[_b8r0]

> I have seen iPods, but can you ssh in an iPod?

If you jailbreak it you can. Here's[1] a one page how-to long guide.

> I have seen media centers, but can you bulk rename files or script it?

Of course, providing you're using something like XBMC. For renaming you don't even need to script, there's friendly programs[2] out there if you want.

> Now with my raspberry I finally got my dream for real, and I can even ssh to it from my phone when I'm away.

I'm glad you're enjoying your Pi, but the argument about it being possible to do with other setups is just as valid. You can SSH to almost anything that'll run SSH from your phone.

[1] - http://guides.macrumors.com/SSH_into_your_iPod_touch_(Window...

[2] - http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Category:Rename_tools

[gbog]

I didn't made myself clear enough. I know I can ssh to an iPod, and to my Android phone, but I don't own anything there, I cannot install vim with the few plugins I like, I cannot install and use unison to sync files. In also sshed to a printer, but what can you do there?

[_b8r0]

I'm sorry but you keep saying that you can't do things that are eminently possible.

You can install vim and unison on an iPod. If you jailbreak an iPod you can get a full compile stack from cydia.

As for a printer, that's not what we were talking about. You seem to have made an apples (no pun intended) to oranges argument. Of course you're subject to the limitations of whatever OS you're dealing with. Printers that provide SSH access do so to allow you to securely administrate the printer, not to run vim. That's not to say that you can't run vim on a CUPS print server box and do what you want that way.