![]() ![]() Instead my printers are connected to network printers that hang off an openSUSE 11.4 and Windows Server 2008 R2 server. In my own case none of the printers are attached directly to a PC. It's pretty simple, and once you're done with it, all you need do is leave Chrome on your PC or Mac and you can print to any printer it can reach. To do this you need to download and enable the Google Cloud Print connector in your local PC's Chrome Web browser. See, I knew there was a reason I kept Windows PCs around! You can't do it - yet - from a Linux desktop but that's coming. If that is, you have a printer that's accessible from a Windows or Mac OS PC. Fortunately, you can connect your old printer to the Google Cloud Print so you can use it instead. ![]() The only printers that directly support that at this time are the HP ePrint line. Instead, you need to use Google Cloud Print. You see, while the Samsung has two USB 2.0 ports, ChromeOS doesn't directly support printers. Printing from a Chromebook, that's a little tricker. ChromeOS, and thus the Chromebook, comes with Adobe Reader functionality baked in. Reading the PDF document wasn't a problem. So, of course, today I had to print out a PDF form for a contract I'm working on. I think that if God had wanted us to still put marks on paper he wouldn't have given us a computer display. So, while I was quickly reading all my e-mail from my Chromebook, if you use another system besides Gmail for your e-mail, I'd be sure to set this up when you have time to work on it and there's help available rather than setting out on a business trip and then finding out that you're in over your head as an e-mail admin. ![]() On this tab, select "Add POP3 Account." You'll then be asked several questions about your POP account such as what port to use and whether your server uses Secure-Socket Layer (SSL) for the connection and so on. To do this, you need to go to the Gmail's Gear icon on the upper right and go to Settings/Accounts and Import. Using Gmail as a client to a POP server, that's a bit more complicated. Now setting up a POP client, like Outlook or Thunderbird, to get mail from Gmail is pretty straightforward. So, to get to that mail, I had to set up Gmail so that I could use it to get to my Post Office Protocol (POP) server. The vast majority of my e-mail goes through my own Vaughan-Nichols & Associates domain. I use Gmailall the time, but I only use it for about 10% of my mail. It was with this last that I ran into my first 'hitch' with the Chromebook. It's Sunday, so how much work am I really going to get done in the afternoon? The answer is "not much." So all I tried to do with the Chromebook was the bare basics of cruising around the Web and reading e-mail. Well, OK, so it's really a story of what worked and what didn't work, but you get the idea. I warn you now, it's a tale of both triumph and tragedy. Slashdot user TheBrutalTruth | What's your take?īut, brave soul that I am, I decided to give it a try. My CR-48 updates constantly (reboots faster than you can blink) and it's been neat to see it evolve - rapidly - over just 8 months. And free wireless for 2 years? Even at a paltry 100 MB/month, perfect for when the bloodsuckers known as PEPCO or Comcast go down. Instant on, and iPad battery life (the CR-48 anyways). In praise of Chrome OSFor what I do - email, surfing, music - it's perfect. Me? Work on just one computer, and that a small laptop to boot? This wouldn't be easy. I usually work on at least three systems and one of those is always running Mint Linux, while another is usually running Ubuntu and one keeps flipping its little mind from Windows 7 to XP depending on what I'm doing to Windows that day. You see, on a normal day, I don't work on just any one computer, or even just one operating system. Although I already knew and liked its Chrome Web-browser-based Linux operating system, ChromeOS, I also know how I work. When I first agreed to write about a week working with nothing but a Samsung Series 5 Chromebook, I knew I was asking for trouble. ![]()
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