Plantagenet Penguinista

Tethering one’s Nokia E5 to take advantage of the 4GB of Internet traffic included in AmaySIM’s $39.90 plan (for 30 days) is quite simple, once all of the knowledge is in place. Switch your phone to “PC Suite” mode... Press [Menu] Select [Ctrl. Panel] Select [Settings] Select [Connection] Select [USB] Select [PC Suite] Select [OK] Select [Back] until Menu closes ...at which point a serial device appears when you plug it into your PC (in this case, a laptop running Natty Narhal Kubuntu) at /dev/ttyACM0 . Now follow AmaySIM’s instructions: Press [Menu] Select [Ctrl. Panel] Select [Settings] Select [Connection] Select [Destinations] Select [Access point] Press [No] Select [Packet data] Enter amaysim Internet and press [OK] Select [Internet] as the destination Select [Internet] Highlight [Optus Internet], press [Options] and select [Edit] Ensure Data bearer is set to [Packet Data] Select [Access point name] Enter or change to internet and press [OK] User name

Problem: download a stack of MP3 files listed in a web page. Solution: SaveAs the web page (as music.html ) then... for x in $(gawk '-F"' '/\.mp3"/ { print $10; }' music.html); do wget -c $x done Hit the Enter key, wait about 3 minutes, all finished. Yay! Software as a toy!