I'm looking for the geek.menu forum. I searched to no avail. John did mentioned in a November posting that one was available.
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there is one on sourceforge
Please search before posting. ~Thanks
geek.menu is an unofficial fork of the PortableApps.com Menu so it isn't supported by PortableApps.com (that's why there's no forum for it here).
The current apps should work from it, but the advanced features being introduced in the upcoming apps will not. I've been in touch with the author and he may come on board the official release once I finally get things SVNed and the licensing all worked out (it's GPLed but with exceptions so we can utilize advanced features on some drives like fingerprint readers, encryption chips, etc).
Oh, and welcome to PortableApps.com
(semi-late... 3 week member)
Sometimes, the impossible can become possible, if you're awesome!
What advanced features?
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closing itself when the drive gets unplugged unexpectedly.
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You say "once [you] finally get things SVNed". You've been saying this for a year, at least. Please, please, just get it done. I'm sick of waiting, as are many others. Hell, I'll write you a guide if you want. I'll even install Subversion. Just, please, make something happen.
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Well, I'm reading Beginning Programming for Dummies.
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He meant John
your friendly neighbourhood moderator Zach Thibeau
forget svn, i'd settle for a response to an email. or a 1.1 beta 5 work in progress source zip without svn...
If you are on Windows, I suggest using tortoise SVN. If you currently use CVS and you have problems using the CVS2SVN porting CVS repository LOCALLY i would gladly post instructions for Windows. Its a bit tricky but migrating to SVN is doable - if you have the correct procedure.
I only don't know how the procedure of importing existing local SVN to Sourceforge.
I myself have a fingerprint activated thumb drive and I have made a launcher that replaces the original menu which I renamed and added a redirect to the original menu. Now after print is scanned it starts the PortableApps menu.
I'm exited about it and hope you figure out the problems you might have.
About the license, is LGPL something you could need?
Does your fingerprint activated thumb drive execute FingerPrint.exe? How did you replace it with your launcher?
Ed
Not exactly, the fingerprint device has 2 parts, a CD-ROM part that autostarts and a public and private part. The print detection (or password) part is started first and when authentified it starts the included menu which offers some apps like mail, password manager and favorites.
I renamed that exe and replaced it with a launcher that starts portable apps menu. In the portable apps it has again a launcher to the original renamed exe.
The downsides of a fingerprint thumbdrive is that it A needs admin rights and B uses some kind of root-kit like software to control the private part of the drive.
Although these restrictions (which limit the portability of the drive) its a cool gadget that works very well. The print scanner is pretty presice and much faster than entering a password.
So the exe that is used to scan the print remains on the drive else I would not have access to the protected area. There is where the portable apps and portable apps menu reside.
My FingerPrint stick is set up similarly except once it passes the print or password it doesn't start the Autorun on the removeable drive partition, which from what you describe is where the menu is that your stick invoked. I thought you replaced the finger print reader itself on the CDFS partition.
Ed