General Discussion

Hi all,

I need some advice with regards to licensing. As you know I am having some issues with Lapwing, however I I can over come these with the help of a non open source DLL file. Now I am very interested in doing this as it would mean that I could get the project finished. However I need to know if under the GPL, which Lapwing is currently under if I could distribute the DLL, the author doesn't have any issues with it although he won't open source it. I I am not allowed to distribute it is there anything that would allow me to do something similar. If not what would you think if I made Lapwing un-open source.

I would appreciate it if someone could help by double-checking me, but it appears this basic freeware game is quite portable when installed to a flash drive.

I installed it to my PC and then copied the files over to my flash drive.
I deleted the two uninstall files.
I then uninstalled the app from my PC, which appears to do so cleanly.

Yahtzee does create a file when you use Help, but it's created in the Yahtzee folder.

Here's the link:
http://www.rekenwonder.com/yahtzee.htm

I have this stupid little 119MB USB stick drive. I installed Portable XAMPP Lite and MediaWiki on it and I only have 3MB left but the cool thing is that IT WORKS!! I now have a mobile server-side programming learning lab on a stick - all thanks to this site! YOU GUYS ROCK!!

I'm looking into the Sandisk line of USB drives, maybe the Titanium or whatever it's called.. but I've read reviews on the U3 program being annoying/hard to remove.

Is this true, and if so.. is there a way to completely remove it to where it's an empty USB drive like others you buy?

Thanks in advance for the help..

If you need to compile a program, try using Compilr.
This should be as good as having a portable compiler.
Edit: I also found an online Java compiler.
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How do you all organize the root of your Portable?

Post how you have everything organized/arranged.. or even a screenshot.

I recently started using a cheap 128mb USB drive I got for Christmas last year..

AFter using it to just transfer pics from one PC to another.. I got addicted to trying to keep all of my handy programs on it.

Now, it's just not big enough..

If any of you could recommend good quality USB Drives, I'd appreciate it.

I have been looking at the Lexar models: Lightning and Secure II

Either a 1 or 2 gig would be plenty for me.. (for now)

Thanks alot!

Just curious,

When will the remaining apps be renamed? I use Portable Gimp and Portable OOo2 all the time. When the names are changed will I have to completely reinstall and lose any settings? Thanks.

This might have been answered somewhere else, but I could not find it. Thanks

Hey Guys,

Was just wondering if any of you remember hearing about a device that when plugged into a machine's USB port would take over said computer and boot into its own operating system complete with all necessary applications and workspace. I think I came across it on Tom's HG but I can't seem to find it.

It seems like such a device would really benefit a lot of the people on this forum. Maybe the cost was prohibitive or something and hence it doesn't get talked about much, if ever. It's even hard to know what to search for to find such a thing.

The reason behind this is to have a portable work environment complete with every application needed for work, not just the apps that are portable ATM. That way you could have a virtual machine of sorts in your pocket (or backpack, if it's big hdd), and just plug it into some host computer and take over their CPU, memory, and other resources.

Do any of the programs at The Portable Freeware Collection write to the drive heavily?

I have a Kingston DTI/1GB USB 2.0 Hi-speed flash drive. So far, I've loaded the following apps:

• PStart
• AbiWord Portable
• Foxit PDF Reader
• VLC Media Player Portable
• ImgBurn
• Avira UnErase Personal
• CPU-Z
• CCleaner Portable
• Unstoppable Copier
• Windows Worms Doors Cleaner
• Mozilla Thunderbird, Portable Edition
• Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition
• AleJenJes Countdown Timer