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Lucy Larcom Quotes - BrainyQuote: "If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.
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Kilobots leave the nest | R&D Mag

Kilobots leave the nest | R&D Mag:

Swarm of tiny, collaborative robots will be made available to researchers, educators, and enthusiasts

Computer scientists and engineers at Harvard University have developed and licensed technology that will make it easy to test collective algorithms on hundreds, or even thousands, of tiny robots.

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Smart swarms of bacteria inspire robotics researchers | R&D Mag

Smart swarms of bacteria inspire robotics researchers | R&D Mag: "When an individual bacterium finds a more beneficial path, it pays less attention to the signals from the other cells. But at other times, upon encountering challenging paths, the individual cell will increase its interaction with the other cells and learn from its peers."

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Apple Patent Uses 3D Gestures to Control an iPad | Gadget Lab | Wired.com

Apple Patent Uses 3D Gestures to Control an iPad | Gadget Lab | Wired.com:

"Forget relying solely on touch to control your Apple device. On future iPads, you may be able to control your tablet from across the room using 3D gestures, such as a swirl or swipe of the hand."

Hey, I wonder if satire counts as "prior art"... ... How about the infamous Gmail April Fools Day post?
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On Google +

On Google Plus with my CR-48.
Can't get better than that.

Acer and Samsung Chrome Notebooks Announced – Available June 15th

Yes! Google has announced two new netbooks from Samsung and Acer . These will be the first to market and will begin selling in June this year. Best Buy and Amazon will begin selling these devices online on the 15th of June.....

Read the whole article:
Acer and Samsung Chrome Notebooks Announced – Available June 15th
Posted by Nigel Mabandla On May 11, 2011

Amazon now has a Chrome laptop landing site, the Chromebook Store.

Mathematicians Develop Stress Test For Global Economy

If China suffers a recession, how badly will the rest of the world be hit? Mathematicians have used network theory to calculate the answer

Read the article on: Technology Review.

CR-48 Improving

Seems to have fixed the audio problem. Also am able to use Muro, which is a pretty complicated graphic app.

I love its bootup time and battery life. If I am not processing art images (it is terrible for that) it is my favorite of my three laptops for social networking, blogging, reading news.

Official Google Blog: An update from the Chairman

Official Google Blog: An update from the Chairman

Shake up at Google.

Google To Ship Next Batch Of CR-48, You Could Be The Lucky One | Muktware

Google To Ship Next Batch Of CR-48, You Could Be The Lucky One | Muktware

Garbled Audio After Latest Update: Possible high resolution timerfix.

Benson Leung of chromium.org says:

Hi All, We have identified the high resolution timer issue, and a patch will be pushed soon. Thanks for your patience and help, everyone! Benson  

http://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/group/chromium-os-discuss/browse_thread/thread/388ef5aa5a6d2312

CR-48 Audio Problems

I was able to consistently produce audio streaming problems using the WeatherBig app.
What gives? Anybody see this one?

I was able to duplicate this on the CR-48 with two different streaming audio sites.
1) install WeatherBug.
2) Install Santa Cruz CA, and Palo Alto CA as two tabs
3) To test, next do a cold boot.
4) Go to audio streaming site and start audio
5) Audio works fine 
6) Now go to apps tab and got to WeatherBug.
7) Select the Palo Alto tab.
 The audio turns into crackly sound and becomes unintelligible within 30 seconds. 

To fix you need to close the WeatherBug tab and do a cold reboot.

I have already reported this to Google.
The sites I saw this on are:
The Freakenomics podcast on the NY Times.
KGO 810 radio listen live.

Short overview of the Chrome Notebook

If anybody is confused by all this CR-48 business:

Hacking your CR-48 Profile Photo

You can use Piknik to do it, as outlined here:
http://www.thechromesource.com/replacing-your-profile-picture-on-the-cr-48/

However, that's pretty boring!

Alternatively, the profile photo exists on your hard drive at /home/chronos. This file is called yourname@gmail.com.png. If you have jailbroken your machine, and you downloaded a photo from the web, it will be in /home/chronos/user/Downloads. (You can get into the full shell from crosh by typing shell, and if you need superuser privileges, sudo su.)

You can just copy the file, renaming it as a .png file with your email that you use for logging in.   I was able to download a png file of a cartoon character and then, change my photo in this way.

Warning: I am not sure what it does if it finds no yourname@gmail.com.png. .png file, but a yourname@gmail.com.jpg. instead, or what happens if the .png file has dimensions that it doesn't like.

I suggest you back up your original photo, before you try this.

How would you change the Cr-48?

How would you change the Cr-48?

Replies on ChromeOSLounge.....

According to jbills the notorious trackpad issues may be due to the device driver.....

ProQuest acquires ebrary

I am now working for ProQuest.

ebrary has just been acquired by ProQuest and is now a ProQuest division. http://www.ebrary.com/corp/newspdf/ebrary_ProQuest_Acquisition.pdf

CR-48 Mad Scientist Experiment

Now that I have jailbroken the CR-48, I downloaded Firefox for Linux, copied the .bz file to a new mozilla folder I created off my home directory, unpackaged it using tar, and attempted to run it.

The firefox launch script requires the Bourne shell, but I haven't been successful in getting it to launch yet, even after chown, chmod and sudo su.  I suspect that there are missing libraries, but I have been too lazy to investigate yet.

I know I don't need Firefox.  Chrome is my favorite browser.  However I think it would be neat if I can get this to work.  As a developer, you might need a tool only available in some other browser.

Anyway, I was also able to learn about my home directory, the file structure of the special chromeos user, where the downloads go, etc.

How To Root Or Jailbreak Google Chrome Cr-48 Notebook? [Developer Mode]

"Rooting or jailbreaking lets you get full access of your device. Rooting most of the devices is not easy and takes quite an effort before you can get root access. However rooting or jailbreaking the GoogleChrome Cr-48 Notebook is as easy as pushing a button! "

How To Root Or Jailbreak Google Chrome Cr-48 Notebook? [Developer Mode]

This is a very clear article describing what it takes to jailbreak a CR-48. Locating the black tape is the most difficult part, so the photos are a big help. (The comments folks leave on these jailbreaking articles are a crack up. Lots of people swear the switch is not there--it's under black tape on a black laptop!)

A couple of things of note. This process will wipe your local data. So if you haven't shaved, are hung over, or have your hair in curlers, etc. note you will lose your original attractive photo--it will ask you for a new photo and you have to set up starting over again. (My photo is now with bed hair and in a bathrobe.) Second, the switch takes 15 minutes, so don't try it if you have no battery time left without plugging it in.

(Remember, the whole concept is to get away from the idea of local data.)

Once you are in jailbreak mode, other then the nag screen that you have to hit Ctrl-D to bypass, your Chrome browser will work as before.

The limited ChromeOS shell, can be accessed using Ctrl-Alt-T as before. You can alternate between the shell and the Chrome browser as before by using Alt-Tab. (If you have multiple shells open this will also work. I've loaded over 20 or thirty shells at the same time.)

However, now you can go to a bash shell within the ChromeOS shell by typing "shell" (Ctrl-D or "exit" once takes you back). You can also get to a Bourne shell by typing "sh" within the bash shell.

Yes. This is an official feature. See the related article at chromestory:

http://chromestory.com/2010/12/rooting-or-jailbreaking-chrome-os-is-an-official-feature-in-chrome-notebook-cr48/