Ok. I’ve finally done something with the cr-48. I’ve installed ubuntu on it. Why do I do this? It’s not as if I don’t already have a laptop and computer running linux. Well - here comes the exciting bit: In april, I shall be going to India for my friend Balaji’s wedding. To minimize the weight that I’ll be carrying, I’m going to bring the cr-48 ( Read more... )

There’s a shell, albeit a rather limited one, from which I can use SSH, so yay - a whole new world of wonder and excitement!

Google’s pretty awesome in that they’ve actually provided instructions on how to get into developer mode, from which you can flash your own custom OS, if you choose to do so. Of course I chose to do so.

Ok, so what else can ( Read more... )

First off, specs as requested. It’s a nice little machine.

Google’s really trying to push their web app and cloud computing vision, so that’s why I’d imagine they devoted an entire device to it. It’s a proof of concept that you can do pretty much everything you need to from a web browser, especially by using Google provided products.

My new ( Read more... )