I recommend you leave your home PC on and connect to it via your laptop using logmein (www.logmein.com) - ever since I started using logmein on the recommendation of someone on this forum, life has become so much easier when I'm away from base.
By remote-accessing your home PC you don't need to worry about how many meg you are chewing up on your roaming internet access, plus there isn't the hassle of transferring actinic and the snapshot over to your laptop.
I've tried transferring over a snapshot and running actinic off my laptop in countries where I've had free internet in the hotel, and all I can say is - don't do it >_< There's nothing more frustrating than finding out that the upload is repeatedly timing out because of the slightly bodgy net connection, even worse when it stuffs up halfway during something critical and the whole website crashes and you have to call back home in the middle of the night to get someone to restore it from an old snapshot. Most bodgy net connects can at least handle running logmein, and then you can rely on the known quantity of your net connection at home to handle the upload.
By remote-accessing your home PC you don't need to worry about how many meg you are chewing up on your roaming internet access, plus there isn't the hassle of transferring actinic and the snapshot over to your laptop.
I've tried transferring over a snapshot and running actinic off my laptop in countries where I've had free internet in the hotel, and all I can say is - don't do it >_< There's nothing more frustrating than finding out that the upload is repeatedly timing out because of the slightly bodgy net connection, even worse when it stuffs up halfway during something critical and the whole website crashes and you have to call back home in the middle of the night to get someone to restore it from an old snapshot. Most bodgy net connects can at least handle running logmein, and then you can rely on the known quantity of your net connection at home to handle the upload.
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