Holidays, N800 and so ===================== Well, I we (me and my wife) was on holidays in Austria. Weather was good as here was only one rainy day (there were some rains and storms during nights). Two klettersteigen, two found geocaches (I still have to find a geocache of one of these klettersteigs), a lot f walking and tons of great food. Very nice holidays, I must say. Salzkamergut area in Austria (Bad Ischl - Hallstatt - Obertraun area). We of course weren't able to visit everything so there are many reasons to return here in the future. And of course, it's somewhat mystic to go on paths once used bu the Emperor Franz Josef I or to eat its favorite dishes in the area of its summer residence. I will try to upload some pictures here or to my SDF gallery later. This time I decided to take just a GPD Pocket and a Nokia N800 (and phones for case of emergency). Of course we had a GPS but it was useful just for geocaching as we visited only areas which we know rather well. And of course a digital camera (the Kodak FZ101). The GPD was used to some planning, to find train and bus schedules and to store and preview photos. And for writing of this text in the train. The Nokia was useful mainly as a e-book reader in train (my wife used it to read some books from Karl May). Actually I have taken the Nokia N800 with us because I was curious if this "internet tablet" from 2008 is can be still useful to surf the Internet. Well, there are WiFi networks on railway stations and in some of trains. The poor old N800 can connect to some of then but it cannot open the login portals. So no luck. In the apartment in Austria there was a normal WPA2-protected WiFi network so it worked well. Of course many pages are not accessible (an usual "no common encryption" error on some HTTPS pages) or they are just too big for the Nokia (it was just 128MB of RAM) or too "new" (the browser uses a Gecko or Opera core of 2008 vintage). Anyway, Mastodon works via the Brutaldon [1]. The browser cannot do the Gopher, though. But one can find a older version of Lynx online so there is an easy fix. The problem is that available font sizes for the Terminal are 12px (way too small) and 16px (too big so the 80-character line does not fit in the Terminal) and nothing between is available. It can be probably fixed by installation of an additional fonts package but I have not did it on a device with so limited disk space. Surprisingly, the weather applet for desktop still works (the OMWeather - it uses data from the Weather.com). It has somewhat limited database of cities but it is good enough. Unfortunately there is no "finger" command so one cannot obtain the forecast with the usual "finger salzburg@graph.no" command. Among the WWW browsing it is still possible to listen music and read e-books. The music player can use MP3s and (with some add-ons installed) teh OGGs. But it does not like the UTF-8 (not-speaking about non-latin characters) in song names and descriptions. If you have such ones, you will see a mess instead of song/album/singer names. E-book reading is OK with the FBReader (it is still available in repositories) except one thing: it cannot correctly save data on exit if it is closed in any manner but by using "Exit" from its pull-down menu. One should not close it by pressing on the "Close" button or by turning the device off. If it happens then it simply fails to start and "rm -rf ~/.FBReader" is necessary (and it deletes ALL setup data, all bookmarks and all links to books, of course). Except of this it works well. It can open PalmDOC and Plucker files, and ePub files, too (the ePub support is somewhat limited because the formal as developed in last 10 years and but this FBReader port wasn't updated). Reference: [1] https://brutaldon.online