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, becau=
se that's possibly the best time to start trying for karma (I'm writing o=
n an iPad right now) because I'm on vacation with one side of my family b=
ut in about a week I'll be heading out to Puerto Rico to board a cruise s=
hip and I'm a bit sad Internet is like $0.50 a minute. I can do some of t=
he basic stuff, but you know it's an iPad, and sometimes carrying a lapto=
p around with you if not at a developer conference or similar event can b=
e 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 tr=
ust with them is low due to past experience (go study up on some regulati=
ons etc., before flight because there may be fight beforehand, they are k=
inda 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 hard=
ware, and if you know anything about that, you can do bad things with acc=
ess to the physical hardware.
Note that git is wonderful for offline working. You can clone php-gtk,=20
and any other project you may need (glib, cairo...) and work=20
disconnected for a month,* then merge your changes.
You will need a laptop, though. You could take an image of your laptop=20
(leave that at home), then format it and reinstall with a crypted=20
filesystem (LUKS), so no data can extracted unless you provide the=20
password at boot (however there's the "$5 wrench attack"). I'm not sure=20
if you are concerned about the TSA messsing with your hardware, either.

* Most likely, you will realise you miss many dependencies at the=20
beginning, so I don't recommend not using it until you're in the ocean.