I love the fact that I can access/transfer files on the tablet from my home computer (ubuntu) via SFTP without needing a USB cable and thus unmounting any block devices. Yep wirelessly.

How?


HUGE DISCLAIMER
Remember, with this method, you have root access to the tablet! It will be a whole lot more safe if you create an underprivileged user (I've never done this). Also, any file that you create will have root permissions and may not be accessible/erasable on the tablet if you're not root! Lastly, if you bork your tablet, the Cap can't be blamed.


Without [further] adieu...

1) Install, openssh on the tablet (client + server) and set root password (remember this!!!)
2) In nautilus' (file manager in ubuntu) url bar type:
sftp://root@<tablet's IP address eg. 192.168.1.10>
3) Log in using root password
4) Enjoy ****ing up your NIT!

Have fun!


YARR!
}:^)~
Corrupt Tuesday

humm. i can access files on my desktop directly from the file manager, through my home nerwork. i just have to make 'shared folders' on my desktop.

I bought the n800 because it seemed like an open, mature portable device that I could finally hack to my thirsting will. But after a while, the SDK left me parched (specifically trying to compile irreco), and I aimlessly wandered for days across the scratchbox desert, not knowing in what direction civilized compilation lie. Then one blisterly rising morning, I thought I saw a shimmering pool of fast Perl prototyping. I ran. Not understanding or caring how my tattered body moved onward. Closer and closer it seemed. But to my despair, the readily available GTK Perl bindings withered into the dusty midday heat. Blimey!

A ways back, I had taken myself (or was taken) out of the tech world and software development game, and I had no idea whether I'd return. Then one calm Autumn afternoon, while listening for word of my future, the n800's siren song lured me from my perch and throw me against my rocky credit. The events aren't clear, but miraculously I survived in one piece. I had somehow washed ashore on an empty beach (I could have sworn I was in the desert) and it seemed for now I was out of harms reach, but my form lay crumpled. Yet even in my battered state, I knew I could not part with my new device, and my will was still not quenched. I was sure I would figure things out, but at the moment I was in desperate need of rest.

When I awoke, I slowly remembered where I was. The cool sand felt good on my cheek, and my aches reminded me that I was in no real hurry to move. But there was something lapping in the waves, and it was coming this way! It looked familiar, but what was it doing here? I had certainly heard the Python imperialistic myths, yet during my hiatus I had no idea it had mounted such a powerful and far-reaching crusade. I was exhausted, so it felt good to give in. But even better, it was nice that my remote silvery tablet and I had finally been found, and we were heading home...

But to end this silly, dramatic story:

I specifically like writing once, then running everywhere there's GTK and Python. Which, I think... is everywhere! Wasn't this supposed to be Java's job? Or has Android kept that flame burning?

Anyway, many thanks to Nokia (especially the one with Texrat) and all the contributing third-parties (too long to list, but Linus and RMS would certainly be at the top).

And as Abe Lincoln, the founding father of all things fair, once said, "Party on, Dudes!"

I bought my n800 a while back to use as a 1) a replacement for my aging zaurus as a book reader, time waster (games), and email device and 2) as a mini computer to carry about in medical school especially for rounding in the hospital.

In certainly performs well for the former but exceeded my expectations for the latter.

I love the fact that I can link up to the internet via my 3g phone, vpn into my university network, and access uptodate (a repository of useful clinical info, usually paid for by hospitals for the clinicians) information in a very readable way on the fabulous web browser (the iphone chokes on this). I then can switch over to garnet and tap into the many medical apps available on the palm platform or open a full text pdf of a clinical book. And the devie fits nicely in a lab coat pocket and replaced the ridiculous number of books I once carried.

When I'm in the theater I can use it to change the music without being up at my laptop at the booth. And I can use it to turn on or off any light without having to yell to someone in the booth, or go up myself.
I like that I just plug it in at night, and it has the power to last me through the day.
It is a GPS for my car or bicycle trips.
And it impresses all the girls and gets me a lot of hot dates.

@987687

Are you serious about the hot dates? If so, do tell! I have a feeling we're in for an interesting story....

YARR!
}:^)~
Cap has a girlfriend... *sigh*

Another little thing that I enjoyed doing the other day was to get all my photos from my phone over to my N800. I simply enabled bluetooth, then found the memory card and internal memory of my phone right there in the file manager, and cut&paste everything over to the N800. (Then I did other things while that took place.) The phone itself can only push out files one-by-one, which becomes extremely tedious.

No doubt this could have been done from a desktop/bluetooth computer too, with the right software, but my desktop comp can't. Besides, I wanted those photos to be on my N800 anyway, and the phone uses that braindead proprietary sony memory card format so I couldn't just copy the card.

My N800 is just a very handy device to have around.

I like to plug my camera directly into my N800 using one of jolouis' USB OTG adapters. I can browse the pictures on the tablet's big screen right after I've taken them, and show them off to people. It is much better than trying to display the pictures on the tiny screen of the camera.

The next Maemo devices will have screens that are the same resolution (800x480) as all the previous tablets. If they continue to improve the display technology the way they have 770->N800->N810, then the screen will be a beautiful thing to behold.

Sticking the stylus keyboard in under "High Res Screen" and then saying that they're taking that all away because they're taking away the stylus keyboard is cheating.

I'd really love to see more cameras equipped with WiFi. That, or some larger capacity Eye-Fi cards. One of the projects that some friends of mine are planning on working on with Maemo 5 is an automated camera (with Eye-Fi) to tablet to Flickr application with geotagging.

This is so sad. My Canon S45 has NTSC video out and it came with a "mini-phone plug -> composite video and analog sound" cable. And the slideshow and movie software gets the job done. That was in 2003. [shaking my head]