how to remove bind?

[Ric Moore]

On Mon, 2011-06-06 at 12:00 +0100, Liam Proven wrote:

> Ah right. That's not a notebook - that's an iPad, which is a tablet or
> slate computer.

Yup, when I asked him that is what he said it was. 

> Different type of device; notebook PCs have a keyboard and have a
> hinge along one edge so that they open like a book to reveal screen on
> one side and the keyboard on the other.
> 
> "Notebooks" are the modern name for what used to be called "laptops",
> for 2 reasons: [1] because they're smaller than the big old devices
> that needed a whole lap, approximately A4 in size; and [2] because in
> many cases, modern ones run so hot that if you actually used it on
> your lap, you'd burn yourself.
> 
> Anyway, your friend is right, there is no accessible CLI on an iPad.
> No Terminal, no nothing. But although they are running the same core
> OS as the Mac, the iPad runs "iOS", what used to be called "OS X" as
> opposed to "Mac OS X". Big difference, which is why they've renamed
> it.

It's the Ultimate Mom's Machine. 

> iOS does still have a CLI in there, but as you were told, you'd have
> to jailbreak it and install either a terminal program or an ssh daemon
> and connect to it remotely over Wifi.

He opened the App Store and searched on "terminal". Plenty of ssh
terminals, but no system terminal. I can see the utility of keeping Joe
Lunchbucket out of the system, so his device continues to work without
doing stupid user pet tricks that clog up their user support system. It
would save them a fortune. I foresee an Ubuntu fork in that direction,
just for such users and pointy haired bosses. Ric

-- 
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"There are two Great Sins in the world...
..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity.
Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad.
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