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The Kindle 3 web browser (based on WebKit) is much more capable than the Kindle 2's, opening up all sorts of possibilities (like SSH access via shellinabox: http://tinyapps.org/blog/eink/201009300700_kindle_text_editi... )



Yet another reason to learn ed: "Since the Kindle keyboard lacks Esc and Ctrl, stick with simple text editing tools like cat and ed/ex instead of nano and vi..."


I like my Kindle a lot - I just got one - but the screen is really too slow to be anything other than maddening for any sort of remotely dynamic application.

It'll be really interesting to see what happens... I like the screen a lot more than LCD for reading, but I also would like to have a more generic device. I also suspect that not being able to hop online every 10 minutes is a good thing in the Kindle though, in terms of sitting down and really reading.


Now I can ssh from my Kindle. miles++


Funny that the third and forth octets of the IP address shown in the Kindle screen shots are obstructed given that the IP begins with 192.168.


I'd rather not give away too much info about my internal network (though you're welcome to the first two octets ;-) Even non-routable IP address info can be useful under some circumstances. Probably should've just blanked out the whole thing.




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