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SSH or VNC From Your Cell Phone?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the yes-have-some dept.

fintler writes "Andreas Karlsson has a working release of a simple ssh client for the Ericsson P800 and is looking for a way to imput control charactors in the interface. Here is Screenshot 1 and Screenshot 2. There's also a VNC client for the Ericsson P800 (Auf Deutsch!) written by Gino Micacchi with some more screenshots here and here."

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  1. Screen too small for VNC by Psiren · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I can see the ssh client being semi-useful, but the screen is just too small to do anything much with VNC. This is one of the advantages of *nix imho, anything you can do in the gui, you're likely to be able to do on the command line. More often than not faster too.

    1. Re:Screen too small for VNC by vasqzr · · Score: 5, Insightful

      A tiny screen is better than no screen when you're trying to fix something.

  2. Wow! by James+A.+A.+Joyce · · Score: 3, Insightful

    There's so many uses for this; if you've got SSH on a mobile, the possibilites are endless. If you can remotely log into any of your other networked machines then you can do all kinds of things from a sufficiently sophisticated mobile. Just imagine what you could do as a journalist or undercover Amnesty International worker!

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    Bash script for FP whores

  3. Can't beat a cell phone for this by Baki · · Score: 4, Insightful

    One month ago I was hiking in the mountains (on Corsica) and it was quite useful to be able to login on my server at home while staying in a mountain refuge at 3000m altitude. Every gram counts on such travels, and I would never be able to take a 80x25 screen with me.

    Also what do you mean "not using standard protocol"? SSH is as standard as it gets when you want to have a secure login on a UNIX server.

  4. the wow factor is nothing new by mydigitalself · · Score: 3, Insightful

    i was doing this 5 years ago with a palm pilot, IR and an ericsson modem phone...very useful.