Going to travel away for a 2½ weeks soon, and I'm going to take only an iPad with me for my basic computer needs (+ an android phone). But what if I get an itch to hack something? Any suggestions on apps that I can get my daily fix of hacker/geek life with?<p>One option I've been thinking about is setting up some kind of minimal Linux dev environment on the Android phone and SSH'ing in from iPad to get a better terminal/keyboard than I would have on the phone.<p>Another option would be to just SSH to my home box and do whatever I usually do on it, but it is probable that there's no internet connectivity where I'm going, or it will be painfully slow.<p>Third option of course would be to force myself to do something else :)<p>Maybe HN has some other options or suggestions?
* Jailbreak your ipad (be careful with iOS4), install OpenSSH through Cydia and connect to localhost with iSSH. There are for example apache, vi, ruby, python, grep and awk. Can that scratch your itch?
* Not really hacking but you can install Frotz for text adventuring in interactive fiction.
* Buy an apple bluetooth keyboard and connect it to Android or the iPad for easier typing.
Hmm...lacking internet connectivity is a pain. I love using zingersoft iSSH and the Apple wireless keyboard ($69) -- I connect to my remote Linux servers and am coding in Python right away.
You can actually jailbreak the iPad and have a fully functioning unix environment there.<p>Python scripting environment on the Android phone isn't half bad.