Cybercafè Travel Kit?

Posted by Cliff on Friday June 27, 2003 @12:35PM from the for-the-nomads-among-us dept.

Xthlc asks: "I've been traveling in Europe this summer, and wanted to share photos and a journal with my friends and family as I went along. A laptop was out of the question, since I'm backpacking in some areas where the risk of loss is too great. So I'm limited to cybercafès. I thought I had everything I needed: a digital camera, a USB CF card reader, a universal AC adapter to recharge the camera, and a MovableType installation back home. However, I'm discovering that, in fact, there were a lot of things I forgot: a software CD with drivers and image editing programs, a cybercafè directory that lists things like prices and features, and a dictionary that has the Catalonian word for 'download'. So, for those experienced readers who weblog: what's your ultimate cybercafè survival kit? If you actually travel with a laptop, how do you deal with overseas connectivity? Also, where the heck do you find time to actually SEE stuff instead of just writing about it in your weblog?"

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If You're In the Back Country by Inexile2002 · 2003-06-27 15:43 · Score: 4, Interesting

I was in South America and because I knew I had to fix a relative's computer, I brought my tool kit, a bunch of CDs with drivers on them (including a couple of OSes incase I needed to do a complete install). Later on I was in a Cyber Cafe in a tiny cafe two hours from no where. They had a broken computer and I offered to fix it. After success (some moron had installed some prgram that f@#ked it up), I had free internet access, free food and much gratitude.

IF you know what the hell you're doing, IF you're not worried about travel weight (I was in a jeep) and IF you don't mind blowing off afternoons of your travel time fixing computers you can really help out the locals, make friends and mooch a little.