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PuTTY on my cell phone

A few weeks ago, one of the high priced Tibco consultants that we had in the office mentioned that it was possible to obtain an SSH client for my Nokia 6600 phone. At the time, I didn't do anything about it. But I had some free time tonight, so I decided to do some research. And in fact, he was right -- some crazy folks have ported PuTTY to the Symbian OS, which is what my phone runs.

Behold!

Because I am buying the all-you-can-eat GPRS Internet plan from T-Mobile, I was able to SSH directly from my phone, through T-Mobile's network, through the Internet, to my FreeBSD machine that was about 20 feet away. That's sweet!

The screen and keyboard (specifically, the lack thereof) make this whole thing rather impractical. But I was able to run top, and even my most-favorite of all text editors, joe.

So, I think I have definitely scored myself a little geek toy that I can show off in the appropriate settings.

-Andy.

Posted by andyr at November 2, 2005 11:55 PM