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Wireless SSH2 Devices?

AugstWest asks: "I was at a concert in Manhattan last night when I panicked and thought my beeper had gone off, which would usually mean that one of my company's servers had failed, leaving clients without vital services. I know I'm not alone in being the sole admin since a lot of companies don't have the resources to have redundant dedicated admins, so if the servers go down, I'm the only one who knows how to get them back up. My nearest terminal was in Connecticut. I would have had to leave the show (leave a King Crimson show?) and drive back to Connecticut (at least an hour) to be able to get in to the server and scope the situation. Fortunately I had hallucinated the beep, but it hit me that there's got to be a wireless device out there that can handle SSH2. I've got a client for the Palm that does SSH1, but it's not enough. What are people using to administer their servers from a wireless device? Since it's just a character shell it shouldn't be too difficult to do, and it would be so nice to be able to just duck out to the hallway, log in to the server, check the status, start things up again, then head back in to the show."

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  1. Brute force solution by FigWig · · Score: 4

    Get one of those Sony Vaio "Picture books" with the camera on them. Buy a ricochet or cellular modem, install linux. Now you never have to go into work again. Waterproof it and you can work from a jacuzzi. In brazil. Naked.

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