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« on: December 26, 2006, 06:38:29 pm »
We (ok the company where I work) just got one of these beauties.

To my surprise - it runs on Qtopia.  As soon as the new wears off a little and it has fingerprints from all the other network geeks in the shop - I'll dig into it a little and get specifics.  All I know so far is the screen is about 4 times as big as my 6k and the wireless features beat the crap out of kismet...  Haven't seen it on copper or fiber - yet.  

It does still have the calendar app, most of the "control panel" type apps, a linux console and a version of Konqerer on board.  Came with a USB keyboard too.  

A little pricey for a PDA though at roughly 18k - USD.
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« Reply #1 on: December 27, 2006, 07:43:01 pm »
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We (ok the company where I work) just got one of these beauties.

To my surprise - it runs on Qtopia.  As soon as the new wears off a little and it has fingerprints from all the other network geeks in the shop - I'll dig into it a little and get specifics.  All I know so far is the screen is about 4 times as big as my 6k and the wireless features beat the crap out of kismet...  Haven't seen it on copper or fiber - yet. 

It does still have the calendar app, most of the "control panel" type apps, a linux console and a version of Konqerer on board.  Came with a USB keyboard too. 

A little pricey for a PDA though at roughly 18k - USD.
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I've seen them on eBay for a couple grand.  They had a smaller hand held unit for a while as well.
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« Reply #2 on: December 28, 2006, 07:44:23 am »
hmm, just under US$3k:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Fluke-EtherScope-ES-...VQQcmdZViewItem

the screenshot clearly shows the qtopia desktop:
http://i5.ebayimg.com/04/i/07/ff/99/28_1.JPG
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« Reply #3 on: December 28, 2006, 03:38:24 pm »
I should clarify - I work for a large corporate IT shop so the unit was purchased new with all of the attachments.  For example the fiber testing / cert attachments were several thousand by themselves...  Interesting especially to me since I have used my 6k quite a lot for wireless testing and network sniffing.

Still 3k on ebay is too much for a pda - or even a tricked out laptop IMHO.

Damn nice network tool though.  Glad to see a large company like Fluke using QT - you think we could get them to put out a sub $1k "geeks pda" with some extra network tools...
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« Reply #4 on: December 29, 2006, 03:32:24 am »
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I should clarify - I work for a large corporate IT shop so the unit was purchased new with all of the attachments.  For example the fiber testing / cert attachments were several thousand by themselves...  Interesting especially to me since I have used my 6k quite a lot for wireless testing and network sniffing.

Still 3k on ebay is too much for a pda - or even a tricked out laptop IMHO.

Damn nice network tool though.  Glad to see a large company like Fluke using QT - you think we could get them to put out a sub $1k "geeks pda" with some extra network tools...
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I carry my Z for hunting down rogue access points in the schools.  I also carry a link runner for quick copper tests.  I don't mess with the fiber connections.  Closest I get to the stuff is pulling cable if I am short on computers to fix.
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« Reply #5 on: December 30, 2006, 09:21:46 am »
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I should clarify - I work for a large corporate IT shop so the unit was purchased new with all of the attachments.  For example the fiber testing / cert attachments were several thousand by themselves...  Interesting especially to me since I have used my 6k quite a lot for wireless testing and network sniffing.

Still 3k on ebay is too much for a pda - or even a tricked out laptop IMHO.

Damn nice network tool though.  Glad to see a large company like Fluke using QT - you think we could get them to put out a sub $1k "geeks pda" with some extra network tools...
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I think Fluke are too business oriented to want to bother with consumer products (even if the customers are "expert" users)... the only thing they might consider is selling a bare-bones version which could be used as a zaurus replacement.

Do they release any of the software under GPL, as that's more int


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Can you run a shell on the fluke and see what "uname -a" tells us? And also see if you can't get sshd enabled so you can connect to it?
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