[thelist] Accessing the internet temporarily in the US

[Matthew Mullenweg]

I'm also not an AOL fan, but that is probably the easiest solution.
Another nice way I've found to get free access is at Kinko's. They
charge if you use their computers, but every one I've been to lets you
plug in your laptop to their Ethernet hookup and go. The official use of
this is to print things directly from your laptop, but more often then
not they just don't care.

A more underground option would be wireless. In most major cities you
can pick up a 802.11b network every few blocks, depending on the
neighborhood. While there is some questionable legality in 'stealthing'
it can be convinent in a pinch. Also most larger cities have freenet
groups that have set up public nodes in a number of public areas. You
can find their sites (the lazy way) by just typing in
www.[city]wireless.net. Try it with Seattle, Austin, Houston... (Houston
is .org, but oh well.)

-Matt
<tip author="Matthew Mullenweg" subject="programming">
When doing logical statements, try putting the constant on the left, for
example:
if (2 == $num) {
	do stuff
}
It's a very small thing that I've found prevents those small
typographical errors (that are a pain to find) when I'm pounding out
lines and lines of PHP. Even if it saves just one error, it's that much
saved time for none spent.
</tip>

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> On Behalf Of Douglas Rehg
> Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 1:29 PM
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> Subject: Re: [thelist] Accessing the internet temporarily in the US
>
> Not that I am an AOL fan, but their current promotion is something
like
> 1000 hours free for the first month.  Dial up all over the US, and you
> don't have to use the native AOL interface once you get logged
> online....just log on, minimize the AOL window and launch IE.
>
> At 12:02 AM 2/20/2002 +0700, you wrote:
> >My client is planning to fly around the world and wants to be able to
> >have internet access via his laptop to update the text on his forth
> >coming site.
> >
> >I told him to set up international roaming with his isp, but he would
> >like to know if there are any other options.
> >
> >Here in Thailand if you don't have an isp account you can buy cd's
with
> >say 20 hours of internet access time on them from a local isp. Is
there
> >anything similar in the US? Or any other options he can use?
> >
> >Thanks
> >
> >Lisa.
> >
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