David E. Smith wrote:
I refuse to tether myself to my job. I've done that over the last few
years, and I'm not doing it any longer. I do accept, though, that
there are some things that, out of the eight or so employees working
under my boss, I'm the only one who knows them. The ability to fix
things remotely is essential to our business and to my sanity. (Fun
fact: I value the second of those much more highly than the first.) As
much as I'd love to be completely incommunicado for a few days here
and there, it's not practical; I believe this has the potential to be
a viable substitute.
First, you suggest that you are looking for a device of certain
requirements. Now you suggest that the device is essential to your
business. Yet, you don't even know if such a device exists. I continue
to think you are attempting to solve the wrong problem. What device is
going to save your business when you get hit by bus (in a metaphorical
sense).
You claim it doesn't exist; I'm still in a blissful state of doubt and
confusion. Hence my original question about what handhelds will work
with SSH the way I need 'em to. :)
I believe at lease one other person referred to your desire as a pipe dream.
Geez, where do you live? Sounds like the data service is even worse
than here, and that's pretty hard to come by. :P
I live in Atlanta where the data service is actually quite fast. The
problem with cell phones is not the speed of the data service though.
My copy of Opera Mini on a two-year-old Sprint phone that I picked up
used on eBay for a hundred bucks works better than yours, at least
from your description.
Have you tried such common tasks as getting directions or checking movie
times? I am sure if you set up a proper test with two people --one using
a cell phone browser and the other making a cell phone call-- the phone
call will win hands down.
Is this a statement of "I've used SSH and found it wanting," or "I
haven't done this but I don't think it'd work"?
Of course I have used SSH. That was one of the applications I was
planning on using when I bought the phone. I have since learned my lesson.
-Matt
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