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I have conversations with other people and start talking about John, Steve, Bill, Geoff etc. and they ask "Who the hell are they?"
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Ryan McCue.
Blog.
So all that Airbus-delay trouble over here in Europe is because of YOU!
Simeon.
"If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate."
That's good.
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I felt so different without a signature.
And one time, I was thinking, hmm, what would be a good theme for the PAM, and then I'm like, WHOA! How bout a PortableApps theme for the PAM.
And it took me a while.
Then I'm like. Wow. I'm an IDIOT.
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I felt so different without a signature.
But we already knew that
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Ryan McCue.
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So all that Airbus-delay trouble over here in Europe is because of YOU!
Simeon.
"If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate."
John!, Ryan hurt my feelings.
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Poor Patrick.
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Ryan McCue.
Blog.
So all that Airbus-delay trouble over here in Europe is because of YOU!
Simeon.
"If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate."
Sometimes I wonder whether John thinks we're immature...
Kevin
"I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much."
--Mother Teresa (1910 - 1997)
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"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning." - Rick Cook
'Cause he is too
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Ryan McCue.
Blog.
So all that Airbus-delay trouble over here in Europe is because of YOU!
Simeon.
"If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate."
I hope he isn't reading this post, Ryan...
Kevin
"I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much."
--Mother Teresa (1910 - 1997)
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"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning." - Rick Cook
PortableApps consumes about 70% of my internet time and 40% of my I'm-sitting-in-fromt-of-my-Computer-time.
Is that much???
"There is a computer disease that anybody who works with computers knows about. It's a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work. The trouble with computers is that you 'play' with them!" - Richard P. Feynman
"What about Love?" - "Overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate." - Al Pacino in The Devils Advocate
Not compared to me
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Ryan McCue.
Blog.
So all that Airbus-delay trouble over here in Europe is because of YOU!
Simeon.
"If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate."
I have 52 Portable apps on my iPod And some I don;t even need! The portableapps are just so fun to use, make and play with!
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As all of ya should know Microsoft is the Evil Empire, and Windows (a.k.a. Winblows or Windoze) is their greatest general, so please make a difference and install Linux or Free BSD on yer Windows comp.
I know the feeling...:lol:
"There is a computer disease that anybody who works with computers knows about. It's a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work. The trouble with computers is that you 'play' with them!" - Richard P. Feynman
"What about Love?" - "Overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate." - Al Pacino in The Devils Advocate
So do I...but I have more like 150
"Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do." Asimov
you do realize that it would be imposible for you to spend 70% of your internet time and 40% of your sitting-on-ass time with portableapps.com, right? (cuz id be 110%(sorry if i spelled your name wrong))of course i cant complain, das about how much time i spend with it. BTW, isnt PA.com already the theme for PAM?
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sorry, thats supposed to be simeon, not simein or whatever i said.
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can you please use proper grammers and speeling? liek capitals ect. cuse otherwise it's hard to rade
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Ryan McCue.
Blog.
So all that Airbus-delay trouble over here in Europe is because of YOU!
Simeon.
"If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate."
I think I can because the 2 numbers aren't referring to the same base. I'm not always in the internet (i.e. browsing around) when sitting-on-ass so I think its possible.
"There is a computer disease that anybody who works with computers knows about. It's a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work. The trouble with computers is that you 'play' with them!" - Richard P. Feynman
"What about Love?" - "Overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate." - Al Pacino in The Devils Advocate
Yes is already IS the theme for the PAM, just goes to prove how much of an idiot I am.
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I felt so different without a signature.
Have about 90 apps on my Flash Voyager, and check PA on average at least every 30 min. during the day.
My fiancee is getting a little perturbed with me.
P.S. how does spell check work here? or which app is responsible? it doesn't recognize fiancee or fiance.
For those who have fought for it, freedom has a flavor the protected will never know.
"Because they stand on a wall and say, 'Nothing is going to hurt you tonight. Not on my watch.'" (A Few Good Men)
Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.(Albert Einstein)
I was the only one checking that often...
I have my parents complaining about my doing nothing else...
"There is a computer disease that anybody who works with computers knows about. It's a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work. The trouble with computers is that you 'play' with them!" - Richard P. Feynman
"What about Love?" - "Overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate." - Al Pacino in The Devils Advocate
I sell USB flash drives among other things.
Nary a flash drive sale is made that doesn't come with a plug for portable applications!
What's cool is that I usually have my drive plugged into a POS machine when I'm working and I can directly demonstrate for folks who are interested.
It's the kind of thing that makes 'em bump the capacity up on their flash drive purchase, and that ain't a bad thing.
Pretty bad, whenever I get on the computer, I go here :wink:.
Kevin Porter
"What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?"
--Irv Kupcinet
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"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning." - Rick Cook
we should all undergo a drug withdrawal treatment...
"There is a computer disease that anybody who works with computers knows about. It's a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work. The trouble with computers is that you 'play' with them!" - Richard P. Feynman
"What about Love?" - "Overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate." - Al Pacino in The Devils Advocate
I don't think I'll be able to handle it :wink:.
Kevin Porter
"What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?"
--Irv Kupcinet
-Please search before posting
"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning." - Rick Cook
In addition to that, I just got a new flash drive, and the first thing I did was compile all my apps and put them on the drive. It took an hour or so. I sat there every minute :lol:.
Kevin Porter
"What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?"
--Irv Kupcinet
-Please search before posting
"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning." - Rick Cook
move half of my flashdrives data (not the PortableApps.com proggs!) to another flashdrive cause John released the OOO test release.
Now I have about 600mb proggys there.
"There is a computer disease that anybody who works with computers knows about. It's a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work. The trouble with computers is that you 'play' with them!" - Richard P. Feynman
"What about Love?" - "Overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate." - Al Pacino in The Devils Advocate
i bought a 6 gig pocket drive so i would have more space, and i only have just over 3 gigs open
(its the Western Digital pocket drive, encase y'all wanted to know)
The pocket drives are toooo slow.
I got the 8GB Corsair Flash Voyager GT.
Its about half full now.
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For those who have fought for it, freedom has a flavor the protected will never know.
"Because they stand on a wall and say, 'Nothing is going to hurt you tonight. Not on my watch.'" (A Few Good Men)
Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.(Albert Einstein)
Maybe it's half empty...
Kevin Porter
"What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?"
--Irv Kupcinet
-Please search before posting
"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning." - Rick Cook
Especially when you connect them to USB1. Additionally to very poor transfer rate you get a seek delay
My (currently) only portable device is a MP3 player with 2.5 inch drive...And I can't say I like it - It has enough space to store DVD's on it, but big, slow and...loud
"Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do." Asimov
The first thing I do when I get to work, besides opening Autocad to pretend that I'm working, is come to the forums, read all new posts, again before lunch, again after lunch, before I leave work, and a few more times in between. Sometimes I get really bored when there's nothing new to read. I just don't feel like working sometimes.
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"I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand." -- Confucius
"Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world." -- Lily Tomlin
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on." -- Robert Frost
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: baby ain't mine." -- Adam Holguin
I thought grownups are "responsible" (Notice the quotes)
It's okay..I do it at school.
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I felt so different without a signature.
This is beginning to feel like an AA(Alcoholic's Anonymous) meeting or rather a PAA(PortableApps Anonymous) meeting.
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Life is about the journey not the destination!
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My name is Patrick Patience. Ever since I was introduced to PortableApps.com, I feel like a different person. My parents, friends, and family...they all treat my like some kind of freak with problems. Sometimes, when nobody's watching, I sneak over to my laptop for a quick visit to PortableApps.com. I've tried to cut down my time spent at PortableApps.com, I really have, but...it's just SO addicting. It makes me feel warm.
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Patrick
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Life is about the journey not the destination!
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I did the same thing at school, until they blocked PA.com
I single-handedly got PA.com blocked!
Yayz!
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Ryan McCue.
Blog.
So all that Airbus-delay trouble over here in Europe is because of YOU!
Simeon.
"If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate."
The is by far the best on I haved heard yet.
Nice Ryan, very nice.
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Don't give up!
There's still Tor, they won't block it so easily
"Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do." Asimov
Where can I get a Portable version of Tor?
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Please pardon my English, I'm from Wisconsin.
Please pardon my English, I'm from Wisconsin.
http://www.torrify.com/software_torpark.html
I didn't check it, it's just a google search.
"Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do." Asimov
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That's hilarous- good going!
Panic, Mayhem, and Destruction- My work here is done.
Too many lonely hearts in the real world
Too many bridges you can burn
Too many tables you can't turn
Don't wanna live my life in the real world
At one point I was obsessed with reading EVERY post and everything new here. I have just stuck with the topics that interest me now. It was getting hard to keep up with the # of new posts and topics. Ryan is right though, I had a hard time explaining to my wife why a 13yr old kid would be interested in hosting a web site for me and what the heck a PAM Theme is.
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The Kazoo Spartan
Life is about the journey not the destination!
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Nice. Did you end up explaining fully?
Yeh, I read every topic still and have ever since I joined. I also read all the back topics, so I'm satisfied that there are no X Posts New links. I'm OCD with that
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Ryan McCue.
Blog.
So all that Airbus-delay trouble over here in Europe is because of YOU!
Simeon.
"If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate."
You, Ryan, do have an addiction, face it. I too open every topic, just to see if there's any new info, or if someone needs help on something simple that I can do. But most of the time I just open and close without reading the whole thing.
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"I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand." -- Confucius
"Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world." -- Lily Tomlin
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on." -- Robert Frost
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: baby ain't mine." -- Adam Holguin
But only on stuff that's already answered.
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Ryan McCue.
Blog.
So all that Airbus-delay trouble over here in Europe is because of YOU!
Simeon.
"If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate."
..she understand the Aussie thing, not the PA.com thing. I think she appreciated it a little more after our PC went goofy.
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Life is about the journey not the destination!
My site * My Blog
The Kazoo Spartan
Life is about the journey not the destination!
The Kazoo Spartan
I got an external hard drive b/c I ran out of space on my USB drive.
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You can't spell "slaughter" without "laughter".
I set up an external USB HD too.
I (legally) salvaged a store demo Magellan Roadmate 700's 1.8-inch Toshiba 20GB HD and found a company that provides USB 2.0 enclosures for them.
Seems that the same drive is used in 20GB iPods too.
I've copied over the contents of my 4GB flash drive, the 6.5GB of MP3s from my player and a bunch of movies with a little over 5GB to spare.
The drive is no speed demon, but seems to work for the stuff I've been doing with it and ended up costing under 30 bucks.
It makes me want to set up a bare-bones system built specifically around a paired-down Windows XP setup and apps located on removable drives for some reason.
I dunno why, just to tinker with I guess.
I came close to picking up a a used Dell Optiplex machine from Ebay for the purpose, but a laptop might be a good candidate too.
i am so happy that i am the second to take a crack at this. Hi. (stands up) my name is sergentsiler and i am a www.portableapps.com addict. i come here every chance i get and when possible i never get off. the really sad pert is that i do all of this from the school comps. i have dragged my addiction in to the public. i am a pad person and i must break my addiction. (sits down and looks at feet)
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noooooooooooo!! i have PAM addiction! for every second of every minut for 2 hours a day at school, all i do is read posts and post some more, 2 hours a day 5 days a week, sometimes at home too. I AM ADDICTED TO PORTABLEAPPS.COM !!
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one day i got on the internet, and added the PA.com feeds about 20 times at random intervals.
But there’s no sense crying over every mistake,
You just keep on trying till you run out of cake.
I added it to My Yahoo but is always empty (no news there)... so I removed it... I just visit the home page to see what's new in the left column.
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If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port,
and the bus is interrupted as a very last resort,
and the address of the memory makes your floppy disk abort,
then the socket packet pocket has an error to report
Good morning, my name is Andrés Bracho and I don't know if I'm a "PortableApps.comaholic"...
Is that the correct way to start this post?
I'll tell my story...
I start reading and studing about open source a couple of years ago when there was an International congress on Open source software (in Venezuela) (I'm in the process to migrate my personal computers to Linux... Kubuntu).
Then my brother told me about Firefox... I felt in love with firefox...!!!
Then my brother told me that he had Firefox portable... my question was, why I need my bookmarks with me? he showed me this page and I downloaded PFirefox to try it... then PThunderbird (more necesary for me)... then... now I have almost everything... and use to check on google for portable apps at least once a week...
One day I had to sign up to participate in the translation's topic (I did the Latin American Spanish translation to PAM) and... I'm still here...
Today, I removed every app in my laptop and desktop if I have it in a portable version... I don't even use my office's Apps if I have a portable replacement... and I use to install some PApps in my colleagues and friends' thumbdrives.
I'm a Veterinarian and the way I explain to my colleagues how my pendrive works (with all the PApps) is that my pendrive is a parasite or a virus... it uses the OS and energy from a host computer but don't need it for anything else...
I also use to say that my computer is my pendrive... the rest is just electricity and interface...
Once I went to visit my parents, and when I came back here (four hours trip driving) I discover that I leaved my pendrive at my parents house... my father had to send it to me trough MRW in less than 24 hours just because I was so affraid that I was saying that without my pendrive I was death... without even a brain...
First thing every morning, I check my mails and this forum... I use to read everithing and just login if I want to answer or post something... now I always login but check "recent posts" only... Also check again at noon and before leaving the office.
Am I a "PApps.comaholic"???? I don't know... you tell me...
Uh! My list of portable apps is in the "What's on your portable" post... with the only addition of Portable Bookmarks... Why do I need to take my bookmarks with me? I think I already answered that... lol
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If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port,
and the bus is interrupted as a very last resort,
and the address of the memory makes your floppy disk abort,
then the socket packet pocket has an error to report
Here's my story. It's shorter, though.
One day, I was at school and I was sitting and staring at the stupid Blocked by WebSense page. I though: "There has got to be a way around this." I had tried online translators to get around it, but they were not the effect I was looking for.
Back at home, I had upgraded to Fedora Core 6 recently, and I got a new version of Firefox, which I had been using for about a year.
Back at school, a word popped into my head: "proxy". I climbed into the Intenet Options of IE (our school computers don't have Firefox), and to my dismay, there were no such options, they were blocked. It was then when I realized how much I hated IE, Windows, and Microsoft in general.
The naughty boy I was, I decided to download Firefox onto the school computers. In the middle of the download, a fellow friend came by and told me that it was a bad idea, and that I shouldn't install it on the hard drive, in case something happened. I started looking for a solution. I asked around and was told by a 9th grader of Firefox Portable. From there you can guess the rest of the story. I set up the proxy, and am happy right now.
Anyway, I used FP for a while, and decided to check back to PortableApps.Com to see what else they had. Then, I singed up on the forums, and became an addict. Soon, I started developing my own portable apps for linux.
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I tried the same thing.
This year, they amended the school policy so that any drive which you use on a school computer becomes property of the school. No software is allowed to be run off these drives as it is "not optimized [sic] for network performance and leaves files on the computer". I explained to them about FFP, and they said "No, the network can not handle it". Next day, I see 2 grade 12 students bring in a game, which was not portable on their USB drives and used a lot of system resources and the technicians even had a go!
Oh wells.
Oh, and 9th graders told you? I told 9th graders
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So all that Airbus-delay trouble over here in Europe is because of YOU!
Simeon.
"If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate."
You are the first one to make this post tooooooo long for one page.
I really hate that as the "new posts" links dont work on the second/third page any more.
"There is a computer disease that anybody who works with computers knows about. It's a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work. The trouble with computers is that you 'play' with them!" - Richard P. Feynman
"What about Love?" - "Overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate." - Al Pacino in The Devils Advocate
Fun
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Ryan McCue.
Blog.
So all that Airbus-delay trouble over here in Europe is because of YOU!
Simeon.
"If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate."
I think it is the disease called by Feynman: every day, every hour and every minute you are busy doing one thing -- searching any new portable app, I am playing with PotableApps.com, always!
I made
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10% luck, 20% Skill, 15% power of will, 5% pleasure, 50% pain
100% reason to play the game!
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Well that's not as bad as my custom splash screens.
Eh Ryan?
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Well, your TileWorld Portable one was OK, except for the fact that it has FileZilla written all over it
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Ryan McCue.
Blog.
So all that Airbus-delay trouble over here in Europe is because of YOU!
Simeon.
"If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate."
Actually, it's gotten so bad that I check your downloads page to see if anyone is hosting anything and they haven't posted it here :wink:.
Kevin
"I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much."
--Mother Teresa (1910 - 1997)
-Please search before posting
"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning." - Rick Cook
Well, that sounds like fun
I'm planning on doing a page up for it like my userbars one.
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Ryan McCue.
Blog.
So all that Airbus-delay trouble over here in Europe is because of YOU!
Simeon.
"If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate."
That was an accident!
I was just trying to see how the icon would look larger.
My favorites are:
My CamStudio one.
My Calculator one.
And my A Note one.
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whats wierd is that a post i did like 2 weeks ago is showing up like i posted it after yesterdays confession. s' wierd. (note, i am still addicted to PA.com)
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