Hands down, the coolest hack for Chrome

Who needs Ubuntu, Mac OS and umm, that other crappy OS! 

Just paste this into your URL bar and click enter. I've been playing with this hack for a good 20 minutes!

javascript:var i,s,ss=['http://kathack.com/js/kh.js','http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.5.1/jquery.min.js'];for(i=0;i!=ss.length;i++){s=document.createElement('script');s.src=ss[i];document.body.appendChild(s);}void(0);

Yeah, no need to tell you to not enter it with quotes, because I didn't give you any.

Enjoy!

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Who watches a video and solves the equasion on the backboard? Someone.

That someone got a free Chrome Notebook (Cr-48)
Oh wait..... 60,000 other people are too.
Regardless, that was a sick equation Google!

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My adventures with Mac OS X on my Dell Mini 10v

Now that the Cr-48 has taken the spotlight, I'd like to share my story of how my laptop.

One day, during a car trip to Florida, my Dell Mini 10v refused to boot my beloved Mac OS and would prevent me from opening any program on the laptop in a Finder error. I tried everything, reaching out to MyDellMini with no success. I've tried every forum's help I have looked for without luck. After retreating to an Ubuntu USB disk, I took all my files off my laptop onto my backup drive. Then I went ahead with a full format of my laptop, taking around 5 days before giving me a drive error (Bad Sectors.)

After trying 2 USB Drives, 5 Cham Boot Drives, 3 Snow and Leopard Images and attemps to write the images on Linux, Mac 10.3.9 and Windows, the install would appear similar to this:

Cham or syslinux boots the usb (with -v -x -f)
After 20 or so seconds I get a message saying:
"Bios read error: error 0x04
Block xxxxxxx: sectors 64"
(I have gotten the install to work a few times but it always failed after 10 or so minutes.)

And yet none of those gave me any resolution. To make it all better, and thank god I did this before zeroing the HD, my backup failed on me. So another few days was spent recovering, thankfully, all my files off the disk before inevitably zeroing the HD.


Now that the Hype of Chrome OS has begun, I have put it on my Mini JUST in case Google sends me one for the rigorous testing I would provide. However, wifi does not naively work and even the IMG from dell doesnt work after following the commands provided.


I hope whoever reads this will at least get some humor out of this story, I know I didn't.


P.S.: Ever since my Mini doesnt have Mac OS, the battery life has cut more then half. Just shows how much Dells like Apple and that we should all get along (Without Windows)

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How to Update Chrome OS Releases

It was hard to find on the version i'm running on my Dell Mini.

It is under chrome://settings/about
Or you can find it under the wrench and click "about"

From there, you can check for updates or change from beta to dev.

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