Some portable antispyware

OliverKWe've never said it can't be done. We just don't have the time. I spent two hours working on the review of Eclipse Portable. Now, I'm not trying to be proud, but if I spend two hours just picking something apart to make sure that its good, how much more time do you think that it would take to write the actual program?

Launcher, you mean? The program is already written. Spybot, I mean, though Malwarebytes works as well. Even if we're not including freeware, those live launchers can automagically download freeware. So it's just a launcher. That said, I don't underestimate or underappreciate the work people put into any program or launcher. Still, I've made a couple launchers, just for personal use. Didn't check them with Regshot though, or mess with directory redirection to get the settings and savegames (NetHack) in the \Data folder, so it's a long way from release-ready.

OliverKI'm sure John's done plenty of the bow shots. But its very hard to take anyone's internet existence away.

I know he has, to the point of frustration and possibly resignation. I was just messing with it the other day when I hit a brick wall. In the case of copyright infringement, service providers (Tinypic and Blogger both) only want to hear from the copyright owners, not the peanut gallery. He can't have the Blogger site taken down; that has to be attacked by the companies whose programs are up there. Adobe and Mozilla, for starters.

OliverKAnd I doubt John's bored.

Honestly, please just stop mentioning "The Site that Shall not Be Named". Your basically just naming it anyway. Your just using a euphemism. And it doesn't help, and is honestly kind of insulting. John's Quality Control is very strict. And as such, this site has the well deserved reputation for clean, reliable, safe releases.

First, I never meant to be insulting. Let's be real, though. The PAF format is described as free and open. It's not a closed format. People we don't like are going to use it. It's insulting that the biggest producer of PAF-format portable apps releases non-commercial freeware and payware alongside open source software, yes, and I was using a euphemism, but a well-chosen one. I'm sure you recognize the Harry Potter reference. Everyone but Potter and his friends in Rowling's England are afraid to call Voldemort by name, like saying his name gives him power, but the opposite is the truth. For better or worse, that site is there, and pretending it doesn't exist doesn't hurt it, but making such a big deal about it will only drive more people to seek it out. Now, if there's an official rule ever put in place, I will of course abide by it -- my first policy in posting in Internet forums is to respect the owner/admin/whomever. Else, I leave. And I very much respect JTH & co. I have no respect for the people who run that other site -- they stole this site's logo, they imply affiliation when none exists, and they offer pirated software alongside freeware. (However, it should also be noted that they've added a nice little update check to their launchers that this site does not do. If you start an app and their site has an update for that program, it tells you and asks if you want to update; clicking Yes takes you right to the new version.)

OliverKThis site has everything I need. Why in the world would I go anywhere else.

Because you are using a PC, not an Xbox 360 or a Nintendo DS. Using a PC, you're not locked into one vendor. Again, PAF is an open format. Ideally we all want PAF, as a format, to be picked up by a lot of vendors, don't we? And PAF itself isn't the only way to run apps portably, it's just the cleanest, and it's a good uniform format. Additionally, as you have stated, John's one of the only ones releasing apps. I don't agree -- I see others' names on a lot of releases lately -- but he does do the format and the platform, so I'll certainly agree he's got his hands full.

OliverKAs a totally unrelated rabbit trail, thank God for HTML codes.

You type them manually? Thank God for Firefox and the BBCode extension, with its custom tags. For each quote I copy the text I want to quote to the clipboard, right click, go to BBCode > Custom Tags > PA.c Quote, and it bundles the copied text in the blockquote with the empty cite tag. I type in the name -- in this case, yours -- manually. I could do another custom tag for Cite, but when I copy the name -- again, e.g. yours -- the URL to your member profile gets copied to the clipboard, not the text of the username. So it's easier to type that. Yay for shortcuts, and that's what being a Windows user is all about, finding the fastest and easiest way to get something done.