It's funny you guys bitch and bitch about apple locking down there phones. When was the last problem like this with iOS devices. I know jailbroken iphones/ipods with ssh enabled an the default alpine pass at one time got caught in a worm that would simply rickroll your iphone basicly. Open platform means you are hoping the people who made your software are nice. What the last ios problem was a developer hacking in a script to let your volume buttons take pictures. ;) Alot better then a 3000 dollar cellphone bill

Jailbreak the iphone
add
http://cydia.xsellize.com/ to cydia
Install "MyWi" in the Xapps group
1. Turn on
2. Make network
3. Open/WEP encrypted wifi network which shares your internet. It's perfect. Not only can you tether to one device you can tether to anyone around you with the key (or keep the network open) great for roadtrips if someone has an ipod touch or a netbook.

The bliping and blaping you get from the iphone can be solved by turning on 3G for the most part. If I leave my phone on edge it beeps and blips everything near by but a SB settings toggle to use 3G does decrease the battery life but stops this blip blap.

This comment makes it sound to me like you never used PCs before the mid-90s. Before PnP, you had to set jumpers on your ISA/EISA cards. Then you had to manually configure all the I/O base addresses, IRQs, DMA channels, etc. for the hardware in your system, based on what each device was capable of using, and you had to make sure devices didn't conflict with each other.

So no, PnP is not a marketing buzzword at all. It was a completely new way of setting up hardware, and having it detected and configured automatically.

Having to install drivers has nothing to do with whether or not something is PnP. All hardware needs drivers, whether they are built into the kernel, shipped with the OS, on a disc, or online. This applies to Windows as well as Linux.

Uh, Windows 2000 definitely had plug-and-play.

The only issue with that is after like 10km or so away from the tower it will actually REJECT your data packets. Even if you have like a -90 or -80 signal. GSM won't allow you to have data. CDMA on the other hand I believe will. Keep that in mind if you plan on using a large antenna/booster.

One day walking into the local Futureshop (Best Buy for Canadians) I saw a cool deal on a "Readyboost" enabled 2gb Flash drive. The drive had a big readyboost logo and boasted on how good it was for such task. Setting up vista I put the drive in and enabled it for readyboost. In one day that thing will transfer about 250-300gb (that's combined) so about 100-200gb write in 24 hours.

This thing has been working for 3 months. Every time I come into the room all I see is the flash drive blinking away. So lets put out some rough math. (Oh the drive is at full capacity with the readyboost stuff) so the ablity to just keep writing to unused places doesn't work.

I'll use write for fun ... and a nice low number 150gb of write
150x31=4650 ... so give or take 4650gb of write to that flash in one month. It's on month 3 of operation. Hammer some torrents or other I/O intensive stuff and the thing writes even more. I used a cool readyboost monitor I found on the internet to monitor all this. Check it out ... I also found that the readyboost kinda slowed things down cause once in awhile you have to wait for it to do it's thing before it does what you want. Maybe it's just my machine being slow but I noticed no improvement.