter since the local small
> computer shop I liked has changed hands and the new look of the
> store is quite depleted.
>
> I had to replace the portable dvd player I use with one of my dog
> lectures.
>
> However this got me to thinking about the idea of having all the video
> clips on a device that could directly play the videos to a video
> projector rather than having them on DVD.
>
> I have an iPad but I am not a mac person so getting stuff onto the iPad is
> an annoying task involving using one of the macs in the house which means
> putting the videos on a flash stick and then figuring out how to
> import them via itunes into the mac desktop and then having to sync the
> ipad with the mac desktop.. etc
>
> Also the ipad has only a usb port and a headphone jack. i looked at a
> couple of android pad type computers when I was at Microcenter and on a
> quick examination they seem to have LOTS of things to plug stuff into.
>
> The helper person in the pad section indicated that you can mount one as
> an external hard drive as far as your main computer is concerned and just
> transfer files directly to it the same way you do with any harddrive.
>
> I can use Nautilus from my linux box to copy files OFF my iphone (and
> presumably my iPad - need to try the ipad tomorrow) but if you try and
> copy anything TO the iphone with this mechanism you end up crashing the
> system and have to do a reinstall of IOS. (the gilded cage strikes again).
>
> I was not able to learn much more cause the sales droid kept trying to
> interest me in a Micro$oft $urface and did not want to talk about Android
> devices and then we got into one of those discussions about Linux with
> him saying that he was a seasoned Linux user and it was SOOOO difficult to
> set anything up on Linux and it was SOOO hard to get it to run reliably,
> etc, etc, etc.
>
> I mentioned that I had once taken a harddrive out of a defunct
> cause of something other than the harddrive laptop and put it into a
> different brand of laptop and Ubuntu booted just fine without a
> reinstall or anything. (Of course this was 6 years or so ago) could you do
> that with Windoze?
>
> So I did not learn much about android tablets.
>
> Has anyone on the list had much experience with Android tablets. For that
> matter are there any tablets that run other types of Linux?
>
> Also have you ever heard of a remote control attachment for a computer
> like the control for a DVD/VCR player that would allow you to control the
> presentation of a video while standing away from the computer, start
> stop choose video, advance frame at a time, etc. Basically I would like to
> have the tablet or laptop have a lot of my video clips on it yet control
> it from the stage while speaking and do it with a linux related OS.
>
> Thanks for tolerating this off topic discussion.
>
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