Tablet Computing

So this is completely unrelated, to fixing anything with Linux, as I am having an almost impossible time even figuring out how to create images for the thing, but I recently introduced myself to tablet computing. An interesting beast to say the least. I purchased an ASUS Eee Pad Transformer TFT101 from Tiger Direct, and it has been interesting to say the least, I have bricked the thing at least twice, and am now leaving it alone, unrooted, unfooled with, after having recieved the newest update from Android moving it to v4.0 ICS. If you have bricked your device, or you just want it back the way it was, head here. A few things that I did not know:
a) Android is a flavor of Linux
b) Due to this fact you can install Linux (arm architecture only) onto a phone or tablet in a chrooted environment, and piggy back off of the kernel running on your phone. If you want to install it on your Transformer if works a little differently, for information on that topic see: this page If there is a call for it I will post a tutorial on how to install Debian on a phone. I had issues with it, small screen, needed a stylus, soft keyboard was a pain in the keister, etc.


So, what do I need a tablet for? I have no idea really. I was thinking that it might be an interesting and paperless way to take notes in class, but so far I have not found a stylus with a point small enough to make that a feasible option. Right now this thing is a coffee table amusement for playing angry birds, and letting my kids draw on. After rooting it and installing ssh it did make a nice way to control my servers from any room in the house, mounting NFS shares and using it to watch video would be kind of cool too, but VLC for Android is still in development. It also does work pretty well as a reading application, I have a number of books on PDF, living on another home server, and using the tablet to download them and read while following along on my laptop is sometimes easier than displaying the pdf on my main machine, or laptop... However, all of this Android bandwagon nonsense did get me thinking, and researching, and I found out that Google has included a scripting layer for perl and python. As such, I thought that a tutorial on controlling one's phone with perl might make an interesting post, so look for it soon. Hopefully it will be more coherent than this one.