Linked by David Adams on Tue 9th Jun 2009 16:28 UTC
What is it about gadget geeks? If there's one obsession common to all the generations of geekdom, it's got to be the desire for unification of all needs into one tool. It started out modestly. Maybe with the guy who fashioned his flint so he could easily both scrape and cut the animal hide. Then there was the guy who first put a nail puller on the back of a hammer, and on to to the combination compass/signaling mirror, the Swiss Army Knife, Leatherman, and an astounding array of multi-purpose hand tools. But it was with the advent of electronic gadgets that things really started to get out of hand. Read on for a rumination on multi-purpose gadgets and a review of a combo DSL/Wi-Fi/VoIP router.
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2007-09-06
Nice, I'm in much the same place with my N810:
music, movie, pdf, ebook reader
games console (native and various emulators)
ssh client, server, sshfs and rsync
gps (Nokia "maps", google, yahoo, virtualearth and path tracking)
some internet over wifi when a bigger box isn't in reach
voice (Google video chat or Skype voice only)
wireless audit tool (kismet, aircrack and a few native GUI apps)
pentest tool when I haven't a bigger box handy (metasploit, ettercap, tcpdump, scapy, hping, other's I've forgotten)
remote desktop (vnc, windows terminal client)
I've simply taken the term Symbiot for it based on how much it can do beyond intended use. I provide it food from my power socket and it provides me extended functions.
The way it's looking, I may go Android when it eventually comes time to replace this unless Nokia can keep up. We'll see next year maybe.