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The Lounge What is on Your Mind? Do You Use Your Mobile Phone to Access the Internet? Post 302301998 by bakunin on Sunday 29th of March 2009 05:43:32 PM
Old 03-29-2009
I do not use my cell phone for Internet access. One reason is that i shun cell phones anyways. We have a proverb in german, translated it is "one who is always available is part of the domestic staff" (Wer immer erreichbar ist, gehört zum Personal.). IMHO there is simply no reason to be available and contactable 24 hours per day. We had no cell phones 15 years ago and earth was still revolving even despite this appalling shortcoming.

A second reason is the exorbitant rates the cell phone companies charge for internet access. I simply am not willing to pay another 30-40$ per month for something i have for free in the office and for 5$/month at home. I can live with being offline for the time it takes to commute to the office and back.

bakunin
 

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wammu

wammu(1)						      General Commands Manual							  wammu(1)

NAME

       wammu - program for managing entries in your mobile phone

SYNOPSIS

       wammu [options]

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page explains the wammu program. This program is graphical interface for gammu.

OPTIONS

       These  programs	follow	the  usual  GNU  command  line	syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-').  A summary of options is
       included below.

       -h, --help
	      Show summary of options.

       -v, --version
	      Show version of program.

       -l, --local-locales
	      Use locales from current directory rather than system ones. This is mostly useful for development or when running from unpacked tar-
	      ball without installation.

       -i, --info
	      Prints connection settings and tries to connect the phone and display some basic information about it. This does not use GUI.

       -d, --debug
	      Enables printing of debug information to stderr. Work for both GUI and --info.

LICENSE

       This program is licensed under GNU/GPL version 2.

REPORTING BUGS

       There are definitely many bugs, reporting to author is welcome. Please include some useful information when sending bug reports (eg. excep-
       tion you received and debug output). Please submit your reports to <http://bugs.wammu.eu/>.

SEE ALSO

       More information is available on program website: <http://wammu.eu/>.

       gammu(1)

       wammu-configure(1)

AUTHOR

       Michal Cihar <michal@cihar.com>

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2003 - 2008 Michal Cihar <michal@cihar.com>

Mobile phone manager						    2005-01-24								  wammu(1)
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