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Howdy! This is my (William Reading's) webpage. At the moment, I only have this blog script and my gallery up, but I hope to get more stuff on this page at some point, or so I thought when I created this site years ago. Updates and shiny new copy to eventually go here. If you'd like to contact me to point out that I've done something to break XHTML/CSS standards or heaven forbid--look at my Vita--drop me a line at my e-mail address bill +spam @ [ELEPHANT] aggienerds.org. Simply remove "+spam", the spaces and the pachyderm along with its brackets and that address will reach me. I'm also available on Jabber/GChat/AIM/MSN with the same address above.

So when I got to Belgium and signed up with BASE for internet, I was happy to see that it was fairly easy to get working on my iPhone. However, I was saddened to see that I couldn’t get any of the pre-existing .mobileconfig profiles working for tethering, especially considering that I didn’t want to have to take out my SIM card every time I wanted to get online and that my hotel charges an arm and a leg for data. After reading Bart Jansen’s Mobistar iPhone Tethering article, I changed a few values in his file and now I have BASE Tethering .mobileconfig. A few caveats: I don’t actually know what the type-mask values do, but they’re apparently related to MMS and tethering. Second caveat is that I didn’t bother to experiment with changing the UUIDs in the file, since I don’t know if they refer to what the payload is supposed to do or uniquely identify the file. This means that if you have Bart’s .mobileconfig installed, bad things may happen.