Tom Morris

Solve my GPRS problems and win useless stuff

I wonder if anyone can help me. I’m trying to connect to the Internet over GPRS with my Sony Ericsson W810i mobile on my MacBook Pro. I generally prefer to use the USB connection cable that comes with my phone, rather than using Bluetooth - both for data security and because it means less power usage (in my experience, it is also marginally more reliable in terms of disconnect speed - when I tell it to disconnect via USB, it generally does it quicker than over Bluetooth). I can’t seem to connect via USB though. Here are the settings as I’ve got them:

System Preferences ‘Network’ panel - under Bluetooth, I’ve got “Orange” as my username and “Multimedia” as the password (as is listed here). There is no Telephone number listed, but if you click ‘Advanced’ it’s got Vendor set to Sony Ericsson, Model set to GPRS (GSM/3G), APN set to “orangeinternet” and the CID is set to 1.

The panel for Sony Ericsson W810 is set for exactly the same settings. I’ve tried all ten of the possible CID values, and I’ve tried putting the APN setting into the phone number field.

This worked on my Mac the last time I used it (before the hard drive failed), but isn’t working now. Suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Reward for successful instructions: ten million ISK (EVE Online) or an invite to a “Web 2.0” site of your choice (Github or Jaiku or anything else I’ve got invites for).

Adam Tinworth is right on about the Lacy/Zuckerberg affair. Still, it’s just one sucky session at what looks like an otherwise excellent conference (which is very much the exception - most conferences suck, remember).

Oliver Gendrin has started translating the FOAF specification into French. Here’s the RDF/XML (hint: view source in Firefox). This is one of the great things about the additive data model of RDF - because anyone can say anything about any resource, things like i18n become quite easy to do. If you are using FOAF you can pull in both the OWL from the FOAF specification, and the French version, and… that’s it. Of course, it’s even easier if the maintainer of the original resource adds the French translation.