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Re: Sunday Funnies: Using a smart phone as a diagnostic tool
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Mon Feb 28 09:54:07 2011
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 09:51:39 -0500 (EST)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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----- Original Message -----
> From: "Joshua William Klubi" <joshua.klubi@gmail.com>
> On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 2:00 AM, Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com> wrote:
> > Do you have a smartphone? Blackberry? iPhone? Android?
>
> Try a Nokia N900 Maemo device,
I've had an n800 for about 3 years now. Original battery, even, though
it is time for a replacement. I passed on the n810 for a bunch of
reasons, though. Didn't like the carrier selection for the n900.
> > Do you use it as a technical tool in your work, either for accessing
> > devices or testing connectivity -- or something else?
>
> yes if ur a real IT person and your very well versed in terms
> of knowledge and you use
> gadgets then you should know it is a swiss knife among all mobile
> devices.
I'll use here a phrase that's current at the TV network where I work,
used when someone who's getting paid to make the show suddenly discovers
something everyone else in the room already knew:
"Welcome to the show."
> you can easily compare the difference, with N900 you don't need all
> those APP markets
> you have all the apps develop for Linux at your disposal, just use
> apt-get and then ur done.
Though as with all Application Managers, they make backout hell; I use
FBreader on my n800 as probably my primary app... and the newest build
has a couple of *really* nasty bugs. And it's a pain in the *ass* to
go back to an older build, without getting married to every detail of
how the appmgr works.
Or going off the reservation, after which you'll be prompted to 'upgrade'
forever...
> > HTC thunderbolt is not a bad looking phone. one most important thing
> > about
> all the mobile
> phone devices out there it is only Nokia that support full networking
> stack
> of IPV6 on it
> no hacking needed to get it running.
Note that the Thunderbolt will be an LTE700 phone, and therefore (or
so I'm told) natively IPv6 on the air-interface; this will likely make
that less of a problem than on older phones.
Cheers,
-- jra
