7 Days With a Google Chromebook 127
jfruhlinger writes "Now that Chromebook laptops are finally here, the question is: can you really do serious work with them? The only way to find out is to dive on in, and so Steven Vaughn-Nichols spent a week using a Chromebook for all his daily computing tasks. In the end, he was mostly positive on the experience — but was frustrated by a number of rough edges, including poor documentation and a failure of some components of the system to work together."
Re:"Documentation"? (Score:5, Informative)
The only intuitive interface is the nipple. Everything else should have documentation.
Re:Can you develop on it? (Score:2, Informative)
You probably wouldn't want to compile things directly on it, but it does have a terminal you can use to SSH into a better dev environment.
Cloud Print on linux (Score:5, Informative)
$ git clone https://github.com/armooo/cloudprint.git
Cloning into cloudprint...
remote: Counting objects: 109, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (107/107), done.
remote: Total 109 (delta 47), reused 0 (delta 0)
Receiving objects: 100% (109/109), 31.77 KiB, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (47/47), done.
$ cd cloudprint
$ root python setup.py install
[snip]
$ root pip-python install daemon
Downloading/unpacking daemon
Running setup.py egg_info for package daemon
Installing collected packages: daemon
Running setup.py install for daemon
Successfully installed daemon
$ cloudprint -d
Skipping test-raw
Updated Printer test-1020
Updated Printer test-c310dn
Updated Printer mc2530
Updated Printer mc1600Wc
Updated Printer aaaa
Updated Printer mc2300c
Updated Printer test-1500
Updated Printer test-okiC110
Updated Printer test-clp315
Updated Printer cp1025nw
Updated Printer test-p1505
Updated Printer xrx6110
Updated Printer test
Updated Printer test-Oki-C3100
Updated Printer p1505n
Updated Printer test-p1102
Updated Printer test-cp1025
Updated Printer test-C3300
Updated Printer test-1680MF
Updated Printer clp315
Updated Printer test-hp2600
Updated Printer hp1020
Updated Printer p1102w
Updated Printer HP-LaserJet-Professional-P1102w
Updated Printer hp2600
Updated Printer cp1215
Updated Printer p1102-hpcups
Updated Printer Cups-PDF
Updated Printer test-clp300
Updated Printer GnomeManualDuplex
Updated Printer p1005
Updated Printer test-m1319
Updated Printer HP-LaserJet-1000
Updated Printer test-p2035
Updated Printer mc2530c
Updated Printer xrx6110c
Updated Printer test-CLP-610
Updated Printer test-KM-1635
$
Then:
$ firefox http://www.google.com/cloudprint/manage.html
And on your Android tablet:
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.pauloslf.cloudprint
Works good here.
"Now that it's finally here"...? (Score:4, Informative)