Joey,
Very interesting. I have an older iPhone (but with the new 2.0.1
software) which I've opened up using the "PwnageTool" -- a slightly
scary process. But it does allow you to run unix tools on your iPhone,
and ssh into it from your Mac via Wi-Fi, use scp to bypass iTunes and
download arbitrary stuff to your phone, and also run some applications
not yet on iTunes, like MxTube so you can save YouTube clips locally.
I added pTerm but haven't used it yet -- but iSSH looks like it
may be better. So this should allow, for example, me to run J in the
console mode by logging into my University desktop. But the really
great breakthrough will be a way to run jwd. I'd really love to have
that available.
Patrick
On Mon, 1 Sep 2008, Joey K Tuttle wrote:
I meant to add to my remarks that this whole project took less than half an
hour when I became bored with the conversation in a coffee shop... So the $5
application was selected, downloaded, configured (for 3 systems), and used
with minimal effort.
In landscape, the tiny font only displays 80 columns, but line wrap is
handled very nicely so longer lines work out OK. Also, the terminal (VT100
including vi support) has a buffer to remember a few screens of the session.
That coupled with .jhistory makes it easy to develop (fix bugs in) a line of
j.
I think Eric's point about a personal web server is very good too, and easy
to do in the same environment that provides jconsole - well, most such
places... One of my jconsole systems is in a shell account on a machine
provided by my DSL supplier - I don't have permission to configure a web
server there, but jconsole is very handy.
If anyone is interested, the application I bought is from
http://www.zinger-soft.com/
and is published through iTunes. The author maintains a Google discussion
group which may have some good discussions (although I haven't yet explored
them...)
- joey
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