Thanks for the summary -- I know, I am late as this is from last year.
One thing you may want to consider adding to you hardware list for
'The Trip' is a wireless router.
Why?
Although iPhone sync and OS updates are done over the White Cable, much
more interesting communication with servers/clients *of your choice* take
place over wireless.
That's the case even if you don't have an uplink to the internet. Keep
that in mind, you can have your own little haraldnet (192.168.x.y)
wherever you are, withwhom you want to include, or exclude.
- the obvious, if your phone is jailbroken, are ssh, scp, sftp, rsync...
- For official sharing iApps I'd recommend "Air Sharing Pro". It costs a few
bucks, but is worth every penny.
As a server it supports http https webdav(*)
As a client it supperts ssh (actually a GUI to sftp), ftp, iDisk,
FilesAnywhere, ...
and has a couple of viewers based on .extension (.txt .pdf .xls(*)
.[scripts] +more...
i.e. C code, python scripts (Hal fill in for .pl :-) are presented syntax
highlit
e.g. I can sftp a file from anywhere_with_sshd to my phone
+ much more...
(*) As for webdav protocol, look it up...
I was prep'ed to give a little demo at the ITproForum's lighty talks in
Aug2009, but we had enough speakers, so maybe I'll may do it in Aug2010.
As for:
mcherba wrote: With a rooted droid, you could set it up as an access point
and access the net through it from your laptop. That might work a bit
better, but I'm sure the iphone has apps that turn it into an access point.
Has anyone seen an official iApp to do this? --sounds kind of contrary to
the propriatary Apple philosophy.
- Horst
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2009 14:10:26 -0800
From: Harald Sundt <h_su...@efn.org>
Reply-To: Eugene Unix and Gnu/Linux User Group <euglug@euglug.org>
To: Eugene Unix and Gnu/Linux User Group <euglug@euglug.org>,
tidbits-t...@emperor.tidbits.com
Subject: Re: [Eug-lug] & [TidBits] The iPhone Nomad - Is He or She Possible?
The Compiled responses condensed
The iPhone Nomad - Is He or She Possible?
The questions is posed first, then the compiled essence of the answers:
I have a goal. You might say I'm looking for the silver lining in a
storm cloud.
Over the next six months I'm going to have to wind down my financial
lifestyle to the point I live in a camper trailer behind my car.
Enough said about that. What I really am looking at is the fact that
I use my iPhone as my telephone and my Internet as well as writing
already. I have a laptop that is a dual-boot one side being Fedora
11 and the other side being Windows XP. My thinking is that I can
keep my iPhone updated on Windows and use Skype for my telephone
existence with e-mail being the way people contact me more formally.
But this notion of a nomad lifestyle brings up several questions.
First, using an iPhone with Windows means that you have less
functionality in relationship between the operating system and the
handset. What is it that Windows won't be able to do for my iPhone
that the Macintosh operating system can. (Trading my laptop in for a
Macintosh lap top is not an option in my financial situation)
Secondly, this means that I am way to be dependent on the ?E?, ?3G?
and Starbucks type WiFi for all my networking needs. Can I update
the software on my iPhone through a Starbucks type WiFi connection?
I'm sure it's going to take longer than on broadband, but is it even
possible?
Thirdly, I'm not even sure whether Fedora 11 and Windows XP can
update over WiFi.
And the whole business of people calling me if I have to use Skype
alone is a mystery so far.
Perhaps if I had just a cheaper landline that phone number could
reach me over the AT&T network and have really slow updates. But
that itself would be depending on being able to hang onto my home,
and eventually I will almost certainly have to move to my camper
trailer.
So you see I have some logistics problems here, and I have a sneaky
suspicion I'm not even seeing some real pitfalls. But I'd like to
ask anyone who has experience in any of these areas to help me
orient myself, and in return I plan to write a kind of article about
the whole thing and put it out there somehow because I think that
there will be a lot of us out there someday.
Don't cry for me Argentina, after all, if you have an iPhone by
definition you are one of the really lucky ones in this world of 6.7
5 billion people.
Leo Rivers December 16, 2009 9:16 AM Cottage Grove, Oregon 2009?
Some replies:
On 12/18/09 2:59 AM, LuKreme wrote: Yes. And starbucks wifi is 'broadband' at
least for certain values of broadband. I normally get about 50-100KBps on
their wifi, which is plenty fast enough for an iPhone.
Starbucks is AT&T so maybe I can buy a card and buy the band width
John wrote: Windows updates fine over WiFi. What it won't attempt is to
instal the updates when not plugged in to power...it will hold the updates
until it is plugged in.
On 12/18/09 2:59 AM, LuKreme wrote: As for updating windows or Fedora, it
should work. However, some updates night be a bit large. Nit sure what
Starbucks? policy is on 100MB downloads.
Ron Risley wrote: If you mean apps and tunes, then yes. For backups and the
occasional firmware update (and really big apps), you'll need to boot your
laptop into Windows and use iTunes. But how are you planning to connect your
laptop to the net? If you're in the US, you can't tether, so you would need
to be able to find free WiFi to download firmware updates and the like.
On 12/18/09 2:59 AM, Ron Risley wrote: Look into Google Voice. You can get a
regular phone number from Google, which can forward to one or more phones and
does voice mail with transcriptions that can be delivered on the web. This
page might also be useful if you decide to use GV:
I have several acquaintances who have iPhones but no Mac OS computers and
they seem to do fine. Remember, Windows users are part of Apple's target
demographic for the iPhone. You can use Google instead of iCal for
calendar/contact/email sync, which also means that you can use the web
interfaces for those functions so that you can stay on the Linux side when
using your laptop.
Alternate approach;
epcraig wrote:I can see that with Android/Ubuntu/Clearwire. T-mobile is a bit
limited in range (OK, coming from AT&T perhaps not) you might go with
Droid/Verizon?
mcherba wrote: With a rooted droid, you could set it up as an access point
and access the net through it from your laptop. That might work a bit
better, but I'm sure the iphone has apps that turn it into an access point.
As for updating your iphone via a free wifi connection like thos offered by
various coffee houses. That should be very workable. I don't see why the
phone would see it as anything other than just another wifi network. Sure,
the download might not be swift, but you can try various ones till you find
one that works well enough.
mike.mikemiller wrote: Have you looked at google voice vs Skype? You get
more services for free with google voice vs skypes free offering.
--
?the ancient destructive urges in, us, that grow more deadly as our
populations approach in size and complexity those of ancient Mars. Every war
crisis, witch-hunt, race riot and purge?is a reminder and warning. We are the
Martians. If we cannot control the inheritance within us?this will be their
second dead planet!?
quote: Dr. Bernard Quatermass of the The British Experimental Rocket Group
The BBC TV serial miniseries version of "Quatermass and the Pit" 1957.
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