I really want to know how you use this? Like, do you just transfer stuff from Computer to Computer or can you use all of the apps from your media, eg Firefox?
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I think I get it - I just carry them from place to place for use on another computer, right? Or am I misunderstanding the concept?
You take your apps and your settings and your data on your USB drive. And the apps are set up in a way that they will run from the USB drive, and store all their settings and data there, so it stays that way.
But how does that Mac 7 OS portable app work?
That one is slightly different because it's not just an app, it's an OS.
You boot the computer from the USB, and run every thing from it. And all it's settings, both for the operating system and for the apps running on top of it get stored in the USB. It never touches the computer's disk.
If you're interested in that kind of thing, there are also many Linux distributions that can work like that, from a USB or from a CD (storing settings to a diskette, a USB or a server). Two particularly famous ones are Knoppix and Ubuntu. You can Google for them, or just for "Live CD" or "Mini distributions"
...you can just go here:
distrowatch.com
and feast on Live Linux CDs (all Linux flavors are on the menu) to your heart's content.
Bon appetit!.
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hhmmm... I think a "Linux on a Stick" (damn small linux?) should be added to the Apps section...
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Does an operating system count as an application?
I mean, even if it is portable, it's not an application software; it's something working at a lower level, providing support for applications...
Then again, a Linux distro is operating system kernel + several layers + tons of apps so perhaps... And there's a Mac OS so why not also Linux...?
Still: Nothing against Linux; I love it. But it looks to me like this site was created with something else in mind, never mind if the definition wasn't written in such a lawyer-ish watertight way as to exclude them... Just a thought.
Yeah, an OS counts as "an app and a half" (if you catch our drift)...
"I don't hate cats...as long as they stay on the freeway, where they belong."
- Brad Stine
In that case, you'll probably want to follow closely this site where they have "three" apps in Beta: PortableSlax and PortableDSL.
They are using Qemu (sort of open source equivalent of VMWare) to make them run on Windows. So it's Virtual Machine, plus OS, plus apps... mmmmm... I will have to revise my figures...
Edit: it's in French with some English translation, but their starting point seems to be French. I don't know if that's a pro or a con with you, but you have been Wagned!
An interesting site you linked to, http://www.framakey.org/En/. I don't see the portable Linux apps though. Can you provide a more direct link?
A similar idea is the Portable Virtual Privacy machine. http://www.metropipe.net/pvpm.php It uses QEMU and DSL but the concept should be able to be applied to any Live Linux ISO.
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I'm afraid I can't find them either in the English section.
If you just hit the link the link I posted before, the list of apps is right on that page. Scroll down, you should be able to tell them from their logos.
But sadly both have the red little text, that says to read the note at the beginning of the page: their still beta, hence un-released, and you need a password.
I guess if you write to them saying you want to Beta-test them they won't have a problem...
If you cannot read french fluently use this site to translate the web page. (click free web translator)
-Ummm...
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IRC: It brings out the best in all of us...Especially when tired.
...is definitely a "con" for me...
"If you can't say anything nice...
about a third-rate European country who would've been wiped off the map twice in the last 100 years if not for the United States, and whose only contributions to the culture are wine and cheese - both of which are made better in California -
...then don't say anything at all. And I live by that..."
-Brad Stine
"I don't hate cats...as long as they stay on the freeway, where they belong."
- Brad Stine
But now that I think about it... I've heard similarly biased things about the red skins, and about the limeys, about the latinos, and even about the yankees!!! So I guess it's OK.
I also read some very interesting stuff like that about jews in a book called "Mein Kampf". Perhaps you'll want to Google for it...? (Unless you don't like germans either...)
(Besides... you overestimate Californian cheese and wine)
It's German for "My Struggle", and Hitler wrote it! I hope that you don't agree with him...
"America has never been an empire. We may be the only great power in history that had the chance, and refused – preferring greatness to power and justice to glory."
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It was meant to be ironic.
For those who don't know it: it's a book Hitler wrote in prison, before becoming the "Führer" (leader) of Germany. It sets the basis for the Nazi(onal Socialist) movement that ruled Germany for a couple of decades, during which it started, fought, and -thanks God- lost WWII, and murdered literally millions of people, mostly Jews, but also many from other minorities, causing in all, an unbelievable number of dead, not only among Jews but also among all the countries that were involved in one way or another in the war, including but not limited to England, France, Poland, the rest of Europe, US, and even Japan. And of course, one of the worst hit countries was Germany itself.
No, I do not agree neither with Hitler's ideals, nor with anyone who claims one race or one culture to be better or worse than others, least if those claims are based on the ability or lack thereof to wage conquest wars, or to defend themselves from others trying to conquer them.
Brute force is not superiority.
I originally only meant French being a pro or a con as in that page being a fun chance to practice another language or requiring intensive use of an automatic translator. Never thought I would get an answer like that...
Enough said, I believe. This is already waaaaaayyyyy off topic.
RE: “But now that I think about it... I've heard similarly biased things about the red skins, and about the limeys, about the latinos, and even about the yankees!!! “
>> I am a “redskin” (bi-racial, actually - red & white).
My problem w/ the Frogs is with their national attitude towards us “yankees” (not with individual French folks). They look down on us who saved their bacon twice this past century, and for what? Because they’re more “cultured”?... more “sophisticated”?... Hah! Most folk I know consider bathing once a day (on average) to be a required element of being either of those things, and the Frogs fail on that count.
Not to mention fighting your own battles, instead of waiting for some superpower to rescue you, else allowing other aggressor countries to walk all over you.
I don’t “hate” them, I simply hate their “ ‘tude”...
RE: “a book called "Mein Kampf". “
>> Know the book. No use reading it, as it’s the rantings of a madman. Fortunately a dead one.
RE: “you overestimate Californian cheese and wine)”
>> More like you overestimate French wine/cheese. And it wasn’t my statement, it was Brad Stine’s
Oh, and by the way, I should add that Brad Stine is a comedian, and that quote was from one of his standup routines.
"I don't hate cats...as long as they stay on the freeway, where they belong."
- Brad Stine
"My problem w/ the Frogs is with their national attitude towards us “yankees” "
Sounds like that is a bad attitude towards their nation.
You don't like being called "yankee", and probably you also don't like being called "gringo", nor "indian", but still you call them "Frogs".
You claim they look down on you because they're more "cultured", but you look down on them because you bath more often.
You criticize them for not being able to defend their country, and pride yourself on being half Mohawk, when Mohawk also lost their country to whites; and you forget that with Napoleon they showed they knew perfectly well how to be a "superpower" themselves, for whatever that might be worth. And come on! Since when has fighting been what makes a man?! (or a nation)
Let's try another book:
"He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her".
You really should revise your own attitude towards them.
And, yes, that note on Brad Stine is a good addition (and much needed). We all use false prejudices in jokes every now and then. But it's a must to make sure everyone knows they're meant as jokes, and not to believe them onself.
And don't forget that even though some Californian wines and cheese are without a question better than some French ones, the opposite is also true. (I guess much the same would happen with just any coutry). So saying that either ones or the others are better, is a mistake. (And it still holds true that the techniques used in California are pretty much the ones French and other Europeans invented, so some credit is still due there).
Now let's not take this question any farther. I really don't think you mean that bad towards French, nor me towards you, and if we keep this going, it's not going to take us anywhere. I just couldn't let an attack on any culture pass by un-marked.
"You don't like being called "yankee", and probably you also don't like being called "gringo", nor "indian"
>>Wrong. I have no prob being called any of those things.
And btw, we "Native Americans" got used to being called "Indians" long ago. Inaccurate as all get-out, but common usage reigns.
"You claim they look down on you because they're more "cultured"
>> Nope. That would only be the case if they ARE (were) more cultured. They aren't.
Rather, they look down on us becuz they somewhere along the line got the insane IDEA that they are...
"but you look down on them because you bath more often."
>> Wrong again. I look down on them becuz of their arrogant 'tudes.
The bathing thing is merely evidence that their sense of "cultured-ness" is whacked.
"when Mohawk also lost their country to whites"
>> Yeah, being overrun by overwhelming numbers will do that to ya...
"Since when has fighting been what makes a man?! (or a nation)"
>> When one cannot/will not mount an effective defense against an aggressor, then depends on a mightier nation to save it, and finally goes on to still somehow think thermselves "better" (incl. acting arrogantly towards their "savior" nation), they are ungrateful sob's.
He is no kind of a "man" who is not grateful for the kindnesses done to/for him; who will not remember where he came from and what he's been thru, and even less of one who returns scorn for salvation.
"I don't hate cats...as long as they stay on the freeway, where they belong."
- Brad Stine
As expected, this is taking us nowhere. If we carry on with this, we're only going to be proving right whoever it was that said that "Any argument that goes on long enought end in semantics".
Let's just agree that we disagree and knock it off.
Puppy Linux and MCN Linux have the ability to be run from a USB stick, though MCN is about 300 MB or so.
"I don't hate cats...as long as they stay on the freeway, where they belong."
- Brad Stine
And no Delete option.
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