airplane battery saving mode

[Albert]

Hi all,

I'm planning an overseas trip which will last over 11 hours, and I will need 
the computer to write and read code while on flight. Since 2 batteries will 
span to a max of 8 hours total doing such low-energy consumption tasks, I 
wonder how can I make kubuntu behave along, and make the batteries really 
last for 8 hours total. (I'm already taking an hout our of each battery, 
because manufacturer's battery benchmarks are bullshit).

What I need is a run mode that has ZERO services (no convinience daemons 
whatsoever, no media, no automatic nothing) and also ZERO cron jobs. I don't 
want the updatedb to run for several minutes with a 'nice' of 10.

So I would appreciate if someone could point to docs on how to create such a 
boot mode, and/or straighforward examples. I am aware of some discussions 
here comparing debian and ubuntu, which implied one can create such run modes 
at will.

Thanks for any help.

Albert

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