On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 03:01:30PM -0400, James M. Pulver wrote:
> 
> This is true, but in this case I wonder if the person is drowning
> because they followed their GPS (google) off a cliff into the ocean, ...
>

most likely.

> 
> I just have to wonder, what sort of experiment needs to be
> remotely controlled on a linux server from a tablet using something
> that looks targeted at controlling TVs or Stereos?
> 

I wonder the same, but the guy is not telling.

But I have seen some strange stuff and I figure his computer has to be inside some
kind of hard-to-enter box (light insulated, or noise insulated, or radation shielded
or temperature controlled, whatever), and he cannot get the video
and keyboard cables out (KVM over power line, no? unless he has isolated power,
like we do in a couple of places).

And he has sone kind of bullshit data acquisition application that cannot
be controlled remotely by usual means (web, remote X11, VNC, remote desktop, etc).

I was going to say I cannot imaging such an evil data acquisition application,
but then I remebered a few cases:

a) modern digital sound mixers are meant to be controlled from an ipad (mixer has built-in wifi hotspot).

b) an unnamed vendor was recently demoing an expensive box, and they were showcasing
how it can be remote-controlled using a tablet or a phone (also built-in wifi hotspot),
but to their credit this box can also be controlled via ethernet.

For anybody younger than 30, the universe is an iphone, so controlling experiments using
an android app is perfectly normal. (let's see them build and run an LHC-size experiment).

-- 
Konstantin Olchanski
Data Acquisition Systems: The Bytes Must Flow!
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