Saturday, December 22, 2012

2012-12-22 CHROMEBOX has an up arrow

Argh!

It's signally that there is an update queue for the next restart.

Argh!

Not sure I want that.

Everything is working just fine.

But what choice does one have?

This is ANOTHER downside of the cloud based operating system: stability is not in the hands of the operator / owner.

It's like I can count on my toaster or microwave.

It can't be THAT complicated to have a stable computing platform that rarely if ever changes.

Argh!

I think I'm going back to my desire for a machine that boots from a cd. No virus can preserve it's state throught that particular "easy bake oven".

ARGH!

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Friday, December 21, 2012

2012-12-21 Upgrade to 25 resets settings

Screws up XMARKS by syncing. Returns a bunch of empty folders in the bookmarks bar.

Reset settings not to sync bookmarks takes care of it.

That's one flaw with their model.

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Thursday, December 20, 2012

Low power wacks out wifi?

Ran the battery down and as it closed in on zero, the wifi failed to connect.

The public free wifi dropped. Giving the CHROMEBOOK a well know MIFI, no help.

Argh!

No warning. No nothing.

Argh!

Add wall power and back to normal!

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Monday, December 17, 2012

Thursday, December 13, 2012

CHROMEBOOK rebooted?

Came home this evening and had used the book at work today. It's done a hard cold reboot. Argh!

Why?

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Friday, December 7, 2012

Upgrade to 23 killed the CHROMEBOX


upgrade to 23 killed the CHROMEBOX
restart from USB
all settings lost
appears all browser extension installed from scratch
argh!

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BUFFER works nicely to fill FACEBOOK

I'm using the free version. I don't see ever paying for it.

It's nice to out my rants on FACEBOOK,

Wish there was an equivalent to fill my wordpress blogs. That would displace MARSEDIT.

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Thursday, December 6, 2012

BUFFER now works on V23

May be a coincidence?

Before it wouldn't install, now it does.

Important to keep a list of problems so you can periodically can retry.

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Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Received an UP arrow!

The version 23 appeared soon after I griped about it.

Did the restart required. (Almost forgot how that takes you back to the "beginning". Appears all cookies are wiped and you have to tell FACEBOOK this is CHROMEBOOK.

Did the upsize offer with Google.

Wait ten minutes.

(Got bored so went and did something else.)

And, poof, it now reports that I have 105G of which 104.75 is free. (I don't trust files to just anyone.)

FWIW it works for me.

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STILL on 21?


Version 21.0.1180.92
Platform 2465.228.0 (Official Build) stable-channel lumpy
Firmware Google_Lumpy.2.111.0v

Since October 19th.

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Tuesday, December 4, 2012

CHROMEBOOK works will with BLOGGER

The interface is fast and crisp.Certainly a step above WORDPRESS DOT COM.

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