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Guspaz
Joined: 26 May 2009
Posts: 1150
Location: Montreal, QC
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| Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2011 8:57 pm Post subject: Mention of Linode in article linked from Digg |
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http://www.readwriteweb.com/hack/2011/11/coding-in-the-cloud-with-just.php
Guy basically switched from coding on a laptop, to coding on an iPad while VNCing to his Linode. |
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vonskippy
Joined: 27 Dec 2009
Posts: 469
Location: Colorado, USA
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| Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2011 9:36 pm Post subject: |
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Sounds painful.
The guy must bill his clients by the minute. |
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obs
Joined: 07 Mar 2010
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Location: Earth
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| Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2011 4:51 am Post subject: |
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| I couldn't do that on an ipad....a netbook/mac book air but not an ipad...ewww |
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NeonNero
Joined: 04 Jan 2005
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Location: Ålesund, Norway
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| Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2011 9:13 am Post subject: |
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obs wrote: I couldn't do that on an ipad....a netbook/mac book air but not an ipad...ewww
To be fair, it's not just an iPad on its own.... He does have a wireless keyboard linked to it, plus a VGA adapter so he can connect it to his huge HD TV. The equipment he used (for coding purposes), according to the blog post: iPad 2 (16 GB + WiFi), Apple wireless keyboard, Stilgut adjustable angle stand/case, iSSH, Linode 512 (Ubuntu 11.04) and Apple VGA adapter. This setup replaced his MacBook which crashed spectacularly (to quote his blog post: "One fateful day, VMWare and OS/X conspired to trash my shared filesystem, losing several days of uncommitted code in the process."), and the new setup works out fine for him.
I actually read the article about a week ago, when Linode re-tweeted the article link. :)
https://twitter.com/yieldthought/status/131720208397254657 |
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obs
Joined: 07 Mar 2010
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| Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2011 9:15 am Post subject: |
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| I read it too..all that junk to carry around when I could just have one device seems much easier, it seems to defeat the point of an ipad when you need a keyboard. |
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