[ale] OT: phone tethering is awesome!

[Michael Trausch]

On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 10:32 -0400, Jim Philips wrote:
> My DSL modem died yesterday. Then I remembered I'm running CyanogenMod
> 5.0 on my Android phone. So, I just enabled tethering and plugged the
> phone into the USB jack on my computer. I rebooted and that sucker
> took off! The open source hacking community is a wonderful thing!

Yes, it is.  And yes, phone tethering is absolutely awesome.  When
you're in the middle of nowhere and all you have is EDGE, but you _need_
to do something with your computer online, it's an amazing thing to
have.

Just keep in mind that it _is_ against many agreements to use the phone
as an Internet gateway unless you pay them for separate service for your
computer.  I only tether when I absolutely must, for that reason
(besides, it is probably pretty obvious when I have to tether; it's not
like I run bzr on my phone).

	--- Mike

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