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Feb. 6th, 2010 06:55 pmI have been, as noted elsewhere, been Having Thoughts(TM) about the usefulness to me of a device like the iPad. One might feel inclined to suggest that this is basically just a gadget-freak rationalizing why he's going to buy one, and one might be correct, but I am not in fact planning to buy one just yet.
But I am curious to see how the MUA has evolved, and how well it'll work as an SSH and VNC client. Because I can see that maybe, possibly, a 10" touch-based device might be large enough for me to use for casual shell work, like the sort of thing I'm sometimes stuck sitting around waiting to do at 10PM after the Hong Kong people are done -- that's often just a few commands. I'm sure it'd be big enough for people with normal vision.
To that end my to-do list has had "build an IPSec VPN server" tacked on the end, so I can fool around with the VPN support on my iPhone. If that works adequately, I could work around the lack of support for our cruddy proprietary boutique VPN by VPN'ing to my own box, which is itself VPN'd to the office...
The lack of multitasking may perhaps suck a little too much though: losing one's SSH sessions because one needs to grab some text from an email? Not cool.
But I am curious to see how the MUA has evolved, and how well it'll work as an SSH and VNC client. Because I can see that maybe, possibly, a 10" touch-based device might be large enough for me to use for casual shell work, like the sort of thing I'm sometimes stuck sitting around waiting to do at 10PM after the Hong Kong people are done -- that's often just a few commands. I'm sure it'd be big enough for people with normal vision.
To that end my to-do list has had "build an IPSec VPN server" tacked on the end, so I can fool around with the VPN support on my iPhone. If that works adequately, I could work around the lack of support for our cruddy proprietary boutique VPN by VPN'ing to my own box, which is itself VPN'd to the office...
The lack of multitasking may perhaps suck a little too much though: losing one's SSH sessions because one needs to grab some text from an email? Not cool.
