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2010-06-16 , 13:48
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Originally Posted by sophocha View Post
thats good for you.now you need to learn that 'family time' and 'work time' are two separate things
That is saving family time for me.
When you own your business and you are the last man in line to keep a client happy or lose him then being able to do that remotely rather than jumping back in the car and driving home is a blessing. Instead of killing the whole family time I was able to take 15 minutes do what was needed and go back to enjoying the evening.
 
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2010-06-16 , 13:52
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Originally Posted by crown77 View Post
hi so i guess to grab the server data via vpn from your database and to open the ssh connection to the other server would be possible with another Phone OS that provides the same Applications (its all about VPN and SSH) too. This isnt anything what makes the N900 unique.
Oh I disagree.
I have an Iphone 3G in the family. wife has one and I have tried doing things on it, I can't do half that on it at the same time jumping back and forth between programs becomes cumbersome at the least on it. Same with a droid phone.
The ease of the copy and paste function on this phone alone makes this phone unique and in a class all it's own. I might be able to do all that on another phone but it would have taken me a heck of a lot longer and been twice the pain the a&& to do.
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2010-06-16 , 14:22
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Thank you for sharing this wonderful story, stories like this is why we want/like the n900. Sadly i dont think i could do the same on my company network due to lack of MS vpn support on the n900.
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2010-06-16 , 14:51
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BTW.....i have a WinXP in my office, can someone tell me the code on for the IP address in CMD? thanks

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2010-06-16 , 16:27
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Last time I was out at dinner with my family, my n900 found a wlan called "cash register" (not sure about the translation). All waiters had some gagdet with them so customers can pay via card, without the need to run back to the counter.
I wonder if I could have hacked the network on my n900 to tell the central server we already paid...

But aside from that, the n900 is plain 1337 when it comes to anything even remotly related to admin stuff. Fix database issues, correct some HTML layout issues, quickly code some changes to some java source on my home computer, chat with friends, tell the guy who asked you on the street where some obscure street is etc and all that simutaniously while beeing in a boring meeting or sitting outside in the sun.
If I had an USB keyboard I probably wouldnt even need my notebook anymore.
Plus, you can even make a phonecalll.
So yea. I do not understand the bashing either.
 

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2010-06-16 , 16:51
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Originally Posted by Techark View Post
With all the N900 bashing that goes on here lately I sometimes find myself thinking maybe I should have bought or buy a Droid phone or God forbid an Iphone.

The N900 shows me there really is no other phone on the market like it.

Tonight while eating out with my family I had to work on a remote server with an issue my tech guys could not handle.
I was able to answer 2 tickets on my support desk, update a ticket that was open to my upstream data centers help desk, IM my technician on duty and discuss the problem with him, VPN into my private networks database grab a servers details from it copy them then paste into a ssh session open a connection to the server upgrade the kernel and reboot the server then monitor a ping until the server was back on line, all those windows open at the same time. And did it all in less 15 minutes.

No other phone form factor on the planet would let me do that.
So yeah it may have issues not the best phone functions in the world, the email client sucks, but as a Internet tablet, hands down it can't be beat.
Um... astonishingly, I do all that on my Android (yes, I'm an admin.. and I use SSH and VPN) and, thankfully, I can also use my Bluetooth Freedom Pro keyboard with my Droid to REALLY get into it comfortably. This thread seems like incredible puffery for a device with many equals and a few better competitors at the moment.
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2010-06-16 , 16:57
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Originally Posted by danramos View Post
Um... astonishingly, I do all that on my Android (yes, I'm an admin.. and I use SSH and VPN) and, thankfully, I can also use my Bluetooth Freedom Pro keyboard with my Droid to REALLY get into it comfortably. This thread seems like incredible puffery for a device with many equals and a few better competitors at the moment.
I'm sorry, maybe we should start up more destructive "let's bash Nokia and the N900" threads up? I'm sure we could get h3llraz0r and PradaBrada to join in.
 

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2010-06-16 , 16:58
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Originally Posted by wmarone View Post
I'm sorry, maybe we should start up more destructive "let's bash Nokia and the N900" threads up? I'm sure we could get h3llraz0r and PradaBrada to join in.
No, perhaps you should actually tell us what you do with the N900 that makes it uniquely stand out above the rest, instead of providing puffery statements that, in fact, many devices are able to do.
 
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2010-06-16 , 17:02
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Originally Posted by danramos View Post
No, perhaps you should actually tell us what you do with the N900 that makes it uniquely stand out above the rest, instead of providing puffery statements that, in fact, many devices are able to do.
You're right, instead of enjoying our device we should either:

- Moan about it, with much wailing and gnashing of teeth
- Defend the fact that we don't hate the device
- Use other devices

I mean, this is maemo.org after all, not android.org or whatever. I'd rather have threads like this that attract a few replies than yet another 100+ post hate thread.
 
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2010-06-16 , 17:08
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Originally Posted by danramos View Post
Um... astonishingly, I do all that on my Android (yes, I'm an admin.. and I use SSH and VPN) and, thankfully, I can also use my Bluetooth Freedom Pro keyboard with my Droid to REALLY get into it comfortably. This thread seems like incredible puffery for a device with many equals and a few better competitors at the moment.
unless you need more than 6 apps open I guess

lets see:

text editor
browser
xterm
chatwindow 1
chatwindow 2
rdp window
oh ****, better get an n900
 
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