On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 03:11:51PM +1000, Andrew Cowie wrote: > On Thu, 2004-30-09 at 12:32 +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: > > Would it have sufficient power, internet access, and beer? > > And you have these things when driving in your car? Someone should call > the police!
No, but I'm trying to work out whether it's going to be more fun to sit and hack quietly, or do the nicely twisty roads between BB and Queanbeyan at absurdly entertaining speeds on my motorbike. > To answer your questions: > > no power (but that's what laptop_mode & software suspend are for, yo), I have a rooted lapdog battery and new ones are, well, "criminally expensive" is being nice. > no net access Thank ghod for Arch's disconnected operation, then... <g> > maybe (there's a cafe on board, not sure if they serve booze). I would doubt it. We'll just have to bring our own... <G> > With more than a 14 day advance booking, you can usually get a 50% > discount from CountryLink. Cheap! - Matt -- "All I care about [a linux distro] is it detect my hardware (non-Debian strengths), and teach me to fish instead of just giving me a smelly old fish (most people 'xcept Debian), and I guess don't just give me a fish biology textbook (gentoo)." -- Tom (in d-devel)
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