Lots to read this week.
- The Open Source Financial Developers Association has a very complete calendar of open source events around NYC. (via)
- Google Code-in 2014 has announced its mentoring orgs.
- Also, Google Summer of Code 2015 has been announced.
- Facebook’s New Data Center Is Bad News for Cisco. Somewhat free of technical data, but I do like the idea of more software-defined networking. (via)
- NSA vs. encryption, 40 years ago. (via)
- schmutz. Ah, the joys of Unicode. (via)
- Sort of related: this is just mean. (via IRC, I think)
- SSHelper. I’m going to buy a new phone just so I can use this. I want my handheld computer to actually be a computer, darnit. This is from the guy who created Apple Writer, of all things. (also via)
- List of Physical Visualizations. (via)
- After Docker. Docker and similar items appear to be an attempt to change an operating system from a place where you work to a thin wrapping around a program you run. Dunno if I like that. (via)
- Barbie, computer engineer, which has created more responses.
- A brief history of graphics. Video game graphics, specifically.
- The Nostalgia Nerds Who Rescue Old Games From Oblivion. Similar. (via)
- I like the concept behind “Let’s Encrypt“, though I quibble with the tools selected. (via)
- A video about the Internet in 1995. (via)
- “With varying degrees, everyone has this drawer in their house.“
- IFComp winners will provide a great deal of reading/playing time.
Your unrelated link of the week: Snowpocalypse 2014. I grew up there and now live not too far away. That’s really not that much snow for the area; it’s just that it fell so quickly.
It seems SSHelper is using OpenSSH instead of dropbear. The built-in terminal emulator lets you run ssh(1) as well.
Google Play store wouldn’t let me install it. The website claims they support Android 3.2+ (API 13), so, I just fetched the .apk from there.
http://www.arachnoid.com/android/SSHelper/index.html
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.pocketworkstation.pckeyboard
Thanks Justin!
I wonder why run an SSH server on a phone (especially when there’s ADB), but the rsync part could indeed be very useful — using ADB to transfer files is a pain. (BTW, I do use my phone as a computer, now and then, with a linux chroot, this X server, and a bluetooth keypad.)
“Docker and similar items appear to be an attempt to change an operating system from a place where you work to a thin wrapping around a program you run. Dunno if I like that.”
In a world where an operating system is an arbiter for multiple programs trying to use the same piece of hardware, it doesn’t make much sense. In a world where you’re using several pieces of hardware to run a single large application and you already have a hypervisor helping you load the software onto the hardware, a full-sized operating system just gets in the way. That’s not every situation, to be sure, but for data centres running large-scale applications, it’s a really useful idea.