OT - Wireless phone providers - WAS: [Cialug]ssh for cell phones

[Matthew Nuzum]

On Nov 15, 2007 9:37 AM, Nathan Stien <nathanism at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Nov 15, 2007 9:20 AM, Dave J. Hala Jr. <dave at 58ghz.net> wrote:
> > If you could ssh into your phone, you could turn it into a covert spy
> > cam.  It would be almost as good as being invisible...
>
> And you could do a lot of other things besides.  scp files in/out,
> sync contacts, etc.  Possibly find the phone if it gets stolen.  And
> don't forget apt-get dist-upgrade.
>
> It would also be nice to have little gui apps running on the phone
> that run ssh underneath to contact my machines out in the world to
> manipulate things.  Set up a mythtv recording, monitor machine status,
> etc.
>

I got to see some of these last week: http://www.moblin.org/

Trust me when I say "You'll want one!"

There's going to be a ton of tiny computers running Linux for under $200 in
the next couple years. It seems that small is the new big.

-- 
Matthew Nuzum
newz2000 on freenode
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