Quick Tip For Roadwarriors
I’m not quite a Bedouins yet. My main computer is still a desktop where I do my work every day.
My laptop (IBM T60 if anyone is interested) is always on and it’s the computer that gets my crayon e-mail as it’s default.
When I go on the road I’m always worried I’m not going to have something that I need. So, a little something that I’ve learned that helps is the day before I leave I only work on the laptop. That way if I realize I don’t have something I can just go grab it off the desktop BEFORE I’m hundred of miles away from it.
This has saved me numerous headaches from a hotel room somewhere in the world. I figured it would be worth sharing with everyone.
April 4th, 2007 at 10:09 am |
CC, have you considered getting some sort of remote desktop solution, like GoToMyPC or something like that? That way, as long as you have internet access, you can get to anything you might’ve left behind, and then you don’t need to stress the day before a trip that you forgot to put something onto your laptop. I’m sure packing the non-digital stuff is stressful enough, right?
April 4th, 2007 at 1:24 pm |
This is one of the reasons why my laptop is my new desktop. I was always forgetting something when I carried the laptop with me. Now I just carry everything with me and when I need something, it’s there.
It also teaches efficiency, since 160-200 GB is the top size of laptop drives, you start learning to carry what you need and archiving the fluff off externally when you are at “home base”.
April 4th, 2007 at 2:07 pm |
Another option, if you will have access to the net at the other end, is to use a home FTP server with access to your home network drives. My home router has a built in hard drive where we store all our shared files, and an FTP server built in too. Saved me a few times. Getting net access once at your destination is the issue though, at least it is in Australia.