Unfortunately, my father was attending the conference and I was not, and therefore I did not get to hear the one speaker who analysed all 2500 computers from this little trial you may know of called the Bernie Maydoff trial. In fourteen days. And within two days, he had enough evidence to convict. I did, however, get to see R2D2, my personal counterpart.
On this trip, I also discovered that, despite staying at a resort, wireless internet is not free. My first thought was "well, I'll use another network that isn't the hotel's." Brilliant idea? Nope. My second thought was "GOGO GADGET: iPHONE!" I was going to tether. I was going to iPwn the shit out of paying for internet (pardon the pun).
The Challenge: Tether iPhone to MacBook WITHOUT jailbreaking.
It took two days and almost three hours of trial and error, and I ended up with...error. My first method of action was to update the carrier settings on my phone from my laptop, which would allow tethering. I went around the beach with a flash drive in my pocket, aiming to gather the carrier files at the business centre. In a brilliant fail of thriftiness, the hotel charged for business centre access as well as wireless. After eventually commandeering the files from a Starbucks, I tried to update my phone.
Thanks, Apple, for updating iTunes and OS 3.0.1 so that I can't get those files onto my phone.
So then I tried installing two profiles that would supposedly allow internet tethering. I'll spare you the details, but after about three hours I went to bed with a low battery and a high level of frustration.
The next day, my father came back to the room from his lectures. The last one had been Computer Forensics On A Mac. In the Q&A session at the end, one patron asked about internet tethering.
Turns out it's AT&T's fault. No tethering of the iPhone currently works.
So OTHER than checking to see if something will work BEFORE delving into problem-solving, I maintain one statement as an absolute moral opinion:
I refuse to pay for wireless internet at a place where I am paying for a good or service. I will use my phone. I will proxy around it (also unsuccessful, by the way). I will tether (if that ever gets back to working). Who's with me?
Stand strong for what you believe, folks.
With you all the way. A large chunk of my life, actually, has been based on acquiring free internet access when people tried to prevent me from doing so. Like at home, when they took the broadband modem to bed with them every night (secretly acquire wireless card from friend, take laptop to left side of house, mooch off neighbors' wifi that my parents didn't know I could pick up). And in high school, where I was fortunate enough to know somebody with the password to the wifi, which students are not supposed to use. So...I commend you for your valiant efforts? Too bad it didn't work. At least you found out why.
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