Well, the first day with the CR-48 is nearly over and I was able to use it today, but not as much as I would have liked. While at work, I activated the included, free 3g data plan through Verizon. Then I checked email, did a few web searches and created the first entry in this blog. All of that ate through 8 megs of the 100 included in free plan. If I don't pace myself away from home, I'll be burning through those 100 megs a lot sooner than I'd like.
In case you didn't know, you really can't do anything with the CR-48 unless you have a connection to the internet. Really. So, sadly, I guess I won't be using it much at work as I can't connect the laptop to the networks there. *sigh*
Now, on to more pressing issues. My job and a hobby of mine is developing software, but... How the heck to I do that on the CR-48?!? I can't access the local file system to create and edit source code files. And, even if I could, I can't install the compilers/interpreters to execute the code. I suppose this is going to require a bit of research to solve. I'll come back to this another time here, but I expect there are some through-the-web solutions out there that I'm just not aware of.
The other issue that occurred to me today was about games. Specifically, how do I play games on this thing? Computer games are another hobby of mine. The paradigm of the CR-48 is "do everything through the web" and I wasn't expecting to be able to install World of Warcraft or Civilization 5 on it. So that leaves me with games I can play through the browser. Most of those that I am aware of require Flash, which did come installed. However, the hardware on the laptop doesn't seem to be powerful enough to smoothly run the Flash games I've tried so far. I guess I shall have to seek my entertainment through other means.
If anyone has any programming/development suggestions, or game playing ideas, I'd really like to hear about them!
--Scotticus
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