General Discussion

We all know the standard plain pendrives or USB-HDD's. Long time I wasn't aware that there are other useful features are available and I think other people to. This thread is to show and to discuss pendrives and USB-HDD's with advanced "unusually" features.

- hardware based encryption - https://www.ironkey.com/
- U3 - http://www.u3.com/
- CD-ROM partition - http://www.udrw.com/en/tech/index.php
- USB-FDD emulation - http://www.netac.com/products_show/storage_ods.htm
- USB-ZIP emulation - http://www.netac.com/products_show/storage_u320.htm

I have checked to see if there is anything on this topic and if I missed it mea culpa
Having bought an Asus eeepc 701 I lamented he loss of my Portable Apps, however I have found that if 'Wine' is installed on the host Linux then P.A. will launch via 'Wine' and appear in the bottom right of screen as normal.
As this is already running under 'Wine' programs on the P.A.menu will launch in the same way as they do on Windows although with a little bit of screen flashing and chundering.

Just wanted to let you know I'm back after being offline for a few days. I've been under the weather pretty bad. I'm not at 100% yet but I'm good enough to get some things done. Releases continue this afternoon.

The Tor Project has released two portable software bundles. The Tor Browser Bundle contains Tor, Vidalia, Polipo, Firefox, and Torbutton. The Tor Browser IM Bundle contains Tor, Vidalia, Polipo, Firefox, Torbutton, Pidgin and OTR.

Tor Browser Bundle (binaries in several languages and install instructions here)
https://www.torproject.org/torbrowser/

I've seen flash drive speed discussed in terms of read/write data transfer rates, which I can understand if I'm transferring large files. But how does it relate to launching and running programs, which is what I really care about?

What's important to me (and I would spend $$ to speed up) is the time needed to launch and start using an app.

When an app is launched, is it read into RAM and executed there? If so, I can see that transfer rate is important. Or, does it run on the drive? In that case does advertised "speed" relate to program execution?

First time poster but long time user of PA. Thanks to everyone here who has worked hard to make PA what it is.

Is there a program that will encrypt the entire flash drive for on-the-fly encryption? I saw a thread here about TrueCrypt that sounded good, but it wasn't clear that this is available yet.

Hello @all,
we are thinking about some changes to OpenOffice.org Portable, but we want to know
how the community is thinking about it.

Please vote with +1 (pro) -1 (contra)

Hi, I just stumbled upon an critical article about PortableApps. Its published on one of the most important News-Sites in Germany, so i think you might be interested in it.

Its on the website of popular TV-News "heute".

A rough translation of the main part about portableapps.com (sorry for my bad english):

"[...] (I cut out the praise of PortableApps

Hi,

I am new to portable apps. I saw this forum topic https://portableapps.com/node/5123. I have a doubt about that. Why can't someone redistribute installed portableapps in a usb drive. These software being GPL/MPL installed binaries can also be distributed right?

Another point i would like to know is, it was mentioned that someone cannot use trademark in packaging, advertisements, does that mean referring to portable apps as source?

Thanks in advance
Premnath Sah T.H.