RE: [PHP-GTK-DEV] Agreed - KARMA By Mid-July Explanation

I cannot take my laptop with me; family members get agrivated though I want to. > Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2015 00:21:17 +0200 > From: keisial@gmail.com > To: php-gtk-dev@lists.php.net > Subject: Re: [PHP-GTK-DEV] Agreed - KARMA By Mid-July Explanation > > Gage Morgan wrote: > > Here in about a week I'll be out in the middle of the Carribean without Internet on a > > cruise ship, so I'm just putting that out there. (...) Now we're kickstarting, and I > > cannot wait for about halfway into July, because that's possibly the best time to start trying > > for karma (I'm writing on an iPad right now) because I'm on vacation with one side of my > > family but in about a week I'll be heading out to Puerto Rico to board a cruise ship and > > I'm a bit sad Internet is like $0.50 a minute. I can do some of the basic stuff, but you know > > it's an iPad, and sometimes carrying a laptop around with you if not at a developer conference > > or similar event can be a risk. I've taken it to WordCamp, but I'm in a cabin in the woods > > for about a week. Then there's the TSA that we have to worry about, and my trust with them is > > low due to past experience (go study up on some regulations etc., before flight because there may be > > fight beforehand, they are kinda snoopy) and a $500 laptop that works great for $500. I would take > > it but I have other developer projeccts on there that I don't want someone else to have, and > > it's running on Ubuntu, which is Linux on physical hardware, and if you know anything about > > that, you can do bad things with access to the physical hardware. > Note that git is wonderful for offline working. You can clone php-gtk, > and any other project you may need (glib, cairo...) and work > disconnected for a month,* then merge your changes. > You will need a laptop, though. You could take an image of your laptop > (leave that at home), then format it and reinstall with a crypted > filesystem (LUKS), so no data can extracted unless you provide the > password at boot (however there's the "$5 wrench attack"). I'm not sure > if you are concerned about the TSA messsing with your hardware, either. > > * Most likely, you will realise you miss many dependencies at the > beginning, so I don't recommend not using it until you're in the ocean. > > > > -- > PHP-GTK Development Mailing List (http://gtk.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >